New in:
1. Competitive Fund for Peace and Recovery, Innovations for Poverty Action (see link for eligible countries)
2. Call for Proposals, Biodiversa+ (see link for eligible countries)
3. Call for Applications, Fund for International Development, OPEC (see link for eligible countries)
4. Call for Applications, Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
5. Social and Economic Equity program, Atlantic Fellows
6. Call for Projects, UNEP (see link for eligible countries)
All currently open calls:
Grant-making opportunities
1. Call for Applications, For Women in Science
To identify and support women in science at each step of their careers throughout the world. This program is aimed at PhD or Post-doctoral candidates as well as Medical doctors doing research.
Award information: an award of EUR 15,000 and will participate in a training program specifically designed as a career booster
Deadline: Oct 7, 2021.
2. Call for Proposals, Research Environment Links, British Council (see link for eligible countries)
To provide financial support for capacity-strengthening and collaboration activities to develop and sustain medium to long term relationships proposed by applicant institutions in partner countries and the UK.
Funding information: grant up to GBP 50,000
Deadline: Oct 8, 2021.
3. Minor Foundation for Major Challenges Small and Large Grants, UNIFOR
To support communication projects which advance the transition to a low carbon economy. Supports projects that support urgent, large-scale transformation, with a focus on changing policies and practices in public or private institutions.
Funding information: smaller grants of up to EUR 10,000. Projects above EUR 10,000 – typically in the range of EUR 20,000 to 200,000, although larger projects may be considered.
Deadline: Oct 8, 2021.
4. Call for Proposals, AI for Information Security, Amazon Web Services
Funds academic research and related contributions to open-source projects by top academic researchers around the world. ARA aims to fund projects leading toward a PhD degree or conducted as a part of post-doctoral work.
Award information: selected principal investigators may receive, unrestricted funds no more than USD 80,000 on average, AWS promotional credits, no more than USD 20,000 on average, and more.
Deadline: Oct 8, 2021.
5. Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants, Max Weber Stiftung (see link for eligible countries)
Meant to improve the career opportunities for humanities and social science academics in their qualification phase.
Funding information: travel costs, daily rates between EUR 27.00 and 62.00 depending on the host country and lodging
Deadline: Oct 8, 2021.
6. Future Conservationist Grant, Conservation Leadership Program (see link for eligible countries)
Granted to teams of early-career conservationists who are conducting high-priority projects focused on protecting species listed as Data Deficient, Vulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Projects must take place in an eligible country, be led (or co-led) by a national of one of these countries, involve at least 3 people and last between 3-12 months.
Funding information: awards up to USD 15,000 each to develop leadership capacity of early- career conservationists who want to make a positive difference on the ground.
Deadline: Oct 11, 2021.
7. Inspiring Action: Annual Conservation Grants, Walt Disney Company (see link for eligible countries)
Awards grants to non-profit organizations leading comprehensive community conservation efforts and initiatives that protect species and habitats, and inspire kids and families to take action for wildlife and the planet.
Funding information: will consider requests for a maximum of USD 50,000 to be provided over a grant period of two years
Deadline: Oct 15, 2021.
8. Call for Proposals, European Commission (see link for eligible countries)
For the Advanced energy performance assessment and certification to support the transition towards a climate neutral building stock over the full life cycle, relying on technological innovations to improve speed and quality of as-built performance assessment and service life compliance checks, also linking to other instruments such as building logbooks, building renovation roadmaps, Level(s) and other datasets.
Deadline: Oct 19, 2021.
9. Activity Grant Program, Niwano Peace Foundation
NPF believes in the effectiveness of the 'intrinsic strength of the community' and 'problem solving through social experimental' methods. Calling for applications that challenge us to resolve divisions in society.
Funding information: grant amount which one applicant can apply will be up to JPY 1,000,000
Deadline: Oct 22, 2021.
10. Call for Project Proposals, Fondation Franklinia
To Support Conservation of Globally Threatened Trees to support nature conservation projects. Its objective is to preserve threatened tree species throughout the world and improve their conservation status.
