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FIG Foundation Academic Research Grants
OUTLINE
The FIG Foundation will be providing research grants of up to 20,000
euros spread over two years.
Applicants should:
- be based in a surveying/geomatics academic or research programme in
a country listed by the World Bank as a low-income, lower-middle or
upper-middle income economy,
- have an established record of published research - at least two
articles in good quality internationally recognised peer reviewed
journals serves as a useful guideline, and
- have experience in managing postgraduate students.
The grant holder is expected to conduct the bulk of the research
themselves (it is not a research manager’s grant), but at the same time the
development of highly qualified personnel (HQP) should be a major component
of the project. Postgraduate students should be full time students, and this
grant should provide financial support for their degree studies. However,
the principal investigator should be intimately involved in the work.
There are two rounds to the competition. In the first round, applicants
will provide the documents listed below. Second round applicants will
provide a detailed application in a format similar to the Canadian NSERC or
SSHRC requirements.
Applications will be judged on the quality of the application and need.
In the event that two excellent applications are judged to be of equal
quality, applications from low-income and lower-middle income countries will
be preferred.
FIRST ROUND DOCUMENTATION
Deadline 15 January 2012.
Applicants should submit the following set of documents in English as a
single file in PDF format:
- A cover sheet showing the candidate’s personal details and those of
his/her institution.
- A 200 word abstract. This should be written in terms understandable
to the lay person; similar to a press release and which the FIG
Foundation could actually use as a press release in the event of a
successful application.
- A one page research proposal as per the template below. Note that
the one page limit will be strictly enforced; material that extends
beyond one page will be deleted.
- A list of peer reviewed journal publications over the last 6 years
using the International Journal of GIS reference list format. See Notes
for Authors on the IJGIS website.
- A list of research funding obtained over the past 5 years,
indicating which grants are peer reviewed or not.
- A list of highly qualified personnel that the applicant has
supervised over the last 6 years, Postdoctoral, PhD, Masters, senior
undergraduate.
- A description of research compliance, the research account and
activity auditing structures and processes in their institution. For
example, if a scientist spends money inappropriately, are there
structures in place to refund the granting agency?
- A description of the structures and processes in their institution
that pertain to research ethics, in particular ethics relating to
research involving human subjects, if that is relevant to the grant
application.
- A preliminary budget and a one page justification of the budget.
Note that as a general rule, equipment will not be funded. Travel to FIG
Conferences to present results may be included in the budget. Per diems
for field work will not be funded, but reasonable actual costs of field
work are refundable.
SECOND ROUND DOCUMENTATION
Applications will follow (roughly) the requirements of the Canadian
National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grant
application or Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant
application requirements. Applicants should ensure that they choose one of
these formats to match the nature of the proposed research project. The FIG
foundation may instruct an applicant to use a particular format.
GOVERNANCE
Funding will be released quarterly. Grant holders are expected to file
quarterly progress reports in the stipulated format. Continued funding will
be dependent on satisfactory progress. In the event of unsatisfactory
performance, the grant holder will be expected to return all unspent funds.
Grant holders’ institutions should submit annual certification that the
due compliance with normally accepted practice has been demonstrated in the
use of grant funds.
FIG Foundation grants do not pay University overhead. Successful
applicants will have to seek exemption if their institution requires a
portion of research grants for overhead.
PROPOSAL
Please provide your proposal to the FIG Foundation no later than 15
January 2012 using the proposal template.
Send your proposal by email to: fig@fig.net
or by post:
The FIG Foundation
c/o FIG
Kalvebod Brygge 31-33
DK-1780 Copenhagen V
DENMARK
Tel. + 45 3886 1081
Fax + 45 3886 0252
E-mail: fig@fig.net
FIG Office 29 September 2011 |
