GET READY TO APPLY: Regular Associateship (ICTP, Trieste)
ICTP (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics)
Apply on their own site: https://www.ictp.it/opportunity/regular-associates
This checklist: https://qualifyafrica.com/o/ictp-regular-associates-2027
Built only from what the listing states. Lines marked (our advice) are ours.
The application takes real work, by our reading.

1. CHECK YOURSELF AGAINST WHAT THEY ASK
[ ] Hold a PhD
[ ] Aged between 36 and 45
[ ] Main affiliation at a scientific institute in a developing country
[ ] Two senior scientists, preferably from another institute, willing to send recommendation letters

2. WHAT TO GET READY
[ ] References: two (Ask your referees now and send them the listing. Give them time.)
In their words: "Online application with two recommendation letters"

3. DATES
- Closes 31 January 2027, in 101 days.
- Ask your referees by 17 January 2027, two weeks before it closes. Others need time to write and send. (our advice)
- Aim to send it by 28 January 2027. Websites slow down near a deadline, and data runs out. (our advice)

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