The European Commission is pleased to announce that the programme BIOPAMA will launch the first call for proposals for small technical grants of up to 50 000 and up to 100 000 EUR in the framework of the BIOPAMA Action Component. The funding alert has been published on the BIOPAMA portal: https://action.biopama.org/small-technical-grants/ and the call will be open on 16 December 2019. An indicative amount allocated to this call is of EUR 2 million for six regions (West Africa, Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Caribbean, Pacific).