CCG INSIGHT NEWSLETTER
Available funding opportunities:
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Programme: UNICEF
Objective:
UNICEF calls for proposals by non-government organizations and civil society organizations that contribute to the following objectives:
1) raise awareness of the right to social protection, why it matters to all of us and what it means in practice
2) explore the lived experiences and perceptions of citizens regarding the value and limitations of social protection benefits, with a specific focus on women and girls, youth, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized and disadvantaged groups
3) gain a deeper understanding of existing barriers to accessing social protection benefits (such as limited awareness, administrative barriers, and so on);
4) summarize recommendations by communities to build inclusive social protection systems.
Eligible Activities:
Actions must take place in Sri Lanka.
Eligible Applicants:
Partners must have existing presence in the proposed geographical area.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 01/03/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.unpartnerportal.org/api/public/export/projects/16706/
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Programme: Al Madad Foundation
Objective:
Their objective is to support civil society institutions in delivering creative and innovative solutions to problems facing refugee children in the Middle East and Europe who have been affected by the Syria Crisis. A broad range of initiatives will be considered, but preference will be given to applications that fall under the following themes:
· Innovative and sustainable approaches to make education (particularly non-formal education) safe, accessible and resilient in emergencies.
· Identification and introduction of wellbeing schemes into existing bodies and structures supporting refugee and displaced children.
· Identification of gaps in the existing systems of support of unaccompanied refugee children and addressing these needs.
Eligible Activities:
The Strategic Priorities are:
· Bridging the educational gap for out-of-school refugee children with alternative programmes to prepare them to successfully reintegrate into mainstream school
· Supporting the development of tailored educational settings to empower displaced and refugee children in host communities through the means of education.
· Effecting change in the lives of displaced and refugee children through the means of artistic expression and specialist artistic intervention
· Promoting understanding of heritage and cultural activities to help displaced and refugee children preserve the connection with their communities
· Supporting holistic approaches to wellbeing to help emancipate the most vulnerable and eliminate as many of their immediate needs as possible.
Their focus region is the Middle East (especially Lebanon) as well as selected countries in Europe.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible applicants must: Be a registered charity in the country in which they are headquartered; Individuals who wish to apply can only do so in conjunction with a registered organisation (e.g. an academic researcher might apply with the backing of their university); Be able to meet reporting requirements; Have a Child Protection Policy in place that conforms to the laws of the country in which they operate and a clear methodology that demonstrates that it is appropriately and consistently applied.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 04/03/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: Citi Foundation
Objective:
The Citi Foundation is requesting proposals for the Global Innovation Challenge to accelerate Youth Employability.
The innovative solutions could include, but are not limited to:
Technical and vocational training programs that upskill or reskill low-income youth and move them into employment, which could include paid internships, apprenticeships or formal employment.
Entrepreneurship programming that specifically focuses on the incubation or scaling of youth-led enterprises to increase job creation and access to self-generated income.
Efforts to embed financial education programming into workforce development initiatives equipping low-income youth with financial skills and access to safe and affordable financials tools.
Eligible Activities:
Funding Information
The Foundation plans to award grants of $500,000 (USD) payable over two years to 50 community organizations working in select communities where Citi has a presence.
Geographic Focus
Africa
Algeria, Cameroon, Côte D’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia
Asia Pacific
Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam
Europe
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, Ukraine and United Kingdom
Middle East
Bahrain, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates
Latin America & the Caribbean
Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago and Uruguay
North America
Canada, Mexico and select U.S. states and territories: California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Applicant organizations must be registered as nonprofit entities under local law. For example, for U.S. entities, applicants need to be tax-exempt public charities as per Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
They invite proposals from community organizations developing innovative employment solutions for low-income youth primarily between the ages of 15 and 24.
Applicants must be able to submit their most recent externally audited financial statements, including auditor’s notes, covering some part of calendar year 2023 or a subsequent year.
Applicant’s proposed program must align with the Foundation’s mission of supporting low-income communities as defined by local standards and definitions.
Applicant’s proposed program must impact one or more of the target geographies.
Total Budget: $500,000
Deadline: 04/03/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.citigroup.com/global/foundation/apply-for-funding
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Programme: Japanese Embassy Jordan
Objective:
The Government of Japan has various programs under its Official Development Assistance (ODA) that meets the diverse needs of developing countries. One of the ODA schemes, the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) supports small-scale projects directly benefiting the grassroots level as well as contributing to the socio-economic development of developing countries.
Eligible Activities:
In Jordan, GGP was launched in 1990 and as of Jan 2025, 159 projects have been implemented by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), educational institutions, and other nonprofit organizations. Now they started to accept the applications for GGP for the first half year of 2025.
Actions must take place in Jordan.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are: NGOs (or Nonprofit Organizations) legally registered under Jordanian authorities; Municipalities financially independent from Jordanian central government; Continuous activities for more than 2 years in Jordan; Implementing economic and social development projects to serve local communities in Jordan.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 06/03/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.jordan.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/11_000001_01396.html
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Programme: UNDP
Objective:
With the support of the European Union (EU), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announces a public call for civil society organizations (CSOs) in Serbia to submit proposals for projects contributing to reconciliation, dialogues about the recent past and raising public awareness about the crimes from the 1990s.
Eligible Activities:
The proposed projects should contribute to fact-based dialogue about the conflicts from the 1990s in the region and the recent past, reconciliation within society and between ethnic groups, especially through the engagement of youth, raising public awareness of war crimes and trials, educational programmes on transitional justice, research and memorialization, and other related activities.
Actions must take place in Serbia.
Eligible Applicants:
The call is open for CSOs registered in Serbia that deal with transitional justice, reconciliation, inter-ethnic and other social dialogue, protection of human rights, and memorialization. These may include victims’ associations, non-governmental academic, research, or educational institutions, CSOs engaged in cultural development, non-governmental museums, and other non-governmental memorialization institutions, as well as non-governmental sports associations and clubs.
Total budget: €100,000
Deadline: 07/03/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: Canadian High Commission
Objective:
The Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) supports small and short-term projects in the Pacific in cooperation with international, national and local non-governmental organizations, as well as other regional and international organizations. local. The CFLI focuses on funding projects with long-term, sustainable goals that enrich the local community. Beneficiary organizations are expected to contribute financially or otherwise. This program is widely recognized as significantly contributing to the real development and potential of the region.
Eligible Activities:
All projects must align with at least 1 of the following CFLI thematic priorities:
· Inclusive governance, including diversity and 2SLGBTQI+, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
· Growth that works for everyone, including women’s economic rights, decent jobs and entrepreneurship, investing in the poorest and most vulnerable, and safeguarding economic gains.
· Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
· Human dignity, covering health, education and nutrition.
· Environment and climate action focusing on adaptation and mitigation, as well as on water management.
Actions must take place in Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are: (1) local non-governmental, non-profit and community organisations; (2) local educational institutions working on local projects; (3) international, intergovernmental, multilateral and regional institutions, organisations and agencies working on local development activities; (4) governmental institutions or agencies at the municipal, regional or national level of the recipient’s country that are working on local projects; and (5) Canadian non-governmental and non-profit organisations working on local development activities.
Total Budget: CAD100,000
Deadline: 09/03/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate
Objective:
The Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate (GCBC) is seeking concept note for projects that address either one (or both) of the third Research Grant Competition (RGC3) themes.
Following the assessment of Concept Notes, the successful applicants from this first round will be invited to submit full Proposals for their proposed projects which address the RGC3 themes. Proposals will need to address poverty alleviation, Gender and Social Inclusion, and climate resilience, focusing on approaches that better value, protect, restore and sustainably manage biodiversity.
Eligible Activities:
RGC3 Themes
The two RGC3 themes set out below were announced in December 2024:
Theme 1: Using biodiversity to improve the climate resilience of agricultural, food and bioeconomy value chains
Transforming agrifood systems at scale to incorporate nature-based solutions that build biodiversity back into production landscapes to boost climate resilience and reduce poverty (open to all GCBC focus regions).
Theme 2: Biodiversity hotspots in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Building sustainable businesses from nature to adapt to climate change, protect biodiversity and tackle poverty (focused on SIDS).
Within the two themes, the GCBC aims to fund a balanced portfolio of projects which collectively:
Develop innovative nature-based solutions: Working with communities, businesses (including micro-SMEs) and Indigenous peoples to develop and experimentally test new approaches to managing terrestrial, freshwater or coastal ecosystems. For example, research to underpin nature-positive business models, novel forest management approaches or innovative farming systems that improve outcomes for local communities while boosting biodiversity and improving climate resilience for people and nature.
Apply systems approaches to inform large-scale transformative change: Research looking at the wider socio-ecological context for change, including novel policy interventions at local, sub-national or national scale. They encourage approaches that explore the factors, processes and worldviews that hold socio-ecological systems in unhelpful or unsustainable states to find new ways of intervening at scale. Innovation is needed in developing systemic interventions: identifying specific leverage points to reconfigure socioecological systems, making nature-based solutions the preferred option. For example, exploring novel markets or incentives, or improving access to data and knowledge, or applying systems frameworks to quantify multiple interacting outcomes taking into account interdependencies and feedback loops.
Funding Information
Grants must not exceed a total value of £1m and be of a minimum value of £100k.
Note: the start date is dependent on the signing of the GFA by the successful applicants.
GCBC will consider project concept notes that range between 12- 36 months.
Eligible Projects
They aim to fund a mixed portfolio of up to twenty grants covering a range of topics and geographies across both themes. Grants sums of between £100,000 and £1 million are offered for projects of 12-36 months duration. To be accepted for funding under the GCBC programme projects must demonstrate:
Fit to GCBC: All proposals need to address poverty alleviation and climate resilience, focusing on approaches that better value, protect, restore and sustainably manage biodiversity.
Fit to theme: Proposals must address research questions within one of the themes set out above.
GESI: All proposals must incorporate clear plans to factor in gender, equality and social inclusion from the outset.
R&D: Proposed work must meet the definition of research and development: creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge – including knowledge of humankind, culture and society – and to devise new applications of available knowledge (OECD, 2015).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Geographic focus:
Any proposed offer must be from, or include as a Partner in a consortium, an Organisation from an ODA-eligible country in the target geographic areas. A UK-based Partner or a presence in the UK is not essential.
GCBC will accept applications for projects with activities in ODAeligible countries in Latin America (including Central America), the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South-east Asia and the Pacific and Small Island Developing States.
Delivery Partner/Organisation eligibility:
Applications are encouraged from many different types of potential Delivery Partners, both local and international, including, but not limited to:
non-government organisations,
civil society organisations,
multilateral organisations,
social development organisations,
academic institutions,
private sector partners.
Funding can also be awarded to parastatal organisations if the proposed activities are not receiving funding from other governments. UN bodies are eligible under the same terms and conditions as other applicants.
Applicants must not be under any debarment or exclusion due to professional or fiduciary malpractice.
Any proposed activities must be eligible for ODA funding (the primary purpose being to promote the economic development and welfare of developing countries).
Any proposed offer from a consortium should be headed by a single Lead Delivery Partner. Prospective Lead Delivery Partners will lead and submit applications on behalf of all members of their consortium.
Applications for project concept(s) must be:
led by an Organisation with offices in an ODA eligible country, or
led by an Organisation which forms part of a consortium with Organisations that have an office in an ODA eligible country or countries.
The GCBC encourages applications from the Lead Delivery Partners/Organisations based in the target ODA-eligible country. New and equitable partnerships involving local project Partners are also encouraged.
Private sector Partners may be consortia members, but are ineligible to receive grant funds for profit, or act as consortia Lead Delivery Partners.
PhD Students are not eligible for funding under this grant competition.
Total Budget: £1,000,000 per project
Deadline: 16/03/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: The Royal Society
Objective:
The Newton International Fellowship programme provides support for outstanding early career researchers to make a first step towards developing an independent research career through gaining experience across international borders.
The fellowships will enable researchers to access expertise, gain new perspectives and build long-lasting collaborative relationships. The fellowship provides two years of funding to attract international early career researchers to establish and conduct their research in a UK host organisation.
Eligible Activities:
Aim
The overarching aim of the Newton International Fellowship programme is to attract and retain emerging talent in the UK and build a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
Objectives
The objectives are to:
Attract talented International early career researchers to establish and conduct their research in the UK;
Support early career researchers to pursue high-quality and innovative lines of research;
Provide opportunities to acquire new skills and knowledge through training and career development;
Foster long-term relationships through networking opportunities and the Newton International Fellowships alumni programme.
Focus Areas
Research must be within the Royal Society’s remit of natural sciences, which includes but is not limited to: biological research, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have a PhD or be in the final stage of their PhD provided that it will be completed (including viva) before the start date of the fellowship. Confirmation of award of the PhD will be required before any fellowship award is confirmed.
Applicants should have no more than seven years active full-time postdoctoral experience at the time of application, including teaching experience, time spent in industry on research, honorary positions and/or visiting researcher positions. Career breaks must be clearly detailed and explained in the application.
Applicants should be working outside the UK and should not hold UK citizenship at the time of application.
Applicants who are not currently employed are still eligible.
Applications from individuals who have not studied or worked in the UK previously are encouraged as the scheme aims to establish new links between the Applicant and the UK.
Individuals who have lived, worked or undertaken research in the UK in the 12 months prior to the application deadline are not eligible to apply, with the exception of short-term visits of less than three months in total and Applicants who are refugees in the UK according to the Geneva Convention.
Applicants who completed their PhD at a UK organisation must have been working and based outside the UK for at least one year at the deadline for the application.
Applicants proposing to return to their UK-based PhD organisation and/or PhD supervisor or to their postdoctoral supervisor will normally be considered to be ineligible and so Applicants must have exceptional reasons for proposing to do so. A justification for returning will be required in the application form, typically the Panel will require appropriate scientific justification for the return.
Proposed Fellowships must be carried out in the UK at the UK host organisation for the duration of the Fellowship.
Applicants must be competent in oral and written English. The Applicant must confirm their competency on the application form and the UK Sponsor needs to include the Applicant’s competency in their supporting statement.
Total Budget: £280,000 per applicant
Deadline: 18/03/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: UNICEF
Objective:
UNICEF’s Adolescent and Youth Innovation Challenge is a new and agile initiative to support the development of innovative solutions and disruptive ideas that drive change. Through flexible approaches addressing the most challenging issues facing young people, innovators will have the opportunities to experiment with new ideas, contribute to knowledge creation through new evidence, and assess opportunities for scaling high-impact models.
Eligible Activities:
The Innovation Challenge includes the following objectives:
· Nurture and seed innovation and disruptive ideas from emerging thinkers and doers from across Jordan;
· Accelerate progress to address the most pressing challenges facing young people today;
· Support the development of new learnings to inform the sector at large; and
· Promote the scaling of successful innovations and ideas.
Actions must take place in Jordan.
Eligible Applicants:
Partners must have existing presence in the proposed geographical area.
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: 27/03/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.unpartnerportal.org/api/public/export/projects/16769/
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Programme: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Objective:
In order to strengthen the role of civil society in the transition in Syria, TAKAMUL puts an emphasis on social cohesion, women and youth as well as the relationship between civil actors and public authorities. Social cohesion in Syria remains fragile after years of conflict. Many communities find themselves divided along social, ethnic and sectarian lines, with unequal access to resources and opportunities.
Eligible Activities:
Displacement has strained trust between groups and hampered the ability of communities to cooperate and plan their (economic) recovery together, leaving women and youth without avenues for meaningful civic and economic engagement.
The exclusion of women and youth from decision-making processes has led to further fragmentation in the country. Women and youth have been disproportionately affected by the conflict, facing increased vulnerability to violence, displacement, and economic marginalisation. They are often lacking opportunities to engage in community-led initiatives that could help bridge
these divides.
Actions must take place in Syria.
Eligible Applicants:
Only TANDEM projects consisting of one Syrian Diaspora Non-Governmental-Organisation (NGO) and at least one registered Community-based-Organisation (CBO) and/or NGO inside Syria will be accepted.
Total Budget: €130,000 - €250,000 per project
Deadline: 31/03/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.bmz.de/resource/blob/246766/takamul-open-call-for-project-proposals.pdf
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Applications are now open for the Partnership Agreements and Annual Operating Grants to support EU level Social NGO Networks.
Objectives
With the ultimate goal of building a strong social Europe, this Call aims to:
· Promote social inclusion and combatting poverty by providing financial support to EU-level networks of civil society organisations active in this area at local, regional, national and transnational level. It will thereby contribute to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) and its implementing actions, ensuring just transitions, protecting livelihoods, boosting employment, providing access to affordable high-quality social, essential and care services, reducing poverty and inequalities and creating opportunities for all;
Deliver on the European Pillar of Social Rights is a shared responsibility of the EU institutions, national, regional and local authorities, social partners and civil society. Civil society organisations are expected to:
· support the implementation of the EPSR at EU, national and local level, notably by collecting and exchanging data and good practices, cooperating with public authorities in the design and implementation of relevant policies, and delivering specific outputs directly relevant to the EPSR’s principles;
· organise communication and engagement activities to raise awareness of the EPSR both at the EU and national levels;
· Support the Commission in implementing and disseminating new initiatives in the poverty, social inclusion and social protection areas;
· The ultimate goal is to build a stronger social Europe: modernise and strengthen the welfare states to protect people, combat poverty and inequalities, and to face the green, digital and demographic transitions.
Eligible Activities:
Themes and Priorities
The primary mission of the applicants for framework partnerships should be in the areas of fostering social inclusion and/or combatting poverty.
Applicants should implement work programmes that:
· contribute concretely and directly to the implementation of the EPSR principles and related initiatives that are relevant to their statutory aim, with a particular focus on national and regional/local level;
· address directly at least 1 out of 20 principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights;
· organise communication and engagement activities to raise awareness of the EPSR and promote social rights in Europe;
· strengthen the capacity of national member organisations and their national, regional and local members to enable them to actively contribute to the EPSR implementation;
· provide concrete support to the European Semester process (at EU and national levels, including through the Recovery and Resilience Plans) through monitoring of implementation of social policies and initiatives by collecting data and evidence on the ground.
Eligible Activities
Activities should include:
· contributing to evidence-based regulation, policies and reforms at EU/national/local level to support EPSR implementation and providing the Commission with input for policy design, e.g. by gathering relevant evidence (especially from local levels) and by contributing to public or targeted consultations and to thematic strategic dialogue meetings on policy or programme management related issues;
· raising public awareness and disseminating information on EPSR and particularly on social protection and social inclusion policies and legislation at EU and national levels, including good practices in ensuring access to social protection and social inclusion for all, and mapping out existing gaps;
· building capacity of national members, and their national, regional and local members to actively engage them in implementing the EPSR and the related initiatives locally and in reinforcing social services provision at local and regional levels;
· assisting in the transfer and exchange of good practices (e.g. within ESF+/EaSI and other relevant EU funded programmes);
· reinforcing cooperation with other EU level networks (e.g. through joint actions), including across different policy areas; with and between the national social stakeholders; with national, regional and local authorities.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member States [including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)]
non-EU countries:
listed EEA countries and countries associated to the ESF+
be non-governmental, non-profit-making, and independent of industry, commercial and business or other conflicting interests;
have statutory aims falling under the objectives and scope of the priorities of this call for proposals;
have national member organisations in at least fourteen (14) Member States of the European Union;
have members that are mainly non-profit organisations;
be mandated by their members, through a Management Board or other administrative forum, to represent these members at the EU level and to be responsible for the activities of the network.
Total Budget: €51,500,000
Deadline: 08/04/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
The European Commission (EC) is accepting applications for the Annual Operating Grants to support EU-level Social NGO Networks.
Objectives
With the ultimate goal of building a strong social Europe, this Call aims to:
· Promote social inclusion and combatting poverty by providing financial support to EU-level networks of civil society organisations active in this area at local, regional, national and transnational level. It will thereby contribute to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) and its implementing actions, ensuring just transitions, protecting livelihoods, boosting employment, providing access to affordable high-quality social, essential and care services, reducing poverty and inequalities and creating opportunities for all;
· Support the implementation of the Commission’s EU policy initiatives to put the EPSR principles into practice, notably in the area of social inclusion and combatting poverty;
· Deliver on the European Pillar of Social Rights is a shared responsibility of the EU institutions, national, regional and local authorities, social partners and civil society.
Civil society organisations are expected to:
· support the implementation of the EPSR at EU, national and local level, notably by collecting and exchanging data and good practices, cooperating with public authorities in the design and implementation of relevant policies, and delivering specific outputs directly relevant to the EPSR’s principles;
· organise communication and engagement activities to raise awareness of the EPSR both at the EU and national levels;
· Support the Commission in implementing and disseminating new initiatives in the poverty, social inclusion and social protection areas;
· The ultimate goal is to build a stronger social Europe: modernise and strengthen the welfare states to protect people, combat poverty and inequalities, and to face the green, digital and demographic transitions.
Eligible Activities:
Themes and Priorities
The primary mission of the framework partners should be in the areas of fostering social inclusion and/or combatting poverty
Applicants should implement work programmes that:
· contribute concretely and directly to the implementation of the EPSR principles and related initiatives that are relevant to their statutory aim, with a particular focus on national and regional/local level;
· address directly at least 1 out of 20 principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights;
· organise communication and engagement activities to raise awareness of the EPSR and promote social rights in Europe;
· strengthen the capacity of national member organisations and their national, regional and local members to enable them to actively contribute to the EPSR implementation;
· provide concrete support to the European Semester process (at EU and national levels, including through the Recovery and Resilience Plans) through monitoring of implementation of social policies and initiatives by collecting data and evidence on the ground.
Eligible Activities
Activities should include:
· contributing to evidence-based regulation, policies and reforms at EU/national/local level to support EPSR implementation and providing the Commission with input for policy design, e.g. by gathering relevant evidence (especially from local levels) and by contributing to public or targeted consultations and to thematic strategic dialogue meetings on policy or programme management related issues;
· raising public awareness and disseminating information on EPSR and particularly on social protection and social inclusion policies and legislation at EU and national levels, including good practices in ensuring access to social protection and social inclusion for all, and mapping out existing gaps;
· building capacity of national members, and their national, regional and local members to actively engage them in implementing the EPSR and the related initiatives locally and in reinforcing social services provision at local and regional levels;
· assisting in the transfer and exchange of good practices (e.g. within ESF+/EaSI and other relevant EU funded programmes).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
non-EU countries:
listed EEA countries and countries associated to the ESF+
be non-governmental, non-profit-making, and independent of industry, commercial and business or other conflicting interests;
have statutory aims falling under the objectives and scope of the priorities of this call for proposals;
have national member organisations in at least fourteen (14) Member States of the European Union.
Total Budget: €13,250,000
Deadline: 15/04/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
The European Commission (EC) is seeking proposals for the Prevention and Preparedness Projects Program.
Themes and Priorities
Applicants can select one or several of the following topic priorities.
Priority 1: Improving risk assessment, anticipation, and disaster risk management planning
DRM strategies will only entirely address the risks a country faces with an assessment that takes into account climate change, cross-border risks emerging risks, cascading effects, high impact low probability risks, and exposed or vulnerable areas and groups, including persons with disabilities. This priority aims at enhancing the eligible entities’ capability to identify and assess relevant disaster risks with potential transboundary/trans-European and cross-sectoral impacts and use that information to reinforce disaster prevention and preparedness activities.
Priority 2: Increasing risk awareness and preparedness of the population
Population plays an important role in disaster prevention and preparedness and citizens are usually the first responders to disasters. National, sub-national and local authorities should cooperate, together with the private sector and civil society organisations, to increase disaster risk awareness and understanding of the population, fostering a culture of risk prevention and preparedness to risks,
create favourable conditions for individuals to actively engage in DRR/DRM activities. Evidence-based risk information and communication, as well as education activities, targeted to the public –including vulnerable groups and persons with disabilities– are effective tools to raise risk awareness, preparedness and contribute to response measures.
Priority 3: Enhancing early warning
Early warning systems are key elements for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. In the wake of the Covid-19 crisis and with the recent extreme weather events and cascading impacts across sectors, the importance of advanced multi-hazard and risk warnings has never been more widely acknowledged. Although in Europe there is considerable experience with early warning systems, especially for weather and climate-related hazards, recent disasters have shown that more effort and collaboration is necessary. This would include the use of new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, in order to be able to process large volumes of data in a timely fashion, appropriate for emergency management.
Priority 4: Ensuring a robust civil protection system by strengthening institutional preparedness and individual capacity
Ensuring a robust civil protection system plays a crucial part in efficiently meeting the demands placed on civil protection and DRM authorities, in particular during and after a disaster, when society needs them most. Increasing complexities during disasters, changing parameters as a result of climate change and the ever-growing risk of concurrent disasters or prolonged emergencies.
Eligible Activities:
Expected Impact
Priority 1. Improving risk assessment, anticipation, and disaster risk management planning
Project activities and outputs should lead to the achievement of at least one of the following outcomes:
· Improved understanding and knowledge of current and future disaster risks and of risk drivers.
· Harmonised multi-country risk assessments for identified shared risks are developed and/or improved along with the recommendations on the follow-up steps.
· Improved sharing of risk data and risk analysis.
· Enhanced quantification and sharing of disaster loss and damage data, using internationally agreed indicators (e.g., the targets of the Sendai framework for Disaster Risk Reduction).
Priority 2. Increasing risk awareness and preparedness of the population
Project activities and outputs should lead to the achievement of at least one of the following outcomes:
· Enhanced personal and household preparedness for disasters across the EU.
· Enhanced evidence-based knowledge, understanding and awareness of disaster risks.
· Improved sharing of risk information and development of a culture of risk prevention and preparedness.
· Strengthened participation of volunteers and civil society in DRM, including youth, vulnerable groups, and persons with disabilities.
· Enhanced availability of tools and guidelines on increasing risk awareness.
Priority 3. Enhancing early warning
Project activities and outputs should lead to the achievement of at least one of the following outcomes:
· Improved multi-country early warning and information systems and linkage with the Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) and the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS).
· Strengthened integration of early warning systems in decision making at various levels, including at individual and organisational levels.
· Increased understanding of early warning messages among the general public or specific groups, including vulnerable groups and persons with disabilities.
· Enhanced availability of tools and guidelines on improved risk communication.
Priority 4. Ensuring a robust civil protection system by strengthening institutional preparedness and individual capacity
Project activities and outputs should lead to the achievement of at least one of the following outcomes:
· Development of solutions to integrate lessons learnt, at organisational and/or individual level, into existing structures and processes.
· Integration of a broader range of stakeholders such as science and research, political and technical decision makers or the general public into preparedness and capacity strengthening activities.
· Strengthened relationships between stakeholders already being part of the DRM community while broadening the communities' reach into other sectors.
· Facilitated transfer of research and innovation outcomes into civil protection and DRM planning and operations through agile learning and feedback mechanisms.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
UCPM Participating States
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine
Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA) beneficiary countries not participating in the UCPM: Kosovo
European Neighbourhood Policy countries not participating in the UCPM: East (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) and South (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia).
Total Budget: €14,000,000
Deadline: 29/04/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Applications are now open for the Full Scale Exercises Program.
Objectives
The general objective of this topic is to improve civil protection preparedness and response to all kinds of natural or human-induced disasters inside the Member States by providing a testing environment and a learning opportunity for all actors involved in civil protection assistance interventions through a full-scale field exercise at several levels.
Eligible Activities:
Themes (scope)
The scenario for the exercises should build on risk assessments.
Examples can be, but not exclusively, extreme weather, wildfires, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, industrial risk, critical infrastructure disruption, marine pollution, epidemic/health risk, CBRN and multi-sectorial emergencies.
In addition to the main theme, cross cutting issues such as gender, age, persons with disabilities, human rights, environmental sustainability, green economic practices, digitalisation, resilience in infrastructure, the protection of cultural heritage, etc. are encouraged to be considered and included as relevant. Civil-military cooperation could also be envisaged in the exercise scenario.
Eligible Activities
The full-scale exercise project must include the following elements and activities:
Activation of the Mechanism: The UCPM must be activated, whereby all the procedures involved are tested, developed and/or used as learning and exploring opportunity.
EU Civil Protection Team: A EUCP Team must be deployed at least during the full-scale field exercise and its dimension and composition should be adapted to the features of the exercise (minimum four members). The EUCP Team shall be composed as for real deployment and taking into account the function profiles i.e. a team leader, deputy team leader, ERCC liaison officer (ERCC LO) and coordination and assessment experts as team members that shall work closely with the Technical Assistant Support Team (TAST).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e:
EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
UCPM Participating States: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine
European Neighbourhood Policy countries and IPA Beneficiaries are not eligible as member of the consortium but, if an agreement with the project’s consortium is reached, they may participate with teams and capacities in the field exercise. There are separate specific EU funding programmes that accommodate the needs of these countries.
Total Budget: €14,000,000
Deadline: 15/05/2025
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Programme: Technology Development Board
Objective:
A Joint Programme for Co-operation was established by the Department of Science and Technology (DST); Ministry of Science and Technology, India and the Centre for the Development of Technology and Innovation, E.P.E. (CDTI), to promote and fund market-driven research and technology development as well as to encourage partnerships and business-Ied R&D&I collaborative projects between entities from both countries.
The call for proposals aims to launch ambitious joint R&D projects of a high international standard between Indian and Spanish organizations. Potential projects will be funded by DST through TDB in India and CDTI in Spain.
Eligible Activities:
Thematic Areas
The collaborative projects should be innovative and focused on creating possibilities for new technologies, services or processes that will results in commercialisation.
This Call for proposals is open to collaborative R&D projects in the following areas/sectors:
Circular economy and sustainability: Economically competitive production processes and products, critical materials and/or energy that reduce, replace and/or reuse resources and/or aim for sustainability and environmentally friendly processes and/or technologies. Also including Drinking Water, Water Purification, Water Desalination, Irrigation Technologies and Wastewater Treatment & Management in the subarea of Water Technologies.
Digital transformation (Smart Mobility, Smart Grids, Smart Cities, etc.).
Digital health and medical devices: include categories such as mobile health (mHealth), health information technology (IT), wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, and personalized medicine.
Artificial Intelligence
Advanced Materials
Any other sector of mutual interest.
DST funding support for the project (includes industry support and academia/R&D organization must be matched equally (1:1) by Indian Industry. The exact amount of funding will be approved by the Indian Project Evaluation Committee based on merit and the contribution of industry, R&D organisation and academic partners respectively.
Funding from other public sector sources will be taken into account when awarding the grant, and applicants will be asked to declare funding from other sources in the application.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Spanish Applicants
Spanish consortia should include at least one company. Participation of research institutes/universities and other R&D organizations is welcome as self-funded participants or subcontractors.
Eligible Indian Applicants
Eligible Indian applicants must be a commercial (for profit) company registered under The Companies Act 1956/2013, which operates in and is headquartered in India. Academic institutions and research centres, (including non-profit research institutes recognized by GoI) that are headquartered and operate from India are strongly encouraged to partner with the participating industry (IPL: Indian Project Lead).
Specific criteria for eligible applicants are as follows:
The Indian Project Lead (IPL) company applying for the project must be incorporated in India under The Companies Act 1956/2013.
The company must be at least 51% owned by Indian citizens over the total duration of the project.
The IPL should have the required expertise and team capacity to manage the proposed project.
The Indian Project Lead company should lead the project from Indian side and if required bring in other Industry Partners or Academic/R&D Institutions as partners.
Applicants already possesses basic infrastructures/test beds and or developed basic Proof of Concept (PoC).
Total Budget: €500,000 per project
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Programme: Invest for Jobs
Objective:
The Facility Investing for Employment has launched its calls for Proposals in Ghana, Morocco, Rwanda, and Senegal to focus on job creation and access to social protection.
The main purpose of the Facility is job creation in the private sector and by this enhancing improved social protection. Grant funding is therefore available only for projects which will create new jobs in the private sector. Preference is given to projects, which combine job creation with improvement of social protection aspects of employees, their families or third parties.
In addition to the creation of new formal good jobs, IFE aims to support national efforts to improve the social protection of existing and new employees, their families, disadvantaged groups and people, who have a (semi-)formal business relationship with the applicant(s) such as independent sale agents, drivers or similar.
Eligible Activities:
Project Categories
The proposed investment project, which will lead to job creation, must fall within one of IFE’s four categories. It is the responsibility of the applicant to correctly identify the project category which applies to the proposed project.
Category 1: Not-for-profit projects (no revenue generation neither by the lead applicant’s entities nor by the consortium members - if applicable)
Category 2: Not-for-profit projects (with revenue generation by the lead applicant’s entities and/or by the consortium members - if applicable)
Category 3: For-profit projects (majority of jobs will be created at independent 3rd party entities)
Category 4: For-profit projects (majority of jobs will be created at the applicant’s entity/ies)
Benefits
Applicants, who will implement measures significantly above the national mandatory minimum requirements, can benefit from:
Bonus points for the formalization of jobs or for social protection measures for new jobs above the mandatory minimum requirements, which will be implemented for new emplyoees by the applicant and its consortium partners
Financial support for additional new social protection measures above the mandatory minimum requirements, to boost both one-off and/or ongoing social protection expenses.
Applicants can apply for financial support in form of an additional grant for contributions to employer-(co)financed social protection schemes, including:
Contributions to improved social protection of existing and new employees such as additional or new health, unemployment, accident insurances, pension schemes etc.
Contributions to improved social protection of people not formally employed by the applicant or its consortium partners, but with a business relationship with these entities (e.g. independent sale agents, truck drivers, seasonal workers etc.).
Transformation of existent informal schemes (e.g. company internal social funds) into formalised social protection product with a regulated provider.
Investment costs for other social protection measures such as construction and equipment costs for the establishment of a Kindergarten, IT platforms for the registration and placement (with access to social protection schemes) of informal workers, health care centre, conversion of workplaces with the aim of making them more accessible for persons with disabilities.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants can be any entity with a proper legal body. The Call for Proposal is open for applicants applying either as an Individual entity or in a Consortium of several entities.
Registration and Years of Operation:
Applicant must be a separate legal entity duly registered in the concerned country, in Africa or EU/EFTA.
Applicant or at least one member in case of a consortium must be duly registered and operating in the concerned Country for the Call for Proposals.
All applicants (Individual or Lead Applicant and Consortium members) must have been operating for a minimum of 3 years.
Exception: In case of a recently registered entity in the country of call, which is an investee of an individual applicant or any of the consortium members (e.g. subsidiary, joint venture, Special Purpose Vehicle-SPV), then the respective shareholders of this entity must have been operating for a minimum of 3 years at the time of CN submission.
Financial Capacity:
Private sector applicants:
Average yearly turnover must be greater than or equal to 50% of requested grant for the job creation component.
Debt-equity ratio less than or equal to 4.0 (in last financial year),
Positive EBITDA in at least 2 out of past 3 years. Public sector applicants, Civil Society or Non-Governmental Organisations:
Average yearly budget must be greater than or equal to 25% of requested grant for the job creation component.
Evidence of availability of the required own contribution.
Confirmation of financial capability to cover potential deficits during the operational phase of the project.
Compliance:
Applicants are not engaged in activities that feature on KfW Exclusion List.
Applicants (individual or lead entity and consortium partners) must disclose linkages to any parent and sister/related companies – if applicable
Applicants (individual or lead entity and consortium partners) must disclose the names of shareholders/board of directors/owners up to the level of ultimate beneficial owners, or (in the case of entities without shareholders) the main sources of their annual budget or capital endowment.
Total Budget: €10,000,000
Deadline: 28/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://invest-for-jobs.com/en/calls-for-proposals-overview/call-for-proposals-january-2025
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Programme: NOVO NORDISK HAEMOPHILIA FOUNDATION
Objective:
Founded in 2005 and situated in Zurich, Switzerland, Novo Nordisk Haemophilia Foundation (NNHF) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to define and fund sustainable programs which improve access to quality care benefitting people with haemophilia and allied bleeding disorders in the developing world.
Eligible Activities:
They focus on:
(1) capacity building – comprehensive training of healthcare professionals through lectures, workshops and/or manuals, creation and implementation of national treatment guidelines, educational material and other relevant tools;
(2) awareness creation – educational initiatives for patients and their families, to support their ability to cope; media and awareness campaigns among community leaders, authorities and general society to improve public support and reach out to remote areas;
(3) diagnosis and registries – improvement of laboratory facilities and skills of staff in performing diagnosis programmes, focus on establishment of quality assurance processes; establishment or updating of registries.
The initiatives NNHF supports take place in developing or transition countries where some infrastructure is already present. These are preferably in the low, lower-middle and upper-middle income categories, as defined by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (OECD DAC) list.
Eligible Applicants:
The project applicant being the person responsible for the project should be a local medical expert with proven experience in haemophilia or allied bleeding disorders or a leading representative of a local patient association. If the project applicant is not identical with the legal representative(s) of the institution/organisation, the legal representative(s) need/s to endorse the project with his/her signature of the application.
Total Budget: €3,000,000
Deadline: 01/03/2025
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Programme: AFD
Objective:
he objective of urban incubators is to deliver pilot equipment (sports fields, public spaces, community centers, etc.) upstream of an urban project, in order to improve the design and management solution of final equipment. Already deployed in 8 countries, they make it possible to test uses and types of equipment, while strengthening citizen participation through an approach that puts residents at the heart of the development design and management process.
Eligible Activities:
The urban incubator concerned by this call for initiatives will be deployed in the city of Douala. The project will be implemented in close collaboration with the Communauté urbaine de Douala (CUD) which is responsible for the project, as well as the district town halls and civil society of the districts concerned. In Douala, in addition to the construction of drains, the PLIDY provides for the development of public spaces around these works in order to improve the living environment of the inhabitants. This type of development has already been carried out by the CUD as part of a previous project, but the use of these sports and leisure facilities is quite low.
Actions must take place in Cameroon.
Eligible Applicants:
The call for initiatives is open to non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), and consortia formed by private law companies and NGOs/CSOs. The purpose of this call for initiatives is to identify the “incubator” operator who will implement the Douala Urban Nursery.
Total Budget: €1,100,000
Deadline: 10/03/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.afd.fr/fr/pepiniere-urbaine-douala-programme-lutte-inondations
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Programme: European Institute of Innovation & Technology Food
Objective:
The European Institute of Innovation & Technology Food has launched a competitive, open Impact Funding Framework to promote ambitious, long-term collaboration that will lead to food systems change to benefit us all.
They have built a network dedicated to bringing real world change through collaborative programmes in skills, education, entrepreneurship, start-up investment, public engagement and communications. By delivering these programmes in partnership, they aim to create a culture and build a community which sees the long-term value in the food innovation they fund.
With this new launch, they are able to offer a fast-track to collaboration and partnership between EIT Food, their community and organisations who share their ambition for impact.
Eligible Activities:
Purpose
EIT Food already runs a significant portfolio of funding activity, regional community engagement and “Infrastructure Programmes”. These programmes help to focus effort and support positive impact in areas such as: knowledge exchange capability building; entrepreneur development; new business growth and investment; skills and education provision; public engagement; and innovation management.
They welcome proposals to form new collaborative programmes that build upon, link and amplify these capabilities, and giving their new routes and approaches to achieve even more impact in these areas in line with their Mission Targets. They are always interested in programmes which identify and solve barriers where long-term structural issues (Strategic Levers) affect progress towards Mission Targets.
Programmes should connect key companies, research organisations, social enterprises, regions and other stakeholders across relevant economic, industry and social value chains. Engaging beneficiaries or challenge owners with well-defined impact needs should be central to your Programme objectives.
You should also outline how you wish to engage with EIT Food leadership and network to ensure maximum connection with existing capabilities withminimum duplication. They wish to actively work with your consortium leadership to steer, direct and connect new platforms to multiply their impact, KPI achievement and influence.
They are looking for programmes that:
Demonstrate a systemic approach to meeting societal challenges within the food system by delivering one or more Mission Targets.
Are problem-led, with a clearly defined pathway to impact for those who benefit and those organisations working with them.
Build a portfolio of connected activities that enhance collaboration across relevant economic, industry and social value chains.
Are led by an organisation with a significant capability to scale and drive adoption of programme results.
Connect to EIT Food infrastructure programmes and assets (community management, skills, innovation, public and policy engagement) to scale the impact and reach of their existing investments.
Build value from their portfolio of previously funded innovations and start-up community capabilities.
Create and support platforms for addressing major barriers and opportunities related to the Strategic Levers for food systems change described in their Mission Insight Reports.
Produce and communicate insights which can inform future EIT Food public affairs activities, fundraising and strategic decision making.
Funding Information
The starting funding amount allocated to this 2023–2025 funding scheme is €30m.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Organisation Eligibility
Organisations directly in receipt of EIT-sourced funding from EIT Food:
must be a legally incorporated entity in one of the EU or Horizon Europe eligible country for a minimum of one year pre-application.
must have at least one year’s published accounts showing business Activity.
For collaborations where applicant(s) is not receiving EIT-sourced funding (e.g. established in a Non-Associated Country for Horizon Europe), the applicant(s) must have a formal incorporation or registration as a legal entity in their primary place of business.
Consortia Eligibility
The programme must ensure a pan-European dimension, delivering outcomes across multiple countries and demonstrating a KTI embedded by design.
Applying consortia therefore must involve at least two independent entities from two different eligible countries) committed to collaboration, representing at least two sides of the knowledge triangle, with at least one industry or social enterprise organisation.
Applications by consortium must demonstrate active roles for each organisation that are commensurate with the level of budget.
Proposal Eligibility
To be eligible proposals must:
Respond to one or more Mission targets
Deliver a programme of connected activities, projects or workstreams, that enhance collaboration across a value chain i.e. not single projects
Deliver impact within Europe
Be a minimum of 6 months in duration
Be submitted on time via Salesforce, in English
Be complete applications
Include any relevant KPI and assessment metrics
Include relevant deliverables and outputs
Include relevant budget
Include risk register
Include all relevant supporting documents necessary to assess the application. You must include all mandatory documents: Business Model Canvas and Launch Plan and where relevant, Success Sharing Mechanism (for commercial outcomes) and Proof of TRL
Not cause EIT Food to come into conflict with its funding or balance of impact principles
Total Budget: €30,000,000
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Programme: GSMA
Objective:
GSMA is excited to introduce the Innovation Fund for Impactful AI (“the Fund”), designed to support small and growing enterprises in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) across Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
The Fund aims to accelerate the adoption and scalability of AI-driven innovations that address critical local socio-economic and climate challenges.
The Fund seeks to bridge this gap by supporting innovative use cases, partnerships and business models that leverage AI and emerging technologies (e.g. mobile big data, IoT, remote sensing, computer vision, blockchain, and drones) alongside mobile technologies to create positive socio-economic and climate-related impacts.
Eligible Activities:
Focus Areas
The Fund is sector-agnostic, but priority will be given to applications that focus on one or more of the following:
Digital solutions that leverage contextual data generated by emerging technologies for training and deploying AI-driven products and services
Digital solutions that leverage predictive and generative AI innovations and show promise to scale and deliver positive socio-economic and/or climate-related impacts
Digital innovations across the value chain, including:
AI-driven innovations that directly reach low-income and vulnerable populations and aim to advance socio-economic development and climate action (e.g. HealthTech, AgriTech, ClimateTech, FinTech, EdTech)
AI-driven deep-tech, ecosystem-level innovations [e.g. multimodal large language models (LLMs), edge computing, machine learning, big data] that support local and regional ecosystems for lastmile innovators to deploy AI solutions
Benefits
Through their partnership with the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), selected enterprises will receive a comprehensive support package, including:
Tailored venture building support to strengthen solutions and business models
Facilitation of partnerships with mobile operators, public sector organisations, and other stakeholders
Peer learning opportunities to exchange knowledge with other innovators
Visibility and exposure through the GSMA’s global events, publications and online platforms, helping grantees connect with potential investors and partners
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply to the Fund, applicants must meet all of the following criteria:
Leverage digital technology, especially mobile, to deliver solutions
Be able to demonstrate how AI and other emerging technologies (e.g. mobile big data, IoT, remote sensing, computer vision, blockchain, drones), in conjunction with mobile technology, will be leveraged to deliver the solution described in section.
Entity type
Be a for-profit private sector small and growing enterprise in a low- or middle-income country.
Have active users and commercial revenue (users and revenue from any products or services) in at least one eligible country.
Be an existing entity registered and operating in the country of project implementation at the time of application (whether domestic or foreign-owned or a joint venture).In cases where responsibility for service delivery lies with a downstream partner rather than with the applicant (e.g. service delivery by a local government), it may be acceptable for the applicant to be registered in a country other than that of project implementation.
Geography
Propose a project that is implemented in a country/countries that is/are eligible to receive official development assistance [as per the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) classification] in the following regions: Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Current market presence
Have an existing entity registered and operating in the country (or countries) of project implementation.
Ability to receive grant funds
Have a bank account capable of receiving GBP payments, as all disbursements from the GSMA will be made in GBP. As a general rule, the applicant should be registered in and maintain a bank account in the country where the project will be implemented. On an exceptional basis, subject to the GSMA’s assessment of the particular case, the GSMA could send funds to the GBP account of a parent company registered in a country other than the project implementation country.
Total Budget: £250,000
Deadline: 19/03/2025
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Programme: MITSUBISHI CORPORATION FOUNDATION FOR THE AMERICAS (MCFA)
Objective:
Founded in 1992, the mission of the Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas (MCFA) is to promote environmental causes throughout the Americas in the broadest sense, which encompasses both the physical and social environments. In furtherance of their mission is providing support a wide range of projects in the following four categories: (1) Biodiversity Conservation, (2) Sustainable Development, (3) Environmental Justice and (4) Environmental Education.
Eligible Activities:
The Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas carries out these objectives is its grant to The Nature Conservancy to create a manual to evaluate and strengthen coalition building for protected area conservation. Since its inception the MCFA has supported more than 100 projects in 15 countries throughout the Americas.
Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas-supported programs are geographically limited to the Americas.
Eligible Applicants:
The Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas does not provide financial support for individuals. It does not make gifts for religious, political or lobbying purposes. It does not support any organization that discriminates on the basis of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, marital status or handicap. It only makes direct grants and donations to 501(c) (3) non-profit organizations in the U.S. or their equivalents overseas.
Total Budget: $300,000 average
Deadline: 31/03/2025
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Programme: Transparent Fish Fund (TFish)
Objective:
Transparent Fish Fund is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit organization founded in 2011 in Palo Alto, California. They partner with hand-selected NGOs that effectively focus on poverty alleviation in East Asia. With financial support from their board members, who cover all our administrative costs, they are able to provide these NGOs with financial aid, capacity building resources, and reporting requirements to increase transparency and sustainability.
Eligible Activities:
They identify the most promising NGOs to partner with and develop them by:
§ Providing capacity building resources and fundraising support from the West
§ Facilitating financial accountability and transparency, even to the level of ensuring the recipient uses the contributions properly
§ Serving programs run by members of the Asian American community and/or focus on work in Asia or the Asian American community
Focus areas: basic needs, direct needs, poverty relief, medical intervention, health, education in underserved areas of rural China and Southeast Asia
Actions must take place in East Asia (Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand).
Eligible Applicants:
None provided
Total Budget: $1,500,000
Deadline: 31/03/2025
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Programme: COAL
Objective:
The COAL Prize dedicated to fresh water is a call to fight against the drying up of people's sensitivities towards Water, to elevate it to its rightful place at the heart of general attention, to rehabilitate it in its symbolic and sacred prerogatives, to consider it as the ally and partner of "our" existences.
It’s also a call to protect it, to play the part in restoring its natural cycles, to repair places that have been damaged, in solidarity with those, human and non-human, who are irreparably affected.
Eligible Activities:
Theme
Being Transformative
Selection Criteria
Applicants will be judged on the following criteria: artistic value, relevance (understanding of the theme – Being Transformative), originality (the ability to introduce new approaches, themes, and points of view), pedagogy (ability to get a message across and raise awareness), social and participative approaches (engagement, testimony, efficiency, societal dynamics), eco-design and feasibility. The COAL Prize supports artistic projects in progress. The award is not intended to cover all production costs of the project but should be considered as an aid to its development.
Ten artists are nominated by a selection committee of professionals for their projects submitted in response to this international call for entries. The Prix COAL and its special mentions are awarded from among these ten projects by a jury made up of representatives of the partner organizations and personalities from the fields of art and ecology.
Eligible Applicants:
Application Requirements
The application must include the following documents in a single pdf file. (the file must not exceed 30 MB):
A detailed description of the proposed project, describing its artistic dimension, its relevance to the theme, including a note on the technical feasibility of the project and a budget estimation
At least two visuals illustrating the project
A CV and a portfolio.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 20/04/2025
More information and official documents:
https://projetcoal.org/en/prize/call-for-projects-prize-coal-2025-freshwater/
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
The European Commission is requesting applications for its 'Knowledge transfer and training of Civil Servants, Safety Officials and Permitting Staff to improve Safety Assessment and Licensing Procedures across Europe' initiative which targets the training of public officials, staff of certification bodies, and engineers who are tasked with preparing permitting applications, evaluating such applications, and issuing permits for hydrogen projects.
It will supply them with the necessary background knowledge to securely and confidently navigate the processes involved. The audience will consist of any staff involved in permitting processes on both sides of the table, but could also include fire brigades and other institutions involved in permitting processes in a consulting role. By raising awareness of the differences in these processes between Member States, the project will be able to contribute towards a harmonisation of procedures throughout the EU. The primary addressees of the project will be the regions and countries of the current and future Hydrogen Valley projects funded through the Clean Hydrogen JU.
Eligible Activities:
Scope
The project will compile the existing evaluation, permitting, and licensing procedures for hydrogen projects across Europe in order to establish the training material. From this base, the project will compile present best practices for permitting Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH) technologies across the EU into a handbook. The project will provide training to public officials and all other types of staff engaged in permit applications, project assessment and certification, and permit granting. This will allow streamlining project implementation and ensure effective permitting and licensing procedures. Projects should further address the knowledge transfer between Hydrogen Valleys and between Member States on permitting and certification of hydrogen projects, for example, based on the best practice handbook.
Expected Outcomes
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:
Collecting information on differences in Member States regulations in permitting and licensing processes of hydrogen projects across the EU;
Giving public officials of the Hydrogen Valley regions and in the EU access to specific training plans and materials in order to spread knowledge on hydrogen technologies, their safety analysis and permitting processes;
Supporting the move towards the use of digital tools to improve the efficiency in evaluation and licensing processes;
Contributing to retain the EU leadership in efficiency and systematised licensing procedures, thus leveraging green hydrogen projects.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible Projects
Proposals should address all of the following:
Analysis of evaluation, permitting, and licensing procedures across the EU, covering at least all countries with Hydrogen Valleys. In addition proposals should cover all remaining Tier 1 and Tier 2 countries, and a selection of Tier 3 countries as deemed suitable by the applicants, ensuring an effective implementation of training programmes that can understand and explain the differences in procedures in the different target countries;
Development and implementation of comprehensive training programmes in the target countries and/or regions (at least, as a minimum, in all countries with Hydrogen Valleys supported by the JU) for public officials and staff involved in permit applications, assessment, evaluation, permitting, and licensing of hydrogen projects, covering relevant areas to ensure a deep understanding of principles and practices related to hydrogen projects;
Supply of train-the-trainer courses to training service providers and institutions with internal training programmes in all countries covered by the above;
Assessment of educational progress, issuing a certificate recognised by the EU hydrogen industry;
Introduction of the use of new digital tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in local evaluation and licensing processes, encouraging trainees to use such tools in their day-to-day practice.
Total Budget: €184,500,000
Deadline: 23/04/2025
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Programme: Einstein Foundation Berlin
Objective:
The Einstein Award for Promoting Quality in Research in cooperation with the QUEST Centre for Responsible Research at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité honours researchers, institutions, and early career researchers around the globe whose work helps to fundamentally advance the quality, transparency, and reproducibility of science and research.
The award aims to provide recognition and publicity for outstanding efforts that enhance the rigor, reliability, robustness, and transparency of research in the life sciences, natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and stimulate awareness and activities fostering research quality among scientists, institutions, funders, and politicians.
Categories
The award is presented in three categories:
§ The Individual Award: honours individual researchers or small teams of collaborating researchers.
§ The Institutional Award: recognizes organizations and research institutions.
§ The Early Career Award: highlights innovative project proposals by researchers at the beginning of their careers.
Eligible Activities:
Objectives
The contributions should align with the following objectives:
Reproducibility & Research Quality:
§ Fostering Research Integrity: Substantial contributions to research integrity through outstanding measures, such as enhancing transparency, promoting access to research results (‘Open Science’), and embracing collaborative research (‘Team Science’).
§ Quality-Improving Interventions: Developing and/or implementing interventions, governance, and policies that enhance the quality and reliability of research.
§ Innovative Approaches to Research Integrity: Developing innovative approaches that foster research on research integrity, conducting and designing novel measures or programs to prevent misconduct, and safeguarding validity and reliability in science and research.
§ Exceptional Integrity: Demonstrating exceptional integrity when facing difficult circumstances and/or conflicts of interest.
§ Long-Term Archiving: Guaranteeing the long-term archiving of data and publications through intergenerational archives.
§ Addressing Systemic Factors: Identifying and addressing systemic factors that foster research integrity and more responsible research.
§ Replications: Performing or supporting studies on the reproducibility of scientific results.
§ Teaching Good Research Practice: Making a significant contribution to the teaching of good research practice.
MetaScience:
§ Research on Research: to identify opportunities for improving research practice, generating evidence for potential interventions, and developing metrics and policies that incentivize the adoption of best possible research practices.
§ Research Assessment and Incentives:
§ Identifying research standards and incentives: that directly or indirectly constrain the quality of research (e.g. reliance on purely quantitative output measures) and designing more adequate means to assess the quality of research and researchers.
Accessibility and Inclusion:
§ Increasing Diversity in Research: Making a significant contribution to increasing the diversity of research by considering aspects such as gender, race/ethnicity, geography, career stage, etc.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Researchers and institutions worldwide that are engaged in science, research, education, and scholarship are encouraged to participate in this award. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to advancing the rigor, reliability, and transparency of research. They warmly welcome applications and nominations from marginalized and underrepresented groups.
Total Budget: €100,000 - €350,000
Deadline: 29/04/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Objective:
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is inviting nominations for its Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes to reward outstanding examples of action to safeguard and enhance the world’s cultural landscapes.
Eligible Activities:
Outstanding examples of action to safeguard and enhance the world’s cultural landscapes
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Individuals, institutions, other entities, communities or non-governmental organizations (in official partnerships with UNESCO or not) that have made a significant contribution to the safeguarding, management and enhancement of the world’s major cultural landscapes.
Nomination Criteria
A self-nomination cannot be considered;
Government agencies of UNESCO Member States, in consultation with their National Commissions for UNESCO;
NGOs in official partnerships with UNESCO;
International, regional and national professional, academic and non-governmental organizations active in the field of cultural landscapes;
It is not necessary for a cultural landscape to be inscribed on the World Heritage List to be eligible for the Prize;
Candidatures relating to sites nominated for possible inscription on the World Heritage List may not be submitted in the same year in which the nomination dossier is examined by the World Heritage Committee.
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: 30/04/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: Austrian Development Agency (ADA)
Objective:
The funding instrument Individual Projects East is available to civil society organisations (CSOs) that implement multi-year projects in developing countries in the Danube Region/Western Balkans, Black Sea Region/South Caucasus and Central Asia together with local partner organisations. The partners must retain responsibility (ownership).
Eligible Activities:
Eligible projects aim at poverty reduction, good governance, human security and the preservation of a liveable environment according to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Three-Year Programme on Austrian Development Policy. Possible thematic foci are rural development, food security, water supply and sanitation, education, human rights and peacebuilding, disaster preparedness, environment and climate change as well as migration and development, social inclusion and health. The thematic focus is set by the applicant, the “Right of Initiative” applies. Projects must be implemented in developing countries (according to the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee/DAC’s definition) and be in accordance with national and local strategies of the respective partner country.
