Deadline: June 20th, 2025
CALL SCOPE
The Indonesian Science Fund (Dana Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia, known as DIPI) is an independent funding institution established in 2016. Since then, DIPI has coordinated and managed many national and international research calls, as well as research project management collaboration with national and international funding agencies. In 2024, DIPI started a Small Research Grant scheme to provide funding for the best proposals submitted from early career researchers based on scientific excellence and/or technical merit. The scheme is particularly aimed to support Indonesia young scientists in starting their research careers.
DIPI recognizes that there is a need for a small research grant scheme to allow early career/young Indonesian researchers to pursue specific but critical aspects in expanding their research programs. The critical aspects such as: to obtain proof of preliminary concept to a new scientific endeavor, to seek the technology solution, to support graduate student research work as part of bigger research scheme, and to finalize of an otherwise successful research project.
The 2025 DIPI Small Research Grant Call aims to help young, talented researchers to gain more experience and research capability for their careers. DIPI invites young researchers who have the ambition and feasibility to submit their scientific proposals which demonstrate a ground-breaking nature. The scheme aims to support fundamental, frontier, technology solution and excellent research, including technology innovation, in the focus areas of the importance on future Indonesia sustainability.
The scheme provides grants to proposals in the research area of Medical and Health Science, such as in:
- Infectious diseases: pathology, socioeconomics, detection of variants, predicting viral evolution and trends in infection and severe disease, etc.
- Noncommunicable diseases: cardiovascular disease (such as heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma), diabetes, etc.
- Genomic: DNA sequencing, genetic data analysis.
The competitive research grant is for a duration of 1 year with a maximum grant of IDR 70 million. The grants will be offered to young/ early career Indonesian researchers (less than 5 years of experience as researchers) based in Indonesia, to pursue excellent scientific research projects.
The procedure for evaluating applicants’ qualifications emphasizes individual scientific ability and creativity, innovativeness of research approach, and potential of the project to have significant impact on the field.
The expected research results must be eligible either for publication in scientific journals, patents, proof of concept/prototype, new technology solutions, or social engineering models
Starting for proposal submission : April 21st, 2025
Deadline for submission : June 20th, 2025, at 5.00 PM Jakarta time (WIB)
For more information, please email to: info@dipi.id
WHO CAN APPLY?
Proposals may be submitted by researchers from legal RTD (Research and Technology Development) entities, such as:
- Universities
- Public Research and Development Institutions
- Private sector/ Non-Government Organization with R&D capabilities
- Companies/ industries with an R&D division
PI (Principal Investigator) of the proposal submitted:
- should be an Indonesian and based in Indonesia.
- should be a young researchers with a Master degree or candidate for PhD / Doctoral degree (on going advance study) supervised by senior researchers who a the PhD / Doctoral degree.
- who has an ongoing international research grant is preferable.
- may submit only one proposal for one period.
- should be affiliated with Indonesian RTD entities.
DIPI’s Small Research Grant scheme welcome:
- Fundamental research
- Research as part of PhD or Doctoral dissertation
- Innovation research (downstreaming fundamental research such as alpha or beta prototype, new technology solution, etc.)
- Work as part of an ongoing international research grant (to obtain more scientific or technological excellence)
APPLICATION PROCESS
Project proposals are to be submitted electronically to: researchgrant@dipi.id
Deadline for submission is 20th June 2025 at 17:00 Jakarta time
All proposals must be written in English.
TIMELINE:
| PROGRAM | TIME SCHEDULE |
| Launch of the Call for Proposals | 21 April 2025 |
| Deadline for proposal submission | 20 June 2025 |
| Eligibility check and appeal | 21 June – 10 July 2025 |
| Expert/online review | August – September 2025 |
| Scientific review | October 2025 |
| Announcement | October 2025 |
| Projects start date | November 2025 |
FORMAT PROPOSAL
Please ensure that the total number of pages (including the financial plan, references, and annexes) does not exceed 8 pages.
Please use arial font 12 and minimum 1.15 spacing.
1. Project data
Please select: Infectious diseases, Noncommunicable diseases, Genomic
Project title:
Project acronym:
Name/institution of Principal Investigator:
Name/institution of Supervisor:
2. Project description
- Describe the literature study and the research question clearly.
- Describe the scientific and technological objectives of the project as precisely as possible.
- Explain the novel character of the research proposed. Show how the project’s objectives aim at significant advances in the state-of-the-art through extending the current knowledge and/or filling the gaps identified (reason why the proposal needs to be funded).
3. Work plan including milestones (timetable)
- Describe the research project concerning the methodology; justify the method chosen to reach the objectives. Highlight the particular advantages of the methodology selected.
- Describe the type of activities that are implemented in the project.
4. Potential impact of results
- Describe the scientific excellence, economic value, or social impacts.
- Describe whether the project has any beneficial impact on society, in particular regarding societal challenges.
- Describe the management of intellectual property.
- What are the next steps?
5. Financial Plan
Type of costs:
- Personnel costs.
- Equipment and consumable costs.
- Travel costs.
- Other costs.
Please make sure that the total cost does not exceed Rp. 70 million.
6. Annexes
- CVs of PI and supervisor.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Indonesian Science Fund / DIPI
Mr. Adam Bakhtiar : adam.bakhtiar@dipi.id
