The AGNES-BAYER Science Foundation Research Grant 2026 for Biodiversity Conservation & Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Application Deadline: sixteenth October 2026 at 23.59 GMT

Applications are actually open for the 2026 AGNES-BAYER Science Foundation Research Grant. The AGNES-BAYER Science Foundation Research Grant for Biodiversity Conservation & Sustainable Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa allows doctoral college students from sub-Saharan African international locations to undertake excellent analysis actions in Biodiversity conservation and sustainable agriculture.

The AGNES-BAYER Grant goals to help African PhD college students to implement/perform actions which can be part of the doctoral analysis in any sub-Saharan African nation, together with however not restricted to subject experiment and knowledge assortment or laboratory research or every other excellent analysis actions in the realm of biodiversity conservation and sustainable agriculture. Eligible junior researchers must display the relevance of their work to additional growth of their home international locations in sub-Sahara Africa. A most Grant of EUR 7,000 shall be awarded to every profitable applicant.

Eligibility Requirements

• Direct purposes from younger researchers who’ve revealed a minimum of 1 scientific paper (in a non-predatory journal) shall be thought of for the grant.
• AGNES will take into account solely candidates with excellent educational information and good publications in peer-reviewed worldwide journals listed in SCOPUS or Web of Science (WoS). Candidates MUST present the SCOPUS or Web of Science hyperlinks (URL) to every publication. 
• The applicant ought to be working in the sphere of Biodiversity conservation and/or Sustainable Agriculture. 
• Candidate should be formally registered for a Doctoral diploma at a college/tertiary institute in sub-Sahara Africa and MUST be a nationwide of a sub-Saharan African nation.
• Applicants should display clearly that their authentic proposal is related to growth in sub-Saharan African international locations.

Application Requirements

Complete purposes MUST embody the next:

(a) A quick authentic analysis/undertaking proposal (no more than 5 pages, MUST be in English) from the junior scientist (applicant) with a brief define of the proposed work actions and a schedule for reaching the goals of the analysis undertaking. We will course of each proposal by a plagiarism check.

(b) A regular CV of the applicant (use the AGNES template, MUST be in English). The AGNES CV template might be obtained from right here: Download 2026 AGNES-BAYER CV-Template.

(c) Official proof of registration for the postgraduate diploma (solely Doctoral college students at present formally enrolled at a college/tertiary institute in sub-Sahara Africa are eligible). Completed PhD work won’t be thought of.

(d) A copy of the official Academic transcripts reflecting the grades obtained in the undergraduate and any postgraduate study. Please provide the official clarification of the grading system in English in case your transcript is in one other language.

(e) A checklist of revealed articles in non-predatory journals with SCOPUS or Web of Science hyperlinks (URL) to every publication (embody an e-copy of the primary web page displaying the title, authors and the summary). Both the checklist of publications and the primary web page of every publication ought to be merged right into a single PDF doc. The doc ought to start with a descriptive title on the primary web page (e.g., “LIST OF PUBLICATIONS FOR JOHNSON JAMES”), adopted by the checklist of publications (with the hyperlink to every publication included after the title and different particulars of the publication). The first web page of every publication ought to then comply with in the identical PDF doc.

(f) An in depth funds of the deliberate actions.

For More Information:

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