The Directorate of Grants Management is calling for proposals for the Tertiary Education Trust Fund-supported FUNAAB Research Grants (FRG) for 2015. The Director of Grants Management, Professor Kolawole Adebayo, said the offer, which was University-based, was meant to challenge FUNAAB academics at embarking on aggressive, cutting-edge research, because FRG was committed to encouraging multi-disciplinary research through the award of between N1million and N1.5million cash-in-aid.

The research grants is open to academic staff in the University, with the exception of those currently leading TETFund-supported grant. Also, such research should be multi-disciplinary, relevant to the tripartite mandate of the University, have national focus, address global challenges, have concept notes that should be pre-reviewed by the College Review Committees before submitting to the Directorate, have the Report Review Committee from the College Principal Investigator attached, and cutting across two or more Colleges. Other eligibility factors include having evidence of previous research conducted and stating previous grants won.

Meanwhile, members of staff that belong to the College Review Committees are not eligible to apply in the year of their service on the committee because a staff is not allowed to be a member of more than two research teams, while principal investigators of one team cannot also serve on other research teams. Deadline for the submission of proposal is Friday, July 3, 2015.