Research funding

TWAS Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators (SG-NAPI) 2022
Applications are currently ongoing for the 2022/2023 TWAS Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators (SG-NAPI) 2022. UNESCO-TWAS launched a new program with the help of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to develop the capacity of African countries that are behind in science and technology. The initiative is geared at young […]
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Fulbright African Research Scholar (ARSP) Visiting Scholar Program 2023/24
The United States Mission in Ghana’s Public Affairs Section is happy to announce the annual call for applications for the Fulbright African Research Scholar Program (ARSP), also known as the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program, for the academic year 2023/2024. The Fulbright African Research Scholar Program (ARSP) is funded by the U.S. Department of State and […]
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Green Talents International Award for Young Researchers in Sustainable Development
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany invites applications from Young researchers for the 2022 Green Talents – International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development. Every year, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) hosts the prestigious Green Talents – International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development to promote the international exchange of […]
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Higher Education and the SDGs Challenge Grants
Applications are now open for the Higher Education and the SDGs Challenge Grants to fund collaborative work around the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The Higher Education and the SDGs Network is a forum for all university staff and students at ACU member universities who are directly engaging in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda. The […]
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Call for proposals: Solution-Oriented Research for Development (SOR4D) Programme
The SOR4D program invites researchers and development actors from policy and practice to collaborate in transnational and transdisciplinary consortia. The Solution-oriented Research for Development (SOR4D) program is a joint funding instrument between the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) that builds on experiences and lessons learned in […]
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Call for proposals: 2022 Privacy Enhancing Technologies (Meta Research)
Meta Research Calls for proposals from full-time faculty at an accredited academic institution that awards research degrees to PhD students for the 2022 Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Over the past few years, Meta research has established research award opportunities to support privacy-focused projects in academia. By integrating Privacy Enhancing Technologies into their products, they are building […]
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Seed Grants: 2022 Stanford Global Health Call for Proposals
Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health calls for proposals for its 2022 Seed Grants for Research projects that have strong potential to generate solutions and impact. The Stanford Global Health Seed Grant program encourages the development of innovative solutions to global health and planetary health challenges. It supports scientific and clinical research as well as […]
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Google Research Scholar Program for Early-Career Professors 2022
Google calls for applications from full-time faculty at universities around the world for its 2022 Research Scholar Program for Early-Career Professors. The Research Scholar Program aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google. It provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world and is focused on […]
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ACU Early Career Researcher Training Grants
Applications are open for the second round of the Association of Commonwealth University (ACU) Early Career Researcher (ECR) Training Grants. The grants are available to fund staff at the Association of Commonwealth University (ACU) member universities to organize and deliver training for their early career researchers, including doctoral candidates. The ECRT will equip researchers with essential skills […]
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Lacuna Fund: Machine Learning Datasets for Languages in Sub-Saharan Africa-2021
Lacuna Fund seeks Expressions of Interest (EOI) from organizations interested in developing training and evaluation datasets for African languages. Lacuna Fund helps data scientists, researchers, and social entrepreneurs create new labeled datasets to address an underserved community or problem, enrich existing datasets to make them more representative, or update old datasets to make them more […]
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