SDG Call 2022

5Sustainable Development Goals Collaborative Pilot Call

CONCEPT NOTE TEMPLATE (for applicants)

All fields marked with * are mandatory

For questions regarding the concept note, please contact your
national contact person as stated in the National Annex or call
secretariat at CJ.Diederiks@risa.nrf.ac.za .

Finished concept notes must Concept Notes must be submitted

using this template by the deadline of 23:59 GMT +2 on 25. August
2022 (25/08/2022) to the call secretariat at
CJ.Diederiks@risa.nrf.ac.za
Concept Notes must be submitted by the Consortia Lead as stated
in box 8.
Please delete this box before submission of the concept note.

1.Project title*

2. Countries involved in the project:*

3a. Challenge(s) (Select all that apply)*

☐ HUMAN WELL-BEING AND CAPABILITIES

☐ SUSTAINABLE AND JUST ECONOMIES

☐ FOOD SYSTEMS AND NUTRITION PATTERNS

☐ ENERGY DECARBONIZATION WITH UNIVERSAL ACCESS

☐ URBAN AND PERI-URBAN DEVELOPMENT

☐ GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL COMMONS

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3b. Select the Sustainable Development Goals your project will contribute to:*
Please choose up to 3 goals: ☐ 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure

☐ 1 No poverty ☐ 10 Reduces inequalities

☐ 2 Zero Hunger ☐ 11 Sustainable cities and communities

☐ 3 Good health and well-being ☐ 12 Responsible production and consumption

☐ 4 Quality education ☐ 13 Climate action

☐ 5 Gender equality ☐ 14 Life below water

☐ 6 Clean water and sanitation ☐ 15 Life on land

☐ 7 Affordable and clean energy ☐ 16 Peace, justice and strong institutions

☐ 8 Decent work and economic growth ☐ 17 Partnership for the goals

4. Proposed duration*1
From / /20XX (DD/MM/YYYY) to / /20XX (DD/MM/YYYY)
Number of months for proposed project:
1 Here you can choose either to enter in the duration from a date or the duration in months. Or you can fill in both.

5. Project summary (Maximum 2100 characters including spaces)*

6. Previous project or projects your current application will be based on*

Name of earlier Identification Funding Project institution Project leader Duration of

project number organization name project – From- to

Fill in as many

rows as needed

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or add more rows

7. Summary of participating organizations *

Organization Organization Organization Type Applican Applicant Country Participation Type2

Name t First Last name

name

Organization

Organization

Organization

Organization

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MORE

ROWS IF

NECESSARY
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Participation types: Consortium lead, Co-Lead, Other types of consortia partners

8. Consortium Lead (PI):

Family name*

First name(s)*

Title(s)/position

Primary

Organization*

Department/

unit

Email*

Country:*

Seeking ☐ Tanzania Commission for Science and ☐ National Research Foundation (NRF)

funding from*: Technology (COSTECH) ☐ Research Council of Norway (RCN)

☐ Fonds national pour la Science, la ☐ Formas

Technologie et l'Innovation (FONSTI) ☐ Scientific and Technological Research

☐ National Commission for Scientific and Council of Turkey (Tübitak)

Technological Research (ANIID) ☐ Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

☐ National Research Fund Kenya ☐ National Natural Science Foundation of

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☐ Dutch Research Council (NWO) China (NSFC)

☐ In-Kind (fully self-financed)

Area(s) of Research

Highest academic qualification

Gender*

Other personnel represented by the Consortium Lead not detailed as Co-PIs (e.g. within the Consortium Lead’s

organization/ department / institution, etc.) - Add more rows for all personell that will have a role in the project

Last name

First name(s)

Title/position

Each consortia partner must refer to its national annex for eligibility of organizations

9.1 Co- Lead 1– (Co-PI)1

Last name*

First name(s)*

Title(s)/

position*

Primary

Organization*

Department/

unit

Email*

Country*

☐ Tanzania Commission for Science and ☐ National Research Foundation (NRF)

Technology (COSTECH) ☐ Research Council of Norway (RCN)

☐ Fonds national pour la Science, la ☐ Formas

Technologie et l'Innovation (FONSTI) ☐ Scientific and Technological Research

Seeking
☐ National Commission for Scientific and Council of Turkey (Tübitak)
funding from*:
Technological Research (ANIID) ☐ National Natural Science Foundation of

