The overall success rate of the 10h APPEAR call for all instruments was around 20%. All applicants have been informed about the outcome. The 10th call was open from 1 March to 31 May 2023. After several months of evaluation, the APPEAR Selection Board, chaired by the Austrian Development Agency, met at the end of November to discuss the submitted project and scholarship applications. After a presentation of the projects by the APPEAR Office, each project that met the formal requirements and was positively reviewed, was discussed, and evaluated based on the APPEAR criteria, including the guiding principles and added values. In a competitive process, 6 Academic Partnership project applications were finally selected with a total funding volume of about EUR 2 Mio.
In addition, 5 Preparatory Funding projects (out of 12 applications) were selected after evaluation by all members of the selection committee. The success rate for the Preparatory Funding projects was 42% and for the Academic Partnership projects 15%. The contracts for the selected projects and the Preparatory Funding projects are currently being processed. The selected projects will start their activities in January 2024 at the earliest.
In addition, 2 female and 4 male scholarship holders from Ethiopia and Uganda were selected from 12 fellowship applications (with a success rate of 50%).
The 11th APPEAR call is expected to open for project submissions on March 1, 2024.