Applications Invited for Seeding Labs Instrumental Access

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About the Organization

We’re building a more equitable world where development is locally led.

Seeding Labs is an award-winning nonprofit that has spent the last 15 years working to overcome a major barrier to global development: the extreme concentration of scientific capacity in just a handful of countries.

Our mission: To increase access to resources for science in developing countries.

About the Grant

From disease epidemics to climate change and food shortages, science has the power to solve problems and advance development objectives. But scientists in the countries that are most impacted have the least access to the resources they need to discover, innovate, teach, and learn.

Since 2008, Seeding Labs has provided scientific institutions in developing countries with access to modern lab equipment and supplies through our flagship program, Instrumental Access.

Through Instrumental Access, Seeding Labs supports strong, sustainable scientific institutions with the capacity to support scientific discoveries and train a modern workforce ready to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.

How it works –

• Throughout the year, Seeding Labs solicits donations of surplus laboratory equipment and supplies from our network of 200+ equipment donors. These donors include equipment manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and many other types of organizations. Donations are received, inventoried, checked for quality, and stored at our warehouse near Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.
• After they are accepted to the program, Instrumental Access awardees have an opportunity to “shop” in our available inventory during a specific 3-week period to choose the items that will comprise their shipment. Awardees use our online shopping portal to select enough equipment to fill a small (20-foot) shipping container.
• Awardees pay a fee that helps to offset a portion of the program’s operating costs. We invoice for the service fee at the beginning of the shopping period, with payment due when we have agreed on the contents of the shipment.
• Just before and during the shopping period, we work closely with awardees to ensure that the shipment paperwork is in order and that we’ve provided all the information they need to navigate their country’s customs and import regulations.
• As soon as we receive the program fee, we pack the items into a container and ship them (at our expense) to the nearest ocean port to in the awardee’s institution.
• Upon arrival at the port, awardees are responsible for clearing the container through customs and arranging for ground transportation from the port to their campus. After that, it’s up to the awardee to use and maintain the equipment.

Eligibility

• Institution type: Applicants must be one of three types of institutions:
• Colleges, Universities, Polytecnics, or other degree-granting institutions of tertiary education
• University-affiliated research institutes
• Public research institutes that are actively engaged in research training

If you are a college or university, we typically partner with a single academic department, as this is the scale at which the program is designed to meet equipment needs.

However, we will consider working with other sub-units (such as a school or college, two collaborating departments, or a central lab facility) on a case-by-case basis.

Individuals, lab groups, and research projects are not eligible to apply on their own.

Hospitals, clinics, primary and secondary schools, for-profit companies, and NGOs not of the types listed above are not eligible.

• Geography: Applicant institutions must be located in an eligible country.
• Lower-Income Bracket: $27,800
• Higher-Income Bracket: $35,100

Equipment needs: Applicants should need a broad and diverse set of equipment and supplies in our inventory (for more information, please see About Our Inventory below).In practice, what this means is that we are typically a good fit for departments of biology, chemistry, and applied sciences using these techniques, like biomedicine, agricultural sciences, environmental sciences, and closely related fields of engineering.

We do not have appropriate equipment for departments of physics, computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, business, or the humanities.

If your institution is primarily looking for just one or two very specific items, the program will not be a good fit. We’re looking for awardees who need what we can supply: a 20-foot shipping container full of equipment and supplies. In addition, the more specialized your needs, the less likely it is that we will have on hand exactly what you need when it’s your turn to select.

Ability to meet program requirements: Applicants must be able and willing to meet all program requirements, including ability to pay the program fee.

How to Apply

Application process:

• Fill out the written application
• Selected applicants will be contacted for an interview
• Finalists will be offered acceptance

You can submit your application at any time, but these are the upcoming dates when applications will be reviewed: 16 August 2024

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