Deadline: 2 May 2018
The MRC, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) are inviting research proposals to the UK-South Africa Mental Health Initiative which will focus specifically upon mental health in South Africa.
The purpose of this call is to support research projects; however, the funders would also encourage research projects that incorporate elements of capacity building where appropriate. This Newton Fund initiative will provide funding for high quality collaborative research projects focused on addressing mental health in South Africa.
The objective of this initiative is to deliver research funding for internationally competitive and innovative collaborative projects between researchers from South Africa and the UK to enable the pursuit of shared research interests. The research must be led by and include work in South Africa, but may include work in other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Funding Information
- MRC and ESRC will collectively make up to £2m available for this initiative. SAMRC will provide up to ZAR 24 million.
- In total, the funders will, therefore, make up to approximately £3.43m/ ZAR 56m available.
- Support for the UK collaborators will be made available at a rate in line with standard MRC/ESRC funding arrangements and at 80% fEC.
Eligibility Criteria
This call will fund partnerships between UK and South African based researchers working in the area of mental health. It is important to note that:
- This is an open call
- applicants do not need to have attended the UK-South Africa workshop in order to apply.
- The funding agencies will not play a further brokering role in this call.
- The proposal should be jointly developed by a South African PI and a UK PI. The UK PI will lead on the administration of the application. If successful, the South African PI will be the administrative lead when liaising with SAMRC.
- This call is a ‘managed mode’ call being run by the MRC on behalf of the MRC and ESRC.
- Therefore, Research Organisations that are eligible to apply to the MRC, for example, MRC Units and Institutes, may apply to this call.
- For support under this call, applicants must be eligible to apply for funding from their respective country’s funding agency.
- In South Africa, any institution approved by the Minister of Science and technology for NRF funding is eligible to apply.
- Registered not-for-profit research organisations are eligible to apply.
- Intramural and extramural SAMRC research units are eligible to apply.
- South African Principal Investigators must be South African citizens or permanent residence holders.
- For-profit institutions are NOT eligible.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For further information, please visit MRC.