Strengthening Information Society Research Capacity Alliance

2011-2013

SIRCA II Application Form

Notes

1. Principal Investigator eligibility

You may apply for research funding as the Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project, only if you are:

• an emerging scholar in the Information Society/Information & Communication Technologies for Development field of no more than 45 years old; if you are a PhD holder, then you are only eligible if you have no more than seven years of post-graduate teaching/research experience;
• affiliated with an academic, government, or civil society institution, consortium or institution based in Asia, Latin America and Africa; funds will be disbursed to your organization of employment and not directly to you; and
• to remain in the country or region of research throughout the grant period/research project;

NB: The PI is accountable for the project and is expected to be involved actively in it.

2. Funding information

Each selected grant recipient will be provided with:

• up to SGD$24,000 for a maximum period of support of 18 months to conduct a research project;
• least-cost travel and per diems covered to attend training workshop and final research dissemination conference; and
• one assigned senior-level collaborator to supervise and guide you through the research project.

 

You are required to use the budget template available here. Instructions for each line item and how to account for them are provided in the template. Please upload once completed.

Incomplete submissions will not be entertained. Late submissions will be considered on a case-by case basis by the Management Committee

Note: PI is NOT required to submit a separate proposal. PI is required only to fill in the online application form with all the required information.