Deadline: Oct 24, 2021.
11. New Call for Applications, Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
To provide targeted grants to individual species conservation initiatives, recognize leaders in the field and elevate the importance of species in the broader conservation debate. Its focus is global and eligibility for grants will extend to all plant, animal and fungi species conservation efforts, without discrimination on the basis of region or selected species.
Funding information: maximum grant size is USD 25,000
Deadline: Oct 31, 2021.
12. Call for Proposals for Human Security Awareness and Usage Programmes, United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security (see link for eligible countries)
Proposals focused on addressing the multidimensional challenges and advancing the SDGs in LDCs, LLDCs, SIDS, and the Sahel region. Where appropriate, proposals that link with existing initiatives or Funds and apply the human security approach will be considered favorably.
Funding information: For these programs, the total contribution from the UNTFHS should not exceed USD 300,000 for a period of 12-18 months.
Deadline: Oct 31, 2021.
13. Internet Freedom Fund, Open Technology Fund
To support projects and people working on open and accessible technology-focused projects that promote human rights, Internet freedom, open societies.
Funding information: min. of USD 10,000 and max. of USD 900,000 for a year-long contract. OTF’s target support ceiling is USD 300,000; most receive between USD 50,000 and USD 200,000.
Deadline: Nov 1, 2021.
14. New Competitive Fund for Peace and Recovery, Innovations for Poverty Action (see link for eligible countries)
To support field experiments and related research on reducing violence and fragility, promoting peace, and preventing, managing, and recovering from crises.
Funding information: awards are between USD 1,000 and 500,000
Deadline: Nov 8, 2021.
15. Call for Applications, Promoting Health Equity, Madiro
For projects enabling access to health care and promoting health equity to support relief of suffering initiatives related to health. These grants will fund organizations who work to meet the health needs of unserved or underserved communities around the world.
Funding information: offering one CAD 100,000 grant, one CAD 50,000 grant and one CAD 25,000 grant
Deadline: Nov 10, 2021.
16. Research-Practice Partnerships Grants, Spencer Foundation
To support education research projects that engage in collaborative and participatory partnerships. Open to partnerships between researchers and a broad array of practitioners.
Funding information: up to USD 400,000 and durations of up to three years
Deadline: Nov 10, 2021.
17. Call for Applications, Scientific Product Grant Program, Wildlife Acoustics
To support the advancement of animal biology research, habitat monitoring, and environmental conservation that provides scientists with resources to help further their research into the study of bats, birds, frogs, and other vocal wildlife.
Funding information: up to USD 5,000 available each quarter. If an application for less than this amount is awarded, then another application can also be awarded if total is of lesser or equal amount.
Deadline: Nov 15, 2021.
18. New Call for Proposals, Biodiversa+ (see link for eligible countries)
“Supporting biodiversity and ecosystem protection across land and sea”. An opportunity to advance knowledge and inform more effective and integrative biodiversity management by enhancing the scientific underpinnings of biodiversity and ecosystem protection.
Funding information: a total amount of ca. EUR 33 million has been provisionally reserved
Deadline: Nov 30, 2021.
19. New Call for Projects, UNEP (see link for eligible countries)
Public call for pilot projects on digitalization for flexible and resilient energy systems to step up global climate action and uptake of clean energy models.
Funding information: a maximum of EUR 1.800.000 (excluding co-funding).
Deadline: Nov 30, 2021.
20. Small Research Grants Program, Spencer Foundation
Aims to support education research projects that contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. Proposals must be for academic research projects that aim to study education. Proposals for activities other than research are not eligible (e.g., program evaluations, professional development, curriculum development, scholarships, capital projects).
Funding information: up to USD 50,000
Deadline: Dec 1, 2021.
21. Grants to improve Production and Distribution of Food and promote Public Health, The Conservation Food & Health Foundation (see link for eligible countries)
To protect natural resources, improve the production and distribution of food, and promote public health in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Funding information: avg. grant approx. USD 20,000. Grants exceeding USD 30,000 rarely awarded.
