Apply for the DELTAS Africa Community and Public Engagement Seed Fund

30 January 2019 | Nairobi, Kenya – The African Academy of Sciences has set up the DELTAS Africa Community and Public Engagement (CPE) Seed Fund, a 2-year scheme to support doctoral and postdoctoral trainees to undertake innovative engagement projects aligned to their research projects.

Health research and innovation has long relied on traditional, linear models – basic and applied research, followed by development and access or commercialization. The results of this “lab-bench to bedside” approach can be technically sound but sub-optimal from end-users’ standpoint if there is limited or no input from them in the development and implementation process. An alternative emerging is people-centred approaches.

Created with the support of Wellcome and the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the CPE seed fund will enable DELTAS Africa doctoral and postdoctoral trainees to implement their engagement plans, build engagement capacity of consortia staff and trainees, and pilot programmes of activity to promote societal impact of DELTAS Africa research and move towards people-centred approaches.

Interested doctoral and postdoctoral candidates are invited to apply through The AAS Grants Management System Ishango: https://aasishango.ccgranttracker.com/

The deadline for submissions is 1 March 2019.

Successful applicants will be notified by the second week of April.

Learn more https://aasciences.ac.ke/aesa/programmes/deltas-africa-cpe-seed-fund/

All queries or comments about this call should be addressed to DELTAS_CPE@aasciences.ac.ke. Please specify that you are enquiring about the DELTAS CPE Seed Fund.

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