Education grants are awarded to women from developing countries who are pursuing their education with the aim of improving the lives of women and children in developing countries.

Pograms:

• US & Canada program
• Trinity Washington University program
• South Africa program
• Latin America program
• France program

A consortium of 3-4 international partners (one from UK, one from Brazil, one from Ghana or Nigeria, and optionally one more from any of those four countries) can apply for up to £100,000 for an Innovation Award to accelerate the testing and/or development of technologies and/or practices that promote climate-smart agriculture for sustainable food production systems in Ghana or Nigeria.

Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnership: UK-Brazil-Africa is funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and delivered by Innovate UK. This brings together innovative people and organisations to promote climate-smart agriculture in Africa.

In this competition, up to £700,000 of total funding (up to £100,000 per project) is available for Innovation Awards.

These projects will start on the 1 August 2025. Projects must finish by the 28 February 2026.

What is an Innovation Award?

Projects should focus on exploring an innovation which will promote climate-smart agriculture approaches to address a challenge in food production systems in Ghana or Nigeria. Projects must demonstrate how their specified challenge will be overcome through a defined collaborative research/innovation project. All partners should be fully integrated into the project leadership. There should be equitable involvement in decision-making and setting the direction for the project, your team’s approach to achieving this should be clearly defined within your project plan. This should be reflected within the project budget, with justified distribution of resources across partners and with no single partner dominating the resource allocation without clear justification.

Projects must demonstrate a compelling business-led motivation, a focus on identifying commercial opportunities and define a clear business-related challenge or evidence of demand for innovation. Projects can be innovative either from a commercial or technical perspective.

Projects could involve, for example, the transfer of a technology or practice from one country to another, the co-development of a new technology or practice, research into a new solution or knowledge-sharing from a research base into commercial organisations.

Applications must include a registered business (of any size) as one of the partner organisations. Applications must include at least 3 partners, with 1 partner from each geography i.e. UK, Brazil, Africa (Ghana or Nigeria). An additional fourth partner from any of the four countries is allowed. Consortia must include:

• a UK-registered organisation (who is also the Administrative Lead and will submit the application)
• a Brazil-registered organisation
• either a Nigerian or Ghana-registered organisation
• an additional fourth partner organisation from any of the four countries (UK, Brazil, Ghana, Nigeria) may be included, but is not required.
  
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The 2025 Joint Transnational Call will address the SRIA theme 4 “Water and health”, in particular the sub-themes:

• 4.3 on “Innovative water tools and technologies for water quality monitoring and water treatment, remediation and disinfection”
• 4.1 on “Behaviour and effects of contaminants of emerging concern, plastics, endocrine disruptors”.

Links to other SRIA themes will be explored, in particular to the sub-themes:

• 3.3. “Groundwater management” and to the cross-cutting themes on governance,
• 7.1 “Developing methods for more efficient citizen and wider stakeholder engagement” and 7.3 “Supporting the adoption of innovations”.

The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from the Mastercard Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is launching this Early-Career Research Fellowship program. The initiative will fund up to forty-two (42) early-career researchers to conduct globally competitive research at the host and affiliated institutions of ARUA’s thirteen (13) Centres of Excellence (CoEs).

Each fellowship will last six months, between July 2025 and June 2026. A maximum of four fellows will be assigned to each CoE, with all positions filled by December 2025. At least 70% of the fellowships are reserved for female candidates, and applicants must be no older than 35 years at the time of application.

ARUA will continue to accept applications for the 42 positions until they are all filled,
with a deadline of December 2025. However, candidates who apply before May 15,
2025, will be considered for the first batch of positions. Successful candidates from this
batch will be notified by June 1, 2025, and are expected to start their fellowships on
July 1, 2025.

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