Call for Applications
- The Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) and the Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique of Nairobi (IFRA) offer a short-term fellowship of three month in France for postdoc researchers from Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda, Deadline: 15.12.2017
- Three post-doctoral visiting fellowship positions will be available AfricaLics/SIDA to work on a single research project defined by the fellows themselves, but related to the overall theme of the programme which is Developing Innovation Capabilities for Sustainable and Inclusive Industrialisation in Africa., Deadline: 10.1.2018
- The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) has a Niger Delta Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme for applicants from Rivers, Delta and Bayelsa States in Nigeria to further their education in courses that are relevant to the oil and gas industry, deadline: 24.1.2018
- Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) Funding for Low-Carbon Development (5th call) in all regions with focus on transformation change towards a low-carbon development pathway, Deadline: 15.3.2018
- Green Climate Fund — Readiness Grants for developing countries to learn more about the GCF program, No deadline
- The Commonwealth Shared Scholarship gives funding for a few number of students from developing Commonwealth countries for studying a Taught Masers course with period of one year at Warwick University. Deadline: 12.4.2018
Call for Conference panels/papers
Interesting reads
- A new study about science-granting councils in Africa identifies lack of data on the broader outcomes of funding mechanisms – a correspondence in Nature (8. November)
- Q&A with Thierry Zomahoun, president and CEO of African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) about why Africa must lead the Quantum revolution
- The Ugandan government sets up funds to help market innovation – and stirs debate
- How philantrophs like the Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation are changing the game by applying cost-benefit-analysis to their spending (in German)
- What are good ways to fund science? Are there any tests of current funding programs asks Alice Täsk