The African Academy of Sciences and the NEPAD Agency’s Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) today (17 November 2016) committed US$7 million to fund innovative ideas and research through the Grand Challenges Africa programme to accelerate scientific breakthroughs that will improve Africa’s health and developmental outcomes.
WORTH
- The Grand Challenges Africa Grants will solicit ideas that can be developed into ground breaking research and innovations by providing up to US$100,000 in Grand Challenges Africa Innovation Seed Grants (GCA-ISG) for two years to each of the up to 40 projects that will be funded over the five-years that the scheme will run.
ELIGIBILITY
- The call will be open to African investigators working in African based, domestic organizations, including non-profit organizations, international organizations, government agencies, research and academic institutions.
- The call is also open to non-African investigators with an appointment/affiliation with any of the nine Institute Pasteur in Africa, who are resident in Africa, with at least 18 months left on their tenure of service/affiliation by the time of receiving the award.
DEADLINE: February 17 2017
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