United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOSA)/Japan Long-term Fellowship Program 2026 on Nano-Satellite Technologies for nationals of developing countries. (Fully Funded to Japan) Deadline: 30 November, 2025

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOSA)/Japan Long-term Fellowship Program 2026 on Nano-Satellite Technologies for nationals of developing countries. (Fully Funded to Japan) Deadline: 30 November, 2025

Applications are now open for the 2026 United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOSA)/Japan Long-term Fellowship Program . The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the Government of Japan in cooperation with the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) have established a United Nations/Japan Long-term Fellowship Program on Nano-Satellite Technologies for nationals of developing countries or non-space-faring nations. The Program will provide extensive research opportunities in nano-satellite systems through the use of the  nano-satellite development and testing facilities  available at Kyutech.

Requirements

• This “Post-graduate study on Nano-Satellite Technologies (PNST)” Fellowship Program will accept  up to three students in the Master’s Program (2 years duration)  and  up to three students in the Doctoral Program (3 years duration) .
• Successful participants will be awarded a master or doctoral degree after successful thesis defense.
• The successful candidates will enroll in the Space Engineering International Course (SEIC) after passing an official entrance examination by the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology.

Benefits

• The selected candidates will each receive a grant under Japanese government (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: MEXT) scholarship (Research Students) of approximately 144,000 JPY per month for the duration of their fellowship study (2 or 3 years) to cover housing, food, local transportation, and other expenses.
• Each candidate will be provided, according to his/her itinerary and route as designated by MEXT, an economy class air ticket between an international airport in the country of his/her nationality and an international airport in Japan used on the normal route to the accepting university.
• Fees for matriculation, tuition and entrance examinations will be paid by Kyutech.

Application Deadline: 30 November 2025, 23:59 Japan Standard Time (JST).

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