September 2018

• An opportunity for African scientists, researchers or students  to their make work, preliminary research results, or data openly available on AfricArxiv. (Open)

• (RUFORUM call) Call for manuscripts: African Journal for Rural Development(AFJRD). This is an online open access scientific journal that publishes articles on a quarterly basis (March, June, September, December). It is a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal with an ultimate purpose of sharing and increasing the depth of knowledge on aspects of sustainable rural development. Regular articles, short communications and reviews accepted. (Open)

• Conference for young scientists in Africa on Genomics and Human Heath in Africa. This is jointly organized by Sudanese National Academy of Sciences (SNAS), the Sudan Academy of Young Scientists (SAYS) in partnership with the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Regional Office for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in Khartoum, Sudan from 2-7 December 2018. (Deadline: 15 September)

• Apply to be an Obama Fellow .The Obama Foundation Fellowship supports outstanding civic innovators – leaders who are working with their communities to create transformational change, addressing some of the world’s most pressing problems. (Deadline: 18 September)

• Call for Nominations: The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing world (OWSD)- Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World .These awards reward and encourage women working and living in developing countries who are in the early stages of their scientific careers. (Deadline: 23 September)

• United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) Visiting PhD Fellowship. This fellowship provides an opportunity for doctoral students to utilize the facilities at UNU-WIDER for their PhD dissertation or thesis research and to work with their researchers in areas of mutual interest. (Deadline: 30 September)

• CLIFF-GRADS scholarships for short-term scientific training and research stays on topics related to emissions and carbon storage in agriculture. CLIFF-GRADS is a joint initiative of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change (CCAFS) Low Emissions Development Flagship and the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA). (Deadline: 30 September)

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND research fellowships under Research Leaders 2025 scheme. Aims to develop next generation research leaders in the agri-food domain. (Deadline: 1 October)

•   TWAS(The World Academy of Sciences) Fellowships for Research and Advanced Training. To enable young scientists in developing countries to spend 3-12 months at a research institution in a developing country other than their own. (Deadline: 1 October)

  October 2018

• Call for Papers: 3rd EAI International Conference on Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Undeserved Areas (INTERSOL2019), Feb 14-15, Cairo, Egypt. This is an international conference dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary researches that address people’s needs in underserved areas. It will be hosted by EAI – European Alliance for Innovation (Deadline: 7 October)

• Evidence-informed Policymaking Seminar - Water-Energy-Food-Health by the European Commission. The Evidence Informed Policy Making (EIPM) seminar will train participants to use evidence for policy making by focusing on challenges and interrelations of those fields. (Deadline: 8 October)

• AWARD (African Women in Agricultural Research and Development) Pan-African Fellowship. The AWARD fellowship is a career-development program that equips top women agricultural scientists across the sub-Saharan Africa to accelerate agricultural gains by strengthening their science and leadership skills. (Deadline: 8 October)

• 2019 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. This is the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) that empowers young people through academic coursework, leadership training, and networking. (Deadline: 10 October)

• Data Science Fellowship. The Data Incubator is a Cornell-funded data science training organization that offers an 8-week fellowship for master’s students, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM and social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists.  (Early deadline: 8 October. Regular deadline: 15 October)

• The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). GCRF is a five-year £1.5 billion fund and a key component in the delivery of the UK Aid Strategy: tackling global challenges in the national interest. The fund aims to ensure that UK research takes a leading role in addressing the problems faced by developing countries (Deadline: 11 October)

•  Calls for Nominations: The Aspen Institute New Voices Fellowship. The Aspen Institute's New Voices Fellowship is a year-long media skills, communication and leadership program designed for standout development professionals from the developing world. (Deadline:15 October)

• Iso Lomso Fellowship for Early Career African Researchers Call. Iso Lomso fellowships by Stellenbosch Insitutute of Advanced Study (STIAS) provide an exceptional early career opportunity for Africa’s brightest minds in academia. Iso Lomso means ‘the eye of tomorrow’ in isiXhosa: seeing towards the future, laying the foundations for tomorrow. (Deadline: 20 October 2018)

• Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE): Request for Applications: NYU-AD Meeting. WGAPE brings together faculty and advanced graduate students in Economics and Political Science who combine field research experience in Africa with training in political economy methods. The fourth International meeting hosted by NYU Abu Dhabi from held on January 25-27, 2019. (Deadline: 21 October)

• The Sixth African Higher Education Week and RUFORUM Biennial Conference, 22-26 October, 2018. The 2018 Biennial conference is unique with a focus on university-agriculture community transformation. It will provide an opportunity for participants to showcase their innovations as part of enhancing the university-farmer community partnership and engagement for meaningful innovation.  The proposed overall theme of the 2018 Conference is “Aligning African Universities to accelerate attainment of Africa’s Agenda 2063”.

• Empowering people Award 2019 by “empowering people. Network – Technologies for Basic Needs.  This award aims to identify simple technological innovations with business potential and make them accessible in developing areas. (Deadline: 31 October)

• An opportunity for African scientists, researchers or students  to their make work, preliminary research results, or data openly available on AfricArxiv. (Open)

• (RUFORUM call) Call for manuscripts: African Journal for Rural Development(AFJRD). This is an online open access scientific journal that publishes articles on a quarterly basis (March, June, September, December). It is a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal with an ultimate purpose of sharing and increasing the depth of knowledge on aspects of sustainable rural development. Regular articles, short communications and reviews accepted. (Open)

• IBM Digital-Nation Africa (D-NA) For JKUAT. Register for free, Learn for free. All Courses are free. Courses included: Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), Cybersecurity, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Coding. (Open)

•  Call for Proposals USAID Grant Funding for Development Innovation Ventures. USAID has relaunched its open innovation program, Development Innovation Ventures (DIV), and is now accepting grant applications for products, technologies, services, or applications that can scale breakthrough solutions to critical global development challenges to improve millions of lives. Proposals for funding are accepted year-round. (Open) 

  November 2018

• Commonwealth Foundation Grant. The Foundation believes in the power of stories and storytelling for social change and will award grants for creative approaches that have the potential to influence public discourse. (Opens: 1 November)

• Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Commonwealth Blue Charter Fellowship 2019. As part of the Marine Plastics Research & Innovation Framework, the ACU is launching a new fellowship programme that will provide 35 academic fellows with 2-3-month placements at ACU member universities across the Commonwealth. (Deadline: 7 November)

• Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) 2019 for mid-career African Academics. The Programme is an initiative of the University of Pretoria and the Global Young Academy that aims to grow mid-career African academics in the areas of thought leadership, team management and research development. (Deadline: 9 November)

• African Union Kwame Nkrumah Awards for Scientific Excellence (AUKNASE) Continental & Regional Awards 2018 Edition. The objective is to give out science awards to top African scientists for their achievements and valuable discoveries and findings in science, technology and innovation (Deadline: 10 November)

• Call for Applications CIDRI (Centre of Infectious Diseases Research In)-Africa. CIDRI-Africa invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships in the area of Infectious Diseases. (Deadline: 12 November)

• Leaders in Innovation Fellowship Program. The programme is implemented under the umbrella of Kenya-UK Newton Fund Programme. The purpose is to nurture Kenyan technological innovators and support commercialization of innovations. This is a platform for developing capacity on entrepreneurship and commercialization of research outputs including intellectual property right issues. (Deadline: 14 November)

• DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Call for Scholarships Applications 2019 at the African Institute for Mathematical Science. DAAD promotes international academic exchange as well educational co-operation with developing countries through a variety of funding and scholarship programmes as part of the in-region scholarship programme, DAAD offers scholarships for PhD studies. (Deadline: 15 November)

• Call for Abstracts for the 9th International African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) Conference. This will be taking place on 11-15 March 2019 in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire. The theme for this conference is “Accelerating Africa’s Development: Strengthening National Evaluation Ecosystems.” (Deadline: 16 November)

