NLNG: The Literary Criticism 2018 Award for N1,000,000

Deadline: 29th March, 2018.

The Literary Criticism Award yearly prize is endowed by Nigeria LNG (NLNG) Limited to honour the author of the best work. To encourage literary criticism, the Advisory Board of the Nigeria Prize for Literature will reward one critic with the sum of N1,000,000.00

Submission Procedure

  • Since the aim is to promote Nigerian literature in the world, the prize will be open to literary critics from all over the world. Special considerations shall be given to critical essays on new writings in Nigerian Literature.
  • Contestants shall send in three critical essays published in major scholarly journals. Such journals shall have a proven track record of dedication to excellence and must have international circulation.
  • No critical essay previously submitted for this competition may be considered at a later date, even if major revisions of it have been made.
  • Mere manuscripts will not be considered. Entries not submitted by the deadline and according to stated conditions shall not be considered.
  • Only entries published in the year of the competition or within three years before then shall be considered.
  • No member of the Advisory Board or Panel of Judges can enter their essay(s) for the literary criticism award in the year they are serving.

Announcement and Public Presentation of Winners

  • The Winners will normally be announced in October and will be presented to the public on a later date.

 Application: 
Interested and qualified candidates should send their entries which should include complete contact information, including full contact address, e-mail(s), phone number(s) and other relevant contact information to:

The Nigeria Prize for Literature,
External Relations Division,
Nigeria LNG Limited,
Intels Aba Road Estate,
Km 16 Port Harcourt-Aba Expressway,
P.M.B 5660,
Port Harcourt,
Rivers State.
nigeriaprizeforliterature@nlng.com
Or
The Nigeria Prize for Literature,
External Relations Division,
Heron House,
10 Dean Farrar Street,
London, SW1 H ODX.

Note: The prize will be awarded for no other reason than excellence.

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Apply for the Global Fellowship Program for Social Entrepreneurs 2018

Deadline: March 5th,2018

These are the main questions that you will need to complete in your online submission:

Tell us about your social business

  • Social Business Name
  • Website
  • Facebook Page
  • Describe your social business in one or two sentences.
  • Are you legally incorporated? Please specify the country and the legal form. (100 characters)
  • When was your social business started?
  • What social problem do you want to solve? (300 characters)
  • How does your social business solve that problem? (500 characters)

Tell us about your customers & revenue model

  • Who are your beneficiaries/users? (300 characters)
  • Who are your paying customers? Are they different from your beneficiaries? (300 characters)
  • How do you plan to acquire more customers? How do you plan to grow and scale? (300 characters)
  • How many customers have paid for your product/service in the past 12 months (since you have started working if less than 12 months)? (100 characters)
  • Who are your competitors and how are you different from what they offer? (500 characters)
  • What kind of evidence do you have that your solution works/will work? (300 characters)
  • What is the most important measure/indicator of your success? (100 characters)
  • What are your main expenses? (300 characters)
  • What is your revenue model? How does your social business makes money?

Tell us about your team

  • Who are the founders?
  • Who are the other team members?
  • What roles/people/knowledge is your team missing?

 

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The RIC Cities for our Future Challenge- £50,000 Grand Prize

Deadline: 31 May 2018.

The Cities for our Future Challenge is a global competition run by the Royal Institution Of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in partnership with UNESCO UKNC and the ACU.

Are you an imaginative, problem solving young professional, start-up or student involved in surveying, urban design, architecture, or engineering? Then share your transformative ideas for projects and policies that solve some of the defining issues of our time: Rapid Urbanisation, Climate Change, and Resource Scarcity.

The winner will receive a £50,000 prize and mentoring with industry experts to bring their idea to life.

Submit your entry by selecting a challenge by core topic and region of the world. The best entries will be shortlisted in June 2018, and each entrant will receive mentoring from a RICS professional to help develop their idea ready for the final global judging.

An international judging panel will select the final winner from the shortlisted applicants in November 2018.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Exciting, innovative ideas that help solve Rapid Urbanisation, Resource Scarcity and Climate Change. Our judges will rate your idea based on impact, excitement, scale, relevance and feasibility.

 WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Students in the fields of surveying, design, architecture or engineering.

Start-ups who want to boost the prospects of their proptech, green or built environment business.

Young professionals in the fields of surveying, design, architecture or engineering.

HOW TO ENTER

  1. First, choose the topic you want to tackle: Rapid Urbanisation, Resource Scarcity or Climate Change, then select the city you’d most like to create a solution for
  2. Read the brief and download the entry document.
  3. Fill in the document with your entry and then submit it online by 31 May 2018. All entries must be in English.
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Application for the Open Society Fellowship

Applicants for the Open Society Fellowship are invited to address the following proposition:

New and radical forms of ownership, governance, entrepreneurship, and financialization are needed to fight pervasive economic inequality.

This proposition is intended as a provocation—to stimulate productive controversy and debate—and does not necessarily represent the views of the Open Society Foundations. Applicants are invited to dispute, substantiate, or otherwise engage with the proposition in their submissions. Though the proposition deals with economic issues, those without an economics or business background are welcome to apply, provided they have a relevant project in mind.

Once chosen, fellows will work on projects of their own design and passion. At the same time, they are expected to take advantage of the intellectual and logistical resources of the Open Society Foundations and contribute meaningfully to the Foundations’ thinking. Fellows will also have opportunities to collaborate with one another as a cohort. It is hoped that the fellowship will not only nurture theoretical debate but also bring about policy change and reform.

