2025 Call for Applications
AGNES-BAYER Research Grant
Open | Deadline: 9th November 2025 (23.59 GMT)
Funded by
Bayer Foundation
Target
Junior with minimum of 1 published scientific paper and currently registered for a Doctoral degree.
Grant amount
EUR 7,000
The AGNES-BAYER Science Foundation Research Grant for Biodiversity Conservation & Sustainable Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa enables doctoral students from sub-Saharan African countries to undertake outstanding research activities in Biodiversity conservation and sustainable agriculture.
The proposed activities must be part of the doctoral research, including but not limited to field experiment and data collection or laboratory studies. Eligible junior researchers need to demonstrate the relevance of their work to further development of their home countries in sub-Sahara Africa. The Grant aims to support African PhD students for field work activities. A maximum Grant of EUR 7000 will be awarded to each successful applicant.
Direct applications from junior researchers having published at least 1 scientific paper (in a non-predatory journal) will be considered for the grant. The applicant should be working in the field of Biodiversity conservation and/or Sustainable Agriculture. Candidate must be officially registered for a Doctoral degree at a university/tertiary institute in sub-Sahara Africa and a national of a sub-Saharan African country. Applicants must demonstrate clearly that their work is relevant to development in sub-Saharan African countries.
Stories
AGNES sensitization workshop, November 8th 2019, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi Ghana)
A sensitization workshop on AGNES and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has also been organized at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi Ghana) by Prof. Romain Glèlè Kakaï. This workshop brought together MSc and PhD students and Young...
German Research Chair “Mathematics and its application“ at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Rwanda
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is pleased to announce a call for applications for German Research Chair "Mathematics and its application“ at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Rwanda Submit an application, if you have completed a...
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2020
The AGNES Board wishes you Merry Christmas, Happy and Fruitful New Year 2020.
Meeting with MIASA staff
From 21 to 22 October 2019, Professor Bernd Kortmann, President of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS; www.frias.uni-freiburg.de) welcomed Professor Romain Glèlè Kakaï, AGNES chairperson to FRIAS (Freiburg, Germany). The latter had meetings with the...
Meeting with African humboldtians at Humboldt award winners’ forum
Former and current AGNES chair persons (Prof. Dr. Romain Glèlè Kakaï and Dr Heather Marco) met with African alumni of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation on the sidelines of Humboldt award winners’ forum in Bonn (16-20 October, 2020). This meeting aimed to update...
Current and Past AGNES chairs met with Dr Daniela Kneissl at Humboldt award winners’ forum
On October 17th, current and former AGNES chairs (Prof. Dr. Romain Glèlè Kakaï and Dr Heather Marco) met with Dr Daniela Kneissl during the Humboldt award winners’ forum held in Bonn from 16-20 October, 2019. They took the opportunity to discuss organization of the...
Call for Applications: 2020 Mawazo PhD Scholars Programme – deadline 22 November
Dear members of AGNES Network, We would like to inform you that the Call for Applications is now open for the Mawazo Institute <http://www.mawazoinstitute.org>'s 2020 PhD Scholars fellowship programme. This programme is a non-residential fellowship for African...
Application for MIASA fellowships: Deadline extended (Only for members of the AGNES Network in humanities and social sciences)
Dear members of the AGNES, It is our pleasure to inform you that the deadline for MIASA fellowship applications has been extended to 15 November 2019. This extension is exclusively for members of the AGNES Network and only for applications in the Humanities and...
Workshop on African-German Cooperation in Education, Science and Research
On official invitation of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Prof. Romain Glèlè Kakaï, President of AGNES governing board has participated in the Expert Workshop on Future African-German Cooperation in Education, Science and Research on...
Selection for AGNES-PAWS and AGNES-GENERAL mobility grants
On August 5 and 6, 2019, a meeting of the international selection committee for the AGNES mobility grants (photo 1a-b) was held to finalize the selection process of the 2019 AGNES mobility grantees. Fifteen doctoral students from 8 countries were selected for the...