2025 MENA Scholarship Programme (MSP) in Netherland | Fully Funded

The Dutch Minitsry of Foreign Affairs has provided funding for the 2025 MENA Scholarship Programme at the UNESCO/IHE Delft in the Netherlands.

The MENA Scholarship Programme (MSP) offers full scholarships for short courses in the Netherlands to young professionals from the Middle East and North Africa.

Requirements:

You may be eligible for an MSP scholarship if you are living and working in:

• Algeria
• Egypt
• Iran
• Iraq
• Jordan
• Lebanon
• Libya
• Mauritania
• Morocco
• Oman
• Sudan*
• Tunisia

Click on your country to read more about eligibility, application process, and the thematic approach in your country.

Benefits:

The MENA Scholarship Program (MSP) offers full scholarships for short courses in the Netherlands to young professionals

Eligible IHE Delft short courses

Water Quality Assessment and Monitoring

This course covers the design and implementation of a monitoring network for surface- and groundwater bodies. The course consists of classroom, laboratory and field-based instructions designed to explain the theory and methodology of setting up a monitoring network with a hands-on component of planning a monitoring network in your country.

Remote Sensing for Agricultural Water Management

Develop skills to use remote sensing data for estimating high resolution agricultural water use (evapotranspiration) and biomass production for your own area of interest and utilise this data for water productivity and irrigation performance assessment.

Environmental and Social Impact Assessment at Project and Strategic Levels

This course is about the role of Strategic Environmental Assessment in guiding sectoral and regional planning towards sustainability, supporting strategic decisions, and its links with the Environmental Impact Assessment practice. Participants are trained in integrating systems thinking, cumulative effects, and strategic thinking.

How To Apply?

• Visit the scholarship application portal using the button below
• Step 1: Check if you meet the MSP eligibility criteria (see also the document “Obligations for scholarship holders MENA Scholarship Programme (MSP) – Individual Scholarships ” below).
• Step 2: Select one of the three courses listed below
  Step 3: Ask your employer whether they are willing to nominate you for a MSP scholarship.
• Step 4: Apply for admission to the short course 
• After you have received an email in which we confirm your academic admission:
• Step 5: Prepare your application for MSP: employer statement (for download see below), motivation, passport, government statement (if required)
• Step 6: Submit your MSP application online by following this link: https://delta.nuffic.nl/
• Scholarship application deadline: MSP will open from April 1 until 20 May 2025 (16:00 CET)

CLICK HERE TO APPLY

Deadline: May 20, 2025