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MMV 9th African Call for Proposals — Malaria Drug Discovery

Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) · Switzerland (Geneva)

MMV invites proposals from African scientists in four priority areas: (1) medicinal chemistry, novel molecules with confirmed antimalarial activity (EC50 < 10 µM) and a credible optimisation plan, especially compounds suitable for chemoprevention; (2) assay development and screening to support discovery or development of novel antimalarials; (3) computer-aided drug discovery using cheminformatic or bioinformatic approaches; (4) large molecules, biologics or oligonucleotides for malaria treatment or chemoprevention. Proposals must use the specified template.

Deadline: Closes 29 August 20261 day left
Value: See call
Focus: Science & technology · ICT & innovation

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HORIZON-EDCTP3 — Digital Innovation and AI in Healthcare (Sub-Saharan Africa)

Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking

This EDCTP3/Horizon Europe call invites international research consortia to develop projects applying digital technologies, data systems, and artificial intelligence to strengthen clinical research capacity, improve healthcare delivery, and support innovative health solutions in sub-Saharan Africa. Priority themes include development and integration of electronic health records, AI/ML-powered diagnostic and surveillance tools, digital health research infrastructure, and training in data science for health. Partnerships must involve African countries, EU Member States, and Horizon Europe-associated countries.

Deadline: Closes 31 August 20263 days left
Value: Up to €2.25 million per project
Focus: Public health · ICT & innovation

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2026 Democratic Governance Institute — Migration Governance: Rethinking Mobility and Democratic Agency in Africa

CODESRIA — Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa · Senegal

CODESRIA's institutes combine funded residency with structured intellectual training: laureates arrive with a research paper, work on it across two weeks with senior resource persons, and leave with a revised paper and a route to publication. This year's theme is migration governance and democratic agency, held in Lagos in partnership with the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of Ghana. This is the continent's own social science council funding African scholars directly, with no Northern partner anywhere in the structure.

Deadline: 31 August 20263 days left
Value: See call
Focus: Social science · Law & governance

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AWF 2026 Call for Proposals — Project Preparation Grants

African Water Facility (AWF) · Côte d'Ivoire

The African Water Facility, an initiative of the African Ministers' Council on Water administered by the African Development Bank Group, has launched its 2026 Call for Proposals under the AWF 2026–2030 Strategy. It funds project preparation studies—feasibility work, detailed engineering design, environmental and social assessment, transaction advisory, and financial structuring—that move identified water and sanitation investments toward bankability. AWF does not finance construction; it finances the preparatory work that lets a project attract downstream public or private investment.

Deadline: 10 September 202613 days left
Value: Up to EUR 1 million
Focus: Environment & climate · Engineering

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Leveraging IFAD's Rural Sector Performance Assessment for Policy and Investment

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) · Italy

IFAD is procuring a partner to strengthen its Rural Sector Performance Assessment — the instrument that scores countries' rural policy environments and helps drive IFAD's own investment allocations. The work is analytical and methodological rather than field research: improving how rural policy performance is measured, and making the resulting evidence usable for policy and investment decisions. Universities, think tanks and research institutes are named as eligible applicants alongside NGOs and private-sector organisations.

Deadline: 4 September 2026, 12:00 CET (full proposals)7 days left
Value: Up to US$1,200,000, with a counterpart contribution of at least 20% of the IFAD grant (25% for private-sector applicants); in-kind contributions accepted
Focus: Agriculture & food systems · Social science

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Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027–2028

European University Institute (EUI) · Italy

The Max Weber Programme is Europe's largest postdoctoral fellowship in the social sciences and humanities, hosting roughly 65 fellows a year across economics, history, law, political and social sciences, the Robert Schuman Centre and the School of Transnational Governance. It combines protected research time with structured training in publishing, grant writing and teaching.

Deadline: 16 October 2026, 14:00 CEST49 days left
Value: Approximately €2,500 per month, plus family allowance, health insurance and a research allowance
Focus: Humanities · Social science

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