Key information
- Award value: up to £20,000.
- Deadline: 17 February 2025, 4.00pm (UK time).
- Projects must be no longer than 12 months and must start on 10 March 2025.
- Projects must finish on or before 10 March 2026.
- See the guidance notes for details on eligibility.
This funding is a chance for groups of two or more Frontiers symposium participants to explore something new. The funding could support gaining preliminary data for a new project, developing a further consortium or workshop, developing a prototype or exploring a new partnership between two or more symposium participants and other activities.
Eligibility criteria – who can apply for funding?
- The team should have at least two members (including the lead applicant) who attended the Symposium in February 2025.
- The team must include at least one member based in the UK or an ODA Partner Country. Once this eligibility is met, the team may include people from other countries. A team member from any country can lead the project.
- The team should be a newly formed partnership. Its members should not have worked on the proposed project together before.
- The project must address challenges in one or more of the ODA Partner Countries:
- Africa: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zambia.
- Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam and Yemen.
- Caribbean and Latin America: Haiti, Brazil.
- Middle East: Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan.
- Pacific: Kiribati, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.
- The project must be interdisciplinary, pilot-stage and challenge-based.
- The project must progress towards one or more of the SDGs
- Projects must not harm gender equality, and where possible promote it (even when impacting gender equality is not the primary research or innovation objective). This will be considered in the application review.
- The lead applicant must be affiliated with an organisation that can administer the funding on their behalf.