Actions must take place in: (1) Funding rate 90% of project costs for ADC priority countries (Armenia, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova); (2) Funding rate 55% of project costs for the following countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine); (3) Funding rate 25% of project costs for Remaining Least Developed Countries, Low Income Countries, Lower Middle Income Countries and Upper Middle Income Countries.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible for application are associations, foundations, trade unions, local authorities or other public corporations based in Austria. Individuals may not submit applications.
Total Budget: €350,000 - €600,000
Deadline: 15/05/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.entwicklung.at/en/actors/civil-society/individual-projects-east
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Programme: Austrian Development Agency (ADA)
Objective:
The funding instrument Individual Projects South is available to civil society organisations (CSOs) that implement multi-year projects in developing countries in East Africa and Horn of Africa/ Southern Africa/ West Africa, the Himalayas/Hindu Kush, the Middle East, South East Asia and in Latin America together with local partner organisations. The partners must retain responsibility (ownership).
Eligible Activities:
Eligible projects aim at poverty reduction, good governance, human security and the preservation of a liveable environment according to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Three-Year Programme on Austrian Development Policy. Possible thematic foci are rural development, food security, water supply and sanitation, education, human rights and peacebuilding, disaster preparedness, environment and climate change as well as migration and development, social inclusion and health. The thematic focus is set by the applicant, the “Right of Initiative” applies. Projects must be implemented in developing countries (according to the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee/DAC’s definition) and be in accordance with national and local strategies of the respective partner country.
Actions must take place in developing countries in East Africa and Horn of Africa/ Southern Africa/ West Africa, the Himalayas/Hindu Kush, the Middle East, South East Asia and in Latin America.
The funding rate depends on the country in which the project is carried out: (1) Funding rate 90% of project costs for ADC priority countries (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Palestinian Territories, Uganda); (2) Funding rate 55% of project costs for Least Developed Countries in Africa as well as Jordan, Nepal, Pakistan; (3) Funding rate 25% of project costs for remaining Least Developed Countries, Low Income Countries, Lower Middle Income Countries and Upper Middle Income Countries. Per individual project, the minimum amount of funding provided by ADA is €350,000; the maximum amount is €600,000.
Eligible Applicants:
Legal entities such as societies, foundations, trade unions, regional/local administrative bodies or other public institutions based in Austria (in partnership with local organisations) are eligible.
Total Budget: €350,000 - €600,000
Deadline: 15/05/2025
More information and official documents:
http://www.entwicklung.at/en/actors/civil-society/individual-projects-south/
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Programme: MASDAR
Objective:
Applications are now open for the Zayed Sustainability Prize that recognises and rewards small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), nonprofit organisations (NPOs), and global high schools with impactful, innovative and inspiring sustainable solutions.
Established by the UAE leadership in 2008, the Prize honours the humanitarian and sustainability legacy of the UAE’s founding father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Over the past 16 years, the Zayed Sustainability Prize has awarded 117 winners who have positively impacted the lives of 384 million people around the world.
Eligible Activities:
Categories
Health
This category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of health that include, but are not limited to:
Ensuring access to essential and affordable healthcare
Ensuring access to maternal and newborn healthcare
Ending epidemics (AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis etc.)
Preventing and treating water-borne, communicable and non-communicable diseases
Reducing illness from pollution, hazardous chemicals and contamination
Food
This category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of food that include, but are not limited to:
Decreasing hunger and malnutrition
Increasing agricultural or other food processing productivity
Ensuring sustainability of food systems
Enhancing sustainable food production
Energy
This category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of energy that include, but are not limited to:
Ensuring access to affordable and reliable clean energy
Increasing production of clean energy
Improving energy efficiency and energy infrastructure
Implementing clean energy technology innovation
Water
This category recognises organisations that can demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of water that include, but are not limited to:
Ensuring access to safe and affordable drinking water
Ensuring access to sanitation and hygiene
Increasing water use efficiency
Climate Action
The category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational solutions producing positive results in the following areas:
Climate Adaptation and resilience building
Sustainable Land Use and Forest Conservation
Nature-based solutions for conserving/restoring ecosystems and natural resources or carbon removal
Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage
Global High Schools
The Global High Schools category recognises high schools or secondary schools, from six global geographic regions that propose innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability projects in the areas of health, food, energy and/or water. The proposed project could be in one area (e.g. water) or a combination of areas (e.g. health, food, energy, water and climate action).
The Prize is intended to encourage students to develop and implement their sustainability ideas and is not aimed at administrative projects or educational reforms at the school.
The award in this category is not given for past achievements but will enable students from winning high schools to implement sustainability projects in their own schools. These student-led projects must demonstrate innovative approaches to address sustainability challenges and inspire students to take active roles in sustainable development.
The application must be submitted by the students and supported by the school management. The projects must:
demonstrate how they meet the three criteria: impact, innovation, inspiration, as explained in the Evaluation Criteria section of this page;
be able to be implemented and operational within one to two years; and
benefit the school community and/or their local/regional community for several years.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Organisations must be a small or medium sized enterprise (SME) or a non-profit organisation (NPO).
Organisations must also demonstrate a clear vision and long-term plan to further deploy their solution and scale up their impact, as well as inspiring others to follow suit by advancing sustainable and human development.
Total Budget: $5,900,000
Deadline: 23/06/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: EUROFINS FOUNDATION
Objective:
Eurofins Foundation’s primary areas of focus include supporting initiatives aimed at protecting the environment, improving nutrition, improving health, improving social businesses and promoting inclusion.
Eligible Activities:
Areas of focus:
Protecting the environment: protecting ecosystems in the sea and on land and conserving our planet’s scarce resources for future generations;
Improving nutrition: support projects and initiatives feeding deprived communities in developing countries, programmes aimed at decreasing food waste and facing challenges of feeding a growing world population in a sustainable manner, etc.
Improving health: facilitating access to clean water and sanitation, supporting research on cancer, organ transplants or addressing other significant challenges in modern healthcare;
Helping social, not-for-profit businesses working in the fields of environment or health protection and improved nutrition, in line with Eurofins’ DNA;
Promoting inclusion, diversity and equality at all levels of society through advocacy, education, mentorship, training and development programmes and STEM and STEAM outreach where this is contributing to a safer and healthier world;
Supporting students who study or carry out research in fields aiming at contributing to safer and healthier lives but who lack sufficient financial resources;
Helping nonprofit organisations active in the local communities where Eurofins’ laboratories operate and their staff live and work.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
The project is impactful and aligned with the objectives of the Foundation; it must clearly mention the needs it addresses, its positive impact and the effective use of the funds; an evaluation of the project’s effectiveness is requested.
Total Budget: €2,000,000
Deadline: 31/10/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.eurofins.com/eurofins-foundation/submit-a-project/
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Programme: INSURESILIENCE FUND
Objective:
The ISF supports the development, improvement and scale-up of innovative and sustainable climate risk insurance products in countries of Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe eligible to receive official development assistance (ODA) and vulnerable to extreme weather events with grand-based co-funding of up to €2,500,000 to improve the resilience of households living on less than USD 15.00 Purchasing Power Parity per capita per day.
Eligible Activities:
All developing countries eligible for official development assistance as defined by the OECD are eligible.
Eligible Applicants:
Institutions or companies (private or public, including civil society) legally registered in an ODA country that are interested in applying for grant-based co-funding under the 11th or the subsequent CfP and showing high potential to fulfil the ISF criteria are eligible to receive this support.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 07/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://insuresilience-solutions-fund.org/call-for-proposals
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Programme: Swedish Institute (SI)
Objective:
The Creative Partnerships Programme grants funding to Swedish organisations and their international partners in civil society, culture and the media. The programme supports projects which aim to promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.
Eligible Activities:
Creative Partnerships awards funding to projects which:
· aim to strengthen democracy, human rights and/or freedom of expression in one or more of the programme’s target countries.
· aim to strengthen the professional capacity of people who are in a position to bring about change in the organisations or sectors they work in.
· involve the project partners in knowledge exchange, network building and/or the development of innovative methods.
· are sustainable. This means that the methods and results of the projects live on and continue to be used after the project has formally ended.
· are firmly rooted in the partner country and reflect needs which have been identified and formulated locally rather than by the Swedish partner.
· do not have a profit motive.
Countries eligible for funding are Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye, Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
The main applicant must be a Swedish organisation from civil society or the public or private sectors. Your project partner(s) may be formal or informal cultural actors, networks of journalists or other types of media organisation in the target country. They can also be found in civil society or the public or private sectors.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 11/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://si.se/en/apply/funding-grants/creative-partnerships-eng/
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Programme: UN Women
Objective:
The UN Women Lebanon Office is pleased to invite applications for partnerships aimed at advancing women’s economic empowerment.
Eligible Activities:
Eligible organizations can submit proposals targeting one or more outputs within a single proposal.
Component (1): Outcome 1: Crisis-affected women in Lebanon access gender-responsive humanitarian assistance
· Output 1: Crisis-affected women access short-term emergency livelihood support and support other crisis-affected women with basic assistance
· Output 2: Provide crisis-affected women-led entities (community-based organizations, businesses, cooperatives) with emergency financial and technical assistance to enable them to maintain employment of women and operations through crisis and early recovery.
· Output 3: Crisis-affected women and girls (refugees, returnees, IDPs and host community), including victims and survivors of GBV, have access to quality multisectoral protection services.
· Output 4: Local women leaders exercise their voice, agency and leadership in humanitarian response, early recovery, and local peacebuilding.
Component (2): Outcome 1: Crisis-affected women and girls increase their resilience through access to emergency livelihoods and gender-based violence (GBV) services that meet their needs.
· Output 1: Crisis-affected women access short-term emergency livelihood support and support other crisis-affected women and communities
· Output 2: Provide crisis-affected women-led entities (community-based organizations, businesses, cooperatives) with emergency financial and technical assistance to enable them to maintain employment of women and operations through crisis and early recovery.
· Output 3: Crisis-affected women and girls (refugees, returnees, IDPs and host community), including victims and survivors of GBV, have access to quality multisectoral protection services.
Actions must take place in Lebanon.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are non-profit organisations with a track record of sectors and country expertise.
Total Budget: $2,300,000
Deadline: 12/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: WFP
Objective:
WFP’s strategy in Afghanistan has evolved from simple cash- and food-for-work to enhancing community resilience. By adopting a food-systems approach, WFP aims to improve long-term food security through sustainable livelihoods, agricultural support, value-chain development, market connectivity, and resilience to shocks. In 2025-6, the Resilience and Food Systems activities will target over 300,000 people across 30 provinces, including 56,700 people in the southern region.
Eligible Activities:
The objective is to address immediate humanitarian needs while building towards medium-term development goals, leading to resilient, food-secure, and economically self-reliant communities. WFP connects communities to local and national food systems, utilizing tools that enhance resilience capacities to absorb, adapt, and transform in response to shocks and stressors.
Actions must take place in Afghanistan (Uruzgan).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are non-profit organisations with sector expertise and experience.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 15/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.unpartnerportal.org/api/public/export/projects/16538/
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Programme: WFP
Objective:
WFP’s strategy in Afghanistan has evolved from simple cash- and food-for-work to enhancing community resilience. By adopting a food-systems approach, WFP aims to improve long-term food security through sustainable livelihoods, agricultural support, value-chain development, market connectivity, and resilience to shocks. In 2025-6, the Resilience and Food Systems activities will target over 300,000 people across 30 provinces, including 56,700 people in the southern region.
Eligible Activities:
The objective is to address immediate humanitarian needs while building towards medium-term development goals, leading to resilient, food-secure, and economically self-reliant communities. WFP connects communities to local and national food systems, utilizing tools that enhance resilience capacities to absorb, adapt, and transform in response to shocks and stressors.
Actions must take place in Afghanistan (Kandahar/Zabul).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are non-profit organisations with sector expertise and experience.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 15/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.unpartnerportal.org/api/public/export/projects/16537/
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Programme: WFP
Objective:
WFP’s strategy in Afghanistan has evolved from simple cash- and food-for-work to enhancing community resilience. By adopting a food-systems approach, WFP aims to improve long-term food security through sustainable livelihoods, agricultural support, value-chain development, market connectivity, and resilience to shocks. In 2025-6, the Resilience and Food Systems activities will target over 300,000 people across 30 provinces, including 56,700 people in the southern region.
Eligible Activities:
The objective is to address immediate humanitarian needs while building towards medium-term development goals, leading to resilient, food-secure, and economically self-reliant communities. WFP connects communities to local and national food systems, utilizing tools that enhance resilience capacities to absorb, adapt, and transform in response to shocks and stressors.
Actions must take place in Afghanistan (Helmand/Nimroz).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are non-profit organisations with sector expertise and experience.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 15/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.unpartnerportal.org/api/public/export/projects/16536/
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Programme: WESTERN BALKANS FUND (WBF)
Objective:
The Western Balkans Fund announces a Call for Proposals for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and other eligible applicants in the Western Balkans region. This Call is co-funded by the European Union, IPA – Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance III. This annual grant scheme is designed to empower CSOs, with a focus on grassroots organisations across the Western Balkans by fostering regional and cross-border collaboration. Through these grants, WBF aims to strengthen regional cohesion, enhance cooperation among stakeholders from at least three WBF Contracting Parties, and promote active participation in initiatives that advance the mission of regional integration and development.
Eligible Activities:
Projects can cover one or several of the following areas of intervention:
· Cultural cooperation: Fostering regional cultural identity and intercultural dialogue in the Western Balkans by promoting cooperation in sustainable initiatives, activities, and projects to embrace a shared commitment to both environmental stewardship and peaceful coexistence and nurture nature and cultural bonds for a harmonious and eco-conscious region.
· Education and Scientific exchanges: Advancing regional projects and activities in education development, capacity building, and mobility to foster growth and extension with a commitment to the green agenda by integrating environmentally conscious practices into educational initiatives and promoting scientific exchanges for sustainable regional development.
· Sustainable Development: Promoting regional cohesion and fostering institutional partnerships for sustainable economic development through integration of green agenda into environmental responsible practices, ensuring a harmonious balance between regional growth and ecological wellbeing.
Actions must take place in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia.
Eligible Applicants:
To be eligible to apply for the Annual grant, the lead applicant must be: a legal entity, (individuals and/or not registered entities are not eligible) and established in one or more WBF Contracting Parties, and non-profitmaking.
Total Budget: €360,000
Deadline: 19/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://westernbalkans-infohub.eu/calls/wetern-balkans-fund-7th-annual-call-for-proposals-2025/
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Programme: Embassy of Japan to Armenia
Objective:
The Government of Japan invites to apply for the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP). Reflecting the Japanese Government’s strong commitment to uphold the concept of “Human Security”, GGP program intends to contribute to improvements in various fields including education, health, infrastructure, as well as other sectors. The overall goal of GGP is to enhance the wellbeing of people at the grassroots level, based on the concept of human security.
Eligible Activities:
Project areas include:
Education
Health
– Providing medical equipment to medical institution
– Providing mobile clinic vehicle
– Renovating/Extending medical institution
Welfare
– Establishing/Renovating community center for vulnerable population
– Installing basic equipment to the centers
– Providing mobile care service for vulnerable population
Environment
– Executing landslide prevention and Improving disaster preparedness
– Providing garbage containers and collection vehicle
– Equipping renewable energy source
Agriculture
– Constructing training center for farmers
Water and Sanitation
– Constructing irrigation system
– Installing/Replacing water pipes
Others
– Reducing mine risk
Actions must take place in Armenia.
Eligible Applicants:
Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs), Local Municipalities, Educational Institutions, Research Institutions and Medical Institutions based in Armenia are eligible. Recipients shall have minimum 2 years of activities with stable financial status. They do not accept any applications from outside of Armenia.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 28/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: TONY ELUMELU FOUNDATION
Objective:
Founded in 2010 by Tony O. Elumelu CON, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) is a foremost African philanthropic organisation. The Tony Elumelu Foundation believes that the private sector holds the key to unlocking Africa’s economic potential.
Eligible Activities:
To that end, its mission is to catalyse economic and social development in Africa through entrepreneurship:
· TEF Flagship Entrepreneurship Programme: Open to all entrepreneurs across Africa with business ideas or existing businesses. We encourage applications from businesses leveraging AI as well as green businesses. For existing businesses, business registration must not exceed five years at the time of application. Applicants must be at least 18 years old.
· IYBA-WE4A Entrepreneurship Programme: Open exclusively to women entrepreneurs with green business ideas or existing green businesses in Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, and Togo. For existing businesses, business registration must not exceed five years at the time of application. Applicants must be at least 18 years old.
· Aguka Ideation Programme: Open to Rwandan entrepreneurs with businesses in the idea stage and aged 18-30.
· BeGreen Africa Programme: This programme is open to entrepreneurs with green businesses in Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa, as well as waste management businesses specifically in Kenya. For existing businesses, registration must not exceed five years at the time of application. Applicants must be between 18 and 35 years old.
Any country in Africa is eligible.
Eligible Applicants:
The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme is open to Africans from all 54 African countries with scalable business ideas or businesses from 0 – 5 years.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 01/03/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: U.S. Mission to Kazakhstan
Objective:
The U.S. Mission to Kazakhstan’s Public Diplomacy Section invites proposals for programs aimed at strengthening the capacity of Kazakh media organizations. Kazakhstan’s media sector is navigating an important phase of growth and modernization as it adapts to global changes in technology, storytelling, and audience engagement. While local media outlets have made progress, many continue to face challenges in fully adopting innovative tools and practices needed to meet the expectations of a growing digital audience. As news consumption increasingly shifts from traditional platforms to digital, social, and mobile-based media, the demand for modern, high-quality journalism has never been greater.
Eligible Activities:
To remain competitive and relevant, newsrooms—whether traditional, digital-native, hybrid, or radio-based—require expertise in areas such as immersive journalism, advanced storytelling techniques, data-driven decision-making, and audience engagement strategies. For radio newsrooms in particular, digital archiving solutions are essential for enhancing accessibility and expanding reach. Embracing digital tools and strategies is crucial for expanding outlets’ reach and impact in a rapidly evolving media landscape.
Actions must take place in Kazakhstan.
Eligible Applicants:
The following organizations are eligible to apply: Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations, from both the United States and Kazakhstan, with experience in media capacity building and journalism training. Public and private educational institutions from the United States and Kazakhstan that specialize in journalism education, media studies, or professional development.
Total Budget: $145,000
Deadline: 14/03/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
Objective:
The FCDO is intending to issue a call for proposals in February 2025 to provide life-saving protection and services to civilians affected by the conflict in Ukraine.
Eligible Activities:
The primary objective of the intervention is to protect civilians and non-combatants, particularly those who may face barriers to accessing services. This should reduce their exposure to risks, alleviate the effects of violence and other forms of harm, and promote awareness and respect for International Humanitarian Law.
Actions must take place in Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants will need to demonstrate global experience in specialist protection work in armed conflict and displacement situations, and experience of working safely and effectively with high-risk groups. In addition, applicants should have previous experience of leading or being a member of a non-governmental organisation (NGO) consortia or delivering combined programmes with a value of at least £10 million. Applicants should have an established track record of collaboration with government ministries and should participate in the protection cluster and its areas of responsibility and/or other relevant working groups.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 21/03/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: LEGO Foundation & Grand Challenges Canada
Objective:
Grand Challenges Canada is launching a new portfolio, Play Learn Thrive, to respond to gaps in current Early Childhood Development in Emergencies (ECDiE) and Education in Emergencies (EiE) approaches. They aim to create strong support systems for children in complex crisis settings so that they can play, learn, and thrive. They recognize that children’s holistic development, including their physical, intellectual, psychological, cultural, and social wellbeing, is intrinsically linked to the wellbeing and capacity of their caregivers and educators, as well as other members of their community. Strengthening this support network is essential to fostering children’s growth and development.
Eligible Activities:
Supported by The Lego Foundation, this funding call seeks solutions that create more robust support systems for children from birth to 12 years of age in complex crisis settings, with a focus on those who are left behind and whose developmental and educational needs are not being met.
Actions must take place in Jordan, Lebanon, Kenya, Uganda.
Eligible Applicants:
To be eligible for funding, applying organizations must (among other criteria): Be not-for-profit organizations that are legally incorporated; Have an active presence in at least one of the four priority countries (Jordan, Lebanon, Kenya, Uganda); Be legally registered to do business in at least one of the four priority countries; Implement programming directly in at least one of the four priority countries.
Total Budget: CAD250,000 per project
Deadline: 24/04/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: DAN DAVID FOUNDATION
Objective:
The Dan David Prize recognizes and encourages innovative and interdisciplinary research that cuts across traditional boundaries and paradigms. It aims to foster universal values of excellence, creativity, justice, democracy and progress and to promote the scientific, technological and humanistic achievements that advance and improve the world. The Dan David Prize covers three time dimensions – Past, Present and Future – that represent realms of human achievement.
Eligible Activities:
Each year the International Board chooses one field within each time dimension. Following a review process by independent Review Committees comprised of renowned scholars and professionals, the International Board then chooses the laureates for each field. The Past refers to fields that expand knowledge of former times. The Present recognizes achievements that shape and enrich society today. Future focuses on breakthroughs that hold great promise for improvement of the world.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
The prizes are granted to individuals or institutions with proven, exceptional, distinct excellence in the sciences, arts, humanities, public service and business, that have made and continue to make an outstanding contribution to humanity on the basis of merit, without discrimination of gender, race, religion, nationality, or political affiliation.
Total Budget: $300,0000 x 9 prizes
Deadline: 31/10/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: World Food Programme (WFP)
Objective:
The World Food Programme (WFP) is always looking to collaborate with NGOs that share their philosophy and goals, from organizations skilled in distribution, monitoring or early warning activities to those working in food-security assessments, advocacy for food and nutrition-related issues, or local coordination of food-security activities. Working together ensures that their efforts are not duplicated and that they use the resources in a complementary way. By speaking with a common voice, they can be better advocates for the communities they serve.
Eligible Activities:
Depending on the type of partnership arrangement, NGOs partnering with WFP fall into four main categories:
– Capability partners – support the design and implementation of programmes and operations
– Resource partners – provide human, financial and technical resources
– Knowledge partners – contribute information, evaluation and analysis
– Advocacy partners – support advocacy for Zero Hunger
Actions can take place in various countries worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
They are working with more than 1,000 NGOs around the world and they constitute their biggest group of partners.
Total Budget: Large - more than $1,000,000, Medium - up to $1,000,000, Small - up to $100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:
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Programme: Japanese Embassy in Bangladesh
Objective:
The Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh is seeking applications for its Grant Assistance for Grass-Roots Human Security Projects (GGHSP) to support various development projects with a view to enhance human security at the grass-roots level. There is an increasing need for cooperation by the entire international community to realize a peaceful and affluent society in which everybody can live their individual lives in a humane manner.
Eligible Activities:
The overall goal of GGP is to enhance the wellbeing of people at the grassroots level, based on the concept of human security, for example: (1) education: primary education, illiteracy reduction, vocational training, governance, and human resource development in communities; (2) health: primary health care, family planning, HIV/AIDS, rehabilitation for people with disabilities, and communicable diseases; (3) livelihoods: environmental protection, social welfare for people with disabilities, street children and the elderly, gender issues, violence against women, women’s empowerment, and education for girls; and (4) others: disaster planning and prevention.
Actions must take place in Bangladesh.
Eligible Applicants:
Non-profit organisations, which have implemented economic and social development projects, e.g. local NGOs, international NGOs, educational institutions, medical institutions, etc are eligible to apply.
Total Budget: €130,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:
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Programme: Embassy of Canada Sri Lanka
Objective:
The CFLI is a program designed to support small-scale, high-impact projects in developing countries, which align with Global Affairs Canada’s thematic priority areas for engagement. The program is directed at projects conceived and designed predominantly by local partners. Projects are selected and approved by the relevant Canadian embassy or high commission. The CFLI also serves to support positive bilateral relations between Canada and recipient countries and their civil societies, by deepening contacts and supporting local endeavours.
Eligible Activities:
All projects must align with at least one of the following CFLI thematic priorities:
· Environment and climate action, focusing on adaptation and mitigation, as well as on water and/or plastic waste management.
· Growth that works for everyone, including women’s economic rights, decent jobs and entrepreneurship, investing in the poorest and most vulnerable, and safeguarding economic gains.
· Inclusive governance, including diversity, democracy, human rights, LGBTQ2+ rights and the rule of law.
Actions must take place in Maldives.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible recipients include: (1) Local, national or community-based organization (non-governmental and not-for-profit); (2) Local municipal, regional or national government institution or agency of the recipient country; (3) Local academic institution; (4) Canadian organization (non-governmental or not-for-profit) that is working on local development activities; (5) International or regional organization (non-governmental or not-for-profit) that is working on local development activities; (6) Intergovernmental or multilateral institution, organization or agency working on local development activities.
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
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Programme: African Development Bank
Objective:
The focus of this call is to enhance the bankability of Paris-aligned climate projects and mobilize additional climate finance in ADF countries. This will involve financing project preparation, capacity development, and expanding green financing initiatives. Key activities include preparing and strengthening Long- Term Strategies (LTSs), Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and climate diagnostics for Country Strategy Papers.
Eligible Activities:
Actions must take place in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé & Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to (i) Governments and government entities of ADF countries; (ii) African Development Bank departments; (iii) Regional or sub-regional intergovernmental bodies, including climate centers, river basin organizations, economic communities; (iv) Non-sovereign entities (such as Non-Governmental Organizations, Community Based Organizations, and UN Agencies). Proposals from consortia are allowed if all members of the consortium are eligible beneficiaries.
Total Budget: $56,000,000
Deadline: 05/02/2025
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Programme: Embassy of Canada Argentina
Objective:
The CFLI is a program designed to support small-scale, high-impact projects in developing countries, which align with Global Affairs Canada’s thematic priority areas for engagement. The program is directed at projects conceived and designed predominantly by local partners. Projects are selected and approved by the relevant Canadian embassy or high commission. The CFLI also serves to support positive bilateral relations between Canada and recipient countries and their civil societies, by deepening contacts and supporting local endeavours.
Eligible Activities:
All projects must align with at least one of the following CFLI thematic priorities:
· Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
· Growth that works for everyone, including women’s economic rights, decent jobs and entrepreneurship, investing in the poorest and most vulnerable, and safeguarding economic gains.
· Inclusive governance, including diversity and 2SLGBTQI+, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
· Environment and climate action focusing on adaptation and mitigation.
Actions must take place in Argentina.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants are: (1) local non-governmental, community and not-for-profit organisations; (2) local academic institutions working on local projects; (3) international, intergovernmental, multilateral and regional institutions, organisations and agencies working on local development activities; (4) municipal, regional or national government institutions or agencies of the recipient country working on local projects; and (5) Canadian non-governmental and not-for-profit organisations that are working on local development activities.
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: 13/02/2025
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Programme: Creative Flip
Objective:
The cross-sectoral pioneers program aims to:
· Foster Cross-Sectoral Collaboration: Encourage cooperation between professionals from the cultural and creative sectors (CCSI) and those from different sectors, either within or beyond CCSI, to develop innovative partnerships.
· Create Tangible Outputs: Support the development of a working prototype, demonstration, creative/artistic production, or project proposal that can serve as a valuable asset for further development, validation, or investment.
· Enhance Peer Learning and Exchange: Enable knowledge sharing and peer-to-peer learning between participants from different sectors through a structured 5-day hackathon-style exchange program.
· Promote Innovation Through Creativity and AI: Special emphasis is placed on projects that explore the intersection of creativity and artificial intelligence, encouraging participants to experiment with new technologies and creative practices
Eligible Activities:
Extra consideration will be given to projects that:
· Involve vulnerable groups or promote gender balance
· Are led by young professionals
· Embrace sustainable and green practices
· Explore the intersection of creativity and AI
The sectors include architecture, archives, libraries and museums, artistic crafts, audiovisual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), tangible and intangible cultural heritage, design (including fashion design), festivals, music, literature, performing arts, books and publishing, radio, and visual arts.
Actions must take place in Albania, Austria, Armenia, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
One applicant must be a professional or legal entity belonging to a CCSI sector. The other must be a professional or legal entity belonging to another sector, within or beyond the CCSIs and from another eligible country.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 09/02/2025
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https://creativeflip.creativehubs.net/post/cross-sectoral-pioneers-open-call
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Programme: FONDATION HACHETTE
Objective:
The Hachette Foundation seeks to promote and support initiatives that improve access to reading and literacy for diverse populations.
Eligible Activities:
The primary goals include:
· Encouraging a love for books and storytelling across all age groups, particularly among underserved communities.
· Supporting innovative projects that enhance literacy skills or overcome barriers to accessing books.
· Empowering educators, libraries, and cultural organizations to foster a culture of reading and knowledge-sharing.
· Promoting the integration of digital tools and modern approaches to make reading more inclusive and engaging.
The Foundation supports associations and structures that use reading as a tool for the better insertion, inclusion and integration of people in situations of exclusion or rupture. Whether they are people with disabilities, detained, far from employment, precarious, illiterate, the Foundation supports projects that place the learning or relearning of reading and writing at the heart of their devices.
Actions must take place in France or abroad (in the past they have mostly funded French speaking countries)
Eligible Applicants:
To benefit from the Foundation’s support, the Project Leader must meet the following criteria: work in one of the Foundation’s fields of action, namely: in favour of the promotion of reading, books, writing and more generally the French language to all audiences and in particular children, youth in the broad sense and audiences far from reading; be an association or a structure of general interest in the fiscal sense of the term; – have its registered office in France; be established and deploy its actions over a wide territory (at the regional, national or level of a large agglomeration…).
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 14/02/2025
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Programme: U.S. Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo
Objective:
The Congo Basin and its people are increasingly under threat. Slash and burn agriculture, urbanization, rapid population growth, charcoal production, deforestation, illegal logging and mining, and the bushmeat trade, all contribute to environmental degradation. The Congo Basin Conclave conceives of a cross-sectional approach to “smart” development that balances economic opportunities for local communities and protections for indigenous peoples. The Conclave seeks to bring together local stakeholders to build networks that support projects that invest in the people of the Congo Basin, who stand to benefit the most from a healthy, sustainable environment.
Eligible Activities:
In a country that is home to 60% of the Congo Basin – the world’s second-largest rainforest – the U.S. Embassy Kinshasa hosted the first Congo Basin Conclave April 22-24, 2024, with delegations from Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and the Republic of the Congo, as well as participants from across the DRC. Pre-conclave discussions took place in all four participating countries, generating ideas and themes for the Kinshasa Conclave. The 130 participants formed six thematic dialogue groups that met four times over the course of the three days, culminating in recommendations and action plans for cross-border collaborations. The second Congo Basin Conclave will build on this substantive work, galvanizing support for Congo Basin preservation.
Actions must take place in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Eligible Applicants:
The following organizations are eligible to apply: Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations; Public and private educational institutions; Individuals.
Total Budget: €150,000
Deadline: 14/02/2025
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Programme: South Africa USAID-Pretoria
Objective:
The activity seeks to support interventions aligned to one or more of the following objectives that meet the high-level key result:
Eligible Activities:
· Objective 1: Accredited or industry endorsed skills programs with a green skills focus are developed through strong private sector engagement in Mpumalanga’s coal belt communities, with evidence of strong long-lasting institutional support being built. (Note: For interventions where accreditation is being sought, applicants must be clear about how the accreditation process will work, how far along it is or will be based on realistic timelines. For industry certified programs, applicants must demonstrate previous industry acceptance and/or transferability of the certificate.)
· Objective 2: Students and graduates, in their diverse needs and starting points, are provided accredited or industry endorsed technical knowledge and soft skills that are transferable to the workplace and have gained practical work-based learning opportunities required to complete their qualifications because of strong industry partnerships.
· Objective 3: Capacity of youth and graduates/course completers to meaningfully participate in the formal economy is increased by unlocking earning opportunities through local/ community/ business partnerships in identified green sector(s) while also ensuring inclusive and just growth for the historically marginalized in that field.
Actions must take place in South Africa.
Eligible Applicants:
This opportunity is unrestricted.
Total Budget: $5,000,000
Deadline: 18/02/2025
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Programme: King Baudouin Foundation (KBF)
Objective:
The KBF Africa Prize rewards outstanding contributions to development in Africa, initiated and led by Africans. The Prize also seeks to draw public attention to the many inspirational stories, including challenges and successes, emerging from the African continent. The Prize is awarded every other year by the King Baudouin Foundation.
Eligible Activities:
The Prize endeavours to reward innovative initiatives of Africans with a longer term vision and impact proven track record in improving the quality of life. The Selection Committee also pays particular attention to initiatives that stand out as the best in their field, improve the quality of life of the people they serve and empower people to take development into their own hands. There are no restrictions as to the chosen themes. The Selection Committee favors positive approaches that deal with actual challenges in Africa.
Actions must take place in Africa.
Beyond its monetary value of €250,000, it offers its laureates unique opportunities to increase their visibility and promote their cause to international audiences.
Eligible Applicants:
The submission of a candidate’s file may only be undertaken by a nominator. The selection committee will not consider applications by individuals who are applying for the Prize themselves or for an organization within which they are active. The Prize will be awarded to Africans or organisations which are founded and led by Africans.
Total Budget: €250,000
Deadline: 03/03/2025
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Programme: U.S. Mission to Panama
Objective:
The U.S. Embassy in Panama announces a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to promote democratic institutions, accountability, and good governance in Panama with up to $500,000 in Fiscal Year 2024 Economic Support Funds (ESF) for a project period between 18-24 months.
Eligible Activities:
The anticipated start date for this activity is August 4, 2025.
Actions must take place in Panama.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants are: U.S. Non-profit/non-governmental organizations (NGOs) having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS or overseas based NGOs, institutions of higher education, and public international organizations (PIOs); Panama NGOs are strongly encouraged to apply.
Total Budget: $500,000
Deadline: 14/03/2025
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Programme: US Department of State
Objective:
The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting separate applications that address youth engagement and strengthening legislative drafting.
Eligible Activities:
DRL anticipates funding two separate programs, with one project focusing on youth participation and the other project supporting legislative drafting.
Actions must take place in Pakistan.
Eligible Applicants:
DRL welcomes applications from U.S.-based and foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and public international organizations; private, public, or state institutions of higher education; and for-profit organizations or businesses.
Total Budget: $1,500,000 per project
Deadline: 17/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Sustainable Energy (SE) development is essential for Africa and Europe’s green energy transition in order to tackle the global challenge of climate change. Providing reliable and clean energy access to millions of people worldwide is necessary. To this end, the Long-Term Joint EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership on Sustainable Energy (LEAP-SE) program co-funded by the European Commission (EC) under Horizon Europe aims at developing a long-term partnership between Europe and Africa on Research and Innovation (R&I) on sustainable energy. This partnership is set within the framework of the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy (CCSE) partnership of the AU-EU High-Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD) on Science, Technology and Innovation.
Eligible Activities:
The range of activities recommended for collaboration under LEAP-SE will focus on 7 identified multi-annual roadmaps presented in the Call and also on the LEAP-RE thematic priorities:
· Assessment of Renewable Energy Sources and integration of RES in sustainable energy scenarios;
· End-of-life and second‐life management and environmental impact of RE components;
· Smart stand‐alone systems;
· Smart grid (different scales) for off grid application;
· Processes and appliances for productive uses (agriculture, mobility and industry);
· Innovative solutions for priority domestic uses (clean cooking and cold chain);
· Production and utilization of Green Hydrogen
Activities must take place in EU Member States and African countries.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must be private or public bodies established in one of the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €10,000,000
Deadline: 27/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
To fuel the growth trajectory of digital solutions for Rural-Urban synergies and boost the overall project impact, RURBANIVE has launched a single Open Call (OC) providing Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP) as a mechanism to increase the number of Rural-Urban Enablers.
Eligible Activities:
Purpose and Objectives
RURBANIVE Open Call encourages technology & service providers to develop and apply their own RUE within the 6 RURBANIVE domains, increasing the number of RUEs available to endusers. To ensure that the RUEs will be tailor-made to meet each rural-urban area’s needs, the Open Call poses requirements for the submission of proposals from consortia of min 2-max 4 parties including at least 1 technology & service provider (e.g. entities such as SMEs and other private for-profit or non-profit organizations, technological spin-offs, research institutions etc.) and at least 1 end-user (e.g. actors from the rural-urban environments, such as Local & Regional Administrations, Civil Society, Cooperatives, Associations, NGOs, Local Action Groups, Chambers and other Trade representative organizations, etc.). The newly developed RUEs will become available in English and in the local language. In addition, during sub-project implementation matchmaking activities between the developed RUE and the RUEs developed by the RURBANIVE consortium will be pursued and the opportunity will be given to develop the RUE in all relevant languages. Lastly, every developed RUE will have to produce a SUMMARY, which will also be available through RURBANIVE’s Community Store, in all languages of RURBANIVE’s consortium.
The purpose of the Open Call is to provide more solutions for the rural-urban areas, accelerate the expansion of the RURBANIVE innovation ecosystem and ensure an adequate motivation of the end-users. The participants will contribute to the enrichment of the RURBANIVE’s Community Store, which will serve as a one-stop-shop offering enhanced capabilities for searching and accessing digitised solutions and services.
The selected RUEs will be enhanced by new Business Models through participatory processes with rural and urban communities and relevant good practices. The OC will also enable the transfer of good practices and the creation of RUEs in other European rural-urban territories, facilitating the transferability and the replicability of these innovations to EU areas facing similar conditions.
Under the framework described above, the OC aims to:
Address a wider range of societal and environmental challenges related to the 6 RURBANIVE domains.
Harness the potential of using data from multiple sources and make users themselves
part of the solution.
Enable the transferability and accelerate the uptake and upscale of the RUEs at a pan European level towards sustainable and resilient rural areas.
Enhance RURBANIVE’s Community Store by adding at least 6 more RUEs based on
the synergies between rural and urban environments across Europe.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
RURBANIVE will accept applications, involving consortia of 2-4 parties (≥1 technology & service provider and ≥1 end-user) and proposed solutions must fall within one of the following domains:
improving logistics, and shortening value chains
ecosystem and biodiversity restoration
regional circular bioeconomy development
user engagement, empowerment, society and territorial awareness
culture, landscape and heritage access and promotion and
enhanced mobility
An automatic filtering to discard non-eligible proposals will be based on the following criteria:
Legal entity in eligible country;
Uniqueness of the proposal (one proposal per consortium);
Each party can participate in only one proposal; If any applicant is found to participate in multiple applications, all such project applications will be rejected.
Proposal includes at least one technical party (e.g. entities such as SMEs and other private for-profit or non-profit organizations, technological spin-offs, research institutions etc) and at least one rural community (e.g. actors from the rural-urban environments, such as Local & Regional Administrations, Civil Society, Cooperatives, Associations, NGOs, Local Action Groups, Chambers and other Trade representative organizations, etc.);
Proposed solutions fall within one of the six (6) domains: circular economy, ecosystem and biodiversity restoration, improving logistics, and shortening value chains, user engagement, empowerment, society and territorial awareness, culture, landscape and heritage access and promotion & enhanced mobility.
On top of that, the following eligibility criteria apply:
Existing consortium members of the RURBANIVE project and their affiliated entities are not eligible for the OC.
Proposals shall only ask for funding for that part of the work that is not yet accomplished and will be carried out once having been selected for funding. Of course, this does not exclude the usage of e.g., results, IP, infrastructures or approaches already held by the applicants.
All Applicants must have a valid VAT number and must be active and operational. However, in case having VAT number is not mandatory according to the national legislation of the applicant’s country, a registration number from the respective national authority (National business registry, Commercial court or similar) must be provided.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 31/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - AMIF
Objective:
he general objective of this call for proposals is to enhance the prevention of irregular migration in countries of origin and transit and to undermine the business models of migrant smugglers by reducing the demand for their services. This should be achieved by raising awareness about the risks of irregular migration and migrant smuggling in key countries of origin and transit, informing potential migrants about available legal pathways to Europe, and highlighting alternative economic opportunities in their home countries.
Eligible Activities:
The aim is to provide reliable information to counter the false narrative promoted by criminal networks and to alter the perceptions and behaviour of third-country nationals considering irregular migration to the EU, as well as key influencers in their decisions, such as family members, religious or community leaders, teachers, returning migrants, and migration facilitators. This enables migrants and potential migrants to make better-informed decisions based on objective information rather than misinformation spread by smugglers.
Actions must take place in EU Member States and countries associated to the AMIF.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible organisations are legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €10,000,000
Deadline: 01/04/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
The European Commission is seeking proposals to strengthen the capacity of workers' organisations (both in Member States and candidate countries) to address, at EU/transnational level, challenges related to changes in employment and working conditions as well as challenges related to their effective participation in social dialogue.
Eligible Activities:
Themes and Priorities
Actions that address the following themes will be particularly welcome:
· actions aimed at preparing negotiations of autonomous social partner agreements to be concluded at EU level and at supporting their implementation at national level;
· actions related to the implementation of the work programmes of the existing European Social Dialogue Committees;
· actions related to the involvement of social partners in the European Semester and enhancing their contribution to EU policy making.
Other relevant themes for this call are:
· measures which contribute to addressing the employment, social and economic challenges as identified in the European Pillar of Social Rights.
· modernisation of the labour market, job creation and youth employment;
· new forms of work, including telework and platform work;
· strengthening collective bargaining, including on minimum wage;
· quality of work, including fair working-conditions and health and safety at work, anticipation, preparation and management of change and restructuring;
· digitalisation of the economy and society (including artificial intelligence and algorithmic management);
· transition to a climate-neutral economy;
· labour shortages and skills development including re- and upskilling; skills intelligence;
· intra-EU labour mobility, attracting talent in line with the needs of the economies and labour market;
· modernisation of social protection systems, including access to social protection for those in non-standard forms of employment;
· reconciliation of work and family life, gender equality, action in the field of antidiscrimination, healthier and longer working lives, active inclusion and decent work;
· tackling the employment, social and economic consequences of crisis situations.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible Activities
The types of activities which may be funded under this call for proposals include: conferences, seminars, round tables, studies, surveys, publications, training courses, development of training tools, the setting up of networks and the development and exchange of best practices.
Activities funded under this call for proposals should respect the gender equality and anti-discrimination principles. Access for people with disabilities shall be guaranteed.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries, affiliated entities and associated partners) must:
be legal entities (public or private bodies);
be established and registered in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member States
non-EU countries (not for coordinator and single applicant):
Candidate countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine
Total Budget: €5,661,382
Deadline: 15/04/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - UCPM
Objective:
The action “Technical Assistance for Disaster Risk Management” (hereinafter: “Track 1”) provides national disaster risk management authorities of eligible countries with financial support for the development of strategic disaster risk management actions. First introduced in the UCPM Annual Work Programme of 2019, ”Track 1” grants help national civil protection and other disaster risk management authorities prepare investment projects and strengthen their institutional and policy framework. Between 2019 and 2024, 23 Member States have received funding for over 61 grants, for a total value of over EUR 26 million.
Eligible Activities:
Applicants must choose only one of the following priorities:
· Priority 1: Strategic frameworks for disaster risk management
· Priority 2: Investments for disaster risk management
· Priority 3: Investments to improve crisis management capabilities
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Türkiye, Ukraine, Georgia, Kosovo.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be legal entities (public or private bodies) established in the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €6,000,000
Deadline: 23/04/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
The European Commission is inviting proposals to establish a consensus-based digital label concept applicable to all types and classes of medical devices and IVDs, making use of existing technologies that will be further improved to suit medical technology products specifically.
Scope
A digital label is a form of e-labelling provided as an array of elements supporting a medical technology product, which is additional to critical information on the printed label (identification and traceability of the device, warnings and precautions, handling and use information). Access to the digital label is achieved, for example in the form of barcodes, 2D data matrix, QR codes, etc., which provides a scan able link to curated digital landing pages (websites) where the additional information will be displayed.
Aim
To fulfill the overall aim, the action funded under this topic must:
deliver a framework for:
· mapping of data elements that must be physically present on the label and those that the manufacturer can provide digitally. The framework will consider the requirements of EU Regulations (MDR General Safety and Performance Requirement (GSPR) 23.1, IVDR GSPR 20.1; the Packaging and Packaging Waste (PPWD) Directive; Digital Product passport, waste and packaging, battery, etc.) and is meant to also support future EU legislation (or transposition thereof in Member States).
· a standardised concept in providing digital content and structure for the medtech manufacturers. taking into account the different device types.
· define and make publicly available key performance indicators (KPIs) (e.g. trends of access and digital content type) or other measures to assess the acceptability and workability of the potential digital label solution(s), provided by manufacturers, and to be tested with end users (HCPs and patients).
· generate evidence on the acceptability and usability of digital label solutions through testing in a variety of use environments that will be defined by the full consortium.
· engage with all relevant stakeholders (e.g. HCPs, patients, national competent authorities, notified bodies) throughout the project lifetime to get robust input through consultations, surveys, workshops and testing.
· based on the results of testing and body of evidence gathered, develop recommendations on digital labels to inform relevant stakeholders, regulators, policy makers, and the relevant ISO/IEC bodies for the possible development of ISO/IEC standards for digital labelling for medical devices and IVDs.
· ensure appropriate knowledge dissemination via:
· developing training materials;
· subsequently fine-tuning training material for deployment to the public at large in all EU national languages: end users (HCPs, patients)/regulators (national competent authorities)/notified bodies in the EU Member States and any other relevant stakeholders;
· facilitating awareness and communication with other global jurisdictions’ digital label initiatives.
Eligible Activities:
Expected Impact
The action to be funded under this topic is expected to achieve the following impacts:
Streamlined and ‘green’ delivery of information
Key information as well as additional information is easily (and more) visible, accessible and identifiable to users (HCPs, patients) and health authorities equipped with a simple smart device (e.g., phone or tablet device)
Significant reduction of carbon footprint and avoidance of over-labelling, hereby contributing to the European Green Deal
Improved accessibility of information for users (HCPs and patients) and regulators. All the information that users might need is available in one place in their language of choice, thus increasing equal access of users to medical technologies
Targeted information based on user location: in the EU: summary of safety and clinical performance (SSCP), the European database for medical devices (EUDAMED) modules when available; globally: electronic instructions for use (eIFU):
· Crucial information from the printed label is additionally visible upon scanning (e.g. expiry date);
· Connection to technical support in case of problems;
· Reducing risk of use errors;
· Real time updates;
· Avoidance of cluttered labels.
Increased alignment between MDR and other EU and national legislations and streamlined compliance for all. One digital carrier will directly link the user with the up-to-date information required by the Digital Product passport in multiple languages (EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation EU Battery regulation, information on spare parts, etc.), hereby contributing to the European Green Deal
Increased competitiveness in the EU market thanks to improved supply management and streamlined packaging and labelling operations
Driving acceptance through (voluntary) adoption of digital labels by medical device manufacturers and their use by end users, notified bodies, national competent authorities in the European market, supported by the developed training material. Digital label is considered an additional tool to requirements in current legislation (MDR, IVDR).
Expected Outcomes
The action under this topic must contribute to all of the following outcomes:
· A consensus-based digital label concept/framework for medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDs) is available to be used by manufacturers that meets end users’ requirements and addresses regulators’ demands
· Multiple valid and scalable digital label solutions based on a standardised approach are available and they:
· all work with the same enabler (label reader) for all medical technology product labels (all medical devices and IVDs, all types, all classes). This topic does not cover pharmaceutical products as such. Combination products that fall under the scope of regulations on medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices (MDR/IVDR) are, therefore, regulated as devices and are considered to be part of this topic;
· serve as an up-to-date single point of access to all information about the specific device;
· are interoperable with other EU legislation (such as digital product passport) and national legislation (e.g. language requirements);
· consider accepted international standards for data carriers;
· are acceptable after verification via user testing.
· Evidence-based recommendations are available that may inform the European Commission’s and the national competent authorities’ policy recommendations
Training materials on digital labels are available to the end users (healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patients), regulators (national competent authorities) and notified bodies in the EU Member States
A basis towards future international acceptance is created via:
documentation gathered that would be needed to launch a proposal for a new digital label standard or adaptation of an existing standard under the International Organisation for Standardisation/International Electro technical Commission (ISO/IEC) – development of a standard itself is not planned during the lifetime of the project;
awareness raising with other international jurisdictions that consider digital label initiatives.
Eligible Applicants:
Not available
Total Budget: €33,849,000
Deadline: 23/04/2025
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Programme: NEDERLANDS ALBERT SCHWEITZER FONDS (NASF)
Objective:
The Dutch Albert Schweitzer Foundation (NASF) is a small fundraising organisation aimed at supporting projects that strive for sustainability and self-reliance. The Foundation is focused on small-scale local initiatives that significantly improve the development of health care and related issues mostly in Africa. The Foundation is convinced that good health is the foundation for sustainable poverty reduction. By focusing on the promotion of health and health care in the projects it supports, the Foundation seeks to contribute to sustainable development and self-reliance.
Eligible Activities:
Each round, the first 20 applications per theme will be taken into review. After these 160 applications, the tender will be closed. The eight themes actively contribute to SDGs 3 & 6, and cover one or more of the following themes, in random order:
· Mother & Child Care
· Mental Health Care
· Primary Health Care
· Rehabilitation and Support for Vulnerable Groups
· Health Skills
· Menstrual Health M Management (MHM)
· Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
· Pollution Prevention
In 2025, only project applications from the following countries will be taken into consideration: Uganda, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible to receive grant funding are local non-profit organisations and institutions whose projects align with the Foundation’s aims. Requests must be made directly from African organisations.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 31/01/2025
More information and official documents:
http://www.nasf.nl/
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Programme: Rafto Foundation
Objective:
The Rafto Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the global promotion of human rights. The Professor Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize for Human Rights (i.e. the Rafto Prize) has been awarded every year since 1987. The prize sheds light on human rights violations and gives recognition to human rights defenders who deserve the world’s attention. There are no geographical or issue constraints regarding the individuals or organisations that may receive the prize. Each year they award a person or an organisation who stand up for human rights and democracy. They encourage everyone with an interest in or knowledge of human rights to make a nomination for the Rafto Prize.
Eligible Activities:
The Rafto Prize shall help to strengthen the influence of the Prize Laureates’ work on human rights, and the foundation shall facilitate network-building with other Rafto Prize Laureates and fellow human rights defenders. The Rafto Foundation shall increase its ability to influence the work of the business community and schools on human rights. It shall reinforce its work by developing partnerships and collaboration agreements with centres of expertise.
Actions can take place in various countries worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
Anyone with an interest in and knowledge about human rights is welcome to nominate candidates.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 01/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: West Bank, Gaza USAID-West Bank
Objective:
The overall goal of MEPPA is to build the foundation for peaceful co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians and enable a sustainable two-state solution. Working toward that vision, this funding opportunity seeks to strengthen people-to-people grassroots linkages to address common challenges and enhance peacebuilding momentum to affect institutional and policy change.
Eligible Activities:
This funding opportunity for the MEPPA People-to-People Partnership for Peace Fund Grants Activity aims to achieve the following objectives:
· Increase partnership between Palestinians and Israelis, and Arab and Jewish Israelis, to address issues of common interest or concern.
· Bolster efforts by Palestinians and Israelis to address internal divisions that must be overcome to foster peaceful coexistence.
· Improve the enabling environment for cross-border partnership, particularly in development sectors, such that policies, procedures, and structures allow Palestinians and Israelis to engage in meaningful interactions across sectors without any barriers and fear of intimidation.
· Strengthen the resilience of peacebuilding constituencies and institutions.
Actions must take place in Gaza.
Eligible Applicants:
Qualified U.S. or non-U.S. organizations, non-profit, or for-profit entities may apply for funding under this APS. To be eligible, all entities must be legally registered entities under applicable law and eligible under the relevant laws to receive funding from USAID. Individuals, unregistered, or informal organizations are not considered eligible applicants.
Total Budget: $5,000,000
Deadline: 04/03/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: FONDATION NEXANS
Objective:
The purpose of the Nexans Corporate Foundation is to:
support sustainable electrification projects designed to help reduce energy poverty and poverty around the world.
promote training and education for local people in the technical, energy and environmental fields
to support environmental projects (climate, energy sobriety, protection of resources and biodiversity, etc.) linked to the challenges of electrification.
Eligible Activities:
They’re seeking impactful projects that fulfill one or more of the following criteria:
· Provide essential access to electricity for underserved populations.
· Educate and empower communities through knowledge.
· Advocate for environmental initiatives aligned with electrification efforts.
They give priority to the countries in which the Group is present: (1) South America (Chile, Peru, Brazil, Colombia); (2) Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria); (3) Near and Middle East (Turkey, Lebanon); (4) Asia Pacific (Australia, New Zealand, Korea, China); (5) North America (Canada, USA) and (6) Europe (France, Ukraine). But they also support projects in countries where they are not present if they meet all the other criteria’s.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to international NGOs or recognized associations (i.e.: law 1901 in France) that exist for at least 2 years.
Total Budget: €300,000
Deadline: 31/03/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - CERV
Objective:
The objective of this priority is to support EU countries in their efforts to enhancing literacy, maths and science skills by implementing effective teaching, learning and assessment practices, with a specific focus on foundational years (ECEC and primary education). Based on existing evidence the project should look at teaching, learning and assessment practices (including interdisciplinary approaches) which have been assessed and have a demonstrated impact in foundational years (ECEC and primary education), and see how these can be further scaled-up, in particular in ECEC settings and schools with a high concentration of children from vulnerable groups, including low socio-economic background and children with different home languages.
Eligible Activities:
A strong focus should be placed on involving parents/caregivers, including through support to parenting, home reading programmes, as well as on the involvement of other stakeholders, particularly public libraries, scientific institutions, and NGOs, non-formal learning providers (such as EU STEM Coalition national platforms), businesses, local authorities. Projects should place a special attention on Initial Teacher Education and Continuing Professional Development programmes and how they can enhance educators’ understanding of young children’s literacy/communication and mathematical and scientific development, and to understand how to assess this development.
Activities must take place in EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: €3,000,000
Deadline: 29/04/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - CERV
Objective:
This call for proposals aims at supporting, advancing and implementing comprehensive policies to protect and promote the rights of the child, including the right to participate.
Eligible Activities:
It responds to children’s current needs and challenges in the EU, through three priorities:
· Children’s rights in the digital age
· Children’s engagement and participation
· Embedding a rights of the child perspective in actions at national and local level
This call focuses on the implementation of the actions and recommendations at EU, national and local levels of the EU Strategy on the rights of the child. It aims at responding to children’s current needs and challenges in the EU.
It pays attention to the rights of children with specific needs and vulnerabilities, including those who fled the Russian’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Projects can be national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged.
Actions must take place in the Member States of the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. Eligible are also: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants must be either public bodies or non-profit organisations with legal personality. Applicants must be established in the eligible countries. The project must be transnational; the application must involve at least two applicants (lead applicant and at least one co-applicant not being affiliated entity or associated partner) from two different eligible countries
Total Budget: €17,000,000
Deadline: 29/04/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
This priority focuses on the key role of data in primary, secondary, and vocational education. Data from learners, teachers, parents, school facilities (such as classroom and laboratories) is used to assess teaching and learning strategies (learning outcomes, teacher performance, test scores, graduation rates, etc.), and ultimately, the success of a school. Data is also used for comparative analytics purposes across districts, regions, and countries, and it also informs decision making concerning legislation, policies, funding, and innovative learning and teaching methods.
Eligible Activities:
However, the methodologies and criteria to aggregate, process, and synthesise educational data differs widely between schools, institutions, regions, and Member States. This makes comparing and synthesising educational data challenging, especially across Member States, and it impedes the development and implementation of comprehensive strategies for educational improvement and policy formulation.
