The 2023 Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund for Sub-Saharan African Researchers
The 2023 Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund is a prestigious research grant that aims to support collaborative research projects between African researchers from the Sub–Saharan region and researchers based in the UK. Through this, the objective is to grow the capacity of African researchers and to encourage access to financial resources and technical expertise. The grant would fund projects that concentrate on research addressing development challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa while building research foundations and facilitating opportunities in these areas of research.
The Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund was launched in 2012, with free-handed support from The ALBORADA Trust. The Fund assists teams of researchers (post-doctoral level and above) from the University of Cambridge (or an affiliated institution such as the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, NIAB, and British Antarctic Survey) and sub-Saharan African institutions, across all disciplines, to commence and/or strengthen research collaborations. To date, 300 awards have been produced, to encourage Cambridge researchers to undertake with African colleagues from 34 African countries. Most awardees have been able to utilize the preliminary results from their seed fund/research collaboration to apply for and win significant funding (e.g. Royal Society/Leverhulme Awards, Global Challenges Research Fund, etc.).
In this round, applications from North Africa may be considered.
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Merits
The Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund competitively awards grants of between £1,000 and £20,000, for:
- Research costs (such as reagents, fieldwork, and equipment)
- research-related travel between Cambridge and Africa (bearing in mind the feasibility of travel due to COVID restrictions)
- conducting research training activities in Africa (e.g. setting up courses/workshops).
Procedures for Application
- The online application form has been prepared to allow both applicants (Cambridge- and Africa-based) to log in, update, save, and eventually submit electronically.
- To access the form, the Cambridge-based applicant must Register Here. Only applicants with @cam.ac.uk, @sanger.ac.uk, @babraham.ac.uk, @bas.ac.uk, and @niab.ac.uk email addresses can register.
- The Cambridge-based applicant must then log in to the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund application form, where they will see the words “Invite a 2nd applicant to view/edit this submission”. Click on this link in order to invite the Africa-based applicant to register and edit the forms.
Application Deadline: 4th September 2023
The 2023 Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund for Sub-Saharan African Researchers
