Mastercard Foundation & University of Cambridge Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund 2025 (up to £50,000) – YOA

Deadline: March 21, 2025

Applications are open for the Mastercard Foundation & University of Cambridge Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund 2025. The Fund goals to catalyse new and strengthen current collaborations between researchers in Africa and Cambridge and help top quality coaching actions. The focus of the scheme is analysis on local weather resilience and sustainability.

This focus is interpreted broadly as long as the linkage of the analysis to those areas will be justified within the application for the award. Awards are made to pairs of researchers (submit-doctoral and above though due consideration will likely be given for equal expertise), one from an African college or analysis establishment and one from the University of Cambridge.

Available Grants

Research Catalyst Grants

The purpose of the Catalyst Research grant is to behave as a seed fund/catalyst to allow the event of new analysis exercise. Priority will likely be given to purposes that construct new partnerships (or develop current ones) with the potential for lengthy-time period collaboration. Applications ought to clearly articulate how the collaboration provides worth past that which may very well be offered by the person teams/organisations and describe how the collaboration will function. The funding is for analysis tasks related to Climate Resilience and Sustainability. There is a broad interpretation of related analysis however throughout the application, justification might want to made to the relevance of the analysis. Applications could embody gear that’s for use in Climate Resilience and Sustainability analysis. Only one application will likely be thought-about per collaboration. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches are inspired with the identical funding limits regardless of the disciplines concerned. They anticipate that analysis catalyst grants could result in additional joint purposes.

Workshop Grants

The purpose of the Workshop Grant is to help excessive-high quality workshops delivered in Africa in collaboration between African universities/institutes and the University of Cambridge. The workshops ought to concentrate on growing expertise and data related to analysis on local weather resilience and sustainability with a selected emphasis on early profession researchers. The workshops will likely be co-created by researchers in African establishments and Cambridge, with the expectation that the majority workshops will likely be delivered in Africa. Furthermore, this grant goals to construct the capability of members by offering entry to assets, mentorship, and networking alternatives that may contribute to their skilled growth and profession development.

Grant

• In this spherical, purposes will be made for a Research Catalyst Grant for as much as £20,000 or a Workshop Grant for as much as £50,000.

Eligibility

• Applicants from Cambridge apply collectively with candidates from universities/institutes in Africa and co-create the tasks. It is essential that the funding isn’t merely used to offer providers that will likely be carried out at one establishment on behalf of the opposite, and that true collaboration is demonstrated within the application.
• All purposes should justify how the analysis is related to local weather resilience and sustainability. This could also be broadly interpreted. Funding isn’t restricted to science departments however is open to all disciplines and departments. Multi-disciplinary and inter- disciplinary purposes are notably welcomed as are revolutionary approaches.
• Research proposals that interact with younger individuals on the African continent (aged
• Both candidates ought to be at submit-doctoral stage or above though due consideration will likely be given for equal expertise. Contact organisers if one of the candidates doesn’t have a PhD.
• By finishing an application, it’s understood that each candidates are doing so with help from their Head of Department or equal. Both candidates ought to have a proper hyperlink to a analysis group/division/college of their home establishment. It can be anticipated that each candidates stay employed past the top date of the awards. The awards should not supposed to help postgraduate college students, nonetheless, restricted help for college students (e.g. as part of a analysis venture or internship) is inspired.
• The Cambridge-based applicant have to be working on the University of Cambridge. The Cambridge candidates will act because the lead candidates, for administrative functions, because the awards will likely be managed by their Cambridge Departments/Faculties/Institutes.
• The Africa-based applicant have to be in a Research Institution or University on the African continent.

Application

The Cambridge-based Principal Investigator should register and full a savable on-line application type, obtainable on the Cambridge-Africa web site. Final submissions ought to embody the next paperwork:

• Case for help
• An itemised finances (template offered)
• A lay abstract
• A letter of help from the division/college of the Cambridge-based PI. (For the Department of Engineering, a letter of help from the Head of Division is required). An e mail from an institutional e mail account can be acceptable.
• A letter of help from the division/establishment of the Africa-based PI. An e mail from an institutional e mail account can be acceptable.
• CVs (most 2 pages) for each the Cambridge-based and Africa-based PI

The deadline for submission is March 21, 2025 and purposes will be submitted at any time earlier than this. Any queries ought to be despatched to [email protected]

For extra data, go to Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund.