Submit Applications for Small Research Grant Program 2025 (Indonesia)

DIPI recognizes that there is a need for a small research grant scheme to allow early career/young Indonesian researchers to pursue specific but critical aspects in expanding their research programs. The critical aspects such as: to obtain proof of preliminary concept to a new scientific endeavor, to seek the technology solution, to support graduate student research work as part of bigger research scheme, and to finalize of an otherwise successful research project.

DIPI invites young researchers who have the ambition and feasibility to submit their scientific proposals which demonstrate a ground-breaking nature.

Aims

• The 2025 DIPI Small Research Grant Call aims to help young, talented researchers to gain more experience and research capability for their careers. The scheme aims to support fundamental, frontier, technology solution and excellent research, including technology innovation, in the focus areas of the importance on future Indonesia sustainability.

Research Areas

• The scheme provides grants to proposals in the research area of Medical and Health Science, such as in:
  • Infectious diseases: pathology, socioeconomics, detection of variants, predicting viral evolution and trends in infection and severe disease, etc.
  • Noncommunicable diseases: cardiovascular disease (such as heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma), diabetes, etc.
  • Genomic: DNA sequencing, genetic data analysis.

Funding Information

• The competitive research grant is for a duration of 1 year with a maximum grant of IDR 70 million. The grants will be offered to young/early career Indonesian researchers (less than 5 years of experience as researchers) based in Indonesia, to pursue excellent scientific research projects.

Expected Research Results

• The expected research results must be eligible either for publication in scientific journals, patents, proof of concept/prototype, new technology solutions, or social engineering models.

Eligibility Criteria

• Proposals may be submitted by researchers from legal RTD (Research and Technology Development) entities, such as:
  • Universities
  • Public Research and Development Institutions
  • Private sector/Non-Government Organization with R&D capabilities
  • Companies/industries with an R&D division
• PI (Principal Investigator) of the proposal submitted:
  • should be an Indonesian and based in Indonesia.
  • should be a young researchers with a Master degree or candidate for PhD/Doctoral degree (on going advance study) supervised by senior researchers who a the PhD/Doctoral degree.
  • who has an ongoing international research grant is preferable.
  • may submit only one proposal for one period.
  • should be affiliated with Indonesian RTD entities.

DIPI’s Small Research Grant Scheme Welcome

• Fundamental research
• Research as part of PhD or Doctoral dissertation
• Innovation research (downstreaming fundamental research such as alpha or beta prototype, new technology solution, etc.)
• Work as part of an ongoing international research grant (to obtain more scientific or technological excellence)

For more information, visit DIPI.