Japan, the United Kingdom (UK) and the Philippines push for sustainable development in Southeast Asia by urging researchers to submit proposals for their multi-funder initiatives.
The proposals should focus on networking and partnership, building outreach and dissemination, demonstration and pilot activities, and working toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), news release said.
The Science, Technology and Action Nexus for Development call for proposals, established by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and the Philippines’s Department of Science and Technology of the Philippines (DOST), aims to connect current and recently funded projects from the three countries.
Three projects from the Philippines shall be supported by the DOST under this call with a maximum budget of P5 million per project, implemented for one year.
The DOST funding will be complemented by UKRI and JST with a maximum budget of £100,000 (estimated at P6,387,452) and ¥5,000,000 (estimated at P2.5 million) per project, respectively, the a DOST news release said.
The evaluation of proposals, as well reporting and monitoring of all DOST-funded projects, shall be governed by the DOST’s Grants-in-aid Program and will be spearheaded by DOST’s Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD).
Submitted proposals may fall under the priority areas of DOST PCIEERD and the other sectoral councils of DOST.
“The Philippines has been collaborating with Japan and UK to ensure that our communities are sustainably developing. We deem that this initiative will encourage projects to come together to create synergies, spur new collaborations and increase the impact of outputs from previously supported projects,” said DOST-PCIEERD Executive Director Dr. Enrico C. Paringit in the news release.
Interested Filipino researchers should register and download the necessary forms at https://dpmis.dost.gov.ph/.
All documents must be submitted in this e-proposal portal before the February 10, 2021, the news release said.
Guidelines and other information on this call for proposals can be accessed at https://pcieerd.dost.gov.ph/e-forms/call-for-proposal-forms.