AWHF Moses Mapesa Education and Research Grant 2025 (up to $5,000) – YOA

Deadline: July 31, 2025

Applications are open for the AWHF Moses Mapesa Education and Research Grant 2025. The AWHF Moses Mapesa Research Grant was established to assist African doctoral and grasp’s college students conducting analysis within the discipline of pure and cultural heritage.

This grant goals to advance scholarly work by offering monetary assist—notably for fieldwork-associated actions—targeted on World Heritage Sites and properties included on nationwide Tentative Lists throughout Africa. Through this initiative, AWHF seeks to strengthen tutorial engagement and construct a brand new era of African specialists devoted to the safety, conservation, and sustainable administration of the continent’s wealthy heritage.

Grant

Grant quantities will differ relying on analysis proposals, with a most award of $5,000. The fieldwork analysis wants to be performed in not than 9 months from the signature of the contract (May 2026 to February 2027). The award will assist analysis tasks targeted on the next matters associated to a World Heritage or a tentative listed web site in Africa:

• Traditional (custodianship) administration programs,
• Heritage threat administration and preparedness,
• Heritage in battle and publish-battle conditions,
• Heritage administration and conservation,
• Heritage and local weather change,
• Heritage presentation and interpretation,
• Heritage and economics/entrepreneurship,
• Heritage and sustainable growth,
• Heritage promotion and consciousness,
• Heritage, authorized/police frameworks, and human rights,
• Heritage and digital applied sciences and synthetic intelligence,
• Heritage and Authenticity
• Heritage, Youth, and Intergenerational Knowledge Transmission

Eligibility

The name is open to college students who’re:

• Currently or can be registered in 2026 in a Doctoral or Master’s programme (Masters 2 for Francophone nations) at an African college and conducting dissertation analysis within the discipline of both pure or cultural heritage at an African World Heritage Site, or web site listed on a nationwide tentative checklist,
• Fluent in English, French, or Portuguese,
• Citizens of an African Union Member State which is occasion to the 1972 World Heritage Convention.

Application

All candidates ought to submit the next application bundle:

• The accomplished application type (co-signed by the supervisor);
• A letter of motivation by the applicant (1 web page most),
• Applicant’s up to date curriculum vitae (2 pages most),
• Proof in fact registration and /or letter of acceptance from larger studying institute or University,
• Research proposal (2 pages most) together with the next:
  • Full identify, affiliated college, nation, diploma stage, title of analysis and associated World Heritage or tentative listed web site
  • Description of analysis (Goal/aims, analysis query/s, relevance, significance, justification , scope, and anticipated outcomes)
  • Research methodology (strategy, timeframe, evaluation)
  • Bibliography
  • Budget (point out funds from all sources, stating particularly the sphere work gadgets this grant could be for with justifications as to the necessity)
  • Budget that features sources and quantities of supportive funds, if any.

Incomplete purposes and purposes that don’t fulfill all necessities said above won’t be thought-about.

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For extra data, go to AWHF.