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SANSA Postgraduate Bursaries 2021

  • Bursary
  • South Africa
  • Applications have closed.

Are you interested in working in the space sector to bring real benefits to society?

SANSA is looking for forward-thinking individuals to join Africa’s next generation of Earth-observation and space scientists.

South Africa needs an increase in science and engineering graduates if we are to effectively resource the country with necessary and scarce skills to achieve goals of the National Development Plan and ensure a successful and sustainable future for our citizens.

Earth Observation (Hons, MSc, PhD)

  • Remote sensing
  • Geospatial programming
  • Earth system science with remote sensing
  • Earth observations in ecosystems accounting
  • Applications of remote sensing in environmental management including oceans and marine, agriculture and rangelands, water resource management, mineral resource and spatial planning

Engineering (MEng, MTech, MSc, PHD, DTech)

  • Software and software systems engineering
  • Aeronautical, aerospace, mechanical, electrical, electronic, mechatronic and computer engineering
  • Space, systems, antenna and RF engineering

Space Science (Hons, MSc, MPhil, PhD)

  • Antarctic radar studies of climate change
  • Multi-instrument studies of space weather
  • Modelling geomagnetically induced currents in power systems
  • Multi scale ionospheric physics, structure and dynamics
  • Ionospheric and radio propagation modelling
  • Theory of waves and solutions in plasmas
  • Solar physics
  • Space Weather forecasting and verification aligned to navigation and radiation applications

All SANSA divisions (Hons, MSc, PhD)

  • Computer science
  • Information systems
  • Software and systems engineering
  • Data Science
  • Field of your choice related to key SANSA objectives
  • Space, systems, antenna and RF engineering

HOW TO APPLY

Visit the SANSA website at

Click Here to SANSA REGISTER BURSARY PAGE to find out more about our requirements and to submit your application.

You can find more information on SANSA research projects at