The R&D department at NTRA has led the efforts to encourage innovations in the telecommunications sector in Egypt through funding high quality applied research projects. The funded projects should adopt prototypes as a final deliverable.

The call is open for the interval from November 7th to December 31th, 2021 12 midnight.

The guidelines and the overall process of the call are explained in the following file: 

Proposed areas of research are listed in the following file:

The NTRA supports research in the wired/wireless telecommunications, emergent technologies, and other relevant fields. If you are not sure whether the NTRA fund covers the topic of your proposal, you can contact the R&D department (rd.projects@tra.gov.eg) attaching the title and abstract of the project, even before writing the proposal (Use the abstract template).

Research team must use the following proposed template for writing the project proposal:

Research teams need to fill in and submit the following budget file template:

The evaluation sheet includes a list of the evaluation criteria:

For any questions, contact the NTRA R&D department at  rd.projects@tra.gov.eg.