Research and Project Grants
TWAS research grants are awarded to both individual scientists and research groups
TWAS research grants fund several programmes that support:
- Researchers in developing countries, allowing them to purchase specialized equipment and consumable supplies, and
- Support Master of Science students.
The calls for 2023 TWAS Research Grants in Basic Sciences—one for individuals and one for groups—will not open. The links to apply online will no longer be active once calls close.
Call for the Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators is open to apply: SG-NAPI
Awards and Medals
TWAS has long recognized that awards provide an incentive for scientists to do their best work, while winning them global acknowledgment. Honours awarded by TWAS and its partners are among the most prestigious given for research in the developing world. They range from the TWAS-Awards, honoring established scientists in the South, to awards given to early-career scientists already making impressive contributions to their field.
Fellowships
With the world’s largest South-South PhD and postdoctoral research fellowship programme, TWAS helps early-career researchers to gain education and experience at top science institutions. TWAS currently offers about 160 PhD fellowships, in conjunction with eight partners in six countries, and about 100 postdoctoral fellowships in conjunction with nine partners in five countries.
TWAS offers PhD Fellowships—to earn a PhD—as well as Postdoctoral Fellowships.
To expedite the submission of your application, please, follow the recommendation below:
- Applications can be submitted only through the online portal and only once the call for the programme of your choice is open.
- To start your application, use the "Apply now" button at the bottom of the programme of your choice.
- Candidates need to upload, along with their application, a preliminary acceptance letter issued in the same year of the application itself by their chosen host institution. Applicants are encouraged to apply for the acceptance letter from the chosen host institutions as early as possible, even before the opening date of the call of the programme of their choice.
- The opening and closing dates of each programme are specified on each programme page.
- Applicants may apply for only one programme per calendar year in the TWAS and OWSD portfolio.
- Applicants may not visit another institution in that year under any other TWAS programme.
Science Diplomacy and Other Training
TWAS offers financial assistance to the organizers of international and regional scientific conferences, workshops, symposia and special meetings in the developing world.
TWAS offers financial assistance to the organizers of international and regional scientific conferences, workshops, symposia and special meetings in the developing world.
Visiting Scientists
Experienced scientists can be invited to developing nations as visiting professors to help build expertise in a given field. Or they can travel as visiting researchers to hundreds of scientific institutions worldwide to collaborate on new projects and build international partnerships.