IMU CDC Graduate Research Assistantships in Developing Countries (GRAID) Program 2026 – YOA

Deadline: May 15, 2026

Applications are open for the IMU CDC Graduate Research Assistantships in Developing Countries (GRAID) Program 2026. The GRAID program supplies modest assist for rising analysis teams, working in a creating nation listed in Priority 1 or 2 of the IMU Definition of Developing Countries, to fund their most proficient college students to study full-time as graduate analysis assistants. Supported college students should pursue a Master or PhD graduate diploma in arithmetic, thereby fostering the expansion of a arithmetic neighborhood.

The college students will obtain a month-to-month stipend to study full-time and pursue a Master or PhD graduate diploma in arithmetic. Additionally, this system helps them by establishing their networks with a world mathematician. Funding for the graduate analysis assistantships is supplied by voluntary donations from mathematicians or mathematical establishments worldwide.

Funding

• Each graduate analysis assistant is eligible for a stipend capped at USD $3,500 per yr.
• Each group could apply for funding for as much as two graduate analysis assistantships. (If a couple of pupil is funded inside the group, the whole grant quantity of $3,500 shall be divided between the scholars.)

The stipend could also be used to cowl the next prices for graduate analysis assistants:

• Tuition Fees
• Accommodation bills
• Basic residing bills

Eligibility

• Be a college professor in arithmetic with a PhD, primarily based at a college or analysis middle in a creating nation categorized underneath Priority 1 or 2 in the IMU CDC Definition of Developing Countries.
• Be at the moment supervising arithmetic Master’s or PhD college students.
• Serve because the Principal Investigator (PI) of an rising analysis group in a rustic listed underneath Priority 1 or 2 in the IMU CDC Definition of Developing Countries.
• Be part of an rising analysis group that has an lively and ongoing collaboration with an International Partner who just isn’t primarily based in a Priority 1 or 2 nation.

Application

The following paperwork have to be uploaded as part of the application by the application deadline:

• Collaboration Proposal (max. 3 pages): The proposal should embrace the Principal investigator’s expertise in mentoring college students and the outcomes of the mentored college students (if any), specify the function of the International Partner in mentoring the nominated college students and supporting the analysis group, and declare every other potential sources of economic assist for college kids (together with however not restricted to household, personal foundations, authorities, native, nationwide, or worldwide funding).
  • Note: Project description ought to be approachable to a broad mathematical viewers and clearly make clear the mathematical element of the venture.
• CV of Principal Investigator (max. 2 pages)
• Statement from International Partner (max. 2 pages)
• The assertion ought to embrace the International Partner’s view on the collaboration in addition to the nominated college students.
• CV of International Partner (max. 2 pages)
• Details of Student Nominee(s)
• CV of Student Nominee(s)
• Transcript of Student Nominee(s)

Note: All paperwork have to be submitted in English. Only PDF paperwork may be uploaded.

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For extra info, go to IMU CDC GRAID Program.