Closed – 2025

Specific call for proposals – Academia Partnerships Africa-France – 3rd edition (PeA3) – 2025

The French National Research Agency (ANR) has launched the call for proposals for the 3rd edition of the Academia Partnerships Africa-France Programme (previously called Partnerships with African Higher Education). The PeA is financed by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) via l’Agence Française de Développement (AFD). The PeA is operated with the support of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR) by the ANR and by Campus France on the promotion of projects.

The programme supports, over a period of 4.5 years, projects led by French and African higher education and research institutions engaged in strategic partnerships to boost and sustainably implement higher education training programmes dispensed in Africa, targeting a priority sector for the socioeconomic development of the country or region.

The projects should promote, in a cross-cutting manner, the access, participation, and retention of women in the selected programmes.

This new edition is open to the following African countries: South Africa, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, and Togo. The call for proposals specifies the eligibility requirements.

As reminder, the opening of the file on the ANR platform must be carried out only by the French coordinating institution. The French coordinating institution then invites the other institution(s) of the consortium.

Webinar to present the call for proposals « Academia Partnerships Africa-France – 3rd edition (PeA3) »

Presentation of the PeA programme and PeA3 call for proposals presented on February 27, 2025

Open

Closed

Opening : 2024-11-19 at 09:00 CET

Limite de dépôt des projets : 2025-05-06 at 12:00 CEST

Pre-selection

Opening of proposal submission period: 19 November 2024
Proposal submission deadline: 06 May 2025 at 12:00 CET

Selection

Approximate date of formal interviews: Sept./Oct. 2025
Approximate date for publication of the results: November 2025

The selection process for the PeA3 call for proposals involves two phases: a pre-selection phase with the online submission of all documents, and a selection phase including a formal interview with applicant consortiums. The stages are detailed in the call for proposals text.

The proposal should be submitted via the ANR platform (link below) before the proposal submission deadline. It consists of:

a project proposal including a scientific document and two appendices (budget and letters of support);
and documents relating to AML-TF due diligence, as well as analysis of entity status.

Templates are available on this page, and in the appendices to the call for proposals.

Contact :

pea(at)agencerecherche.fr

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