Therefore, the European Commission wants to support forward-looking ideas, projects and activities that contribute to ethical and privacy-centric data collection methods, the facilitation of relevant data exchange, transnational collaboration agreements, the development of advanced and ethical analytical tools and methodologies, and robust data governance frameworks to ensure consistency and accuracy in collecting and analysing educational data.
Activities must take place in EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: €13,000,000
Deadline: 27/05/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Projects under this priority will aim to foster broader organisational readiness and capacity of education and training institutions as well as more broadly to education and training systems through:
· Identify, map and analyse existing effective initiatives and areas in teaching, learning, and assessment at any level(s) of education and training where generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are of particular use and benefit. Identify challenges as well as success factors for the deployment of generative AI.
· Develop, and pilot innovative approaches, methods, and practices of the use of generative AI systems in teaching, learning and assessment at any level(s) of education and training. Special attention should be paid to the ethical, effective, purposeful and pedagogically underpinned use of the technology.
· Produce guidelines and practical materials, as well as use cases on the critical use of generative AI systems in education and training practices that can be disseminated and easily implemented at organisational level. Those should be complemented with clear recommendations to inform further policy initiatives.
Eligible Activities:
Activities must take place in EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: €13,000,000
Deadline: 27/05/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Projects under this priority will identify and test methods and mechanisms to improve guidance and counselling services to adults, with a particular focus on reaching out to and supporting workers in small and micro-enterprises, at all levels, including management.
Eligible Activities:
Ideally projects should devise approaches that have the potential of becoming mainstreamed. Projects should support guidance services:
· Providing coordinated services offering skills assessment, directing individuals to tailor-made learning options, with validation of the acquired skills.
· Improving the career management skills of individuals.
· Making use of skills intelligence and digital tools, including artificial intelligence, in career guidance to capitalise on new efficiencies and scale.
· Supporting employers to identify which skills their enterprises will need and how they can support their employees to assess and acquire these skills.
· Reinforcing career guidance counsellors’ training and competence development so that they can support individuals to unlock their full potential.
Activities must take place in EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: €13,000,000
Deadline: 27/05/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Projects under this priority will identify and test methods and mechanisms to improve guidance and counselling services to adults, with a particular focus on reaching out to and supporting workers in small and micro-enterprises, at all levels, including management. Ideally projects should devise approaches that have the potential of becoming mainstreamed.
Eligible Activities:
Projects should support guidance services:
· Providing coordinated services offering skills assessment, directing individuals to tailor-made learning options, with validation of the acquired skills.
· Improving the career management skills of individuals.
· Making use of skills intelligence and digital tools, including artificial intelligence, in career guidance to capitalise on new efficiencies and scale.
· Supporting employers to identify which skills their enterprises will need and how they can support their employees to assess and acquire these skills.
· Reinforcing career guidance counsellors’ training and competence development so that they can support individuals to unlock their full potential.
Activities must take place in EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: €8,000,000
Deadline: 27/05/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
The general objectives of the priority are to contribute to:
· removing barriers to internal mobility for work and study purposes, facilitating the recognition of qualifications and learning outcomes;
· developing a highly skilled, qualified and mobile workforce, opening up opportunities for learners, workers and businesses;
· strengthening the quality, relevance and attractiveness of VET by supporting joint developments.
Eligible Activities:
The specific objective of the priority is to support the development and delivery of joint VET qualifications and/or modules that are part of qualifications, or the improvement of existing ones, thus facilitating the mutual recognition of qualifications and learning outcomes and contributing to removing barriers to work and study mobility within the EU. The joint qualifications and/or modules will include a work-based learning component and a mobility window for a certain number of VET learners to participate in exchanges or rotation among the partners and ensure the recognition of the joint qualification and/or modules among the participating organisations.
Activities must take place in EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: €8,000,000
Deadline: 27/05/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
The general objectives of the priority are to contribute to:
· removing barriers to internal mobility for work and study purposes, facilitating the recognition of qualifications and learning outcomes;
· developing a highly skilled, qualified and mobile workforce, opening up opportunities for learners, workers and businesses;
· strengthening the quality, relevance and attractiveness of VET by supporting joint developments.
Eligible Activities:
The specific objective of the priority is to support the development and delivery of joint VET qualifications and/or modules that are part of qualifications, or the improvement of existing ones, thus facilitating the mutual recognition of qualifications and learning outcomes and contributing to removing barriers to work and study mobility within the EU. The joint qualifications and/or modules will include a work-based learning component and a mobility window for a certain number of VET learners to participate in exchanges or rotation among the partners and ensure the recognition of the joint qualification and/or modules among the participating organisations.
Activities must take place in EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: €8,000,000
Deadline: 27/05/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
The forward-looking projects should aim at promoting an enabling and supportive environment for vocational excellence at national and/or regional level through support structures, wide dissemination of the CoVE projects and their results, further developing synergies with the work of various stakeholders, also sharing similar thematic or sectoral approaches, mapping of funding opportunities and other existing initiatives in the countries participating, thereby increasing the impact of the individual CoVEs, and promoting their sustainability and scalability beyond Erasmus+ funding.
Eligible Activities:
Activities must take place in EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: €8,000,000
Deadline: 27/05/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
The objective of this priority is to support EU countries in their efforts to enhancing literacy, maths and science skills by implementing effective teaching, learning and assessment practices, with a specific focus on foundational years (ECEC and primary education).
Eligible Activities:
Based on existing evidence the project should look at teaching, learning and assessment practices (including interdisciplinary approaches) which have been assessed and have a demonstrated impact in foundational years (ECEC and primary education), and see how these can be further scaled-up, in particular in ECEC settings and schools with a high concentration of children from vulnerable groups, including low socio-economic background and children with different home languages.
A strong focus should be placed on involving parents/caregivers, including through support to parenting, home reading programmes, as well as on the involvement of other stakeholders, particularly public libraries, scientific institutions, and NGOs, non-formal learning providers (such as EU STEM Coalition national platforms), businesses, local authorities.
Projects should place a special attention on Initial Teacher Education and Continuing Professional Development programmes and how they can enhance educators’ understanding of young children’s literacy/communication and mathematical and scientific development, and to understand how to assess this development.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: €3,000,000
Deadline: 27/05/2025
More information and official documents:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-SCHOOL-BS
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Programme: US Mission to IRAQ
Objective:
The U.S. Embassy Baghdad Public Affairs Section (PAS) is pleased to announce that funding is available through its Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program. This is an Annual Program Statement outlining our funding priorities, the strategic themes we focus on, and the procedures for submitting requests for funding. PAS Baghdad invites proposals that strengthen ties between the U.S. and Iraq through programming that highlights shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation.
Eligible Activities:
All programs must include an American cultural element, or connection with American expert/s, organization/s, or institution/s in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives.
· Strengthening Governance, Democracy, and the Rule of Law
· Strengthening Civil Society and Promoting Civic Engagement
· Enhancing Professionalism in the Media
· Combatting Disinformation
· Countering Violent Extremism
· Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship
· Empowering Women and Youth
· Fostering U.S.-Iraqi Cultural Ties
Actions must take place in Iraq.
Eligible Applicants:
The Public Affairs Section encourages applications from the following types of organizations: Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/nongovernmental organizations with programming experience; Non-profit or governmental educational institutions; Governmental institutions. For-profit or commercial entities are not eligible to apply.
Total Budget: $500,000
Deadline: 30/08/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: United States Agency for International Development
Objective:
The United States Agency for International Development has launched its South Asia Regional Energy Partnership Fund to improve access to affordable, secure, reliable, and sustainable energy in six countries—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka— in line with these countries’ climate and clean energy priorities.
The program is a key activity under the U.S. Government’s Clean Edge Asia -Enhancing Development and Growth through Energy initiative and aligns with USAID’s climate change priorities to advance equitable and ambitious actions to confront the climate crisis. The program helps the United States Government’s Indo-Pacific Vision and facilitates collaboration among the six countries in South Asia to accelerate the transition to clean energy, mitigate climate change, and promote energy security.
Eligible Activities:
Objectives and Themes
SAREP seeks to encourage targeted action and drive systems change by engaging policymakers, regulators, utilities, private sector, investors, and think tanks among others, through four key technical objectives and three cross-cutting themes:
Objective 1: Enhanced regional energy markets and integration
SAREP will facilitate development of regional power markets, improve coordination and planning, strengthen national and regional institutions, drive consensus on power trade, and institutionalize a supporting framework and mechanisms.
Objective 2: Increased deployment of advanced energy solutions and systems
SAREP will enhance and accelerate deployment of clean energy technologies for transition to net zero emissions by helping partner countries reach near-term climate goals and avoid locking in longer term emissions trajectories.
Objective 3: High-performing modern utilities
SAREP will enable modernization of transmission, system operation and distribution utilities in the region to improve their technical, financial, and operational performance, grid resilience, enhance customer service, and promote adaptability to new technical advancements.
Objective 4: Transparent, best-value procurement and private sector investment mobilized
SAREP will facilitate increased private sector investments and enhance domestic and international finance for clean energy deployment.
SAREP’s activities and outcomes also support and contribute to the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP) and the Climate Action and Finance Mobilization Dialogue (CAFMD) under the recently established U.S.-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership. Through this collaboration, India and the U.S. aim to demonstrate swift climate action that is inclusive, resilient, and based on national and regional priorities. Countries in the region will also benefit from this collaboration through sharing of the learnings, best practices, lessons, and templates from previous experience which can be customized and replicated in other South Asian countries:
Private sector engagement. SAREP will enable and enhance private sector participation, leverage and mobilize resources, strengthen the enabling environment, increase awareness and understanding of solutions to enhance private sector finances, and promote replication of successful approaches.
Gender diversity and inclusion. SAREP will increase awareness and enable inclusion considerations in the energy sector, particularly mainstreaming gender in the energy sector. It will also engage and promote women leaders and entrepreneurs across the region.
Pollution mitigation. SAREP will advance clean energy deployment to reduce air pollution associated with the energy sector.
Eligible Activities
To achieve the results outlined under the four technical objectives, the SAREP Partnership Fund will support the types of activities illustrated below:
Pilot demonstrations
Incubation support
Feasibility studies, detailed project reports, and market assessments
Knowledge management and dissemination
Policy advocacy and consensus building
Knowledge sharing, exchange, and institutional capacity development
Developing business models and innovative solutions, and structuring of innovative financial transactions to enable clean energy transition
Design and deploy new decision-making tools
Ineligible Activities
The SAREP Partnership Fund cannot be utilized for the following activities:
Support expansion of capacity or extend the operational life of carbon-intensive fossil fuelbased energy projects (e.g., oil, fossil [natural] gas, and coal). Support for natural gas for household energy access projects, in particular clean cooking projects, can be considered, if no cleaner options are feasible.
Purchases of restricted goods, such as agricultural commodities, motor vehicles, pharmaceuticals, contraceptive products, pesticides, used equipment, or fertilizers without the previous approval of the USAID Task Order Contracting Officer (TOCO).
Purchase of prohibited goods under USAID regulations, including but not limited to police or law enforcement equipment, abortion equipment and services, weather modification equipment, luxury goods, and gambling equipment.
Purchases of any equipment or services from specific companies, or their subsidiaries and affiliates, including Huawei Technologies Company, ZTE Corporation, Hytera Communications Corporation, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company, and Dahua Technology Company (“Covered Technology”).
Purchases of goods or services restricted or prohibited under the prevailing USAID source/nationality and other regulations; or from countries or suppliers as may be identified by USAID's consolidated list of debarred, suspended, or ineligible subcontractors.
Construction, infrastructure, renovation, and rehabilitation projects. Definition of “Construction” for purposes of this manual means construction, alteration, or repair (including dredging and excavation) of buildings, structures, or other real property and includes, without limitation, improvements, renovation, alteration, and refurbishment. The term includes, without limitation, roads, power plants, buildings, bridges, water treatment facilities, and vertical structures.
Other costs unallowable under USAID rules and/or federal regulation 2 CFR 200 such as fees/profits by the recipient (including sub-awardees).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
The SAREP Partnership Fund grants can be provided to private sector/for-profit entities; notfor-profit organizations; nongovernmental organizations (NGOs); civil society organizations; business service organizations; industry, trade, or other private sector associations; educational/training or academic institutions; and think tank/research entities which are eligible to receive foreign funded grants in accordance with applicable local regulations. Government and or quasi-government (parastatal entities) are not eligible to apply for and receive grants funded under this APS. All applicants will be bound by various USAID regulations as relevant and set forth in the US Code of Federal Regulations and Automated Directive System.
Grantees should be registered in any of the countries not expressly prohibited in ADS 310 and should be legally authorized to operate in the country/ies where performance of grant activities are proposed.
To be eligible for funding grantees must:
Have no real or apparent conflicts of interest that could jeopardize the impartiality of the selection process or arise and affect project implementation. Applicants will be required to proactively declare any such potential conflicts so that they are mitigated in advance of applicant consideration. Any such conflicts can be personal, business, or finance related.
Be legally authorized to receive foreign funded grants and conduct activities in the country for which application is made and accordingly demonstrate compliance with all applicable local legal and regulatory requirements such as but not limited to:
In the case of India, comply with applicable provisions of the Foreign Contributions Regulations Act FCRA and have an active and valid FCRA registration valid at least for 6 months as of the date of application.
In the case of Nepal, comply with provisions of The Social Welfare Act, 2049 (1992), and/or Associations Registration Act, 2034 (1977) and/or The Income Tax Act, 2002 (2058), as may be applicable.
In the case of Bhutan, comply with regulations and norms of Civil Society Organization Authority (CSOA), Bhutan and the Bhutan Royal Monetary Authority, as may be applicable.
In the case of Sri Lanka, have the mandatory registrations and approvals from the relevant Government Ministry. In addition, comply with regulations specified by External Resources Department under the Ministry of Finance and provisions specified by Voluntary Social Service Organizations (Registration and Supervision) Act, No. 31 of 1980 as amended, as may be applicable.
In the case of Maldives, comply with regulations and provisions of Ministry of Youth, Sports & Community Empowerment and the Associations Act 1/2003, as may be applicable.
In the case of Bangladesh, comply with the provisions of Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulations Act, 2016, as may be applicable.
Total Budget: $500,000
Deadline: 31/01/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.rti.org/sites/default/files/SAREP-Partnership-Fund-Solicitation%20APS%20FY25.pdf
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Programme: Culture and Animals Foundation
Objective:
The Culture & Animals Foundation has announced its annual Grants Program.
Eligible Activities:
Eligible Funding
CAF does provide grants for documentary films and videos, but given the costs associated with both, applicants should show they have raised most of the money in advance of applying to CAF.
Ineligible Funding
CAF does not fund:
“Hands-on” projects, including animal rescue, public protest or trap-neuter-release programs;
Species conservation projects, unless they include a commitment to animal rights and aspects of creativity, performance, or research;
Projects that consist entirely of attending or speaking at a conference or conferences;
Book production (CAF does support research and writing);
Indirect costs: no portion of a CAF grant may be used for “administrative costs,” “overhead,” or any other form of indirect cost.
CAF does provide grants for documentary films and videos, but given the costs associated with both, applicants should show they have raised most of the money in advance of applying to CAF.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Applications should be submitted in English.
Grants are awarded in three categories: Research (scholarly projects about animal advocacy and its cultural roots and impact); Creativity (original work by artists and thinkers that expresses positive concern for animals); and Performance (public performances and exhibitions to raise awareness of animal advocacy).
Application Requirements
Applications with supplemental materials should not exceed 20 MB file size.
Application files must be submitted in PDF format. Please use this format for naming files: first initial, last name, and number of documents; eg JDoe1, JDoe2, and JDoe3.
Please be ready to include the following in the online application form: a resume or curriculum vitae, complete budget information (as specific as possible), and one letter of support, containing a brief bio of the person submitting the letter on your behalf.
For your project, please be ready to include the following information in the online application form:
A project summary
Which of the three programs (creativity, research, or performance) your project fits under
The mission or purpose of your project
A definition of the need your project intends to meet
The targeted population(s) for your project
Expected results
Timetable for your project and implementation plan
How you will evaluate the success of your project
Information on the success of this project or program in the past
Budget overview
Supply relevant websites or social media sites
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 31/01/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use
Objective:
The WASCAL Doctoral Research Programme in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management (DRP-CC&DRM) is pleased to announce applications for its sixth batch of PhD students.
This programme, hosted at Université de Lomé, Togo, is part of the Capacity Building Programme of West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), with funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
WASCAL is a fully West African international organisation focused on academic and transdisciplinary research, aimed at building graduate-level scientific capacity and serving policy makers in West Africa with science-based advice on adaptation to Climate Change impacts and land use management. It collaborates with many agencies and universities across West Africa, creating a platform of excellence for knowledge exchange with its partners.
WASCAL’s mission is to offer information and knowledge services at local, national and regional levels to help West African member countries address the various challenges posed by Climate Change. This is achieved by providing capacity building support to young West African scholars in the fields of climate, natural and social sciences and by delivering climate and environmental services across its member countries.
Eligible Activities:
Objectives
The DRP-CC&DRM will educate international students to understand the threat and risks associated with Climate Change, get familiar with early warning systems and know ways and means to improve the coping capacity of populations who are affected. They will be exposed to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to assessing threats and work in multidisciplinary teams with affected groups in harnessing their inherent resilience to hazards. Upon completion of their study, the students are expected to be able to:
analyze with scientific tools and methods the threats and risks to society or communities to the impact of Climate Change;
synthesize knowledge regarding integrated management strategies to Climate Change effects, specifically to improve human safety; and
prepare background document and policy notes that offer options to deal with climate change; and assist communities in dealing with Climate Change hazards by adaptation and mitigation.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
The DRP-CC&DRM is opened for students and professionals having a Master’s degree (M.Sc.) with Mention “Assez-bien” or Second-class Upper division or equivalent, in relevant disciplines: Geography, Agronomy, Sociology, Environmental science, and other pertaining disciplines.
Applicants should:
Be a citizen of one of the twelve member countries of WASCAL;
Hold a minimum master’s degree (M.Sc. with Mention “Assez-bien” or Second-class Upper division holder in the above cited disciplines)
Provide a motivation letter
Provide recommendation letters from three referees
Provide copy of birth certificate and passport
Provide all academic transcripts (from Baccalaureate to master’s degree)
Provide a copy of master’s diploma
Provide an updated curriculum vitae
Must have at least an intermediate level of English
Age limit: 35
Total Budget: €NOT AVAILABLE
Deadline: 31/01/2025
More information and official documents:
https://wascal.org/doctoral-programme-climate-change-and-disaster-risks-management/
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Programme: International Visegrad Fund
Objective:
The Visegrad grants support regional partnerships among NGOs and civil society organizations, public institutions and municipalities, private companies and nonprofit organizations as well as education and research centers that contribute to cooperation in the Visegrad region.
Eligible Activities:
Objectives
To apply for Visegrad Grants, your project must address one of the objectives of the grant program from the seven focus areas eligible for funding.
Culture and Common Identity
Projects creating/presenting common audiovisual, literary, and other contemporary art products to new audiences
Projects reflecting on common historical and cultural heritage as well as cultural diversity by joint research and knowledge-sharing activities
Projects establishing and fostering cooperation among municipalities, regions, and local groups through common cultural activities
Education and Capacity Building
Projects strengthening professional networks of educational institutions and supporting mobility of students, researchers, and educators to share best practices
Projects improving hard and soft skills for the 21st century through formal and non-formal educational methods
Innovation, R&D, Entrepreneurship
Projects aiming to build up new business and cluster networks for SMEs, startups, and research institutions within and outside the V4
Projects tackling economic challenges and improving the ecosystem for businesses and social enterprises through joint lobbying, common policy solutions and exchange of best practices
Projects dealing with innovation, new technologies and scientific research on regional and cross-sectoral levels
Democratic Values and the Media
Projects promoting active participation of citizens in democratic decision-making processes and fostering democratic debate
Projects promoting transparency and the fight against corruption by supporting knowledge-exchange and capacity-building of whistleblowers, investigative journalists, and watchdogs
Projects improving media and information literacy, and increasing resilience towards biased reporting, disinformation, and propaganda
Projects aiming for better media coverage of relevant topics in the V4 region and increased access to information
Public Policy and Institutional Partnership
Projects connecting the expert communities to find joint solutions to common policy challenges
Projects promoting active lobbying for policy change and good governance and connecting relevant stakeholders with decision-makers
Regional Development, Environment and Tourism
Projects offering new solutions and activities to the fight against climate change and raising awareness of environmental protection within and outside the V4 region
Projects aiming at sustainable tourism development on the local and regional levels by combining international expertise and shared know-how
Projects aiming at finding and sharing innovative solutions in local and regional infrastructure development, urban planning, land revitalization and agriculture
Social Development
Projects promoting an inclusive mindset in society and addressing protection and empowerment of minorities
Projects improving intergenerational dialogue and the social care infrastructure to tackle common demographic and public health challenges
Projects promoting a healthy and active lifestyle and reduction of addictive substance abuse.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any non-governmental, legal entity from any country can apply for support if they fulfil the partnership criteria. The Fund’s main targets are civil society organizations (CSOs), public educational, cultural, research and scientific institutions, municipalities, and local governments, but market actors, e.g., companies – especially innovation and startup-related ones – are also eligible, if their project is of nonprofit character.
Natural persons (individual citizens) or institutions of state administration directly subordinated to the state and its bodies, e.g., ministries, government and state agencies, embassies, etc. can neither apply nor be valid project partners.
Private entrepreneurs are not eligible to apply or be partners.
Subjects that possess full or partial independence from state administration and possess self-governance (such as universities, academic, artistic, social, educational, cultural, research and/or science organizations, municipalities, and local governments, etc.) can apply for the Fund’s support.
If the applicant is a research or higher education institution with several organizational units (e.g., universities, academies of science, etc.), they are obliged to indicate the name of the smallest possible organizational unit (institute, department, etc.) entrusted with the project’s implementation. Without this information, the application will not be considered eligible. When choosing the appropriate unit, make sure that they are entitled, according to their internal rules, to independently apply for project funding.
Should an overlapping larger unit (e.g. a faculty of the university) have a running grant in the same grant scheme that the applicant wishes to apply for, it is the responsibility of the applicant to make sure that the running project is administered by a separate subunit (e.g. the applicant is a department under a faculty which already has a running project – a clear separation of subunits will be necessary to make the new proposal eligible).
Consortia of organizations of which 2 or more are based in different Visegrad countries
All types of non-governmental, civil society organizations (CSOs); municipalities and local governments; schools, higher education institutions; research and scientific bodies and public institutions are eligible as lead partner (applicant) and partners in the consortia.
Market actors, e.g., companies – especially innovation and startup related actors – with a legal entity are also eligible, but only if their Visegrad project is of nonprofit character
Total Budget: €NOT AVAILABLE
Deadline: 01/02/2025
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Programme: International Visegrad Fund
Objective:
The International Visegrad Fund is pleased to announce the Strategic Grants Program to support project addressing annual strategic priorities of the Visegrad Group.
Eligible Activities:
Strategic Priorities
Promoting volunteering in the V4 region
Intensifying cross-border volunteering in the V4 region and/or improving conditions for both volunteers and the respective host institutions.
Promoting shared values
Strengthening relations between civil societies in the Visegrad region in the context of the 25th anniversary of the Visegrad Fund’s establishment. Supporting projects that promote shared cultural and historical values.
Supporting water management and flood protection cooperation in the region
Promoting joint water management and flood protection initiatives. Fostering collaboration on disaster preparedness and climate resilience across Visegrad and neighbouring countries.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any non-governmental, legal entity from any country can apply for support if they fulfil the partnership criteria. The Fund’s main targets are civil society organizations (CSOs), public educational, cultural, research and scientific institutions, municipalities, and local governments, but market actors, e.g., companies – especially innovation and startup-related ones – are also eligible, if their project is of nonprofit character.
Natural persons (individual citizens) or institutions of state administration directly subordinated to the state and its bodies, e.g., ministries, government and state agencies, embassies, etc. can neither apply nor be valid project partners.
Private entrepreneurs are not eligible to apply or be partners.
Subjects that possess full or partial independence from state administration and possess self-governance (such as universities, academic, artistic, social, educational, cultural, research and/or science organizations, municipalities, and local governments, etc.) can apply for the Fund’s support.
If the applicant is a research or higher education institution with several organizational units (e.g., universities, academies of science, etc.), they are obliged to indicate the name of the smallest possible organizational unit (institute, department, etc.) entrusted with the project’s implementation. Without this information, the application will not be considered eligible. When choosing the appropriate unit, make sure that they are entitled, according to their internal rules, to independently apply for project funding.
Should an overlapping larger unit (e.g. a faculty of the university) have a running grant in the same grant scheme that the applicant wishes to apply for, it is the responsibility of the applicant to make sure that the running project is administered by a separate subunit (e.g. the applicant is a department under a faculty which already has a running project – a clear separation of subunits will be necessary to make the new proposal eligible).
Consortia of organizations of which 2 or more are based in different Visegrad countries
All types of non-governmental, civil society organizations (CSOs); municipalities and local governments; schools, higher education institutions; research and scientific bodies and public institutions are eligible as lead partner (applicant) and partners in the consortia.
Market actors, e.g., companies – especially innovation and startup related actors – with a legal entity are also eligible, but only if their Visegrad project is of nonprofit character
Total Budget: €NOT AVAILABLE
Deadline: 01/02/2025
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Programme: Allianz Foundation
Objective:
The Allianz Foundation is accepting submissions for its Grants Program to support initiatives with civil society, ecological, cultural and artistic backgrounds.
The Allianz Foundation places a special emphasis on projects working at the intersection of these areas and pursuing systematic change. Enabling better living conditions for the next generations: this is their mission. The Allianz Foundation works with partners in Europe and the Mediterranean who are committed to social justice, open societies, and a living planet.
What are they looking for?
They are looking for applications in the fields of Arts & Culture, European Civil Society and Climate & Environment from Europe and the Mediterranean region that
pursue a clear impact plan and systemic approaches and look for solutions beyond predetermined paths. They request applicants to specifically describe the problem they are addressing and how their project can contribute to a solution.
develop a sustainable vision that goes beyond the duration of the immediate project. What will last beyond the end of the funding period and would not have been possible without the project?
have a trans-local dimension and at the same time are strongly tied in their surroundings – projects that aim to address global challenges by bringing about concrete changes in their region, communities or local environment.
use natural resources responsibly and develop ecologically sustainable formats and strategies.
Eligible Activities:
Eligible Projects
Three areas for concrete impact
Projects must demonstrate the extent to which they meet at least one of the criteria listed below.
Culture
In the area of Arts and Culture, they are particularly interested in projects that
enable participation: The projects are designed by people from different social backgrounds, which enables them to participate practically, make their voices heard and communicate their personal experiences to others (whether as actors, producers, or audiences).
Open up spaces for community experiences: The projects make concrete and measurable efforts to anchor culture in the center of society, they counteract social polarization through openness and approachabilitiy; they explicitly include groups for whom art might often appear exclusive and elitist.
Advance cultural change: The projects work at the intersection of art and climate and have an impact in both directions by dealing with a sustainable transformation of cultural practices at the level of production, reception or mediation and/or by using artistic means to test concrete ideas for fairer forms of coexistence on the planet.
Europe
In the area of European Civil Society, they are particularly interested in project that:
strengthen spaces for civil society and democratic resilience as well as promote social cohesion. These projects are active across borders and contribute to safeguarding civil liberties and the rule of law. They enable other civil society actors to develop in a sustainable way and to work independently and effectively.
strengthen the role of journalism and the media as guardians of democratic structures in Europe and the Mediterranean region, create the necessary conditions for independent, fact-based journalism and support open discourse across political divides.
Climate & Environment
In the area of Climate & Environment, they are particularly interested in projects that
Develop and implement strategies in the field of climate transformation. Projects support the decarbonization of the built environment sector and the development of liveable cities for all, putting them on the political agenda. Here, what is important to us is a systemic-transformative approach;
are committed to sustainable land use at various levels in the field of biodiversity conservation/natural climate protection. Projects should work systemically for the conservation and promotion of biodiversity as well as for natural and ecosystem-based climate solutions and at the same time incorporate social justice, inclusion and participation. They especially welcome projects that work with or in rural areas and offer approaches for systemic changes towards sustainable food production and consumption.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
They particularly welcome submissions from organizations led by women, young people and/or groups affected by marginalization.
They welcome project proposals that use participatory approaches and actively involve their target groups in project development.
Application documents can generally be submitted in German or English.
The Allianz Foundation supports projects and partners in Europe and the Mediterranean that work to improve the living conditions of the Next Generations.
Total Budget: €500,000
Deadline: 10/02/2025
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Programme: UK PACT (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions)
Objective:
The ASEAN-UK Green Transition Fund (GTF) Program aims to accelerate ASEAN’s transition to a clean and climate-resilient economy by reducing emissions in key sectors, supporting green economic growth and improving the livelihoods of vulnerable people.
It will provide technical assistance throughout the region, targeting all ten ASEAN Member States (AMS) and Timor-Leste. The GTF works with ASEAN institutions, such as the ASEAN Secretariat, ASEAN Centres and Facilities, and various ASEAN Entities and Sectoral Bodies.
Eligible Activities:
Pillars
The ASEAN-UK GTF spans across three pillars:
Strengthening Climate Policy and Institutional Capacity (Climate Policy):
The vision highlighted the need for higher ambition in climate policy in alignment with national and regional development priorities, such as poverty reduction. It strengthened capacity and transparency to help build institutional frameworks and successfully deliver outcomes. The GTF is seeking proposals to help support this vision's delivery.
Greening Finance to Strategic Mitigation Action (Green Finance):
This pillar's objectives are to support the development of innovative financing mechanisms and improve climate finance's effectiveness, quality, and transparency, responding to the needs and priorities of ASEAN Member States.
Accelerating Clean and Just Energy Transition Measures (Clean and Just Energy Transition):
ASEAN-UK GTF aims to address several critical gaps in ASEAN’s energy transition:
Technology Adoption and Integration: One of the primary gaps is the slow rate of adoption and integration of advanced clean energy technologies across the region. This includes renewable energy sources like solar and wind and energy-efficient technologies in industrial processes and power grids. The proposed work packages will focus on facilitating the adoption of these technologies through pilot projects, demonstrations, and capacity building, which are crucial for reducing reliance on fossil fuels and enhancing energy security.
Regulatory and Policy Frameworks: Another significant gap is the lack of comprehensive and supportive regulatory and policy frameworks that can encourage investment in and deployment of renewable energy. Work packages aim to assist in developing and harmonising policies that promote renewable energy, energy efficiency, and carbon trading, which are essential for creating a conducive environment for the energy transition.
Financing and Investment: There is also a gap in securing sufficient financing and investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. The focus will be on developing financial mechanisms and models to leverage private and public investment, such as green bonds, climate finance, and public-private partnerships, to support large-scale energy transition projects.
Capacity Building and Knowledge Transfer: Limited local expertise and capacity in planning, implementing, and managing energy transition initiatives are substantial barriers. Through the UK PACT, work packages will address this gap by providing targeted training programs, workshops, and knowledge exchange forums to build the capabilities of ASEAN energy stakeholders.
Market Development for Clean Energy: Another gap is the region's underdevelopment of markets for clean energy technologies. This includes the need for more supply chains for renewable energy technologies and services. Work packages will support the development of these markets by fostering regional and national supply chains and promoting local manufacturing of clean energy technologies.
Public Awareness and Stakeholder Engagement: The public and key stakeholders often lack sufficient awareness and engagement about the benefits and necessity of the energy transition. Projects will enhance public and stakeholder engagement through awareness campaigns, stakeholder consultations, and participatory planning processes to ensure broad support for transition policies and initiatives.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Applicant
Government agencies and/or departments, including the ASEAN Secretariat, are not eligible to apply as a lead organisation or partner in a consortium.
International, national and local organisations are eligible to apply.
Organisations applying as a consortium must have at least one entity that is based in ASEAN Member States and/or Timor-Leste, either as consortium lead or consortium partner.
Application
Applications must be coherent and legible.
All documents must be completed. The omission of any one document will lead to disqualification.
Applications and all forms of communication with the programme must be submitted in English.
Total Budget: £800,000
Deadline: 19/02/2025
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Programme: ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE)
Objective:
The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE), with the support of the International Research Development Center (IRDC) is calling for the Women of Clean Energy in West Africa (WOCEWA) grants for women entrepreneurs in energy sector.
Eligible Activities:
The WOCEWA Grants will fund Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) under the ECOWAS Programme on Gender Mainstreaming in Energy Access (ECOW-GEN), with the objective of promoting gender-responsive investments and business development. The aim of the grant is to support Women led SMEs who need small grant funding for their businesses. Specifically, the grant will aim to subsidize the costs of borrowing from commercial/regional banks. ECOW-GEN has done this before through ECOW-GEN Facility’s components:
ECOWAS Women’s Business Fund.
Women’s Technical Exchange program.
Women’s Economic Empowerment through Energy for Productive Uses.
However, this grant aims to reduce barriers and supporting more women into these sectors will:
improve outcomes for women led business in energy sector.
help SMEs be fair and more inclusive.
address skills shortages in energy sector.
boost women led business performance in energy sector.
Thus, the Grant will focus on contributing towards technology development and transfer; knowledge and skills acquisition; and establishment of sustainable energy businesses.
These actions must fall within one or several of the following three categories:
Category A: Investment
This category covers the implementation, acquisition, purchase, and/or installation of new software, hardware, equipment, or other technologies, development of new technologies. Some examples include:
Contributions to the installation of renewable energy systems such as solar panels, wind turbines, invertors, storage systems, power and charging for EV or any other relevant equipment.
The implementation of energy optimization/management software on a production line.
Development of new technology in clean cooking by efficient cookstoves by biogas, briquettes, bioethanol.
Category B: Consultancy
This category covers advisory & consultancy services related to the promoting of renewable energy. Also, the identification and implementation of energy efficiency improvements, as well as energy audits.
Support SMEs led by women in the energy sector and define a detailed investment, a roadmap to improve their performance.
Carry out a technical consultation to identify areas of improvement in renewable energy, energy efficiency and technologies adapted to the market.
Carry out a technical consultation for gender integration in SMEs, private and public sector.
Category C: Skills & Training
This category covers access to training, courses, classes, and programs for education and upskilling of employees in gender and energy topics. Some specific examples include:
Training for employees on best practices, awareness, regulatory aspects, and behavioral change related to gender mainstreaming in the energy sector.
training in specialized areas ranging from business development to technology fabrication and/or application.
Training to help WSMEs in producing audit statements, developing cash flow forecasts, technical studies.
Geographical Focus
The project must be implemented in at least one of of the ECOWAS Member States.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
The following entities will be eligible:
Women and Community-based groups and associations (including youth organizations);
Entrepreneurs/private sector
Social enterprises
Small and Medium Enterprises
Start-ups
A Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) is a category of micro, small and mediumsized enterprises. It consists of enterprises that employ fewer than 250 persons and have either an annual turnover not exceeding EUR 50 million, or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding EUR 43 million.
The industrial end-user could be an SMEs or Large Company. It is important that the solution is applied in a real industrial environment. Test areas or simulated environment will not be considered as industrial applications.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 20/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.ecreee.org/grant-notice-grants-for-women-entrepreneurs-in-energy-sector-wee/
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Programme: United States Department of Health and Human Services
Objective:
The Department of Health and Human Services is requesting grant applications to encourage exploratory/developmental research applications that propose to study the development, validation, feasibility, and effectiveness of innovative mobile health (mHealth) interventions or tools specifically suited for low and middle-income countries (LMICs) that utilize new or emerging technology, platforms, systems, and/or analytics.
The overall goal of the program is to catalyze innovation through multidisciplinary research that addresses global health problems, develop an evidence base for the use of mHealth technology to improve clinical and public health outcomes, and strengthen mHealth research capacity in LMICs.
This NOFO provides support for up to two years (R21 phase) for technology development and feasibility studies, followed by a possible transition to expanded research support (R33 phase) for validation, larger-scale feasibility, and effectiveness studies. Transition to the R33 depends on the completion of applicant-defined milestones, as well as program priorities and the availability of funds. All applicants must address both the R21 and R33 phases.
In the context of this NOFO, mHealth is defined as the use of mobile and wireless devices (cell phones, tablets, etc.) to improve health outcomes, health care services, and health research. The mHealth technology studied in proposed projects may include external hardware and/or software components for mobile or wireless devices. New or emerging technology, platforms, systems, and/or analytics should be incorporated. For the purposes of this NOFO, research that proposes solely SMS-based text messaging interventions will not be considered responsive.
Eligible Activities:
Objectives
This NOFO encourages research projects that study the development, feasibility, validation, and effectiveness of mHealth tools and/or interventions for the prevention, diagnosis, management, and treatment of specific health conditions or for disease agnostic/cross-cutting applications. Applicants are encouraged to propose research projects that have the potential to provide an understanding of principles underlying effective mHealth interventions or tools that are generalizable to the field. Research projects may include some mHealth technology development along with feasibility, acceptability, usability, validation, and effectiveness studies. User-centered and iterative design are highly encouraged, as is taking a systems science approach, during development stages. Applications should include as rigorous study designs as possible.
The proposed research should be divided into the R21 and R33 phases as appropriate, with the milestone-driven R21 demonstrating initial feasibility of the mHealth intervention or tool followed by further validation, feasibility, and/or effectiveness studies in the R33 phase.
This initiative aims to support projects that adapt or develop technologies that are appropriate for LMIC settings. A plethora of mHealth applications and devices have been developed in high-income countries. However, these technologies are not necessarily suitable for the needs of LMICs. Research that focuses on the problems and constraints in LMIC environments should produce more effective interventions and tools and may result in more sustainable mHealth use, especially if there is involvement from LMIC collaborators, such as businesses, hospitals, or governments.
Specific Research Interests
The Fogarty International Center (FIC) is dedicated to advancing the mission of the NIH by supporting and facilitating global health research conducted by U.S. and international investigators, building partnerships between health research institutions in the U.S. and abroad, and training future scientists to address global health needs.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recognizes the potential for mobile communication technologies to: contribute to prevention of avoidable cancers by promoting healthy lifestyles and behaviors; support early detection, when the opportunities for curing or controlling the cancer are optimal; facilitate accurate diagnosis and effective treatment planning; support reliable communications between all members of the care team, including the patient, during treatment; and offer an unbroken system of support during survivorship and at end-of-life.
The National Eye Institute (NEI) encourages innovative applications with the goal of identifying mobile health tools or technologies that aid in the screening, early detection, prevention, diagnosis, assessment, treatment or management of eye diseases and vision disorders.
The mission of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) is to improve health by leading the development and accelerating the application of biomedical technologies.
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is seeking innovative approaches to achieving its mission.
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) conducts and supports research in 7 scientific program areas: hearing, balance/vestibular, voice, speech, language, taste and smell.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is interested in supporting research on the development and/or innovative application of cost-effective, sustainable, and scalable digital technologies to improve the accessibility, delivery, quality or effectiveness of mental health care and/or HIV prevention or care in LMICs to address the global mental health burden.
The NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) is part of the Office of the Director (OD), NIH, and is interested in research on development, validation, feasibility, and evaluation of mobile technologies for nutrient status assessment, dietary intake assessment, and compliance with recommendations for food and dietary supplement intake during special life stages.
The NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is part of OD/NIH, and works with the 27 NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) to advance rigorous research addressing women's health issues.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Higher Education Institutions:
Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
Private Institutions of Higher Education
The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
Hispanic-serving Institutions
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs)
Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education:
Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
For-Profit Organizations:
Small Businesses
For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
Local Governments:
State Governments
County Governments
City or Township Governments
Special District Governments
Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
Federal Governments:
Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
U.S. Territory or Possession
Other:
Independent School Districts
Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities
Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
Regional Organizations
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations)
Foreign Organizations:
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations) are eligible to apply
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are eligible to apply.
Total Budget: $500,000
Deadline: 21/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-242.html
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Programme: World Institute on Disability
Objective:
The World Institute on Disability is seeking applications for the Global Heumann Fellowship Program to empower disability leaders and advocates worldwide to advance disability rights and justice within their regional communities.
Through this program, fellows will work on impactful projects aimed at fostering equity, inclusion, and justice globally. Their responsibilities include conducting research, drafting a white paper, cultivating relationships, driving collaborative opportunities, and contributing to program development aligned with WID’s mission and strategic focus areas.
During this twelve-month fellowship term, each fellow will engage in a unique combination of opportunities for thought leadership on national and global policy, research strategies, advocacy, program development, and contributions to initiatives aimed at advancing the rights of persons with disabilities globally. Fellows will focus on identifying and leading research with the support of WID, as it regards the fellow’s respective region, expertise, and collaboration with WID.
Eligible Activities:
Areas of Research
Fellows will be tasked with conducting relevant research that will promote applicable findings to advance the disability rights and justice field and/or further empower people with disabilities.
Fellowship applicants will need to align their research project with one of the following three focus areas for the 2025-2026 Global Heumann Fellowship cohort application process:
(Accessible & Inclusive) Early Warnings for All: research on inclusive early warning systems that prioritize accessibility, ensuring timely and equitable disaster response.
(Accessible & Inclusive) AI & Technology: research on AI and technology solutions designed with and for people with disabilities or fostering innovation that incorporates universal accessibility.
Disability-Led Systemic Change: research on systemic change driven by the leadership and expertise of people with disabilities to create a more equitable and inclusive society.
Role and Responsibilities
Fellows’ roles and responsibilities include the following:
Promoting WID’s mission and core values within the Fellow’s region and global presence
Ensuring reflection of WID’s mission and core values throughout the application process, fellow’s program development, relevant work, and future action plans
Establishing and strengthening alliances to advance change with WID and for the fellow’s future professional development
Conducting relevant research that will promote applicable findings and build the power of people with disabilities
Creating a sustainable, research-based project plan to guide regional and global implementation throughout and upon completion of the fellowship
Conducting comprehensive research that results in a WID-published white paper
Producing multi-media assets that demonstrate fellow’s research findings and organizational objectives
Maintaining consistent communication and proactive interest in connections with mentors, WID staff, and others involved in the fellow’s research, projects, and responsibilities.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
The Global Heumann Fellowship seeks disabled, visionary leaders with a demonstrated history in advocacy, communications, and influential collaboration. Interested applicants must:
Have the ability to be effective while working remotely
Maintain flexibility working with a diverse, global team
Have at least three years of relevant work experience within the disability rights movement
Have experience in advocacy on global disability rights issues
Demonstrate flexibility and capacity to work independently with limited supervision and adapt quickly to new or unexpected assignments
Possess proficiency in sign language or the English language in verbal form and a high level of comfort using the English language in written form
Commit part-time (20 hours/week) to the proposed research project and fellowship program throughout the fellowship year
Currently have a professional career within the disability rights field or plan to upon completion of the Fellowship.
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: 28/02/2025
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Programme: Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture
Objective:
The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) is pleased to announce its call for Travel Grants Program.
Objectives
· To provide opportunities to qualified Southeast Asian nationals to participate and present papers in ATTAIN-relevant scientific conferences and fora, locally or internationally.
· To promote the dissemination of scientific knowledge/information vital to agricultural innovation.
· To provide the Grantee a venue to discuss with other scientists, researchers, university faculty, and scholars about recent developments in their respective disciplines.
· To facilitate linkages, partnerships, and active collaboration between SEARCA, or the applicant’s home institution, with other development organizations and donors.
· To produce articles or any publication out of the Grantee’s presented paper, whenever appropriate and feasible.
Eligible Activities:
Focus Areas
The focus of the paper should be aligned with SEARCA’s priority thrusts under its 11th Five-Year plan (FY 2020/2021 – 2024/2025), as follows:
Agri-Business Models for Increased Productivity and Income
Sustainable Farming Systems and Natural Resource Management
Food and Nutrition Security
Transformational Leadership for Agricultural and Rural Development (ARD)
Gender and Youth Engagement in ARD
Enhanced ARD towards Climate Resilience
EcoHealth/One Health Applications to ARD
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Priority shall be given to the following:
SEARCA fellows (senior, adjunct, and visiting fellows);
SEARCA Graduate scholarship alumni;
Researchers of SEARCA-implemented/coordinated projects;
SFRT grantees;
Proponents from the University Consortium (faculty, staff, and graduate students);
SEARCA ongoing scholars; and
Faculty and staff of universities under the SEARCA’s Institutional Development Assistance Program.
Applicants who are citizens of Southeast Asian countries who are regular staff members of non-profit development-oriented institutions or graduate students at other agricultural universities in the Region may be considered if not enough qualified applications under Priority 1 have been received.
At present, only citizens from the following countries are qualified to apply: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.
Total Budget: $10,000
Deadline: 07/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
The European Commission has announced its Networks of Towns Program for the year 2025.
This Call for proposals aims to support the following policy initiatives: European democracy action plan , the EU Citizenship Package, the Commission Recommendation on inclusive and resilient elections, the Commission Recommendation on promoting the engagement and effective participation of citizens and civil society organisations in public policy-making processes, the EU Roma strategic framework on equality, inclusion and participation , EU anti-racism action plan (2020-2025), LGBTIQ Equality Strategy (2020-2025), the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2021-2030), promoting diversity and inclusion (Diversity Charters), the Gender Equality Strategy , the EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child.
Objectives
To promote exchanges between citizens of different countries, in particular through networks of towns, to give them practical experience of the wealth and diversity of the common heritage of the Union and to make them aware that these constitute the foundation for a common future.
To develop sustainable networks of towns, deepening and intensify their cooperation, while outlining their long-term vision for the future of European integration
Focus Areas
While maintaining a bottom-up approach, specific focus could be given to:
Bringing citizens together to discuss and share best practices, and thus helping to increase citizens’ engagement in society and ultimately to their active involvement in the democratic life of the Union;
Promoting awareness and building knowledge of EU citizenship rights, free movement of people and associated European common values and common democratic standards, making them more tangible for EU citizens;
Identifying ways to further strengthen the European dimension and democratic legitimacy of the EU decision-making process and fostering free, open and healthy democratic governance in an era of low turnout in elections, populism, disinformation and challenges facing civil society, including by supporting the active participation of citizens, including children, and civil society organisations in policy-making at local, national as well as European levels;
Promoting awareness, building knowledge and sharing best practice on the benefits of diversity as well as effective measures on how to tackle discrimination and racism at local level;
Promoting awareness and building knowledge of the role of minorities, such as people with a minority racial or ethnic background (for instance Roma and migrants), in European society and their contribution to Europe's cultural development;
Promoting prevention measures and awareness raising efforts, sharing best practices policies aiming to curb violence against women, domestic violence and violence against children at the local level, as well as bullying;
Projects may also promote awareness of the importance of the citizens' democratic participation through cultural activities, including by drawing inspiration from or being related to the New European Bauhaus initiative.
Eligible Activities:
Eligible Activities
Activities may include, among others: workshops, seminars, conferences, training activities, expert meetings, webinars, awareness-raising activities, high-visibility events, data gathering and consultation, development, exchanges, and dissemination of good practices among public authorities and civil society organisations, development of communication tools and the use of social media.
Expected Impact
Increased citizens’ engagement in society and ultimately their active involvement in the democratic life of the Union;
Creation of lasting links among partner organisations;
Better information on the rights conferred by EU citizenship and their improved implementation in Member States;
Improved awareness and better provision of information to mobile EU citizens and their family members on their EU citizenship rights;
Enhanced participation of citizens and civil society organisations to local, national and European policy-making processes;
Improved awareness of the benefits of diversity and the tackling of discrimination and racism;
Increase in and encouragement of mutual understanding and respect for European minorities, such as Roma;
Stronger awareness of the contribution of migration, migrants and their descendants to the cultural richness, diversity and common history of Europe;
Increased awareness of the importance of citizens’ participation, including through cultural activities;
Increased awareness of effective prevention policies at the local level regarding violence against women, domestic violence, and violence against children
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries) must:
be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
non-EU countries:
countries associated to the CERV Programme (list of participating countries)
Total Budget: €10,000,000
Deadline: 27/03/2025
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Programme: Barakat Trust
Objective:
The Barakat Trust is seeking grant applications to fund individual and institutional efforts to promote and preserve artistic culture and heritage related to the Islamic world.
While they have a long track record of supporting projects and initiatives driven by individuals, including but not limited to research trips, publications, and training opportunities, individuals applying for grants from The Barakat Trust need to identify an institution to which grant monies can be transferred on their behalf. They cannot make transfers to personal bank accounts but are strongly committed to the support of individual professional development and projects led by individuals.
Eligible Activities:
Scope
The Barakat Trust awards are open to applicants worldwide in the fields of:
research into the history of the art and architecture, and the archaeology and material culture of Islamic societies, including archaeological and other fieldwork, and research trips
the conservation, preservation, restoration, and presentation to the public of artefacts, buildings and archaeological sites produced by Islamic societies
the work of libraries, museums and other public collections in the conservation, documentation, and presentation of artefacts and manuscripts produced by Islamic societies in their broadest sense, including the digitisation of archives and collections, and the training of conservation and curatorial staff
the organisation of events intended to further research in the history of the art, architecture, archaeology, and material culture of Islamic societies, including colloquia and conferences, lectures, seminars and workshops, exhibitions, and attendance at such events.
Categories
Barakat International Studentship
Barakat Postgraduate Student & Early Career Award
The Iradj Bagherzade Publication Grants
Barakat Senior Scholar
Barakat Postdoctoral Scholarship
Barakat Oxford Masters Studentship
Hands on Islamic Art
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Institutions to which they can transfer funds include:
Registered charities
Registered community interest companies
Registered charitable incorporated organisations
Social enterprises
Education institutions including universities
Museums, libraries, and archives
Companies
Total Budget: £100,000
Deadline: 31/03/2025
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Programme: Global Energy Association
Objective:
Applications are now open for the Global Energy Prize.
The Global Energy Prize for research in the field of energy (hereinafter, “the Prize”) is an independent scientific award for extraordinary scientific achievements, practical and theoretical research, development and systemic studies of global problems, patterns and prospects for the development of the power industry, aimed at the validation of the new efficient energy production methods, invention of new high-yielding energy sources, significant increase in the technical and economic performance of the already existing types of power sources, while ensuring their safety and compliance with all the environmental requirements, in order to promote sustainable development of civilization.
Eligible Activities:
Goals
The goals of the Prize are as follows:
Promotion of theoretical, experimental and applied research in the field of energy, and stimulation of international cooperation in this area.
Encouragement and engagement of key experts from various countries, international organizations, public and commercial structures, in order to solve the most significant problems and tasks in the energy sector.
Categories
Nomination submissions of the following categories are accepted for consideration:
Electric power engineering;
Exploration, extraction, transportation and processing of fuel and power resources;
Renewable energy sources;
Bioenergy;
Fuel cells and hydrogen energy;
Heat power engineering;
Nuclear power engineering;
New materials used in energy;
Energy efficiency;
Efficient energy storage;
Energy transportation;
Management in energy sector.
The nomination submissions of the categories are further distributed into three nominations:
Traditional energy:
Electric power engineering;
Exploration, extraction, transportation and processing of fuel and power resources;
Heat power engineering;
Nuclear power engineering.
Non-traditional energy:
Renewable energy sources
Bioenergy;
Fuel cells and hydrogen energy.
New ways of energy application:
New materials used in power engineering;
Energy efficiency;
Efficient power storage;
Energy transportation.
Eligible Applicants:
Nomination Criteria
Citizen of any state can become a laureate of the Prize.
Candidates for the Prize can be nominated by the Nominators. These are:
Scientists and/or organizations acting via their representatives who have been verified on the Organizer’s website and received confirmation of their nominating status, as well as persons specially invited by the Organizer to the nomination pool.
Laureates of the Global Energy Prize, Nobel Prize winners, laureates of the Kyoto, Max Planck, Wolf, Balzan, Zayed Future Energy, Energy Globe, Goldman Environment and UNEP Sasakawa Prizes.
Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of foreign academies of sciences.
Persons performing solely administrative and/or organizational functions cannot be nominated.
Self-nomination for the Prize is not allowed.
The nominator can file up to three nomination submissions in the course of one nomination process. An individual nomination submission is required for each nominee.
The nomination process is strictly confidential. No preliminary public discussion of the nomination process or its stages is allowed. Nominators and other participants of the process shall not disclose the nominations submitted.
Total Budget: €500,000
Deadline: 20/04/2025
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Programme: BBVA Foundation
Objective:
The BBVA Foundation is thrilled to invite nominations for its Frontiers of Knowledge Awards to honour fundamental disciplinary or interdisciplinary advances across a broad expanse of the knowledge map of the 21st century.
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards, recognize and reward world-class research and artistic creation, prizing contributions of singular impact for their originality and significance. The name of the scheme is intended to denote not only research work that substantially enlarges the scope of our current knowledge – pushing forward the frontiers of the known world – but also the meeting and overlap of different disciplinary areas and the emergence of new fields.
Eligible Activities:
Objective
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards recognize fundamental contributions in a broad array of areas of scientific knowledge, technology, humanities and artistic creation.
Award Categories
The disciplines and domains of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards are:
Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics)
Biology and Biomedicine
Information and Communication Technologies
Climate Change and Environmental Sciences
Economics, Finance and Management
Humanities
Social Sciences
Music and Opera
Prize Information
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards consist of 400,000 euros, a diploma and a commemorative artwork in each of their eight categories.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Candidates may be one or more natural persons of any nationality, without limitation of number, that have made independent or convergent contributions to a given advance, whether due to a formal collaboration (with the nominees belonging to one or more groups) or parallel working. The awards are also open to scientific or cultural organizations that can be collectively credited with exceptional contributions to scientific knowledge, cultural creation, the fight against climate change or the conservation of the natural environment.
Awards may not be granted posthumously.
Total Budget: €400,000
Deadline: 30/06/2025
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Programme: Villum Fonden
Objective:
The program supports activities in primary and secondary schools, as well as after-school activities, that equip children and young people with the skills needed to become capable citizens in society.
Eligible Activities:
They encourage children’s and young people’s motivation for education, particularly vocational education, ensuring they have the opportunity to acquire the skills needed in the future society. This includes life skills and general transversal skills such as collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, entrepreneurship, and problem-solving as well as skills related to the digital and green transitions.
Some children and young people face particularly challenging life circumstances, leading to unequal opportunities in education and in life. This includes children and young people with immigrant or refugee background and those from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. This program has a special focus on providing at-risk children and youth equal opportunities to become capable citizens. This may include holistic afterschool activities in disadvantaged areas aimed at ensuring a smooth transition to education, or through initiatives that enhance inclusive pedagogy and didactics in schools, providing at-risk youth with the support they need.
In 2025, they fund projects based in Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
Eligible Applicants:
Schools and educational institutions, civil society organisations, local innovators, and public authorities can apply. Applications from individual persons will not be accepted.
Total Budget: €5,300,00
Deadline: 29/01/2025
More information and official documents:
https://villumfonden.dk/en/group/channel/enabling-capable-citizens-2025
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Programme: BEARR Trust
Objective:
n 2023-4 the focus of much of BEARR’s work has been on Ukraine and Moldova, with the Ukraine Emergency Appeal at the forefront of activities. This effort will continue in 2025, but the main Small Grants Scheme will cover most of the countries with which they work.
Eligible Activities:
Strand A: For projects on the theme “Joint projects that support the integration and inclusion of vulnerable people into their local community”. This strand will be open to CSOs in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Strand A applications should be a joint application from two or more partner organisations. Priority will be given to new partnerships or pre-existing partnerships showing clear signs of development.
Strand B (for Ukraine only): For projects to support the welfare of staff and volunteers, and organisational resilience. This strand will be open only to organisations in Ukraine which have received earlier support from BEARR, whether through the Small Grants Scheme or the Ukraine Emergency Appeal.
