The European Union in Partnership with ECOWAS shares the achievements of the EU-ECOWAS Scholarship for Sustainable Vitality programme from students in Kwame Nkrumah College of Science and Expertise, Kumasi, Ghana throughout a go to on nineteenth September 2024.
As a part of effort to make sure sustainable entry for the folks of West Africa to wash electrical energy and different types of sustainable vitality, the European Union in partnership with the Financial Group of West African States (ECOWAS), is proud to share the achievements of its collaborative work, in sustainable vitality sector, in West Africa.
By way of the partnership, the European Union supplied totally funded Masters’ levels scholarships within the sustainable vitality sector to eligible candidates from ECOWAS member states at 9 specialised establishments in nations of West Africa, together with Nigeria, Senegal, Cote D’Ivoire, Togo, Ghana, and Cape Verde.
The programme goals to enhance entry to high-quality coaching within the sustainable vitality sector in West Africa, enabling college graduates with a concentrate on younger professionals (English, French and Portuguese talking) within the ECOWAS member states, to amass the profile required to fulfill the rising demand for specialists, on the highest degree, within the subject of sustainable vitality and to advertise good governance of the sector within the area.
Throughout this go to the consultant of British Council said that:
“Because the launch of the scholarship programme in November 2022, the programme has efficiently supported 15 college students from Cote D’Ivoire, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Benin who accomplished their research in Institut Nationwide Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte D’Ivoire, and Kwame Nkrumah College of Science and Expertise Ghana to advance the course of their careers within the vitality sector”.
The scholarship programme has benefitted eligible college students from 11 ECOWAS member states with related background in sustainable vitality. The goal is for 75 younger students from the subregion to profit from the scholarship programme.
The Director of Vitality and Mines of ECOWAS Fee thanked the European Union for his or her effort in Vitality Sector in West Africa by way of this programme and recalled that by way of the analysis work accomplished by these 15 programme students, the programme additionally goals to enhance entry of present organisations within the sustainable vitality house to high quality analysis work that may assist handle the challenges, within the sector, in West Africa.
The EU-ECOWAS scholarship programme will proceed to reinforce human capital improvement in sustainable vitality in West Africa by supporting eligible students within the ECOWAS member nations to contribute to the event of the sustainable vitality sector within the subregion.
The European Union in partnership with ECOWAS are blissful to share a few of the programme’s success story from Kwame Nkrumah College of Science and Expertise, Kumasi, Ghana, and encourage you to share the identical with related stakeholders who you assume could be within the programme and its aims.
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