Students approved for or registered for full-time studies at any South African public university,
who intend to register or are registered for the following degrees:
 

• Honours/4th year Engineering/Postgraduate Diploma
• Masters
• Doctoral

The thematic research focus areas for the bursary are restricted to the following research areas:

• Aerospace
• Composites
• Modelling and digital sciences (data science, biometrics, cybersecurity etc)
• Microsystems Technology
• Titanium (manufacturing elements)
• Photonics (free space communication, fibre-optics, laser welding and optics)
• Biotechnology (Biopharming, bio- processing and bio – catalysis)
• Information and Communications Technology
• Health
• Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) – (Bioprospecting research, product and process development)
   

Honours/4th year Engineering/Postgraduate Diploma bursary are as follows:

• ICT (Information Systems, Information Technology, Data Science, Computer Science,
  Information Systems Management, GIS, etc) 
• Engineering and related majors (Electrical and Computer, Electronic, Metallurgical, Aeronautical Engineering, etc)
• Health (Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, etc) 
• IKS (Indigenous Knowledge Systems)
• Statistics/Mathematical Statistics
• Epidemiology and Biostatistics
• Biotechnology and related majors
• Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Pure/Applied Mathematics
• Physics

• Honours/4^th year Engineering/Postgraduate Diploma: R100 000
• Masters: R120 000
• Doctoral: R140 000

THE CALL FOR APPLICATIONS IS NOW CLOSED!

For more information on the DSI CSIR Inter-bursary Support (IBS) Programme, please contact the CSIR IBS team via email at: hcd-interbursary@csir.co.za

 https://www.csir.auraams.app/