Applications are welcome from civil society organisations (CSOs) in any of the countries in which BEARR works, namely: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan or Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Moldova.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are civil society organisations (CSOs).
Total Budget: £100,000
Deadline: 31/01/2025
More information and official documents:
https://bearr.org/2024/12/12/the-bearr-trust-small-grants-scheme-2025/
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Programme: FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONS
Objective:
Foundation for the Nations was formed in 2014 as a Youth For Christ (YFC)–inspired initiative to draw together YFC projects from around the world with those who have the capacity to help them. It is a part of YFC International, and is run from offices in Northern Ireland. They support projects in the areas of capital projects such as buildings or vehicles, for paying existing staff or hiring new ones, for developmental costs such as setting up an internet presence or designing a new programme, for innovative outreach ideas, for funding for relief work or humanitarian–aid projects, etc. Presenting the love of Christ and the clear message of the Gospel must lie at the heart of every project.
Eligible Activities:
So far they have supported the following projects: youth intervention in Uganda, support of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, youth activities in Hungary, youth camps in Sicily, equipment for visits to institutions in Moscow, live TV in Slovakia.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
Applications can be from any of the four YFC Areas of the world. For applications to be accepted into the process of selection, they must meet the following criteria: (1) Be from a fully–chartered YFC nation, or (2)From an Associate–Chartered nation which plans to be back to full charter within the following twelve months, or (3) A local YFC chapter or mission site within a chartered nation, or (4) A Regional or Area YFC office or the International office; (5) Endorsed by the National Director of the applying nation, by the Chair of the National Board, and by either the relevant Regional or Area Director or the International Director.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 31/01/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
The global objective of this call for proposals is to enhance non state actors’ engagement as actors of governance and development processes in Vietnam. The specific objective of this call for proposals: Local non-state actors are increasingly engaging on ESG principles in line with international standards on human rights and environmental due diligence. The output to be delivered is: Strengthened capacity of local NSAs to engage in policy dialogue at national and local level and to implement and monitor EU and national development plans and policies on ESG.
Eligible Activities:
Proposals under this call should support an informed, inclusive and constructive NSAs participation in policy dialogue with Vietnam and the EU, as well as their role as efficient implementing partners and advocates. Consortia and partnerships between different stakeholders are encouraged. In line with the 360 degree approach under the Global Gateway, NSA can contribute through a variety of roles including policy dialogue, advocating for change in business practices, providing knowledge or capacity building, serving as technical providers and implementing agents in development projects, notably at the grass-root level.
Actions must take place in Vietnam.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be non-profit-making and (3) be a specific type of organisation such as: be a non- governmental civil society organisation and (4) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €4,899,000
Deadline: 06/02/2025
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Programme: Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF)
Objective:
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) and the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), as regional implementation team (RIT) for the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot, are inviting letters of inquiry (LOIs) from non-governmental organizations, community groups, private enterprises, universities and other civil society organizations active in the eligible geographic areas in Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines.
Eligible Activities:
This investment phase seeks to improve the capacity of civil society organizations to reduce threats to globally important biodiversity in the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot. Projects supported under this phase should help:
• Increase the capacity of civil society organisations to reduce key threats to biodiversity;
• Increase the organizational capacity of civil society organisations;
• Increase the capacity of civil society organizations to participate in conservation-related networks; and/or
• Reduce threats to biodiversity at Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs).
Actions can take place in Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants non-government organizations, community groups, indigenous people’s organizations, women’s groups, private companies and other civil society organizations.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: 13/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.cepf.net/grants/open-calls-for-proposals/2024-caribbean-islands-ninth-call-large-grants
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Programme: Stop TB Partnership
Objective:
The Challenge Facility for Civil Society (CFCS) is the Stop TB Partnership’s program for TB civil society and communities to end TB by 2030. It is a unique mechanism that provides grants, technical assistance, tools and resources to support TB-affected communities and grassroots civil society organisations to promote and protect human rights and gender equity, and end TB stigma and discrimination.
Eligible Activities:
The ultimate goal is to champion community leadership to overcome the barriers that prevent access to essential TB care and support services in order to achieve an equitable TB response.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
Organisations must meet the following four (4) criteria to be eligible for CFCS Round 13: (1) Legally registered in one of the above-mentioned countries (legal registration certificate to be made available); (2) Civil society and/or community-based organisation working in the above-mentioned countries or regions. Organisations/networks of people affected by TB are particularly encouraged to apply; (3) Be able to open a bank account in the applicant’s legal name in the country of registration; (4) Currently working on TB and/or Community, Rights & Gender (CRG)-related work.
Total Budget: €19,000,000
Deadline: 14/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.stoptb.org/challenge-facility-civil-society-round-13-call-proposals
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Programme: U.S. Mission to Sri Lanka
Objective:
The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for a project that aims to build collective civil society resilience and enable better advocacy initiatives to create a thriving civic space in Sri Lanka.
Eligible Activities:
Actions must take place in Sri Lanka.
Eligible Applicants:
DRL welcomes applications from U.S.-based and foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and public international organizations; private, public, or state institutions of higher education; and for-profit organizations or businesses. DRL’s preference is to work with non-profit entities; however, there may be some occasions when a for-profit entity is best suited.
Total Budget: $986,500
Deadline: 17/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
The global objective of this call for proposals is to empower young people to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Ghana.
Eligible Activities:
The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
• SO (1): To enhance youth civil society’s engagement in public affair by strengthening individual and collective capacities of youth-led and youth-focused organizations.
• SO (2): To increase opportunities for young individuals in Ghana to act as leaders for sustainable development at social, economic, cultural and political level.
Actions must take place in Ghana.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be non-profit-making and (3) be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation, international (inter-governmental) organisation as defined by Article 156 of the EU Financial Regulation and (4) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €2,610,000
Deadline: 18/02/2025
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Programme: Embassy of Japan to South Africa
Objective:
The Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) Programme was first introduced as the Small Scale Grant Assistance Programme in 1989. The aim is to assist Non-Profit Organisations (NPO’s) and local authorities by supporting relatively small development projects which have a direct and immediate impact on the well-being of disadvantaged communities at the grass-roots level.
Eligible Activities:
The Embassy of Japan in the Republic of South Africa covers the Republic of South Africa, the Kingdom of Lesotho, and the Kingdom of Eswatini, and deals with applications from these three countries. The site of the proposed project must be located in among the three.
Eligible Applicants:
Registered NPOs may apply and a copy of the NPO registration certificate must be attached the application form. NPOs here include non-governmental organisations, community-based organisations, education institutions, medical institutions and local governments. Individuals or private companies are not eligible to apply.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 07/03/2025
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Programme: Japanese Embassy in Uganda
Objective:
The aim of GGP is to provide financial assistance to non-profit, development-oriented organizations to support community development projects which directly benefit people at the grassroots level. Since it was introduced in 1989, GGP has been implemented in 141 countries worldwide.
Eligible Activities:
Any projects geared towards grassroots assistance are eligible for financing under GGP. Preferable, however, are projects in the areas below. Particular attention will also be given to projects designed to assist the most vulnerable groups such as women, children and the physically disabled:
• Primary/secondary education
• Vocational training
• Primary health care, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS
• Water and sanitation
• Reconstruction for disaster areas
• Agricultural development
Actions must take place in Uganda.
Eligible Applicants:
Non-profit organisations, CBOs (Community-based Organisation), local/international NGOs, medical institutions, educational institutions, local authorities/governments including sub-county level which has a minimum of two years experience in implementing development projects track record in handling at least 50% of requested funds are eligible.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - CERV
Objective:
The objective of this call is to protect, promote and raise awareness of rights by providing financial support to civil society organisations active at local, regional, national and transnational level in promoting and cultivating those rights. The call thereby also aims at strengthening the protection and promotion of Union values including respect for the rule of law and contributing to the construction of a more democratic Union, democratic dialogue, transparency as well as good governance.
Eligible Activities:
The call intends to set up 3-year framework partnership agreements with European networks, civil society organisations active at EU level and European think tanks, and to increase the capacities of the framework partners to contribute actively to the development and implementation of EU policies.
Actions must take place in EU member states.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 28/01/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
The global objective of this call for proposals is to empower civil society organisations and to support their efforts to promote, protect, and ensure the full enjoyment of human rights in the context of digital transformation.
Eligible Activities:
The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
· Promoting use of technology as a tool to monitor and report human rights violations and improvement of public service provision;
· Promoting innovative approaches in addressing participation in decision-making, accountability and transparency and building connections and share ideas;
· Promoting cooperation between all relevant stakeholders, and in particular the building of partnerships between governments, civil society and technology companies.
Actions can take place in Kosovo.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be a specific type of organisation such as: civil society organisation and (3) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €370,000
Deadline: 03/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
The general objective of this call for proposals is to support the engagement of civil society for Senegalese youth in their social, entrepreneurial, participation, inclusion and governance dynamics.
Eligible Activities:
The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
1. Support the actions of civil society organizations contributing to the emergence of an entrepreneurship ecosystem for sustainable and inclusive endogenous development through young people in rural and peri-urban areas.
2. Support responses to the social challenges and aspirations of youth (public participation, leadership, access to sport, culture, etc.), particularly young girls and women.
Actions can take place in Senegal.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be a specific type of organisation such as: civil society organisation and (3) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €6,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
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Programme: Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders (EMHRF)
Objective:
The Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders (EMHRF) is an independent regional foundation led by human rights defenders and experts in the affairs of the Arab region and acting for local human rights defenders, groups and NGOs from the region. The Foundation was established and registered as a Danish foundation in 2004 by EuroMed Rights, a network comprising of more than 80 human rights organisations and defenders from the region, following a feasibility study that acknowledged the need for creating a flexible financial instrument to cover funding gaps for independent civil society actors.
Eligible Activities:
It aims at providing flexible financial assistance to regional, national and local human rights NGOs and institutes as well as individuals who promote, support, protect and monitor the observance of human rights in the South-Mediterranean region. Grants are allocated to human rights defenders in difficulty or at risk, for the specific purpose of allowing them to protect their safety and pursue their activities, as well as to small human rights organisations or groups with the aim of strengthening their operational capacities to implement innovative activities in the region.
Actions must take place in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants are regional, national and local human rights NGOs and institutes as well as individuals who promote, support, protect and monitor the observance of human rights in the South-Mediterranean region.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 05/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
LOT 1: PROMOTE CIVIC RIGHTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ENGAGEMENT
The global objective of this lot is to strengthen a democratic space that is inclusive, participatory and empowered, as well as to reinforce a viable, independent civil society in Zambia. The specific objective of this lot is to nhance public participation and free and independent engagement in the definition and implementation of the country’s development agenda with a special focus on promoting transparent and accountable governance.
LOT 2: SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CHILDREN’S CODE ACT
The global objective of this lot is to promote and protect rights of children in Zambia. The specific objective of this lot is t promote grassroots participation, including interfaces between local level challenges and national policies on the implementation of the Children’s Code Act.
Eligible Activities:
Actions must take place in Zambia.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be non-profit-making and (3) be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation and (4) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €2,857,000
Deadline: 10/02/2025
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Programme: Swedish Institute (SI)
Objective:
The Creative Partnerships Programme grants funding to Swedish organisations and their international partners in civil society, culture and the media. The programme supports projects which aim to promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.
Eligible Activities:
Creative Partnerships awards funding to projects which:
· aim to strengthen democracy, human rights and/or freedom of expression in one or more of the programme’s target countries.
· aim to strengthen the professional capacity of people who are in a position to bring about change in the organisations or sectors they work in.
· involve the project partners in knowledge exchange, network building and/or the development of innovative methods.
· are sustainable. This means that the methods and results of the projects live on and continue to be used after the project has formally ended.
· are firmly rooted in the partner country and reflect needs which have been identified and formulated locally rather than by the Swedish partner.
· do not have a profit motive.
Countries eligible for funding are Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye, Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
The main applicant must be a Swedish organisation from civil society or the public or private sectors. Your project partner(s) may be formal or informal cultural actors, networks of journalists or other types of media organisation in the target country. They can also be found in civil society or the public or private sectors.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 11/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://si.se/en/apply/funding-grants/creative-partnerships-eng/
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Programme: U.S. Mission to Ukraine
Objective:
U.S. Embassy Kyiv’s Office of the Assistance Coordinator announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications for the twelfth round of the DCP to continue building U.S. foreign assistance partnerships with 11 eligible partner donor governments (PDGs) in Central and Eastern Europe aimed at supporting aspirations of the Ukrainian people for European integration, democratic transformation, peace, and security.
Eligible Activities:
Actions must take place in Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants are Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations; Public and private educational institutions, research institutions; Public International Organizations and Governmental institutions.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: 13/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
The global objective of this call for proposals is: to contribute to the economic and social well-being of Zimbabwean citizens while improving the management of natural resources in the South East Lowveld and the Mid-Zambezi. The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
1. Improve natural resource management with the participation of local communities, including women.
2. Improve resilience of communities and reduce vulnerability of communities to human-wildlife conflict (HWC).
Eligible Activities:
The priorities of this call for proposals are:
· Priority 1: Promotion of wildlife conservation, protection of wildlife corridors, reduction of degradation of natural habitats and halting biodiversity loss in protected areas and surrounding areas, and
· Priority 2: Mitigation of Human-Wildlife Conflict and its impact on local communities, safeguarding both human and wildlife populations, and
· Priority 3: Increased resilience of communities neighbouring well-preserved natural areas.
Actions can take place in Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation and (3) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €10,000,000
Deadline: 17/02/2025
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Programme: United States Department of Health and Human Services
Objective:
The United States Department of Health and Human Services is seeking applications for its Ending HIV as A Public Health Threat by Sustaining and Accelerating a Comprehensive HIV and TB Response in India.
They seek to support the National AIDS Control Program (NACP) to sustain and accelerate HIV epidemic control in priority geographies (e.g. Andhra Pradesh and others as applicable) across the prevention to treatment cascade including viral load suppression (VLS). In alignment with the NACP Phase V, you will build on innovative, evidence-based, person-centered strategies to improve:
· HIV and TB prevention.
· HIV and TB case-finding.
· Improved tools for TB case identification.
· Linkage to care continuum.
· Treatment retention and viral load suppression.
Purpose
The purpose of this NOFO is to provide impactful and evidence-based technical support to GOI in ending HIV as a public health threat by:
Accelerating the HIV/TB response within priority and emerging geographies with focus on priority populations.
Building sustainable and comprehensive, stigma-free HIV/TB services that leverage efficiencies across health systems.
Eligible Activities:
Priority Areas
Strategic priorities include:
· Develop and implement comprehensive, stigma-free HIV/TB prevention services.
· Implement innovative case-finding activities to ensure early diagnosis and linkage to appropriate comprehensive, stigma-free HIV/TB services for all priority populations.
· Enhance adherence to, retention in, and reengagement with comprehensive, stigma-free HIV/TB care and treatment services through integration of person-centred approaches for HIV and associated comorbidities.
· Expand collaborations and community partnerships at the national and sub-national levels to promote equitable access to HIV/TB services and enhance capacity to manage the HIV epidemic, sustain gains, and respond to emerging public health threats.
Eligible Activities
Technical assistance activities may include, but are not limited to:
Closing testing, treatment, and equity gaps.
Reinforcing collaborations to complement NACP.
Improving data use for impact.
Expanding ability to respond to emerging public health threats.
Expected Outcomes
Some expected outcomes of this NOFO will include:
Increasing proportion of people living with HIV who know their HIV and TB status.
Increasing access to and use of comprehensive, stigma-free HIV/TB services.
Increasing national rates of VLS.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any and all types of organizations are eligible and encouraged to apply, including but not limited to those listed below:
State governments.
County governments.
City or township governments.
Special district governments.
Independent school districts.
Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education.
Native American tribal governments (federally recognized).
Public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities.
Native American tribal organizations, other than federally recognized tribal governments.
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education.
Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education.
Private institutions of higher education.
For-profit organizations other than small businesses.
Small businesses.
Foreign or non-U.S. based entities.
Evaluation Criteria
They will expect you to conduct a mid-term and/or end-term evaluation:
Facilitators/Barriers to implementation of innovative approaches for prevention, case-finding, care and treatment: process evaluation.
Effects of innovative, integrated service delivery models on reaching priority populations for HTS: outcome evaluation.
Total Budget: $4,000,000
Deadline: 24/02/2025
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Programme: Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF)
Objective:
The Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF) provides annual grants to scholars and artists using their intellect, creativity, and compassion to build a deeper understanding of human–animal relationships and a greater respect for animal rights. CAF funds academic and artistic projects that raise public awareness about animal rights. On average, CAF awards fewer than 20 grants annually.
Eligible Activities:
Grants are awarded in three categories:
· Research (scholarly projects about animal advocacy and its cultural roots and impact);
· Creativity (original work by artists and thinkers that expresses positive concern for animals); and
· Performance (public performances and exhibitions to raise awareness of animal advocacy).
AF does not fund “hands-on” projects, including animal rescue, public protest or trap-neuter-release programs. CAF also does not support species conservation projects, unless they include a commitment to animal rights and fit into one of our three categories of creativity, performance, or research. CAF does not fund projects that consist entirely of attending or speaking at a conference or conferences. It does not fund book production (CAF does support research and writing). CAF does not fund indirect costs: no portion of a CAF grant may be used for “administrative costs,” “overhead,” or any other form of indirect cost.
Actions can take place worldwide. CAF accepts grant applications from any country.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are individuals.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 31/01/2025
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Programme: JACOBS FOUNDATION
Objective:
The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is a globally competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers whose work is dedicated to improving the learning and development of children and youth worldwide. The relevant disciplines include, but are not limited to, education sciences, psychology, economics, sociology, behavioral science, computer science, pedagogy, linguistics, neurosciences, and science of learning.
Eligible Activities:
Particularly encouraged to apply are scholars who seek to combine multiple levels of analysis and engage in interdisciplinary work. A special focus lies on work to understand and embrace variability in learning; promote the generation, transfer, and practical application of evidence on human learning and development or increase the capacity to scale up effective education policies and practices.
The program is open globally.
Eligible Applicants:
The ideal candidate: has obtained his/her PhD or equivalent degree within the past 10 years; is employed at an institution of higher education or research institute; is conducting high-quality research in an area of interest to the Jacobs Foundation; is committed to engaging with the Jacobs Foundation and the Fellowship Network and contributing to the Foundation’s activities.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
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https://jacobsfoundation.org/activity/jacobs-foundation-research-fellowship-program/
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Programme: Madagascar USAID-Antananarivo
Objective:
SOROKA is a Malagasy word which constitutes the root of the verb “misoroka”, meaning “to prevent”, corresponding to the aim of surveillance. SOROKA can be the acronym of the specific objectives of the project: Surveillance, Operational Research, and Optimization of Knowledge-sharing for Action activity. SOROKA’s main objective is to advance the health of the Malagasy people through improvements in capacity-building and coordination and execution of data collection, management, synthesis, and use for public health action. Following the RISE project, SOROKA will enhance local capacity and expand leadership within the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) to detect threats to global health security, and to plan and conduct emergency outbreak response. It will reinforce the country’s capacity to plan, implement, and disseminate locally led research and evaluations, and increase public sector capacity to use epidemiologic and surveillance data for public health action.
Eligible Activities:
SOROKA will be the main activity of USAID/Madagascar’s Health Office for research on malaria, MNCH (mother, neonatal, and child health), WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene), and GHS (global health security), for program evaluation, biological surveillance including AMR (antimicrobial resistance), emergency responses to health threats and institutionalization of epidemiology and laboratory data use for decision making. SOROKA will also provide targeted and need-based cross-sectorial training for the MOPH staff throughout its implementation. In general, SOROKA is intended to cover all HPN program elements, particularly malaria, MNCH, GHS and WASH.
Actions must take place in Madagascar.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is restricted to Local entities and organizations that have received less than $25 million in USAID funding, at any tier, over the past five years; or for global health awards the organization has received less than $25 million in U.S. Government funding at any tier, over the past five years.
Total Budget: $7,500,000
Deadline: 10/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
The global objective of this call for proposals is: to support greener and sustainable agri-business and climate resilience in Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector.
Eligible Activities:
The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
· To promote climate-resilient agriculture and sustainable value chains by fostering the adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices, enhancing market linkages, and developing inclusive agri-business hubs that empower smallholder farmers, especially women and youth.
· To “green” agricultural production processes by integrating renewable energy and upgrading infrastructure / equipment to improve the efficiency, sustainability, and competitiveness of agri-business hubs, with a focus on drought-resistant crops and climate adaptation.
Actions can take place in Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation and (3) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €15,000,000
Deadline: 17/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Capacity building projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of VET in EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme, and third countries not associated to the Programme. They aim to support the relevance, accessibility, and responsiveness of VET institutions and systems in third countries not associated to the Programme as a driver of sustainable socio-economic development.
Through joint initiatives that foster cooperation across different regions of the world, this action intends to increase the capacity of VET providers – especially in the fields of management, governance, inclusion, quality assurance, and innovation – so that they are better equipped to engage with private sector/enterprises/business associations to explore employment opportunities and jointly develop responsive VET interventions. International partnerships should contribute to improving the quality of VET in the third countries not associated to the Programme, notably by reinforcing the capacities of VET staff and teachers as well as by strengthening the link between VET providers and the labour market.
Eligible Activities:
It is envisaged that the capacity building projects VET contribute to the broader policy objectives that are being pursued between the European Commission and the third countries not associated to the Programme or region concerned, including Global Gateway investment packages and the development of Talent partnerships and the Talent pool as laid down in the Commission Communication on attracting skills and talent to the EU of April 2022.
Activities must take place in EU Member States and Caribbean countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must be private or public bodies established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. EU Member State, third country associated to the Programme, third country not associated to the Programme from an eligible region.
Total Budget: €400,000 per project
Deadline: 27/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Capacity building projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of VET in EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme, and third countries not associated to the Programme. They aim to support the relevance, accessibility, and responsiveness of VET institutions and systems in third countries not associated to the Programme as a driver of sustainable socio-economic development.
Through joint initiatives that foster cooperation across different regions of the world, this action intends to increase the capacity of VET providers – especially in the fields of management, governance, inclusion, quality assurance, and innovation – so that they are better equipped to engage with private sector/enterprises/business associations to explore employment opportunities and jointly develop responsive VET interventions. International partnerships should contribute to improving the quality of VET in the third countries not associated to the Programme, notably by reinforcing the capacities of VET staff and teachers as well as by strengthening the link between VET providers and the labour market.
Eligible Activities:
It is envisaged that the capacity building projects VET contribute to the broader policy objectives that are being pursued between the European Commission and the third countries not associated to the Programme or region concerned, including Global Gateway investment packages and the development of Talent partnerships and the Talent pool as laid down in the Commission Communication on attracting skills and talent to the EU of April 2022.
Activities must take place in EU Member States and Sub-Saharan Africa countries: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo – Democratic Republic of the, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must be private or public bodies established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. EU Member State, third country associated to the Programme, third country not associated to the Programme from an eligible region.
Total Budget: €100,000 to €400,000. Total available funding is €8,072,432.
Deadline: 27/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Capacity building projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of VET in EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme, and third countries not associated to the Programme. They aim to support the relevance, accessibility, and responsiveness of VET institutions and systems in third countries not associated to the Programme as a driver of sustainable socio-economic development.
Eligible Activities:
Through joint initiatives that foster cooperation across different regions of the world, this action intends to increase the capacity of VET providers – especially in the fields of management, governance, inclusion, quality assurance, and innovation – so that they are better equipped to engage with private sector/enterprises/business associations to explore employment opportunities and jointly develop responsive VET interventions. International partnerships should contribute to improving the quality of VET in the third countries not associated to the Programme, notably by reinforcing the capacities of VET staff and teachers as well as by strengthening the link between VET providers and the labour market.
It is envisaged that the capacity building projects VET contribute to the broader policy objectives that are being pursued between the European Commission and the third countries not associated to the Programme or region concerned, including Global Gateway investment packages and the development of Talent partnerships and the Talent pool as laid down in the Commission Communication on attracting skills and talent to the EU of April 2022.
Activities must take place in EU Member States and South Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must be private or public bodies established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. EU Member State, third country associated to the Programme, third country not associated to the Programme from an eligible region.
Total Budget: €100,000 to €400,000. Total available funding is €4,677, 788.
Deadline: 27/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Capacity building projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of VET in EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme, and third countries not associated to the Programme. They aim to support the relevance, accessibility, and responsiveness of VET institutions and systems in third countries not associated to the Programme as a driver of sustainable socio-economic development.
Eligible Activities:
Through joint initiatives that foster cooperation across different regions of the world, this action intends to increase the capacity of VET providers – especially in the fields of management, governance, inclusion, quality assurance, and innovation – so that they are better equipped to engage with private sector/enterprises/business associations to explore employment opportunities and jointly develop responsive VET interventions. International partnerships should contribute to improving the quality of VET in the third countries not associated to the Programme, notably by reinforcing the capacities of VET staff and teachers as well as by strengthening the link between VET providers and the labour market.
It is envisaged that the capacity building projects VET contribute to the broader policy objectives that are being pursued between the European Commission and the third countries not associated to the Programme or region concerned, including Global Gateway investment packages and the development of Talent partnerships and the Talent pool as laid down in the Commission Communication on attracting skills and talent to the EU of April 2022.
Activities must take place in EU Member States and Sub-Saharan Africa countries: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo – Democratic Republic of the, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must be private or public bodies established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. EU Member State, third country associated to the Programme, third country not associated to the Programme from an eligible region.
Total Budget: €100,000 to €400,000. Total available funding is €4,000,000.
Deadline: 27/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Capacity building projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of VET in EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme, and third countries not associated to the Programme. They aim to support the relevance, accessibility, and responsiveness of VET institutions and systems in third countries not associated to the Programme as a driver of sustainable socio-economic development.
Eligible Activities:
Through joint initiatives that foster cooperation across different regions of the world, this action intends to increase the capacity of VET providers – especially in the fields of management, governance, inclusion, quality assurance, and innovation – so that they are better equipped to engage with private sector/enterprises/business associations to explore employment opportunities and jointly develop responsive VET interventions. International partnerships should contribute to improving the quality of VET in the third countries not associated to the Programme, notably by reinforcing the capacities of VET staff and teachers as well as by strengthening the link between VET providers and the labour market.
It is envisaged that the capacity building projects VET contribute to the broader policy objectives that are being pursued between the European Commission and the third countries not associated to the Programme or region concerned, including Global Gateway investment packages and the development of Talent partnerships and the Talent pool as laid down in the Commission Communication on attracting skills and talent to the EU of April 2022.
Activities must take place in EU Member States and Latin America countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must be private or public bodies established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. EU Member State, third country associated to the Programme, third country not associated to the Programme from an eligible region.
Total Budget: €100,000 to €400,000. Total available funding is €1,949,078.
Deadline: 27/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Capacity building projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of VET in EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme, and third countries not associated to the Programme. They aim to support the relevance, accessibility, and responsiveness of VET institutions and systems in third countries not associated to the Programme as a driver of sustainable socio-economic development.
Eligible Activities:
Through joint initiatives that foster cooperation across different regions of the world, this action intends to increase the capacity of VET providers – especially in the fields of management, governance, inclusion, quality assurance, and innovation – so that they are better equipped to engage with private sector/enterprises/business associations to explore employment opportunities and jointly develop responsive VET interventions. International partnerships should contribute to improving the quality of VET in the third countries not associated to the Programme, notably by reinforcing the capacities of VET staff and teachers as well as by strengthening the link between VET providers and the labour market.
It is envisaged that the capacity building projects VET contribute to the broader policy objectives that are being pursued between the European Commission and the third countries not associated to the Programme or region concerned, including Global Gateway investment packages and the development of Talent partnerships and the Talent pool as laid down in the Commission Communication on attracting skills and talent to the EU of April 2022.
3) Location
Activities must take place in EU Member States and Western Balkans countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must be private or public bodies established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. EU Member State, third country associated to the Programme, third country not associated to the Programme from an eligible region.
Total Budget: €100,000 to €400,000. Total available funding is €8,500,000.
Deadline: 27/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
European Youth Together projects aim to create cooperation, enabling young people across Europe to set up joint projects, organise exchanges and promote trainings (e.g. for youth leaders/ youth workers) through both physical and online activities. The action will support transnational partnerships for youth organisations from both grassroots and large-scale level, aiming to reinforce the European dimension of their activities.
Eligible Activities:
Important thematic priorities are working with and promoting the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027 and the European Youth Goals. The European Youth Goals are also reflected in the President von der Leyen Commission’s political guidelines. Project proposals may also treat the legacy of the European Year of Youth 2022 (e.g., exploration of youth check or youth mainstreaming processes) and the outcomes of the ‘Conference for the Future of Europe’. Youth networks should consider ways of forging solidarity and inclusiveness in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Activities must take place in EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme. Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of minimum of 5 applicants (beneficiaries, not affiliated entities) from at least 5 EU Member States and/or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: The maximum EU grant per project is €500,000. Total available funding is €8,000,000.
Deadline: 06/03/2025
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Programme: European Union (EU)
Objective:
The European Union is pleased to announce its call for Jean Monnet Actions in the field of Higher Education Centers of Excellence Program.
Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence are focal points of competence and knowledge on European Union subjects. They should gather the expertise and competences of high-level experts aiming to at develop synergies between the various disciplines and resources in European studies as well as at creating joint transnational activities. They also ensure openness to civil society. Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence have a major role in reaching out to students from faculties not normally dealing with European Union issues as well as to policy makers, civil servants, organised civil society and the general public at large.
Eligible Activities:
Objectives
The Programme has the following specific objectives:
to promote learning mobility of individuals and groups, as well as cooperation, quality, inclusion and equity, excellence, creativity and innovation at the level of organisations and policies in the field of education and training;
to promote non-formal and informal learning mobility and active participation among young people, as well as cooperation, quality, inclusion, creativity and innovation at the level of organisations and policies in the field of youth;
to promote learning mobility of sport staff, as well as cooperation, quality, inclusion, creativity and innovation at the level of sport organisations and sport policies.
Scope
Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence are focal points of competence and knowledge on European Union subjects. They should gather the expertise and competences of high-level experts aiming to at develop synergies between the various disciplines and resources in European studies as well as at creating joint transnational activities, they also ensure openness to civil society. Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence have a major role in reaching out to students from faculties not normally dealing with European Union issues as well as to policy makers, civil servants, organised civil society and the general public at large.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities, if applicable) must be:
a higher education institution (HEI); and
established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme or in a third country not associated to the Programme.
HEIs established in EU Member States and third countries associated with the Programme must be holders of the ECHE Certificate.
Only one Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence will be supported at the same time in any participating HEI.
Only applications by single applicants are allowed.
Ineligibility Criteria
Organisations from Belarus (Region 2) and the Russian Federation (Region 4) are not eligible to participate in this action.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 12/02/2025
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Programme: European Union (EU)
Objective:
The European Union is seeking applications for its Jean Monnet Actions for other fields of Education and Training Teacher Training Program to promote a better understanding in general education and vocational training.
Eligible Activities:
Objectives
The main objectives are to:
allow schools and VET providers (ISCED 1- 4) to build knowledge about the EU among their teaching staff;
Offer structured training proposals on EU subjects for schools and VET providers, provide content and methodologies for teacher teaching at various levels, from different backgrounds and experience;
deliver specific individual or group training courses (modular, residential, blended or online) for teachers interested in the EU and willing to integrate EU subjects in their daily work;
foster the confidence of teachers in integrating an EU angle in their daily work.
Aim
Jean Monnet Teacher Training aims to support schools and VET providers in planning, organising and delivering EU content in their curricular and extra-curricular activities.
Scopes
Higher Education Institutions or Teacher Training Institutes/Agencies will organise activities under this action enabling teachers in schools and Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers to develop new skills, to teach and engage on EU matters, thus empowering them through a better understanding of the EU and its functioning.
Teacher training bodies (both for initial teacher education and for continuous professional development for teachers) will strengthen their internal knowledge and skills on teaching about EU matters, and this will, leave teachers better equipped when introducing EU content in their activities.
Teacher Training activities will support educational staff in schools and VET providers (ISCED 1 – 4).
Expected Impact
The expected impact of the teacher training and the long-lasting effects:
on schools and VET providers (ISCED 1 - 4):
increased capacity to teach on EU subjects;
improved or innovative content, development of new angles to include EU subjects in the curricula;
on the institution organising the activities;
reinforced cooperation and capacity to connect with partners;
number and level of the training proposed and potential number of beneficiaries;
increased allocation of financial resources to enhance more targeted training activities within the institution.
On teachers benefitting from the Jean Monnet Action:
Strengthen teaching skills on EU content in their activities.
Dissemination and communication:
The appropriateness and quality of actions aimed at disseminating the outcomes of the activities within and outside the institution hosting the Jean Monnet Action,
raising awareness of projects and results, enhancing visibility of participants and organizations,
reaching out to groups outside the direct target group,
The extent to which the dissemination tools foreseen will reach the target audience.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities, if applicable) must be:
a higher education institution providing initial and/or in service training to teachers of schools and/or VET institutions (ISCED 1 - 4) and holders of the ECHE Certificate; or
a teacher training / education institution or agency providing initial and/or in service training to teachers in schools and/or VET institutions (ISCED 1 - 4).
Applicants must be established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme.
Only applications by a single applicant are allowed.
Total Budget: €300,000
Deadline: 12/02/2025
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Programme: European Union (EU)
Objective:
The European Commission is seeking applications for its program titled “Jean Monnet Actions for other fields of Education and Training: Learning EU”.
Learning EU initiatives will support schools & Vocational education and training institutions (VETs), enabling them to provide specific content on EU based subjects (democracy, EU history, how the EU works, cultural diversity – among others). Activities should be taught during the school year and could include project weeks, study visits, and other immersive activities.
Activities will be offered by schools and VETs (ISCED 1 – 4). They may design and deliver content on EU issues and create learning experiences themselves or with the support of higher education institutions or other relevant organisations (NGOs, Associations, etc.). Activities organised under this section will boost learning about the European Union in ways that inspire. They will help students to strengthen their sense of belonging to the EU, the impact it has on their lives and their understanding of EU mechanisms and policies.
Eligible Activities:
Objectives
Jean Monnet Learning EU initiatives will foster the introduction of a European Union angle in the educational culture of schools and VETs (ISCED 1 –4) and contribute to strengthen European identity and active citizenship among students and teachers.
In particular, the main objectives are:
increased number of schools and VETs (ISCED 1 –4) teaching European Union issues by EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme;
increased number of classes in schools and VETs (ISCED 1 –4) involved in learning experiences on European Union subjects;
increased number of key subject areas, or extra-curricular activities, where the EU is being taught in schools and VETs (ISCED 1 –4) for each EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme;
increased number of teachers to engage with the improvement of EU literacy;
increased quality of EU innovative teaching and learning methods, with particular attention to the EU priorities;
improved learning results about the EU of students who are better equipped with knowledge and understanding of the EU, its history, values, objectives as well as the institutions, decision making processes which influence the daily lives of young Europeans and enhanced active citizenship among students and teachers.
Program Specifications
Jean Monnet Learning EU initiatives must respect one or more of the following:
teaching on European Union matters officially embedded in the curricula (teaching in one or more existing subjects);
learning experiences on European Union subjects which complement already existing courses: collaborative learning, co-teaching, among other subjects;
extracurricular seminars, study visits, other kinds of EU experiences involving other organisations.
For the purpose of the action, a teaching hour is understood to be an hour of learning experience in the context of school or VET activities. It can be classroom or not classroom learning (i.e. workshops, meetings with experts, study visits) but needs to be linked to concrete learning outcomes and to EU studies/EU values.
National Authorities may be informed about the public schools applying to this Action per country, including limited personal data such as the name and email of the contact person, in order to facilitate the validation process of their entities.
Expected Outcome
Jean Monnet Learning EU Initiatives is expected to bring positive and long-lasting effects both to the schools and VET providers and to the participants to their activities, in particular teachers and students.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible Activities
A Jean Monnet Learning EU initiative must be implemented for a minimum of 40 teaching hours per school year for three consecutive years on EU based subjects.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities, if applicable) must be:
school or vocational education and training institution (VET) (ISCED 1 - 4);
established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme.
Only applications by single applicants are allowed.
Total Budget: €35,000
Deadline: 12/02/2025
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Programme: European Union (EU)
Objective:
The European Commission is inviting applications for its Erasmus Mundus Design Measures.
To reinforce the international dimension of the European Education Area, Erasmus Mundus Design Measures aim to enhance the capacities of higher education institutions in Europe to modernise and internationalise their curricula by developing new master programmes in partnership with universities worldwide.
Developing international master programmes is crucial for universities in Europe. International collaboration brings diverse academic perspectives and teaching methodologies, enriching the curriculum and broadening students' educational experiences. International master programmes also attract students from around the world, thus increasing diversity and the talent pool, as well as enhancing the universities' reputation and competitiveness on the global stage.
Eligible Activities:
By collaborating with institutions worldwide, universities in Europe can pool resources and knowledge to address pressing global issues such as climate change, digital transformation and sustainable development. In the long run, Erasmus Mundus Design Measures will foster the development of common mechanisms in higher education related to quality assurance, accreditation and recognition of degrees and credits.
Therefore, the main objective of the Erasmus Mundus Design Measures is to encourage the development of innovative, highly integrated new international study programmes at Master level. These international study programmes are jointly delivered by an international consortium of higher education institutions from different countries worldwide and, where relevant, other educational and/or non-educational partners with specific expertise and interest in the concerned study areas/professional domains.
Expected Outcomes
Provide European and non-European HEIs with opportunities for developing new partnerships;
Improve the quality and foster innovation in programmes at Master level and supervision arrangements;
Increase internationalisation and competitiveness of participating organisations;
Increase the attractiveness of the participating organisation(s) towards talented students worldwide;
Contribute to the internationalisation policies of universities by developing international awareness through their curricula and the design of comprehensive internationalisation strategies (institutional cooperation and cross border mobility of people).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible for an Erasmus+ grant, project proposals for Erasmus Mundus Design Measures must comply with the following criteria:
In order to be eligible, applicants must be:
legal entities (public or private bodies);
higher education institutions (HEIs) established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme;
holders of the ECHE certificate (Erasmus Charter for Higher Education). Exception: organisations from Belarus and the Russian Federation are not eligible to participate in this action.
Total Budget: €60,000
Deadline: 13/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Cooperation Partnerships aim at:
· increasing quality in the work, activities and practices of organisations and institutions involved, opening up to new actors, not naturally included within one sector;
· building capacity of organisations to work transnationally and across sectors;
· addressing common needs and priorities in the fields of education, training, youth and sport;
· enabling transformation and change (at individual, organisational or sectoral level), leading to improvements and new approaches, in proportion to the context of each organisation.
Eligible Activities:
A Cooperation Partnership is a transnational project and must involve minimum three organisations from three different EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: €120,000, €250,000 or €400,000
Deadline: 05/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Small-scale Partnerships are designed to widen access to the programme to small-scale actors and individuals who are hard to reach in the fields of school education, adult education, vocational education and training, youth and sport. With lower grant amounts awarded to organisations, shorter duration and simpler administrative requirements compared to the Cooperation Partnerships, this action aims at reaching out to grassroots organisations, less experienced organisations and newcomers to the Programme, reducing entry barriers to the programme for organisations with smaller organisational capacity. This action will also support flexible formats – mixing activities with transnational and national character although with a European dimension – allowing organisations to have more means to reach out to people with fewer opportunities. Small-scale Partnerships can also contribute to the creation and development of transnational networks and to fostering synergies with, and between, local, regional, national and international policies.
Eligible Activities:
The objectives are:
· Attract and widen access for newcomers, less experienced organisations and small-scale actors to the programme. These partnerships should act as a first step for organisations into cooperation at European level.
· Support the inclusion of target groups with fewer opportunities
· Support active European citizenship and bring the European dimension to the local level
Actions must take place in EU member states and Republic of North Macedonia, Republic of Turkey and Republic of Serbia.
Eligible Applicants:
Any public body or organisation, with its affiliated entities (if any), active in the field of sport, established in a Programme Country, can apply.
Total Budget: €30,000 or €60,000
Deadline: 05/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
The primary goal of Cooperation Partnerships is to allow organisations to increase the quality and relevance of their activities, to develop and reinforce their networks of partners, to increase their capacity to operate jointly at transnational level, boosting internationalisation of their activities and through exchanging or developing new practices and methods as well as sharing and confronting ideas.
They aim to support the development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices as well as the implementation of joint initiatives promoting cooperation, peer learning and exchanges of experience at European level. Results should be re-usable, transferable, up-scalable and, if possible, have a strong transdisciplinary dimension.
Eligible Activities:
Cooperation Partnerships aim at:
· Increasing quality in the work, activities and practices of organisations and institutions involved, opening up to new actors, not naturally included within one sector
· Building capacity of organisations to work transnationally and across sectors;
· Addressing common needs and priorities in the fields of education, training, youth and sport;
· Enabling transformation and change (at individual, organisational or sectoral level), leading to improvements and new approaches, in proportion to the context of each organisation.
A Cooperation Partnership is a transnational project and must involve minimum three organisations from three different EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: €120,000, €250,000 or €400,000
Deadline: 05/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Capacity Building projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of sport in Programme and third countries not associated to the Programme in Region 1 (Western Balkans) and Region 2 (Neighbourhood East). They aim to support sport activities and policies in third countries not associated to the Programme as a vehicle to promote values as well as an educational tool to promote the personal and social development of individuals and build more cohesive communities.
Eligible Activities:
The action will aim at:
· raising the capacity of grassroots sport organisations;
· encouraging the practice of sport and physical activity in third countries not associated to the Programme;
· promoting social inclusion through sport;
· promoting positive values through sport (such as fair play, tolerance, team spirit);
· fostering cooperation across different regions of the world through joint initiatives.
Proposals should focus on certain thematic areas defined at programming stage.
Examples of particularly relevant areas are:
· promotion of common values, non-discrimination and gender equality through sport;
· development of skills (through sport) needed to improve the social involvement of disadvantaged groups (e.g. independence, leadership etc.);
· integration of migrants;
· post-conflict reconciliation.
Actions must take place in EU Member States, third countries associated to the Programme or in third countries not associated to the Programme from Region 1 (Western Balkans) or Region 2 (Neighbourhood East).
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants must be either public bodies or non-profit organisations with legal personality. Applicants must be established in the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €2,170,000. The EU grant per project should vary between €100,000-€200,000.
Deadline: 05/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
This Action aims to support the organisation of sport events with a European dimension in the following fields:
· volunteering in sport;
· social inclusion through sport;
· fight against discrimination in sport, including gender equality;
· encouraging healthy lifestyles for all: projects under this priority will mainly focus on:
· the implementation of the three pillars of the HealthyLifestyleAll initiative;
· the implementation of the Council Recommendation on health-enhancing physical activity and the EU Physical Activity Guidelines;
· the support to the implementation of the European Week of Sport;
· the promotion of sport and physical activity as a tool for health;
· the promotion of all activities encouraging the practice of sport and physical activity;
· promotion of traditional sport and games.
Eligible Activities:
Actions must take place in EU Member States, third countries associated to the Programme or in third countries not associated to the Programme from Region 1 (Western Balkans) or Region 2 (Neighbourhood East).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible is any public or private organisation, with its affiliated entities (if any), active in the field of sport, established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme.
Total Budget: €10,920,000. Grant sizes range up to €450,000.
Deadline: 05/05/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - JUST
Objective:
The primary objective of the call is to support training promoting the digitalisation of national justice systems. Training funded under this call is expected to build the “digital capacity” of justice professionals, address training needs stemming from the Regulation on the digitalisation of judicial cooperation and access to justice in cross-border civil, commercial and criminal matters, the e-evidence Regulation, service of documents Regulation, and Taking of evidence Regulation and promote the digital transition of judicial training methodologies, while also contributing to the effective and coherent application of EU law in the areas of civil law, criminal law, and fundamental rights, including non-discrimination, equality, and the rule of law.
Eligible Activities:
Actions must take place in EU Member States, the EFTA/EEA countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, EU candidate countries: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova and North Macedonia.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants (the notion of applicants concerns applicants and partners) must be either public bodies or non-profit organisations with legal personality.
Total Budget: €4,075,000
Deadline: 26/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
The Erasmus+ Teacher Academies aim to facilitate networking, knowledge sharing, mobility and provide teachers and trainers with learning opportunities at all phases of teachers’ and trainers’ careers by promoting close cooperation between organisations active in initial and continuing teacher education and training, complement other work done in achieving the Education Area, and help transfer the results to national and regional policy making and eventually to teacher education and support for schools.
Eligible Activities:
The overall objective of this action is to create European partnerships of teacher education institutions and training providers to set up Teacher Academies that will develop a European and international outlook in teacher education. These Academies aim to develop teacher education in line with the EU’s priorities in education policy and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the European Education Area. The action focusses on networking, mobility and innovative methods, and will also embrace multilingualism, language awareness and cultural diversity topics.
Activities must take place in EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: The maximum EU grant per project is €1,500,000. Total funding is €25,500,000.
Deadline: 26/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - JUST
Objective:
The call for proposals’ objectives are to facilitate and support judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters, and promote the rule of law, independence and impartiality of the judiciary, including by supporting the efforts to improve the effectiveness of national justice systems, and the effective enforcement of decisions.
Eligible Activities:
There are three priorities for 2025:
· Judicial cooperation in civil matters
· Judicial cooperation in criminal matters
· Support to the Member States for the setting up and strengthening of national networks active in the area of judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters
Actions must take place in EU Member States, the EFTA/EEA countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, EU candidate countries: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova and North Macedonia.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants (the notion of applicants concerns applicants and partners) must be either public bodies or non-profit organisations with legal personality.
Total Budget: €5,900,000
Deadline: 23/04/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
This action supports the gradual establishment and development of international collaborative networks of Centres of Vocational Excellence.
Eligible Activities:
The Centres of Vocational Excellence aim at achieving the following objectives:
· to ensure high quality skills through flexible and learner-centred VET provisions that lead to quality employment and career-long opportunities, swiftly responding to the needs of an innovative, inclusive and sustainable economy as well as to societal needs;
· to support and act as drivers for local and regional development, innovation and social inclusion in the context of the green and digital transitions;
· to contribute to upward convergence on VET excellence, to increase the quality of VET at system level in more and more countries;
· to ensure that outputs and results are taken into use and have impact beyond the project partner organisations and beyond the project period.
Activities must take place in EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: The maximum EU grant per project is €4,000,000. Total funding is €60,000,000.
Deadline: 11/06/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships
Objective:
The overall objective of this call for proposals is: Contribute to consolidation efforts of peace in Colombia by improving the living conditions of people, especially those most affected by the conflict, the victims, people in the reintegration process, young people at risk of recruitment and women in all their diversity, through the promotion and strengthening of employability programs and labour inclusion.
Eligible Activities:
LOT 1: labour inclusion for peace construction
LOT 2: inclusive digital employment
Actions must take place in Colombia.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible organisations are: (1) non-profit-making; (2) Business Foundations or business and/or sector associations or Chambers ofNational and/or binational trade; (3) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €6,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
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Programme: African Development Bank
Objective:
The focus of this call is to enhance the bankability of Paris-aligned climate projects and mobilize additional climate finance in ADF countries. This will involve financing project preparation, capacity development, and expanding green financing initiatives.
Eligible Activities:
Key activities include preparing and strengthening Long- Term Strategies (LTSs), Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and climate diagnostics for Country Strategy Papers.
Actions must take place in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé & Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to (i) Governments and government entities of ADF countries; (ii) African Development Bank departments; (iii) Regional or sub-regional intergovernmental bodies, including climate centers, river basin organizations, economic communities; (iv) Non-sovereign entities (such as Non-Governmental Organizations, Community Based Organizations, and UN Agencies). Proposals from consortia are allowed if all members of the consortium are eligible beneficiaries.
Total Budget: €56,000,000
Deadline: 05/02/2025
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Programme: International Climate Initiative (IKI)
Objective:
The IKI Thematic Calls address current challenges in climate action, adaptation and biodiversity conservation on an annual basis.
Eligible Activities:
For these challenges, the respective IKI ministries define new thematic priorities as a basis for submission of project outlines. The financing volume provided by the IKI can range from 5 to 20 million EUR per project depending on the thematic priority.
Actions can take place worldwide in OECD DAC countries.
Eligible Applicants:
Participation in the ideas competition of IKI Thematic Calls is open to the following organisations: Non-governmental organisations; Universities and research institutions; International intergovernmental organisations and institutions such as development banks; United Nations organisations and programmes; Implementing organisations of the Federal Republic of Germany; Commercial enterprises.
Total Budget: €20,000,000
Deadline: 18/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.international-climate-initiative.com/en/find-funding/thematic-call/
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - CERV
Objective:
The scope of the call is promoting exchanges between citizens of different countries, in particular through networks of towns, to give them practical experience of the wealth and diversity of the common heritage of the Union and to make them aware that these constitute the foundation for a common future. In addition, developing sustainable networks of towns, deepening and intensifying their cooperation, while outlining their long-term vision for the future of European integration is another objective.
Eligible Activities:
In view of the overall objective stipulated above, the call may address the following topics (the list is not exhaustive):
· Bringing citizens together to discuss and share best practices, and thus helping to increase citizens’ engagement in society and ultimately to their active involvement in the democratic life of the Union;
· Promoting awareness and building knowledge of EU citizenship rights, free movement of people and associated European common values and common democratic standards, making them more tangible for EU citizens;
· Identifying ways to further strengthen the European dimension and democratic legitimacy of the EU decision-making process and fostering free, open and healthy democratic governance in an era of low turnout in elections, populism, disinformation and challenges facing civil society, including by supporting the active participation of citizens, including children, and civil society organisations in policy-making at local, national as well as European levels;
· Promoting awareness, building knowledge and sharing best practice on the benefits of diversity as well as effective measures on how to tackle discrimination and racism at local level;
· Promoting awareness and building knowledge of the role of minorities, such as people with a minority racial or ethnic background (for instance Roma and migrants), in European society and their contribution to Europe’s cultural development;
· Promoting prevention measures and awareness raising efforts, sharing best practices policies aiming to curb violence against women, domestic violence and violence against children at the local level, as well as bullying.
Actions must take place in the Member States of the European Union plus associated countries.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants must be legal entities (public or private bodies). Applicants must be established in the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €10,000,000
Deadline: 27/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - AMIF
Objective:
The general objective of this call for proposals is to enhance the prevention of irregular migration in countries of origin and transit and to undermine the business models of migrant smugglers by reducing the demand for their services. This should be achieved by raising awareness about the risks of irregular migration and migrant smuggling in key countries of origin and transit, informing potential migrants about available legal pathways to Europe, and highlighting alternative economic opportunities in their home countries.
Eligible Activities:
The aim is to provide reliable information to counter the false narrative promoted by criminal networks and to alter the perceptions and behaviour of third-country nationals considering irregular migration to the EU, as well as key influencers in their decisions, such as family members, religious or community leaders, teachers, returning migrants, and migration facilitators. This enables migrants and potential migrants to make better-informed decisions based on objective information rather than misinformation spread by smugglers.
Actions must take place in EU Member States and countries associated to the AMIF.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible organisations are legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €10,000,000
Deadline: 01/04/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - CERV
Objective:
The objective of the call is promoting citizens’ and representative associations’ participation in and contribution to the democratic and civic life of the Union by making known and publicly exchanging their views in all areas of Union action.
Eligible Activities:
This call aims to support projects promoted by transnational partnerships and networks directly involving citizens. These projects will gather a diverse range of people from different backgrounds and genders in activities directly linked to EU policies, giving them an opportunity to actively participate in the EU policymaking process and thus contribute to the democratic and civic life of the Union. The projects will encourage citizens’, including young persons, understanding of the policymaking process, showing in practice how to engage in the democratic life of the EU and enabling them to make known and publicly exchange their views in all areas of Union action.
· Priority 1. Promoting exchanges on future Union policy priorities and challenges
· Priority 2. Countering disinformation, information manipulation and interference in the democratic debate
· Priority 3. Promoting citizens’ active engagement and democratic participation
Actions must take place in the Member States of the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. Eligible are also: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants must be either public bodies or non-profit organisations with legal personality. Applicants must be established in the eligible countries. The project must be transnational; the application must involve at least two applicants (lead applicant and at least one co-applicant not being affiliated entity or associated partner) from two different eligible countries
Total Budget: €33,000,000
Deadline: 29/04/2025
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Programme: Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Objective:
Launched in 2020, this program aims to support projects run jointly by African and French higher education institutions. The PeA is a program of academic partnerships between Africa and France, financed by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) via Agence Française de Développement (AFD). Its implementation is being supported by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR), the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and Campus France.
Eligible Activities:
The Academia Partnerships Africa-France programme supports projects that:
· are led by French and African higher education and research institutions engaged in a strategic partnership to boost and implement sustainable higher education training programmes delivered in Africa;
· target a priority field for the socioeconomic development of the country or region, and where the training capacity is insufficient with respect to employment capacity;
· help build the African institution’s capacities and skills in managing this training programme;
Eligible countries are South Africa, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, and Togo.
Eligible Applicants:
Each project applying for a partnership for the PeA programme is jointly coordinated by a higher education and research institution from an African country eligible for PeA3 (see §1.4) and by a French higher education and research institution, potentially joined by other partnering higher education and research institutions from France; the public and private institutions involved are non-profit and are not recognized as an enterprise in the sense of European regulations for state aid to research, development, and innovation.
Total Budget: €3,000,000 per project
Deadline: 06/05/2025
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Programme: Ocean Park Conservation Foundation (OPCF) Hong Kong
Objective:
Regular projects (1 to 2 years) should be geared towards one of the areas whereas Long-term projects (3-5 years) must address both:
- Wildlife Conservation
Conduct in-situ field studies to enhance the understanding of the target species population, the condition of their habitats and the threats they face in the wild, and/or
Collaborate with local communities, institutes, and the government to formulate effective conservation management plans to preserve threatened species and their habitats, and/or
Conduct ex-situ studies on the target species to promote and improve in-situ conservation efforts.
- Social Science-based Conservation
Design and organise in-situ and ex-situ conservation education programmes to raise public awareness of wildlife conservation and to engage locals to change their daily activities and behaviour in support of conservation efforts, and/or
Conduct capacity-building programmes or workshops to advance the nature reserve and conservation education teams’ knowledge and skills for effective conservation action.
Eligible Activities:
The Foundation solicits proposals worldwide, but the proposed work must be conducted in countries or regions in Asia according to United Nations Statistical Division plus Papua New Guinea, higher priority will be given to projects from Eastern, Southern and South-Eastern Asia. Coastal countries connected to Asia where funding is limited and with threatened wide-ranging Asian species (e.g. Far East Russian western grey whales), will be considered.
Eligible Applicants:
Principal Investigator (PI), Deputy PI and Co-Investigator(s): Each applicant can submit only one application as the Principal Investigator of a project and act as PI in not more than two concurrent projects funded by the Foundation.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 31/01/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.opcf.org.hk/en/conservation-research/research-funding/funding-application
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Programme: Ocean Park Conservation Foundation (OPCF) Hong Kong
Objective:
As a new initiative to contribute to the local ecology and society, the Foundation has created a funding programme focused on Hong Kong’s local biodiversity. Applications are invited for projects which can demonstrate the potential for long term, beneficial impacts on the conservation of Hong Kong’s habitats and associated biodiversity. It is anticipated that funded projects will adopt a habitat-approach in conserving biodiversity in Hong Kong’s humid subtropical climate landscape.
Eligible Activities:
Funded projects should foster collaboration among various parties, including but not limited to OPCFHK, different universities or educational institutes, non-government organizations, and the wider community:
Habitat Conservation: This funding programme is dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of local habitats, with a primary focus on biodiversity conservation.
