Info For Yous International Foundation Of Scientific Discipline Query Grants For Developing Countries

IFS Programme (Individual Research Grants)

Course(s) Offered: Science, Development
Course Level: Graduate research
Provider: IFS
Country to Research In: Developing countries

Scholarship Description
The IFS Programme aims to back upwardly fantabulous private too collaborative research, to construct capability of early-career scientists inwards the developing world, too to contribute invention to the sustainable management of biological too H2O resources. In particular, to enable immature scientists to contribute to a global query community that is aiming to trim down poverty too supporting sustainable development.

The primary focus remains the advertisement of fantabulous scientific discipline through early-career query grants too capability enhancing back upwardly to private researchers inwards developing countries.

The IFS Strategy 2011-2020 describes the goals too strategies of the organisation for the electrical flow decade too presents the novel IFS Programme divided into iii parts: Individual Research Approach, Collaborative Research Approach, too Contributing Innovation Approach.

Throughout the coming decade the primary focus of IFS volition survive the promotion of fantabulous scientific discipline through early on career query grants too capability enhancing back upwardly to researchers inwards developing countries.

Eligibility
ELIGIBILITY FOR INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH APPROACH
Applicants for Individual IFS Research Grants:

• must survive citizens of an eligible countries, too deport out their query inwards an eligible solid reason (this does non accept to survive the solid reason of citizenship). See eligible countries listing below
• must accept a minimum of an MSc, MA or equivalent academic degree
• must survive (for men) younger than 35 years of age, too (for women) twoscore years of age
  [If the applicant’s 35th (men)/40th (women) birthday is on the closing appointment of the call, he/she is even too then eligible.]

Researchers, who are already IFS grantees, are eligible to apply for renewal grant irrespective of age.

Formerly eligible G-20 Countries are no longer eligible (i.e. Brazil, China, India, Republic of Indonesia too South Africa). Countries formerly business office of the Soviet Union are non eligible.

Eligible groups
List of countries whose citizens are eligible for IFS Research grants:

a). AFRICA: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Republic of, Congo, Democratic Republic of, Cote d’Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé too Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

b). ASIA AND PACIFIC: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, East Timor, Fiji, Kiribati, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam

c). LATIN AND CARIBBEAN: Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St Lucia, St Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, Venezuela

d). MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, West Bank too Gaza, Yemen

Fields of research
Applicants for back upwardly from the IFS may submit their proposals through the next iii thematic clusters too from different, fifty-fifty cross-disciplinary, backgrounds. These iii clusters are arranged to facilitate the applicant's identification of an appropriate framework for their submissions. The many topical areas inside the iii clusters are overlapping, too thence cross-cutting query topics volition also survive welcomed too encouraged.

The iii query themes funded past times IFS, nether which proposals are sought:

• Biological Resources inwards Terrestrial Systems: This includes but is non express to: query on biodiversity, forestry, creature production, crop science, underutilised species, natural products, renewable release energy too climate variability, too technical query on all forms too aspects of nutrient production; also, aspects of the social, economic, cultural too historical context for electrical flow too futurity practices, piece of occupation too management of natural resources every bit good every bit the fostering of socio- economical resilience.
• Water too Aquatic Resources: This includes but is non express to: H2O resources availability, conservation, use, too issues associated amongst water-related institutions; query on freshwater, brackish too marine aquatic organisms too their environments, every bit good every bit human too community access to such resources inwards the protection too improvement of their livelihoods.
• Food Security, Dietary Diversity too Healthy Livelihoods: This includes but is non express to: query encompassing agricultural too livestock production systems including socio-economic too farming systems research, query on the weather for the enjoyment of nutrient safety beyond nutrient production, distribution too overall availability, too also query on access to nutrient or resources for nutrient for socio-economic resilience too improved livelihoods, wellness too good existence inwards rural too urban areas.

Sponsorship duration
The query grant covers betwixt 1 twelvemonth to 3 years

Scholarship benefits
Individual Research grants are awarded on merit inwards amounts upwardly to USD 12,000 for 1 to iii years. Grants are intended for the buy of basic tools for research: equipment, expendable supplies too literature, every bit good every bit champaign activities.

Method of Application
All researchers may submit only 1 application at a fourth dimension for consideration past times IFS. Applications for IFS Research grants must survive submitted using the criterion IFS Application Form inwards English linguistic communication or French.

It is of import to see the official website (link to it is below) for consummate data on how to apply, too also to access the IFS Application Form.

DEADLINES:
New applicants wishing to apply for a query grant to IFS are invited to submit their query application class earlier the deadline. The deadline for submission of query grant applications is 31st Dec 2015

PLEASE NOTE:
Applicants volition survive informed almost the resultant of the competitive review procedure earlier the 31st July, 2016.

IFS is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) query council founded inwards 1972. Its mission is to construct the scientific capacity of developing countries inwards sciences related to the sustainable management of biological too H2O resources. Funding comes from governmental too non-governmental sources, every bit good every bit national too international organisations. The annual budget is roughly USD v million. IFS has 135 Affiliated Organisations inwards 86 countries, of which three-quarters are inwards developing countries too one-quarter inwards industrial countries. IFS has an international Board of Trustees, amongst its Secretariat located inwards Stockholm, Sweden.

Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2015
Open to International Applicants: Yes

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