Greetings,

Please see the announcement below regarding the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa, an internal fund that supports research projects that focus on advancing key challenges and opportunities facing Africa. More information can be found in the synopsis below:

Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa
Deadline: November 30, 2022
Award Amount: Up to $150,000 in direct costs for one or two years. A total of $350,000 is available in funding for the current cycle, and it is anticipated that 4-7 grants will be awarded.

Eligible Applicants: Applications are invited from individuals who hold a faculty appointment at a Harvard school and who have principal investigator rights at that school. Harvard Medical School faculty must hold a faculty appointment with PI rights in one of HMS’s basic or social science departments.

The primary purpose of the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa 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
Questions about this opportunity be directed to Alex Taylor at ataylor@fas.harvard.edu and Liza Harsch at liza_harsch@harvard.edu.

We also wish to draw your attention to the virtual symposium on Partnerships in STE(A)M Innovation and Future Africa taking place November 03–04, 2022, convened by the Africa Office of Harvard Center for African Studies. Those wishing to participate may register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5Em3eGA3TwO1lpfXEvaskQ.
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