Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa: Proposal Deadline
Date and Time
Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa
Deadline: November 30, 2022
Award Amount: Up to $150,000 in direct costs for one or two years. A total of $350,000 is available in funding for the current cycle, and it is anticipated that 4-7 grants will be awarded.
The primary purpose of the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa is to support faculty-led and student-driven research projects that focus on advancing key challenges and opportunities facing Africa, including, but not limited to, the following areas:
- emerging technologies and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- climate change and its effect on health, livelihoods, agriculture, water, and/or sanitation
- renewable energy and its benefit to infrastructure and/or society
- health
- aging
- materials science
- governance and policies needed for an entrepreneurial economy
Activities the Fund may support include but are not limited to research, associated travel costs, and the publication and dissemination of findings. Special consideration will be given to projects that propose multidisciplinary collaboration between Harvard faculty across more than one School and/or that include collaboration with Africa-based academics, and proposals that integrate the arts and humanities into STEM projects (STEAM). Poposals must meet at least one of the following three criteria, with priority given to those projects that meet more than one criterion:
- Focus on Africa
- Include meaningful collaboration with Africa-based academics
- Be undertaken in Africa in whole or in part