2025 TWAS Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators (SG-NAPI)

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Application Deadline: 27 March 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 TWAS Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators. The Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators (SG-NAPI) was established in response to the wants of researchers in growing nations, significantly these hooked up to establishments that lack applicable analysis services. Under this scheme, grants will be awarded for analysis initiatives in Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Engineering, Information Computer Technology, Mathematics, Medical Sciences and Physics to Principal Investigators within the African nations lagging in science and expertise recognized by TWAS, to allow them to buy the analysis services they should improve their productiveness.

The Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators (SG-NAPI) goals to assist early-career scientists in Sub-Saharan Africa, with explicit emphasis on Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

Programme Details

• SG-NAPI grants are awarded to high-level promising analysis initiatives in Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Engineering, Information Computer Technology, Mathematics, Medical Sciences and Physics carried out by Principal Investigators (PI) within the African nations lagging in science and expertise recognized by TWAS.
• Research grants to analysis items quantity to a most of USD 67,700.
• The grants, usually awarded for a length of 24 months, will be utilized for the acquisition of scientific gear and consumables. This contains in distinctive circumstances partial funding for fieldwork, upkeep of kit and specialised literature, akin to textbooks and proceedings solely. The grant doesn’t cowl salaries of the Principal Investigator or journey bills except they’re clearly associated to one of many convention and/or mobility elements talked about under. Additionally, please notice that the buy of gas, charges for specialists or consultants or labourers, laptops, tablets, drones and laboratory animals is not supported.

Eligibility

• Applying Principal Investigators have to be nationals of an eligible nation, who holds a PhD and has good analysis expertise. The grant ought to function inside a college or a analysis establishment in one of many African nations lagging in science and expertise.
• The PI have to be 40 years outdated or youthful. Any applicant turning 41 within the 12 months of application is just not eligible.
• The PI will need to have obtained their Ph.D. inside the final 5 years in a rustic apart from their home nation.
• The PI will need to have returned to their home nation (confer with checklist within the pointers) inside the final 36 months or will need to have returned home earlier than the tip of 2024.
• The PI should maintain, be provided or be within the means of accepting a place at an educational and/or analysis establishment (together with worldwide analysis facilities) of their home nation.
• The PI have to be nationwide of an eligible African nation that’s lagging in science and expertise (confer with checklist within the giudelines).
• Applicant should on the time of application NOT have an lively analysis grant with TWAS or OWSD Early Career Women Scientists (ECWS) Fellowship.
• Applications from ladies scientists and people working in Least Developed Countries are particularly inspired.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the TWAS Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators