As part of the gender strategy, IFS provides additional support for women to minimise the barriers many encounter when accessing resources. This year, IFS provided personalised support for women invited to apply in the 2023-S grant call. Applicants were supported by a group of expert facilitators through an online chat forum and in an online workshop.
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The IFS 1000 STEM Women Workshop was held over the 11-12 August, 2022.
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IFS is once again partnering with Dr Ramesh Laungani, Chair of the Science Department, at Poly Prep Country Day School and founder of the 1000 STEM Women project - a global video library created by women working in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM).
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As IFS celebrates 50 years of supporting early-career researchers in the GlobalSouth we are proud to share with everyone some exciting news from one of our former grantees, Professor Ogbaji Igoli of Nigeria, who recently sent us this message.
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For International Women’s Day on the 8th of March, IFS highlights 8 outstanding scientists leading the way in solving local, regional, and global challenges.
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Less than 30% of the world´s researchers are women. In many countries this percentage is even lower. Women in science, role models for future generations, suffer from the lack of representation and visibility. In 2020, IFS created the IFS Women in Science Community - a space for our researchers that identify as women to come together, share their thoughts, discuss & network with each other.
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On the 26 November, 2021, IFS brought together 20 women from 14 different countries in Africa and Asia in the IFS Women in Science workshop for 2021 grantees. It was a highly interactive online workshop where participants had an opportunity to connect with each other and share ideas on how to activate the IFS Women in Science Community.
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Colleagues in Belgium, Finland, France, Indonesia, Kenya, Netherlands, Philippines, Spain, Sweden, United States and Vietnam gathered virtually on 29 October 2021 for an Awarding Ceremony and Inception Meeting to recognize the eight awardees of the IFS-SEARCA Advanced Grant and to introduce their mentors.
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On the 24th of September, IFS celebrated the accomplishment of 65 grantees who successfully obtained the highly competitive IFS research grant in 2021. A welcoming ceremony was held online and a diverse group of grantees from all over the world joined in live to celebrate. IFS grantees were calling in from Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zambia.
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The IFS Workshop on Designing Online Training Events: Preparing a Research Budget has started! It is running on the 17, 20, 24, and 27 of August. This unique online workshop uses blended learning - a mix of synchronous and asynchronous activities – to train participants over a 2-week period, in the skills needed to design and deliver an online event as well as the scientific skills needed to prepare a research budget.
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The IFS Workshop on Designing Online Training Events: Preparing a Research Budget has started! It is running on the 17, 20, 24, and 27 of August. This unique online workshop uses blended learning - a mix of synchronous and asynchronous activities – to train participants over a 2-week period, in the skills needed to design and deliver an online event as well as the scientific skills needed to prepare a research budget.
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We’re excited to share the release of our IFS Annual Report 2020.
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In conjunction with Earth Day on 22 April 2021, the Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) and Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand, co-organized an international webinar entitled Collaborative Research: Estimating Net Ecosystem Production in Tropical Forests of Malaysia and Thailand.
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The IFS 1000 STEM Women workshop brought together 23 IFS women grantees from Africa, Asia and Latin America to develop their science communication skills in an interactive workshop co-organised by IFS and Professor Ramesh Laungani from Doane University.
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IFS grantees from 7 different countries in Africa and Asia were given the opportunity to present their research findings at an international online workshop co-organised with IFS and one of its partners, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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On 26 November 2020, a signing ceremony for a new Memorandum of Agreement took place between colleagues from IFS and Philippines-based SEARCA, the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture. Our two organisations will be collaborating again on a Mentorship Program for Advanced Grants, which presents IFS with an opportunity to try out this grant scheme in our new Strategy 2021-2030.
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IFS actively engages with strategic partner organisations whose values and goals intersect with those of IFS. Below are some exciting upcoming events with IFS partners that we have lined up for the next few weeks.
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IFS strives to open different opportunities for the many women we support, and have supported in the past, to demonstrate their engagement in science globally and increase their visibility, but also to share their passion and inspire the next generation of scientists.
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We are pleased to share with you the IFS annual report 2019. The report describes significant progress and outcomes as we continue to deliver on our purpose – to support early career researchers to enhance their scientific capacity. We ended 2019 stronger and better able to perform our usual activities, along with the year-plus development of a new strategy.
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Taking the opportunity of an official visit in Benin, Prof Patrick Van Damme, Head of the Laboratory of Tropical Agriculture and Ethnobotany, Plant Production Department, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, and Professor of Tropical Agroforestry and Ethnobotany, Czech University of Life Sciences, and also Executive Chair of the IFS Board of Trustees, delivered seminars in two national universities of Benin.
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Launching of the International Foundation for Science (IFS) Nigerian Alumni Association.
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Sri Lankan Academy of Young Scientist (SLAYS) is under the umbrella of the Global Young Scientist. SLAYS is a multi-disciplinary team of young scientists and professionals who believe that young scientists in Sri Lanka should play a key role in producing research for impact and safeguarding the quality of research now and in the future. The annual SLAYS Conference held in Colombo provides a common platform that unifies young scientists spread out across the country with the intention of promoting and uplifting research culture and sharing best approaches for gainful and impactful research. Therefore, SLAYS shares key values with IFS and our mission.
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Participants including IFS Trustees, former and current grantees, experts in research funding, scientific advisory committee (SAC) members, and the IFS secretariat came from all over the globe to the Czech University of Life Science in Prague, Czech Republic, to discuss the development of the next 10-year strategy for 2021-2030.
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We’re excited to share the release of our 2018 annual report! The report highlights some salient features and activities of the IFS during the year 2018.
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IFS engages deeply with a select group of organizations in a Strategic Partnerships with the aim to support early-career scientists in developing countries and to enable them to establish themselves as scientists able to contribute in solving pressing societal challenges.
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International Foundation For Science (IFS) celebrates the International Day of Forests 2019.
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It is with great delight that we welcome Jennifer Sjölund to IFS, marking what we hope will be the beginning of mutually beneficial relationships among us all. We selected Jennifer from a field of candidates because of her outstanding attributes, and we are confident that she will deliver.
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International Foundation For Science (IFS) is in Asia visiting strategic partners.
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International Foundation For Science (IFS) will participate in the 1st WASAG INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON WATER SCARCITY IN AGRICULTURE “Leaving no one behind” to be held on 19th -22nd March 2019, Praia, Cabo Verde.
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International Foundation For Science (IFS) will jointly organize the 6th NRCT-IFS-PERCH-CIC Workshops held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from the 19th - 24th Feb 2019.
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Dear Friend of IFS, It is with great appreciation for our grantees, scientific advisers, trustees, partners, funders and staff, that I share with you the IFS Annual Report 2017.
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To diversify and increase IFS´s funding base, Louise will be working in close collaboration with IFS Director Nighisty Ghezae, selected IFS Board and Scientific Advisory Committee members and IFS alumni networks. In addition to strengthening the relationship with current and past IFS core and project funders, Louise will work with donations and major gifts, crowd funding and private sector collaboration.
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On this World Water Day, IFS renews its commitment to finding scientific solutions for the various water challenges around the planet and to ensuring that the world never loses sight of the goal of ending global water crises. More than two billion people lack access to safe drinking water and more than double that number live in unsafe sanitary conditions. With our rapidly growing population, global demand for water is expected to increase by nearly one-third by 2050. In the face of accelerated consumption, increasing environmental degradation, and the multi-faceted impacts of climate change, we clearly need new ways to manage competing demands on our precious freshwater resources.
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IFS is committed to promoting the participation and roles of women and girls in science, taking an approach that addresses the importance of gender-sensitive training and research. It aims to incorporate a gender perspective into research objectives, methodology, results and use, as well as a consideration of the gender impacts of research.
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IFS joined others around the world to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February. The capacity enhancing program of IFS addresses the importance of gender-sensitive training and research. It aims to incorporate a gender perspective into research objectives, methodology, results and use, as well as a consideration of the gender impacts of research. As such, the approach goes beyond only involving women in training and research.
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International Foundation For Science (IFS) in partnership with BecA-ILRI, as part of the ABCF program, is holding a hands-on training workshop this week and the next on scientific research paper writing and science communication (communicating science to non-experts). The workshop is being hosted at the BecA-ILRI Hub, a shared agricultural biosciences platform located at and managed by ILRI in Nairobi, Kenya
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International Foundation For Science (IFS) will participate in the upcoming EPH conference workshop on ‘Planetary Health in Practice’on 1st November 2017. The conference will be in Stockholm, Sweden.
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International Foundation For Science (IFS) participated in an event encompassing solutions-oriented workshops and plenum sessions organized by Uppsala Health Summit.
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International Foundation For Science (IFS) was invited by University of Agder(UIA) to deliver a keynote speech on research cooperation with the South
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Jointly IFS and OPCW since 1998, have sought to provide support to a number of research projects through a long-term cooperation agreement. Towards the same efforts of collaboration, IFS, and OPCW, have also organized joint regional workshops to summarise the success of the funded research and to advance knowledge transfer and cooperation in specific fields of chemistry.
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International Foundation For Science (IFS) is co-organizing the conference mentioned above together with Rights and resources initiative (RRI), Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency(SIDA), Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI), and Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). The conference will be in Stockholm, Sweden.
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International Foundation For Science (IFS) in partnership with Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) as part of the Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund (ABCF) program will hold a hands-on training workshops on scientific research paper writing and science communication (communicating science to non-experts).
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International Foundation For Science (IFS) in partnership with Swedish Water House (SIWI) will lead a conference session “Water in Transforming Landscapes”on 21st September 2017, within; "AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE - 2017".
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IFS participated in the World Water Week meeting organized by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) several sessions of the above event and moderated the session entitled “Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Legal Frameworks for Community Freshwater Rights.”
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International Foundation For Science (IFS) advertises COMSTECH awards for the year 2017
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The IFS team is looking for a Fundraiser who will be responsible for seeking financial support for IFS from public sources such as bilateral and international development organizations and international and national research institutions and from private sources such as private foundations and international and national corporations including crowd-funding and such alternative fundraising methods.
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International Foundation For Science (IFS) co-organized the above training workshop held in Tunisia, from 15th - 20th May 2017
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In its ongoing strategic efforts to collaborate with like-minded institutions, IFS is now a partner in the Global Framework on Water Scarcity (GFWS), and joined the Partners Meeting held from 19-20 April 2017 at the FAO Headquarters in Rome. The key results of the meeting were: Rome Statement issued to demonstrate commitment and inspire partners of the Global Framework to address jointly water scarcity in agriculture in a changing climate, 14-member Interim Steering Committee established, Chair and Vice-Chair elected, Vision, mission and broad objectives agreed, and Elements of Joint Workplan developed.
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The week of March 5th through 10th brought distinguished organizations and committed young scientists from around the world to the University of Dar es Salaam Business School for the postgraduate course “Science and Leadership for Transforming Institutions”. Instituted by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences as part of the Sida funded ENGAGE Programme—ENGendering AGrbusiness and Entrepreneurship, the two week course was aimed at helping PhD students advance in their fields and develop leadership skills to solve global development challenges. IFS was invited to partner with SLU and RUFORUM (Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture) in offering a course to help students build competencies to enable them to transform their institutions.
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IFS, the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT), Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, and the Center of Excellence for Innovation in Chemistry (PERCH-CIC) will jointly organize the 5th NRCT-IFS-MU-PERCH-CIC Workshop at Wangchan Riverview, Phitsanulok Province, Thailand. The aim of the workshop is to provide young scientists with scientific methodologies and new research trends in natural products, pharmaceutical sciences and related disciplines, as well as agricultural sciences. It is expected that approximately 50 participants from countries including Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Taiwan and Thailand will be attending the workshop and contributing oral and poster presentations. The program will also include invited lectures and a panel discussion.
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In collaboration with the University of Limpopo Research Office, IFS is organising two consecutive grant proposal writing workshops. Their purposes are to enable early-career researchers to build their capabilities to apply for research funds from international funding organisations. The training will focus on the principles of scientific investigation, the components of the scientific method, and research practices. Under the guidance of senior researchers and experienced grant writers, participants will have the opportunity to apply the scientific method approach with their own research projects. They will also be advised on the formulation of research proposals to address the funding criteria of international organisations.
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A collaborative research workshop on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation was held 30 August-1 September 2016 in the Philippines. The workshop was jointly organized by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and IFS.
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IFS met with researchers and other stakeholders at the Collaborative Research Conference hosted by the African Academy of Sciences in February, 2016. A new IFS Briefing document, Conference Proceedings and a video are now available by following this news item.
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In February 2016, the 4th NRCT (National Research Council of Thailand) - IFS Collaborative Research workshop, in Natural Products and Agricultural Sciences, was held in Luang Prabang, Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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What do the twelve alphabetized words in this list have in common: biodiversity, birds, disease, feed, fish, food, forest, insects, nanoparticles, plants, soil, weeds? They were all topics of projects being talked about at the Collaborative Research Conference held at the African Academy of Sciences.
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The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and the International Foundation for Science (IFS) have been in discussions throughout 2015. This has culminated in an agreement to co-host the next IFS collaborative research pilot. Expressions of interest will be sought in due course from five countries in SE Asia.
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The Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that Dr Nighisty Ghezae is to be appointed as the new Director of IFS from October 1st 2015. Dr Ghezae will take over from the current Director, Dr Graham Haylor, who has, inter alia, led the successful development, launch and implementation of a 10-year strategic plan 2011-20 for IFS. He is leaving to take up a new position in the UK.
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On 20-21 August, 2015, IFS hosted a Consultative Meeting on Scientific Equipment Policy together with our long-standing partner the African Academy of Sciences near Nairobi. This is one of the concluding activities in the current phase of a MacArthur Foundation-funded project. In addition to colleagues from AAS and IFS, the 42 participants included representatives of academies of sciences and research institutes in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa; ANAFE; BecA; CEMASTEA; icipe; IOCD; KNEC, NACOSTI, the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, several universities, institutes and education organizations in Kenya; NEPAD agencies; Seeding Labs; UNESCO; and IFS alumni from six African countries. The meeting’s purpose was to raise Pan-African awareness of how the identification and resolution of scientific equipment issues are critical for scientific development in Africa, and to identify national and regional channels to share learned experiences and to influence policy on scientific equipment.
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IFS has signed new Memorandum of Understanding with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe). The new agreement streamlines the way the two organisations aim to support and complement each other to build the capability of early-career scientists in Africa through training as well as opportunities for conducting individual and collaborative research.
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IFS has signed new Memorandum of Understanding with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The new agreement streamlines the way the two organisations choose projects in support of the peaceful use of chemistry and expands the scope of OPCW support to IFS.
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The second ’Carolina Mac Gillavry - IFS Collaborative Research Award’ recognizes the top ranked application to the 2014 IFS call for collaborative research. The award goes to Team InvAfrica comprising: Mr Oludare Oladipo AGBOOLA, Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria, Dr Palesa Natasha MOTHAPO, Stellenbosch University South Africa, Ms Betty NALIKKA, Makerere University Uganda, Dr Marie-Solange TIÉBRÉ University Félix Houphouët-Boigny Côte d'Ivoire and Mr Biplang Godwill YADOK A.P.L.O.R.I, University of Jos Nigeria.
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Using our social networking platform, after months of painstaking work, and following a detailed assessment of all proposals, a second cohort of IFS collaborative research team projects were awarded research grants this week. This time the topic of the call was Biodiversity.
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The 45th Board of Trustees meeting in November 2014 decided to give its current Director Graham Haylor, a second mandate to lead IFS towards delivering the 2011-2020 Strategy.
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Dr Richard Hall of IFS was invited by Tropentag 2014 to deliver a keynote address. He talked about, amongst other related issues, how applied researchers might interact with relevant stakeholders to maximise the chances of their research generating useful outcomes.
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This week Sida has extended its support to IFS through a new grant agreement. IFS is uniquely qualified and experienced to help to build the capability and careers of young researchers, and to help to boost least developed scientific infrastructures.
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IFS and AAS with MacArthur support have undertaken Country Studies and National Scientific Equipment Policy Workshops in Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya, reviewing effectiveness of science equipment policies of key organisations and mapping the national and regional research and policy landscape.
