CBSI call for applications!
MSc and PhD Scholarships to start September 2025
Deadline 28 Feb 2025
Could you be part of the first cohort of CBSI postgraduate researchers?
Are you motivated to collect and analyse the data needed for policies that slow deforestation, improve livelihoods and support sustainable development? Awards include a stipend, university fees, plus research and travel costs. Open to individuals with outstanding talent from Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon or Republic of the Congo.
The Congo Basin Science Initiative is a large network of scientists, led by those from the region, seeking to increase investment to train a new generation of scientists and transform our understanding of the world’s second largest rainforest.
Photo credit: Fiston Wasanga HQ/CongoFlux
Exploring the world’s second largest rainforest.
Collecting new data to understand its climate, ecology and economy.
Photo credit: Simon Lewis.
Photo credit: CRREBaC/CRuHM.
Training a new generation of expert scientists.
Enabling communities to develop without destruction.
Photo credit: Molly Bergen/WCS, WWF, WRI.
Photo credit: Kevin McElvaney/Greenpeace
Together we can make a difference, building a better future for all.
GET INVOLVED!
If you are a scientist, conservation practitioner, potential funder, policy advisor, or anyone else who believes it is time to end under-investment in Congo Basin science and transform our understanding of this crucial region of our planet, join our community mailing list today.
REGISTER HERE