The Africa Prize is open for applications from innovators with an engineering technology that addresses a key social or environmental challenge in sub-Saharan Africa.
16 shortlisted engineering innovators from across sub-Saharan Africa
Eight months of remote and in-person training and mentoring
Three residential training weeks (fully funded)
Communications support and professional photography
Pitch at St James’ Palace, London, in front of an influential audience
Four finalists, who share the £55,000 Prize
Women particularly encouraged to apply

This recognises individuals with achievements in the field of medical research who have combated infectious and other diseases in Africa. The prize includes JPY 100 million.

TWAS and the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Kolkata, India have agreed to offer fellowships to young foreign scientists from developing countries who wish to pursue research towards a PhD in physical sciences.

05-Chemical Sciences
08-Mathematical Sciences
09-Physics

The Arts and Humanities Research Council, under its Network Plus programme, in collaboration with the Antislavery Knowledge Network at the University of Liverpool, invites applications for its community-led strategies for creative and heritage-based interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa funding opportunity. This supports innovative approaches from the arts and humanities to address how slavery is a core development challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa. Projects should explore the ways in which participatory arts-based strategies, rooted in heritage and memory, can empower Global South communities to play a central role in tackling contemporary slavery.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of India and TWAS have established a number of fellowships for foreign scholars from developing countries who wish to pursue research toward a PhD in emerging areas of science and technology for which facilities are available in the laboratories and institutes of the CSIR.

01-Agricultural Sciences
02-Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology
03-Biological Systems and Organisms
04-Medical and Health Sciences incl. Neurosciences
05-Chemical Sciences
06-Engineering Sciences
07-Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences
08-Mathematical Sciences
09-Physics

The International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) — comprising the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry and the Dr. Panjwani Centre for Molecular and Drug Research in Karachi, Pakistan — and TWAS offer fellowships to young scientists from developing countries (other than Pakistan) who wish to pursue research towards a PhD in chemical and biological sciences.

01-Agricultural Sciences
02-Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology
03-Biological Systems and Organisms
04-Medical and Health Sciences incl. Neurosciences
05-Chemical Sciences

The Canadian institutes of Health Research, in partnership with the UK government’s Global AMR Innovation Fund, invites proposals for its call on developing innovative veterinary solutions for the fight against antimicrobial resistance. This supports research that will develop innovative veterinary solutions focused on product development to reduce therapeutic, and prevent non-therapeutic, antimicrobial use by farmers in developing countries, while still protecting animal health and welfare. Research will be expected to address and understand the local contexts and realities that drive antibiotic use patterns on farms in developing countries.

At least one of the administering institutions should be based in a low or middle-income country and the research team must include at least one researcher from an institution based in a LMIC as principle investigator or co-applicant. Applicants from academia, private and public sector organisations with a strong research focus are eligible to apply.

The total budget is worth CAD 22 million. Up to 10 grants are available, each worth between CAD 1m to CAD 3m for up to 33 months.

The National Human Genome Research Institute, on behalf of the National Institutes of Health, invites applications for its Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) consortium biorepository (U24 clinical trial not allowed) funding opportunity. This supports cooperative agreements to further develop and sustain up to three H3Africa biorepositories by building on existing infrastructure. The biorepositories will maintain state-of-the-art methods and technologies for DNA collection, processing, quality control, handling, management and storage needed for specimen collection and dissemination in Africa.

US and foreign for-profit and non-profit organisations and public and private organisations may apply.

The total budget is USD 6.9 million to fund three awards. Grants are worth up to USD 1m per year for a maximum period of three years.

This supports collaborations that tackle development challenges using an approach that can be replicated and sustained, leading to measurable improvements in development outcomes. Multiple awards are available for projects worth up to USD 100 million at 50 per cent of eligible project costs.

Maximum award: USD 50,000,000