The move by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund to attract major international research grants to Nigerian scholars has received a massive boost as the European Union has committed to provide 440,000 euros to support shortlisted research teams in the country under the Horizon Europe Project.
Tope Toogun, who heads TETFund’s team on the Horizon Europe programme, made this known on Thursday while briefing the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sunny Echono, on ongoing efforts to ensure Nigerian researchers’ participation in the globally renowned research project, according to a statement released on Friday in Abuja.
He lamented that despite the rich human resources in the country, researchers in Nigeria had before now taken the back seat in accessing grants for the EU Horizon project.
“It is embarrassing that Nigeria with all our intellectual capital, cannot participate in Horizon. The EU works in terms of a seven-year framework, the current one is Horizon…