The IMU Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) supports mathematics in developing countries through grants, capacity building and global partnerships
Please ensure that you carefully go through all the requirements listed below before sending your application.
1. The applicant has to hold a valid doctoral degree (PhD) in mathematics.
2. The African applicant must be based (place of work) in an African developing country for the list of eligible countries please click here.
The IMU – Simons African Fellowship Program supported research sabbaticals for mathematicians from African developing countries employed in Africa to travel to an internationally known mathematical center of excellence (worldwide) for collaborative research. All travel and living expenses of the grantees were covered by the fellowship up to 5,000 USD.
This program has been fully funded between 2017 and 2023 by the Simons Foundation, NY, USA, a private foundation based in New York City, incorporated in 1994 by Jim and Marilyn Simons.
Please note that this program is now closed.
The Individual Travel Research Program supported mathematicians from developing countries to travel to a mathematical institution (worldwide) for collaborative research (minimum stay of four weeks). The reaserch visit had to be tied to a specific research project/plan and a collaborating institute.
The grant covered travel costs of the grantees for up to 5,000 Euro (accommodation and local living expenses for the first month).
THIS PROGRAM IS CLOSED. The program offered research travel fellowships during 2014-2017.
If you are looking for research travel fellowships, please go to:
The IMU-CDC offers two distinguished programs designed to support research visits. These programs enable mathematicians based in developing countries to foster and sustain international collaborations by visiting esteemed research institutions worldwide. The two programs available are:
IMU Simons Research Fellowship Program for Developing Countries - Funded by the Simons Foundation (USA)
The following conferences were selected in 2015 for a conference grant.
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Iranian mathematics Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal since its inception in 1936, died Friday, July 14. Her receipt of the Fields Medal three years ago ended a long wait for women in the mathematics community for the prize, first established in 1936.
The winner of the 2017 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries is Eduardo Teixeira of the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. The prize is in recognition of Teixeira's outstanding work in Analysis and Partial Differential Equations.
On June 2017 another CDC graduate scholarship program was launched, aimed at students listed as Priority 1 and 2 countries among the developing countries listed on the CDC website.