Date:
2013-01-14
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CALL FOR FUNDING IN 2013: INCENTIVE FUNDING FOR RATED RESEARCHERS
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR INCENTIVE FUNDING FOR RATED RESEARCHERS - 2013
In 2007, Higher Education South Africa (HESA) conducted a review of the National Research Foundation’s evaluation and rating system. Following this review, HESA acknowledged and endorsed the value that evaluation and rating add to the NRF’s research support and advancement vision.
The report of the review recommended that the National Research Foundation (NRF) re-establishes the evaluation and rating system link to funding. Based on this recommendation, Incentive Funding for Rated Researchers (IFRR) was created.
All applications must be completed online at https://nrfsubmission.nrf.ac.za.
The online application form consists of two sections:
- Funding Information - where the system displays the rating, researchers have to complete the fields to compose their research profile.
- Budget - this is not a research proposal, but a budget motivation per annum must be provided for the duration of the NRF rating based on the “Ongoing and planned future research” information as submitted in the rating application on NRF Online (http://nrfonline.nrf.ac.za).
NOTE: Researchers should copy the section called “Ongoing and planned future research” from the rating application on NRF Online (http://nrfonline.nrf.ac.za) into the “Total Expected Outputs” section of the application, to align the budget motivations to these goals.
CALL OPENS: 14 January 2013
CALL CLOSES: 28 February 2013
It is the responsibility of each applicant to familiarise themselves with the internal closing date, set by their institution in order to meet the NRF closing date.
Incomplete OR late submissions will not be accepted.
For further information please view the attached Guide, November 2012
PLEASE NOTE: The NRF closing date for validated applications is 28 February 2013. Institutions must set their own internal closing date for DAs to validate applications before the closing date.
For further enquiries please contact
Ms Lynn Erasmus or Mr Martin Tjatji
Administrative Co-ordinator Grant Officer
Tel: +27 (0) 12 481 4042 Tel: +27 (0) 12 481 4126
Fax: +27 (0) 12 86 546 6898 Fax: +27 (0) 86 562 9590
Email: lynn@nrf.ac.za Email: martin.tjatji@nrf.ac.za