Applications Invited for ICGEB Research Grants

About the Organization

The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology ICGEB is an Intergovernmental Organisation and its operations are aligned to these of the United Nations Common System. It operates as a Centre of excellence for Research, Training and Technology Transfer to trade to advertise sustainable international growth.

About the Grant

Funding alternatives are made out there by way of the Collaborative Research Programme (CRP) – ICGEB Research Grants, which is a devoted supply of funding geared toward financing initiatives addressing authentic scientific issues of explicit relevance for the host nation and of regional curiosity.

Type of Support

The ICGEB CRP Grants programme was established in 1988, and goals to stimulate collaborative analysis in Member States and with the ICGEB Component laboratories, to advertise coaching of younger scientists and to facilitate the creation of applicable analysis services. The programme gives help for analysis initiatives in primary science, human healthcare, industrial and agricultural biotechnology and bioenergy. A name for purposes is launched yearly.

Grants are awarded to contribute to the implementation of excellent scientific analysis initiatives. An necessary ingredient of profitable purposes is the feasibility of the proposed challenge throughout the designated time frame (most 36 months). The most annual contribution from ICGEB is Euro 25,000.

Funds can solely be used to cowl expenditures which can be instantly related to the challenge. This could embrace buying consumable gadgets, scientific literature and primary commonplace laboratory gear. Travel and coaching prices can be coated.

Salaries of the Principal Investigators and infrastructural help (e.g., regular administrative and overhead bills of the Institution, upkeep and rental of capital gear, constructing, and many others.) are usually not admissible and can’t be funded.

Eligibility

Applicants for analysis grant proposals (recognized as “CRPs”) ought to maintain positions at Universities or Research Institutes in any of the ICGEB Member States.

International collaboration is an important characteristic of all ICGEB grants and should be totally built-in into the challenge. Active collaboration with ICGEB Research Groups is welcome however not necessary. Particular consideration will likely be given to initiatives addressing problems with curiosity for particular geographic areas and introduced by teams collaborating throughout a couple of nation.

Investigating teams don’t qualify for submission of purposes:

• if beforehand awarded initiatives haven’t been evaluated and satisfactorily concluded;
• if the University or Research Institute of the Principal Investigator is predicated in Italy.

A particular class of CRP-ICGEB Early Career Return Grants is meant to fund younger researchers with an impressive monitor file, who’ve spent a minimal of two years overseas and have not too long ago returned to an ICGEB Member State to determine impartial laboratories.

Applicants for Early Career Return Grants must be not more than 40 years of age on the time of utility.

Applicants ought to have returned to an ICGEB Member State (besides Italy) not more than 2 years earlier than submitting the applying.

How to Apply

Deadline: 7 January 2025.

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