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CCRIF to Provide up to US$150,000 in Scholarships for Academic Year 2020/21 to Caribbean Nationals

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April 30, 2020

#Caribbean – April 30, 2020 — CCRIF SPC invites applications for scholarships for 2020/21 to support students pursuing Masters level degree programmes in areas such as disaster risk management (DRM), natural resources management, climate change, civil with environmental engineering, actuarial science, and meteorology, etc. at universities in the Caribbean, USA, UK and Canada.

The deadline for applications for the 2020 CCRIF Scholarship Programme is June 15, 2020. Please visit the CCRIF website at http://www.ccrif.org/content/scholarship.

Additionally, CCRIF will continue to provide through the University of the West Indies (UWI) four undergraduate scholarships per year for the second and final year for students registered at one of the UWI campuses and pursuing select degrees related to DRM, civil engineering, geography, environmental management etc. For information on the CCRIF-UWI undergraduate scholarships, visit: http://www.ccrif.org/content/programmes/ccrif-uwi-scholarship.

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