Competitive Support for Unrated Researchers
Course(s) Offered: Any field
Course: Graduate research
Provider: National Research Foundation
Country to Study in: South Africa
Scholarship Description
The Competitive Support for Unrated Researchers (CSUR) Programme falls inside the Knowledge Fields Development (KFD) Directorate of the National Research Foundation (NRF).
The diverse programmes together with initiatives inside the KFD are aimed at contributing to the advertisement together with back upwards of research.
Its specific role is to facilitate the advancement of the frontiers of existing together with the evolution of novel fields of knowledge, together with the necessary associated question capacity inside the context of national question together with developmental challenges together with strategic initiatives.
Eligibility
The next volition apply:
Course(s) Offered: Any field
Course: Graduate research
Provider: National Research Foundation
Country to Study in: South Africa
Scholarship Description
The Competitive Support for Unrated Researchers (CSUR) Programme falls inside the Knowledge Fields Development (KFD) Directorate of the National Research Foundation (NRF).
The diverse programmes together with initiatives inside the KFD are aimed at contributing to the advertisement together with back upwards of research.
Its specific role is to facilitate the advancement of the frontiers of existing together with the evolution of novel fields of knowledge, together with the necessary associated question capacity inside the context of national question together with developmental challenges together with strategic initiatives.
Eligibility
The next volition apply:
- Active researchers amongst no NRF rating.
- Applicants may endure of whatever nationality.
- Employed at a publicly funded South African University, Museum, Science Council, National Laboratory, NRF National Facility or whatever other NRF approved question establishment on a full-time permanent or full-time contract basis. The contract 24-hour interval of the month should endure for at to the lowest degree the duration of the funding menses of the project.
- Involvement of women, dark together with disabled researchers together with students inside the proposed projection is highly encouraged.
- All applicants’ proposals must endure endorsed yesteryear the Designated Authority of their employing institution.
Citizens of ANY nationality may apply
Participating Institutions
The National Research Foundation of South Africa’s; AND
All publicly funded or NRF approved institutions inward South Africa.
Fields of study
Research may endure inward ANY discipline. However, basic question inward the fields of the Humanities, Social together with Natural Sciences are principally supported
Number of awards
Not specified yesteryear the NRF
Sponsorship duration
Funding volition back upwards successful applications for a maximum menses of 3 years (2011 - 2013)
Scholarship benefits
Support volition cover:
- Research materials together with supplies (consumables).
- Grantholder-linked Student Support.
- Provision of staff evolution grants for staff members, other than the applicant, who volition obtain a Masters or Doctoral aeroplane yesteryear participating inward the grant holder’s NRF/CSUR funded project, together with who are (co-) supervised yesteryear the applicant.
- Research instrumentation or equipment. The maximum contribution from the NRF volition endure R200000 (two hundred chiliad Rand), i time inward a 3-year cycle. Requests for to a greater extent than expensive equipment should endure forwarded to the Infrastructure Funding Instruments (IFIs) at NRF.
- One local conference per annum for the applicant, and/or squad fellow member through the project, to acquaint a newspaper or poster.
- One conference abroad per annum. Support for attendance of a conference abroad inward subsequent years volition endure considered entirely if the newspaper presented inward the preceding twelvemonth has been published inward a peer reviewed publication.
- No application amongst a total research- operating budget requested of less than R 25000 (twenty v chiliad Rand) per annum volition endure considered for funding yesteryear the NRF.
- Local locomote for question purposes, e.g. plain visits, utilisation of question facilities, etc.
- Sabbatical together with report visits, both local together with abroad.
- Visiting scientists.
- Ad Hoc research/technical assistance.
All applications are to endure submitted to the NRF via their website or yesteryear mail.
Please see the official NRF website (link to it is below) for detailed data on this Application Call, together with besides on how to apply to it.
DEADLINES:
All applications must endure received yesteryear the NRF on or earlier July 30th 2011
PLEASE NOTE:
South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) is the intermediary means betwixt the policies together with strategies of the Government of South Africa together with South Africa's question institutions.
It was established on 1 Apr 1999 every bit an autonomous statutory torso inward accordance amongst the National Research Foundation Act.
The NRF has 3 principal functions:
- to back upwards question together with innovation, through its agency, Research together with Innovation Support together with Advancement (RISA);
- to encourage an involvement inward scientific discipline together with technology scientific discipline through its trace of piece of job concern unit, the South African Agency for Science together with Technology Advancement (SAASTA);
- to facilitate high-end question through its National Research Facilities (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity; Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory; iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences; South African Astronomical Observatory; Hermanus Magnetic Observatory; National Zoological Gardens of South Africa)
Open for International Students: Yes
Further Scholarship Information together with Application
Related: List of Scholarships inward South Africa for International Students
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