Research and Innovation

Call for Applications: BIEA Annual Thematic Research Grants

The BIEA invites applications for funding for original research projects in any discipline in the humanities and social sciences in eastern Africa and beyond. Projects that fall outside of these disciplinary areas are not considered (for example, we do not fund projects in STEM subjects). We particularly welcome applications from researchers or research teams who have limited access to other sources of funds.

Understanding the impacts of and the opportunities offered by digital transformation, new emerging technologies, and social innovation on biodiversity

In this Horizon Europe funding, outcomes should be formulated in such a way that enables their potential users (policy makers, institutions, businesses, engineers, civil society) to understand and concretely apply them, including for monitoring, accounting and reporting purposes.

CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institutes 2023: Call for Interested Centers and Institutes

Since 2012, the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has advanced multiple forms of international, collaborative research designed to foster new knowledge and new networks. Building upon the first phase of this project (2012-2017), in which 26 member centers and institutes contributed to four distinct projects, and with the support of a new grant from the Andrew W.

PhD Candidates in Social Policy: Horowitz Foundation Grants

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy was established in 1997 by Irving Louis Horowitz and Mary E. Curtis Horowitz as a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Its general purpose is to support the advancement of research and understanding in major fields of the social sciences. Its specific purpose is to provide funding to aspiring PhDs in support of research that is innovative and addresses urgent social policy issues.

Call for Application for PhD Thesis Research Grant Support 2021/2022

The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) was established in 1988 as a public not-for-profit organization devoted to the advancement of economic policy research and training in Africa. The Consortium’s mandate and strategic intent is built on the basis that sustained development in sub-Saharan Africa requires well-trained, locally based professional economists. AERC agitates the provision of capacity building in economic policy in Francophone and Anglophone African countries through provision of support in the areas of policy research and graduate training.

Open Call for Research Proposals

The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) has been supporting early career and senior researchers for nearly four decades to undertake original and cutting-edge research pertaining to Africa’s development challenges. Many of its researchers benefited from the research grant and unique mentoring by internationally renowned Resource Persons.

Sustainable Landscapes Broad Agency Announcement

This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeks opportunities to co-create, co-design, co-invest, and collaborate in the research, development, piloting, and scaling of innovative interventions for reducing land-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increasing long-term carbon sequestration at scale. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) invites organizations, companies, foundations, community-based enterprises and other public and private entities, academic and research institutions, partner co

Scaling Sustainability and Resilience of Community Conservancies in Northern Rangelands and Coastal Ecosystems of Kenya program

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking concept paper applications for an assistance type of award mechanism from qualified entities to implement the Scaling Sustainability and Resilience of Community Conservancies in Northern Rangelands and Coastal Ecosystems of Kenya program. Eligibility for this award is not restricted.