GRANTS FOR CROSS-COUNTRY RESEARCH PROJECTS

Description                                                             Maximum amount: 32 000 USD

The Global Development Network (GDN) invites researchers from developing countries and transition economies and best performing researchers from Regional Research Competitions (RRCs) to submit research proposals for its second round of the Global Research Competition (GRC) 2013. The GRC is a competitive grant program under GDN’s Global Research Capacity Building Program. In this annual competition, social science researchers from developing countries and transition economies are invited to team up with researchers from around the world on collaborative interregional or cross-country research projects. The competition is inter-regional/cross-country both in terms of its analytic scope and team composition. The research themes for the 2013 round of the GRC are:

  - Inclusive and Sustainable Growth
  - Food Security
  - Political, Economic and Social Transformations


Eligibility

Interested researchers can apply as:
 
  - Individual applicants – who require support in finding collaborators to form inter-regional or cross-country teams
  - Team applicants - pre-formed inter-regional or cross-country teams who do not require support in finding research collaborators

Eligible are only researchers from developing countries and transition economies interested in inter-regional or cross-country research collaboration, with the requirement that they need to be citizens and current residents of any of these countries.


Budget

Successful proposals are awarded a financial grant of up to USD 32,000.


Deadline: 20 September 2013

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