The Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust just announced a partnership to fund collaborations between scientists in Ghana, Tanzania and the UK. The “Leverhulme Royal Society Africa Awards” will provide up to £150,000 over three years for 18 research projects.   As described by Professor Lorna Casselton, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, “The scheme’s five research priority areas – agriculture, water, sanitation, basic human health research, and biodiversity and energy – have been selected by African colleagues as challenges where science can have the most impact on the lives of Africans.”

The awards will officially launch in October 2008.

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