MIT Africa Empowering the Teachers Fellowship Programme 2025/2026 For Engineering Professors (Fully Funded to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA)

The MIT-Empowering the Teachers (MIT-ETT) program at MIT strives to foster innovation in science and engineering education in tertiary academe institutions in Africa through an inter engagement with faculty members from African. Applications are now open for this program.

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About MIT Africa Empowering the Teachers Fellowship Programme

Opportunity Details

The MIT-Empowering the Teachers (MIT-ETT) program provides an intense, semester long teaching-focused engagement for selected cohorts of faculty members (ETT Fellows) from African universities. By introducing the ETT Fellows to cutting edge student-focused teaching methodologies the ETT strives to foster innovation in science and engineering education in tertiary academic institutions in Africa.

Our vision for the universities where our fellows teach is to develop undergraduate students ready for the demands of today’s job market, equipped with hands-on problem solving and critical thinking capabilities. NNPC Ltd. & TotalEnergies EP Nigeria are the corporate partners and sponsors of the program.

Benefits of MIT Africa Empowering the Teachers Fellowship Programme

  • Free training on cutting-edge student-focused teaching methodologies the ETT

MIT Africa Empowering the Teachers Fellowship Programme Requirements

  • This program is open to selected cohorts of faculty members (ETT Fellows) from African universities.
  • You have to complete your PhD to be eligible for this program
  • You must be an engineering professor 

Application Date and Process

  • Click on the link to the application website to apply.

Application Deadline

26 May, 2024

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