EMS CDC Emerging Regional Centres of Excellence Programme

About

Emerging Regional Centres of Excellence (ERCE) is a recognition awarded by the EMS CDC to centres of mathematics in the Global South that have achieved a substantial level of research activity and that play a key role in training students in their region, including students from less developed neighbouring areas. This recognition is granted for a period of 4 years (renewable). An important aspect is the training of students from the home country and neighbouring areas to Masters and PhD level.

The current ERCE centres are as follows.

• 2019-23: VIASM (Vietnam)
• 2022-25: AUST (Nigeria) I ZLAM (Senegal) I IMSP (Benin) I UCA (Morocco) I ITB (Indonesia) I INSPEM (Malaysia)
• 2023-27: LUMS (Pakistan) I UrSU (Uzbekistan)

Call for Applications: Emerging Regional Centre of Excellence ERCE 2025-2028

Details of the project and the application process can be found in this document.

How to apply: The application process will open on January 1st 2025 and will conclude on February 15th 2025.

• Register an account on Good Grants and log in.
• Browse the list of open calls in the Apply section and select Emerging Regional Centre of Excellence (ERCE) Label 2025-2028.
• Complete your application and submit it for review. You can edit your application after you have submitted it, up until the deadline.

Criteria

The list of criteria for ERCE recognition is as follows.

1. The centre is of good scientific standing in the region, collaborating with neighbouring regions.
2. It has a good track record both in mathematical sciences research and in pedagogy.
3. The centre has an international outlook.
4. The centre has good, reasonably guaranteed long-term prospects.
5. The centre admits and educates graduate students from less developed neighbouring regions, with infrastructure available to do so.
6. The centre awards degrees at the M.Sc., and ideally Ph.D. levels.
7. The centre is open to foreign visiting mathematicians for collaboration in mathematical sciences research and for delivering graduate courses.

Institutes matching all, or most, of these criteria are encouraged to apply.