NORHED Seed Funding

This announcement invites collaborative higher education institution partnerships to submit proposals for seed funding for partnerships projects in the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Building in Higher Education and Research for Development (NORHED). NORHED seed funding shall be used with the purpose to develop an application for a main NORHED project, within one of the NORHED sub-programmes. Applications to the following NORHED sub programmes are eligible for this call:

• "Education and Training
• Health and Equity
• Natural Resource Management, Climate Change and Environment
• Democratic and Economic Governance
• Humanities, Culture, Media and Communication
• Capacity Development in South Sudan"

"The NORHED programme is aiming at strengthening capacities in higher education and research institutions to contribute to a more and better qualified workforce, increased knowledge, evidence-based policy, and decision-making and enhanced gender equality with the ultimate goal of sustainable economic, social, and environmental development in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).

Based on a needs assessment in the relevant country, NORHED projects may encompass LMIC institutional capacity building elements like joint Norwegian-South research projects, Master and PhD education of staff, post-doc fellowships and administrative and infrastructure strengthening .

Higher education institutions in LMIC, together with Norwegian partner institutions, can apply for support to capacity building projects. Partnerships with more than one LMIC partner institution are encouraged. The seed funding application should be submitted jointly by the partnership institutions."