Do you have a bold idea to protect and nurture early child development?
 
Saving Brains has launched a new funding opportunity open to applicants in low- and middle-income countries and Canada.
 
With the ultimate goal of increasing human capital and tackling existing inequalities, Saving Brains seeks bold ideas for products, services and implementation models that protect and nurture early brain development in a sustainable manner. Successful proposals will be awarded seed grants of up to $250,000 CAD over a maximum of 24 months.

Funding is open to innovative solutions that address the risk factors facing children living in adversity by promoting health and nutrition, providing enrichment and nurturing, and protecting against maltreatment.
 
Areas of particular interest include innovations designed for use in humanitarian contexts and fragile settings, innovations that provide supports to adolescent parents, and innovations with demonstrated scale and strong paths to sustainability that have not yet measured impact on child development.
 
APPLICATION DEADLINE:  October 11, 2017, at 3:00 p.m ET

Deadline for Second Round of 2017 Applications: Friday, 15 September 2017

Please send all queries to Robyn Udemans (researchfunding@uct.ac.za) 

Purpose of the grant

Visiting Scholars Fund (VSF): the purpose of this grant is to bring eminent academics from outside South Africa to UCT. 

Visiting Lecturers Fund (VLF): the purpose of this grant is to bring eminent academics who are based abroad, and who are already in South Africa on other business as well as eminent academics who are employed at other educational institutions within South Africa to UCT.

These Visiting Scholars/Lecturers will be expected to provide an academic stimulus by means of lectures, seminars or similar contributions within the University. Grants contribute towards both travel and subsistence costs, for a maximum of 30 days for Visiting Scholars and a maximum of 7 days for Visiting Lecturers.

Visits integrated into conferences or symposia will not be considered. The visit must provide a stand-alone academic stimulus outside of already planned events.

Eligibility

UCT researchers who are:

• Permanent and T2 contract (travel must be occurring within contract period) academic staff;
• Permanent Professional Administrative Support Services (PASS) staff affiliated to an academic department; 
• Honorary Research Associates; Emeritus Professors; Emeritus Associate Professors; Honorary Professors; Honorary Associate Professors and Senior Research Scholars who have published in accredited, subsidy-earning publications in the past year; and
• Permanent joint academic staff (excluding registrars).

Please note that T1 contract staff are not eligible to apply for funding.

Submission process

1. The applicant must use the correct application form Visiting Scholars/Lecturers Fund Application (R&I13) when completing a hard copy, or download the electronic form  from

http://forms.uct.ac.za/ri13.doc.

2. Applications for visits/lectures retrospective to the application closing date of 15 September 2017 will NOT be considered.
3. The applicant must ensure that the complete and correctly endorsed application reaches the Research Office on or before the deadline date. 
4. Applications may be posted (via internal mail) to Research Support Services at the Research Office, 2 Rhodes Avenue, Mowbray (hard copies) OR e-mailed to researchfunding@uct.ac.za (but not both). Please ensure that you receive an acknowledgement of receipt from the Research Office within two days of the closing date.

Note

After the visit, a brief report must be submitted to this VSF/VLF Committee.

The PACK programme tackles health systems issues so that primary care practitioners can deliver evidence based care that is policy-aligned and feasible for their setting. Developed by the University of Cape Town Lung Institute’s Knowledge Translation Unit (KTU), it is currently being implemented in collaboration with the BMJ and local role-players in South African, Brazilian and Nigerian public health systems.

As a satellite session to the Global Evidence Summit, the KTU, in partnership with the Western Cape Department of Health, invite you to a PACK Open Day at the KTU’s home, the University of Cape Town Lung Institute in Mowbray. You will have the opportunity to attend presentations about the Unit’s guideline development work and implementation research, view displays showcasing the programme’s training and health systems components, participate in PACK interactive training sessions and meet the developers, implementers and researchers of the programme – the KTU and BMJ teams, country localisers, policy makers and end-users.

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