Cambridge-Africa 2024 ALBORADA Research Fund

Applications are now been invited from suitably qualified Africans students for the Cambridge-Africa 2024 ALBORADA Research Fund. The Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research with financial support from The ALBORADA Trust which allows partnership between researchers at the University of Cambridge and sub-Saharan African Institutions.

The Fund helps groups of researchers at post-doctoral level and above from the University of Cambridge or other affiliated institution and African institutions from sub-Saharan Africa to also initiate and or strengthen research partnerships.

The Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund is to done to help research, training and activities between Cambridge and sub-Saharan Africa. It is also to serves as seed fund/catalyst to enable the development of new research activity and further joint funding applications.

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Requirement and Eligibility Criteria for the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund:

There must exist a research collaboration between applicants from Cambridge and sub-Saharan African institution where both applicants agree to work together.
Both applicants must be based at the University of Cambridge or its affiliated institution and a research institution or university in sub-Saharan Africa.
Both applicants must be at post-doctoral level or above, and by completing an application it is understood that they are both doing so with support from their Head of Department or equivalent.
Both applicants should have a formal link to a research group/department/faculty in their home institution.

Application Procedures for the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund (How to Apply):

Interested applicants for the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund 2022 are to both register and complete a savable online application form.

To access the form, the Cambridge based applicant must Register Here. Only applicants with @cam.ac.uk, @sanger.ac.uk, @babraham.ac.uk, @bas.ac.uk and @niab.ac.uk email addresses can register.

The Cambridge-based applicant must then log in to the ALBORADA Research Fund application form, where they will see the words “Invite a 2nd applicant to view/edit this submission”. Click on this link in order to invite the Africa-based applicant to register and edit the forms.

Final submissions should include the following documents:

Case for support and a lay summary
An itemized budget (template provided)
A letter of support from the department/faculty of the Cambridge Principal Investigator (PI)
A letter of support from the department/institution of the African PI
CVs (maximum 2 pages) for both the Cambridge and Africa PI
Details of two referees should be provided.

Application Deadline: 12th September 2024

For more information Visit the Official Website.