Deadline: Jan 1, 2022.
22. Call for Proposals for AU-EU Water Energy Food Nexus, European Commission (see link for eligible countries)
Proposal should develop and test models for decision makers and planners to implement energy infrastructures and energy supply in Africa which safeguard a systemic approach to the water-energy food nexus.
Funding information: check will normally be done for the coordinator if requested grant amount is equal to or greater than EUR 500 000, except for: public bodies or international organizations, or cases where individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60,000.
Deadline: Feb 23, 2022.
23. Call for Applications, Grant Program, Ekhaga Foundation
To promote human health by supporting the development of better food, natural medicines and healing practices, and to support research for a healthier way of life, which in itself may have a disease preventive effect.
Deadline: May 20, 2022.
24. New Call for Applications, Fund for International Development, OPEC (see link for eligible countries)
To provide financial assistance to developing countries, particularly low-income countries, in support of their economic and social development efforts.
Funding information: amounts of up to USD 100,000, OPEC Fund's contribution to a stand-alone project should not exceed 50% of the total cost of the said project
Deadline: Ongoing
25. Rapid Response Fund, Open Technology Fund
Aims to facilitate the digital emergency response community to resolve threats in a timely and comprehensive manner for individuals, communities, and organizations whose free expression has recently been repressed.
Funding information: total value of support cannot exceed USD 50,000. Average support amounts are between USD 5,000 and 25,000.
Deadline: ongoing
26. Fund for Innovation in Development Grant Program
A new initiative to support innovation that contributes to reducing global poverty and inequality. Through flexible grant funding, FID enables innovators and researchers to test new ideas, build rigorous evidence of what works, and scale the highest-impact and most cost- effective solutions.
Deadline: ongoing
27. Call for Proposals, Social Science Research Council
As part of the Just Tech program, seeks proposals from across the social sciences and related fields that address the risks, opportunities, and challenges posed by public health surveillance stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Funding information: awards will range from USD 5,000 to 10,000, with larger amounts directed to projects committed to research partnerships
Deadline: ongoing
28. Collaborate Pacific, New Zealand Foreign Affairs and Trade (see eligible Pacific countries)
Aims to support effective governance, leadership, regional cooperation, and sustainable development in the Pacific through support to one-off, small scale activities that tackle issues that matter to the region. Recognizes that partnership, capacity building, people-to-people links, and knowledge-sharing are critical to ownership of development processes.
Deadline: ongoing
29. Global Water Futures – Affiliate Projects
To deliver risk management solutions, informed by leading-edge water science and supported by innovative decision-making tools to manage water futures in Canada and other regions where global warming is changing landscapes, ecosystems, and water environments.
Deadline: There is no associated closing date with applications.
30. Call for Applications, Urgent Action Fund (Africa)
Urgent Action Fund-Africa is expanding its COVID-19 response towards supporting women, transgender and gender non-conforming defenders with disabilities to: develop and widely disseminate messages and information about the disease in disability friendly formats, simplify and/or translate complex COVID 19 information, and provide practical resources.
Funding information: up to USD 8,000
Deadline: applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.
31. COVID-19 Young Leaders Fund
Program is designed to support young leaders who are tackling the Covid-19 pandemic on the frontlines. Applicants should be focused on SDGs 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8. One Young World will prioritize initiatives which can use the funds to impact the maximum number of people to the greatest extent.
Funding information: One Young World recommends requesting between GBP 2,500 - GBP 10,000.
Deadline: Program is open on an ongoing basis.
32. Global Innovation Fund (GIF)
This program seeks to invest in social innovations that aim to improve the lives and opportunities of millions of people in the developing world. Open to funding innovations in any sector as long as they can demonstrate their innovation improves the lives of those living on less than USD 5 PPP per day.
Range: USD 50,000 – 15,000,000
Deadline: Program is open on an ongoing basis.
