National Research Fund Call for Research Grants

Introduction

The National Research Fund (NRF) is a statutory body established by Science Technology and Innovation Act No. 28 of 2013. The Fund is mandated to facilitate research for the advancement of Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I) for National Development.

National Research Fund Call for Research Concept Notes Grants

NRF is pleased to announce the National Call for Research Concept Notes. The call is a
strategic response to promote multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary research among national innovation delivery agencies to increase investments in research and experimental development to address societal challenges and catalyze socio-economic growth.
Multi-disciplinary and Multi-institution research teams from both public and private
institutions are invited to submit Concept Notes for consideration.

Proposed projects should clearly demonstrate strategies of how to address varied challenges facing the society. The objectives of submitted concept notes must be in line with national priorities expounded in the Vision 2030 with more emphasis on research which will contribute new knowledge applicable to either Universal Health Care, Food and Nutrition Security,
Affordable Housing as well as Industrialization, Manufacturing and Agro-processing; the Research should also address issues under Sustainable Development Goals as well as the Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA 2024) which is the
blueprint for Africa’s long term Agenda 2063.
Towards this end NRF invites Multi-institutional and Multi-disciplinary research teams from public and private institutions in Kenya to team up and submit CONCEPT NOTES for
consideration. The budget per the proposed project must not exceed Kenya shillings
twenty million (Ksh 20,000,000/=) for a period of three years. Each

application must be
submitted by a team of researchers from at least three (3) different institutions. The
Principal Investigators (PIs) who have benefited from the same category under the
1st NRF Call are not eligible.

The objectives of this call are to;

Promote collaborative solution-based scientific research to address societal
challenges

Generate tangible products and services to increase the country competitiveness

Creating opportunities for generation of new technologies, transfer and adoption

Increasing application of research findings and innovations for employment creation

Expected Outputs:

New knowledge that is scalable to useful products and services that will address the challenges in the aforementioned priority areas. Each project MUST produce at least 6 PhD and 6 Masters Degrees at the end of the project (the grant will only cater for the Research component for postgraduate students).

How to apply

Interested researchers who wish to participate in this national competitive research grant
programme can download Concept application form and call guidelines from the NRF
website by 16th February, 2018

For more information and job application details, see; National Research Fund Call for Research Concept Notes Grants

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