Applications are now open for the 2026 MIT Africa Empowering the Teachers Fellowship Programme.The MIT-ETT Program is a prestigious, teaching-focused fellowship offered by the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) and proudly sponsored by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, TotalEnergies Upstream Nigeria Limited (TUPNI), and Partners.
About MIT 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.
Program objectives:
- Expose junior African professors to MIT’s advanced, problem-solving pedagogical methods
- Encourage the ETT fellows to become change-agents
- Allow the ETT fellows to expand their professional network, including MIT faculty with a deep interest in emerging economies.
During their semester at MIT, the ETT fellows:
- Observe at least 2 MIT courses in their own disciplines
- Take a curriculum design course and implement research-based instructional design principles in their courses
- Discuss & explore curricular enrichment & reform through both formal and informal interaction with the MIT community
- Participate in numerous activities to develop critical change-agent skills. These skills include entrepreneurship, effective communication, experiential learning, reflection, collaboration, systems thinking and perseverance.
Benefits of MIT Empowering the Teachers Fellowship Programme
- This is a fully-funded fellowship programme.
MIT Empowering the Teachers Fellowship Programme Requirements
- This semester-long fellowship is designed for engineering professors currently teaching at local universities in Nigeria who have recently completed their Ph.D.
Application Date and Process
- Click on the link to the application website and follow the instructions to apply.
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Application Deadline
20 May, 2025
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