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Mozambique: More than US$200,000 available for scientific research
2:47 CAT | 01 Feb 2019
More than US$200,000 could be made available to Mozambican public and private scientific research institutions under the Oliver Reginald Tambo Research Chairs Initiative, a regional funding programme dedicated to scientific research which contributes to the development of human resources at all levels.
“This is a project that scientists must compete for, and this competition covers 15 countries. The chairs will have a budget of US$215,000 per year for a period of five years. Depending on results, that can be extended for another five years,” National Research Fund director Vitoria Langa said in Maputo yesterday.
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Langa explained that the programme would train scientists to carry out research that translated into benefits for communities.
“This programme should produce results. For example, if the Research Chair is in the area of seed improvement, of course they will have to be tested for use by communities and thus improve the production of that community,” she said.
The programme “is not confined to a specific area – it extends to health, construction, agriculture and the environment”, but only research-related companies are eligible to apply.
“It must be a public company linked to a university or research centre in some kind of partnership, possibly between a private university and a public university,” she said.
Langa says that only public universities could host the programme, so that fund management was properly supervised.
Minister of Science and Technology, Higher and Professional Education Jorge Nhambiu said that the programme promoted the development of human resources at all levels.
“In this context, the chairs are a creation tending to requalify, to structure, form and monitor the academic production of scientists. The aim is to strengthen the subsystems of higher education, promoting basic and applied research,” he explained.
The minister said that the government created the National Research Fund (FNI) to improve the functioning of the science and technology system with regard to financing projects and actions in the field of research and technological innovation.
“In this context it is the FNI’s mission to launch calls for the submission of applications to the Chairs within the framework of its policy of financial resources allocation.”
By Angela Fonseca
Source: Agência de Informação de Moçambique - AIM
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