Deadline: 2 June 2014
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) invites Notification of Intent from eligible entities for the funding opportunity under Global Climate Model Development for Africa 2014 under the Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) research program.
The FCFA funds world-leading interdisciplinary research to enhance scientific understanding and prediction of sub-Saharan African climate on timescales to inform medium-term (5 to 40 years) adaptation, and enhance knowledge, tools and methods to better integrate this science into decision making. The major purpose of the program under the call is to deliver a step-change in the performance of GCMs for Africa and to make a long-term contribution to model development with an African lens improving the projections of future changes in rainfall and extreme weather for Africa, increasing availability of high quality, robust climate information across the continent.
The NERC will select one implementing organization and allocate a funding up to £3M to implement the program for maximum four (4) years. The expected start date of the project is January 2015.
FCFA is jointly funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
The Global Project entitled ‘Global Climate Model Development for Africa 2014’ provides an opportunity for the world’s best researchers to undertake large-scale and complex natural science research addressing one of the program’s aims of advancing scientific knowledge, understanding and prediction of African climate variability and change through delivering a step-change in the performance of GCMs for Africa.
Timeline:
- 2 June 2014 – Deadline for Notification of Intent
- 5 August 2014 – Deadline for Full Proposal
Eligibility Criteria:
- Applicants must be registered as users of the Research Councils’ Joint Electronic Submission (jes) system.
- Applicants can be UK and non-UK organizations. Most UK higher education institutions and some other independent UK research organizations are already eligible to apply for, and hold, UK Research Council grants. In case of non-UK organizations and other UK organizations who are not currently eligible for the Research Council funding-
- The organization must be a legal entity.
- The organization must be able to demonstrate an independent in-house capability to undertake and lead research and training in the field or discipline in which it wishes to be funded.
- The organization must meet the accountability and audit requirements of the FCFA funders.
- The geographical focus of research for the Global Project is Sub-Saharan Africa.
For more information, please visit FCFA Call for Proposals. Please go through all the eligibility and other relevant information thoroughly before beginning application process.
