The following new funding opportunities have been added to the funding Opportunities Portal. Please contact our office if you need any assistance in the preparation of your proposals. Also, note that some of the opportunities have very tight deadlines.
Opportunities are available for:
1. Research and Innovation Grants
2. Awards
3. Fellowships and Scholarships
1. RESEARCH AND INNOVATION GRANTS
Thematic Area: Multi-Disciplinary
Title: ERC Starting grants call
Funder: European Commission
URL: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/africa/news/erc-starting-grants-call
Deadline: 24 October 2023
Title: New grants programme: High Impact Interventions – Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRDs)
Funder: Burdett Trust for nursing
URL: https://www.btfn.org.uk/new-grants-programme-high-impact-interventions-chronic-respiratory-diseases/
Deadline: 30 September 2023
Title: Mozilla Foundation Data Futures Lab – Infrastructure Fund
Funder: Mozilla Foundation
URL: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/data-futures-lab/grantmaking/infrastructure-fund/
Deadline: August 31, 2023 (Letter of Intent)
Title: Emily’s Entourage Collaborative Grants
Funder: Emily’s Entourage
URL: https://www.emilysentourage.org/collaborative-grants/
Deadline: September 15, 2023 (Letter of Intent)
Title: Responsible AI UK international partnerships
Funder: UKRI
URL: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/responsible-ai-uk-international-partnerships/
Deadline: 14 September 2023
Title: SPRIND Funke Challenge: Tissue Engineering
Funder: SPRIND – German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation
URL: https://www.myresearchconnect.com/sprind-funke-challenge-tissue-engineering/
Deadline: September 30, 2023
Title: British Academy – ODA International Interdisciplinary Research Projects
Funder: British Academy (BA)
Deadline: November 1, 2023
Thematic Area: Agriculture
Title: CLIFF-GRADS Fellowship Programmed
Funder: Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA)
URL: https://globalresearchalliance.org/n/cliff-grads-fellowships-open-for-applications/
Deadline: 28 August 2023
Thematic Area: Earth & Climate Science
Title: Wildlife Tracking Equipment Grant Programme
Funder: Holohil Systems Limited
URL: https://www.holohil.com/grant-program/
Deadline: 15th October 2023
Thematic Area: Education
Title: Call for Nominations: Hamdan Prize for Teacher Development 2023
Funder: UNESCO
Deadline: October 31, 2023
Thematic Area: Health
Title: Alcohol Health Services Research (R34 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funder: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
URL: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-23-252.html
Submission date: September 16, 2023
Title: Personal Health Informatics for Delivering Actionable Insights to Individuals (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funder: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
URL: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-23-245.html
Deadline: September 05, 2023
Title: Generating evidence for decision-making on the use of the oral cholera vaccine
Funder: Wellcome Trust
Deadline: September 30, 2023
Title: 3rd Share4Rare open call for patient driven Research Projects
Funder: Sant Joan Deu Research Foundation
URL: https://www.sjdrecerca.org/es/fundacion/
Deadline: 30th September 2023
Title: Precision Mental Health: Develop Tools to Inform Treatment Selection in Depression (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funder: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
URL: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-24-120.html
Deadline: September 18, 2023
Title: Hearing Restoration Research Program: Focused Research Award (worldwide)
Funder: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
URL: https://www.scientifyresearch.org/grant/hearing-restoration-research-award-worldwide/
Deadline: Pre-Application Submission Deadline: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time (ET), August 15, 2023. Application Submission Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET, September 1, 2023.
Title: Melanoma Research Program: Focused Program Award – Rare Melanomas (worldwide)
Funder: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
URL: https://www.scientifyresearch.org/grant/rare-melanoma-research-award-worldwide/
Deadline: Pre-Application Submission Deadline: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time (ET), August 31, 2023. Application Submission Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET, September 22, 2023.
Title: MOMENTUM (Moving Integrated, Quality Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Services, Voluntary Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Care [MNCH/FP/RH] to Scale)
Funder: USAID
URL: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=kenya
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Title: Advancing Methods for Safe, Noninvasive, Real Time Assessment of Placenta Development and Function across Pregnancy (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funder: National Institute of Health
URL: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-22-236.html
Deadline: October 16, 2023
Title: Grand Opportunity in Medications Development for Substance-Use Disorders (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funder: National Institute of Health
URL: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-22-202.html
Deadline: Rolling basis upto September 1, 2025
Thematic Area: Arts & Social Sciences
Title: Call for Applications: Africa Science Journalism Awards (ASJA)
Funder: Science For Africa Foundation
URL: https://scienceforafrica.foundation/funding
Deadline: Thursday, August 31, 2023
Title: The Einstein Starting Researcher programme
Funder: The Einstein Foundation Berlin
URL: https://www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/programmes/einstein-starting-researcher/
Deadline: November 15, 2023
Title: Invitation to tender - Measurement of social and cultural infrastructure
Funder: The British Academy
URL: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/measurement-of-social-and-cultural-infrastructure/
Deadline: September 20, 2023 - 17:00 BST
Title: T-AP call on Democracy, Governance and Trust
Funder: Trans- Atlantic Platform
URL: https://www.transatlanticplatform.com/activities/democracy-governance-trust/
Deadline: September 15 2023
Title: ESRC working with Luxembourg researchers
Funder: UKRI
URL: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/esrc-working-with-luxembourg-researchers/
Deadline: 28 September 2023 4:00pm UK time
Title: U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation Grants Program
Funder: Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
URL: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=kenya
Deadline: Oct 19, 2023
Thematic Area: Engineering, Physical Sciences
2. AWARDS
Title: Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge 2023
Funder: Social Shifters
URL: https://challenge.socialshifters.co/
Deadline: August 20, 2023
Title: Millenium Technology Prize
Funder: Technology Academy, Finland
URL: https://millenniumprize.org/prize/make-a-nomination/
Deadline: October 31 2023.
3. SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIP
Title: University of Oslo, in collaboration with Aarhus University PhD fellowship, related to the Anthropology of Human Security in Africa
Funder: British International Research Institutes
URL: https://biea.ac.uk/call-for-applications-phd-research-fellowship/
Deadline: 1st October 2023
Title: Marbach Fellowships
Funder: Federal Republic of Germany
URL: https://www.dla-marbach.de/en/research/the-marbach-fellowship-programs/
Deadline: September 30, 2023
Title: Future Designer International Innovation Design Awards & Science for SDGs Innovation Contest
Funder: UNESCO-UNITRAIN
Deadline: September 30, 2023
Title: Agropolis Fondation launches Call for International Mobility
Funder: The Agropolis Foundation
URL: https://www.agropolis-fondation.fr/Appel-a-mobilites-internationales
Deadline: September 8, 2023
Title: Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Sustainable Development
Funder: The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
URL: https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/sponsorship-programmes/georg-forster-research-fellowship
Deadline: October 2023
Title: The African Graduate Fellowship at The American University in Cairo
Funder: American University in Cairo
URL: https://www.aucegypt.edu/admissions/fellowships/listings/african-graduate
Deadline: 15th October 2023
Title: Global Learning Scholarship Program (GLSP)
Funder: Informer Connect
Deadline: October 2023
Title: 2024-2025 Cullman Center Fellowship
Funder: The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
Deadline: 29th September 2023
Title: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023
Funder: European Commission (EU)
URL: https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships-2023
Deadline: 13th September 2023
Title: Open Funding: Research Development Fellowship 2023/24
Funder: The Africa Research Excellence Fund –AREF
Deadline: 14th September 2023
Please contact our office if you need any assistance in the preparation of your proposals.