Eligibility:

Ideal fellows are specialists who can see beyond the parochialisms of their field and possess the tenacity to complete a project of exceptional merit. Proposals will be accepted from anywhere in the world, although demonstrable proficiency in spoken and written English is required. Applicants should possess and demonstrate a deep understanding of the major themes embedded within the proposition above and be willing to work in a cohort of fellows with diverse occupational, geographic, and ideological profiles. Successful applicants should be eager to exploit the many resources offered by the Open Society Foundations and be prepared to engage constructively with our global network.

Ineligibility:

The fellowship does not fund enrollment for degree or nondegree study at academic institutions, including dissertation research.

This is a fellowship for individuals only; proposals from organizations or individuals acting on behalf of organizations will not be accepted.

Purpose and Priorities

The Open Society Fellowship was founded in 2008 to support individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges. The fellowship funds work that will enrich public understanding of those challenges and stimulate far-reaching and probing conversations within the Open Society Foundations and in the world.

Open Society fellows produce work outputs of their own choosing, such as a book, journalistic or academic articles, art projects, a series of convenings, etc. In addition, fellowship cohorts may develop a joint work product of some sort. Fellowship staff will assist cohorts in brainstorming possible outputs if needed.

Guidelines

Applicants are asked to submit a letter of inquiry online by midnight (EDT) on July 15, 2018. Any questions may be directed to osfellows@opensocietyfoundations.org.

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The Fulbright African Research Scholar Program (ARSP),2018


Deadline: 1st June, 2018

Program Information: Two categories of grants are offered in the ARSP:  research grants and program and curriculum development grants.

Research Grants: Awards of 3 to 9 months are offered for selected university faculty professionals to conduct research in any academic discipline at a U.S. academic or research institution.  Preference will be given to individuals with a doctorate degree, at least three years of university teaching experience, a productive scholarly record, and whose projects relate directly to their ongoing teaching and/or research responsibilities.

Program and Curriculum Development Grants: Awards of 3 to 5 months are offered for qualified university faculty to conduct research in any academic discipline at a U.S. academic or research institution.  Proposals should be linked to professional duties and demonstrate how the scholar will use the knowledge gained to develop new courses, curricula, or programs at the home institution.

HIV/AIDS: includes a special set of grants for scholars with proposals in HIV/AIDS-related research. Scholars in all academic disciplines are invited to formulate proposals with an HIV/AIDS focus.  Candidates may apply either as research scholars or as program and curriculum development scholars.

ELIGIBILITY :

  1. An intended applicant must be a citizen of Nigeria or a permanent resident, and should hold a valid passport issued from the country in which the application is made.
  2. In addition, applicants must have at least three (3) years of post-doctoral degree training or teaching experience at the time of application.

The Fulbright program takes the issue of academic dishonesty (plagiarism) very seriously and will disqualify applications that violate academic integrity.

Application instructions are available at: http://www.cies.org/vs_scholars/Application_Instructions.  The application is accessible at https://apply.embark.com/student/fulbright/scholars.

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All Bar None Scholarship To Attend One Young World, 2018 In the Netherland

All Bar None is an initiative designed to ensure that outstanding young people from every country in the world are represented at the One Young World Summit 2018 in The Hague.

We have selected 125 countries that have been less well represented at previous One Young World Summits. Through All Bar None, we will work closely with our partners and sponsors to find sponsorship for one young leader from each of these countries to attend the Summit in The Hague.

Sponsorship Cover

  • Access to the One Young World Summit 2018 in The Hague, the Netherlands.
  • Hotel accommodation on a shared basis between 17 October and 20 October 2018.
  • Catering which includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
  • Transport between the Summit accommodation and the Summit venue.
  • Summit hand-outs and support materials.
  • The cost of travel to and from The Hague. Your flight to and from The Hague must depart from and return to one and the same international airport.

Please note that if you are ultimately selected for a Scholarship and require a visa to enter The Netherlands to attend the One Young World Summit 2018, you will be required to pay a Schengen visa fee yourself. The Schengen visa costs €60 EUR plus the applicable service charge of your local visa application centre. The costs of the visa and the applicable service charge, as well as any further costs associated with the visa application (including travel to and from the visa application centre), fall on you as the participant.

Eligibility:

You are eligible for All Bar None sponsorship if you can answer ‘yes’ to the following questions:

  • Are you aged 18-30?
  • Do you have a passion for world issues and evidenced commitment to making a positive change?
  • Are you a national (passport holding citizen) of one of the 125 countries listed below?
Afghanistan Albania Andorra Angola
Antigua and Barbuda Armenia Azerbaijan Bahamas
Bahrain Barbados Belize Benin
Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana
Brunei Darussalam Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon
Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros
Congo, Republic of the (Congo-Brazzaville) Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Côte d’Ivoire Croatia
Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Fiji
Finland Gabon The Gambia Georgia
Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau
Guyana Haiti Honduras Iceland
Iran, Islamic Republic of Iraq Israel Jamaica
Kazakhstan Kiribati Kosovo Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan Lao People’s Democratic Republic Latvia Lesotho
Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Luxembourg
Macedonia, Republic of Madagascar Malawi Malaysia
Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands
Mauritania Mauritius Micronesia, Federated States of Moldova, Republic of
Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Mozambique
Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nicaragua
Niger Oman Palau Palestinian Territory, Occupied
Papua New Guinea Paraguay Qatar Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa
San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles
Sierra Leone Slovenia Solomon Islands South Sudan
Sudan Suriname Swaziland Syria
Tajikistan Tanzania, United Republic of Timor-Leste Togo
Tonga Tunisia Turkmenistan Tuvalu
Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Yemen
Zambia

 

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