Call for Applications (Grants, Awards, Scholarships, topics)
- UK Energy and Economic Growth calls for research proposals relating to electricity reliability, grid access, renewable energy and energy efficiency with proposals relating to LIC in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Deadline is the 3. May 2018
- UK Royal Society invites applications for international collaboration awards. Deadline is the 3. May 2018
- Switzerland provides seed money for research cooperation with Mediterranean countries. Deadline is the 6. May 2018
- UK Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) invites topics from the environmental science community. Deadline is the 15. May 2018
- UK Economic and Social Research Council calls for proposals to establish Climate Change Centres. Deadline for outline is the 15. May 2018
- The Swiss research4development (r4d) funding line is organizing an online information event for the next funding period of four years. Registration online, events taking place on 17. and 18. May 2018
- The French Partenariat Hubert Curien franco sud-africain calls for proposals for collaborations between French and South African laboratories to the benefit of doctoral students and early career researchers. Deadline is 4. June 2018
- The French National Research Foundation (ANR) offers seed money to establish international research networks for applications to EU-funding. Deadline is the 5. June 2018
- Swiss ‘REPIC – Renewable Energy, Energy and Resource Efficiency Promotion in Developing and Transition Countries’ invites project proposals. No deadline announced
Conferences, call for papers and announcements
- A new open-access, peer-reviewed journal for inter- and multidisciplinary research has been launched at the last Next Einstein Forum (NEF) in Rwanda. It is called Scientific African. The founding Editor-in-Chief is Benji Gyampoh
Interesting Reads
- Senegalese-based CODESRIA announces the winners of its 2017 Meaning-Making Research Initiatives (MRI)
- The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) has published a White Paper on ‘Laying Down the Groundwork for a Knowledge-Led Society: Policy and Practice’ (English/French)
- Alex Abutu reports from a recent meeting of the International Council of Science in Nigeria with participants urging for better management and resourcing of national scientific systems.
- UK Research and Innovation has formed a Peer Review College that is part of the Global Research Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and aims at least at 95% membership from countries from the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) list countries – A promising safeguard to integrate diverse global perspectives and expected to deliver to the GCRF-aim of “fair and equitable partnerships”
- Diana Dalton from the UK DFID, Research and Evidence Division assesses how international research cooperations can become more equitable (and outlines the spending of foreign aid on research for the next 4 years)