1. Background
The West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) is West African inter-governmental organisation funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), multilateral and bilateral partners and its West African member countries. With focus on capacity building, academic and transdisciplinary research, climate and environmental service provision, it cooperates with many agencies and universities in the region and globally to provide, a knowledge platform of excellence for its partners.
WASCAL, under the sponsorship of the Division 722 of BMBF, is pleased to announce application for its Interdisciplinary Master Programme in Energy and Green Hydrogen (IMP-EGH) in all fifteen (15) ECOWAS countries namely: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
The international Master’s Programme in Energy and Green Hydrogen (IMP-EGH), option Economics/Policies/Infrastructures and Green Hydrogen Technology led by Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) of Dakar in Senegal and implemented in collaboration with Julich and Aachen and other renowned African, German, and other international universities and institutions, aims at offering top-ranking students an integrated learning environment to develop skills to be qualified as Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen specialists. UCAD is launching the third call for application of the International Master’s Programme in Energy and Green Hydrogen (IMP-EGH), option Economics/Policies/Infrastructures and Green Hydrogen Technology for the academic year 2025-2026 The programme of the IMP-EGH provides full scholarship to successful candidates from ECOWAS member countries: Prospective candidates from these countries are invited to submit their applications for selection.