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General grants and awards

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Honorary Research Associate notice Research Funding None 
The British Academy: Official Development Assistance (ODA) Challenge-Oriented Research Grants 2025 (FORECAST) Health Sciences: contact fhs.researchfunding@uct.ac.za; All other faculties contact internationalgrants@uct.ac.za 10 April 2025
EOL 2024 IBF Mpho Baisitse 12 September 2024
Call for nominations for the UCT Distinguished Social Responsiveness Award Sonwabo Ngcelwane 29 November 2024
CIPHER Growing the Leaders of Tomorrow Fellowship Programme Campus hub: contact Joy.Joachims@uct.ac.za; Red Cross/Old Main Building: contact fhsombrfpreawds01@uct.ac.za and copy Anvor.Wevers@uct.ac.za     29 November 2024
EGSE Call 2024 Tsakani Mtileni 11 November 2024
Nominations for 2024/2025 NSTF-South32 Awards Amanda.Raman@uct.ac.za December 2024
mRNA Victoria Research Acceleration Fund program Earl Prinsloo Early November
NIHR Right 8 Health Sciences: contact fhs.researchfunding@uct.ac.za; All other faculties contact internationalgrants@uct.ac.za 23 October 2024
Halting Tuberculosis Transmission fhs.researchfunding@uct.ac.za    23 October 2024
Research on Interventions for Global Health Transformation - Call 8 Stage 1 Health Sciences: contact fhs.researchfunding@uct.ac.za; All other faculties contact internationalgrants@uct.ac.za 23 October 2024
NIHR Global Health Health Sciences: contact fhs.researchfunding@uct.ac.za; All other faculties contact internationalgrants@uct.ac.za 15 October 2024
The 2024 Discovery Foundation Academic Fellowship Awards fhs.researchfunding@uct.ac.za 14 October 2024
The 2024 Discovery Foundation Sub-Specialist Awards fhs.researchfunding@uct.ac.za 14 October 2024
URC Call for Applications: Conference Travel Grants Janine Ramandh 25 September 2025
Short Research Visit (SRV) / Short Research Course (SRC) Grants: Round 2 paul.dantu@uct.ac.za 20 September 2024
Call for applications: OMT New Frontiers Research Award – Concept Note stage Health Sciences: contact fhs.researchfunding@uct.ac.za; All other faculties contact internationalgrants@uct.ac.za 13 September 2024
NIHR Global Research Professorships 2024: Notification of UCT’s Internal Pre-application Short-listing Health Sciences: contact fhs.researchfunding@uct.ac.za; All other faculties contact internationalgrants@uct.ac.za 12 September 2024
Switzerland (SNSF) / South Africa (NRF) Lead Agency
Research Funding Opportunity with Switzerland 2025 – 2027		 researchfunding@uct.ac.za 12 September 2024
Global Young Academy of Science Call for new members
[Download template]		 Amanda.Raman@uct.ac.za 2 September 2024, 09:00
Hosting a Conference Zam Ndzotyana 30 August 2024
2024 Vera Davie Call Zam Ndzotyana 30 August 2024
Visiting Scholar Fund (VSF) and Visiting Lecturers Fund (VLF) Grants Zam Ndzotyana 30 August 2024
Oppenheimer Memorial Trust: Awards for Sabbatical Study info@omt.org.za/ +27 11 5519500 30 September 2024 for studies commencing January to March 2025
UCT Alan Pifer Research Award: Call for Nominations paul.dantu@uct.ac.za 16 August 2024
Call for applications: Medical Research Foundation Health Sciences: contact fhs.researchfunding@uct.ac.za; All other faculties contact internationalgrants@uct.ac.za UCT intention to submit deadline: 1 August 2024
University Research Committee (URC) call for nominations: 2024 UCT Book Award and meritorious book prizes (extended deadline) Zam Ndzotyana 14 June 2024 (extended deadline)
URC call for nominations: 2024 Creative Works Award & meritorious creative works prizes (extended deadline) Zam Ndzotyana 14 June 2024 (extended deadline)
Call for applications: UCT Enabling Grant Seeker Excellence awards Tsakani Mtileni Monday,11 November 2024 for external-to-UCT funding applications submitted between 01 January 2024 and 31 October 2024.
Call for expressions of interest for UCT's Innovation Builder Fund (IBF)
Expression of Interest form		 Mpho Baisitse Expression of interest deadline: 12 September 2024
Call for nominations: 2024 UCT College of Fellows Young Researcher Award Lesleen Shears 15 July 2024
Call for applications: Wellcome Career Development Awards Health Sciences: contact fhs.researchfunding@uct.ac.za
All other faculties contact internationalgrants@uct.ac.za		 UCT intention to submit deadline: 30 September 2024
Call for applications: Wellcome early-career awards, October 2024 round Health Sciences: contact fhs.researchfunding@uct.ac.za
All other faculties contact internationalgrants@uct.ac.za		 UCT intention to submit deadline: 1 August 2024
Call for applications: Wellcome Discovery Awards Health Sciences: contact fhs.researchfunding@uct.ac.za
All other faculties contact internationalgrants@uct.ac.za		 UCT intention to submit deadline: 7 October 2024

NRF grants

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Concept Notes
      
  Long-term Europe – Africa WEF Nexus (LEAWEF) Multilateral Research Programme Prince Khoza 6 February 2025
General Research Grants
      
  NRF-AXA African Scientific Progress Award Prince Khoza 15 November 2025
Non-funding opportunity
      
International Research and Mobility Grants
      
Travel, Training and Conference Grants
      
       

Forthcoming NRF grants (these opportunities will open shortly)

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