Fellowships and other opportunities
1. 2021 Japan-Nordic Joint Call for Strategic International Collaborative Research Program, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (see link for eligible countries)
The aim of this program is to contribute solutions to challenges facing world today and to bolster Japan’s scientific and technological capabilities through collaboration with a broad range of countries.
Funding information: JPY 7.69 million per year for each project
Deadline: Oct 7, 2021.
2. Call for Applications on Social Justice Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Fellowship to conduct scientific research on global sustainability, particularly in the areas of climate change, energy transitions, governance for sustainable development, democratic transformations.
Deadline: Oct 15, 2021.
3. Call for Applications for New Voices Fellowship, Aspen Institute
Recruits Fellows who are development experts in fields such as food security, global health, human rights, and climate change. For the 2022 class, special consideration to Fellows whose work focuses on COVID-19 relief, vaccine development, and pandemic resiliency. This is not a fellowship for journalists or others trained and working in communications.
Deadline: Oct 20, 2021.
4. Youth Innovation Challenge, Global Environmental Education Partnership
Gives young people around the world a chance to come up with innovative solutions to two pressing environmental and social issues: climate change and marine litter.
Benefits: GEEP will select 3 YIC winners from the 15 YIC finalists. Each winner will receive a USD 1,000 grant, in addition to an official certificate / recognition on GEEP communications channels.
Deadline: Oct 25, 2021.
5. Call for Applications, Community Solutions Program, IREX (see link for eligible countries)
A year-long professional leadership development program for people who are working to improve their communities by addressing issues related to the environment, peace and conflict resolution, transparency and accountability, and women and gender.
Deadline: Oct 27, 2021.
6. New Social and Economic Equity program, Atlantic Fellows
Fellowship based at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Transformative experience that emphasizes learning, connection and reflection.
Deadline: Jan 10, 2022.
7. Youth Innovation Challenge, MIT SOLVE
Whether your solution is a concept, a product that is being prototyped, a service that is being piloted in your local community, or a fully operational non-profit or for-profit organization, we want to hear from you.
Benefits: Over USD 200,000 is available in prize funding to share among selected Solv[ED] Innovators. In addition to prize funding, selected Solv[ED] Innovators will receive mentorship and coaching from members of the MIT and MIT Solve community.
Deadline: Jan 18, 2022.
8. International Climate Protection Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Program seeks to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs by fostering prospective leaders with their undertakings and projects to combat climate change, to develop and implement adaptation strategies, to preserve ecosystems and biodiversity and to foster the sustainable use of the oceans and seas.
Funding information: the monthly fellowship amount – depending on career stage – is EUR 2,170, EUR 2,470 or EUR 2,670 for fellows. This includes a mobility lump sum and a contribution towards health and liability insurance.
Deadline: Feb 1, 2022.
9. Children’s Rights and Technology in Digital Age MOOC, Global Campus of Human Rights
Takes a deep dive into how often children are exposed to the newest technological developments and, through a human rights approach, promotes a more ethical, human-centric, and accessible tech-infused future.
Deadline: Jul 31, 2022.
Each Chair will be provided up to USD 970,000 over a four-year period and tasked with executing a world-class research program able to contribute significantly towards building both the human capital and the scientific knowledgebase required to solve important climate change-related problems in Africa and beyond.
The application process will remain open until suitable candidates are identified.
11. Scholarship for Displaced Students, Columbia University
Supports displaced students from anywhere in the world who are unable to complete their higher education. These students will receive full tuition, housing, and living assistance while pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees across all 18 Columbia schools and affiliates. Scholarship aims to shift the global dialogue surrounding displaced persons, from one that views them as a burden to one that recognizes them as vital contributors to global innovation and prosperity.
12. Partnering for Change: Link Research to Societal Challenges, University of Basel
Course: How can we address societal challenges with research? Investigate the principles, processes, and uses of transdisciplinarity. Topics include: transdisciplinary projects on sustainable development, migration, and health.