Call for Proposals: Academic Research Project Grants

Deadline: 22 January 2024

The Central Project Management Agency (CPMA) has announced a call for proposals to promote mobility and people-to-people contacts for Belarusian youth, academics, and professionals to benefit from access to higher education and opportunities for lifelong-learning compliant with the EU standards and values.

EU-SALT II programme is specifically designed to establish support schemes for Belarusian students, lecturers, scientists, and young professionals who have been severely affected by the political crisis since August 2020. In the framework of EU-SALT II programme, a support scheme has been foreseen to provide academic/research grants for Belarusian academic staff consortiums. The scheme is intended to enable Belarusian academic staff to consolidate and preserve the Belarusian academic community and its integration in the common European educational space by promoting international cooperation.

The support scheme is administered by Central Project Management Agency (CPMA) who acts as a contracting authority and implemented in close collaboration with the independent Belarusian civil society organisations.

Objectives of the Programme and Priority Issues

The objective of this call for proposals is provide opportunities for consolidating and preserving the Belarusian academic community and its integration in the common European educational space by promoting international cooperation through academic research project grants.

Lots

Types of action which may be financed under this call include:
- Lot 1: academic research projects in the field of social sciences or humanities, preferably where the subject of research includes Belarus.
- Lot 2: academic research projects in all sciences and research areas that are not eligible to apply to Lot 1.

Funding Information

Indicative allocation of funds by lot:
- Lot 1: EUR 500.000
- Lot 2: EUR 500.000
If the allocation indicated for a specific lot cannot be used due to insufficient quality or number of proposals received, the contracting authority reserves the right to reallocate the remaining funds to another lot.
Size of grants:
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  - minimum amount: EUR 50.000
  - maximum amount: EUR 100.000
Duration of the projects: The initial planned duration of an action must be between 6 months and 12 months.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility of applicants:
- be a legal entity and
- be non-profit-making and
- be a specific type of organization such as: academic institution, university and (or) research institutions and
- be established in a Member State of the European Union and
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
The target group for this call is:
- Citizens of Belarus who has left Belarus since no earlier than August 2020 due to repression or persecutions on political grounds and who are currently affiliated as researchers, PhD students and lecturers at European (EU, EEA, UK, EaP countries) university or research institution, including think tanks and research NGO, or who had been affiliated as researchers, lecturers or PhD students in Belarusian university or research institution, and has lost his/her position because of political reasons and repressions no earlier than August 2020 (concerns both those remaining in Belarus and in exile).
Research team which has the following criteria:
- includes at least one citizen of Belarus who has left Belarus since no earlier than August 2020 due to repression or persecutions on political grounds and who is currently affiliated as researcher, PhD student and lecturer at European (EU, EEA, UK, EaP countries) university or research institution, including think tanks and research NGO, or who had been affiliated as researcher, lecturer or PhD student in Belarusian university or research institution, and has lost his/her position because of political reasons and repressions no earlier than August 2020 (concerns both those remaining in Belarus and in exile);
- includes at least one researcher that has worked in European academic institutions no less than 4 years before the application for this call of proposals;
- includes a leader of the research team who has a PhD or equivalent.