A core component of the APN, the Individual Research Fellowship (IRF) program is a vehicle for enhancing the quality and visibility of independent African peacebuilding research both regionally and globally, while making peacebuilding knowledge accessible to key policymakers, practitioners, and research centers of excellence in Africa and around the world.
This RFP focuses on the topic areas listed below. Under each of the topic areas, we provide examples of innovations we would like to see, but innovators are also encouraged to propose their own ideas related to these topics.
Topic Areas:
The Stanford Internet Observatory, with support from the Omidyar Network, is pleased to announce the launch of a pilot program to support researchers studying issues of online trust and safety in the majority world. The pilot program will fund 6-10 proposals broadly studying issues associated with online safety outside of the North American or Western European context.
ARDF's Annual Open grant program was established to fund research projects that develop alternative methods to advance science and replace or reduce animal use. Proposals are welcome from any nonprofit educational or research institution worldwide, although there is a preference for U.S. applications in order to more quickly advance alternatives here.
The overall goal of this initiative is to support the mentored training of a sustainable critical mass of bioethics scholars in low and middle-income country (LMIC) research intensive institutions with the capabilities to conduct original empirical or conceptual ethics research that addresses challenging issues in health research and research policy in these countries as well as provide research ethics leadership to their institutions, governments and international research organizations. FIC will support LMIC-U.S.
ACU Commonwealth Climate Resilience Challenge Grants are awarded to member universities to support initiatives addressing climate resilience.
Open to academic and professional staff, the grants support collaborative work focused on either of the two main strategic priorities of the Commonwealth Climate Resilience Network (CCRN):
This call aims to support validation of biological, psychological, social or digital markers to enable stratification in anxiety and/or depression as early as possible. Stratification will allow targeted treatment and ensure that the right people get the right treatment at the right time.
URL: https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/mental-health-award-finding-right-treatment-right-people-right-time-anxiety
Funder: Welcome
Deadline: June 7, 2023
The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change visible across a wide range of physical and mental health outcomes in order to drive urgent climate policy and practice change at scale. This scheme will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects, combining evidence generation with communications and/or public engagement.
Funder: Welcome
URL: https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/climate-impacts-awards
Deadline: April 13, 2023
Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) provides grant funding to innovators and researchers to test new ideas, take strategic risks, build evidence of what works, and advance the best solutions.
The University of Nairobi (Kenya) and the University of Johannesburg (South Africa), with funding from the Research and Innovation Systems in Africa (RISA) Fund, will award short-term mini-grants for teams in Kenya and South Africa from eligible higher education, research and innovation institutions to develop Emerging Digital Technology-based (EDT-based) applications that are driven by big data analytics for socio-economic development. Mini-Grants shall range from US$5,000-US$8,000, plus access to a development sandbox.
