28RFP Education Research Funding Program (ERFP)

The 28th Request for Proposals under the Education Research Funding Program (28RFP ERFP) is now open for application. This is the 5th grant call that is open to PIs outside NIE and in IHLs like NTU. We cordially invite you to collaborate with CRADLE if you are interested to apply.

The ERFP guidelines (particularly, the Administrative Guidelines for ERFP Applicants) , are available at https://nie.edu.sg/research/apply-for-grants/nie-education-research-funding-programme. Interested NTU Applicants are to first submit your IOI to CRADLE by Monday, 14 March 2022, along with Document #3 embedded in “28RFP ERFP Guidelines and Application Package (IHL)” for the EOI.

Grant Call Timelines

Some points to take note:

1. This is a general grant call focusing on broad areas under MOE priority research foci and NIE OER 4^th Tranche Research Programmes.
2. The ERFP and MOE TRF have distinct objectives; the same proposal should NOT be submitted to both schemes.
3. Specific requirements for Programmatic proposals
1. A Co-Lead PI is mandatory for the overall proposal.
2. For each sub-project within a programmatic proposal, it is compulsory to have a Project Co-PI who is from the same IHL as the Project PI.
3. Please see Page 18 of the ‘28RFP ERFP Administrative Guidelines.pdf’ for the structure of a programmatic proposal.
4. No additional sub-projects can be added after proposal submission; emphasis on how sub-projects is linked and/or work together for greater synergy
5. 20% overhead must be included as part of the budget request.