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For Individuals – Benefit Types in Higher Education – For Students

Thesis Support

Description and Eligibility for Funding

LEARN Logistics supports students during their final study period when they write their theses at undergraduate (Bachelor) or postgraduate (Master)-level. The funding shall ensure the high quality of theses and enable students to collect primary and secondary date to fulfil the academic requirements concerning the statistical accuracy, for example. The thesis funding for eligible students may comprise the following items:

  • Purchase/rental of necessary software/hardware (e.g., statistical software SPSS, survey software, etc…)
  • Data collection package, e.g., to collect data from other regions or multiple company venues; or to involve numerators to collect additional data
  • Transport allowance for excessive travel
  • Printing allowance
  • Other reasonable expenses if agreed prior

LEARN Logistics and the partnering university will determine if students can apply for lumpsum amounts, or if numerous single components will be funded needs based.

Due to the potentially high number of applications for thesis funding, LEARN Logistics applies a collaboration model with universities. As part of that model, the supported university and LEARN Logistics jointly determine if a specific study program at under- or postgraduate level will be selected to offer financial thesis support to certain student cohorts. Besides the financial support, LEARN Logistics together with the university also aim to offer topics for theses and potential organizational partners with which a student can write its thesis  (e.g., apply the case study method and address a problem identified by an organization; and collect primary data from within that company). As a result:

I/II:
LEARN Logistics offer thesis support ONLY to pre-determined student cohorts as per joint selection with supported universities. The benefitting student cohorts may vary from year to year, and university to university. The study program or student cohort coordinator will inform about the availability of thesis funding. As LEARN Logistics offers funding to supported universities, the following listed universities ONLY will be eligible to offer thesis funding if approved prior by LEARN Logistics.

Supported Universities by LEARN Logistics in East- and West-Africa

  • Addis Ababa University, School of Pharmacy
  • Addis Ababa University, School of Commerce
  • Bahir Dar University
  • Mekelle University
  • Jimma University
  • University of Lagos
  • Lagos State University
  • Kaduna State University
  • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
  • Makerere University Business School
  • University of Nairobi
  • Strathmore University
  • University of Dar es Salaam
  • Mzumbe University

II/II:
LEARN Logistics does NOT offer thesis funding for individually applying students. Please do not apply by email for thesis funding, as we cannot approve such funding request.

Application

To obtain financial support as part of your thesis writing, you must submit your application here, using the online application form. Do not apply for funding, if you are not eligible (check here if you are eligible for funding Description and Eligibility for Funding). ONLY students who have been informed by their university coordinators and who have been provided with the registration passcode can apply for the financial thesis funding. Any ineligible and unreasonable applications will be rejected, and the student may be blocked from any future support by LEARN Logistics or participation in one of its events.

Application for Thesis Funding

Your online application must contain the following mandatory data and information. Please have all documents and copies available for uploading prior to starting the process. You cannot save your input during the application but must finish the application in one attempt. If you lack mandatory documents or information, you may need to re-start the application later again

  1. Personal Data of the student
  2. Copy of passports or national ID
  3. Details of the University and Study Program
  4. Allocated supervisor from your university/study degree program / Academic from your home university for reference
  5. History of previous engagement/funds obtained by LEARN Logistics
  6. Thesis Title and short abstract/summary of what shall be achieved
  7. Budget overview and breakdown of the different cost components

Disclaimer

The final decision about any form of financial or organizational support by LEARN Logistics for the applying student related to Thesis support, is solely and exclusively with LEARN Logistics. It is LEARN Logistics’ sole discretion to i) accept or reject applications; ii) to determine the total number of funded students; iii) to stop or add funding opportunities; iv) and to withdraw funding commitment if the student fails to comply with LEARN Logistics requirements, and/or provides false or incomplete information and data.