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Institutional Support
 Curriculum review: Under this programme, ATPS initiates platforms or creates an environment under which both the content and delivery of science and technology curriculum in formal institutions of learning are enhanced. National chapters monitor the curriculum content of science and technology programmes in the polytechnics and relate that to skills demand in the industry. The introduction of a new curriculum is also a form of curriculum review. Facilitating dialogues by creating a forum or platform for the exchange of views and expectations between industry and institutions is another way in which this objective can be pursued. By improving the curriculum, the possible mismatch between what is taught in polytechnics and the labor-market skill requirements is mitigated.
Thesis Grants: ATPS seeks to support the development of science and technology curriculum in institutions of higher learning by awarding grants to students working on their thesis. A related benefit is building relationships that support the continuous flow of researchers into the network and thus promote capacity building to support quality research on science and technology policy.
Thesis Supervision Grants: This is an initiative to promote the development of quality science and technology education and hence build capacity in this field. It consists of providing honoraria to encourage academics to provide quality supervision of thesis in the area of science and technology. In making these awards, ATPS considers regional balance, having regard to institutions that have demonstrated strong interest in institutionalizing science and technology policy studies in their curriculum. With regard to the role of gender balance in the awards, ATPS considers further, the long-run need to increase and sustain in institutions of higher learning, as well as the pool of female scientists with supervisory capacity.
Institution Small Grants: ATPS offers library and miscellaneous equipment support to science and technology institutions including universities. Although concerned with being regionally representative in the distribution of these grants, ATPS will give considerably more weighting to certain qualifying science and technology institutions. These are those that proactively seek to promote sciences and therefore could act as role models, or those that are otherwise of strategic importance to ATPS such as institutions in countries where the network seeks to take root.
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