Applications call for TWAS Research Grants Programme in Basic Sciences for Research Groups. Under this scheme, grants are awarded to promising high-level research projects in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics carried out by research units in the S&T-lagging countries identified by TWAS.

The TWAS Research Grants Programme in Basic Sciences aims to respond to the needs of researchers in developing countries, particularly those attached to institutions that lack appropriate research facilities. Moreover, under this scheme, grants can be awarded for research projects in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics either to individual young researchers or to research units in the science-and-technology-lagging countries (S&TLC) identified by TWAS, to enable them to purchase the research facilities they need to enhance their productivity.

Aims

The TWAS Research Grants Programme in Basic Sciences aims to:

• Reinforce and promote scientific research in basic sciences in developing countries.
• Strengthen developing countries’ endogenous capacity in science.
• Reduce the exodus of scientific talents from the South.
• Also, build and sustain units of scientific excellence in S&TLC over a longer period to help them achieve a critical mass of highly qualified and innovative scientists capable of addressing real-life problems facing their countries.

Funding

• Moreover, TWAS Research Grants Programme in Basic Sciences for Research Groups to research units amount to a maximum of USD 30,000.

Eligibility

• Applying research units must be led by a renowned researcher who is a national of a developing country, who holds a PhD and who has good research experience. Basically, the research unit should operate within a university or a research institution in one of the S&TLCs and should include a minimum of the Principle Investigator (group leader), plus at least two PhD-qualified researchers and a number of PhD and MSc students, technicians, etc. There is no age limit for unit leaders.
• Applicant must at the time of application NOT have an active research grant with TWAS or OWSD Early Career Women Scientists (ECWS) Fellowship.
• Each applicant must have at least one MSc student under his/her supervision.
• Applications from women scientists and those working in Least Developed Countries especially encouraged.
• You must submit a strong Research Proposal, you may find further information on how to wrtire a strong proposal by visiting AuthorAID.
• Research unit leaders who submit a satisfactory final report on a previous grant may apply for a renewal.

Application Documents 

• twas_research_grants_group_guidelines
• research_grants_form_research_units