{"id":909,"date":"2025-09-08T07:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eos.co.id\/2025\/?p=909"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:01:46","slug":"searca-launches-seed-fund-for-research-and-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eos.co.id\/2025\/searca-launches-seed-fund-for-research-and-training\/","title":{"rendered":"SEARCA launches Seed Fund for Research and Training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Southeast Asia is home to many researchers and scientists whose work contribute to sustaining transformation of Southeast Asian agricultural systems through innovation is often stalled by limited start-up funding, which hinders the translation of promising research and training into scientific outputs that could be applied to promote agricultural development. SEARCA&#8217;s Seed Fund for Research and Training (SFRT) aims to bridge this gap. Grants of up to USD 15,000 will help worthy proposals secure long-term support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"objectives\">Objectives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Provide start-up funds to Southeast Asian researchers and scientists who can make significant contributions to the development of the region but lack the funds to carry out their projects.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Build grantees&#8217; capacity to develop research proposals and manage projects.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expand SEARCA&#8217;s reach in terms of research, capacity building, and contributions to regional agricultural and rural development (ARD) knowledge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"eligibility\">Eligibility Guidelines<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All proponents must:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presentation of research results in at least one scientific forum\/conference, whenever possible<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be a Southeast Asian national with at least a four-year degree and limited research start-up funds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Priority 1:<\/strong>\u00a0SEARCA alumni,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uc.searca.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University Consortium<\/a>\u00a0faculty\/staff, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.searca.org\/ida\">SEARCA IDA<\/a>\u00a0participants<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Priority 2:<\/strong>\u00a0Staff of government or nonprofit development agencies, and agricultural university faculty outside the Consortium<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former SFRT grantees may re-apply if their previous grant concluded more than two years prior to their new application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Propose a project that will strategically contribute to any of the following outcomes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Increased farmers&#8217; income<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Improved food security and nutrition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greater climate resilience of agricultural systems<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Empowered farmers, farmer groups, and agricultural stakeholders and their institutions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Submit a project proposal that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is an innovative concept accompanied by an appropriate plan for developing it into a potentially large-scale research\/training program greatly relevant to the ARD needs of the region<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can be completed in one year or less<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shows a detailed plan for securing long-term funding<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Has high potential to attract significant follow-on support<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Specifies a strategy for disseminating results and policy recommendations to various stakeholders in appropriate modes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Submit the following as part of the project outputs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least one policy brief (following the prescribed format)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Final research report that can be published as a technical paper, as determined by the technical reviewer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.searca.org\/sfrt\">https:\/\/www.searca.org\/sfrt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southeast Asia is home to many researchers and scientists whose work contribute to sustaining transformation of Southeast Asian agricultural systems through innovation is often stalled by limited start-up funding, which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knowledge-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eos.co.id\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eos.co.id\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eos.co.id\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eos.co.id\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eos.co.id\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eos.co.id\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/www.eos.co.id\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eos.co.id\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eos.co.id\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eos.co.id\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}