CIVIS brings together 11 research-oriented European universities and 6 leading African universities with the aim of jointly designing educational programmes, promoting staff and student mobility and fostering a socially engaged educational environment. In this context, the alliance has launched a new call for seed funding. Lecturers and researchers from universities in the CIVIS network can submit proposals to start new collaborative research activities or participate in joint projects for larger research grants.

 Proposals must be related to one (or more) of the five CIVIS Hub themes:

• Climate, Environment, Energy
• Society, Culture, Heritage
• Health
• Cities, Spaces, Mobilities
• Digital & Technological Transformation

With its own RIS4CIVIS, 2021-2023 project, CIVIS was already committed to strengthening its collaboration in the fields of R&I at European level. In 2024, CIVIS continued its engagement by funding more than 25 projects to promote its strategic partnership to contribute to closer African-European scientific cooperation across all academic missions.

This new call is in line with the ambitions of the CIVIS Research Roadmap, and aims at consolidating joint research among its 17 member institutions. The aim of this Call for Applications is to support bottom-up initiatives for joint research, fostering innovation, long-term collaboration and openness to non-academic sectors.

Application deadline: May 31, 2025 

An online information session will be held on Monday, April 14, 2025, at 12:00 noon. To register and for further information please click here.