☐ National Research Fund Kenya China (NSFC)

☐ Dutch Research Council (NWO) ☐ Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

☐ In-Kind (fully self-financed)

Area(s) of Research

Highest academic qualification

Gender*

Other personnel represented by the Co-PIs (e.g. within the Co-PIs organization/ department / institution, etc.) Add

more rows for all personnel that will have a role in the project

Last name

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First name(s)

Title/position

Each consortia partner must refer to its national annex for eligibility of organizations/partners

9.2 Co- Lead 2 – Co-PI 2

Last name*

First name(s)*

Title(s)/

position*

Primary

Organization*

Department/

unit

Email*

Country*

☐ Tanzania Commission for Science and ☐ National Research Foundation (NRF)

Technology (COSTECH) ☐ Research Council of Norway (RCN)

☐ Fonds national pour la Science, la ☐ Formas

Technologie et l'Innovation (FONSTI) ☐ Scientific and Technological Research

Seeking
☐ National Commission for Scientific and Council of Turkey (Tübitak)
funding from*:
Technological Research (ANIID) ☐ National Natural Science Foundation of

☐ National Research Fund Kenya China (NSFC)

☐ Dutch Research Council (NWO) ☐ Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

☐ In-Kind (fully self-financed)

Area(s) of Research

Gender*

Other personnel represented by the Co-PIs (e.g. within the Co-PIs organization/ department / institution, etc.) Add

more rows for all personnel that will have a role in the project

Last name

First name(s)

Title/position

Each consortia partner must refer to its national annex for eligibility of organizations/partners

9.3 Co- Lead 3 – Co-PI 3

Last name*

First name(s)*

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Title(s)/

position*

Primary

Organization*

Department/

unit

Email*

Country*

☐ Tanzania Commission for Science and ☐ National Research Foundation (NRF)

Technology (COSTECH) ☐ Research Council of Norway (RCN)

☐ Fonds national pour la Science, la ☐ Formas

Technologie et l'Innovation (FONSTI) ☐ Scientific and Technological Research

Seeking
☐ National Commission for Scientific and Council of Turkey (Tübitak)
funding from*:
Technological Research (ANIID) ☐ National Natural Science Foundation of

☐ National Research Fund Kenya China (NSFC)

☐ Dutch Research Council (NWO) ☐ Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

☐ In-Kind (fully self-financed)

Area(s) of Research

Gender*

Other personnel represented by the Co-PI (e.g. within the Co-PIs organization/ department / institution, etc.) Add

more rows for all personnel that will have a role in the project

Last name

First name(s)

Title/position

Each consortia partner must refer to its national annex for eligibility of organizations/partners

9.4 Partner 1
Last name*

First name(s)*

Title(s)/

position*

Primary

Organization*

Department/

unit

Email*

Country*

Seeking ☐ Tanzania Commission for Science and ☐ National Research Foundation (NRF)

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Technology (COSTECH) ☐ Research Council of Norway (RCN)

☐ Fonds national pour la Science, la ☐ Formas

Technologie et l'Innovation (FONSTI) ☐ Scientific and Technological Research

☐ National Commission for Scientific and Council of Turkey (Tübitak)

funding from*:
Technological Research (ANIID) ☐ National Natural Science Foundation of

☐ National Research Fund Kenya China (NSFC)

☐ Dutch Research Council (NWO) ☐ Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

☐ In-Kind (fully self-financed)

Area(s) of Research/Expertise

Gender*

Other personnel represented by the Partner not detailed as Partner Investigators (e.g. within the partner's

organization/ department / institution, etc.) Add more rows for all personnel that will have a role in the project

Last name

First name(s)

Title/position

Each consortia partner must refer to its national annex for eligibility of organizations/partners

Add more or remove Co-PI and Partner-Boxes as required

10. Provisional Financial Summary3 *

Funding information should be entered as “thousands of Euros” (K€).
For example where K€ 25 would represent € 25,000.
Total requested Total budget
2023 2024 2025 2026 2027
budget K€ per funder

Consortium Lead K€

Co- Lead 1 K€

Co-Lead 2 K€

Co-Lead 3 K€

……….. K€

Partner 1 K€

Total K€

ADD MORE ROWS IF NECCESSARY

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The currency unit must be K€ for entire project duration

** if relevant, and add for total amount, not annual amounts

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