REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

GRAND CHALLENGES AFRICA – INNOVATION SEED GRANTS – Round 1

Call Release date: 17th November 2016
Call Closure date: 17th February 2017

The African Academy of Sciences - Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AAS-AESA) is launching two new Grand Challenges:

1) Providing new impetus and solutions and strategies to help Africa meet the SDG 3 target for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH). These cover key areas of:

New technologies to enable rapid identification of exposures that lead to poor outcomes in pregnancy, birth and in the first month of life — these could be exposures to communicable and non-communicable diseases.
Precision medicine approaches and techniques to identify microbes and other exposures in Africa that may increase susceptibility to non-communicable diseases (cancer, cardiovascular diseases, etc.) in mothers and children under 5 years of age.

2) Creative approaches to engage the public, and inspire policy and decision makers to increase investment in African Research & Development.

TO APPLY FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK: http://aasciences.ac.ke/aesa/en/isg-round-1/innovation-seed-grant-round-1/

TO VIEW THIS VIDEO PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zccH2gIo4w