CIVIS Seed funding for research activities and African-European collaboration 2025
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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.
What types of activities are funded?
New collaborative research activities, such as but not limited to:
Doctoral schools or other training measures for PhD students
Workshops or topical schools on a research question
Network meetings for establishing a research group within CIVIS
Network meetings for reaching out to non-academic stakeholders
Workshops for preparing a larger publication on research outcomes (pay attention to the fact that the project cannot cover publication cost).
Citizen science projects
Application design measures, such as but not limited to:
Meetings of potential or designated applicants/consortium members
Meetings of the writing team
Visits of the PI and/or other key participants to (potential) consortium members
Financement
The primary focus of this call is to facilitate the consolidation of networks, and thus to allocate funding for mobility costs
Each selected project can receive up to 10,000 EUR, depending on the location and number of mobility envisaged.
For participants from CIVIS universities in Europe: staff mobility costs (travel, accommodation, and subsistence) can be covered according to Erasmus+ rules (up to 850 EUR per participant travelling in Europe and up to 1 500 EUR per participant travelling from Europe to Africa).
For participants from CIVIS universities in Africa: staff mobility costs (travel, accommodation, and subsistence) can be funded by some but not all CIVIS European universities through co-funding measures (i.e., own institutional funds and/or Erasmus+ ICM). Please consult your local CIVIS office for checking whether such options exist. Alternatively, applicants might want to consider holding meetings/events at a partner institution in Africa.
For participants from the University of Glasgow (UofG) and the University of Lausanne (UNIL): costs cannot be covered by Erasmus+ budget but own institutional funds will be used (and can therefore exceed the 10,000 EUR limit). Please consult your local CIVIS Office.
Some universities may have additional funds available for organisational costs; however, not all institutions provide such funds, nor do they allocate the same amount for this purpose. Please check with the CIVIS Institutional Contact at own university.
Co-funding from other sources is encouraged.
Double-funding from the same third-party funding institution or programme may however be restricted. In case of doubt, please consult your local CIVIS Office.
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Who can apply
Faculty members from all CIVIS member universities are eligible to apply. However, staff from the University of Tübingen (UT) are not eligible for funding under the 2025 edition of the call. UT members may still participate in projects as collaborators, provided they can secure their own funding independently.
Applicants must be permanent faculty members or employees with a long-term contract; i.e., a contract longer than the funding period in order to ensure the sustainability of the activity beyond its completion.
For organisational reasons, the contact person for the proposal/main applicant should be a member from a CIVIS University in Europe.
Postdoctoral researchers are encouraged to participate in this call.
Proposals must:
Involve at least three CIVIS Universities from Europe or Africa (with a minimum of two European universities)
Involve at least three CIVIS Universities, among which at least two European Universities.
Relate to one of the CIVIS Hub themes (see above).
Align with one of the activity types described above (collaborative activity / application design measures)
Be implemented by June 30th, 2026.
These elegibility criteria should imperatively be met to proceed with further evaluation
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