Collaboration and Partnership: We aim to foster collaboration and partnership between multiple organizations, emphasizing a proven history of working together to maximize project effectiveness. The power of partnerships is central to achieving our conservation goals.
Education and Outreach for Sustainability: This funding programme shall integrate a strong and clearly defined education and outreach component, aiming to raise awareness about Hong Kong’s biodiversity, promote stewardship, and create a lasting impact on the community.
The Foundation solicits proposals for Hong Kong.
Eligible Applicants:
Principal Investigator (PI), Deputy PI and Co-Investigator(s): Each applicant can submit only one application as the Principal Investigator of a project and act as PI in not more than two concurrent projects funded by the Foundation.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: 28/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.opcf.org.hk/en/conservation-research/research-funding/funding-application
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim to maximise the value of the excellent research that the ERC funds, by funding further work (i.e. activities which were not scheduled to be funded by the original ERC frontier research grant) to verify the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC funded projects. The objective is to provide funds to enable ERC-funded ideas to be brought to a pre-demonstration stage where potential commercialisation or societal opportunities have been identified.
Eligible Activities:
The ERC Proof of Concept call aims at supporting ERC grant-holders to establish the innovation potential of their idea during the pre-demonstration phase. This would help among others: (1) establishing viability, technical issues and overall direction; (2) clarifying IPR position and strategy; (3) providing feedback for budgeting and other forms of commercial discussion; (4) providing connections to later stage funding; and (5) covering initial expenses for establishing a company.
Actions must take place in EU member states or Horizon Associated Country.
Eligible Applicants:
The ERC actions are open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any EU Member State or H2020 Associated Country. Principal Investigators may be of any age and nationality and may reside in any country in the world at the time of the application. ERC Principal Investigators do not have to be based full-time in Europe. The host institution must either be established in an EU Member State or Horizon Associated Country as a legal entity created under national law, or it may be an International European Interest Organisation (such as CERN, EMBL, etc.), the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) or any other entity created under EU law.
Total Budget: €30,000,000
Deadline: 18/09/2025
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Programme: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Objective:
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is now accepting applications for its UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
The Network brings together cities from all continents and regions with different geodemographic, economic, social, cultural and environmental settings. They work together towards a common mission: placing culture and creativity at the core of their urban development plans to make cities safe, resilient, inclusive, sustainable and future-proof in line with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Eligible Activities:
Selection Criteria
A city may be designated based on its assets and added value in the fields of culture and creativity, but also on the content, impact and outreach of its proposed action plan. It shall demonstrate its potential contribution to the Network’s overall vision and objectives, as well as its commitment to UNESCO’s mandate and priorities, including the promotion of cooperation, solidarity and dialogue at all levels, and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Application Requirements
All applications must be submitted exclusively through the dedicated online application platform.
Drafting and submitting an application online can take longer than anticipated. Adequate time needs to be dedicated to the preparation phase, the constitution of a management team and the consultative group.
The management team and the focal point should start by carefully reading the UCCN Mission Statement, the online Application Form and the present Application Guidelines.
It is important to ensure an active participation of all the relevant local stakeholders and actors to reinforce engagement and ownership of the process, gather the necessary information on the cultural assets, experiences and expertise of the city, sketch out the main lines of the city’s vision, strategy and action plan.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
The Call for Applications is open to all cities of UNESCO’s Member States and Associate Members.
UNESCO reserves itself the right to restrict the Call for Applications, by taking into account specific geographical or thematic priorities, and may limit the maximum number of designations. For the 2025 Call, a maximum of two applications from a same country, and in two different creative fields, can be eligible for designation.
Moreover, applications from under-represented regions within the Network, especially those from Africa and Arab States, are encouraged in order to enhance the Network’s geographic representation. The specific Cooperation Framework is available to cities from these twos regions in the current Call (please refer to the Annex for further details on the Cooperation Framework).
Cities that have submitted two consecutive unsuccessful applications to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, shall respect a moratorium of 4 years before presenting a new application.
Total Budget: €N/A
Deadline: 31/01/2023
More information and official documents:
https://www.unesco.org/en/creative-cities/call-applications?hub=80094
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Programme: P4G
Objective:
P4G is now accepting applications for partnerships working on climate mitigation or adaptation solutions in the areas of food, energy and water. Partnerships must comprise at least one early-stage business and one nonprofit organization implementing in one of P4G’s ODA-eligible partner countries: Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa and Vietnam. Applicants must provide services or products that contribute to poverty alleviation, gender equity and economic growth in one of the following sub-sectors: climate-smart agriculture, food loss and waste, water resilience, zero emission mobility and renewable energy.
Eligible Activities:
P4G will provide grant funding and technical assistance to help the early-stage business in the partnership become investment ready. To be considered for the next funding round, partnerships should submit their proposal by March 7, 2025. All applications must be submitted in English.
The program is open to partnerships operating in P4G’s ODA-eligible partner countries, which include Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
Eligible Applicants:
The eligibility criteria require partnerships to comprise at least one early-stage climate business and one NGO administrative partner. Applicants must demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the sectoral, policy, and regulatory environment in their country, along with skills in business, financial, social, environmental development, and grant management. The proposed climate business solution should be innovative and at a seed or post-seed financing stage with a clear path to commercialization or capital raising. Additionally, applicants must show their project’s potential for climate, economic growth, poverty reduction, gender, and development impact, and adhere to responsible business conduct, including having an ESG plan or developing one.
Total Budget: €350,000
Deadline: 07/03/2025
More information and official documents:
https://p4gpartnerships.org/p4g-call-partnership-applications
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Programme: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Objective:
Sustainable and locally driven ideas come from a diversity of organizations around the world. To ensure that these ideas have the opportunity to be considered, the Unsolicited Solutions for Locally Led Development (US4LLD) Program provides funding to enable USAID Missions to support unsolicited applications that advance locally led development in any sector. All concepts must demonstrate how they advance locally led development.
Eligible Activities:
Concepts must show how they include:
Local input: Communities are involved in identifying the development challenge and designing a solution.
Local leadership: Local actors are empowered to own and implement the process.
Innovation: Activities go beyond and/or improve upon traditional development practices.
Sustainability: Activity outcomes will be sustained over the long-term.
Locally Informed Adaptation: There is a strategy for involving local communities in monitoring and learning, responding to potential challenges, and adapting as necessary.
Local Capacity Strengthening (as relevant): The needs, goals, and methods of any planned capacity strengthening activities are directly informed by potential activity participants and local partners.
Organizational Capacity Strengthening (optional, but encouraged): There are resources and a plan to strengthen the applicant organization’s own ability to better achieve its self-defined organizational goals.
Actions can take place worldwide except certain countries due to certain limits.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must: (1) have received less than $5 million from USAID directly over the previous five fiscal years and; (2) be a small local, international, or United States-based non-governmental organization, educational institution, or other small entity.
Total Budget: €2,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:
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Programme: CHRYSALIS TRUST
Objective:
The Chrysalis Trust was established in 2009. They are funding poverty reduction and disability projects as well as provision of access to shelter, education, healthcare and water. The Trust supports local projects in the North East of England only, national organisations providing benefit across the UK, as well as, international charities registered in the UK.
Eligible Activities:
The trust is able to provide support for both capital projects and core funding with ‘one off’ donations.
Less popular and harder to fund projects are prioritised. The Trust makes grants to registered charities and other organisations that demonstrate their ability to carry out charitable activities which provide public benefit as well.
They do not have any focus countries and so far have funded projects in Bangladesh, Ghana, Honduras, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Nepal, Romania, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Gambia, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Lebanon.
Eligible Applicants:
International charities registered in the UK are eligible to apply.
Total Budget: £1,500,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The objective of this call for proposals is to select projects to respond to the mentioned challenges and to help Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals tackle the ongoing and future consequences of the war, in cooperation with organisations from other Creative Europe countries. Proposals under this Topic should help preparing the post-war recovery of the Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors and support their contribution to societal resilience through capacity building and networking activities.
Eligible Activities:
This action will support cultural cooperation projects between Ukraine and other Creative Europe countries that will help and strengthen Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals. Projects shall demonstrate a very good understanding of the complexity of the current situation in Ukraine and develop actions encouraging the development, experimentation, dissemination or application of concrete practices on how culture and the arts can contribute to wartime resilience and post-war recovery.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 06/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The objective of this call for proposals is to select projects to respond to the mentioned challenges and to help Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals tackle the ongoing and future consequences of the war, in cooperation with organisations from other Creative Europe countries. Proposals under this topic should foster Ukrainians’ access to culture and cultural heritage – namely for displaced people, in Ukraine or Creative Europe participating countries – promote integration, social cohesion or health through culture.
Eligible Activities:
This action will support cultural cooperation projects between Ukraine and other Creative Europe countries that will help and strengthen Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals. Projects shall demonstrate a very good understanding of the complexity of the current situation in Ukraine and develop actions encouraging the development, experimentation, dissemination or application of concrete practices on how culture and the arts can contribute to wartime resilience and post-war recovery.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €2,000,000
Deadline: 06/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The objective of this call for proposals is to select projects to respond to the mentioned challenges and to help Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals tackle the ongoing and future consequences of the war, in cooperation with organisations from other Creative Europe countries. Proposals under this Topic should support Ukrainian artists and cultural organisations co-create with their peers and showcase their art and works in Ukraine and in Creative Europe participating countries.
Eligible Activities:
This action will support cultural cooperation projects between Ukraine and other Creative Europe countries that will help and strengthen Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals. Projects shall demonstrate a very good understanding of the complexity of the current situation in Ukraine and develop actions encouraging the development, experimentation, dissemination or application of concrete practices on how culture and the arts can contribute to wartime resilience and post-war recovery.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €2,000,000
Deadline: 06/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation
Objective:
Submissions are now open for New Investigator Grant program to support newly independent DIPG researchers working to establish DIPG research labs OR established researchers to encourage them to start DIPG research.
Eligible Activities:
Review Criteria
Each application is reviewed by the ChadTough Defeat DIPG Scientific Advisory Council.
The Scientific Advisory Council makes recommendations to the ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation, and the foundation makes the final funding decision.
All application evaluations are considered confidential and are available only to the Scientific Advisory Council and the foundation’s Board of Directors and staff.
When an application is approved for funding, the grant award is contingent upon all legal documents being signed and approved by the foundation and the applicant’s institution.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have an academic appointment and be in their first independent faculty position or equivalent at an accredited college, university, medical school, or other research facility.
Applicants should be in their faculty role for not more than 6 years at the time of application.
Independence is typically demonstrated by a full-time faculty appointment, a tenure-track position, allocated space, a start-up package, and institutional commitment.
Applicants who are beyond their first independent faculty position for more than 6 years are eligible if they have no previous research on DIPG/DMG tumors.
Applicants must be employed by an academic institution, nonprofit research institution, or laboratory.
Applicants need not be U.S. citizens
Total Budget: $400,000
Deadline: 06/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: Journalismfund.eu
Objective:
The aim of Journalismfund.eu is to promote quality journalism in Europe by giving journalists the chance to carry out journalistic research projects. Journalismfund.eu will support professional journalists, who have good ideas for cross-border research and for research on European affairs. The stories must be relevant for European target groups.
Eligible Activities:
The project should be one that, in principle, could not be realised in this format within the remit of regular journalism – a project that can include cross-border research, networking between colleagues, established and innovative investigative methods and that is at the same time original, innovative and intensive.
Journalismfund.eu supports costs related to journalistic research for all media. This can include travel, translation, access to pay-databases or simply time to research. They do not support fixed costs such as office costs, investments such as cameras or computers or production costs.
Actions must take place in Europe.
Eligible Applicants:
Teams of journalists from at least two countries in geographical Europe are eligible to apply. When relevant for the story, team members from elsewhere can be accepted too.
Total Budget: €900,000
Deadline: 27/03/2025
More information and official documents:
https://grants.journalismfund.eu/en/european-cross-border-grants
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Programme: Yidan Prize Foundation
Objective:
Applications are now open for the Yidan Prize to create a better world through education.
The prize aims to progress learning by building a global community committed to advancing ideas in education.
Eligible Activities:
Areas
They award the Yidan Prize to individuals and teams in two areas:
Education Research
The theory of learning — science, psychology, statistics — that can help educators gain a more methodical understanding of their approaches.
Education Development
The practice of learning — new methods, ways to make education more widespread — so they can champion techniques that work.
Prize Information
They award each year’s laureates a gold medal and a total sum of HK$30 million — half is a cash prize to recognize their contribution to the sector (shared equally for teams); the other half is a project fund distributed over three years to support the laureate’s work.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
They welcome all nominations; the process is open to everyone. You don’t need to be invited to nominate a team or individual for either the Education Research or Education Development prize.
The prizes are open to teams of up to three. That could be a research group working on a project together.
Same nominee can be nominated more than once in the same category, or they can be nominated in both categories if their work spans both research and development.
Having more than one nomination in one category doesn’t increase the nominee’s chances. If you know others who are also interested in nominating the same person or team, consider choosing one nominator between you, and asking everyone else to be a supporter. It’ll probably make a stronger application overall.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 31/03/2025
More information and official documents:
https://yidanprize.org/the-prize-and-nominations/nominations
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Programme: U.S. Mission to Albania
Objective:
The U.S. Embassy Tirana Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce that funding is available through its Public Diplomacy Annual Grants Program.
Eligible Activities:
Purpose of PAS Grants: PAS Tirana invites proposals for programs that strengthen cultural ties between the U.S. and Albania through cultural and exchange programming that highlights shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation. All programs must include an American cultural element or connection with American expert/s, organization/s, or institution/s in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives.
Actions must take place in Albania.
Eligible Applicants:
The Public Affairs Section encourages applications from U.S. and Albania: Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experience; Individuals: an individual can apply for up to $150,000 in funding; Non-profit or governmental educational institutions (registered as non-profit); Albanian governmental institutions.
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: 21/09/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: Journalismfund.eu
Objective:
Journalismfund.eu’s flexible grants programmes enable journalists to produce relevant public interest stories with a European mind-set from international, national, and regional perspectives.
Eligible Activities:
This grant facility supports enabling activities and supporting services for environmental investigative journalism as a whole. It seeks to promote collective development and support services for environmental investigative journalism, by providing funding to project ideas from organisations and institutions for training and professional development programmes, i.e. skills-focused professional training or fellowship programmes targeted at enabling investigative journalists to upskill with regards to reporting on environment related issues.
Actions must take place in Europe.
Eligible Applicants:
Incorporated legal entities (organisations, companies, …) can apply with a project proposal for collective development and support services for environmental investigative journalism. Individuals (natural persons) cannot apply for this grant.
Total Budget: €84,000
Deadline: 09/10/2025
More information and official documents:
https://grants.journalismfund.eu/en/professional-development-grants-environmental-journalism
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Programme: Journalismfund.eu
Objective:
Journalismfund.eu’s flexible grants programmes enable journalists to produce relevant public interest stories with a European mind-set from international, national, and regional perspectives.
Eligible Activities:
This grant can be awarded to cross-border teams of professional journalists and/or news outlets to conduct investigations into environmental affairs related to Europe (all the countries, not only the EU). The resulting stories must be published in at least two outlets in two different countries, at least one must be a European media. While news media and newsrooms still predominantly operate nationally, most power structures and societal and environmental problems transcend national boundaries. This grant programme is therefore aimed at cross-border teams of investigative journalists and newsrooms to investigate and document illegal, unreported and unregulated abuse of nature that involves European affairs in and outside Europe.
Actions must take place in Europe.
Eligible Applicants:
Cross-border teams of at least two professional journalists and/or news outlets can submit a proposal for a journalistic investigation about an issue that concerns the environment and relates to the European continent (islands included).
Total Budget: €1,600,000
Deadline: 23/10/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.journalismfund.eu/environmental-investigative-journalism
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Programme: NZAID
Objective:
The New Zealand Aid Programme is the New Zealand Government’s international aid and development agency (NZAID). Their mission is to support sustainable development in order to reduce poverty and contribute to a more secure, equitable and prosperous world. In order to eliminate global poverty, it works with NGOs, civil society, governments and other agencies by supporting them through grants, aid and scholarships.
Eligible Activities:
They focus on improving well-being and reducing poverty, hardship and vulnerability through access to economic opportunities and high-quality public services. Their priorities also support resilience to climate change, natural disasters and external economic events.
Thematic interest
Economic well-being
Education and health
Emergencies and disaster preparedness
Governance and peace
Their focus lies on Pacific and Asia (around 80%) but they also support Afghanistan, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Eligible Applicants:
The New Zealand Aid Programme has a range of funding and contracting opportunities to provide effective, sustainable aid in developing countries (i.e. New Zealand Partnerships for International Development Fund, Research Funds, New Zealand Disaster Response Partnership or Strategic Relationships) and each of those has different funding and application guidelines. Some schemes are open all year round and others are only accessible during open calls for proposals windows.
Total Budget: €550,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing (10 per year)
More information and official documents:
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Programme: PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION TRUST
Objective:
The New Zealand’s Pacific Development and Conservation Trust makes grants for conservation, cultural heritage, development, and goodwill in the Pacific Islands. The priority is community projects, including conservation projects that involve representative, endangered, threatened, or unique habitats and species.
Eligible Activities:
Thematic Interest
Environment and natural resources
Community development
Cultural heritage
Eligible to receive grant funding are organisations from New Zealand and eligible Pacific countries and territories.
Eligible Applicants:
The Trust has about $250,000 to give as grants each year. The preferred way of receiving an application is via the Trust’s online application system (paper applications can also be downloaded from the Trust’s website). Applications may be submitted on a rolling basis throughout the year. There is no minimum or maximum grant amount and grants are usually in the range from $2,000 to $50,000. There are two full funding rounds per year. The opening cycle for the new rounds is February and August each year. Requests for funding must have a detailed budget, quotes and price lists, audited accounts or other financial information, and project lead CVs.
Total Budget: €250,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:
https://www.communitymatters.govt.nz/pacific-development-and-conservation-trust-2/
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - CERV
Objective:
The objective of this call is to protect, promote and raise awareness of rights by providing financial support to civil society organisations active at local, regional, national and transnational level in promoting and cultivating those rights. The call thereby also aims at strengthening the protection and promotion of Union values including respect for the rule of law and contributing to the construction of a more democratic Union, democratic dialogue, transparency as well as good governance.
Eligible Activities:
The call intends to support the 2026 annual work programmes of framework partners (European networks, civil society organisations active at EU level and European think tanks), and to increase the capacities of the framework partners to contribute actively to the development and implementation of EU policies.
Actions must take place in EU member states.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €36,000,000
Deadline: 05/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
Expected results of this call are:
· Increased innovation and creativity in business models, journalistic production processes and distribution processes;
· Increased viability of professionally produced journalistic content.
· Increased interest in professionally produced journalistic content, among various social groups, language groups and age groups;
· Increased media collaboration.
· Sector-wide networks for the exchange of best practices among news media organisations and professionals;
· Knowledge-hubs for sub-sectors around technical formats (written/online press, radio/podcasts, TV, etc.) and/or journalistic genres (data journalism, general topics, specialised journalism, etc.);
· Acquisition and improvement of professional skills by journalists as well as media business professionals.
Eligible Activities:
Activities that can be funded
This topic seeks to help the wider European news media sector become more sustainable and resilient, including small media. Support is foreseen for collaborative projects in and between any news media (sub)sector and/or genre that aim to enhance cooperation, help media adapt to new economic and consumption realities and instil systemic change across that (sub)sector.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €5,266,270
Deadline: 27/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
Expected results
· Increased innovation and creativity in business models, journalistic production processes and distribution processes;
· Increased viability of professionally produced journalistic content.
· Increased interest in professionally produced journalistic content, among various social groups, language groups and age groups;
· Increased resilience, pluralism and editorial independence at EU level of sectors such as local, regional and community media, investigative media or media specialised in public interest topics.
· Increased resilience of organisations active in the targeted news media sectors and protection of the news media landscape.
· Improved uptake of new technologies across the targeted media sectors in as much this contributes to media pluralism and a diverse media landscape.
· Fostering repositories of knowledge about media sectors delivering public interest news (e.g. by detecting areas with low provision of high-quality content and/or in which media pluralism is strained).
Eligible Activities:
This topic covers media sectors that are particularly relevant for democracy. Certain sectors having an important role for democratic debate lack the means to adapt to the digital environment, and phenomena such as shrinking newsrooms or media deserts can lead to a deterioration of pluralism. Support is thus needed for them to improve their position, adapt their methods, continue providing a first-hand source of original reporting to citizens, help keep decision-makers accountable and ultimately contribute to a more diverse and independent sector.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €5,266,270
Deadline: 27/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The Call for Proposals will result in:
· pan-European consortia, scaling up best practices across national, cultural and linguistic borders, and developing and upscaling media literacy tools and actions to ensure the transfer of such practices to the widest possible audience, covering different types of media delivery modalities;
· forums for exchange of best practices around specific age groups, groups with limited media literacy skills or access, or those at risk of social exclusion;
· support for media literacy professionals to adapt their practices to fast developing media formats and changing media consumption patterns.
Eligible Activities:
Support is foreseen for collaborative projects with clearly defined objective(s) to advance/target specific area(s)/goal(s) within the field of media literacy, addressing at least two of the following areas of activities:
· Activities building on, sharing and scaling up best practices from innovative media literacy projects that take into account a changing media ecosystem, especially by crossing cultural, country or linguistic borders and strengthening collaboration between different regions of Europe.
· Developing innovative, interactive online toolkits to provide solutions to existing and future challenges in the online environment, including disinformation.
· Developing materials and toolkits to enable citizens to develop a critical approach to the media, and to recognise and appropriately react to disinformation.
· Develop media literacy practices adapted to the changing media environment including manipulative techniques and AI-based media production.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €2,570,000
Deadline: 06/03/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The InnovLab support shall support the design, development and/or spread of innovative tools, models or solutions applicable in the audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors (CCSs) with a high potential of replicability in those sectors.
Eligible Activities:
The objectives of the scheme is to encourage cooperation between the audiovisual sector and other CCSs in order to accompany their environmental transition and/or to improve their competitiveness and/or the circulation, visibility, discoverability, availability, diversity and the audience of European content across borders. The support also aims to enable the European audiovisual sector and other CCSs to better adapt to the opportunities offered by the development of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Worlds.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €5,001,863
Deadline: 14/04/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: German Embassy Zimbabwe
Objective:
The German Embassy Harare has a fund which supports small scale anti-poverty projects by Zimbabwean Non-Governmental Organizations, associations, interest groups and communities. The Small Scale Project Scheme is part of Germany’s overall development co-operation that contributes to poverty alleviation and the improvement of living standards, especially in rural areas. Project examples are bore holes, street children shelters, training centres, orphanages, community halls, sewing machines, construction of a classroom, renovation of maternity ward, installation of solar power, etc.
Eligible Activities:
The German Embassy only supports projects that can be completed within one year and which do not cause any further costs after termination. A project cannot be funded if it has been supported by the German Embassy or by any other German development organisation before. The projects have to be initiated by local groups or communities at the grassroots’ level. They should be directed towards improving the living conditions of the community as a whole in the form of long term investments. The communities themselves have to make a substantial contribution towards the project.
Actions must take place in Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are Zimbabwean non-governmental organisations, associations, interest groups and communities.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:
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Programme: P4G
Objective:
P4G is now accepting applications for partnerships working on climate mitigation or adaptation solutions in the areas of food, energy and water. Partnerships must comprise at least one early-stage business and one nonprofit organization implementing in one of P4G’s ODA-eligible partner countries: Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa and Vietnam. Applicants must provide services or products that contribute to poverty alleviation, gender equity and economic growth in one of the following sub-sectors: climate-smart agriculture, food loss and waste, water resilience, zero emission mobility and renewable energy.
Eligible Activities:
P4G will provide grant funding and technical assistance to help the early-stage business in the partnership become investment ready. To be considered for the next funding round, partnerships should submit their proposal by March 7, 2025. All applications must be submitted in English.
The program is open to partnerships operating in P4G’s ODA-eligible partner countries, which include Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
Eligible Applicants:
The eligibility criteria require partnerships to comprise at least one early-stage climate business and one NGO administrative partner. Applicants must demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the sectoral, policy, and regulatory environment in their country, along with skills in business, financial, social, environmental development, and grant management. The proposed climate business solution should be innovative and at a seed or post-seed financing stage with a clear path to commercialization or capital raising. Additionally, applicants must show their project’s potential for climate, economic growth, poverty reduction, gender, and development impact, and adhere to responsible business conduct, including having an ESG plan or developing one.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 07/03/2025
More information and official documents:
https://p4gpartnerships.org/p4g-call-partnership-applications
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Programme: European AI & Society Fund
Objective:
The AI Act Implementation Grants will support work that puts social justice at the heart of the AI Act’s implementation at EU and national levels. The Fund does not prescribe which approaches or tactics to use.
Eligible Activities:
Examples of work that may qualify for funding include:
Soliciting expert advice or commissioning research on a specific aspect of the AI Act implementation, for example the fundamental rights impact assessments
Ad-hoc convening costs to coordinate among stakeholders involved in the implementation, including travel costs and venues
Systematising coordination between organisations working in Brussels and at the national and regional level.
Convening costs to engage with authorities responsible for the enforcement of the AI act
Travel costs and compensation for experts and advocates that provide substantial input as part of the AI Act implementation process
Compensation for time spent on one of the sub-committees of the Code of Practice, or in similar processes
Actions must take place in EU, EEA, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Switzerland and the UK.
Eligible Applicants:
Organisations should be registered and carry out their work in one or several of the following countries: the EU, EEA, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Switzerland and the UK. Organisations must have non-profit status.
Total Budget: €400,000
Deadline: ONGOING
More information and official documents:
https://europeanaifund.org/newspublications/call-ai-act-implementation-grants/
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The objective of the MEDIA 360 action is to develop major audiovisual hubs capable of proposing a strategic set of activities which respond to key opportunities and challenges at the European level. To encourage a coherent approach where the hubs exploit their unique identities and capabilities, as well as economies of scale, MEDIA 360 supports a package of activities implementing a shared vision and objectives with an impact across the value-chain.
Eligible Activities:
The action will support a package of activities facilitating the creation, promotion and distribution of European content, and/or the uptake of new technologies or business models by the audiovisual sector. The activities shall have impacts across the value chain (for example supporting talents and skills, developing markets and networking, supporting innovation and private investment, supporting international co-productions, as well as other relevant areas) and be implemented by European organizations able to attract European and international participants. The applicants shall present a comprehensive strategy and a coherent package of activities and be able to demonstrate their strong added-value and structuring effect across the European audiovisual industry.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €21,000,000
Deadline: 09/01/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The Innovative tools and business models action is aimed at encouraging the development and/or the spread of innovative tools and business models to improve the visibility, availability, audience and diversity of European works in the digital age and/or the competitiveness and/or the greening process of the European audiovisual industry.
Eligible Activities:
Expected results:
· Improve the competitiveness of the European audiovisual industry and seize the benefits of the innovative developments in technology and business models;
· Improve the adaptation of the European audiovisual industry to the opportunities offered by Artificial Intelligence and the development of virtual worlds (also called Metaverse(s));
· Improve the greening process of the European audiovisual industry;
· Improve the production and circulation of European audiovisual works in the digital era;
· Increase the number and diversity of European works available online and increase their visibility in order to allow them to reach more audiences.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €8,000,000
Deadline: 16/01/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The objective of the support to Video games and immersive content development is to increase the capacity of European video game producers, XR studios and audiovisual production companies to develop video games and interactive immersive experiences with the potential to reach global audiences. The support also aims to improve the competitiveness of the European video games industry and other companies producing interactive immersive content in European and international markets by enabling the retention of intellectual property by European developers.
Eligible Activities:
Expected results
· Increased quality, appeal, feasibility and cross-border potential for selected projects.
· A stronger position on the European and international market for video games developers and companies producing interactive immersive experiences.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €7,000,000
Deadline: 12/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
Expected results:
· Stimulate interest and increase knowledge of audiences in European films and audiovisual works including specific programmes on film heritage
· Strengthen pan-European cooperation for innovative audience development and film education projects especially using new digital tools
· Increase pan-European impact and audience outreach
· Develop film education projects across European and non-European territories
Eligible Activities:
Description of the activities: Projects ensuring pan-European cooperation and providing innovative projects, especially using new digital tools aiming at:
· Increasing interest and knowledge of audiences, in particular young audiences, in European films and audiovisual works including specific programmes on film heritage.
· Activities shall include audience-oriented events and innovative or cross-border film education initiatives. Cooperation between film institutions and online platforms is encouraged.
· Increasing pan-European impact and audience outreach.
· Promoting and increase the contribution that existing European films and audiovisual works, including curated catalogues of films, make towards audience development, film education and film literacy.
· Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €6,000,000
Deadline: 27/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The objective of the Skills and Talent Development support is to enhance the capacity of audiovisual professionals to adapt to new creative processes, market developments and digital technologies that affect the whole value chain.
Particular focus will be put on supporting new creative processes (e.g. cross disciplinary creative collaboration, innovative storytelling blending creative and digital skills), harnessing digital innovation in audiovisual production (e.g. virtual production, post-production) and distribution (marketing, promotion, audience engagement); uptake of digital tools for videogames production and distribution; enhancing IP rights exploitation; green transition (aiming at promoting sustainable practices across the entire value chain).
Eligible Activities:
Expected results:
· To promote sustainable and more environmentally respectful solutions for the audiovisual industry
· Harness Europe’s creative talent by embracing new creative processes
· To accompany the digital transition of the audiovisual sector in support of content creation and dissemination
· To foster growth and investment through greater exploitation of IP across the EU and beyond
· Equip audiovisual and gaming professionals with a new combination of creative and digital skills, thereby increasing the competitiveness potential of the European industry
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €7,500,000
Deadline: 24/04/2025
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
Scope: The objective of the support to TV and online content is to increase the capacity of audiovisual producers to develop and produce strong projects with significant potential to circulate throughout Europe and beyond, and to facilitate European and international co-productions within the television and online sector.
The action aims to strengthen the independence of producers in relation to broadcasters and digital platforms, to enhance collaboration between operators, including independent producers, broadcasters, digital platforms and sales agents, from different countries participating in the MEDIA Strand, in order to produce high quality programming aimed at wide international distribution and promoted to a wide audience including commercial exploitation in the multi-platform environment. Particular attention will be given to projects presenting innovative aspects in the content and in the financing that show a clear link with the envisaged distribution strategies.
Eligible Activities:
Expected results
· Increased production of high quality European works for linear and non-linear broadcasting including on digital platforms, as well as an increase in the number of co-productions.
· Enhanced cooperation between operators from different countries participating in the MEDIA Strand, including between broadcasters.
· Increased audience for European works through linear and non-linear broadcasting including on digital platforms.
· Description of the activities to be funded
· Applicants should present adequate strategies to ensure a more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry (in particular through the use of greening consultants allowing to reduce the environmental impact of productions and shootings) and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €20,000,000
Deadline: 14/05/2025
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
Objective: The Films on the Move action shall encourage and support the wider distribution of recent non-national European films by encouraging sales agents and theatrical distributors in particular to invest in promotion and adequate distribution of non-national European films.
Eligible Activities:
Expected Results:
· Development of pan-European theatrical and/or online distribution strategies for non-national European films.
· Increased investment in theatrical and/or online promotion and distribution of non-national European films in view of expanding audience reach.
· Develop links between the production and distribution sector thus improving the competitive position of non-national European films on a global market
Description of the activities to be funded under the call for proposals:
· The activities to be funded are campaigns for the pan-European theatrical and/or online distribution of eligible European films, coordinated by the sales agent of the film. Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €16,000,000
Deadline: 17/07/2025
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Programme: European Commission – Horizon Europe
Objective:
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce the Industrialisation of Sustainable & Circular Deep Renovation Workflows Programme.
Expected Outcomes
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
· Streamlining resource-efficient nearly zero-energy performance renovation processes.
· Renovations with reduction of at least 30 % waste, 25% cost, and 30% work time (to 1-2 days per dwelling/building unit), compared to current deep renovation processes.
· Reduced energy performance gap between as-built and as-designed (difference between theoretical and measured performance), and higher construction quality.
· Innovative, tailored business models for deep renovation, generating economies of scale and contributing to an increased rate of renovation.
· Improved comfort, Indoor Air Quality and Indoor Environmental Quality.
Eligible Activities:
Scope
Proposals are expected to address all of the following:
· Investigate innovative approaches for industrialised deep circular renovation, covering the whole workflow from design through to off-site prefabrication, installation, construction on-site and strategies for maintenance, operation and end of life.
· Ensure the proposed approaches aim to achieve the highest level of energy performance (at least NZEB level) with a view toward zero-emission buildings, ensuring a high level of indoor environment quality, keeping costs in an attractive range for owners and investors.
· Make use of innovative processes and technologies, including those delivered by previous research, such as design based on circularity principles, prefabricated components, and digital tools that allow to optimise workflows (cost, time, quality, resource use).
· Demonstrate a seamless integration of the proposed approaches with state-of-the-art digital technologies for construction and renovation (Building Information Modelling, Digital Twins, etc.).
· Select processes and technologies that can be easily tailored to give a maximum potential for rapid and broad deployment at European level.
· Investigate innovative business models (e.g. as-a-service models), accounting for potential market and regulatory barriers, in view of mass deployment and Europe-wide impact.
· Apply the proposed workflows to at least three demonstrations to assess the proposed approaches for different buildings typologies representative of the European building stock, ensuring the most adequate coverage of the respective climatic conditions. The demonstrations can be either single buildings or clusters of buildings, and at least one of the demonstrations has to address residential buildings.
· Contribute to the activities of the Built4People partners and to the Built4People network of innovation clusters.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom
the following low- and middle-income countries
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Total Budget: €16,000,000
Deadline: 05/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
· Increased performance of ocean energy technologies with the focus on sustainability, operation and maintenance of ocean energy devices.
· Improved knowledge on how to operate ocean energy devices, their availability, maintainability, reliability, survivability, and sustainability.
· Reduction of LCOE.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Projects are expected to address at least one of the following areas:
· Components and systems used in ocean energy devices need to be resistant to corrosion and the heavy loads they are subject to. Develop new sustainable materials with improved fatigue, damping, stiffness, sustainability and bio-fouling management or other cost-reducing characteristics. Materials such as reinforced concrete, polymers, composites, and concrete-steel/composite-steel hybrids systems have demonstrated some advantages such as reduced costs. Demonstrating the potential benefits of these new sustainable materials in ocean energy converters, moorings and foundations whilst ensuring structural integrity, durability and circularity is required.
· Advance the design of sustainable tailored mooring and connection of electrical or other power transmission systems for floating or subsea wave and tidal devices. Advance combined mooring and electrical connectors or hydraulic power transmission to reduce component cost and number of connection operations, included in systems for sharing an anchor between devices in arrays. Develop novel systems for safe and quick connection/disconnection that do not require large vessels and/or diving teams.
· Instrumentation for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance of ocean energy devices. Apply recent advances in condition and structural health monitoring from other sectors to ocean energy – particularly those currently developed for offshore wind. Apply latest sensor technology to existing ocean energy deployments. Document and share experience on sensors performance and reliability, and methods for adapting them to the harsh ocean energy environment. Improve transmission or storage of data collected from sensors, such as underwater data transmission.
· Artificial Intelligence (AI) in ocean energy technology development. Develop or apply advanced simulation of ocean energy systems. Use of big data with analysis of data streams, application of big data methods and machine learning, including artificial intelligence, or digital twin models for the design, installation, operation and decommissioning of ocean energy devices.
· Improvements in the discrete technology areas should be developed holistically – e.g. work on monitoring instrumentation should be consistent with work on moorings & connections. The innovative technologies should not significantly harm the environment (DNSH principle), have low impact on ecosystem biodiversity and consider potential mitigation measures. Projects should use the precautionary principle to elaborate proposals for acceptable harm and what low impact on biodiversity mean.
It is expected that key performance indicators are used based on international recognised metrics.
Projects should demonstrate how improvements in the different technology topics can be applied to multiple different ocean energy devices – for example to a wide range of floating devices, or a wide range of sub-sea devices.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call/topic.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
The Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
Countries associated to Horizon Europe;
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo , Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom
The following low- and middle-income countries:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine , Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Legal entities which are established in countries not listed above will be eligible for funding if provided for in the specific call/topic conditions, or if their participation is considered essential for implementing the action by the granting authority.
Total Budget: €12,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-04
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
· Increased knowledge about design, construction, assembly and operation and maintenance of floating wind farms.
· Improved overall constructability, reliability, installability, operability and maintainability of floating offshore wind systems.
· Demonstrated efficient, low-cost and sustainable emerging technologies for floating wind turbines; reduction of the LCoE.
· Reinforced European offshore wind turbine value chain and skills.
· Data for future optimisation of industry scale commissioning of the floater, mooring and anchor system.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
The overall aim is to accelerate the cost-effective construction and deployment of floating wind farms, facilitating their rapid and sustainable deployment across Europe and lower their overall costs. Projects are expected to
· Do the design optimisation of a full floating system, facilitate the execution of the project addressing space needs in ports, vessels, etc., supply chain development
· Demonstrate innovative floating vertical or horizontal axis offshore wind energy platforms (4 MW or higher total capacity for horizontal and 2 MW or more for vertical axis) in real sea conditions for long periods of time (12-24 months), collect data for future improvement design of the concept, to accurate predict future floating wind energy production and providing valuable learnings regarding performance, reliability, availability, maintainability, survivability and environmental impact. The wind energy system should be grid connected.
· Develop and implement pilot projects for floating wind by identifying the best existing practices and the remaining knowledge gaps.
· Proposals are expected to address also industrial design and manufacturing processes, circularity of (critical) raw materials, scalability, installation methods, transport, operation & maintenance, supply chains and the related digital infrastructures.
Projects are requested to demonstrate the technologies at sea while respecting existing environmental regulatory framework. Present an environmental monitoring plan to be implemented during the demonstration action. Data on environmental monitoring have to be shared with EMODNET, the IEA Wind Task 34 on the Environmental Impact of Wind Energy Projects, IEA Wind Task 49 on Floating Offshore Wind and IEA OES Environmental Task 4.
The project has to include a clear go/no go moment ahead of entering the deployment phase. Before this go/no-go moment, the project has to deliver the detailed engineering plans, a techno-economic assessment, including key performance indicators based on international recognized metrics, a complete implementation plan and all needed permits for the deployment of the project and a plan to achieve certification by an independent certification body before the end of the action. The project proposal is expected to clearly demonstrate a proposed pathway to obtaining necessary permits for the demonstration actions and allow for appropriate timelines to achieve these. The project is expected also to demonstrate how it will get a financial close for the whole action. Independent experts will assess all deliverables and will advise for the go/no-go decision.
Plan for the exploitation and dissemination of results for proposals submitted under this topic should include a strong business case and sound exploitation strategy, as outlined in the introduction to this Destination. The exploitation plans should include preliminary plans for scalability, commercialisation, and deployment (feasibility study, business plan) indicating the possible funding sources to be potentially used (in particular the Innovation Fund).
The selected projects are expected to contribute to the BRIDGE initiative[1], actively participate to its activities and allocate up to 2% of their budgets to that end. Additional contributions to the ‘Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation’ (AIOTI) and other relevant activities (e.g. clusters of digital projects and coordinating actions) might be considered, when relevant.
This R&I need is identified in the offshore renewable energy strategy (COM(2020) 741 final) that commits the Commission to ‘develop new wind, ocean energy and solar floating technology designs, for example through Horizon Europe’.
Eligible Applicants:
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organization) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been
Total Budget: €30,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-09
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to at least two of the following expected outcomes:
· Facilitate the wider uptake of renewable energy systems (RES) in the energy, industrial and residential sectors leading to an increased share of renewable energy in the final energy consumption by 2030 and beyond.
· Contribute to provide open source validated tools and methodologies for policy makers and stakeholders for developing more informed RES policy and for analysing the market dynamics when including all renewable energies.
· Contribute to the development of markets and respective financial frameworks that can operate in an efficiently and incentive-compatible manner while accommodating massive shares of renewables.
· Improve social acceptability of renewable energy facilities and installations.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
The proposal is expected to develop solutions addressing at least 2 of the expected outcomes either for the entire renewable energy market or focusing on a specific energy sector, such as electricity, heating, cooling or renewable fuels. Proposals can also address issues within a specific geographical region such as urban and peri-urban areas. Issues related to acceptability of RES technologies due to ecologic, economic and social aspects are expected to be addressed. Self-consumption issues can be addressed too. International aspects, such as collaboration with third countries and promoting solution in new markets, can be addressed as well.
The proposed solution can be developed to address a local challenge but needs to have wide potential for reapplication. The solution is expected to have a long-term viability and not be limited to an ad-hoc fix. The methodologies applied may be inspired by successful approaches already tested in other fields or contexts.
For all actions, the consortia have to involve relevant stakeholders (e.g. businesses, public authorities, civil society organisations) and market actors who are committed to adopting/implementing the results. The complexity of these challenges and of the related market uptake barriers may call for multi-disciplinary approaches, which requires contributions from the social sciences and humanities. Where relevant, local, regional specificities, socio-economic, gender-related, spatial and environmental aspects will be considered from a life-cycle perspective.
Proposals are encouraged to address social acceptability through the assessment of the environmental economic and social impacts associated with the development of these renewable energies and through the adequate involvement of stakeholders in decision-making processes.
This topic requires the effective contribution of SSH disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise, in order to produce meaningful and significant effects for understanding and addressing societal barriers to the uptake of renewable energy systems.
Where relevant, proposals are expected to also assess the legal, institutional, and political frameworks at local, national and European level and examine how, why and under what conditions these could act as a barrier or an enabler.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call/topic.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
The Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
Countries associated to Horizon Europe;
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo , Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom
The following low- and middle-income countries:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine , Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Legal entities which are established in countries not listed above will be eligible for funding if provided for in the specific call/topic conditions, or if their participation is considered essential for implementing the action by the granting authority.
Total Budget: €8,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-10
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:
· Development and implementation of solutions for a smart urban public space design and physical infrastructure planning and management across different areas related to the transport and integrated energy systems, which enable the integration of mobility services within the city and its street network and layout.
· Mobility and/or energy solutions that respond to people’s and cities’ needs co-designed with local authorities, citizens, and stakeholders, tested and implemented in cities to achieve climate neutrality by 2030.
· Raise awareness on the potential of this policy area to support urban public space revitalization and reallocation as well as more economically viable and resilient urban environments.
· Improvement of public health with better local air quality, reducing the urban overheating and pollutant emissions (air and noise), with better conditions and infrastructure for active modes and increased liveability.
· Improve overall urban public space connectivity and the accessibility of different urban districts/neighbourhoods/industrial districts by integrating/embedding multimodality and shared services within the street/urban public space layout and infrastructure.
· More efficient and fair use of urban space through the dynamic management of space in general and of the curb side in particular, according to varying needs and functions, and with the help of digital tools.
· Contribution to a better use of vehicles (in particular public transport and active modes for passengers and for urban logistics), better use of car parking spaces for other usages, prioritising modes and shared mobility services which have the smallest impact on the public domain and environment.
· Reducing the pressure on public space thanks to reduced parking needs and integration of off-street space use in the overall public space concept.
· Creation of smart energy and/or transport services management in cities thanks to digitalisation and consumer awareness related to smart charging and energy demand response.
· Improving the planning of green infrastructures/green city zones, enhancing their capability to increase human restoration and well-being.
· Better preparedness of citizens and urban planners to shift from fossil to renewable energy and energy system integration to allow electrifying mobility, in ways that optimise the use of public space and budgets.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
With our cities being overly populated and dense, the scarcity of urban public space requires smart urban design, planning, management and prioritisation in urban space allocation to different uses, amenities, and services. From the reallocation of the urban public space to more sustainable forms of transport and energy generation and use, intermodal hubs, and interchanges to the dynamic management of the street profile and curb side, and the integration of suburban/peripheral areas in the general urban fabric and patterns, current and future research should aim to make urban public spaces more liveable while enabling better a connectivity, accessibility, social interaction, inclusion and transit in the context of a changing climate. Concepts like the “15-minute city” and “superblocks” are gaining momentum and have an enormous potential in shaping the urban planning and design practice and the mobility services based on the principle of proximity. This is supporting the efficient and green mobility goals, the transport and energy policies, the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy and the new EU Urban Mobility Framework.
Considering the optimisation of urban public spaces, aspects related to air quality and urban climate must be considered by designing strategies based on new technologies and green infrastructures/green city zones.
The proposal should address the question on how to deal with limited urban public space and conflicting demands for it between transport and other users, considering social and climate goals and the need to shift towards more energy efficient and sustainable modes of transport, decarbonisation of the heating and cooling infrastructures.
Each proposal should envisage pilot demonstrations in at least three cities (lead cities) situated each in a different Member State or Associated Country including both urban and sub-urban areas. Proposals should provide the necessary evidence of the cities’ commitment to test and implement the co-designed solutions. To foster replicability and up-taking of the outcomes, each proposal should also engage at least three replication/follower cities with the development of local replication plans. The size and characteristics of the cities should be considered. Each proposal should include at least one city of the 112 selected ones for the EU Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities for the lead cities and one for the replication/follower cities.
The pilots should involve a co-design process with the stakeholders concerned by the re-design of the urban space. The pilots should involve public and private local energy, mobility and industrial stakeholders as well as civil society to identify integrated, locally supported and space-saving solutions and related pre-conditions (incentives, participatory methods, etc.) in a change management process to gain public acceptance by information, participation and consideration of groups that were so far disadvantaged by existing conditions.
Demonstrations should be ‘digital by default’ and use Local Digital Twins and, where possible, Mobility Data Spaces as tools for optimizing traffic, improving mobility services, monitoring environmental benefits in air and noise, and modelling a better use of urban space.
Activities and pilot demonstrations of technological nature of the proposed solutions in operational environment are expected to be at minimum TRL 7 by the end of the project.
Proposals should address the following two areas of intervention:
1. Reallocation of space and re-design of infrastructure
This is a major game changer in cities in favour of more sustainable and efficient use of resources through integrated approaches that promote decarbonisation of different sectors notably sustainable modes of transport, buildings and industry and related services. By (re)designing and reallocating the urban public space to reflect the level of use of different transport modes, unsustainable transport, heating and cooling modes can be discouraged while sustainable ones incentivised. Smart urban public space design and management is also a key enabler for scaling-up new mobility services. First, it can help to develop more sustainable and accessible mobility services, with stations and hubs for shared devices and charging infrastructures, dedicated lanes for light and active modes, pick-up and drop-off zones, etc. Also, it can help to increase the acceptance of sustainable mobility services, by mitigating negative externalities caused by the inadequate use of urban space, such as illegal parking, and cluttering the sidewalks by e-scooters, advertising banners, traffic signals and others. The reallocation of space is also important to transform roads from mere transit spaces into public spaces with a higher socioeconomic value to people – a feature which has become extremely important for local recreation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The same applies to the planning and management of urban space to accommodate local clean and smart energy infrastructures to power the different uses of energy including mobility, buildings, commercial and industrial activities. One goal of the energy system integration would be to optimise the use of urban space and existing infrastructures to avoid unnecessary investments in distribution grids while increasing energy autonomy of the municipalities and reducing losses in transmission and distribution of energy. Moreover, planning and implementing simultaneously infrastructure projects can significantly reduce investment costs and space needs such as e.g. building an underground car park together with space for a geothermal heat pump or thermal heat storage.
Four of the following research actions should be addressed to overcome these challenges either in the mobility (points 1 to 4) or energy area (points 5 to 8):
· Develop integrated transport and urban planning tools and methods to coordinate sustainable mobility services and the design of future public realms, accounting also for their interrelations and impacts across different spatial and temporal scales. This should be linked to the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) of the cities.
· For electromobility, foster research results from pilot projects on reallocation of use of transport infrastructure – or use of the single infrastructure for diverse types of vehicles, amenities (such as bi-directional charging points), and vehicles (e.g. after hours sharing of publicly accessible transport fleets) throughout the community of stakeholders at EU level.
· Research solutions for the exploitation of legacy infrastructure and how it can contribute to the scaling of sustainable mobility services followed by projects and demonstrations that can help to better understand this space shift, and play a significant role in the design, piloting and roll-out and assessment of these new mobility services.; Past experiences with street space reallocation (e.g. temporary infrastructures under COVID-19) can serve as a basis.
· Involvement of current service providers and infrastructure managers (e.g. parking service providers) in the urban space ecosystem to understand how current players can contribute to new mobility services, increased multimodality, electrification and integrated city logistics and citizens’ mobility.
· With regards to energy, support pilot projects to increase understanding and exploitation of the potential of road space allocation and smart distributed energy generation and green city zones/infrastructures in a systemic manner and monitoring their positive effects on human well-being.
· Research opportunities for exploiting current infrastructures (e.g. buildings, grids, underground spaces) complemented by additional elements (e.g. access to data in real time, demand response, storage, smart charging, heat and energy storage) to facilitate local energy communities, virtual power plants and energy sharing while minimising the need for new infrastructures requiring space and facilitating multipurpose construction projects. This should also include the integration of thermal and electricity grids and storage to better manage and balance renewable electricity generation and demand.
· Establish an integrated approach for designing and decarbonising the heating and cooling networks (including distributed installations and small-scale networks and related storage) in cities and urban areas in synchronisation with planning of new housing, major renovations or industrial development related to major heat consuming or waste heat generating facilities.
· Explore ways of using/optimising green and blue infrastructures to city and street scale for improving urban climate, reduce the energy demand and in view of emission free transport.
2. Dynamic curb-side management and use
Smart management of urban space and existing infrastructure includes their dynamic use, when considering curb space, changing its role and function in time, depending on parameters, functions and needs in relation to commuting peak hours, deliveries, public transport priority, market days, nightlife, etc. Dynamic space management is already being explored in some cities and represents an opportunity for further integration in mobility plans with the support of smart technologies, Intelligent Transport Systems, Local Digital Twins and Mobility Data Spaces, AI based autonomous optimal control and management systems.
As the rise of new shared mobility services such as ride hailing, micromobility and the growth in urban goods delivery (even more so with the recent exponential growth of e-commerce) are challenging traditional ways of managing curb space, novel approaches are needed. Research on a shift away from curb use focused on street parking to a more flexible and dynamic allocation that for example includes pick-up and drop-off zones for passengers and freight or dedicated public transport lanes during peak hours, has also shown the potential to enhance and prioritise sustainable mobility services, and thus decrease the pressure on traffic thanks to an increased percentage of shared rides.
To ensure the implementation of these innovative approaches, R&I could support by developing:
· Tools and guidelines to ensure the implementation of innovative approaches of dynamic space and curb use, resulting from tests and pilots of flexible allocation of curb side functions, including pick-up and drop-off zones for passengers and freight.
· New models of fee calculation (e.g. trip purpose, space demand (size) of each vehicle using the public domain, etc.) and financial model for the use of public space in cities in view of reaching public policy goals including climate neutrality.
· To increase impact and coherence, project(s) should maximise coordination with leading European associations and initiatives in this domain, e.g. Living-In.EU, the New European Bauhaus, Covenant of Mayors, the EIT KIC Culture and Creativity, the EIT Urban Mobility, the CIVITAS initiative, the 2Zero partnership and EU co-funded projects in the domain of Technologies for Smart Communities. Collaboration with the Cities Mission Platform is essential, and projects must ensure that appropriate provisions for activities and resources aimed at enforcing this collaboration are included in the work plan of the proposal. The collaboration with the Mission Platform must be formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding to be concluded as soon as possible after the project starting date.
Eligible Applicants:
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met.
Total Budget: €28,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-01
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Engagement of stakeholders is pivotal in the transition to a clean energy system and the achievement of the zero-emissions target.
Project results are expected to contribute to both of the following outcomes:
· Consolidation of strong and sustainable networks in the technology area of renewable fuels & bioenergy covered through the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan and its integrated roadmap.
· Cooperation among ETIPs or similar stakeholders fora, support to existing SET Plan Implementation Plan and advancement towards more interconnected activities, both in terms of contents and implementation mechanisms.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
In 2015, the launch of the Energy Union saw the SET Plan incorporated as the Energy Union’s fifth pillar on ‘Research, Innovation and Competitiveness’. Through the Communication “Towards an Integrated Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan”, the Integrated SET Plan set ambitious R&I targets which remain relevant and essential in the new context of the European Green Deal and the Recovery Plan for Europe.
Proposals should address the following SET Plan sector: renewable fuels & bioenergy.
They should take into consideration the coordination needs of the sector and the emerging policy priorities for their implementation, as well as the coordination with other initiatives/projects, to avoid overlaps.
Proposals will support the update and the execution/realisation of the Implementation Plan launched in 2018 by the Implementation Working Group (IWG) in renewable fuels and bioenergy, taking into account the DNSH (do-not-significant-harm-principle). This IWG needs to update the targets included in its implementation plan to comply with the new policy framework of the European Green Deal and the Fit For 55 implementing legislative package, and in particular the targets of the Renewable Energy Directive, the REFuelEU Aviation and the FuelEU Maritime for 2030 and 2050, as well as the targets of the ETS for transport and buildings. Other EU policies and legislation such as the REPowerEU Plan, the Net-Zero Industry Act and the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Clean Energy Transition Partnership and the European Research Area in the field of Energy should be also addressed.
Proposals should count on the participation of research organisations and/or companies (industry) committed in principle to execute all or some of the SET Plan related R&I activities specified in the Implementation Plan. In this sense, proposals shall detail, to the extent possible, the financial contributions from public and private funding sources at national level needed for the execution of the R&I activities and explain which processes or mechanisms will be put in place to execute and monitor the R&I activities. They should generate and provide input to national and EU policy initiatives, like the National Energy and Climate Plans, the Recovery and Resilience Plans, the Cohesion policy and the Regional Development policy funds, the support to REPowerEU funds, the Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform, the Net-Zero Europe Platform, and possible emerging initiatives of Common European Interest in the sector, taking into account biodiversity.
Proposals shall support the monitoring of the renewable fuels and bioenergy sector development, collecting and analysing data of projects in the area, industrial scale plants, industry’s perspectives and SET Plan countries’ policies and strategic plans, such as the National Energy and Climate Plans and the Recovery and Resilience Plans, as well as the information on financing sources and instruments. They should create databases and information tools for project developers. They should assist the IWG renewable fuels and bioenergy to its annual report to the SET Plan through SETIS Information System on the progress of the execution of the implementation plan.
Furthermore, proposals should develop a dissemination and exploitation strategy and implement dissemination and networking activities with other existing ETIPs and IWGs (e.g. joint workshops, thematic conferences, webinar series, regular exchanges, etc.).
This topic requires the effective contribution of SSH disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise, to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related research activities.
Proposals submitted under this topic are encouraged to include actions designed to facilitate cooperation, across Europe, with other projects and to ensure the accessibility and reusability of data produced during the project.
The indicative project duration is 3 years.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call/topic.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
The Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
Countries associated to Horizon Europe;
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo , Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom
The following low- and middle-income countries:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine , Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Total Budget: €8,000,000
Deadline: 03/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-13
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:
· Methods for more precisely assessing exposure to air, water, soil and/or noise pollution, health impacts and public information at regional and/or local level;
· Methods for better assessing exposure of vulnerable groups (including due to socio-economic context) to air, water, soil and/or noise pollution at regional and/or local level, enabling more precise evidence to inform health impact assessments;
· Improved and comparable assessment of mortality and morbidity impacts of air, water, soil and/or noise pollution at regional and/or local level[1];
· Improved understanding of the role of behavioural economics, psychology and organizational behaviour to design measures oriented to lower pollution in urban environments;
· Improved understanding of the correlation between improving environmental quality of urban spaces and human health and wellbeing;
· Methods for determining the sources of air pollutants at urban level so that local authorities, stakeholders and citizens know the proportion of the pollutant emissions attributable to urban transport, heating etc.
