Incentive funding for rated researchers 2015

 Announcement from the National Research Foundation:

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.

Applicants must ensure that their Curriculum Vitae are updated on the NRF Online Submission system at https://nrfsubmission.nrf.ac.za

Applications must be submitted electronically on the NRF Online Submission System 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 an NRF rating. The section that was completed for the rating application called “Ongoing and planned future research” will be migrated from the rating application at https://submission.nrf.ac.za to the section “Total Expected Outputs” to guide researchers to align the budget to these goals. If the rating application was done on an earlier online system, this field will be empty.
• For further information please view the Funding Guide  

CALL OPENS:   13 January 2015

CALL CLOSES: 17 February 2015    

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.  

PLEASE NOTE:  Designated Authorities have until 20 February 2015 to validate applications. 

More information: Funding Guide

For further enquiries please contact   

Ms Lynn Erasmus                               

Professional Officer                                                                 

Grants Management and                                               

Systems Administration (GMSA)                                                                                                           

Tel: +27 (0) 12 481 4042                                                

Fax: +27 (0) 12 86 546 6898                                          

Email: lynn@nrf.ac.za                                                                

 OR

Mr Martin Tjatji

Professional Officer                 

 Reviews and Evaluation (RE)                                                                                                            Tel: +27 (0) 12 481 4126

 Fax: +27 (0) 86 562 9590 

 Email: martin.tjatji@nrf.ac.za