The publication of a funding announcement by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for the German-African Innovation Incentive Award (GAIIA) is expected to be published end of June 2023.
Participants at the GAIIA award ceremony 2022 © Ingnus Dreyer | SCPS Photos
The funding award honours African researchers and their German partners for outstanding research achievements with high application potential, supports the implementation of a German-African cooperation project and offers accompanying transfer qualification measures. Within the framework of the funded cooperation project, research results already achieved are to be further developed into application-oriented solutions, product-oriented utilisation and structure-building initiatives.
The award is granted in the form of project funding of up to 150,000 Euros for each project for up to 24 months. At least 50% of the funding will be used by the African partners. The German institutions administer the award money and forward the envisaged funds to the African partners.
Funding will be provided for collaborative projects preferably dealing with one or more of the following priority areas:
The application procedure has two phases: First, African applicants can either be nominated for the award by a representative of a German university / research institution / company, or they can apply for the award themselves. In both cases, a project outline developed jointly by both sides is submitted and at the same time the willingness to cooperate within the framework of a joint German-African research project is expressed.
In the second phase of the procedure, the applicants whose project outlines have been successful in the evaluation will be invited to submit full formal proposals. Applications may be submitted by universities, non-university research institutions and other institutions contributing to research as well as commercial companies.
This pre-announcement is intended to raise awareness of potential applicants. The official funding announcement will be published via the Federal Gazette. Only the provisions therein apply. The announcement will also be published on the BMBF website. This pre-announcement is not legally binding.
We will link to the announcement on the website of the BMBF under 'Current Announcements'.
Information on the previous award winners can be found at www.gaiia-bmbf.de
