Application Procedure

The application procedure for prospective US student participants consists of two steps.

Express your interest (deadline January 25, 2010):

Please express your interest in participating in the Zanzibar Project in 2010 by sending a brief email to Beatrice Theiss at as soon as possible, but not later than January 25, 2010.

About ten candidates will then be selected and invited to submit detailed application documents, as described next.

Submit application documents (deadline February 1, 2010):

Upon invitation, please provide your curriculum vitae, arrange for an email from your advisor or academic program director to Beatrice Theiss in which he/she expresses support for your participation, and write an essay about your interest in the Zanzibar Project by February 1, 2010. Your essay should address the set of questions listed below in a coherent way. It should make an interesting read that convinces that you are in every respect an ideal participant. If you are accepted, your essay will be posted on this web site after you were given the opportunity to edit out parts that you consider too personal for the general public.

1) Please give your reasons for your interest in participating in the Zanzibar Project with respect to a) the research, b) the education, c) the network, and d) the other aspects beyond the scope of the Zanzibar Project (e.g. learning Kiswahili). Please incorporate in particular your reasons for choosing a developing rather than another industrialized country to make these experiences.

2) What prior experiences do you have that you think are relevant for your participation in the Zanzibar Project?

3) How would you integrate your summer project in Zanzibar into your studies and/or research work at your home university and in your career in general?

4) What are your concerns and worries about participating in the Zanzibar Project?

5) What are your views on the relation between the industrialized and developing world? In particular, what do you think constitutes effective development co-operation and how can science and especially the Zanzibar Project contribute meaningfully to it?