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Neglected species (NUS) offer niche markets and incomes for farmers, better nutrition, and options for climate change adaptation. In an IFS project funded by the EU, stakeholders in Africa will develop value chain upgrading of two promising crops, Bambara groundnut and amaranth. This will also involve training, developing agricultural education curricula and informing policy makers.
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At a meeting of IFS grantees, former grantees and advisers held at the ICIPE Duduville campus in Nairobi, Kenya on 13-14 February, the IFS Alumni Association of Kenya (IFSAAK) was officially launched, bringing the number of active IFS Alumni Associations now to six.
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IFS has again received a large response to our call for Individual Research Grant applications. The call, which closed on January 31, attracted 1170 first grant applications along with 41 renewal grant applications and 16 revisions to previously submitted proposals.
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On the 110th anniversary of the birth of Carolina MacGillavry, the Dutch crystallography scientist, the first ’Carolina MacGillavry - IFS Collaborative Research Award’ recognizes the top ranked application to the 2013 IFS call for collaborative research. The award goes to Team Ximenia comprising: Aliyu Dabai (Nigeria); Mary-Magdalene Pedavoah (Ghana); Ojale Usman (Nigeria); Taiwo Aderinola (Nigeria) and Neill Goosen (South Africa).
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IFS begins collaborative project to strengthen capacities and inform policies for developing value chains of neglected and underutilized crops in Africa
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The International Foundation for Science held a series of eight Scientific Advisory Committee meetings, along with a workshop on the assessment of proposals within the new IFS strategy, at the African Academy of Sciences from 25 May through 2 June 2013 in Nairobi. The meetings and workshop involved many SAC members, IFS Trustees, Management, Scientific Coordinators and Administrators.
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At a recent meeting of the Beninese IFS Alumni Association (BIAA) held at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, a new board was elected. The outgoing President, Prof Joseph Hounhouigan, chaired the meeting and welcomed his successor Dr Achille Assogbadjo.
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IFS contributed to an international conference ‘Tertiary Education as a Key for Africa’s Development’ on 6th May, 2013 in Milan, Italy, organised by the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) in conjunction with the Edu Foundation.
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IFS and its partners, CTA, FARA, ANAFE, RUFORUM, NPCA, AGRA are pleased to announce the top 20 finalists of the 3rd Africa-wide women and young professionals science competitions.
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IFS has received a record number of applications for individual research grants following the recently closed call.... [Click to read more]
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Excitement builds as around 40 research teams prepare to submit their IFS Collaborative Research Approach proposals, on which they have now been working for many weeks.
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With the support of the Carnegie Corporation, IFS has launched a pilot project of its Collaborative Research Programme.
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This programme gives institutions or research groups in developing countries the opportunity to host world leaders in science to boost capacity building in their country. Application deadline 1st October.
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The semi-finalists for the 3rd Africa-wide Women in Science and Young Professionals in Science competitions have been selected at a meeting at FARA in Ghana.
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The Women in Science and the Young Professionals in Science Competitions received 131 and 185 abstract submissions respectively. Fifty semi-finalists will be selected in July.
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We are delighted to report that Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) has agreed to provide further core funding for IFS.
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IFS is participating in the EU-funded Sunray project, to review the past 10 years' research as well as constraints, priorities and agendas regarding nutrition research in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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3rd Africa-Wide Women & Young Professionals in Science Competition
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PRISM Partnership proposed to sustain new approach to equipment procurement
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IFS and IRD (L'Institute de recherche pour le développement) hosted a workshop on how to write scientific projects in environmental science, Tam Dao, Vietnam, 5-9 December 2011
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IFS has just concluded a 2-day conference (5-6 October, 2011) discussing the implementation of the new 10-year Strategy.
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The IFS research grant application process is now re-opened after being closed for a period during which IFS undertook an envisioning process.
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Today IFS signed a contract with KaiganTBK, a Stockholm web/media company, to produce a new website.
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IFS has launched a pilot project (the IFS Community) aimed at facilitating communication and collaboration between its grantees, former grantees, advicers, staff etc.
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The IFS Board of Trustees has appointed Dr Graham Haylor as Director of IFS, to succeed Dr Michael Ståhl who retired in September this year.
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