AGNES-BAYER Grant for Biodiversity Conservation & Sustainable Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

The Grant for Biodiversity Conservation & Sustainable Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa enables doctoral students from sub-Saharan African countries to undertake outstanding research activities in Biodiversity conservation and sustainable agriculture.

The AGNES-BAYER Grant aims to support African PhD students to implement/carry out activities that are part of the doctoral research, including but not limited to field experiment and data collection or laboratory studies or any other outstanding research activities in the area of biodiversity conservation and sustainable agriculture. Eligible junior researchers need to demonstrate the relevance of their work to further development of their home countries in sub-Sahara Africa.

Grant of Biodiversity Conservation

• The maximum budget of the grant is EUR 7,000. This once-off Grant cannot be used to refund previous field work activities. The recipient of the Grant and her/his supervisor must both send a signed letter of acceptance and contractual agreement to the Governing Board of AGNES within two weeks of receipt of the offer. On completion of the PhD, Grantees and supervisors are both expected to make reports to AGNES on the progress and success of the work (scientific publications).

Eligibility of Biodiversity Conservation

• Direct applications from young researchers having published at least 1 scientific paper (in a non-predatory journal) will be considered for the grant.
• AGNES will consider only candidates with outstanding academic records and with good publications in peer-reviewed international journals indexed in SCOPUS or Web of Science (WoS).
• Candidates MUST provide the SCOPUS or Web of Science links (URL) to each publication. The applicant should be working in the field of Biodiversity conservation and/or Sustainable Agriculture.
• Candidate must be officially registered for a Doctoral degree at a university/tertiary institute in sub-Sahara Africa and MUST be a national of a sub-Saharan African country.
• Applicants must demonstrate clearly that their original proposal is relevant to development in sub-Saharan African countries.