· Comparative analysis of selected successful pollution reduction/abatement strategies at local level and identify key factors underlying such successes and their replication potential.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Cities are concerned by various types of pollution, including air, water, soil and noise pollution, and their negative impacts on human health and the environment. Many of these pollutants emanate from the same sources as greenhouse gas emissions being tackled in the context of the EU Mission Climate-Neutral Smart Cities, so it is clear there are potential environmental co-benefits from reducing GHG emissions.[2] Designing effective policies to protect city dwellers from pollution depends on solid evidence as well as on cooperation and communication between and with policy makers and citizens.
Due to resource constraints, city administrations may often need to prioritise between different actions on different forms of pollution – and for this a solid risk-based evidence-base of the exposure to, impacts of and measures against pollution will allow to arrive at more informed and cost-effective local measures. These measures are often closely connected and affected by energy policy choices demonstrating the benefits of holistic approaches in for instance the planning, budgeting and assessment of costs and benefits in environmental, energy and climate policies at local level.
More informed, coherent and targeted local measures will help European cities to deliver environmental co-benefits under the EU Mission for Climate-Neutral, Smart Cities, comply with or exceed EU legislative standards for air and water quality, and supporting the delivery of environmental objectives such as the targets of the EU Zero Pollution Action Plan and commitments under the Green City Accord.
Applicants should propose projects that deliver better and innovative local measures against pollution through, among others, improved knowledge on the exposures of citizens to pollution and improved health impact assessments and strategies to reduce health impacts related to air, water, soil and/or noise pollution. Where technological solutions are proposed, these are expected to reach up to TRL 5 by the end of the project.
In order to address these needs, individual projects must address at least two of the following areas:
Improved health impact assessments to highlight and attempt to monetize the (co-)benefits and socio-economic impacts of zero pollution measures, in combination with climate neutrality policies, contributing to better ex-ante cost-benefit analysis and increasing public acceptance of measures.
Measurement and modelling methods for more precisely assessing exposure and risk-based health impacts at regional and/or local level (should deliver results that can be communicated to the wider public as well).
More precise evidence on exposure, notably of vulnerable population groups, and making health impact assessments easily comparable.
Exploration of the effectiveness of dynamic abatement strategies by monitoring changes in pollution levels, complemented by citizen science / observations.
All projects are required to:
Develop methods and tools that can swiftly be deployed and used by cities and regional authorities. Once implemented they should help policy makers prioritise actions, and address social aspects of zero pollution policies,
Support implementation of zero pollution policies by overcoming barriers to behavioural change which natural science and evidence alone cannot overcome. New approaches to address these barriers should be explored from the angles of behavioural economics, psychology, communication and organisational behaviour, with a view to inform effective local and regional zero pollution policies.
Project(s) funded under this topic should involve at least two cities. Ideally at least one city in each project should be a city selected for the EU Mission Climate-Neutral Smart Cities and/or a city signatory to the EU Green City Accord (these can be the same city).
To increase impact and coherence, project(s) should maximise coordination and complementarity with the ‘Climate-Neutral Smart cities’ Mission platform. Collaboration with the Cities Mission Platform is essential, and projects must ensure that appropriate provisions for activities and resources aimed at enforcing this collaboration are included in the work plan of the proposal. The collaboration with the Mission Platform must be formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding to be concluded as soon as possible after the project starting date. Synergies should also be explored and, as appropriate, pursued with other relevant initiatives, such as the European Green Capital / Leaf Awards, European Urban Initiative, the Covenant of Mayors Europe and the New European Bauhaus. Work performed or underway in other Horizon funded projects should also be considered, to the extent feasible, to avoid overlaps or contradictory conclusions. Cooperation with various stakeholders is recommended, for example, with health experts to professionally assess the impact of environmental influences on human health.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met.
Total Budget: €20,000,000
Deadline: 11/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-02
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to the Climate-neutral and Smart Cities Mission’s objective of climate neutrality in at least 2 of the 4 domains listed below (Mobility, Energy, Industry, Governance) and give all the following outcomes in the selected domains by the end of the project:
Mobility:
· Increase accessibility and connectivity of peri-urban areas by providing inclusive, suitable and affordable alternatives with:
· 30% increase of sustainable transport modes, providing diversity of the transport offer, especially with regards to ensuring mass-transit, including among others energy-efficient shared and/or on-demand mobility services
· 20% reduction of GHG emissions
· 20% Improvement of air quality and noise reduction
· 30% Reduction of urban road congestion whilst increasing the accessibility for both passengers and freight, and the reliability, predictability and efficiency of travel times and transport operations
· 30% reduction of human health effects due to exposure to transport pollution
· Improved transport peri-urban network performance (demand and supply) and transport connectivity through enhanced interoperability and multimodality;
· Improved access to/from commercial and health services, educational establishments, businesses, leisure and recreational facilities for the inhabitants of peri-urban areas;
· Inclusive mobility solutions that respond to the needs of all peri-urban inhabitants, irrespective of their age, gender, economic or social status, which are co-designed with all the relevant stakeholders (including, local and regional authorities, settled populations, in-migrants, transient workers, developers, entrepreneurs, etc.), and then tested and implemented in the identified peri-urban areas, which could have a geographical coverage that goes as far as the full functional urban area;
· Improved safety particularly for vulnerable road users;
· Optimize and improve the use of the existent infrastructure (following the principle of re-use and circularity);
· Integrated land-use and transport planning models and policies, which could have a geographical coverage that goes as far as the full functional urban area.
Energy:
· Improved and decarbonized energy grids with economic & social benefits to peri-urban areas thanks to the vicinity of the city;
· Business models, and technological solutions and/or guidance for setting up local energy communities, with RES and energy storage infrastructure co-financed by peri-urban dwellers, industrial actors and proceeds from energy sales or ancillary service provision (e.g. storage) to the city grid and/or heating and cooling networks. Together with electricity sharing leading to reduction of electricity prices for the community members, counter energy poverty, reduce fossil fuel use and facilitate sustainable mobility;
· Business models and/or guidance for energy generation (biomethane, electricity, biofuels) from agricultural waste, second generation bioenergy crops and technologies such as ground mounted solar or agrivoltaics in rural dominated peri-urban areas. They should include also thermal storage systems (seasonal STES, shorter term UTES etc) and thermal energy generation technologies (e.g. solar thermal, geothermal, etc.) for heating and cooling.
Industry:
· Reduction of GHG emissions (CO2, methane from waste/wastewater, fluorinated gas, refrigerants) in industries located in peri-urban areas, supporting the 55% reduction goal for 2030;
· 25% improved energy efficiency in industrial processes;
· 30% increase in deployment of strategic net-zero technologies, such as solar (PV and thermal, wind, hydrogen, batteries and storage (incl. thermal energy storage), heat pumps and geothermal energy, electrolysers and fuel cells, biogas/biomethane, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and grid technologies, notably for energy-intensive industries located in peri-urban areas;
· Reinforce the green transition of industry, through Local Green Deals, i.e., mutual agreements between city authorities and local businesses and industry and citizens associations to support the territorial sustainability agenda in the peri-urban areas;
· 25% enhanced recycling in industrial processes and materials reuse, including construction materials and demonstration and optimisation of recycling facilities for industries and processes located in peri-urban areas.
Governance:
· Capacity building (such as training courses and awareness raising activities) among local authorities, users and mobility systems providers, energy and industry stakeholders to accelerate the take-up of shared, smart and zero emission solutions and to implement their monitoring and evaluation;
· Support the development of planning and implementation skills, policy implementation/infrastructure investment impact assessment and funding aspects;
· Better integration of peri-urban areas into the current spatial/land-use/transport/landscape planning;
· Integration of development strategies with planning and regulatory documentations across different administrative levels/scales/territorial units, at least from local level to regional level).
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Peri-urban areas lie at the periphery of cities. They are the interface between rural and urban environments and are often the subject of high pressure from the urban core which results in an un-controlled and uneven urban expansion towards the rural territory often triggering environmental degradation. While dispersed and heterogenous in terms of land-occupancy, density and services and amenities distribution, the peri-urban territory integrates mutual inter-dependences within the urban-rural continuum. These can be associated with people (inwards and outwards migration or socio-demographic change) as well as with linkages and flows between a variety of rural and urban related functions and activities (ranging from industrial and recycling manufacturing, agriculture production and food processing, sanitation, waste disposal, drinking water provisions, to housing – including slums and gated communities – transport and associated infrastructure, large-scale commercial sites, and large recreational areas such as parks or forests), which juxtapose, collide and mesh in unintended and unplanned ways.
Peri-urban areas are also the subject of weaker governance structures and limited institutional capacity, which in return limits the capacity to regulate economic activities and land-use and land coverage and makes it difficult to implement effective and integrated local, regional, and functional urban area wide policies and programs. This is particularly challenging in areas that straddle multiple jurisdictions, such as urban-rural fringe.
This topic aims to foster the integration of green and smart mobility, energy, industry and governance solutions and measures within the current peri-urban development and planning practice to reduce these areas GHG emissions and to improve their liveability.
Proposals, depending on chosen domains, should investigate a sustainable and decarbonised development of the peri-urban areas by shifting from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources in mobility, energy or industry domains supported by adequate governance structures and practices based on a sustainable land-use planning and an urban expansion which integrates environmental considerations and determinants. In addition, proposals should provide European demonstration-type examples on how to sustainably integrate climate-neutral, green, and smart solutions and measures into the peri-urban/urban development and the existing transport, energy, and industrial infrastructures, to achieve long-term decarbonization impacts and necessary climate resilience. Activities and pilot demonstrations of technological nature of the proposed solutions in operational environment are expected to be at minimum TRL 7 by the end of the project. Positive, long-term impacts on social cohesion, economic development, and public perception – resulting in behavioural change and policy change – should be fostered and anticipated. Proposals, depending on selected domains should:
Explore particular characteristics of peri-urban areas that are distinct from rural and urban ones and analyse relevant urban-rural dynamics such as continuous and frequent land-use and functional changes, poor and inaccessible transport infrastructure, scattered and unevenly distributed day-to-day services and amenities.
Explore models of urban/peri-urban development and planning containing the above-mentioned dynamics (e.g., expansion model, densification model, green-belts and green-corridors model) aimed at overcoming the sustainability, decarbonisation and local climate (e.g. heat islands) challenges of the urban-rural fringe while ensuring co-creation with and engagement of the relevant stakeholders (including citizens and communities).
Focus on domains that are particularly pertinent in achieving progress in sustainable development, such as:
Mobility and transport with extensive use of personal cars with combustion engines, poor and scattered infrastructure, and lack of sustainable transport options. Transport related emissions that are exacerbated by intensive commuter flows generated by peri-urban areas. City focused solutions that are not adapted to peri-urban areas and challenges often exceeding organizational, financial and knowledge capacities of local authorities. Proposals should analyse and explore how peri-urban generated traffic impacts the transport flows (for both goods and people) and its contribution to the total CO2/emissions of the entire urbanized territory.
Industry, accounting for 30% of CO2 emissions and often located in peri-urban areas, is capital in succeeding the transition towards a net zero economy. Proposals should analyse the contribution to the total emissions reduction, of improved energy efficiency measures in industrial processes located in peri-urban areas, as well as of the deployment of strategic net-zero technologies, such as solar, (PV and thermal), wind, hydrogen, batteries and storage (incl. thermal energy storage), heat pumps and geothermal energy, electrolysers and fuel cells, biogas/biomethane, carbon capture and storage, and grid technologies, as envisaged in the EU Net Zero Industry Act. Proposals should ramp up and facilitate public-private partnerships, notably the key role of Local Green Deals (LGDs).
Circular economy: Peri-urban areas are key for setting up recycling facilities for materials, products and equipment and scaling up material reuse, such as Social Urban Mining and recycling infrastructure across different industries (e.g., online marketplaces to empower exchange for materials, or physical Materials Banks for construction and demolition materials). Proposals should explore, analyse and facilitate the deployment of innovative industrial recycling processes, industrial symbiosis and closed-loop systems, as well as supporting knowledge transfer through innovative practices; piloting local platforms for Social Urban Mining[1]; demonstrating recycling and re-use processes for building and public works materials, industrial waste, water and waste management; enabling material reuse; inducing circular practices, reuse of materials and behavioural change.
Vulnerability of peri-urban areas to environmental damage as most of the urban wastes (solid and liquid) and pollutant activities are pushed in the peripheries.
Electricity grids and heating/cooling solutions are suboptimal in some peri-urban areas. The often-low energy efficiency and individual fossil fuel or even solid fuel-based heating of the building stock exacerbates energy poverty in the absence of sufficient population density for district heating while the lower real estate prices hamper deep renovation. The opportunities of available space for i.e., clean energy production or electricity and thermal storage are not sufficiently exploited to increase living comfort, accelerate energy transition for the benefit of the local economy and nearby urban areas.
Governance, as peri-urban areas can be beyond the legal authority of cities, nor are they considered as part of the rural administrative units. Therefore, the capacity to regulate economic activities (and thus land-use and land coverage) is weak. This results in the peri-urbanization being largely an unplanned process, informal and sometime illegal and often resulting in environmental hazards and degradation of natural resources. This also results in a scattered and uneven distribution of services, amenities, and resources across the peri-urban area. The weaker governance structures complicate also integrated planning and green procurement of energy, transport, and other services.
Social and cultural characteristics of peri-urban areas that are gaining on heterogeneity with continuous social dynamics. In many (Central and Eastern) EU cities the peri-urban expansion was driven by the emergence of a stronger middle class. However, in more recent years there has been an increasingly heterogenous mix of occupants/actors with multiple and most often conflicting interests, including settled populations, populations living in gated estates, in-migrants, transient workers, emerging middle-class among others. This overall leads to heterogeneous communities and, in general, to a lack of social cohesion.
The research actions should cover the following:
Take stock of existing studies, analyse in a structured way, and provide a summary of measures contributing to climate neutrality in European peri-urban areas, identifying barriers.
Establish co-designing process and engaging with the relevant stakeholders (such as: citizens, local authorities, mobility operators, service providers, energy companies, private businesses…) to ensure a successful uptake of solutions contributing to climate neutrality of peri-urban areas.
Develop, test, and demonstrate scalable solutions in real life in at least two out of the four domains (Mobility, Energy, Industry, Governance) contributing to climate neutrality of peri-urban areas.
Each proposal should involve stakeholders from at least three ‘lead urban/peri-urban areas’, and at least three ‘replicator’ urban/peri-urban areas. Each urban/peri-urban area should establish a living laboratory where, under real life-conditions, a set of complementary and reinforcing solutions, centred on two to four aspects from the ones presented above (mobility, energy, industry, and governance) should be developed, tested, and implemented in an integrated approach. The participating urban/peri-urban areas, which may have a geographical coverage that goes as far as the full functional urban area, should demonstrate their common interests, and outline how they will ensure a meaningful and close cooperation. The peri-urban areas should each be situated in different EU Member States or countries associated to Horizon Europe. Each proposal should at least include one urban area of the 112 selected ones for the EU Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities.
To allow for a thorough evaluation of the projects’ outcomes, proposals are expected to provide measurable indicators to demonstrate how the tested solutions are contributing to the climate neutrality objectives of the Climate-neutral and Smart Cities Mission and participating peri-urban areas. These should be supported by clear baselines, quantified targets, and appropriate review processes for each participating urban area. The baselines for the expected outcomes should take into account expected technological developments and policy implementation.
Projects are expected to collaborate with the established and widely applied process and impact evaluation framework (using both clear baselines and measurable impact indicators) as well as the corporate design, the dissemination and information exchange frameworks put in place by the Commission (e.g. the Mission Platform, the CIVITAS initiative, Scalable cities, New European Bauhaus Community, the European Urban Initiative of Cohesion Policy, etc.) and the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) of the EIT, such as, for example, EIT Urban Mobility, EIT Culture and Creativity or EIT Food, EU Mission Adaptation to Climate Change, and Driving Urban Transitions Partnership (DUT), depending on the area. They shall contribute to the development of the existing European knowledge base on the effectiveness and impacts resulting from the implementation of innovative, sustainable, green, and inclusive solutions in urban areas.
Clear commitments and contributions to Europe-wide take-up during and beyond the project are expected, which could, for example, be in the form of follow-up actions funded by CEF, ELENA, or similar programmes.
This topic requires the effective contribution of SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) disciplines including ethics and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise, in order to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related research activities. Inclusiveness of vulnerable populations (older people, children) as well as gender perspectives should be considered.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met.
Total Budget: €28,000,000
Deadline: 11/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-04
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Programme: Cisco Foundation
Objective:
he Cisco Foundation was established in 1997 by Cisco. Cisco and the Cisco Foundation partner with non-profits, non-governmental organisations, and community-based organisations to carry out many of its Corporate Social Responsibility programs. Cisco invests in scalable and self-sustaining programs that use technology to meet some of society’s biggest challenges. It deploys its expertise, technology, partnerships, and financial resources to help build thriving, prosperous communities that improve people’s lives and support our business. Through the Global Impact Cash Grants, it offers an innovative approach to a significant social problem. The social investment programs focus on four areas where Cisco CSR can add the most value and make a significant and lasting impact investing in local communities to solve global challenges.
Eligible Activities:
Cisco welcomes applications for Global Impact Cash Grants from community partners around the world who share their vision and offer an innovative approach to a critical social challenge. They identify, incubate, and develop innovative solutions with the most impact. Global Impact Cash Grants go to nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that address a significant social problem. They are looking for programs that fit within our investment areas, serve the underserved, and leverage technology to improve the reach and efficiency of services. Cisco’s cash and product grant programs help nonprofits apply digital technology to have the broadest impact in some of the most economically underserved parts of the world.
They offer two funding streams:
climate impact investing: for climate impact and regeneration for-profit investing
nonprofit grant proposals: for climate, education, crisis response, and economic empowerment
Actions can take place in various countries worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants are nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that address a significant social problem.
Total Budget: $16,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/csr/community/nonprofits/global-impact-cash-grants.html
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Programme: Cisco Foundation
Objective:
Cisco donates their own technology to qualifying nonprofit organizations to help them realize significant gains in productivity, security, scalability, and cost efficiency. The program enables partners to make innovative use of networking and communications technology to create a measurable impact. The Cisco Technology Grant Program focuses on the same social investment areas as the cash grants: climate impact and regeneration; Cisco Crisis Response (which includes shelter, water, food, and disaster relief); economic empowerment; and education.
Eligible Activities:
Cisco offers two primary pathways for technology grants. For larger, more complex requests, use the customized process managed directly by Cisco. For smaller, more routine requests, use the simpler process managed by their partner TechSoup:
Application Path 1: TGP Donations Managed by Cisco – To inquire about a larger or more complex TGP grant request from Cisco, use the TGP contact form to send them a message.
Application Path 2: TGP Donations Managed by TechSoup – Since 2003, Cisco has partnered with TechSoup to provide smaller and more routine TGP donations in select countries (namely, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, UK, and US).
Actions can take place in various countries worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
Only registered non-profit (NPO) or non-governmental (NGO) organisations can apply.
Total Budget: $100,000 per applicant
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/csr/community/nonprofits/technology-grant-program.html
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Programme: Eco-Business
Objective:
The Liveability Challenge (TLC) returns for the eighth edition, seeking submissions for the groundbreaking climate solutions from across the world that push the boundaries of innovation.
Winners are to conduct their proof-of-value pilot in Singapore (tech-based) or within Southeast Asia (nature-based).
Eligible Activities:
Themes
The eighth edition of The Liveability Challenge features two main themes:
Decarbonisation
They are looking for disruptive deep-tech solutions that provide scalable and impactful solutions to reduce carbon emissions across diverse industries.
Examples of such solutions include, but not limited to:
Waste-to-resource
Effective capture and conversion of key waste streams (e.g., point-source carbon, biomass-based or other waste carbon) into value-added products (e.g., point-source or direct CCUS into consumables such as sustainable aviation fuels, marine fuels, chemicals, higher carbon products, fertilisers, proteins) or permanent carbon removal and storage (e.g., point-source or direct CCUS into stable building materials)
Renewable energy
To generate cost-effective energy from renewable sources (e.g., wind, solar, hydropower), technologies that accelerate the clean energy transition (e.g., green hydrogen, ammonia), as well as solutions that facilitate the long-term storage of energy and address energy intermittency (e.g., batteries and battery energy storage systems).
Energy efficiency
Significantly reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions produced by built environment systems (e.g., building cooling systems) as well as hard-to-abate industries (e.g., manufacturing - food & agriculture, cement, steel, aviation, marine, logistics, healthcare).
Additionally, solutions should be:
Carbon negative in the overall lifecycle and have zero/minimal externalities
Technology-based (e.g., physical, chemical); or nature-based solutions (e.g., community models)
Commercially viable and scalable
Able to conduct the pilot in Singapore (for technology-based solutions) or within Southeast Asia (for nature-based solutions)
Cool Earth
They are seeking groundbreaking innovations that specifically address the challenges posed by climate-induced extreme weather conditions.
They are on the hunt for innovative solutions that enhance mitigation, resilience and adaptation to extreme weather events (especially heat) for a more liveable planet. They are also open to proposals that provide large-scale cooling benefits and adaptive solutions that strengthen resilience across diverse industries.
Examples of such solutions include, but not limited to:
Heat mitigation
To mitigate the growing challenge of excessive heat by focusing on reducing temperatures and/or adaptation solutions to help societies, especially vulnerable populations, withstand and adapt to the adverse effects of rising temperatures and more frequent heatwaves (e.g., climate-smart and climate-resilient food & agriculture, advanced materials for cooling – nano-coatings and film).
Nature-based solutions
For building climate resilient societies for at-risk groups through replicable and viable models that deliver impact for planet, people, and profit in the space of blue carbon (e.g., seaweed cultivation, mangrove restoration for coastal communities) and green carbon (e.g., bamboo cultivation, low-methane agriculture).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
You are eligible if you are:
18 years or older.
Not an employee of Temasek Foundation or Eco-Business.
Not a close relative or connected otherwise with the organisation or the judging of the competition.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: 09/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://www.theliveabilitychallenge.org/participate
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Programme: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Objective:
The Agency for International Development (USAID) encourages the submission of new and innovative ideas consistent with and contributing to the accomplishment of USAID’s objectives. Such opportunities are routinely announced through broad Agency announcements or specific Requests for Proposals (RFPs). When new or innovative ideas do not fall under topic areas publicized through those techniques, offerors may consider submitting them as unsolicited proposals. Note that the criteria for unsolicited proposals are quite stringent.
Eligible Activities:
An unsolicited proposal is a written proposal for a new or innovative idea that is submitted on the initiative of the offeror for the purpose of obtaining a contract with the Government, and that is not in response to a request for proposals or any other Government-initiated solicitation or program. A valid unsolicited proposal must (1) be innovative and unique; (2) be independently originated and developed by the offeror; (3) be prepared without Government supervision, endorsement, direction, or direct Government involvement; (4) include sufficient detail to permit a determination that USAID support could be worthwhile and the proposed work could benefit USAID’s research and development or other responsibilities; (5) not be an advance proposal for a known USAID requirement that can be acquired by competitive methods; and (6) unsolicited proposals in response to a publicized general statement of Agency needs are considered to be independently originated.
Actions can take place worldwide where USAID operates.
Eligible Applicants:
Non-profit organisations and businesses are eligible.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.usaid.gov/partner-with-us/unsolicited-submissions
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Programme: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Objective:
Through its Small Grants Program, the Swiss Cooperation Office in Moldova (SCO-M) supports local initiatives promoting democratic values, human rights, including gender equality, social inclusion, good governance, or propose innovative interventions that complement the SCO-M’s domains of interventions in Moldova. As well, the program supports art and culture projects promoting freedom of expression, diversity and social cohesion.
Eligible Activities:
Eligible are:
· Small actions that contribute towards fostering peace and security, promote democracy and human rights, as well as those addressing issues related to social inclusion, gender equality and good governance in the main areas of Switzerland’s support for Moldova — Health, Local Governance, and Economic Development & Employment.
· Culture projects that contribute towards building trust and social cohesion, a free and open society, and towards the development of the culture sector; initiatives that support partnerships between public, private and civic organizations, and strengthen civil society.
Actions must take place in Moldova.
Eligible Applicants:
The applicant shall be a legal entity registered in the Republic of Moldova: Non-governmental organizations, Professional associations and unions, Local offices of international organizations, Central and local governmental institutions, Public institutions, including educational, Media organizations, Commercial entities with non-profit projects.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.eda.admin.ch/countries/moldova/en/home/international-cooperation/themes/smallgrantsprogramme.html
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Programme: Embassy of Japan in Pakistan
Objective:
As part of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) to developing countries, the Government of Japan offers a program to support non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community based organisations (CBOs) that are working specifically in the social development sector. Known as the GGP (Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects), it provides flexible and timely support to small-scale development projects, which aim to improve the social well-being of the people at the grassroots level.
Eligible Activities:
Priority is given to the following sectors: (1) basic education (pre-school to class eight, and adult literacy); (2) primary health (includes population welfare/reproductive health); (3) vocational training/skill development; (4) special education (education/training for handicapped, orphanages, etc.); (5) agriculture (irrigation system.); (6) public welfare/basic infrastructure (drinking water supply, sanitation, road, bridges, electricity, etc.) and (7) environment.
Actions must take place in Pakistan.
Eligible Applicants:
All non-profit organisations implementing social development projects at grassroots level are eligible. It includes local/international NGOs, CBOs, village organisations, local institutions, schools, hospitals, etc.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.pk.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/GGP_Info.html
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Programme: GERMAN EMBASSY MOLDOVA
Objective:
The embassy has been supporting micro-measures since 2004. They complement German development cooperation with the Republic of Moldova as part of major bilaterally agreed projects, which are usually handled by GIZ and KfW. The micro-projects, on the other hand, can be applied for and implemented much faster and with comparatively less effort. The following requirements must be met:
Eligible Activities:
Your project brings about a long-term improvement in the living conditions of the local population.
You cannot fully finance the project yourself. However, your own financial contribution increases your chances of receiving funding. This can also be a non-financial contribution such as work performance.
The project will remain in place for the long term, is not a pure training measure, but is associated with equipment assistance.
The financial support is one-time and does not result in any recurring obligations from the embassy.
The institution that is the project sponsor fulfils a general-benefit function (e.g. an NGO, a school). The project must improve the common good.
The overall financing of the project is secured.
Any follow-up costs can be borne by the project sponsor.
Actions must take place in Moldova.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are local non-profit organisations (NGOs, self help groups, kindergartens, etc.).
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://chisinau.diplo.de/md-de/willkommen/-/1338302
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Programme: Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC)
Objective:
The Swiss Embassy offers financial support to small-scale initiatives by organizations registered in Bosnia and Herzegovina that can contribute to achieving the results outlined in the Swiss Cooperation Programme 2021–24.
Eligible Activities:
The current Programme focuses primarily on the following priority areas:
· Local governance and municipal services
· Economic development and employment
· Health
· Migration
· Arts and culture
Projects must:
• directly and demonstrably contribute to at least one of the Swiss Portfolio outcomes under the Swiss Cooperation Programme 2021-2024 or the intervention areas of the Swiss Migration Strategic Framework for the Western Balkans.
• be developed in a participatory way and reflect a clear need among the selected target beneficiaries;
• provide quality information and describe the feasibility of proposed activities in the application (applicant’s understanding of the problem to be addressed by the project, general description of the activities and the results to be achieved);
• take into account the sustainability of results.
Actions must take place in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Eligible Applicants:
The partner organisation must: have an adequate organisational structure and a sound financial record; provide information about selected reference projects implemented over the past five years and indicate whether (and for what purpose) the organisations has received funds from the Swiss Government; demonstrate that they have the knowledge and capacities to conduct the proposed activities.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.eda.admin.ch/countries/bosnia-and-herzegovina/en/home/international-cooperation/projects/small-projects-program-2021-2024.html
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Programme: COGNIZANT FOUNDATION
Objective:
Cognizant Foundation was established to spearhead CSR initiatives in Cognizant and is based in Chennai, India. The vision of Cognizant Foundation is to be a model social organisation that enables and facilitates the under privileged sections of the society to access quality education, healthcare and livelihood opportunities. To this end, the Foundation provides financial and technical support to institutions for improving the quality of education (VET, scholarships), livelihood (youth, PWD, women) and healthcare (i.e. avoidable blindness, women and child health, capacity building).
Eligible Activities:
To achieve its vision, the Foundation partners with NGOs, educational and healthcare institutions, government and other corporates for achieving the vision. Grants are particularly provided to enhance infrastructure facilities including equipment, training aids, etc. in the areas of education, healthcare and livelihood. Its focus areas are:
Focus on promoting inclusion through interventions with a focus on children, women and persons with disabilities
Leverage digital technology as an enabler to amplify and scale the impact of interventions
Explore avenues to leverage Cognizant’s expertise in leveraging technology as well as learning from CF’s past partnerships
Create knowledge and assets that benefit the overall ecosystem and promote thought leadership to move the needle on impact
Grant funding is provided for projects in all states of India.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible for grant funding are local and international non-profit organisations with a track record of projects in India.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.cognizantfoundation.org/
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Programme: Western Digital
Objective:
Western Digital believes in their responsibility to be a good neighbor in the communities in which they operate, and a steward of our world’s resources. The quality of life and education, the well-being of their employees and their families, and the economic health of society are of vital interest to Western Digital.
Eligible Activities:
As a corporation, they support organizations that improve education, support hunger relief, as well as programs protecting the environment and our communities. It currently considers applications for grants to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and public schools whose programs align with their philanthropic focus areas:
· STEM Education: Organizations providing opportunities for underrepresented and/or underserved K-12 youth
· Hunger Relief: Innovative programs focused on alleviating hunger in local communities
· Environment: Work in environmental preservation and conservation, and the public education of such issues
Actions must take place in: China, India, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand.
Eligible Applicants:
Priority consideration is given to those organizations that offer programs/services in proximity to Western Digital offices and facilities. Prior to completing an application, requestors should review our Global Giving Guidelines for complete details on their giving policies. In addition to the guidelines, applicants must be able to exhibit tax-exempt status equivalent to U.S. IRS 501c3 status.
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.westerndigital.com/company/corporate-philanthropy/community-grants-program
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Programme: ASIA FOUNDATION
Objective:
The Asia Foundation’s mission is to improve lives, expand on opportunities, and help societies flourish across a dynamic and developing Asia. Their programs address critical issues affecting Asia in the 21st century – governance and law, economic development, women’s empowerment, environment, and regional cooperation. In addition, their Books for Asia and professional exchange programs are among the ways they encourage Asia’s continued development as a peaceful, just, and thriving region of the world.
Eligible Activities:
Their program areas are:
· Climate Action: They work with businesses, governments, NGOs, and community leaders to develop participatory approaches to managing natural resources, reducing the risk of disasters, and protecting environments across Asia and the Pacific.
· Education and Leadership: They invest in people because tackling critical development challenges rests not only on sustainable frameworks and systems but also on the people who power them.
· Gender Equality: Their teams innovate new ways to open doors and disrupt the status quo of gender because gender should never hold anyone back.
· Governance: Across Asia and the Pacific, their programs catalyze inclusive decision-making by promoting collaborative, transparent, and participatory systems that represent the needs of their communities.
· Inclusive Growth: Amid rapid economic and industrial transition across Asia and the Pacific, they strive to ensure that all people have access to the future skills they need and that governments craft policies that foster inclusive growth, leaving no one behind.
· International Cooperation: Their work strengthens cooperation and collaboration between nations to foster peace, stability, and prosperity, and to catalyze regional solutions to regional challenges.
The foundation is operational in Asia and Pacific Islands.
Eligible Applicants:
The Foundation does not make grants to individuals nor to U.S-based organizations but provides grants to selected Asian non profit organisations.
Total Budget: $100,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://asiafoundation.org/about/grant-guidelines/
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Programme: Safari Club International (SCI)
Objective:
SCI Foundation is a non-profit IRS 501(c)(3) corporation. The mission of SCI Foundation is to fund and direct wildlife programs dedicated to wildlife conservation and outdoor education. More specifically, the conservation purpose of SCI Foundation is to conduct and support scientific and technical studies in the field of wildlife conservation, to assist in the design and development of scientifically sound wildlife programs for the management of wildlife and sustainable-use hunting, and to demonstrate the constructive role that hunting and hunters play in the conservation of wildlife and in preserving biodiversity worldwide.
Eligible Activities:
Eligible projects could include wildlife population surveys, implementation of wildlife management plans, purchase of equipment for state agencies to conduct conservation projects, reintroduction and translocation of species, and habitat restoration or improvement projects. Proposals should include a project description and estimated budget, as well as an explanation of how it will benefit sustainable use conservation.
Support has so far been provided to projects implemented in Africa, North America and Asia.
Eligible Applicants:
All grant applications must come from a SCI Chapter and any active chapter engaged in conservation projects is eligible.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 30/03/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Task description
Demonstrate exceptional results as MERIT study program student, including, but not limiting to:
· research activities and their result publication;
· active participation in advanced digital skill application contents and hackathon type events, promoting the benefits of advanced digital skills, MERIT project and its study program values and possibilities;
· advanced digital skill upskilling, gaining new experiences, competences and sharing it with others;
· utilizing advanced digital skills by applying it for business and public sector growth.
Eligible Activities:
Further information
The call for the scholarship is announced on the VILNIUS TECH website, both in English and Lithuanian. The links are the following:
https://vilniustech.lt/studies/study-programmes/master-study-programmes
https://vilniustech.lt/-stojantiesiems-/magistranturos-studijos/studiju-programos
https://vilniustech.lt/studies/study-programmes/master-study-programmes
https://vilniustech.lt/-stojantiesiems-/magistranturos-studijos/studiju-programos
Regarding questions, related to the call and MERIT studies at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, the main contact is Simona Ramanauskaitė (e-mail. simona.ramanauskaite@vilniustech.lt).
Eligible Applicants:
Total Budget: €21,000
Deadline: 30/06/2026
More information and official documents:
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Programme: EIT Urban Mobility Business Plan 2023-2025
Objective:
The Innovation’s Targeted Projects Programme addresses a) gaps in our innovation portfolio regarding the business plan, strategic agenda, and b) external changes and influences such as technological developments, policies/regulations, and (urgent) events.
This is a long-term call with different cut-off dates that will be announced at least 2 months before the set submission deadline.
Each cut-off date will be specific in terms of topics to be addressed and requirements.
Eligible Activities:
TOPIC 1
EIT Urban Mobility is looking for a project consortium to develop and commercialise hydrogen technology solutions capable of accelerating the hydrogen transition, by tackling at least one of the following challenges: (1) Improving Performance and Viability of Zero-Emission Hydrogen Vehicles, (2) Facilitating Early Diffusion of Hydrogen Infrastructures for Mobility, (3) Overcoming Regulatory Hurdles to Speed Up the Product Deployment, (4) Reducing the Cost of Hydrogen Technology Adoption.
TOPIC 2
EIT Urban Mobility is seeking a project consortium that can develop and commercialise a product that will support companies to report their scope 3 GHG emissions according to the new CSRD regulations by enabling cheaper and higher-quality data collection and analytics on employees’ commuting and business travel behaviours. The solution needs to be demonstrated with a relevant end-client, who is part of the project consortium.
TOPIC 3
EIT Urban Mobility is looking for a project consortium to develop and commercialise a comprehensive Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) for city buses. The solution needs to incorporate all mandatory features, aiding bus manufacturers—particularly smaller and mid-sized ones from RIS countries with limited internal resources—in complying with the new GSR2 regulations.
TOPIC 4
EIT Urban Mobility is seeking a project consortium to develop and commercialise Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) solutions in RIS countries, particularly in Eastern Europe. The solution needs to implement DRT to connect suburban areas and innovate DRT solutions for deep integration with wider public transport services.
TOPIC 5
EIT Urban Mobility is looking for a project consortium consisting of a government authority and SMEs to expedite market innovation among SMEs with targeted solutions for niche urban mobility challenges. The solutions must be scalable in the piloting city and replicable to other cities.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants are invited to submit proposals using the PLAZA tool.
Proposals will be evaluated based on pre-defined evaluation criteria and following the evaluation process described in Chapter 5 “Evaluation and selection process” of the Call Manual.
Total Budget: €4,200,000
Deadline: 31/12/2026
More information and official documents:
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Programme: MISEREOR
Objective:
MISEREOR supports the weakest members of society: the poor, the sick, the hungry and the disadvantaged. It is of no importance whether those in need of help are men or women, what religious beliefs they hold or where they come from. To love one’s neighbour is a basic attitude of Christian life, and MISEREOR’s vocation is to translate this attitude into concrete action; the poor are our sisters and brothers, who have a right to a life of dignity. MISEREOR supports them in realising it. The organisation does not pursue any ends other than the promotion of development. The mandate given to MISEREOR by the German Bishops rules out the promotion of pastoral or missionary measures.
Eligible Activities:
For MISEREOR, each individual project is part of a larger task. In dialogue with partners in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America joint visions and goals are developed so that social processes can be effectively supported. MISEREOR underpins these processes by facilitating exchange of experiences and networking, and by providing professional advisory and consultancy inputs on themes such as urban and rural development, human rights, health, peace and many more. The partner organisations are closely accompanied by MISEREOR, and if required are also advised on management and organisational development issues.
Actions must take place in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Eligible Applicants:
The projects supported by MISEREOR are implemented by independent partner organisations. These are either local legal entities of the Catholic Church (dioceses, orders, bishops’ conferences etc.) or non-governmental organisations.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: ONGOING
More information and official documents:
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Programme: FAIRTRADE ACCESS FUND
Objective:
Launched in 2012, the Fairtrade Access Fund is designed to meet the most important financing and technical assistance needs of Fairtrade smallholder farmer cooperatives and associations in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Africa. It offers a full range of loans and technical assistance. The Fund is a joint project of the Fairtrade International, Incofin Investment Management and the Grameen Foundation.
Eligible Activities:
The Fund offers three types of loans: (1) long-term loans (1-5 years; these loans allow an organisation to invest in building up its business and to plan for the long term like crop renewal, farm improvements, equipment, and processing facilities); (2) working capital (up to 1 year; these loans provide working capital for fertilisers, machinery and other inputs); and (3) trade finance (up to 1 year; these loans serve as bridge payments to purchase members’ produce during the harvest).
Loans and technical assistance are available for organisations based in Latin America and the Caribbean (Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras), and Africa (Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, DR Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible for loans are private companies and organisations (e.g. agricultural cooperatives or associations of small-holder farmers) that are legally registered and based in the country of operation (Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa). Candidates for the fund must be strong and responsible organizations that are certified by Fairtrade International (FLO), or another sustainable certificate (Such as Rainforest Alliance, Utz, World Fair Trade, Café Practices,) or in the process of being certified. The fund also provides financing services to plantations (farms), processors and traders that are certified, as well as microfinance institutions that focus on small farmers.
Total Budget: $2,000,000
Deadline: ONGOING
More information and official documents:
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Programme: ELEANOR CROOK FOUNDATION
Objective:
Founded in 1997, the Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF) is a grant-making foundation that works to scale improved solutions to child undernutrition by deploying the power of research, policy analysis, and advocacy, with the ultimate goal of saving children’s lives and enabling them to excel in school, work, and beyond.
Eligible Activities:
With its mission that no person should go hungry, the Foundation supports organisations that: (1) implement sustainable, community-based approaches to the root causes of hunger and extreme poverty; (2) carry out research and innovation to identify more impactful nutrition and food security interventions; and (3) raise hunger awareness and advocate for policy reform to end hunger.
The Foundation provides grant funding to projects in East Africa.
Eligible Applicants:
Non-profit organisations are eligible to apply.
Total Budget: $100,000,000
Deadline: ONGOING
More information and official documents:
https://eleanorcrookfoundation.org/grants-investments/for-grantees/
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Programme: MEDICAL CREDIT FUND
Objective:
The Medical Credit Fund (MCF) is a non-profit health investment fund that was founded in 2009 by PharmAccess International. It supports private healthcare facilities in Africa obtaining capital to strengthen and upgrade their operations in order to enhance access to affordable quality healthcare. The Fund’s primary objective is to increase the delivery of affordable quality healthcare services by reducing the investment risk. To achieve this objective, the Fund provides performance-based financing in combination with technical support to eligible private primary healthcare providers.
Eligible Activities:
The selected health facilities participate in a medical and business quality improvement program which will strengthen their business case and debt servicing capacity, and reduce credit and medical risk. To achieve its objectives, the Fund’s investment strategy is via two programs: (1) the Finance Program and (2) the Technical Assistance (TA) Program. The TA Program contains quality improvement and business planning while the Finance Program provides access to loans.
Current focus countries are Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria (aiming to expand further into Sub-Sahara Africa).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are: (1) Healthcare SMEs: hospitals, health centers, dispensaries, maternity homes and nurse-driven clinics; (2) Specialist care providers: diagnostic centers, laboratories, and pharmacies; and (3) Healthcare businesses catering to health facilities, distributors of drugs, training institutes and equipment providers.
Total Budget: $150,000,000
Deadline: ONGOING
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Programme: ROBERT BOSCH FOUNDATION
Objective:
The Robert Bosch Foundation is one of the major German Foundations associated with a private company and has managed the philanthropic bequest of company founder Robert Bosch for over 50 years. Their international funding aims to support those projects that serve to facilitate conflict transformation in conflict (and post-conflict) societies in different regions. The Robert Bosch also pursues its aims in a nonpartisan and independent manner. Their projects and programs tackle social challenges in order to develop solutions and bring about change.
Eligible Activities:
Their international program areas of support are: (1) health (mainly focused on Germany and the Bosch health campus); (2) education (including social development, pre-school and day care); and (3) global issues (promoting peace and stability to alleviate human suffering including climate change, democracy, migration, inequality and peace building).
They fund projects in Africa, America, Asia, Europe (with a focus on Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Turkey, Russia, North Africa, United States, China, Japan, and India).
They have an annual grant budget of around €100,000,000: the main share goes to health (app. 60%) followed by global issues and education. Since its establishment in 1964, the Robert Bosch Stiftung has spent around €2,3 billion on its charitable work.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible to receive grant funding are non-profit organisations and institutions whose projects align with the Foundation’s aims.
Total Budget: $100,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: John Deer Foundation
Objective:
The John Deer Foundation is the corporate Foundation of the U.S.-based John Deere company. Their vision is to aspire being a catalyst for positive global change by focusing our energy, intellect, and resources on solving world hunger, empowering others through education, and developing home communities. Within their philanthropic portfolio they have a grant-making program and a volunteer program.
Eligible Activities:
It focuses on unlocking economic, social, and environmental value for smallholder and resource-constrained farmers, marginalized families and youth in John Deere home communities, and the workforce.
Grant support is provided to projects in countries were John Deere is active: (1) Asia (China, India, Singapore, Israel); (2) Africa (South Africa); (3) Europe (Turkey, Poland, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, France, Finland); (4) America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico) as well as USA.
Grant sizes range from a few hundred $ up to various million $.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible to receive grant funding are non-profit organisations and institutions whose projects align with the Foundation’s aims. Requesting organisations must have a current IRS IRS 501(C)(3) not-for-profit designation.
Total Budget: +$1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:
https://about.deere.com/en-us/our-company-and-purpose/empowering-communities
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Programme: Gilead
Objective:
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercialises innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need.
Eligible Activities:
They strive to transform and simplify care for people with life-threatening illnesses around the world. Gilead welcomes funding requests for innovative, high impact projects that relate to at least one of our core therapeutic areas:
P HIV
P Liver disease: HCV, HBV, HDV
P Oncology: Haematology, Solid tumours
P Inflammatory and respiratory disease
P Abroad, they also fund projects that (1) improve access to healthcare; (2) reduce disparities for disadvantaged groups; (3) educate among patients and healthcare professionals; and (4) support local communities.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
They work with patient advocates, nonprofits, and healthcare professionals across all our therapeutic areas of focus to improve care through partnerships and community engagement. Only tax exempt nonprofits are eligible.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO)
Objective:
The Dutch Fund for Climate and Development allows for investments in projects aimed at climate adaptation and prevention in developing countries. It seeks to improve the wellbeing, economic prospects, and livelihoods of vulnerable groups – particularly women and youth – and enhance the health of critical ecosystems, from river basins to tropical rainforests, marshland, and mangroves. The consortium’s activities will also help protect communities and cities from the increasing frequency of extreme weather events and benefit weakening biodiversity in areas that provide people with water, food, medicine, and economic opportunity.
Eligible Activities:
The fund will be focusing on several high impact investment themes, including climate-resilient water systems and freshwater ecosystems, forestry, climate-smart agriculture, and restoration of ecosystems to protect the environment. The fund will be structured with three separate but operationally linked facilities, each with a specific sub-sector focus and role across the project lifecycle.
The Origination Facility is responsible for project identification and feasibility activities across a range of sectors; it is co-managed by WWF and SNV.
The Investment Facilities target projects which have “graduated” from the Origination Facility. Each has its own focus: Water projects are managed by CFM, while Land Use projects are managed by FMO.
They work with projects across Africa, Asia and Latin America, in communities and ecosystems that are some of the most vulnerable to climate change.
Eligible Applicants:
The consortium seeks to cooperate with a diverse stakeholder base, including; civil society; (local) government; NGOs and the private sector.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Objective:
Reflecting the values of their founder Paul Hamlyn, the Foundation aims to improve opportunities and life chances for young people. Besides their support programs in the UK (including support programs in arts, migration and integration as well as a special youth fund), the Foundation also supports Indian development NGOs who work in health, education, women’s rights, children’s rights and political representation.
Eligible Activities:
They fund organisations working with vulnerable communities. This includes but is not limited the following groups:
§ Communities with little or no access to education
§ Communities with little or no access to health services
§ Dalit communities, particularly those in dangerous or harmful work
§ Disabled people, particularly children
§ Families living in extreme poverty
§ Tribal communities fighting for or dispossessed of their land and resources
§ Women
Their geographic focus is mainly on the poorest Indian states and priority is given to particularly vulnerable groups within Indian society. This focuses on central parts of India which are among the poorest parts of the country, stretching between the eastern part of Gujarat in the west to West Bengal and Assam in the east.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible for funding are only local Indian NGOs with a Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration (no support for locally registered branches of non-Indian organisations). At the meso/macro level, we will fund organisations that operate on a slightly larger scale and can view changes from a broader perspective. Initiatives at this level will bring together experiences from multiple smaller micro-level initiatives, compiling and consolidating their learning to help us address factors likely to improve the ecosystem.
Total Budget: €100,000 - €300,000 per project
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: JRS BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION
Objective:
JRS invests in the technical and the institutional activities necessary to: (1) Enhance the value of biodiversity data; (2) Connect biodiversity data users to biodiversity data providers; (3) Create broad awareness of the value of biodiversity data and information services, and (4) Build the capacity to use and produce biodiversity data, including the partnerships and networks to sustain the work over the long-term.
Eligible Activities:
JRS’ strategy to advance the field of biodiversity informatics and improve conservation decision making is to connect data publication to knowledge use related to pollinators’ biodiversity and to freshwater biodiversity. By focusing our resources on two domains of conservation and within limited geographic areas, we aim to sustain our investments in technology, capacity, and projects. Our three programs of grantmaking are:
§ Freshwater Biodiversity and Resources
§ Pollinator Biodiversity and Services
§ Building Capacity and Partnerships for Biodiversity Informatics
They fund projects across Africa, America and occasionally in Europe with a focus sub-Saharan Africa.
Eligible Applicants:
JRS grants are open to institutions based in sub-Saharan Africa.
Total Budget: Average €175,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM)
Objective:
The French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) has been working to promote protection of the global environment in developing countries since it was established by the French government in 1994. It is mandated to cofinance development projects with high environmental component in the areas of biodiversity, the greenhouse effect, international waters, land degradation and desertification, persistent organic pollutants and the stratospheric ozone layer.
Eligible Activities:
To receive FFEM funding, a project must meet nine eligibility criteria::
§ contributes to global environmental protection;
§ contributes to local sustainable development in one or more developing countries;
§ is innovative;
§ has demonstrative value and replicability;
§ is economically and financially sustainable once funding ends;
§ is ecologically and environmentally viable;
§ is socially and culturally acceptable, with local ownership;
§ has an appropriate institutional framework;
§ has a monitoring and evaluation mechanism.
All developing countries eligible for official development assistance as defined by the OECD, with priority given to Africa and the Mediterranean. French overseas areas may draw on FFEM financing through regional projects, but the FFEM contribution is then limited to 25% of the total cost of the project.
Eligible Applicants:
Non-profit and for-profit organisations are eligible
Total Budget: €500,000 - €2,000,000 per project
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: FINNPARTNERSHIP
Objective:
Business Partnership Support is financial support for the planning, development and training phases of projects aiming at establishing commercial activity in developing countries, or starting importing from developing countries. The support can be granted to Finnish companies and other organisations for commercially viable, long-term activities aimed at economic cooperation in developing countries. All projects should contribute to positive developmental effects in the target country.
Eligible Activities:
The purpose of Business Partnership Support is to encourage commercial cooperation between Finnish companies and companies and organisations in developing countries. The aim is to achieve positive developmental effects in the target countries. Business Partnership Support is de minimis aid as of 1.1.2010. Under certain conditions, de minimis regulations can be considered not applicable to Business Partnership Support.
Eligible target countries are all developing countries listed as ODA recipients by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants for Business Partnership Support are: (1) companies registered in Finland or elsewhere that have a substantial link to Finland; (2) substantial link to Finland is a significant Finnish ownership in the applicant company, or a contractual relationship between a Finnish company and the company registered abroad; (3) public utilities or other institutions that are operating according to the principles of the public sector, and are registered in Finland; (4) research facilities, universities, cooperatives and chambers of commerce or similar organisations based in Finland and (5) non-governmental organisations/associations registered in Finland that practice or contribute to economic operations consortium of several companies or organisation.
Total Budget: > €400,000 per project
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: Open Technology Fund (OTF)
Objective:
The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Sustainability Fund is Open Technology Fund’s newest mechanism to support the long-term maintenance of established FOSS projects and the communities that sustain them. The FOSS Sustainability Fund helps to ensure that free and open source software projects and the communities that sustain them have the resources and support needed for long-term maintenance, security, and community well-being. Ensuring a diverse, vibrant, and sustainable FOSS ecosystem is critical to OTF’s commitment to support the development and maintenance of anti-censorship technologies, and ensures that all users have better access to privacy and security tools.
Eligible Activities:
The Fund is available to all internet freedom FOSS tools, apps, open standards, protocols and libraries, that have come into shape from inception to development, and are seeking to work on the sustainability of the project beyond initial release.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are: (1) individuals; (2) non-profit organisation/non-government organisation, including U.S.-based NGO, PIO, or foreign NGO; (3) non-profit university or research institution in any country; (4) for-profit organisation or business in any country; and (5) have demonstrated experience administering successful projects, preferably targeting the requested program area.
Total Budget: €400,000 per preoect
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:
https://www.opentech.fund/funds/free-and-open-source-software-sustainability-fund/
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Programme: HORIZON-JU-RIA HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Objective:
The action under this topic must contribute to all of the following outcomes:
· A horizon scanning for potential sandbox candidates including how sandboxes provide an additional tool to existing frameworks and identified examples to model the process;
· Analysis of how regulatory sandboxes can drive science and health technology innovation in an evolving environment;
· Recommendations for end-to-end operations of regulatory sandboxes to inform healthcare innovation developers, regulators, and other decision makers.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
While there is no concrete definition, regulatory sandboxes generally refer to regulatory frameworks that provide a structure for healthcare innovation developers to test and experiment with new and innovative products, services, or approaches under the oversight of a regulator for a limited period of time. These adaptive tools are meant to address challenges arising from the acceleration of technological/scientific advances and the mechanisms intended to regulate them. It offers customisation in terms of how a regulatory framework can be applied, combined with appropriate safeguards.
Regulatory sandboxes, first tested in the fintech sector (2015), are starting to transform the traditional methods used by regulatory agencies in the health sector to accompany the development of safe, efficacious, and high-quality health technologies1, which, due to their level of novelty, challenge the current regulatory framework. The mechanism enables breakthrough developments and the testing of alternative regulatory approaches for disruptive innovations for medicinal products, related platforms and their combinations, including where appropriate medical and digital technologies. Regulatory sandboxes are mentioned as important future-proofing elements in the legislative proposal2 of the European Commission on the general pharmaceutical legislation. The European Commission’s communication to boost biotechnology and biomanufacturing in the EU further promotes the establishment of regulatory sandboxes that allow the testing of novel solutions in a controlled environment for a limited amount of time under the supervision of regulators as a way of quickly bringing more of them to the market3. Regulatory sandboxes are not featured in the medical devices and in vitro diagnostics regulations (MDR and IVDR)4, but the artificial intelligence (AI) Act5 creates an opportunity for regulatory sandboxes focused on case studies for AI-enabled medical devices. Regulatory sandboxes entail a shared learning objective for innovators (finding a pathway and getting regulatory predictability) and regulators (understanding the technology and defining how best to regulate it). The mechanism helps to inform future regulation through experimentation and evidence generation and minimises the risks of regulating ex-ante innovative and novel approaches prematurely or inappropriately. For the same reasons regulatory sandboxes also potentially facilitate the more efficient or rapid subsequent adaptation of the legislation either through translation into an adapted regulatory framework and/or through recommendations when the time comes for revising existing or developing new legislation.
Regulatory sandboxes should be able to experiment and draw on several relevant healthcare innovation related frameworks other than pharmaceutical products (i.e. medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics, AI, digital health technologies, and substances of human origin among others). Due to their anticipatory and adaptive nature, regulatory sandboxes are well placed to address gaps and complexity within and across regulatory frameworks. Indeed, as the number of drug and device combinations increases, and technology integration becomes the norm rather than an exception in healthcare innovation R&D, manufacturing and healthcare delivery, the current siloed technology-specific frameworks may not provide a clear path forward. To that end, when considering an innovation, it is important to consider all relevant legislative frameworks including MDR and IVDR, the Clinical Trials Regulation6, the General Product Safety Regulation7 and AI ACT among others.
Although still new to the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector, there are a few examples of regulatory sandboxes such as the Sante Canada sandbox for advanced therapeutic products or the Singapore sandbox to test telemedicine. More recently, the UK launched the MHRA AI-airlock to assist in the development and deployment of software and AI medical devices, safely providing patients with earlier access to cutting edge innovations that improve care.
The overall aim of this IHI topic is to contribute to the progression and successful implementation of regulatory sandboxes for healthcare innovations by developing a comprehensive and shared understanding of their value and process of implementation. The topic should also enable the development of a cross-sectoral community of stakeholders including pharma and medical device companies, regulators, and health technology assessment bodies (HTAs), among other stakeholders.
To fulfil this aim, the proposal should:
1. Scan the horizon for potential sandbox candidates including how sandboxes provide an additional tool to existing frameworks, and use the examples identified to model the process.
To this end, a key objective is to identify a number of healthcare innovation case studies to better understand how a regulatory sandbox could be used to solve further-defined challenges at an existing regulation level and inform recommendations for end-to-end operations. These cases could draw from the past, present and from horizon scanning activities (the EMA’s work in this area already provides a hint8) to anticipate future innovations, looking across their development value chain.
2. Analyse how regulatory sandboxes can drive science and health technology innovation in an evolving environment.
The proposal should do this by:
anticipating consequences for health technology development under a regulatory sandbox mechanism, acknowledging its time-limited scope and the consequences (considering the technical particularities of healthcare innovation) for other downstream activities e.g., standardisation, health technology assessment;
proactively identifying any guardrails and mitigation measures.
