Panasonic Scholarship provides promising students from these countries a good opportunity to do research in universities in Japan and enable them to contribute to the development of their countries and to promote friendship between these countries and Japan in the 21st Century.

In 2011, Panasonic Scholarship Co. Ltd., Panasonic Corporation, in cooperation with Panasonic Group of Companies in Indonesia are very excited to offer the Panasonic Scholarship for Year 2012. We are happy to announce that, the Panasonic Scholarship Program is now open to the graduate students from Natural Science & Mathematics, Engineering, Bio-Technology [Agricultural], and Information Technology.

Overview
Bioversity International established the Fellowship Fund in 1989 to commemorate Academician Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov`s and Sir Otto Frankel`s unique contributions to plant science. To date, 37 outstanding young scientists from 24 developing countries have been supported.

This year`s Vavilov-Frankel Fellowships call focuses on the following themes:

• Gene discovery in crop wild relatives.
• Use of plant genetic resources for adaptation to progressive climate change.
• Facilitating better use of genebank materials.
• Researching neglected and underutilized species for food and nutrition security.

Overview
The Government of India scholarships are provided by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) through its General Cultural Scholarships Scheme (GCSS) for the year 2011-12.

The scholarships are offered to meritorious Indonesian students to undertake higher studies in India under undergraduate (S1), post-graduate (S2) and Ph.D. (S3). Students can opt for any course in the fields of arts, performing arts, architecture, literature, commerce and science; degree courses in engineering and agriculture; and doctoral and post-doctoral courses in various disciplines. Government of India will provide living allowance, contingent grant, accommodation charges, tuition fee and other benefits, including expenses on medical treatment and study tour to the students selected for the scholarship. However, the cost of air passage to India and back for all students and expenses on laboratory chemicals and related incidentals for science stream students would have to be borne by them or by their sponsors. Scholarships are not provided for medicine (MBBS), dentistry (BDS), nursing & other courses related to medicine.

Overview
The new NUS PhD-MBA (www.phd-mba.nus.edu), Asia`s first PhD-MBA, aims to attract and train talented science and engineering students who have the potential to create and lead technology companies. The programme is jointly hosted by the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (www.nus.edu.sg/ngs/) and the NUS Business School (http://www.bschool.nus.edu.sg/). Students develop their research skills by doing a PhD in any scientific or engineering discipline, choosing among a wide range of subjects, projects, departments and advisers. Concurrently they develop their business acumen by working on an MBA. Internships in technology companies provide practical technology business training.

Applications are invited for 2 PhD studentship to work in the Centre of Signal and Image Processing on two different UM funded project entitled “- i) Action recognition using local and dynamic descriptor” and “ii) Linguistic summarisation of human action using pictorial structure.”

The post is on the university scale (MYR 18,000 – 28,800); and is open to all nationality. Placement for the post is according to experience and qualifications. However, foreign candidates are required to have at least IELTS Band 6 or TOEFL 550 if their first degree is from a university where English is not the medium of instruction or pass an English proficiency test approved by the University.

CEMF Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships for Women, Canada
Scholarship for Women’s in Canada by the The Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation

Job Description: The foundation was founded in 1990 to develop scholarship and award programs that encourage women to choose engineering as a career to honour the memory of the 14 women at École Polytechnique whose contributions to Canada ended on December 6, 1989.

Each year CEMF offers up to five $5,000 Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships to young women across Canada who are proven leaders, active in their community and volunteer work, and act as mentors to other young women to encourage them to pursue a career in engineering. These scholarships are not based on academic achievement.

Call for applications for the 2010/2011 academic year.
The Politecnico di Torino offers international students the possibility to receive a scholarship and other benefits to graduate from the Politecnico di Torino attending a Master of Science program in Engineering or Architecture.
The initiative is promoted by the Politecnico di Torino and the Compagnia di San Paolo.

General information on the Master of Science programs
Location: Torino
Language in which the courses are held: English or Italian
Length: 2 years
The activities will begin in September 2010.

Requirements
Academic requirements