TWAS Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators (SG-NAPI) 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 26, 2026

Applications are open for the TWAS Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators (SG-NAPI) 2026. With the help of the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), UNESCO-TWAS launched a brand new programme to strengthen the capability of African nations lagging in science and know-how. The programme is aimed toward early profession researchers who’ve obtained their PhD overseas and have lately returned or will shortly return to an instructional place of their home nation.

Grants are awarded to promising excessive-stage analysis initiatives in Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry, Earth sciences, Engineering, Information Computer Technology, Mathematics, Medical Sciences and Physics and/or Germany’s High-Tech Agenda carried out in African nations lagging in science and know-how recognized by TWAS.

Benefits

• The whole quantity awarded for SG‑NAPI could also be as much as USD 67,700.

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 know-how.
• The PI have to be 40 years outdated or youthful. Any applicant turning 41 within the 12 months of application shouldn’t be 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 inside the final 36 months or will return home earlier than the tip of 2026.
• The PI should maintain, be provided or be within the means of accepting a place at an instructional 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 know-how (seek advice from record within the tips).
• Applicant should on the time of application NOT have an energetic analysis grant with TWAS or OWSD Early Career Women Scientists (ECWS) Fellowship.
• Applications from girls scientists and people working in Least Developed Countries are particularly inspired.
• The applicant should submit a robust Research Proposal.
• Be suggested that candidates might apply for just one programme per calendar 12 months within the TWAS and OWSD portfolio. Applicants won’t be eligible to go to one other establishment in that 12 months beneath the TWAS Visiting Scientists the Visiting Professor programmes. One exception: The head of an establishment who invites an exterior scholar to share his/her experience beneath the TWAS Visiting Professor programme or the TWAS Visiting Expert programme should still apply for one other programme.

Application

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