The GANS Scholarship Programme is a fully-funded pathway into a certified aviation career, open to UAE Nationals who meet the minimum academic requirements. It covers tuition, a monthly stipend, insurance, and comprehensive on-the-job experience across four specialist tracks.
Start your applicationFrom day one, you are paired with the controllers, engineers, and AIS officers already running live operations across the UAE's airspace to learn how the job actually feels under real pressure, in real time.
By the time you sit your final assessment, you won't be guessing what the role is like. You'll have already done it, under supervision, inside one of the region's busiest air navigation networks.
Hover a card to read the job purpose. Open it for full accountabilities and per-track eligibility.
For the provision of electronic and software support to ensure the safety of air traffic, by maintaining software specification integration and testing, conducting preventative and corrective maintenance, installing, commissioning, compiling, and revising documentation accordingly, including safety, security and quality management of ATM/CNS equipment/systems.
To prevent collision between aircraft in the air/on the ground between aircraft and obstructions and expedite and maintain an orderly flow of air traffic.
To ensure the flow of aeronautical data and aeronautical information necessary for Global Air Traffic Management (ATM) System safety, regulatory, economy, and efficiency in an environmentally sustainable manner. The role and importance of aeronautical data and aeronautical information changed significantly with the implementation of Area Navigation (RNAV), Performance-Based Navigation (PBN), Airborne Computer-Based Navigation Systems, Performance-Based Communication (PBC), Performance-Based Surveillance (PBS), Data Link Systems and Satellite Voice Communications (SATVOICE). Corrupt, erroneous, late, or missing aeronautical data and aeronautical information can potentially affect the safety of air navigation.
Four requirements apply across every track. Programme-specific education and English thresholds are shared on the role pages below.
Open exclusively to citizens of the United Arab Emirates.
Applicants must be within this range at the time of application.
A completion certificate is required where applicable.
Sat at the GANS Training Centre in Al Ain.
Tuition is covered, and scholars receive a monthly stipend during training.
Classroom and simulator work alongside on-the-job experience at the same time.
Mentored progression toward operational roles across the UAE network.
Insurance card during training, plus subsidised accommodation for scholars based outside Al Ain.
Every document below is required at registration. Gathering them now means nothing holds up your application later.
Every applicant goes through the same flow. The aptitude test is sat in person at the Training Centre in Al Ain.
Open the application portalSubmit your application and supporting documents via the scholarship portal.
Sit the test at the Training Centre in Al Ain — minimum score 70%.
Panel interview with the scholarship team.
Pass the aviation-class medical examination, then receive your offer.
