The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) is launching a Research Grant Program and is inviting research teams to submit proposals for policy research in any of the energy fields (e.g. energy technologies, energy finance, energy economics, energy policy, energy and the environment/climate change, energy and development, energy law etc.) Teams will receive a grant amount of not more than €1500 to contribute to the formulation of evidence-based energy policies or strategies in the region.
The Research Grant Program is part of the ECOWAS initiative on Youth Leadership Development in Energy, which works to prepare the region’s young men and women to become globally competitive energy leaders in the future. Aligned with the initiative’s objective, the Research Grant Program aims to build and strengthen the capacity of young West Africans to contribute and participate actively in the energy discourse at the national and regional levels and, thus, ensure that the youth has a say in the way energy development is shaped in West Africa.
With the recent launch of the West African Energy Leaders Groups (a regional branch of the African Energy Leaders Group – AELG) under the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL), the goal is that the program will represent a knowledge generating body that contributes to the AELG’s core objectives by producing well-researched, academic papers to guide and inform economic and political decision-makers towards the transformation of the region’s energy sector.
Worth
- The maximum grant allocated to each research proposal is one thousand, five hundred euro (1,500 EUR)
The grant will cover costs related to
- Fieldwork, travel
- Communication/documentation
- Minor equipment
- Software
- Offices supplies, copying/printing
- Support(research assistant/respondents)
Eligibility
- Research teams must comprise of young West African researchers of not more than 35 years of age (excluding Research Advisor(s))
- Participants should at least be students in or graduates from an institution of higher education (in the region or outside the region
- Research teams with a Master or PhD degree holder, or equivalent, will be given priority.
Deadline: November 30, 2015
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