Deadline: 2 October 2015
The World Bank is accepting proposals for Africa Centers of Excellence (ACEs) for Eastern and Southern Africa to establish and strengthen specialization and collaboration among a network of higher education institutions in the Eastern and Southern Africa region to deliver relevant and quality education and applied research to address key development challenges facing the region.
Eligible Countries: Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Priorities
- Science and Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM);
- Agriculture;
- Health;
- Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) and Quality of Education, and Applied Statistics.
Priority Areas
- Selecting African Centers of Excellence (ACE) through a competitive and transparent process from existing higher education institutions which have certain capacity in specialized areas with great potential to help address those defined challenges;
- Strengthening these specialized ACEs and enabling them to produce excellent training and applied research which can meet the needs of highly-skilled personnel and knowledge transfer in those challenge areas;
- Building networks among these institutions to promote regional collaboration and foster partnerships with other institutions and the industry in training and applied research to produce innovative solutions for real development impact;
- Developing a culture of results-orientation and accountability in institutional management through a performance-based financing mechanism of the project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants from the above mentioned eligible countries can apply for the program.
- Applicants must have programs in at least one disciplinary area related to one of the regional development priorities indicated above.
How to apply
Interested Applicants must submit their proposals electronically at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit Call for Proposals
