Greetings,

 

We are excited to announce the 2024 Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa, an internal fund made possible by a generous gift from the Motsepe Foundation. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research will administer the Fund together with the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, in collaboration with the Center for African Studies. Information on the award and internal selection process can be found in the synopsis and links below.

 

The 2024 Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa

Deadline: December 11, 2023

Award Amount: Up to $150,000 in direct costs for one or two years. 

Eligible Applicants: Individuals who hold a faculty appointment at a Harvard school and who have principal investigator rights at that school. Individuals who are principal investigators on an active Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa award will not be funded. Previous awardees are invited to apply for a new project, provided their prior award cycle has concluded.

 

The primary purpose of the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund 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).

 

Proposals 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

The required attestation should be provided at the department level for FAS applicants and at the school level for SEAS applicants. Additional details can be found in the Request for Proposals: motsepe_rfp_ay24.pdf.

 

Please contact Lindsay Moats, CAS Student Support and Outreach Officer, at lmoats@fas.harvard.edu, for any questions regarding the Motsepe Fund.

 

Requests for support related to the application portal may be directed to vpr@harvard.edu.
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