Mastercard Foundation and University of Cambridge Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund 2025 – YOA

Deadline: January 15, 2026

Applications are open for the Mastercard Foundation and University of Cambridge Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund 2025. The Mastercard Foundation and University of Cambridge Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund intention to catalyse new and strengthen present collaborations between researchers in Africa and Cambridge and assist 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 might be justified within the application for the award. Awards are made to pairs of researchers (submit-doctoral stage and above though due consideration can be given for equal expertise), one from an African college or analysis establishment and one from the University of Cambridge.

grant

• Applications might be made for a Research Catalyst Grant for as much as £20,000 or a Workshop Grant for as much as £50,000 regardless of self-discipline and depending on justification for funding requested.

Eligibility

• Applications are invited from pairs of researchers (submit-doctoral stage and above) from the University of Cambridge and African universities or analysis institutes, throughout all disciplines to provoke and/or strengthen analysis collaborations that deal with key challenges in local weather resilience and sustainability. 
• In this spherical, they may also take into account Research Catalyst functions from NIAB and Wellcome Sanger Institute. 

Application

The on-line application kind has been designed to permit each candidates (Cambridge and Africa-based) to log in, replace, save and finally submit electronically.

To entry the shape, the Cambridge based mostly applicant should Register Here. Only candidates with @cam.ac.uk, @niab.com and @sanger.ac.uk e-mail addresses can register.

The Cambridge-based applicant should then log in to the Mastercard Foundation and University of Cambridge Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund (CReSus) application kind, the place they are going to see the phrases “Invite a 2nd applicant to view/edit this submission”. Click on this hyperlink to be able to invite the Africa-based applicant to register and edit the varieties.

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