• Call for Applications African Academy of Sciences (The AAS) and partners. Do you have a great idea to tackle water, sanitation and hygiene challenges? The AAS and partners are funding technology-based solutions to improve access to water and sanitation. (Deadline: 24 November)

• Call for Applications International Foundation for Science (IFS) Individual Research Grants. IFS continues its commitment to support excellent individual research and to build capacity of early-career scientists in the developing world to undertake research on the sustainable management of biological and water resources through offering this grant. (Deadline: 30 November)

• Call for Abstracts The Beyond Sciences Initiative (BSI). BSI will be hosting its 4th Annual Remote Conference: Science & Society from February 9-10, 2019. This conference will take place online and allow individuals from across the globe to share their research and network free of charge. (Deadline: 30 November)

• Call for Abstracts by the Council on Higher Education (CHE) for the Quality Promotion Conference 2019. This conference will take place from 26-28 February 2019 in Pretoria, South Africa. The theme for the conference is “Promoting Academic Integrity in Higher Education.” (Deadline: 30 November)

• The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science is a unique postdoc program. It awards young researchers around the world with a generous personal research grant, giving them the freedom to work on whatever topic they choose anywhere in the world, for up to five years. (Open)

• An opportunity for African scientists, researchers or students  to their make work, preliminary research results, or data openly available on AfricArxiv. (Open)

• (RUFORUM call) Call for manuscripts: African Journal for Rural Development(AFJRD). This is an online open access scientific journal that publishes articles on a quarterly basis (March, June, September, December). It is a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal with an ultimate purpose of sharing and increasing the depth of knowledge on aspects of sustainable rural development. Regular articles, short communications and reviews accepted. (Open)

• IBM Digital-Nation Africa (D-NA) For JKUAT. Register for free, Learn for free. All Courses are free. Courses included: Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), Cybersecurity, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Coding. (Open)

•  Call for Proposals USAID Grant Funding for Development Innovation Ventures. USAID has relaunched its open innovation program, Development Innovation Ventures (DIV), and is now accepting grant applications for products, technologies, services, or applications that can scale breakthrough solutions to critical global development challenges to improve millions of lives. Proposals for funding are accepted year-round. (Open)

December 2018

• Call for Applications Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries Fellowship in Freshwater Science (IGB). The IGB invites excellent scientists from all countries and at different career stages to apply for their fellowships for postdocs and senior scientists for 6-24 months. These fellowships are designed to enable outstanding scientists to contribute to research at IGB and thus further their own scientific development or training. (Deadline: 1 December)

• Call for 3rd international conference for women in science without borders movement/ network (WISWB). The conference theme will be Science diplomacy for Sustainable Development. WISWB is an initiative to increase cooperation between female and male scientists on bases of excellence of scientific research where participants of WISWB are expected to present their cutting edge research. This will be held from 12-14 March 2019 in Egypt and is open to both male and females. (Deadline: 1 December)

• Call for Nominations London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for the The Greenwood Africa Award. This award recognises the research achievements and future potential of a mid-career African scientist in contributing to the control of infectious disease in sub-Saharan Africa. It is awarded to an individual who shows exceptional promise as an African research leader. (Deadline: 9 December)

• Call for Papers IST-Africa. Supported by the European Commission and African Union Commission, IST-Africa 2019 (May) is the fourteenth in an annual series of Ministerial level Technology Research Conferences. IST-Africa provides a platform in Africa to strengthen ICT-enabled Innovation, Science and Technology related policy dialogues within Africa and between Africa and Europe, Global Development, Research and Innovation Cooperation and Community Building. (Deadline: 15 December)

• Call for Applications Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship. The Social Science Research Council (SSRC)offers fellowships to support the completion of doctoral degrees and to promote next generation social science research in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. The fellowships support dissertation research on peace, security, and development topics. (Deadline: 15 December)