Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) Essential Grant Writing Skills Programme 2025 – YOA

Deadline: January 8, 2025

Applications are open for the Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) Essential Grant Writing Skills Programme 2025. The Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) works to strengthen the well being analysis capability of scientists in Africa who’re engaged in tackling the sub-area’s important well being challenges. AREF is asking for functions from scientists who’re energetic, rising biomedical/well being researchers in African nations to take part in its Essential Grant Writing Skills Programme.

This totally on-line programme will probably be held over eight 3-hour periods in the course of the weeks of March 17, 2025 and May 5, 2025. There will probably be a six-week break in between the two-part programme, the place you’ll be anticipated to write down a mini proposal and take part in an exercise to overview the proposals of your colleagues. This is an intensive programme that’s designed to supply tangible progress in the direction of a grant proposal by the tip of the programme sequence. Your dedication to all the sequence and to the extra work outdoors of periods will probably be vital to realize these outcomes.

To totally profit from this programme sequence, you’ll be at a stage in your analysis profession the place you’re actively searching for unbiased funding, and maybe have received smaller grants, however have but to safe that massive grant essential to help your analysis independence.

Programme Details

The Programmme purpose is to allow proficient early-profession health- and well being-associated researchers from nations in Africa to construct abilities to develop their very own analysis and fellowship proposals of the standard required to win aggressive worldwide, regional and nationwide funding.

The programme will cowl:

• Developing and expressing your distinctive analysis area of interest
• Formulating your compelling analysis query
• Understanding funders’ necessities
• Writing in plain English
• Writing the completely different sections of a proposal
• Key elements of a typical Case for Support / Project Description
• Planning your proposal venture plan and funds
• Principles of managing your collaboration and staff
• Understanding and practising peer overview
• Preparing for a Fellowship interview.

Eligibility

To be eligible, you must present proof that:

• You are a citizen of a rustic in Africa.
• You are within the early phases of your analysis profession, having accomplished your analysis training.

EITHER

• You have been awarded a analysis doctorate (PhD/DPhil/MD) from a recognised tutorial establishment usually throughout the earlier 6 years, (i.e. awarded on or after 1 January 2019);
  • OR you could have a medical/scientific qualification PLUS a analysis-related Master’s diploma, each awarded usually throughout the earlier 6 years (i.e. awarded on or after 1 January 2019).
• You are at present employed in Africa by a recognised college and/or specialist analysis establishment.
• You haven’t participated already in equal proposal improvement / grant-writing coaching.
• A major part of your present worker position is to develop and conduct well being analysis.
• You don’t have already got a major portfolio of worldwide analysis grants (Combined worth of £250,000 or extra).

Selection Criteria

Your application will probably be assessed when it comes to your capability to learn from the coaching, utilizing the next sorts of proof:

• Your analysis expertise, outputs and different achievements as an rising researcher so far.
• How you’ll use the coaching to realize your private imaginative and prescient to your improvement as a scientist who can tackle key well being challenges vital to Africa.
• How you’ll “cascade”, i.e. to cross on, the information and abilities you could have gained from the programme
• Adequate command of English.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to AREF.