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TWAS stands for the World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries, and it promotes sustainable prosperity via research, education, policy, and diplomacy around the world. The Academy is headquartered in the Italian city of Trieste.
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The ANSO-CAS-TWAS PhD Scholarship for Developing Countries 2026 is now accepting applications. Interested candidates are urged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and to apply.
Date Posted: 22 Oct, 2025
The TWAS Research Professors in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) Program 2025/2026 is now accepting applications. Interested candidates are urged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and to apply.
Date Posted: 21 Oct, 2025
Applications for the UNESCO/ANSO-CAS-TWAS PhD Scholarship 2025/2026 are being accepted at this time. Interested candidates are urged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and to apply.
Date Posted: 20 Oct, 2025
The TWAS-UNESCO Associateship Scheme 2025/2026 is now accepting applications. Interested candidates are urged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and to apply.
Date Posted: 13 Oct, 2025
The TWAS-SISSA-Lincei Research Cooperation Visits Program is now accepting applications. We encourage young scientists to apply and learn more about this opportunity by clicking here.
Date Posted: 28 Aug, 2025
Are you a person or an organization from a less developed or developing nation? The 2025–2026 TWAS Visting Expert Program is now accepting applications. To apply and learn more about this job, interested candidates can click here.
Date Posted: 27 Aug, 2025
Applications for the TWAS Fellowships for Advanced Training and Research are now being accepted. Young scientists from developing nations who are interested are encouraged to apply. Click here for additional information about this opportunity and to apply.
Date Posted: 27 Aug, 2025
Are you a native of a developing nation? Would you like to work toward a doctorate in the physical sciences? For the TWAS-SN Bose Postgraduate Fellowship Program, applications are now being accepted. Interested candidates can apply and read more about this opportunity by clicking here.
Date Posted: 27 Aug, 2025
Young scientists from least developed countries who hold an MSc (or higher degree) can visit research laboratories in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region of Italy for three months to carry out collaborative research projects and/or training internships in the fields that fall under the umbrella of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Date Posted: 25 Jul, 2025
Applications are ongoing for the TWAS-NCP Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme 2025. The fellowship is for young scientists from developing countries (other than Pakistan) who wish to pursue postdoctoral research in physical sciences in departments and laboratories of the National Centre for Physics (NCP) in Islamabad.
Date Posted: 25 Apr, 2025
Nominations are open for the TWAS-Apex Award 2025 in Quantum Science and Technology. The TWAS-Apex Award is one of the most prestigious honours given to scientists from the developing world. This year marks the 20th anniversary of this prestigious award, established to honor exceptional scientific contributions by researchers living and working in developing countries.
Date Posted: 24 Apr, 2025
Applications are now open for the TWAS-ICCBS Postgraduate Fellowship Programme 2025. The International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) - comprising the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry and the Dr. Panjwani Centre for Molecular and Drug Research in Karachi, Pakistan - and TWAS offer fellowships to young scientists from developing countries (other than Pakistan) who wish to pursue research towards a PhD in chemical and biological sciences.
Date Posted: 24 Apr, 2025
Applications are open for the TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme - MENA 2025. The TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme provides postdoctoral researchers living and working in the MENA region with the opportunity to make a three-month 'Cooperation Visit' to a research institute in Germany. Such visits must be undertaken within 12 months of the award.
Date Posted: 24 Apr, 2025
The S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Science in Kolkata, India, and TWAS have established a fellowship programme for foreign scholars from developing countries who wish to pursue postdoctoral research in physical sciences. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 14 Apr, 2025
The TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme provides postdoctoral researchers living and working in sub-Saharan Africa with the opportunity to make a three-month 'Cooperation Visit' to a research institute in Germany. Such visits must be undertaken within 12 months of the award.
Date Posted: 02 Apr, 2025
Applications are open for the TWAS-CAS Young Scientists Award for Frontier Science 2025. This annual prize, instituted in 2020, recognizes the scientific achievements of young scientists who work and reside in developing countries.
Date Posted: 07 Mar, 2025
TWAS is inviting nominations for the 2025 Atta-ur-Rahman Award in Chemistry Award. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 06 Mar, 2025
Applications are open for the TWAS-Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi Award 2025. TWAS invites nominations for the Award from all its members as well as science academies, national research councils, universities and scientific institutions in developing and developed countries.
Date Posted: 12 Feb, 2025
With the support of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), UNESCO-TWAS launched a new programme to strengthen the capacity of African countries lagging in science and technology. The programme is aimed at early career researchers who have obtained their PhD abroad and have recently returned or will shortly return to an academic position in their home country. Grants are awarded to promising high-level research projects in Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry, Earth sciences, Engineering, Information Computer Technology, Mathematics, Medical Sciences and Physics carried out in African countries lagging in science and technology identified by TWAS.
Date Posted: 01 Feb, 2025
TWAS is inviting nominations for the 2025 Abdool Karim Award from all its members as well as science academies, national research councils, universities and scientific institutions in developing and developed countries.
Date Posted: 25 Jan, 2025