Research Grants for African Researchers with £17,000 Prize from the Royal Society

The Royal Society offers the Royal Society Africa Prize and Rising Star Africa Prize for all scientists and science enthusiasts from North Africa. The Royal Society has a broad range of medals including the Premier Awards, subject specific awards and medals celebrating the communication and promotion of science.

• The Royal Society Africa Prize
• The Prize will make a grant of £15,000, including VAT where applicable, to the Recipient for a research project and £2,000 as a personal prize for the Recipient.
• The Rising Star Africa Prize
• The Prize will make a grant of £14,000, including VAT where applicable, to the Recipient for a research project and £1,000 as a personal prize for the Recipient.

• Grants are made to be spent on the research project which has the potential to continue after the 12 months of the Grant.
• The Grant is designed to promote capacity building within Africa.
• The Recipient of the Prize may not use the funds to support their own salary/personal remuneration or as a salary for research assistants.

Prizes Purposes and Conditions:-

• The Royal Society Africa Prize
• The Royal Society Africa Prize will be made to an individual for an outstanding, innovative contribution to the sciences which contributes significantly to capacity building in Africa.
• The Prize is intended for researchers at an early stage of their research career with the potential to build a research project to follow on from the prize.
• The research must be based in Africa.
• The project and nominee should be linked with an African centre of excellence, which would normally be a University, or equivalent research centre.
• Normally the Prize is given to an individual who has not yet reached full Professorship status.
• The recipient of the Prize is required to submit a report after 6 months and again after 12 months detailing the progress of their research, the progress of their project and the expenditure of the Grant.
• The Rising Star Africa Prize
• The Royal Society Rising Star Africa Prize will be made to an early career research scientist who is making an innovative contribution to the physical, mathematical and engineering sciences.
• The prize was established to encourage excellence in science and education in Africa.
• The Prize is intended for researchers at an early stage of their research career (<8 years post PhD) with the potential to build a research project to follow on from the prize.
• The research must be based in Africa.
• The project and nominee should be linked with an African centre of excellence, which would normally be a University, or equivalent research centre.
• The recipient of the Prize is required to submit a report after 6 months and again after 12 months detailing the progress of their research, the progress of their project and the expenditure of the Grant.

About the Royal Society:-

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. It is the oldest national scientific institution in the world. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, recognising excellence in science, supporting outstanding science, providing scientific advice for policy, fostering international and global cooperation, education and public engagement. The society has a variety of functions and activities. It supports modern science by disbursing nearly £42 million to fund approximately 600 research fellowships for both early and late career scientists, along with innovation, mobility and research capacity grants.

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