What CaReFoAfrica Intra-Africa Mobility Scholarship for African Women actually covers.
The CaReFoAfrica Intra-Africa Mobility Scholarship is an EU-funded programme offering transformative opportunities for African female postgraduate students to pursue Masters or PhD studies at African universities outside their home countries, fostering intra-African academic mobility and building a new generation of women leaders in research and development. The programme provides full financial support including tuition, accommodation, travel, living allowance, and health insurance. By enabling African women to study at African institutions in other countries, CaReFoAfrica promotes both academic excellence and continental integration, while addressing gender disparities in higher education. The scholarship targets women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), health sciences, social sciences, and humanities, with a focus on research that addresses Africa's development challenges. Students gain the experience of studying in a different African cultural and academic environment, building pan-African networks and perspectives that enhance their future careers and contributions to the continent.
Who can apply.
Open to masters, phd applicants. Eligible nationalities are listed below.
46 more eligible countries — full list available on the official application page.
Every academic discipline is accepted.
This programme does not restrict by field. Research proposals across humanities, sciences, engineering, agriculture, and medicine are all accepted.
Four steps to a complete application.
Scholar Africa is a discovery and tracking platform — the application itself is submitted directly through the official provider site. The steps below mirror our HowTo schema.
Check eligibility
Confirm your nationality, academic level, and field of study match the criteria above.
Eligibility checklist
Prepare documents
Transcripts, recommendation letters, personal statement, and a valid passport.
Document checklist
Submit the application
Submit before May 31, 2026 via the official portal.
Submission checklist
Track your application
Use your Scholar Africa dashboard to monitor status and deadline reminders.
Post-submission checklist
What we checked, when we checked it.
Scholar Africa runs a link-liveness check on every listing before it goes live. Five additional checks (contact, organisation, winners, third-party, manual review) are on the roadmap. CaReFoAfrica Intra-Africa Mobility Scholarship for African Women currently scores 4.0/10.
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Other scholarships worth a parallel application.
Same eligibility window or destination. Many strong applicants apply to three or four programmes per cycle.