3. Develop recommendations for end-to-end operations of regulatory sandboxes to inform healthcare innovation developers, regulators and downstream decision makers.
The proposal should do this by:
· mapping out conceptual elements and operationalisation features of future sandbox mechanisms based on existing experiences in other fields such as governance, conditions fostering dialogue and collaboration, access to the right type of expertise, support, regulatory customisation, sharing/communicating lessons learned and their translation via the appropriate frameworks into new standards, among other elements to be further defined;
· modelling how to operationalise the sandbox(es) (including governance, operations, principles) and how they could be used in healthcare innovation development and evaluation in conjunction with existing regulatory mechanisms to advance innovation at European and national levels.
Part of the topic entails modelling a regulatory sandbox. The proposal should therefore consider good practices for designing and evaluating the necessary operating models to ensure the robustness and future applicability of the output of the project.
The project outcomes could also offer directions for the translation of the resulting recommendations into digital tools and systems deemed necessary for the functioning of regulatory sandboxes (e.g. ensuring collaboration between different health authorities’ triage mechanisms, horizon scanning, fitness check evaluations), as relevant.
When developing a comprehensive and shared understanding of the value of regulatory sandboxes, applicants will have to explore key aspects across the life-cycle of healthcare innovations with the objective of accompanying their ultimate adoption, which could include as appropriate R&D, regulatory authorities, HTA bodies, payers, governments, clinicians and patients. Ethical considerations would also have to be considered as some innovations could trigger questions in this field.A shared objective should include to develop a regulatory strategy and interaction plan for generating appropriate evidence, enabling engagement across all the different decision makers in a timely manner (e.g. national competent authorities, EMA and the respective Innovation Task Force, qualification advice) and identifying aspects that can be leveraged by existing regulatory tools, as well as the limiting aspects and the flexibilities that would be required under a regulatory sandbox to achieve the timely development and access of healthcare innovations.
Eligible Applicants:
Entities Eligible for Funding
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe;
Total Budget: €47,550,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 10 October 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time & 23 April 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
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Programme: HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Objective:
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
· Expand the portfolio of cost-effective advanced biofuel production concepts through energy-driven biorefineries.
· Reduce cost, improve efficiency, support de-risking, to accelerate the availability of competitive and zero-waste advanced biofuel production concepts.
· Contribute to the Mission Innovation 2.0 mission of Integrated Biorefineries.
· Optimize resource efficiency, energy output and total products value from biomass
· Reinforce the European scientific basis and European export potential for renewable fuel production solutions through international collaborations.
Specific Topic Conditions: Activities are expected to achieve TRL 5 by the end of the project
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Development of zero-waste and neutral or negative carbon emission energy-efficient biorefinery concepts for enabling the production of low-cost advanced biofuels through co-production of added value bio-based products and bioenergy. Conversion of biogenic wastes and residues as well as algae and aquatic biomass through chemical, biochemical, electrochemical, biological, thermochemical pathways or combinations of them in highly circular processes are in scope. The integration design is expected to include mass and energy flows, addressing the process heat and power needs by the use of co-produced bio-heat and bio-power, capturing and reusing biogenic effluent gases and sequestering biogenic emissions, for example in the form of biochar as soil amendment, such as to maximize overall material and energy efficiencies. An assessment of the feedstock cost supply at regional and local level and improvement of feedstock mobilisation patterns including via enabling technologies, such as digitalisation, should be included. Socioeconomic and environmental sustainability including circular economy, social, economic and environmental aspects are expected to be assessed on a life-cycle analysis basis. The advanced biofuels cost should aim to be reduced at parity with marketed biofuel equivalents or in the absence of these competitive to the fossil fuel equivalents. Technology validated in relevant environment is required. International cooperation with Mission Innovation countries is expected. Proposals should provide information and assessment about the economic feasibility and the potential of scaling-up the technology at commercial scale as appropriate.
Synergies are possible with topic HORIZON-CL6-2023-ZEROPOLLUTION: Innovative technologies for zero pollution, zero-waste biorefineries (RIA) and respective cooperation activities are encouraged.
Eligible Applicants:
Entities Eligible for Funding
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe;
Total Budget: €7,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
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Programme: Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
Objective:
The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation was set up in 1999. Susan and Michael Dell have supported the foundation primarily through investing the proceeds of sales of shares of Dell Inc. They are helping children living in urban poverty. The international grant program aims to transform the lives of children living in urban poverty in India and South Africa.
Eligible Activities:
The strategies supported are: (1) high quality education for children; (2) health: creating a system that promotes wellness and prevents illness; and (3) family economic stability: micro-financing for stable family incomes including financial inclusion, job creation and livelihoods.
Apart from the US, they are funding projects in India and South Africa.
Eligible Applicants:
They fund social enterprises that directly serve or impact children or youth from urban low-income communities in the areas of education, health, and family economic stability (including livelihoods and financial inclusion). These social enterprises may be structured as for-profit or nonprofit entities.
Total Budget: $10,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: OAK FOUNDATION
Objective:
The grant program supports issues of global social and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged.
Eligible Activities:
The sector areas eligible for funding are:
(1) child abuse: they support initiatives that eliminate the sexual exploitation of children; engage men and boys in combating the sexual abuse of children; and promote the prevention of violence against children;
(2) environment: they fund climate change mitigation, wildlife conservation, and the conservation of marine resources;
(3) international human rights: they want to end impunity for the gross violations of human rights, uphold prohibitions on arbitrary detention and torture, protect human rights defenders at risk, and multiply and amplify influential voices on IHRP global priorities;
(4) women: to end patterns of violence and exploitation that disrupt women’s lives by ensuring that rights-based laws and policies guarantee an environment free from violence;
(5) learning differences: they support teacher development, student engagement and parental understanding;
(6) Joint India program as well as the
(7) Zimbabwe program.
They work in Bulgaria, Latvia, Moldova, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania for the child abuse program; Balkans, Brazil, Central America, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Moldova, Bulgaria, the North Caucasus and India for the women programs; and international for the other programs.
Eligible Applicants:
Most of the grantees are non-profit organisations (incl. universities, UN-organisations, associations and networks).
Total Budget: $200,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: ENERGY FOUNDATION CHINA
Objective:
The Energy Foundation was launched in 1991 by three leading foundations who decided it was time for philanthropy to help the world meet its energy challenges. In 1999, with support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Energy Foundation established the China Sustainable Energy Program now called Energy Foundation China.
Eligible Activities:
They support work in the sectors of clean power, environmental management, industry, low-carbon development, sustainable cities, and transportation, as well as strategic communications.
The foundation evaluates grant requests primarily on their ability to: (1) deliver real commitments to energy efficiency and renewable energy in China; and (2) build capacity in organizations within China and thereby further sustainable energy policy progress.
They focus on China.
Eligible Applicants:
Grants are provided to charitable organizations (commonly referred to as non-profit, non-governmental, or civil society organizations). This includes many Universities and research organizations. Eligible organizations include U.S. 501(c)(3) public charities as well as organizations in China and other countries outside of the U.S. whose projects are assessed and deemed to be charitable.
Total Budget: €30,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: METLIFE FOUNDATION
Objective:
MetLife Foundation was founded in 1976 to continue MetLife’s long tradition of corporate contributions and community involvement. While financial inclusion is their global focus, the Foundation also sponsors initiatives in other philanthropic areas. These programmatic areas include medical research, arts and cultural institutions, disaster relief, and civic initiatives. Since its creation, the Foundation has provided more than $700 million in grants to make a positive difference for the people, families and communities they serve. Its global focus is financial inclusion and it works in both developing and developed economies to expand and improve financial services.
Eligible Activities:
Their four core areas are: (1) Economic Inclusion: upskilling and reskilling talent to be competitive in a new economy, establish a career and earn family-sustaining wages to achieve intergenerational economic mobility; (2) Financial Health: efforts focused on building financial resiliency through the enablement of budget management, savings, access to credit and public/private benefits; (3) Resilient Communities: efforts that open up and expand access to physical and mental well-being resources, support for a more resilient planet through climate focused partnerships and promote resiliency through arts and culture; and (4) Impact Investing.
They fund intervention in the US, Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe.
Eligible Applicants:
Their grant recipient partners need to be aligned with their strategy, be capable partners to deliver on their grants, and be willing to measure and share results with them and with the broader financial inclusion community about both their successful interventions, and their “lessons learned.” Most of their partners are likely to be not-for-profit or NGOs, but they may make grants to other organisations seeking to reach low- and moderate-income populations with appropriate financial services (i.e. banks, Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs), and, in some markets, telecom companies).
Total Budget: $50,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:
https://www.metlife.com/sustainability/MetLife-Foundation/resources/
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Programme: European Commission - LIFE
Objective:
Objective:
Support the full implementation of the following strategies and plans:
· National Energy and Climate Plans (NECP, Regulation on the governance of the energy union and climate action (EU)2018/1999).
· National Energy Efficiency Action Plans (NEEAP).
· National or regional adaptation strategies or action plans.
· Urban or community-based action plans pioneering the transition to a low carbon and/or climate resilient society.
· National, regional or industry-/sector-specific greenhouse gas mitigation strategies or low carbon economy roadmaps contributing to climate neutrality.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
SIPs should aim at the full implementation of the strategies and plans listed in "Objective". This might not mean that the SIP will cover all actions foreseen in the strategy/plan or that the strategy/plan will be fully implemented during the lifetime of the SIP. However, the SIP shall include strategic actions to catalyse a process and mobilise supplementary commitments and funding that will lead, in due time, to the full implementation of the plan or strategy.
SIPs shall promote the coordination with and mobilisation of other relevant Union, national or private funding sources for the implementation of the complementary measures or actions outside of the SIP in the framework of the targeted plan or strategy, giving preference to EU funding. Within the SIP itself, however, co-funding may not come from other EU funding sources.
SIPs shall actively involve the main stakeholders necessary for the implementation of the targeted plan or strategy. They should be involved in both the design and implementation of the given project. This involvement is expected to be achieved by including them - where possible and reasonable - as associated beneficiaries of the SIP, or through their active participation in the implementation of the SIP itself and/or of the complementary actions.
SIPs should facilitate and result in the building up of strategic capacities among the competent authorities and stakeholders to ensure a long-term sustainability of project results and actions, and to ensure that they will be able to function as co-deliverers of the targeted plan or strategy during or after the end of the SIP.
The SIP complexity requires an adaptive approach in the design of the implementing mechanism. For this reason, SIPs will be implemented based on a revolving programming mechanism structured in phases (i.e. Phase 1, Phase 2, etc.). Each phase should normally last at least 3 years, to reduce administrative burden, although duration might be shorter if properly justified.
See Call document and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for a more detailed description of SIPs scope and features.
Expected Impact:
By the end of the project: at least substantial contribution to the implementation of the targeted plan/strategy, and mechanisms established to ensure full implementation of the plan/strategy.
After the project: Full implementation of the plan/strategy.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must: be legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €30,000,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 05 September 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time 06 March 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/life-2024-strat-clima-sip-two-stage
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Programme: European Commission - LIFE
Objective:
Objective:
Support the full implementation of the following plans and strategies:
· Prioritised Action Frameworks (PAF) pursuant to Article 8 of Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (the Habitats Directive); and
Other plans or strategies adopted at international, national, regional or multiregional level by nature and biodiversity authorities, that implement EU nature and/or biodiversity policy or legislation and include specific and measurable actions, or targets, with a clear timeline and budget.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
A SNAP will not have to cover all actions foreseen in the strategy/plan or ensure that the strategy/plan will be fully implemented during the lifetime of the SNAP. However, the SNAP shall include strategic actions to catalyse a process and mobilise supplementary commitments and funding that will lead, in due time, to the full implementation of the plan or strategy.
SNAPs shall promote the coordination with and mobilisation of other relevant Union, national or private funding sources for the implementation of the complementary measures or actions outside of the SNAP in the framework of the targeted plan or strategy, giving preference to Union funding. Within the SNAP itself, however, co-funding may not come from other Union funding sources.
SNAPs shall actively involve the main stakeholders necessary for the implementation of the targeted plan or strategy. They should be involved in both the design and implementation of the given project. This involvement is expected to be achieved by including them - where possible and reasonable - as associated beneficiaries of the SNAP, or through their active participation in the implementation of the SNAP itself and/or of the complementary actions.
SNAPs should facilitate and result in the building up of strategic capacities among the competent authorities and stakeholders to ensure a long-term sustainability of project results and actions, and to ensure that they will be able to function as co-deliverers of the targeted plan or strategy after the end of the SNAP.
Depending on the needs of the given Members States (or regions) as identified in their PAFs or in other nature and biodiversity plans (which must be available by the time a SNAP full proposal is submitted), the set of measures to be included in a SNAP programme of actions shall include the following:
institutional support and capacity building actions;
mobilisation and coordination of additional finance for complementary actions, in particular from other EU funding instruments and programmes.
In addition, SNAPs:
may also include concrete conservation and restoration measures, in particular where these cannot be supported through other EU funding programmes;
shall also work to change (when applicable) the rules for other funds or adapting other policies/actions which might be leading to failure of the target plan/strategy.
The SNAP complexity requires an adaptive approach in the design of the implementing mechanism. For this reason, SNAPs will be implemented based on a revolving programming mechanism structured in phases (i.e. Phase 1, Phase 2, etc.). Each phase should normally last at least 3 years, to reduce administrative burden, although duration might be shorter if properly justified.
See Call document and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for a more detailed description of SNAP scope and features.
Expected Impact:
By the end of the project: at least substantial contribution to the implementation of the targeted plan/strategy, and mechanisms established to ensure full implementation of the plan/strategy.
After the project: Full implementation of the plan/strategy.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must: be legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €70,000,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 05 September 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time
06 March 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/life-2024-strat-nat-snap-two-stage
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Programme: European Commission - LIFE
Objective:
Objective:
Support the full implementation of the following plans and strategies:
· Circular Economy: National or Regional Circular Economy Action Plans, Strategies, Roadmaps or similar, which are officially approved, and which include specific and measurable actions, or targets, with a clear timeline and are in line with or complementing the objectives of the EU Circular Economy Action Plan.
· Waste: National and regional Waste Management Plans pursuant to Article 28 of the Waste Framework Directive and/or Waste Prevention Programmes as requested by article 29 of the Waste Framework Directive.
· Water: River basin management plans pursuant to Annex VII to the Water Framework Directive, Flood Risk Management Plans pursuant to the Floods Directive or Marine Strategies pursuant to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.
· Air: Air quality plans pursuant to the Ambient Air Quality Directive or National Air Pollution Control Programmes pursuant to the National Emission Ceilings Directive.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
SIPs should aim at the full implementation of the strategies and plans listed in "Objective". This might not mean that the SIP will cover all actions foreseen in the strategy/plan or that the strategy/plan will be fully implemented during the lifetime of the SIP. However, the SIP shall include strategic actions to catalyse a process and mobilise supplementary commitments and funding that will lead, in due time, to the full implementation of the plan or strategy.
SIPs shall promote the coordination with and mobilisation of other relevant Union, national or private funding sources for the implementation of the complementary measures or actions outside of the SIP in the framework of the targeted plan or strategy, giving preference to EU funding. Within the SIP itself, however, co-funding may not come from other EU funding sources.
SIPs shall actively involve the main stakeholders necessary for the implementation of the targeted plan or strategy. They should be involved in both the design and implementation of the given project. This involvement is expected to be achieved by including them - where possible and reasonable - as associated beneficiaries of the SIP, or through their active participation in the implementation of the SIP itself and/or of the complementary actions.
SIPs should facilitate and result in the building up of strategic capacities among the competent authorities and stakeholders to ensure a long-term sustainability of project results and actions, and to ensure that they will be able to function as co-deliverers of the targeted plan or strategy during or after the end of the SIP.
The SIP complexity requires an adaptive approach in the design of the implementing mechanism. For this reason, SIPs will be implemented based on a revolving programming mechanism structured in phases (i.e. Phase 1, Phase 2, etc.). Each phase should normally last at least 3 years, to reduce administrative burden, although duration might be shorter if properly justified.
See Call document and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for a more detailed description of SIPs scope and features.
Expected Impact:
By the end of the project: at least substantial contribution to the implementation of the targeted plan/strategy, and mechanisms established to ensure full implementation of the plan/strategy.
After the project: Full implementation of the plan/strategy.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must: be legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €49,000,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 05 September 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time 06 March 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/life-2024-strat-env-sip-two-stage
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Programme: HORIZON-JU-RIA HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
The action under this topic must contribute to all the outcomes listed below, by integrating existing data sets (clinical registries, prospective observational trials and real-world evidence data, for example from medical claims and biobanks as well as genotypic and epigenetic information), and data collections from historical and ongoing clinical trials (provided by industry partners).
Algorithms and models, including Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based models, that are adaptable to differences in data availability have been developed and validated in different datasets to allow for the identification of osteoarthritis (OA) patient subpopulations (phenotypes/endotypes) that will benefit from specific, targeted treatment approaches. The identification of subpopulations will be based on:
· the patient-specific burden of osteoarthritis with focus on underlying drivers (e.g. metabolic disease) and multi-morbidity/holistic patient profiles;
· the evaluation of underlying pathways driving local vs. centralised pain in joint disease and the correlation of symptoms to joint tissue pathology;
· the identification of key risk factors for pain in joint disease that can be linked to structural disease progression providing insights into the symptom–structure discordance in OA;
· the detection of joint areas at risk of progression and quantification of structural progression to a more advanced stage;
· the measures from existing innovative tools such as functional assessments with mobility and activity assessing devices (including algorithms) to reflect independence, gait measures, and assessments of muscular strength and function, as well as balance and coordination to subtly measure functional changes;
· evaluating the differences and commonalities of osteoarthritis (OA) and inflammation-driven joint diseases such as psoriatic arthritis (PsA), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), erosive hand osteoarthritis (eHOA).
A validation strategy is provided for a selected set of novel endpoints to measure and predict OA disease progression that enables planning of regulatory implementation pathways. This validation strategy supports innovative outcome-based and patient-centred development approaches for medicines and other therapeutic options to be discussed by regulatory authorities, health technology assessment (HTA) bodies, healthcare providers, patients, scientists and industry, shaping new approaches to the development of efficient treatments in OA and respective regulatory frameworks;
A decision tool is developed – based on the predictive models – that supports shared decision-making for patients, their caregivers and healthcare providers according to the predicted disease progression, the most likely associated OA disease drivers and the current disease burden;
A robust, trustworthy, and interpretable AI framework is established, that enables the development of guidelines or determines any boundaries for predictive modelling at various stages of value generation e.g. biological discovery, patient subgrouping, and clinical trials enrichment. Measures to mitigate the risk of bias and discrimination are implemented including, but not limited, to:
· careful consideration of data sets to ensure diversity and inclusion (or account for the lack thereof);
· the running of bias-unaware AI models and provision of fairness metrics;
· applying AI models within frameworks mitigating bias and promoting fairness during the pre-processing, in-processing and post-processing phases.
Data platform(s) are designed and implemented to allow a workable and efficient collaboration across the participating organisations in their respective geographies, respecting each data contributor’s access, privacy and consent approaches, which can be facilitated by federated data sharing. This outcome may serve as a blueprint for other data collaborations under the umbrella of the EU’s newly implemented AI act and data policies 1, 2.
It is expected that certain existing assets like clinical data, algorithms, and data storage infrastructure will be used as background in this action. Therefore, beneficiaries intending to participate in this data-driven action need to be comfortable with the principle that ownership of specific deliverables / project results which would be considered direct improvements to a beneficiary’s background asset, will need to be transferred back to the beneficiary who contributed the background asset to the project. Provision for, and conditions relating to such transfers should be specified in the project’s consortium agreement.
1 Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and amending certain Union legislative acts (2021/0106(COD), 26 Jan. 2024, pdf (europa.eu), last accessed 04.04.2024
2 Proposal for a regulation - The European Health Data Space Proposal for a regulation - The European Health Data Space - European Commission (europa.eu), last accessed 04.04.2024
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Osteoarthritis (OA) has no cure and affects the lives of more than 500 million people worldwide with widespread individual, societal and economic consequences. Economic consequences pertain on one hand to health care utilisation and health care spending, OA is however also associated with relevant economic impact on the individual due to missed days at work, early retirement, and substantial out-of-pocket expenditures. Since OA primarily affects the elderly, females, patients with lower levels of education and socio-economic status and certain ethnicities, the associated economic risk hits already vulnerable populations. OA has long been underestimated in its impact; the disease negatively affects social functioning and ranks 7th for years lived with disability in people over 70 years. With its impact on activities of daily living, OA is a major risk factor for loss of independence. Additionally, OA is associated with increased mortality.
Despite major research efforts and increasing insights into the mechanism, epidemiology, risk factors and natural history of OA, various development efforts over the years have failed to provide a disease-modifying treatment. The epidemiology as well as clinical and biological insights strongly suggest the existence of several pheno- and endotypes of osteoarthritis; failure to account for those differences critically hampers progress in the field. The implementation of innovative approaches to stratify the patient population, predict the course of disease and define patient-relevant endpoints is specifically relevant in an ageing society with a high prevalence of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and multi-morbidity. Furthermore, there is an increasing prevalence of post-traumatic secondary OA in relatively young individuals affected at the prime of their lives. First studies towards the clustering of patient groups and development of predictive models have been published suggesting the feasibility of these approaches. Bringing all those insights together requires the collaboration of experts from various fields and can only be achieved in the concerted action of a public-private partnership, including existing initiatives.
The overall aim of this topic is to build a public-private partnership that is able to integrate and leverage the plethora of existing and currently collected data on OA, as well as the increasing insights and expertise gathered over decades of research. Further, the goal is to use a data driven approach to significantly progress the field by leveraging the novel opportunities that have emerged thanks to increased computing power and innovative methodologies in big data analysis, in order to:
· integrate different perspectives to improve the understanding of osteoarthritis as a complex disease;
· foster progress towards regulatory validation of patient-relevant endpoints to measure and predict OA disease progression as well as alternative endpoints to measure response to treatment;
· allow predictive modelling while actively seeking feedback to incorporate the perception of patients, care givers, primary care physicians and regulators.
The action generated by this topic should pave the way towards transforming the current isolated research efforts and static late-stage development approaches into a more patient-centred and simplified (more inclusive/enriched patient population, shorter study duration, potential enablement of the evaluation of preventive or early therapeutic strategies based on predicted outcomes, cost-effectiveness etc.) as well as sustainable part of clinical research and development. This aim is supported by increasing the insights into OA as an heterogenous disease with various underlying patient risk profiles, patho-mechanistic pathways and underlying genotypic/epigenetic/ metabolomic/transcriptomic phenomena based on big data. Such insights will allow for the creation of integrated risk profiles combining clinical and multi-omic approaches (e.g. clinical characteristics, transcriptomics, proteomics, genetic markers, and in-depth multimodal imaging data).
These advances are needed to support the development of patient-relevant and cost-efficient integrated health care solutions including focused, individualised treatments for specific patient segments. The use of AI-based approaches is crucial for the integration of the totality of existing patient datasets and mechanistic disease insights to better understand disease drivers in various tissues of joints thereby upscaling, broadening and/or sharpening current methodology.
The proposed action must:
· gather and provide access to high quality data – including clinical data from trials (mainly data from placebo arms from studies run outside the project) provided by the pre-identified industry consortium and by applicants as well as prospective observational data, registry data and cohort data including genetic, imaging, soluble biomarker, and data from wearables among others;
· provide a flexible federated data lake house with appropriate tools for access, management and governance, data curation, integration, and augmentation for consequent high-performance analytics using for example new or contributed AI (foundation) models and modelling workflows. This infrastructure will deploy existing or newly developed approaches or implementations to host and analyse disparate data assets ranging from public, commercial, and not-for-profit observational and trial clinical data to -omics, images, or data from wearables. In their proposal applicants should address key challenges around federated data collection, data privacy, data transfer, data storage, data processing, curation, and harmonisation of data, etc. to achieve a comprehensive understanding of OA by upscaled, big data analytics from:
· genetic analyses (GWAS);
· AI-driven big data analyses for identification of clinical patterns in phenotypes and endotypes;
· algorithm-based imaging analyses of whole joints and peri-articular tissues;
· the evaluation of performance assessments using novel technologies and devices.
· generate and provide a validation strategy for a risk model of disease progression by evaluating whether and to which extent risk factors and predictive models identified in the literature and the above-mentioned data sets are reliably predictive for the progression of structural joint changes as evidenced by imaging, pain and functional decline documented by patients and ultimately leading to joint replacement surgery. The combination of surrogate markers such as imaging [1] with medical history and medication, as well as with predictive markers (plasma-based multi-omics, polygenic risk scores) [2][3], patient reported outcome data and data from wearables or performance tests [4], will generate a more refined predictive engine in analogy to, for example, established fracture risk prediction algorithms in osteoporosis;
· work towards a broad consensus between all stakeholders especially linking patients, caregivers and healthcare providers’ perspectives to regulatory and health technology assessment (HTA) bodies. This will enable the elaboration of a set of endpoints relevant to these groups depending on the phase of development of treatments (i.e. early phase trials for medication or device efficacy, while late-stage development needs to prove effectiveness, which may necessitate different sets of outcomes), incorporating the various domains of assessments, and taking into account the predominant effect (structural or symptomatic) of the evaluated treatment. This will help to shape new regulatory frameworks for accelerated targeted OA treatment development based on big data analyses, in-silico trials, digital twin approaches and similar innovative trial designs;
· use data analysis and modelling to provide evidence and knowledge that could enable the evaluation of existing innovative tools (such as functional assessments, imaging approaches etc.) and innovative treatment solutions for OA, based on their scientific validity and feasibility as a prerequisite. Design a strategy to progress them towards regulatory validation and implementation. The action should provide an exploratory and interactive platform to evaluate the validity and user-preference of novel methods of evidence generation, such as the use of data from wearable devices, innovative imaging, and surrogate markers for joint replacement surgery;
· model short- and long-term economic and public health impact from OA including morbidity and mortality. These new risk models should support benefit/risk assessment as well as quality and efficacy assessments of therapeutic interventions in patients diagnosed with OA to prevent or delay the onset of disease progression, but also avoid overtreatment and thereby optimise the use of health care resources;
· develop a decision tool based on predictive models that can support shared decision-making between physicians, patients and their caregivers to select the intervention best suited to address the various stages and symptoms of OA in an individual patient, integrating also patient reported outcome and experience measure (PROMs and PREMs) data as well as patient preferences. The diversity of patients at risk or affected by the disease must be considered when discussing patient-relevant outcomes to enable the focused development of treatments and healthcare solutions specific to the needs of individual patients;
· leverage real-world evidence (RWE) data to address the diversity of patients including sex and gender, ethnicity, and race disparities to develop patient engagement strategies. This should enable engagement with specific groups for the design of OA outcome trials and better promotion of OA management.
The action should contribute to addressing the research needs outlined in the Regulatory Science Research Needs initiative1, launched by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), assessing the utility of real-world healthcare data to improve the quality of randomised controlled trial simulations and patient and public involvement and engagement.
Therefore, applicants are expected to consider the potential regulatory impact of the results and – as relevant – develop a regulatory strategy and interaction plan for generating appropriate evidence as well as engaging with regulators in a timely manner (e.g. national competent authorities, EMA Innovation Task Force, qualification advice).
Consideration should be specifically given to patient and public involvement and engagement in the implementation of all of the above activities. The applicants are expected to leverage prior learnings, for example, previous experiences that have demonstrated the importance of transparent and accessible structures to receive input from patients, caregivers and health care providers as key stakeholders and integrate expertise from various fields relevant in this context [5]. The continuous and active engagement of all groups is indispensable to meet patients’ and providers’ needs and leverage synergies between practitioners and scientists, especially to ensure the sustainability of potential outputs.
Applicants should provide in their proposal evidence that they have in place all permissions (legal, ethical) needed for accessing the data necessary to implement the action.
Note that the implementation of prospective clinical studies is not supported by this topic.
1 https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/other/regulatory-science-research-needs_en.pdf, last accessed March 19th 2024
Expected Impact:
The project should contribute to all of the following impacts:
· the federated integration of big data from disparate data sources including the use of digital twin and similar methodological approaches will lay the foundation for advanced clinical trial designs that allow for more efficient and smaller trials, as well as the reduction of patients’ burden and exposure to placebo;
· the development of predictive models for disease progression and joint replacement, which are crucial to efficiently discuss treatment strategies, support assessments of quality in health care and equitably plan and allocate health care resources. In addition, such predictive models can revolutionise outcome trial designs, shortening the trial duration and patient burden as well as reducing development costs. The aspired modular flexibility to data availability allows for their sustained use in various settings and economic circumstances;
· the stratification of different patient groups and targeting of treatments to patients’ needs and preferences, which enables the development of successful therapies, informs development strategies, improves patient and caregiver engagement and optimises trial designs. This stratification also supports data-based shared decision making for health care solutions in clinical practice;
· availability of tools that enable specific functional measurements and reflect the real-life treatment benefit for patients. These tools have been positively evaluated for practicality and scientific validity and could be used for systematic assessments complementing clinical and patient reported information. All of the above will allow for better trial designs that can demonstrate the treatment benefits of medicines and health care solutions in early development programmes with limited numbers of patients.
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €47,550,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 10 October 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time 23 April 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-ju-ihi-2024-08-02-two-stage
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Programme: HORIZON-JU-RIA HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
The action under this topic must contribute to all of the following outcomes:
· A horizon scanning for potential sandbox candidates including how sandboxes provide an additional tool to existing frameworks and identified examples to model the process;
· Analysis of how regulatory sandboxes can drive science and health technology innovation in an evolving environment;
· Recommendations for end-to-end operations of regulatory sandboxes to inform healthcare innovation developers, regulators, and other decision makers.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
While there is no concrete definition, regulatory sandboxes generally refer to regulatory frameworks that provide a structure for healthcare innovation developers to test and experiment with new and innovative products, services, or approaches under the oversight of a regulator for a limited period of time. These adaptive tools are meant to address challenges arising from the acceleration of technological/scientific advances and the mechanisms intended to regulate them. It offers customisation in terms of how a regulatory framework can be applied, combined with appropriate safeguards.
Regulatory sandboxes, first tested in the fintech sector (2015), are starting to transform the traditional methods used by regulatory agencies in the health sector to accompany the development of safe, efficacious, and high-quality health technologies1, which, due to their level of novelty, challenge the current regulatory framework. The mechanism enables breakthrough developments and the testing of alternative regulatory approaches for disruptive innovations for medicinal products, related platforms and their combinations, including where appropriate medical and digital technologies. Regulatory sandboxes are mentioned as important future-proofing elements in the legislative proposal2 of the European Commission on the general pharmaceutical legislation. The European Commission’s communication to boost biotechnology and biomanufacturing in the EU further promotes the establishment of regulatory sandboxes that allow the testing of novel solutions in a controlled environment for a limited amount of time under the supervision of regulators as a way of quickly bringing more of them to the market3. Regulatory sandboxes are not featured in the medical devices and in vitro diagnostics regulations (MDR and IVDR)4, but the artificial intelligence (AI) Act5 creates an opportunity for regulatory sandboxes focused on case studies for AI-enabled medical devices. Regulatory sandboxes entail a shared learning objective for innovators (finding a pathway and getting regulatory predictability) and regulators (understanding the technology and defining how best to regulate it). The mechanism helps to inform future regulation through experimentation and evidence generation and minimises the risks of regulating ex-ante innovative and novel approaches prematurely or inappropriately. For the same reasons regulatory sandboxes also potentially facilitate the more efficient or rapid subsequent adaptation of the legislation either through translation into an adapted regulatory framework and/or through recommendations when the time comes for revising existing or developing new legislation.
Regulatory sandboxes should be able to experiment and draw on several relevant healthcare innovation related frameworks other than pharmaceutical products (i.e. medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics, AI, digital health technologies, and substances of human origin among others). Due to their anticipatory and adaptive nature, regulatory sandboxes are well placed to address gaps and complexity within and across regulatory frameworks. Indeed, as the number of drug and device combinations increases, and technology integration becomes the norm rather than an exception in healthcare innovation R&D, manufacturing and healthcare delivery, the current siloed technology-specific frameworks may not provide a clear path forward. To that end, when considering an innovation, it is important to consider all relevant legislative frameworks including MDR and IVDR, the Clinical Trials Regulation6, the General Product Safety Regulation7 and AI ACT among others.
Although still new to the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector, there are a few examples of regulatory sandboxes such as the Sante Canada sandbox for advanced therapeutic products or the Singapore sandbox to test telemedicine. More recently, the UK launched the MHRA AI-airlock to assist in the development and deployment of software and AI medical devices, safely providing patients with earlier access to cutting edge innovations that improve care.
The overall aim of this IHI topic is to contribute to the progression and successful implementation of regulatory sandboxes for healthcare innovations by developing a comprehensive and shared understanding of their value and process of implementation. The topic should also enable the development of a cross-sectoral community of stakeholders including pharma and medical device companies, regulators, and health technology assessment bodies (HTAs), among other stakeholders.
To fulfil this aim, the proposal should:
1. Scan the horizon for potential sandbox candidates including how sandboxes provide an additional tool to existing frameworks, and use the examples identified to model the process.
To this end, a key objective is to identify a number of healthcare innovation case studies to better understand how a regulatory sandbox could be used to solve further-defined challenges at an existing regulation level and inform recommendations for end-to-end operations. These cases could draw from the past, present and from horizon scanning activities (the EMA’s work in this area already provides a hint8) to anticipate future innovations, looking across their development value chain.
2. Analyse how regulatory sandboxes can drive science and health technology innovation in an evolving environment.
The proposal should do this by:
· anticipating consequences for health technology development under a regulatory sandbox mechanism, acknowledging its time-limited scope and the consequences (considering the technical particularities of healthcare innovation) for other downstream activities e.g., standardisation, health technology assessment;
· proactively identifying any guardrails and mitigation measures.
3. Develop recommendations for end-to-end operations of regulatory sandboxes to inform healthcare innovation developers, regulators and downstream decision makers.
The proposal should do this by:
· mapping out conceptual elements and operationalisation features of future sandbox mechanisms based on existing experiences in other fields such as governance, conditions fostering dialogue and collaboration, access to the right type of expertise, support, regulatory customisation, sharing/communicating lessons learned and their translation via the appropriate frameworks into new standards, among other elements to be further defined;
· modelling how to operationalise the sandbox(es) (including governance, operations, principles) and how they could be used in healthcare innovation development and evaluation in conjunction with existing regulatory mechanisms to advance innovation at European and national levels.
Part of the topic entails modelling a regulatory sandbox. The proposal should therefore consider good practices for designing and evaluating the necessary operating models to ensure the robustness and future applicability of the output of the project.
The project outcomes could also offer directions for the translation of the resulting recommendations into digital tools and systems deemed necessary for the functioning of regulatory sandboxes (e.g. ensuring collaboration between different health authorities’ triage mechanisms, horizon scanning, fitness check evaluations), as relevant.
When developing a comprehensive and shared understanding of the value of regulatory sandboxes, applicants will have to explore key aspects across the life-cycle of healthcare innovations with the objective of accompanying their ultimate adoption, which could include as appropriate R&D, regulatory authorities, HTA bodies, payers, governments, clinicians and patients. Ethical considerations would also have to be considered as some innovations could trigger questions in this field.A shared objective should include to develop a regulatory strategy and interaction plan for generating appropriate evidence, enabling engagement across all the different decision makers in a timely manner (e.g. national competent authorities, EMA and the respective Innovation Task Force, qualification advice) and identifying aspects that can be leveraged by existing regulatory tools, as well as the limiting aspects and the flexibilities that would be required under a regulatory sandbox to achieve the timely development and access of healthcare innovations.
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €47,550,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 10 October 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time 23 April 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-ju-ihi-2024-08-03-two-stage
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Programme: HORIZON-JU-RIA HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
The action under this topic must contribute to all of the following outcomes:
· organisations and institutions involved in the development of therapies for the treatment and management of chronic disease have access to a unifying framework and consensus-based recommendations for:
· using a combination of patient preference information (PPI), clinical outcome assessments (COAs), and digital health technology (DHT)-derived measures to demonstrate the importance to patients of what is being measured by DHT-derived clinical-study endpoints;
· determining, from the patient perspective, what constitutes a minimal clinically important difference (MCID) in a patient-centred, DHT-derived clinical-study endpoint.
· new methods for analysing PPI and COA data collected using DHT and for combining data from PPI, COA, and DHT-derived measures are available to researchers;
· a consistent framework for engagement regarding the development and use of patient-centred, DHT-derived clinical-study endpoints is available to industry and stakeholders;
· acceptance of the use of PPI, COAs, and patient-centred DHT-derived measures in addition to or in combination with traditional clinical-study endpoints to provide a robust view of the benefits of a therapy to patients;
· acceptance of the use of patient-centred DHT-derived measures for clinical-study endpoints as reliable evidence for the evaluation of the clinical and economic benefit of therapeutic medicinal products and medical technologies among stakeholders including, but not limited to, patient groups, regulatory bodies, and health technology assessment (HTA) bodies (including the EU Member State Coordination Group on HTA), indicated by a qualification opinion, endorsement, adoption or other approval by each relevant stakeholder group;
· patient-centred, DHT-derived endpoints are implemented along with traditional clinical-study endpoints in clinical studies of therapies to treat chronic diseases, and data from DHT-derived clinical-study endpoints are used in regulatory and reimbursement decision-making.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Three types of patient-centred information related to how a patient feels and functions contribute to the evaluation of outcomes of a therapy:
patient preference information (PPI);
clinical outcome assessments (COAs) (including patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures);
digital health technology-derived (DHT-derived) measures.
Each of these types of measures can be used to understand patient-centred benefits of therapies (i.e., meaningful improvements in how a patient feels or functions).
DHT-derived measures can capture patient-centred information about disease symptoms, physical, cognitive, and emotional functions, and experience with therapy. They can measure the status of a patient’s health in ways that may be related to, but often differ from, COAs. For example, DHTs may measure activity intensity but not specific activities. Likewise, DHT-derived measures may detect changes in patient-centred outcomes - such as function - earlier than a patient may notice such a change. For patient-centred DHT-derived measures (i.e., DHT-derived measures that capture how a patient feels and functions) to be useful as endpoints in clinical studies, they must not only be technically validated, but also demonstrate that they measure functions, activities, symptoms, and other impacts of disease and treatment that are important to patients and measure changes in these outcomes that are meaningful to patients.
PPI, COAs, and DHT-derived measures are different, but complementary, types of patient-centred data. Because these measures are complementary, using these measures in combination will provide a more robust view of the benefits of therapies measured using DHT-derived endpoints from the patient perspective. Combining these complementary measures is necessary to demonstrate the utility of using DHT-derived measures as clinical study endpoints that reflect the value of treatment benefits to patients. Specifically, using these measures in combination may contribute to determining what constitutes a minimal clinically important difference (MCID) in patient-centred DHT-derived endpoints from the patient perspective in clinical studies of therapies to treat chronic diseases. For the purpose of this project, a chronic disease is defined as a long-term health condition that may not have a cure.
However, despite recent increases in the use of PPI, COAs, and patient-centred DHT-derived measures, there is no unifying framework for understanding the relationships among these measures, nor how they can be used in combination to demonstrate meaningful, patient-centred benefits of therapies for chronic diseases in clinical studies.
Therefore, uncertainties exist regarding the utility of these measures either alone or in tandem, and the meaningfulness to patients of patient-centred DHT-derived measures when used as clinical study endpoints in the development of therapeutic products (including, but not limited to, pharmaceutical products, combination products, and therapeutic devices) for the treatment of chronic diseases.
The topic aims to develop a unified framework and consensus-based recommendations for using multiple types of patient-centred information to support the use of DHT-derived endpoints to demonstrate therapeutic benefit. This will ensure that therapies addressing patients’ needs are approved for use and reimbursed at levels that reflect the value of the therapies to patients.
To fulfil this aim, the action funded under this topic must:
1. Develop a framework for using PPI, COAs, and DHT-derived measures in combination for the development, acceptance and implementation of patient-centred DHT-derived clinical-study endpoints in clinical studies of potential treatments for chronic diseases.
The framework will be designed to ensure that PPI, COAs, and patient-centred DHT-derived measures used in combination will be accepted as reliable evidence to support the use of DHT-derived clinical study endpoints in the evaluation of the clinical and economic benefit of therapeutic drugs and technologies.
The framework must:
· include recommendations for using the three types of patient-centred data in addition to or in combination with traditional clinical-study endpoints to provide evidence of the patient-centred benefits of therapeutic drugs and technologies;
· describe the potential relationships among COAs, patient-centred DHT-derived endpoints and other common types of clinical study endpoints;
· identify and address issues related to how and under which circumstances data from PPI and COAs can be used to determine what constitutes a MCID in a patient-centred DHT-derived clinical-study endpoint from the patient perspective;
· identify and address issues related to whether and how data from PPI, COAs, and patient-centred DHT-derived measures can be pooled, including the need for new techniques (including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models) to jointly analyse pooled data from the different types of measures;
· address issues related to diversity in patient populations (e.g., disease type, disease stage, health literacy, cultural factors, etc.) on the use and results of PPI, COAs, and DHT-derived measures and the ethical and equity implications of patient diversity on the interpretation and utility of patient-centred measures of therapeutic benefit.
2. Develop recommendations for:
· using quantitative PPI to better understand COA data by demonstrating the relative importance of domains, items, and scores (and changes therein) within a COA instrument and relative to other commonly used endpoints (including endpoints included in relevant core outcomes sets) in clinical studies within the same therapeutic area;
· understanding the relationships between COA data and patient-centred DHT-derived endpoints in diverse therapeutic areas;
· using DHTs (e.g., apps, smart personal devices, smart drug-delivery devices, therapeutic medical technologies, etc.) to collect PPI and COA data;
· using quantitative PPI, COAs, and patient-centred DHT-derived measures in combination to demonstrate the importance to patients of what is being measured by DHTs and determining what constitutes a MCID in a patient-centred, DHT-derived clinical-study endpoint.
3. Conduct at least four use cases to provide evidence to support the framework and recommendations.
Each use case should address one or more recommendations and all recommendations should be supported by one or more case studies. Applicants should specify the methodology to be applied in each use case and identify how each use case will inform the framework and recommendations. The set of use cases should:
· include a range of digital measurement domains (e.g., physical activity, sleep, cognition, fatigue, or others) and address differences between passive and interactive DHTs;
· include a range of patient ages (e.g., paediatric, adolescent, younger adults, and older adults);
· address issues related to diversity in patient populations (e.g., disease type, disease stage, health literacy, cultural factors, underserved patient populations);
· address issues related to combining and/or jointly analysing PPI, COA, and/or DHT-derived data using new techniques (including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models);
· be conducted in partnership with academic medical centres and focus on all of the following areas:
· paediatric radiation oncology;
· lung cancer;
· non-motor and motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease;
· obesity.
All use cases must be conducted in a way that is consistent with generally accepted international treatment guidelines in the relevant disease area.
The precise scope of the use cases will be developed by the full consortium during the preparation of the full proposal at the second stage. Case studies should not involve the de novo development of novel COAs, DHTs, or DHT-derived measures.
4. Include robust input from relevant stakeholders. Applicants are expected to specify how relevant stakeholders will be engaged and identify the type of stakeholder required and their expected role in the project. Accordingly, applicants are expected to:
· engage patients, parents or carers of juvenile patients, and patient organisations as active partners in all aspects of the project to ensure that interaction between patients and research is active, meaningful, and collaborative across all stages of the research process. In this way, research decision making is guided by patients' contributions as partners, recognising their specific experiences, values, and expertise;
· develop the framework and recommendations in consultation with stakeholders, including patient organisations, regulators, health technology assessment (HTA) bodies, and medical organisations to ensure consensus about what is required to demonstrate the patient-centred benefits of a therapy;
· develop a regulatory strategy and interaction plan for evidence generation to support the regulatory qualification of the framework and recommendations and engage with regulators in a timely manner (e.g., national competent authorities, EMA Innovation Task Force, qualification advice).
5. Complement and coordinate with other initiatives including:
· ongoing and completed European projects (and their successor organisations), and initiatives related to patient engagement and use of digital measurement technologies. Such projects may include, but are not limited to, IMI/IHI projects PRO-active, H2O, PREFER and the PREFER Expert Network, SISAQOL-IMI, IDEA-FAST, MOBILISE-D, IMPROVE, PaLaDin as well as EUnetHTA 21;
· existing frameworks and guidance documents related to patient-focused drug development such as those from FDA and EMA;
· existing frameworks and guidance documents related to the development and deployment of digital clinical measures such as those from the Digital Medicine Society.
Expected Impact:
The action under this topic is expected to achieve the following impacts:
· greater benefit to patients from improved health care by ensuring that DHT-derived measures of how a patient feels and functions are accepted as patient-centred clinical-study endpoints;
· patients having improved access to innovations that meet their needs through the development of new and improved evidence-based methodologies for a more comprehensive assessment of the added value of innovative therapeutic drugs and technologies;
· better informed decision-making at all levels of the health care system (authorities, organisations) to facilitate cost-effective allocation of health resources, continuing innovation, and better health outcomes;
· greater understanding of the relationship between multiple patient-centred measurements including PPI, COAs, and DHT-derived measures and how these measures, when considered together, can provide greater insight into the patient perspective;
· reduced uncertainty regarding the PPI and COA data required to demonstrate the patient-relevance of DHT-derived clinical-study endpoints, and that needed to determine what constitutes a MCID in a patient-centred DHT-derived clinical-study endpoint for use in the development of pharmaceutical products, diagnostics, combination products, and therapeutic devices;
· improved and more efficient engagement between industry and stakeholders in the evaluation of technologies developed using patient-centred DHT-derived endpoints in clinical studies;
· increased speed and efficiency in the development and evaluation of innovative therapeutic technologies.
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results
Total Budget: €47,550,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 10 October 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time 23 April 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-ju-ihi-2024-08-04-two-stage
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Programme: HORIZON-JU-RIA HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
The action under this topic must contribute to all the following outcomes:
· patients and citizens will benefit from better preventive measures, earlier detection and diagnosis, better outcomes for disease management, and access to innovative and effective treatments for cardiovascular disease (CVD), as needed;
· healthcare providers will benefit from updated, evidence-based guidelines on CVD management and more efficient clinical pathways. They will also gain clarity on best practice examples in health management and CVD prevention means in European cities;
· healthcare system decision-makers will have better evidence and tools to implement appropriate CVD prevention strategies, including digital therapies, allowing for their introduction into clinical practice and adoption by all segments of society;
· health technology assessment bodies, payers and regulators will benefit from better information on the real-life use of cardiovascular medicinal products, the benefit-risk profile of medical devices and the value of CVD prevention in cities / urban areas (note: a city / urban area is expected to have a population of at least 50 000 in its urban centre, in line with the OECD-EC (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – European Commission) definition of a city1, 2;
· researchers, including industry stakeholders, and clinical investigators will benefit from models and findings that will help future programme implementation in other cities in Europe and beyond.
1 OECD-EC, “Cities in Europe: The new OECD-EC definition” January 2012.
2 European Commission, “Urbanisation in Europe” last updated July 2020.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), the world's leading cause of mortality, are responsible for over 18 million deaths annually with a staggering cost of EUR 282 billion in 2021 [1]. The CVD risk has been acknowledged by WHO’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.4 which aims to reduce heart disease rates by one-third by 20301. Trends in the EU27 and the UK from 1961 to 2018 show a decline in the share of the total population living in rural areas, while towns and cities experienced a smooth and constant population increase. Europe's level of urbanisation was 75% in 20222and is expected to increase to approximately 83.7% in 20503. In cities, CVD risks are amplified by factors like pollution, scarcity of green spaces and stressful lifestyles. The trend towards urbanisation often leads to significant healthcare disparities and worsening of CVD outcomes especially among underserved and disadvantaged communities. Thus, an improvement of the management of CVD in cities would be of significant benefit for the great majority of the European citizens living in an urban context.
The focus of this topic is on identifying and creating scalable models, interventions, and practices to enhance the overall efficiency and effectiveness of CVD management based on existing (e.g. Cardio4Cities) [2] or new pilots in up to 5 cities, to build evidence for replication across Europe in different socio-economic conditions. These pilots should propose a good coverage of different locations and contexts in Europe and deliver scalable solutions that can be applied to other cities.
The action funded under this topic will consider primary and secondary prevention strategies, early detection, timely diagnosis and treatment (healthcare delivery), lifestyle changes (personal responsibility), and living environment (community responsibility).
Against this objective, the future action is expected to deliver:
predictive models (developed and validated) that integrate various data sources – including electronic health records, environmental data, and lifestyle factors – to forecast cardiovascular risk at the individual and population levels in urban settings;
models and/or good practices (including governance structure, funding/financing models, etc.) and roadmaps on cost-effective approaches to improve cardiovascular (CV) health management that can be replicated across Europe;
recommendations for updating European guidelines and standards on CVD management (including primary and secondary prevention, and treatment);
a stronger definition and improved selection of performance indicators on CV mortality, patient outcomes and economic impact of interventions;
harmonised data standards for measurement of performance and impact (including PROMs4, PREMs5, patient preference, clinical outcome assessments etc.).
an easy-to-use digital platform (ideally based on existing solutions to ensure interoperability) and high-quality data that enable a data-driven approach to CVD risk management, using standardised data reporting to facilitate comparison across cities;
new solutions: digital and telehealth for early detection and monitoring of CVD patients, leveraging technologies for monitoring by incorporating wearables and apps to continuously monitor the population's adherence to cardiovascular medications and the occurrence of potential side effects. Moreover, this will enhance predictive models with more granular data leading to more precise risk assessments;
recommendations on enhancing patient use of and access to technology and digital interventions (telemedicine, wearables, clinical mobile apps…); targeted prevention strategies, urban planning recommendations, and public health policies to mitigate these risks;
a platform, network, or another support mechanism for exchange of good practice, learnings, and experience, to support further deployment of successful approaches across Europe and beyond;
recommendations on improving living conditions to support the goal of decreasing impact of cardiovascular diseases.
To address this challenge, the action funded under this topic should:
select up to five cities to serve as pilot use cases. These cities should be representative of the European context (in particular in relation to size and population) to allow broader implementation across regions/countries, different cultural and/or economic distributions, considering different health care structures (private/public) in different countries. Indicatively, each pilot city (or another urban administrative entity) is expected to have a population of at least 50 000 in its urban centre, in line with the OECD-EC definition of a city;
conduct a gap analysis of existing cardiovascular disease screening and diagnostics, clinical pathways and public health policies to guide the development of scalable models and best practices to fill these gaps, also considering broader European application (for example, set targets, define actions, strengthen enablers). In this analysis, due attention should be given to high-stress lifestyles (nutrition, physical activity) and socio-economic disparities. The identified solutions for improvement should be based on data-driven insights to identify multi-sectorial interventions that improve the management of CVD risk factors (such as hypertension, diabetes, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol) and prevent these risks from developing. They should also consider the entire continuum of care (detect, treat, control). The work on performance indicators including harmonisation is key to set a baseline from which improvements can be made. Applicants are expected to consider all applicable legislative and regulatory constraints (national, regional, local) and their possible impact on the implementation and results of the project. End-users (including citizens, patients, healthcare professionals and providers, health technology developers among others) should be included from the start in the co-creation process to ensure future buy-in and implementation.
collaborate with patients and citizens to develop strategies and guidance for effective CV health awareness campaigns;
collaborate with healthcare professionals to review and adapt guidance on CVD prevention and management, identifying opportunities to maintain and optimise healthcare workforce resources and engagement;
set up sustainable platforms and other support mechanisms for deployment of the models (sharing best practice between pilot cities and across regions);
pilot novel and/or improved early detection and diagnostic solutions, patient management strategies, (including improved patient support, remote patient management, patient flows), and initiatives to maintain workforce engagement;
explore potential funding tools to complement healthcare systems funding for managing cardiovascular health (including bonds, insurance, crowdsourcing, etc.) which could be used to implement the models;
leverage existing and newly created sources of multimodal data (contemplating opportunities provided by EHDS) for decision making and management of CVD (collecting, connecting, standardising, processing and analysing);
design and deploy communication and awareness-raising campaigns, including training and capacity-building for health workers to effectively address various population groups affected by CVD.
Applicants should consider synergies with relevant initiatives at national level and with other European health initiatives such as the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing6, Reference Site Collaboration Network7, Urban Health Cluster8, the Cities and Cancer Missions9 and the Joint Action on Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes (JACARDI) funded by the EU4Health programme, to maximise the potential for creating models that can be applied in various urban settings to improve cardiovascular health. This collaborative approach underscores the potential for cross-applicability of health solutions in addressing chronic diseases.
The action should also consider learnings and synergies with other IMI and IHI initiatives such as H2O, EHDEN, BigData@Heart, iCARE4CVD, among others.
Applicants are expected to consider the potential regulatory impact of the results and – as relevant – develop a regulatory strategy and interaction plan for generating appropriate evidence as well as engaging with regulators in a timely manner (e.g. national competent authorities, EMA Innovation Task Force, qualification advice).
1 WHO, “Noncommunicable diseases (who.int)” September 2023.
3 European Commission, “Urbanisation in Europe” last updated July 2020.
4 PROM: Patient Reported Outcome Measurements
5 PREM: Patient Reported Experience Measurements
6 European Commission, “The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA)” Accessed March 2024.
7 Reference Site Collaboration Network, “Home - RSCN” Accessed March 2024.
8 Urban Health Cluster, “Urban Health Cluster | The first European Cluster to improve and safeguard health and well-being of citizens, leaving none behind” Accessed March 2024.
9 European Commission, “EU Missions in Horizon Europe” Accessed May 2024.
Expected Impact:
The action under this topic is expected to achieve all the following impacts and contribute to the following EU policies/initiatives:
decrease the CVD burden in European cities by the reduction of CV events, disability, and mortality;
enable future clinical pathways leading to improved patient outcomes;
reduce the pressure of patient flow in the healthcare system via innovative diagnostic/detection solutions;
strengthen the definition, standardisation and selection of performance indicators on CVD mortality, patient outcomes and economic impact of interventions, and thus improve future clinical pathways and intervention implementation studies;
optimise healthcare expenditure to tackle the financial strain of CVD, amounting to €282 billion annually in the EU [1]. The emphasis is on prioritising spending for maximum efficiency and value, balancing the costs of advanced interventions with their long-term benefits;
strengthen public awareness initiatives and incorporate improved diagnostic methods to enhance early detection and treatment of CVD, to reduce premature CVD deaths and support preventive healthcare measures;
strengthen patient and citizen input to treatment pathways, disease monitoring and scientific guideline enhancement;
contribute to the European policy on Active and Healthy Aging , and to the implementation of the European Commission’s proposal for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) by providing FAIR data that are aligned with the EHDS requirements;
start building a system for continual impact assessment and provide early evidence on the impact and effectiveness of the applied recommendations.
These impacts are in alignment with specific objectives 3 and 2 of IHI JU1.
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €47,550,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 10 October 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time 23 April 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-ju-ihi-2024-08-01-two-stage
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Programme: European Commission
Objective:
The FRONTIERS Science Journalism Initiative, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), offers fellowship residencies to science journalists interested in spending 3 to 5 months in European research institutions to increase their knowledge in a specific field of science and to carry out research for their own production. Additionally, fellows will be offered training on science journalism and science communication, and will participate in communication activities throughout their residencies.
The residencies encourage independent journalism and Frontier research topics, such as the ones funded by the ERC.
Four calls are envisaged in the period 2023-2026, supporting up to 40 fellowships.
Eligible Activities:
Eligible science journalists are invited to submit their applications using the form available at the FRONTIERS website (https://frontiers.media/ ).
FRONTIERS grants differentiate among three levels of career, based on the professional seniority:
●early-career: up to 5 years of professional experience;
●mid-career: 6-9 years of experience;
●established: ten or more years of experience.
