IFRA-Nigeria Research Grants 2027 (up to €1,000) – YOA

Deadline: October 30, 2026

Applications are open for the IFRA-Nigeria Research Grants 2027. IFRA-Nigeria – the French Institute for Research in Africa positioned throughout the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan – has a regional vocation that extends over 9 West African nations: Nigeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Chad and Togo. It promotes and helps analysis on these nations within the subject of the humanities and social sciences. Disciplines outdoors this subject usually are not eligible.

IFRA-Nigeria is financing, for the interval of January 2027 to October 2027, a dozen of analysis tasks, both particular person or collective, implying fieldwork missions and/or stays in archives.

Grants

• IFRA-Nigeria grants can solely attain a most of €1,000, relying on the character and the price range of the venture.

Eligibility

• Open to second 12 months grasp’s college students, doctoral and postdoctoral college students, in addition to researchers working in humanities and social sciences on a rustic below IFRA-Nigeria’s geographical mandate (Nigeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Chad and Togo). 
• They settle for functions in French or English.

Application

Documents to be offered embrace:

• A canopy letter (1 web page most, font dimension = Arial 12, computerized margins and paragraph dimension).
• A CV (3 pages most).
• A price range mentioning the whole price of the venture. Note that the price range should embrace an in depth rationalization of the meant use of funds requested from IFRA-Nigeria, and another quantity requested to or acquired from different sources of funding. Use the budget template.
• An in depth description of the analysis venture not exceeding 4 pages (bibliography and price range excluded). It ought to embrace the scientific venture, an in depth work plan (dates, itinerary, aims, and so on.), the record of institutional partnerships, the views of valorisation and a bibliography. Use the proposal template.

The paperwork should be uploaded in a single pdf file within the application form.

For extra data, go to IFRA-Nigeria Research Grants.