The Swedish International Development Agency’s (Sida) with the UNITAR cooperation provides a short term online course opportunity for women from Afghanistan and Iraq to build with professional knowledge, skills, and network. The Frontier Technology for Sustainable Development will help the applicants to explain and develop the organization’s success tools and business plans. Applicants from different sectors such as public or private sectors, academia, media, and civil society organizations. Check out the details and follow up on the online application form.

Details:

Deadline: 30 November 2019                                                     Program date: 15 January to 15 April 2020

Number of participants: 30 (15 from Afghanistan and 15 from Iraq

Type of program: short term course                                        Location: online

Course duration: 12 weeks                                                          Course area: public finance and trade

Required language: English                                                         Targeted audience: Women

Eligible countries: Afghanistan and Iraq

Benefits of the program:

At the end of the Frontier Technology for Sustainable Development, applicants will be able to:

• Applicants will receive the UNITAR Certificate of Completion.
• Familiarity with success tools for innovation of an organization
• Innovation skills development
• Providing a business plan with emerging new research on Al and entrepreneurship to mention national, regional, and global development challenges.

Eligibilities:

• Applicant’s age must be between 18 – 40 years
• Applicants must be interested in the following areas:
• Frontier Technology and innovation, engineering, SME development, digital economy, value-chain development, mentoring, and start-up.
• Applicants must have a bachelor degree in information technology, engineering or business, computer programing, or related area.
• Applicants from any province of the eligible countries can take part.
• Must have at least a professional two years of work experience.
• Applicants must work with a local or national organization in Afghanistan or Iraq.
• The current position of the applicants must in a position related to the interested areas mentioned above.
• Have excellent English skills (speaking and writing).
• Have the ability to use Microsoft Office.
• Must be able to present in all online sessions even on holidays.
• Must have a good state of health.
• Applicants must have full support of their supervisor for attending this course.

Required documents:

• Nomination letter
• Color and facial photo
• Copy of passport
• CV
• Motivation letter including the participation reasons, examples of the harness artificial intelligence plane or frontier technology in address of development challenges in your home country through entrepreneurship and the description of a plan as an innovative, in technological area, and knowledge.

How to apply:

Provide the requested document and submit them through the online application form.

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For more information and details, please visit the program website