Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund 2026 (up to £25,000) – YOA

Deadline: September 3, 2026

Applications are open for the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund 2026. The Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund was established in 2012, with beneficiant assist from The ALBORADA Trust. The Fund helps pairs of researchers (put up-doctoral stage and above) from the University of Cambridge (or an affiliated establishment such because the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, NIAB and British Antarctic Survey) and African establishments, throughout all disciplines, to provoke and/or strengthen analysis collaborations.

To date, 392 awards have been made, to allow Cambridge researchers to interact with African colleagues from 38 African international locations. Some awardees have been in a position to use the preliminary outcomes from their seed fund / analysis collaboration to apply for and win important funding (e.g. Royal Society/Leverhulme Awards, Global Challenges Research Fund, and so forth.).

grant

The Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund competitively awards grants of between £1,000 and £25,000, for:

• analysis prices (equivalent to reagents, fieldwork and gear)
• conducting analysis coaching actions in Africa (e.g. establishing programs/workshops).

Eligibility

• Applicants from Cambridge apply collectively with candidates from universities in Africa and co-create the tasks.
• Both candidates have to be at put up-doctoral stage or above, and by finishing an application, it’s understood that they’re each doing so with assist from their Head of Department or equal.
• Both candidates ought to have an employment contract to a analysis group/division/college of their home establishment. It can also be anticipated that each candidates stay employed past the tip date of their ALBORADA awards.
• The awards are usually not meant to assist post- graduate college students, nonetheless, restricted assist for college kids (e.g. as part of a analysis challenge or coaching go to) will likely be thought of when there’s a clear demonstration that this may improve the connection between the Cambridge and African Principal Investigators (PIs).
• The Cambridge applicant have to be both working on the University of Cambridge, or at a Research Institute affiliated with the University. Previous profitable Cambridge candidates have included these from Wellcome Sanger Institute, National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) and British Antarctic Survey. The Cambridge candidates will act because the lead candidates, for administrative functions, because the awards have to be paid to their Cambridge Departments/Faculties/Institutes.
• The African applicant have to be primarily based in an African University or a Research Institute of equal standing to a University.

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 primarily based applicant should Register here. Only candidates with @cam.ac.uk, @sanger.ac.uk, @babraham.ac.uk, @bas.ac.uk and @niab.com e mail addresses can register.

The Cambridge-based applicant should then log in to the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund application kind, the place they may see the phrases “Invite a 2nd applicant to view/edit this submission”. Click on this hyperlink so as to invite the Africa-based applicant to register and edit the types.

For extra data, go to Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund.