Announcement date: September 30, 2025
Deadline for Submission: October 15, 2025
Review Period: October 16 – 30, 2025
Notification of Awards: November 10, 2025
Overview
This MU-HU-NMBU-ICP-V Program Grant aims to support 16 PhD research projects on food systems conducted by MU staff PhD students, enrolled in MU or other Ethio. HEIs for their PhD dissertation projects.
Scope
The focus area of the proposal must be aligned with the themes and sub-themes of the MU-HU-NMBU-ICP-V program (refer to the attached document for the themes and sub-themes of the program).
Eligibility
- Applicants must be MU staff who are studying their PhD at MU or other Ethio. HEIs.
- The PhD student applicants should be in their 2nd year and above (at research work stage)
- The PhD students must submit proof of their class year from the registrar and proof of their proposal approval from their college/institute.
- All members of the team must have the MU researcher Profile, including ORCID iD and MU institutional email.
- The PhD research proposal must be within the scope of the food systems thematic area.
- Should present a clear plan to publish research results in peer-reviewed journals on an annual basis.
- Indicate other research result dissemination mechanisms (other than publication, optional).
- PhD students who are beginning their PhD research this year and have not yet selected their study sites must conduct their research in one of the two ICPV “LIVING LABs”, namely the “Des’a-HaikMes’hal-Giba catchment” and the “Guguf-Tsige’a catchment in Raya-Azebo”.
- Fulfill all other ICP V project evaluation criteria
Proposal Requirements
- Use the attached MU research proposal and CV format
- For each research member, provide the pertinent supporting letters listed at the bottom of the MU CV format (Annex A).
- Refer to the evaluation instrument attached here.
Budget
- Budget is ETB 112,000 (includes PhD student dissertation grant and advisor and co-advisor’s payment).
Submission Guidelines
- Proposals and supporting documents must be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word and PDF format.
- Please send your proposal via MU e-research using 10.10.200.5
Evaluation Criteria
Proposals will be evaluated based on the criteria above and following all the stages stipulated in the attached evaluation instrument.
Contact Information
- For any information or inquiries, please contact the ICP V Program Office at phone number/ WhatsApp # 0914708783 or RADO at phone number/ WhatsApp # 0914748538.
ICPV_Proposal_Call2025_Evaluation_Instruments_PhD_Dissertation_MU.pdf