Funding News & Opportunities No. 16 of 2023

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)

URL: https://www.myresearchconnect.com/british-academy-oda-international-interdisciplinary-research-projects/

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

URL:https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-hamdan-prize-teacher-development-call-nominations-and-applications-now-open

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

URL: https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/generating-evidence-decision-making-use-oral-cholera-vaccine

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

URL: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/call-entries-future-designer-international-innovation-design-awards-iida-science-sdgs-innovation

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

URL: https://get.informaconnect.com/glsp-scholarship/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SeedingLabs&org=1545&lvl=100&ite=1403&lea=83800&ctr=0&par=1

Deadline: October 2023

 Title: 2024-2025 Cullman Center Fellowship

Funder: The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers

URL: https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/fellowships-institutes/center-for-scholars-and-writers/fellowships-at-the-cullman-center

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

URL: https://www.africaresearchexcellencefund.org.uk/news/open-funding-up-to-47000-research-development-fellowships-2023-24

Deadline: 14th September 2023

 Please contact our office if you need any assistance in the preparation of your proposals.