Title
First name*
Middle name
Family name*
Gender*
Date of birth*
Place of birth*
Marital status*
Number of children*
Nationality*
Country of permanent residence*
Street*
Postal code*
Town*
State
Country*
Email*
Telephone*
Since BIGSAS does not offer any kind of basic funding, are you able to cover the costs of your livelihood for the time to degree?*
How do you plan to finance your doctoral studies?*
Institution / Employer / Sponsor*
Duration*
Amount (in €) per year*
Please provide further information regarding your funding (if available). If you are part of an Africa Multiple Cluster project please fill in the title of the project and the name(s) of the project director(s).
Please provide proof of funding (e.g. scholarship confirmation letter, job contract, etc., only PDFs, max. 2 MB).*
Name of school*
Type of school*
Date of graduation*
Secondary school graduation certificate / University entrance certificate (only PDFs, max. 2 MB)*
Please select which kind of academic qualifications you obtained.*
Master's Degree
Title of qualification*
Date of first enrolment*
Final grade*
Master's degree or equivalent foreign degree certificate (only PDFs, max. 2 MB)*
Master's transcript of records (only PDFs, max. 2 MB)
Please upload all pages of your transcript.*
Bachelor's Degree
Bachelor's degree or equivalent foreign degree certificate (only PDFs, max. 2 MB)*
Bachelor's transcript of records (only PDFs, max. 2 MB)
Other Degree
Other degree certificate (only PDFs, max. 2 MB)*
Other transcript of records (only PDFs, max. 2 MB)
Please select your mother tongue.*
Please fill in your mother tongue.
Please indicate the levels of your academic linguistic competencies:
English
Speaking*
Reading*
Writing*
French
German
Portuguese
Arabic
Please state any other language you speak, read and / or write. Press the plus button to add further languages (max. 15).
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Project Proposal
Working title*
Subject / Discipline*
(Potential) Supervisor*
Project proposal for BIGSAS (max. ten pages, only PDFs, max. 2 MB)*
One-page summary of the proposal in English (only PDFs, max. 2 MB)*
Supervision agreement (only PDFs, max. 2 MB)
Please use the form we provide on our website.*
Doctoral Candidate
Are you enrolled as a doctoral candidate at the University of Bayreuth?*
Faculty*
Current supervisor*
Matriculation number*
Please upload a self-declaration that you have not been accepted for a doctorate at another university or are enrolled at another university or university of applied sciences (only PDFs, max. 2 MB).*
Curriculum Vitae
Please upload your CV (only PDFs, max. 2 MB).*
Motivation Letter
Please upload your motivation letter (only PDFs, max. 2 MB).*
Thesis
Please upload your written master (or equivalent) thesis (only PDFs, max 2 MB).*
Referee #1
Academic title*
Name*
Institution*
Recommendation Letter 1
Please upload your first recommendation letter (only PDFs, max. 2 MB).*
Referee #2
Recommendation Letter 2
Please upload your second recommendation letter (only PDFs, max. 2 MB).*
List of Academic Publications
Please upload a list of your academic publications (optional, only PDFs, max. 2 MB).
Declaration of Consent
With your submission you give us permission to store your contact details for the purpose of informing you about the status of your application for admission to BIGSAS. This declaration may be revoked at any time in the future.*
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