South Africa

EUP OHAMR joint transnational call 2026: National rules and requirements for applicants from South Africa.

The information below of the national rules and requirements is only a summary. Please visit the national website and contact the national contact person for full details.

South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)

Eligible institutions

South African research institutions eligible as leading institutions include universities, science councils and other legally constituted institutions or organisations wherein research is one of the primary purposes for its existence. Other NGOs registered in South Africa may be eligible for funding, but they are not eligible as leading institution. Private companies (entities registered as private, for-profit companies in South Africa) are not eligible to apply as lead institutions for this Call for Proposals, but may be included as sub-contractors, in compliance with the lead institution’s procurement policies, if they provide a service or capability that is not available among the project partners but is essential for the completion of project deliverables. Alternatively, private entities can join the project as non-beneficiary partners.

Eligible experimental approaches and disciplines

The SAMRC cannot cover research teams working on social sciences for this call. The SAMRC can contribute towards pre-clinical and clinical trials, provided that partners ensure that any agreement concluded for commercialization of products arising from the research shall be made available and accessible at an affordable price to people most in need within developing countries, including the Republic of South Africa.

Eligibility criteria for the Principal Investigator

The investigator needs to be employed at an Eligible Institution (South African universities, science councils and other legally constituted institutions or organisations wherein research is one of the primary purposes for its existence), and must either be a South African citizen or permanent resident. Investigators may only submit one application each as the Principal Investigator, but may be involved in more that one application as a co-investigator.

Eligible costs

• Personnel: Individuals working on the project who are employed by or associated with the host institutions (e.g. principal and co-principal investigators, researchers, post-docs, students, technicians, project managers) may be funded, provided an accurate estimation of time allocation is provided and that time is not already funded from other means.
• Consultants: These may include both local and/or foreign consultants who provide a service or capability that is not available among the project partners but is essential for the completion of project deliverables.
• Supplies, consumables and other direct laboratory or research costs.
• Sub-contracts: These may be to any local or international organization that provides a service or capability that is not available among the project partners or other South African public institutions but is essential for the completion of project deliverables.
• Travel and accommodation that is directly related to the execution of the project.
• Institutional overhead: An indirect costs rate of 5% (up to a maximum of R250 000) is allowed for this call.
• Equipment: Partial or full support for the cost of equipment is generally allowed (capped at 10% of the total project budget) in special circumstances where such equipment is strictly required for the project and substantially motivated. Due to the limited funding available for this call, projects that already have the necessary equipment in place will be prioritized to maximize the impact of the funding.

Non-Allowable costs:

• Salaries of permanent or fixed term staff, e.g. tenured staff, professors etc., that are fully covered by the host institutions or other grants.
• Purchase or construction of a building.
• Rental costs for space that is owned by the institutions participating in the project.
• Recruitment or retrenchment costs for staff.
• Purchase of office furniture.

Submission of the proposal at the national level

Applicants do not need to submit a separate proposal to the SAMRC. At the full proposal stage, South African applicants may be required to submit their detailed budget on a separate SAMRC budget template.