Research proposals are invited in the field of Population, Reproductive Health and Economic Development for the applicants of developing countries, 2012. This scholarship will be provided by ESRC, NWO-WOTRO and RCN and Hewlett. This scholarship is open for International Students.
Applicants may apply for a bonus (top-up) of up to € 100.000 for multilateral programmes. These funds should be used to involve an additional researcher (who has already obtained a PhD) working in a third country within the additional research consortium involved. The preliminary proposal (pre-proposal) should include a description of the plans for elaborating the full proposal indicating the (scientific and societal) partners/stakeholders that will be involved in this and including description of the intended local workshop/meeting(s) to improve personal engagement of partners in the developing country involved. Applicants invited to submit their full proposal will receive a grant as a contribution towards organizing this joint proposal workshop.
Scholarship opens for students of Countries having low and middle income countries in the most recent OECD/DAC.
Eligibility:
- The call will be open to joint applications from eligible researchers from one or more of the subscribing countries1 in partnership with one or more research groups from developing countries (DCs), identified as Low and Middle-Income countries
- With a preference for those in SSA; – The main applicant (PI) should be a researcher from an organisation acknowledged by and eligible to apply for funding from either ESRC 3, NWO4, RCN5 or PRB6 or should be a senior researcher (with a PhD-degree) from a research institution with public interest in Sub-Saharan Africa
The call is thus open for integrated applications by:
- ‘Bilateral partnerships’ between consortia of eligible researchers from one of the subscribing countries (NL, NO, UK, USA) and their developing country partners
- Multilateral partnerships’ between consortia of eligible researchers from two different subscribing countries and their developing country partners
Scholarship Application Deadline: March 15, 2012
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