Apply for grants for collaboration with partners in Africa

Application has closed for this time. See decision below.
 

Purpose

The purpose of the call is to strengthen ongoing collaboration or to establish new collaboration and to support collaboration that contributes to fighting poverty and achieving sustainable health and development. 

Timeline

Grants can be used during one year. 

Eligibility

Junior researchers as well as researchers affiliated to Karolinska Institutet, who earned a doctoral degree but have not yet become associate professors, are eligible to apply. Researchers who have earned their doctoral degree during the last seven years are given priority. 

Amount

Awarded grants varies between 50,000 and 100,000 SEK per successful applicant. Transfer of the grant is made to the department upon approval of the application.

The grant may include support for transportation and accommodation at the host site for the proposed period of interaction. It is also possible to apply for funds for short-term exchange/fellowship or to facilitate writing of larger grant proposals. In exceptional cases, grants may also be awarded for equipment and operational costs.

Application

The application must contain:

• a project plan describing the proposed activity with expected outputs (what and how), the collaboration and capacity for future collaboration and funding and a timeline. (max. 2000 characters).
• A description of relevance, how activities contribute to strengthening or developing the collaboration, and to what extent it contributes to fighting poverty and achieving sustainable health and development (Max. 2000 characters).
• A dissemination plan 
• What (if any) of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is the project targeting to improve or enhance?
• A budget where indirect costs must also be stated.

The following attachments should be enclosed:

1. 1-page endorsement letter from the proposed host         
2. CV of the KI applicant (max 1 page). Use the CV in Prisma.

Note that you should not add co-applicants to this call.

The application must be submitted digitally through KI Prisma during the application period, which closed September 3, 2024. 

Decision

The decision was taken by the KI Internationalisation Board. All applicants were notified by e-mail in November.

The Internationalisation Board decided to support the following researchers with funding for collaboration with partners in low- and middle-income countries in Africa in 2025.

1. Anders Forss, Med S, for the project: Occurrence and clinical characteristics of inflammatory bowel disease in Ghana. 
   Partner: Water Research Institute, Accra
    
2. Yongra Ko, MTC, for the project:  Evaluation of the efficacy of novel ceiling nets for malaria control in the Lake Victoria region, Kenya. Partner: Mount Kenya University, Kenya
    
3. Mtakai Ngara, MTC, for the project: Using a systems approach to determine adaptive immune protection provided by CD8+ T cells against malaria in endemic setting. Partner: Mount Kenya University, Kenya
    
4. Giulia Gaudenzi, GPH, for the project: Incidence of Bloodstream Infections, Antibiotic Resistance, and Predictive Value of Pediatric Early Warning Score (PEWS) During Febrile Neutropenia in Pediatric Oncology Patients in Uganda. 
   Partner: Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital
    
5. Laila Sara Arroyo, CLINTEC, for the project:  Microbiome Influences on HPV and Cervical Cancer in Africa: A Pilot Study on Disease Development. (Zimbabwe)
   Partner: African Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology

There were in total 25 applications registered, of which fourteen were from women and eleven from men, from ten departments at KI. The applications were for collaboration with 21 different partners in twelve African countries. 

Reports

After the end of grant period, you have to login to Prisma and confirm whether you have used the money, or not. If you have not used the money at all during the disposition period, it should be returned.

Reports are submitted via Prisma within 12 months after the funding has been used. You will receive an email notification when it is time to report.