Deadline: 2 June 2024
The MARM Partnership Scheme, run by the London Mathematical Society (LMS), is awarding grants to support partnerships between UK/European and African mathematics departments.
The MARM project is designed to support qualified mathematics professionals in situ. Sustained professional links to a centre in UK/Europe, professional collaborations and opportunities for periodic research travel all contribute to the possibility and relative attractiveness of using one’s mathematical expertise at home rather than moving permanently abroad.
The focus of MARM is on building infrastructure and networking in mathematics in Africa, as well as supporting collaboration between mathematicians in non-African countries with a strong mathematical infrastructure and their African colleagues and students. Its wider aim is to foster long-term collaborative relationships between colleagues in UK/Europe and Africa.
Since 2005, 25 relationships have previously been supported through a MARM project, in Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. This further initiative aims to build on these successes and to continue to support mathematics in Africa.
A typical partnership will be a combination of two or more of the following activities:
- co-supervision of an African student registered for a higher degree in an African university;
- supervising a research group, including its research students and post-doctoral researchers;
- research collaboration;
- giving an advanced short course in an African university, perhaps as part of a workshop;
- helping to improve graduate education in mathematics in the longer term.
Funding Information
- Awards grants of £4,000 to support partnerships between UK/European and African mathematics departments.
- Four grants are awarded in total.
- These will be for a one-year partnership initially, with the possibility of extension for a further year.
Who can apply?
- They are looking for mathematicians based in the UK and Europe who are interested in developing collaborative partnerships with mathematicians in Africa.
- They welcome applications from those with no prior experience of collaborating with research workers in Africa, as well as from those with existing links with African research.
For more information, visit London Mathematical Society.