Eligible Applicants:
Applications undergo a two-step evaluation process, focusing on project quality, journalist credentials, and societal impact. Only applications that have reached at least 50% of the maximum score in each of the three evaluation criteria (residency project: at least 20/40; journalist's career: at least 20/40; research topic: at least 10/20) will proceed to Step 2.
The final selection aims for diversity in gender, nationality, and career stages. The evaluation committee will include members of the FRONTIERS consortium and members of the FRONTIERS Advisory Board. Selection committee members will be invited to disclose all potential conflicts of interest that should arise, and the committee as a whole will deal with them appropriately.
Total Budget: €600,000
Deadline: 05/03/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls-cs
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Programme: European Commission
Objective:
This Funding Opportunity invites proposals from all sides of the knowledge triangle: innovation, education, and entrepreneurship, but in combination with a key fourth element, citizen/public engagement.
All our funded projects are collaborative and require a minimum of two organisations working together. At least one of these should be a company or social enterprise directly involved with key communities, and at least one other should be a research or university organisation. These organisations should be from at least two different countries eligible to Horizon Europe.
Type of proposals sought in the Single Projects Co-funding Opportunity
We can be flexible in what we fund. While we are always interested in funding new R&D and commercialisation projects with good prospects of getting to market within 12-18 months, we can also provide funding to:
• Existing research project teams who have a commercialisation or impact plan that needs follow-on funding to get to market. These do not have to be previous EIT Food projects – we can support projects previously funded by other EIT organisations, EU programmes and third-party funders – but we cannot “double fund” other current EU funded projects.
• Develop and market new applications and business models for existing technology. This includes transferring proven technology from other sectors into the food industry.
• Run market demonstration and scale-up activities for high impact products or services that already have promising results.
• Demonstrate and expand impact from existing innovative social enterprise, dietary health or education programmes and interventions leading to behaviour change or better consumer outcomes.
Under this scheme, we encourage proposals from consortia based around lead organisations which have the capabilities to move quickly and effectively in creating impact from our co-investment, supported by high-quality research, communications and impact assessment expertise.
Type of proposals sought in the Collaborative Programmes
We are looking to fund and co-resource alliances and collaborative programmes which aim to produce multiple results and high-impact outcomes. By “programmes” we mean connected activities and workstreams across economic, industry and social value chains. Examples of actions we could support to achieve our Mission Targets might include:
co-funding open competitions aimed at accelerating new business, products and processes
jointly funding, co-resourcing and/or co-delivering programmes of activities with other funders, NGOs or charities with shared impact goals
co-ordinating consortia across whole value-chains to scale-up, demonstrate and/or accelerate impact of innovation solutions from the EIT Food project portfolio
jointly supporting innovation and knowledge exchange clusters that deliver new programmes in citizen engagement, business, skills and agri-food innovation in cities/ regions or specialist sectors.
co-funding social enterprise or education programmes that will scale-up interventions, leading to improved outcomes for populations at risk of poor health or food security outcomes supporting the development of networks to test production/manufacturing capabilities for key markets, test farms/services and “living labs” delivering programmes
collaborative programmes resolving sector-relevant strategic issues to enable stronger progress towards meeting Mission Targets.
This may include intersecting areas such as: standards setting and data management; fundraising for systems change; citizen engagement in innovation; consumer behaviour change and improving public understanding of the benefits of innovation in agri-food. The list above is extensive, but not exhaustive.
Eligible Activities:
The Impact Funding Framework consists of two distinct calls: the Single Projects Co-funding Opportunity and the Collaborative Missions Programmes. Each call operates under its specific guidelines.
All proposals must be submitted via an application form on our portal.
For all projects, you must also submit for evaluation:
- A Business Model Canvas
- A Launch Plan (outlining strength of the commercial case and/or strategy to drive adoption by intended users – with supporting evidence and research)
- Where applicable:
Success Sharing Mechanism (for commercial projects)
Proof of current TRL (for technology-based ideas)
EIT Food will evaluate each proposal based on the criteria below on its own merits. Applicants must provide sufficient information and evidence to support claims or statements made in your application.
At least 3 external evaluators and 1 internal evaluator will evaluate proposals based on the following criteria: Excellence, Impact, Quality and efficiency of implementation and KIC Portfolio strategic fit and compliance with the financial sustainability principles and knowledge triangle integration.
The quality threshold is 3.5 for the Single Projects Co-funding Opportunity and 3.0 for the Collaborative Missions Programmes.
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €30,000,000
Deadline: 13/03/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls-cs
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Programme: European Commission
Objective:
The current EOI is a first step, focusing on matchmaking activities, to facilitate access to funding that will be available in the CIRCULOOS Open Calls #2 and #3.
Note: Participation in activities enabled by this Expression of Interest is optional and your participation in them does not constitute any guarantee of any benefit in your submission or selection to the CIRCULOOS open call #2.
CIRCULOOS Open Call #2 will only accept consortiums of 2-4 entities and will provide funds up to €60K per partner (applicable funding rate: 60% of the eligible costs for profit making entities and 100% for non-profit or academic organisations). Its main objective is to match about 32 MSMEs with 16 suppliers towards the design and implementation of at least 16 demonstrators.
Therefore, the open call will provide up to €240,000 (total lump sum) to up 16 consortia. Funds will be disbursed based upon the successful delivery of technical and business reports along the 12-month implementation program, scheduled to launch in February 2025.
Eligible Activities:
The CIRCULOOS Open Call #3 will enable the extension of pilots and/or newly established value chains, by inviting new MSMEs to benefit/contribute to the established value-chain, extending and scaling it up to improve sustainability performance, and thus, opening a second round of funding: €60,000 per new
entity. A limited number of applications by new MSMEs will be invited together with Open Call 2, up to 16, to build on the existing pilots, and more will be invited later to build on the value chains resulting from the Open Call 2 (this will be launched tentatively in 2026).
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €240,000
Deadline: 31/03/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls-cs
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Programme: European Commission
Objective:
This project funds mobilities for education and training in the nuclear field. Only individuals can be funded. Group applications from educational event(s) organizers are accepted but the funds will reach the attendees.
Eligible Activities:
The submission is continuous. Evaluation takes place every two months, according to detailed rules that can be found here: ENEN2plus Project – European Nuclear Education Network
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €2,500,000
Deadline: 31/03/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls-cs
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Programme: HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Disparities in R&I performance are due to, among other reasons, the insufficient critical mass of science and lack of centres of excellence having sufficient competence to engage countries and regions strategically in a path of innovative growth. Teaming is responding to this challenge establishing new centres of excellence or modernising existing ones with the help of leading EU or AC partnering institutions. This will help countries to increase their R&I intensity and to attain a competitive position in the European R&I system and globally, especially by becoming drivers of change.
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
· Increased scientific capabilities of the coordinating institution and the host country enabling the coordinator and other potential entities from that country to successfully apply for competitive funding in the European Union and globally;
· Improved the R&I culture of the country hosting the co-ordinator (indicators such as research intensity, innovation performance, values towards R&I) through centres of excellence as lighthouses and role models;
· Stimulus for institutional and systemic reforms and R&I investments at national level taking into account the enabling conditions on governance of smart specialisation introduced under cohesion policy programmes as far as applicable;
· Strengthened and mutually benefitting collaboration with partners from leading scientific institutions from abroad;
· Development and promotion of new research strands in relevant domains;
· Developed and enhanced research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies;
· Contribution to the achievement of the specific objectives of the supporting national/regional/EU programme as complementary funding;
· Enhanced innovation and integration of planned processes, services and products of the centre;
· Enhanced co-operation and synergies with other European projects.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Teaming is one of the actions that stimulates the European Union to exploit its potential by maximising and spreading the benefits of research and innovation. It is vital for its competitiveness and its ability to address societal challenges.
The Teaming action is designed to support the creation of new centres of excellence or modernising the existing ones in low R&I performing countries (except those centres of excellence that have already benefitted from previous Teaming calls). It is building on partnerships between leading scientific institutions in the European landscape and the main beneficiary institutions in low R&I performing countries that display the willingness to engage together for this purpose. This can help countries that are lagging behind in terms of research and innovation performance attaining a competitive position in the global value chains. Leading scientific institutions are established strategic partners that have developed an outstanding reputation in research and innovation excellence in the chosen scientific domain. Institutions that are still in the process of development or modernisation, e.g., those that are still receiving support as coordinators from widening actions under Horizon 2020 or Horizon Europe, are normally not considered leading institutions, unless a proper justification is provided in the proposal.
In order to maximise impact of research and innovation on society, environment and economy at large and to contribute in particular to the achievement of the European Union’s objectives, funding must be coherent and work in synergy. This notion is highly relevant for the Teaming action, where a complementary source of funding from a national (or regional or European or private source) is required. The implementation of Teaming action is expected to become an influential and meaningful bridge particularly between smart specialisation strategies and excellence in R&I with the aim of strengthening the European Research Area and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Whatever the source of the required complementary source of funding, a Teaming project, as a notable flagship in its host country, exemplifies not only the achievements in R&I, capacity building or competitiveness, but also sets and facilitates synergies in practice.
The evaluation of the complementary source of funding part may use additional criteria required by, where relevant, the Cohesion Policy programmes and/or legislation. The managers of the complementary funding should apply to the operations the categories, maximum amounts and methods of calculation of eligible costs established under Horizon Europe. In addition, they should be able to apply Art.25 (d) of the revised General Block Exemption Regulation.
Proposals may be evaluated by an additional panel of experts with specific knowledge on complementary funding sources.
In the first stage of evaluation the R&I excellence and the conceptual approach for the centres of excellence will be evaluated. Applicants should present a strategic vision on how to develop R&I excellence beyond the state of the art in the chosen domain and on how the co-ordinator will benefit from the partnership with a leading institution from abroad. In case of modernisation of an existing centre, the proposal should clearly indicate the development path from the initial baseline situation until the end of the project and its justification. In addition, the conceptual approach should outline how the access to complementary funding from other sources will be ensured, in the respect of national, regional and/or European strategies or policy priorities (e.g., notably smart specialisation strategies, Green Deal, Digital transformation). Proposals also should sketch out briefly how the autonomy of the envisaged centre will be ensured and the necessary human resources recruited and retained.
Proposals invited to the second stage must include an investment plan for the full project including a binding commitment for the necessary complementary funding.
At a detailed level the full proposal should:
· Present a strategy for how the centre will develop excellence in the chosen relevant R&I domain that will put it at the competitive edge beyond the state of the art enabling future success in competitive calls;
· Demonstrate the growth potential and expected socio-economic outreach of the Centre of Excellence for the benefit of the host country or region;
· Demonstrate how the project will contribute to encouraging and supporting reforms of the R&I system at regional and or/national level;
· Elaborate on the structure of the consortium and how this will create a win-win situation;
· Demonstrate how the newly established/modernised centre will have full autonomy in decision-making. In particular, the centre of excellence should have the maximum degree of autonomy in terms of taking its own decisions, being in legal, administrative, operational, personnel and academic matters. The Centre should be able to fix and pay competitive salaries for its personnel;
· Elaborate on the steps that will be taken to ensure long-term self-sustainability after the end of the Horizon Europe grant;
· In case of modernisation of an existing centre, convincingly elaborate on the development path from the initial baseline situation until the end of the project;
· Propose a robust human resource strategy that addresses gender equality (in line with the research institutions respective gender equality plans) and international component, ensuring appropriate management capacities for the effective and efficient running of the centre of excellence;
· In order to assure the autonomy of the centre of excellence, if relevant, the project might benefit of having the centre of excellence coordinating the project within the duration of the Grant;
· Present an investment plan including the letter(s) of commitment for complementary funding from the competent national/regional authorities or private sources to commit financial resources (e.g., resources coming from programmes co-financed by the ERDF (European regional development fund), IPA (Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance) or other sources) for implementing the future centre, in particular regarding investment in infrastructure and equipment. The letter(s) of commitment for complementary funding of the project will be an integral part of the evaluation of the proposal;
· The grant awarded from the Horizon Europe budget should provide substantial support for the start-up and implementation phase of the future centre of excellence including the recruitment of the managerial, technical and scientific personnel. It should also cover expenses related to team members of the future centre of excellence (e.g., their salaries, recruitment costs[1], management costs, travel and subsistence costs);
· All recruitments have to follow a transparent, merit based and open recruitment procedures;
· A minor research component can be accepted not exceeding 10% of the total Horizon Europe grant that may include a preparatory research project. Such small research project embedded in the Teaming action should be aligned with the objectives of the project and e.g., serve the purpose of developing and testing new methodologies and instruments and/or the integration of new scientific personnel. If preparatory research activity is planned to be carried out, the outline of a respective work plan with an appropriate level of detail should be presented;
The duration of the project should be up to six years.
Proposals should illustrate quantitatively and qualitatively the expected potential impact of the project and its expected results in terms of new local and international research and innovation partnerships, institutional and/or R&I system changes (various levels), increased research intensity (i.e. new scientific publications directly linked to the project’s area, protected IPR). Proposals are encouraged to choose any additional relevant indicators that will be used for measuring the impacts achieved.
The JRC, as non-funded member of the consortium selected for funding or as an associated partner, can contribute to the action with specific expertise, where relevant, for the development of R&I strategies depending on the R&I domain chosen by the project, technology transfer and IPR management as well as linking up to regional smart specialisation strategy.
Specific attention should be paid to gender equality objectives, in line with the organisations’ commitments through their adopted gender equality plans, and in line with the European Research Area objectives.
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €270,000,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 10 April 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time 20 January 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-widera-2025-access-01-01-two-stage
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Programme: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-Cofund-D HORIZON TMA MSCA Cofund Doctoral programme; HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-Cofund-P HORIZON TMA MSCA Cofund Postdoctoral programme
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Projects results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:
For supported doctoral candidates or postdoctoral researchers
· Deeper and more diverse set of research-related and transferable skills and competences;
· Improved employability and career prospects both within academia and beyond;
· New mind-sets and approaches to R&I work forged through international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary experience;
· Enhanced networking and communication capacities with scientific peers, as well as with the general public that will increase and broaden the research and innovation impact.
For participating organisations
· Enhanced quality and sustainability of research training;
· Increased global attractiveness, visibility and reputation of the participating organisation(s);
· Stronger R&I capacity and output among participating organisations;
· Increased contribution of the participating organisations to the local, regional and/or national socio-economic ecosystems;
· Regular feedback of research results into teaching and education at participating organisations.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Applicants submit proposals for new or existing doctoral or postdoctoral programmes with an impact on the enhancement of human resources in R&I at regional, national or international level. These programmes will be co-funded by MSCA COFUND.
Proposed programmes can cover any research disciplines ("bottom-up"), but exceptionally can also focus on specific disciplines, notably when they are based on national or regional Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3 strategies). In this case, the range of covered disciplines should allow reasonable flexibility for the researchers to define their topic.
Funding synergies with Cohesion policy funds and the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) are strongly encouraged[1],[2].
A Career Development Plan must be jointly established by the supervisor and each recruited researcher upon recruitment. In addition to research objectives, this Plan comprises the researcher's training and career needs, including training on transferable skills, teaching, planning for publications and participation in conferences and events aimed at opening science and research to citizens. The Plan must be established at the beginning of the recruitment and should be revised (and updated where needed) within 18 months.
COFUND takes the form of:
A) Doctoral programmes
Doctoral programmes offer research training activities to allow doctoral candidates to develop and broaden their skills and competences. They will lead to the award of a doctoral degree in at least one EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country. The training activities should be based on the EU Principles on Innovative Doctoral Training.
Substantial training modules, including digital ones, addressing key transferable skills and competences common to all fields, fostering good scientific conduct such as research integrity, and fostering the culture of Open Science, innovation and entrepreneurship will be supported. They will include, inter alia, training on the use of collaborative tools and approaches, opening access to publications and to other research outputs including data, FAIR data management, societal engagement and citizen science.
On top of compulsory international mobility, applicants are encouraged to include elements of cross-sectoral mobility and interdisciplinarity into their programmes. Collaboration with a wider set of associated partners, including from the non-academic sector, will be positively taken into account during the evaluation. These organisations may provide hosting or secondment opportunities or training modules in research or transferable skills.
Particular attention is paid to the quality of supervision and mentoring arrangements as well as career guidance. The selection procedure for doctoral candidates must be open, transparent and merit-based, in line with the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The vacancy notice (to be widely advertised internationally, including on the EURAXESS[3] website) must mention if the published rates include all employer and employee's taxes and contributions. If possible, the gross salary (net salary + employee’s taxes and contributions) should be published.
B) Postdoctoral Programmes
Postdoctoral Programmes fund individual advanced research training and career development fellowships for postdoctoral researchers. The programmes should offer training to develop key transferable skills and competences common to all fields, foster good scientific conduct such as research integrity, foster innovation and entrepreneurship and promote and (where appropriate) reward Open Science practices (open access to publications and to other research outputs including data, FAIR data management, societal engagement and citizen science, etc.).
Postdoctoral Programmes should have regular selection rounds following fixed deadlines or regular cut-off dates, allowing fair competition between researchers. The selection procedure for postdoctoral candidates must be open, competitive, merit-based and with a transparent international peer review, in line with the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The vacancy notice (to be widely advertised internationally, including on the EURAXESS website) must mention if the published rates include all employer and employee's taxes and contributions. If possible, the gross salary (net salary + employee’s taxes and contributions) should be published.
On top of compulsory international mobility, applicants are encouraged to include elements of cross-sectoral mobility and interdisciplinarity into their programmes. Researchers will be able to freely choose a research topic and the appropriate organisation to host them, fitting their individual needs.
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €101,820,280
Deadline: 24/06/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-msca-2025-cofund-01-01
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Programme: CS FUND AND WARSH-MOTT LEGACY
Objective:
The CS Fund and Warsh-Mott Legacy (CSF/WML) aims to promote progressive social change and has three programmatic areas for grant-making.
Eligible Activities:
These are
1) rights and governance (incl. support for initiatives to improve the social, environmental, and governance aspects of international trade agreements);
2) emerging technologies (addressing the potential risks of nanotechnology, synthetic biology, genetic engineering, and related technologies);
3) food sovereignty (incl. support of grassroots activities in seed saving, soil building, protection of pollinating insects and animals, and traditional agriculture); and
4) just transitions. Grants are for activities in the USA and internationally, including for issues important in developing countries.
Outside the United States the Foundation has no defined focus countries and provides grants for projects worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicant organisations must be classified as a 501(c)(3) by the US Internal Revenue Service. Foreign applicants should note that CSF and WML make a very limited number of direct grants abroad (i.e., without fiscal sponsorship by a US-based organization). The foundations do not provide support to individuals, endowments, or direct lobbying activities.
Total Budget: $3,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://csfund.org/grantseekers
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Programme: WORLD CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION
Objective:
The World Childhood Foundation was founded in 1999 by Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden. The mission of the Foundation is to prevent abuse and exploitation of children. They support and implement over 100 projects around the world, assisting children who are at risk of or are victims of abuse, children who are in alternative care, street children, and families at risk. Childhood supports projects financially, but also through strategic capacity building and networking opportunities.
Eligible Activities:
The Foundation promotes cooperation, knowledge transfer, and help improve and promote efforts in a cost-effective and qualitatively efficient way to support children in need. Childhood’s project managers work closely with the organizations, offering support and development assistance, both at an organizational level and with frequent visits.
Childhood’s focus currently lies in the following thematic areas:
· Child online safety
· Child supportive environments and relationships
· Child focused response to abuse
They work in Brazil, Cambodia, Moldova, Sweden, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
All funded projects have to be implemented by a local NGO registered in the country of implementation.
Total Budget: €7,500,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://childhood.org/propose-a-project/
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Programme: LEMELSON FOUNDATION
Objective:
The Lemelson Foundation uses the power of invention to improve lives, by inspiring and enabling the next generation of inventors and invention based enterprises in the US and developing countries. The Foundation works with partners and supports projects that inspire youth to become inventors, stimulate and provide invention and entrepreneurship education, and support the launch, earliest incubation and mentoring of invention-based enterprises.
Eligible Activities:
Their focus areas are:
· Education: Developing STEM-based, invention education
· Entrepreneurship: Supporting ecosystems for invention-based businesses from incubation to market
· Ecosystems: Fostering regional invention ecosystems for stronger economies
· Climate: Leveraging the tools of invention and innovation to improve our climate
Outside the United States, they fund initiatives in developing countries across the globe (i.e., India and West Africa – focus on technology, climate change is funded globally).
Eligible Applicants:
Non-profit organisations are eligible to apply.
Total Budget: $5,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.lemelson.org/what-we-fund/
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Programme: DEAR FOUNDATION
Objective:
The DEAR Foundation Switzerland helps people in need, particularly with a particular emphasis on women and children. They do this by supporting humanitarian projects, focused on education and empowerment. It provides grants to projects in support of children and women.
Eligible Activities:
For this, the Foundation works in the following programmatic areas:
· Education: Enabling self-determination by improving access to education and vocational training for women and children, especially those from marginalized populations.
· Health: Pomoting breast cancer awareness through the worldwide DearMamma Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign and the free DearMamma App; Financing medical equipment and facilitating access to health services for impoverished communities; Providing training for nurses and carers; Supporting access to psycho-social service; Fighting female genital mutilation (FGM); Promoting family planning programs
· Child protection: Fight against the exploitation of children by working closely with education and training providers to ensure pathways out of poverty; Fight against child labour; Protection of children from sexual exploitation and early marriage; Psycho-social support for children
· Promoting women’s rights: Providing safe spaces for women; Empowering women of all cultural and religious backgrounds through education
· Economic Empowerment: Breaking cycles of poverty through education and training; Creating employment opportunities
· Providing leadership training; Supporting women to establish and grow small businesses through microloan programs; Promoting women’s networks to support their individual independence
· Encouraging peaceful coexistence between religions: Supporting institutions actively engaged in creating peaceful coexistence between communities of diverse religious backgrounds; Working towards a world where religion, tolerance, and respect for the ‘others’ go hand-in-hand; High morals and a strong sense of humanity guide us to make ethical decisions and act with compassion and integrity
They are currently supporting projects worldwide, with a particular focus in Africa and Israel/Palestine. Past funded projects are based in Africa (e.g. Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Liberia, Ghana, Tanzania, and South Africa), Asia (e.g. India, Russia and China) and Latin America (e.g. Haiti, Honduras).
Eligible Applicants:
The DEAR Foundation allocates funds for: (1) organizations that offer evidence of their sustainability, including their projects’ measurable outcomes and intended impact on the resolution of the problem at hand; (2) applying organizations must be non-governmental and submit documentation regarding their lawful registration in their country (countries) of operation; (3) at least three years must have passed since the applying organizations’ inception; (4) applying organizations must submit copies of their last two audited financial reports; (5) organizations that can provide upfront an overall business plan of their activities for the next 3 coming years; (6) giving is limited to one of the following areas: education, health, child protection, promotion of women’s rights, economic empowerment, and encouraging peaceful coexistence between religions without exclusion of other religions.
Total Budget: €8,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://thedearfoundation.ch/foundation/applications/
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Programme: ATDTA FOUNDATION
Objective:
Established in 1997, the atDta Foundation supports individuals and development organisations promotes integral personal development in Switzerland and abroad, based on the idea “helping others to help themselves”. As far as their project support is concerned, the Foundation promotes above all small, privately set up development organisations which mainly work in an honorary capacity and carry out development and social projects that aim to help others to help themselves.
Eligible Activities:
They see training and education as one of the most effective ways of self-help:
(Vocational) training and further education for disadvantaged people
Capacity Building in agriculture and nutrition
Effective observation of fundamental human rights
Priority is given to the following countries: Switzerland, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Mexico, Myanmar, Namibia, Peru, South Africa and Tanzania.
Eligible Applicants:
They support small to medium-size semi-professional organisations with their main office in Switzerland or with a very close personal connection to Switzerland and which are run with a great deal of personal commitment.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.atdta.ch/en-gb/applications/applications-from-organisations-for-projects
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Programme: SOUTHERN AFRICA TRUST
Objective:
The aim of the Southern Africa Trust is to support processes to deepen and widen engagement in policy dialogue with a regional impact, so that the poor have an effective voice in shaping policies that overcome poverty. It was established in 2005 to support civil society organisations in Southern Africa to participate effectively and with credibility in policy dialogue so that the voices of the poor can have a better impact in the development of public policies. The Trust supports processes that deepen and widen participation in policy dialogues with a regional impact on poverty.
Eligible Activities:
The Trust has four programme areas:
· Climate Justice & Natural Resource Management: The work on the Trust responds to challenges emerging from the climate crisis and weak natural resource governance in Southern Africa.
· Economic Recovery & Social Protection: This programme supports civil society organisations and community foundations impacted by the long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
· Gender Justice: In this programme, they undertake activities that establish and strengthen civil society alliances and groups for gender justice at regional and national levels.
· Youth Empowerment: They advocate for youth’s participation and empowerment in the development agenda for southern Africa.
Actions must take place in Southern Africa.
Eligible Applicants:
Most grantees are national network associations that implement projects with a regional footprint. We also give grants to regional networks, regional apex organisations, social movements, civil society organisations, and media houses.
Total Budget: $2,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://southernafricatrust.org/grantmaking/
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Programme: MARIAMARINA FOUNDATION
Objective:
Established in 2008, the MariaMarina Foundation supports disadvantaged people and people with special needs enhancing their access to education, social care and the arts:
Eligible Activities:
· Education: Education, training and employment opportunities for people from less privileged backgrounds with physical and/or learning disabilities.
· Social Care: A route out of homelessness, substance abuse and gang culture; Care and support for people with life-limiting illnesses, special needs and mental health issues & who experience violence and/or discrimination because of their race or ethnic group, their sex, their sexual orientation or other reasons.
· The Arts: Access to the arts for those whose socio-economic circumstances present a barrier and for those with special needs.
· Cross cutting issues are (1) Empowerment of girls and women; (2) Diversity and inclusion; and (3) Environment.
Outside Europe they also fund projects in South Africa (Western Cape and Greater Johannesburg), Bolivia (Cochabamba, La Paz/El Alto) and Peru (Lima and Cusco).
Eligible Applicants:
MariaMarina Foundation: (1) does not support individuals; (2) works with both established and newly registered NGOs who act in accordance with the principles of accountability, transparency, efficiency and quality; (3) supports innovative projects with the potential of having an impact that is transformational and far-reaching, beyond the project itself; and (4) aims to support organisations directly and does not usually work with intermediary organisations.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.mmf.li/
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Programme: W.K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION (WKKF)
Objective:
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), founded in 1930 as an independent, private foundation by breakfast cereal pioneer Will Keith Kellogg, is among the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States.
Eligible Activities:
Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life. It supports children, families and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. WKKF wants all children to live a full life with high-quality, early childhood experiences, to grow up in homes with families that have stable, high-quality jobs, and to live in a community where they are nurtured. Their grant making supports thriving children, working families and equitable communities.
In Haiti they are supporting: education and employment of socially disadvantaged groups (especially children), income-generating opportunities for smallholder farming families to increase productivity and food security. In Mexico they are supporting: improving quality of education, advance families’ economic security by supporting the integration of financial habits through training and savings groups development, improve families’ health, strengthen the leadership capacity of youth etc.
Actions must take place in the U.S., Haiti, and Mexico. In Mexico, their place-based programming focuses on the Highlands of Chiapas and the Yucatán Peninsula. In Haiti, they concentrate their programming in the Central and Southern corridors.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are: (1) non-profit organisations; (2) public or governmental entities; and (3) for-profit corporations doing charitable work.
Total Budget: $350,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.wkkf.org/grantseekers/
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Programme: SCHMITZ FOUNDATIONS
Objective:
The projects supported by the Schmitz Foundations are directed to people who live in poverty and are regarded as particularly disadvantaged by the local population. In their work the Schmitz Foundations focus their support mainly on three major sectors of development work.
Eligible Activities:
They focus their support mainly on the following three major sectors of development work:
1) basic education and training (principally in manual trades and job training)
2) securing basic living standards promoting small-scale commercial activity (i.e. micro-credits schemes, including agriculture and food security)
3) social and charitable projects (i.e. work with the handicapped, care for the elderly, rehabilitation of street children or support for disadvantaged minorities)
They give priority to target groups who have already taken the initiative before the project starts and who show through their own efforts and input their genuine commitment to ‚their‘ project. The proposed project should involve the local population in its planning and implementation and have a clearly defined goal which reflects the true needs of those it is to help.
Their focus regions are South America (Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru) and Asia (Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Philippines and Vietnam).
Eligible Applicants:
The Schmitz Foundations funds NGOs that support small-scale projects, which are planned and developed locally and bring direct benefits to the local population.
Total Budget: €2,500,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.schmitz-stiftungen.de/en/funding/application-guidelines/
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Programme: ULVERSCROFT FOUNDATION
Objective:
The Ulverscroft Foundation was formed to (1) relieve and assist, and to provide treatment and education for sick or handicapped persons and in particular persons suffering from defective eyesight; and (2) support medical research and to provide and assist in the provision of facilities for the treatment or alleviation of sick or visually handicapped persons. To that end the Foundation provides financial help to Universities which carry out research into the causes of eye diseases; funds eye clinics, hospitals, schools, libraries and other organisations which help visually impaired people. They also provide awards to assist the development of library services for print disabled people worldwide and to foster cooperation between library services serving these persons.
Eligible Activities:
An application should include at least the following: (1) details of your current service to visually-impaired people, if any, and how it will be improved or enhanced by the proposed project. They do not need to see lengthy, generalised descriptions of the challenges faced by blind and visually-impaired people; (2) an estimate if possible of how many blind and visually-impaired people currently use your service, and how many will use it in the future; (3) any funding received or pledged to date for the project in question, and the names of other organisations to which you have applied; (4) a copy of your latest annual report and accounts; (5) confirmation that your organisation has a safeguarding policy for vulnerable children and/or adults, as appropriate; and (6) confirmation that your organisation has an equal opportunities policy.
Actions can take place overseas.
Eligible Applicants:
Applications for funding can be considered from any source, UK or overseas. Applicants need not necessarily be a charity: they can be a CIC or social group.
Total Budget: £800,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.ulverscroft-foundation.org.uk/
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Programme: BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST
Objective:
The Britford Bridge Trust is a charity supporting the prevention or relief of poverty; the advancement of education; the advancement of health or the saving of lives; and the advancement of the arts, culture, heritage, or science.
Eligible Activities:
The trustees have already fully committed to supporting the fields of medicine and related professions connected to the causes, diagnosis, treatment and care of cancer and other malignant disease and will not be accepting applications for funding in that regard. Similarly the family donates to African causes through established NGOs. As a result the Trustees regret that they will not consider applications from these areas of need.
In addition the Trustees will give due consideration to the amount of any donation that reaches the intended beneficiary and to the existing reserves and resources of the applicant.
Applicants must have national or international reach with regional consideration being given to projects in the UK (the Wolverhampton, Dorset and Cambridge areas only).
Eligible Applicants:
Currently they mainly fund through UK-based organisations. Whilst they primarily fund through UK-based organisations, they welcome collaboration with multiple partners which can be based in the targeted geography.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://thebritfordbridgetrust.org/
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Programme: Roddenberry Foundation
Objective: Gene Roddenberry, creator of the Star Trek series, brought to his audiences meaningful and thought-provoking science fiction to “think, question, and challenge the status quo” with the intention of creating “a brighter future”. His work has touched countless lives and continues to entertain and inspire audiences worldwide. In 2010, Gene’s son Rod established the Roddenberry Foundation to build on his father’s legacy and philosophy of inclusion, diversity, and respect for life to drive social change and meaningfully improve the lives of people around the world.
Eligible Activities: The Catalyst Fund is a small grants program focused on early-stage, unconventional ideas that have the potential for disruptive change. The Catalyst Fund awards small grants for early-stage, innovative, and unconventional ideas that address urgent challenges. The Fund is interested in innovative ideas that make a difference. A cutting-edge product, an experimental program, a new service, an invention, or an original game are all in their wheelhouse. The idea has to improve on what’s already out there and it has to have the potential for tangible, measurable impact. Ideas that can be replicated, taken to scale, or leverage existing infrastructure are a good fit. They also favor ideas that inspire others, build on partnerships (public and private), and that are inclusive of those they are intended to benefit.
The Catalyst Fund has been created to source ideas from all corners of the globe. Anyone from any country can apply.
Eligible Applicants: Individuals and organisations from around the world are eligible to apply for support.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: http://roddenberryfoundation.org/our-work/the-catalyst-fund/
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Programme: Embassy of Japan to Kosovo
Objective: The Grant Assistance for Grass Roots and Human Security Projects (GGP) was first introduced by the Government of Japan in 1989 in order to meet various socio-economic needs in developing countries. The GGP provides nonrefundable financial assistance to NGOs, hospitals, primary schools, and other nonprofit association to help implement their development projects. The availability of GGP funding in each eligible country provides Japanese ODA with a new means of cooperation that has a direct impact on the well-being of grass-roots communities.
Eligible Activities: Its focus areas in Kosovo include: (1) refurbishment and supply of equipment for primary schools; (2) refurbishment and supply of medical equipment for hospitals (projects for the benefit of women, children or prevention of infectious disease such as AIDS are given priority); (3) supply of equipment for basic skills training courses (e.g. brick making, sewing, candle making machines, etc); (4) agricultural training equipment (e.g. tractors, pumps, sprinklers); (5) public welfare (refurbishment and supply of equipment for facilities for the handicapped, orphans, family planning education, or the construction of community centers); and (6) water supply (facilities and equipment for drilling well pumps etc.).
Actions must take place in Kosovo.
Eligible Applicants: The following lists are examples of potential recipients: (1) international or local NGOs; (2) community-based organisations (CBOs); (3) local authorities; (4) health institutions; (5) primary schools and vocational (training) schools and (6) other non-profit associations.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.ks.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/ggp.html
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Programme: Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC)
Objective: The Swiss Cooperation Strategy focuses on large, long-term programmes, which are implemented with professional partners. In order to support grassroots initiatives, the embassy of Switzerland and the Swiss Cooperation Office can additionally (co-)finance projects by local organisations quickly and with a minimum of bureaucracy through small action grants.
Eligible Activities: These small action grants aim to contribute to social inclusion and improved livelihoods, especially for the most, disadvantaged and vulnerable within Kosovar society. Previous grants ranged from cultural projects, sports activities, environmental activities and human rights initiatives to small-scale development projects.
Actions must take place in Kosovo.
Eligible Applicants: To be eligible, projects should: (1) directly benefit at least one vulnerable group – including, but not limited to, minority communities, women, children, war victims, LGBTQI or people with disabilities – and address their (re)integration, empowerment or the fulfilment of their human rights; (2) take place mainly in Kosovo (regional initiatives can only be considered as long as at least half of the activities take place in Kosovo); (3) be submitted by an organisation with adequate structures, which is registered in Kosovo; (4) present a budget where administrative costs do not exceed 15 percent of total cost and where the implementing organisation contributes part of the total cost (in cash or in kind); (5) respect the law and follow sound managerial and financial practices; and (6) projects of nation-wide scope and those covering minority areas should work in both of Kosovo’s national languages, i.e. Albanian and Serbian.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.eda.admin.ch/countries/kosovo/en/home/international-cooperation/projects/small-actions.html
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Programme: USAID/Egypt
Objective: The USAID/Egypt Private Sector Collaboration Pathway (PSCP) Annual Program Statement (APS) seeks to foster private sector partnerships that align with USAID/Egypt’s Development Objectives (DOs) as outlined in the Egypt Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) for 2020-2025. This initiative provides a structured mechanism for USAID/Egypt to solicit and review concept papers from private sector entities interested in collaboration.
Eligible Activities: The APS emphasizes a phased co-creation process, allowing for initial interest exploration, concept submission, and subsequent detailed co-creation towards a potential funded award. This approach aims to leverage private sector resources and expertise to achieve sustainable development outcomes in various sectors such as agriculture, business, community development, education, health, and more.
Actions must take place in Egypt.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants include a range of private sector entities: for-profit commercial entities (businesses, corporations, SMEs), private foundations affiliated with commercial entities, financial institutions (banks, investment firms, mutual funds, private equity funds, pension funds, insurance companies), business or industry associations (chambers of commerce), and cooperatives. Non-profit organizations, with the exception of business and industry associations and cooperatives, are not eligible to meet the private sector partnering requirement. Government-owned companies and individuals are also ineligible.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: 30/04/2025
More information and official documents: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/354400
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Programme: GOODPLANET FOUNDATION
Objective: The GoodPlanet Foundation aims to support projects that address significant environmental challenges while simultaneously reducing socio-economic inequalities. Through its funding initiatives, the Foundation focuses on three key areas: promoting agroecology and agroforestry, providing access to essential goods and services such as water and sustainable energy, and conserving marine and coastal ecosystems. Projects funded by the Foundation must align with these thematic priorities and demonstrate a clear impact on both the environment and society. With a focus on sustainability and social equity, the Foundation seeks to empower communities and foster positive change on a global scale.
Eligible Activities: Some of their carbon finance projects are coming to an end. They would like to renew our project portfolio to support and assist new projects for access to renewable and sustainable energy and energy efficiency supported by carbon finance.
• Case n°1: Projects of up to 19,999 tonnes of CO2 equivalent avoided per year, which integrate the GoodPlanet project portfolio, supported by annual carbon finance from several financiers.
• Case n°2: Projects exceeding 20,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent avoided per year, subject to pre-financing from a single donor, with multi-year funding acquired.
Actions can take place in various countries worldwide.
Eligible Applicants: Project selection is open to non-governmental organisations, companies from the social and solidarity economy, associations, foundations, etc. The GoodPlanet Foundation does not support for-profit projects with no socio-economic benefits for disadvantaged populations. Project leaders must have proven experienced in project management and in the environmental sector. The GoodPlanet Foundation accepts applications from French and foreign organisations.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.goodplanet.org/en/submit-your-project/
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - LIFE
Objective: Objective
Climate change adaptation SIPs should help achieve the objectives of Article 5 of the European Climate Law24 or the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change. In order to do so, SIPs should support the implementation of national climate change adaptation strategies or plans, as required under the European Climate Law, or comparable regional, multi-regional or transnational strategies and plans. More specifically, they are expected to select and implement a clearly defined set of actions in the corresponding adaptation strategy or plan, which are to be financed by LIFE.
Eligible Activities: Applicants should explain how and to what extent this set of actions will help to implement the overall strategy or plan.
Also, in order to substantially contribute to the implementation of this strategy or plan, SIPs should specify
– additional, complementary adaptation actions, which are to be funded by other EU, national or private funding sources;
– how the project will mobilise complementary funds that can finance activities beyond the scope and timeframe of what is funded by LIFE, like measures to integrate climate adaptation objectives in private investment decisions;
– auxiliary actions that facilitate the implementation of the overall strategy or plan, such as capacity-building;
– how the project ensures the involvement of, and coordination between, all relevant levels of government.
Proposals must relate to activities taking place in EU countries, Ukraine, Moldova, North Macedonia.
Eligible Applicants: In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must: be legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €30,000,000
Deadline: 06/03/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/life-2024-strat-clima-sip-two-stage
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - LIFE
Objective: Objective
SIPs should aim at the full implementation of the strategies and plans listed in “Objective”. This might not mean that the SIP will cover all actions foreseen in the strategy/plan or that the strategy/plan will be fully implemented during the lifetime of the SIP. However, the SIP shall include strategic actions to catalyse a process and mobilise supplementary commitments and funding that will lead, in due time, to the full implementation of the plan or strategy. SIPs shall promote the coordination with and mobilisation of other relevant Union, national or private funding sources for the implementation of the complementary measures or actions outside of the SIP in the framework of the targeted plan or strategy, giving preference to EU funding. Within the SIP itself, however, co-funding may not come from other EU funding sources.
Eligible Activities: SIPs shall actively involve the main stakeholders necessary for the implementation of the targeted plan or strategy. They should be involved in both the design and implementation of the given project. This involvement is expected to be achieved by including them – where possible and reasonable – as associated beneficiaries of the SIP, or through their active participation in the implementation of the SIP itself and/or of the complementary actions. SIPs should facilitate and result in the building up of strategic capacities among the competent authorities and stakeholders to ensure a long-term sustainability of project results and actions, and to ensure that they will be able to function as co-deliverers of the targeted plan or strategy during or after the end of the SIP.
Proposals must relate to activities taking place in EU countries, Ukraine, Moldova, North Macedonia.
Eligible Applicants: In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must: be legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €52,000,000
Deadline: 06/03/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/life-2024-strat-env-sip-two-stage
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - LIFE
Objective: Objective
A SNAP will not have to cover all actions foreseen in the strategy/plan or ensure that the strategy/plan will be fully implemented during the lifetime of the SNAP. However, the SNAP shall include strategic actions to catalyse a process and mobilise supplementary commitments and funding that will lead, in due time, to the full implementation of the plan or strategy. SNAPs shall promote the coordination with and mobilisation of other relevant Union, national or private funding sources for the implementation of the complementary measures or actions outside of the SNAP in the framework of the targeted plan or strategy, giving preference to Union funding. Within the SNAP itself, however, co-funding may not come from other Union funding sources.
Eligible Activities: SNAPs shall actively involve the main stakeholders necessary for the implementation of the targeted plan or strategy. They should be involved in both the design and implementation of the given project. This involvement is expected to be achieved by including them – where possible and reasonable – as associated beneficiaries of the SNAP, or through their active participation in the implementation of the SNAP itself and/or of the complementary actions. SNAPs should facilitate and result in the building up of strategic capacities among the competent authorities and stakeholders to ensure a long-term sustainability of project results and actions, and to ensure that they will be able to function as co-deliverers of the targeted plan or strategy after the end of the SNAP.
Proposals must relate to activities taking place in EU countries, Moldova, North Macedonia, Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants: In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must: be legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €70,000,000
Deadline: 06/03/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/life-2024-strat-nat-snap-two-stage
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Programme: Embassy of Japan to Georgia
Objective: Objective
The GGP is one of the grant schemes of the Embassy of Japan in Georgia, oriented towards providing support to the grassroots actors, for the promotion of Basic Human Needs and Human Security in Georgia. This involves, but is not limited to the actions, which aim to mitigate threats to human survival, human life, human dignity, as well as the actions aimed to build up the capacities of individuals and communities.
Eligible Activities: Within 22 years of its work in Georgia – from 1998 to 2022, the Grassroots Human Security Program (GGP) of the Government of Japan funded more than 200 projects, in total amounting to more than 20 million USD. Through this funding, agriculture infrastructure was developed, alleviating poverty in some of the poorest villages; thousands of hectares of land were cleared from hazardous landmines, saving lives of local population; dozens of schools, kindergartens, hospitals were rehabilitated and re-equipped, providing essential services to the most vulnerable population. Those are only a few of the examples and the range of sectors funded has been very broad.
Representing the goodwill of the ordinary Japanese people, the Embassy of Japan strives to provide support in the sectors, considered most essential by the population of Georgia itself. Vast majority of the reputable local and international research reflects that the population of Georgia considers socio-economic problems as the most acute national issues, along with the occupation of its territories. Thus, in its GGP program, the Embassy strives to emphasize the projects, which aim to resolve those problems most effectively and efficiently.
Actions must take place in Georgia.
Eligible Applicants: The following lists are examples of potential recipients: NGOs and INGOs; Local public authorities (mayor’s office).
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.ge.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/development_assistance_eng20180727.html
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Programme: Japanese Embassy Rwanda
Objective: Objective
In 1989, the Government of Japan introduced Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP/kusanone) in order to respond to the diverse development needs in developing countries. The aim of GGP is to provide financial assistance to non- profit development organizations for implementation of projects at community level. In Rwanda, 2 projects are selected per year.
Eligible Activities: The following areas are considered as deserving priority:
1) Public Welfare: Facilities and equipment for disabled people, orphans, the field of women in development (WID), etc.
2) Primary Education: Classroom preparation; desks, chairs, and bookshelves, etc.
3) Vocational Training: Vocational training facilities and equipment, etc.
4) Primary Health Care: Basic medical equipment, etc.
Actions must be implemented in Rwanda.
Eligible Applicants: Support is provided to Community-Based Organizations; Local or International Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs); Local authority (Ex. City Council, District); Educational Institutions (Ex. School Management Committee, schools); Medical or Health Institutions (Ex. Hospital Management Committee); Research Institutions.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: ongoing
More information and official documents: http://www.eg.emb-japan.go.jp/e/assistance/grass_roots/grass_roots.htm
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Programme: Waterloo Foundation
Objective: Objective
The Waterloo Foundation (TWF) is an independent grant-making foundation created in 2007, and based in Cardiff, Wales. The Foundation gives grants to organisations both in the UK and worldwide. They are most interested in projects that help globally particularly in the areas of the disparity of opportunities and wealth and the unsustainable use of the world’s natural resources.
Eligible Activities: The Small Grants focus on:
1) Nutrition: promoting good nutritional practices, with a particular focus on mothers and children during the ‘1000-day window’; providing micronutrients for young children and their mothers and de-worming drugs for young children; and providing micronutrients through food fortification for all;
2) Sexual and Reproductive Health: improving access to a range of modern contraceptive methods and wider sexual health and reproductive services, and increasing understanding and awareness of, and driving demand for, family planning services;
3) Education: improving the quality of secondary, primary and early childhood education and increasing the enrolment and retention of pupils at both primary and secondary level, especially girls and young women; and
4) Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: access to safe drinking water and improved hygiene.
Actions can take place worldwide in developing countries with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally South Asia.
Eligible Applicants: They will consider applications from organisations with an annual income of less than £20,000 or that are newly established within the last 2 years; but in these cases we can only consider applications below £5,000. Applicants’ requests should always be in keeping with their organisation’s annual income; we do not usually provide grants which total more than 25% of an organisation’s annual income. Small grants are usually provided as a one-off donation. In exceptional circumstances some organisations may be invited to reapply. Grants will be prioritised for small UK charities led by committed individuals, especially those based in Wales, which are working to deliver projects in developing countries.
Total Budget: £100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.waterloofoundation.org.uk/WorldDevelopment.html
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Programme: Helmut Horten Foundation
Objective: Objective
Established in the 1970s by Helmut Horten, the Foundation aims at supporting the health care system through financial contributions to medical research facilities, hospitals, and other health care institutions, as well as to individuals who are in need of medical care. Eligible for funding are measures intended to protect and maintain people’s health. Today, the Foundation provides funding to the following two main programs: (1) the Horten Centre for Patient-Oriented Research and Knowledge Transfer: this service enables general practitioners to apply the latest medical knowledge in their practices as well as work on patient-oriented research with a focus on the quality of diagnostics; and (2) the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB): the institute’s work is upon advancing biomedical research with scientists focusing on the mechanisms of host defence against bacteria, viruses, tumours and neuro-degenerative diseases.
Eligible Activities: They offer two grant types:
• Young Investor Grants: accelerate the careers of talented young group leaders to develop their independent research within the medical sciences
• Consortium Projects for Clinical Translation: Create the desired impact of sustainably improving quality of life and life expectancy for patients by investing in multidisciplinary teams who can best generate scientific innovation and translate this into clinical, practice-changing outcomes.
Actions must take place in Switzerland and other countries provided they meet the Foundation’s requirements.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible are: (1) medical research centres; (2) hospitals; (3) health care institutions; and (4) individual researchers.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.helmut-horten-stiftung.org/en/applications/
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Programme: WEEDEN FOUNDATION
Objective: Objective
The Weeden Foundation’s primary mission is to protect biodiversity. The Foundation is working to protect old-growth forests, expand habitats for endangered species on public and private lands, and link key wildlife corridors. Their goal in Global Biodiversity is to support campaigns and/or groups in biodiversity hotspots. Specific objectives are to (1) protect global temperate rainforests, (2) support creation of wildlife corridors, (3) land acquisition and protection of endangered species and, (4) support projects that involve indigenous peoples in the process and stewardship of conservation projects.
Eligible Activities: The Foundation’s Environment Education program area focuses on supporting grantees that will provide future leaders with the tools to effect environmental policies. These policies complement the other grantees of the Foundation including biodiversity and habitat protection. Sustainable environmental policies must include both immediate actions as well as education to anticipate and to prevent future environmental impact.
The Foundation’s International Population program is focused on reducing population growth rates in countries recognized for their rich biodiverse landscapes and that have a total fertility rate exceeding replacement levels. To achieve this goal, the Foundation funds groups that facilitate initiatives related to family planning, women’s education and women’s empowerment in countries with such rich and recognized biodiversity.
They work in Latin America and Africa as well as globally.
Eligible Applicants: Non-governmental organisations are eligible. Applicants need a IRS tax exemption 501(c)(3) certification letter or an equivalency document for non-U.S. based organisations (obtained in-country).
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://weedenfoundation.org/applications/
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Programme: ISHIBASHI FOUNDATION
Objective: Objective
The Ishibashi Foundation is dedicated to upholding the tradition of cultural initiatives established by its founder, and is committed to supporting artistic, cultural, and educational initiatives aimed at the development of a more caring and humane world. It keeps a watchful eye on regions that tend to be overlooked by society, putting effort in recent years in particular into grant programs with an international focus.
Eligible Activities: They fund the following activities: (1) art: publication of the official journal of a scientific society, having art exhibition; (2) education: raising the standard of educational system, expanding the educational facilities, having commemorative event and symposium; and (3) culture: publication of the official journal of a scientific society, having commemorative event and symposium.
Actions must take place in Japan and across the globe.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants are non-profit organisations (including no profit-making enterprises or private businesses) with a track record in implementing projects that align with the Foundation’s mission: institutes, associations, schools, research institutes etc.
Total Budget: $1,800,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: http://www.ishibashi-foundation.or.jp/english/
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Programme: Lyford Cay Foundation
Objective: Objective
The Lyford Cay Foundations are dedicated to enhancing community development in The Bahamas through transformative learning opportunities. As a key grant-making organization in the country, their focus is on investing in initiatives that support education and skill development across various sectors including the arts, sports, environmental awareness, health, and economic and human resource development. Their programs are tailored to empower Bahamian children, young adults, families, and communities, especially those who are most in need.
Eligible Activities: The Foundations provide financial assistance to Bahamian non-profits, promoting both traditional and diverse educational experiences. A significant contribution of the Foundations includes a $4 million donation to the University of The Bahamas’ Harry C. Moore Library. Their approach extends beyond mere financial support, aiming for a lasting and sustainable impact in the community.
Actions must take place in Bahamas.
Eligible Applicants: Eligibility for the grants is restricted to non-profit organizations registered in The Bahamas. The projects seeking grants must take place within The Bahamas and align with the mission of the Lyford Cay Foundations. Additionally, organizations receiving grants are required to provide a report detailing the use and impact of the funds.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://lyfordcayfoundations.org/our-programmes-grants/
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Programme: Fritz Thyssen Foundation
Objective: Objective
Support of projects by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation focuses on scholars in the humanities, social sciences and biomedicine fields. The planned project should be limited in terms of the subject and time.
Eligible Activities: An application can be filed in the following areas of support:
• History, Language & Culture
• State, Economy and Society
• Medicine and the Natural Sciences
• Interdisciplinary projects are also welcomed by the foundation.
Funding is basically reserved for projects that are related to the promotion areas of the Foundation and have a clear connection to the German research system. This connection can be established either at a personal level through German scientists working on the project, at an institutional level through non-German scientists being affiliated to German research institutes or through studies on topics related thematically to German research interests.
They work in Germany and globally.
Eligible Applicants: Applications can generally only be accepted if they come from universities or non-profit research institutions. In the case of applications from non-governmental institutions within the EU/EEA, the application must be accompanied by a copy of the currently valid tax exemption notice for corporations.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de/en/funding/types-of-support/support-of-projects/
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Programme: European Media and Information Fund (EMIF) / Gulbenkian
Objective: Objective
The Call Boosting Fact-checking Activities in Europe aims at supporting projects from independent fact-checking organisations, which play a key role in limiting the negative effects of disinformation on the public discourse and democratic processes. In the context of the ongoing Russia – Ukraine war, and in light of its repercussions across Europe, this Call for Proposals is currently accepting applications that contemplate collaborations with Ukrainian fact-checking and media organisation and/or journalists. Though Ukrainian organisations are not eligible as funded partners, costs pertaining to such collaborations, namely subcontracting costs, will be considered as eligible.
Eligible Activities:
a. Urgent actions: projects designed to increase coverage, depth, and speed of fact-checking activities by organisations that commit to producing regular flows of fact-checks. These actions may have a duration up to 6 months and receive a grant up to €55,000.
b. Scale-up projects: free-lance collaborations within newsrooms and/or the integration of state-of-the-art technologies for content verification and media and social media monitoring. These actions may have a duration up to 12 months and receive a grant up to €80,000.
Actions must take place in Europe.
Eligible Applicants: Only individual entities or organisations in a consortium located in the EU, EFTA and UK are eligible.
Total Budget: €4,350,000
Deadline: 30/06/2025
More information and official documents: https://gulbenkian.pt/emifund/bolsas-lista/boosting-fact-checking-activities-in-europe/
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Programme: Foundation
Objective: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded in 2015 to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from eradicating disease and improving education, to addressing the needs of local communities. Priscilla Chan is co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. The Foundation’s mission is to build a more inclusive, just, and healthy future for everyone. In addition to traditional grant-making to support people and organisations working toward our missions in (1) science; (2) education, and (3) community, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative makes venture investments in impact-focused companies, builds tools and products that we can scale and give away for free, and supports movement and capacity building to achieve progress across their work. Since their launch in 2015, the Foundation has awarded approximately $5 billion in grants. Grants are awarded via three funding entities: the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, a 501(c)(3) private foundation; the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy, a 501(c)(4) organization.
Eligible Activities: Thematic Interest
• Education and training
• Science, innovation and technology
• Children and youth
• Diversity, equity and inclusion
• Social inclusion of marginalised youth
Their pillar “local community” only support organisations/projects in San Mateo County. As for the other program pillars grants are given to projects and initiatives across the globe.
Eligible Applicants: They support science through targeted grant-making and open competitions for research funds in specific issue areas with Requests for Applications, or RFAs. For education, at times they also issue calls for proposals. For ‘community’, grants are only disbursed for projects and initiatives in San Mateo County.
Total Budget: $20,000,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: https://chanzuckerberg.com
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Programme: Foundation
Objective: Danone Ecosystem catalyzes and develops projects that advance the public interest in ecosystems where Danone operates. Since 2009, they have co-created disruptive business models that strengthen inclusion and environmental sustainability, providing organisational know-how, technical expertise and financing support. Projects developed by Danone Ecosystem respond to local challenges linked to sustainable sourcing and regenerative agriculture; micro-distribution; circular economy; and the promotion of healthy drinking and eating habits. The projects are organised into four areas, corresponding to key activities in Danone’s value chain: (1) Sourcing & Watershed, for the sustainability of water resources and the sustainable sourcing of key raw materials; (2) Distribution to create new product distribution channels; (3) Caring Services to strengthen knowledge and access to nutrition and health services; and (4) Recycling to reinforce the circular economy and sourcing of rPET.
Eligible Activities: Thematic Interest
• Agricultural and rural/community development/sustainable farming
• Circular economy
• Sustainable waste management
• Community health
• Healthy drinking and eating habits
• Women’s empowerment and business development
Focus Countries
They give grants to projects across the globe (currently in more than 40 countries worldwide).
Eligible Applicants: They have no formalised application procedures displayed on their website.
Total Budget: €20,000,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: http://ecosysteme.danone.com
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Programme: Foundation
Objective: Endeavor is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world. Endeavor is the leading global community of, by, and for High-Impact Entrepreneurs — those who dream bigger, scale faster, and pay it forward. Driven by our belief that High-Impact Entrepreneurs transform economies, Endeavor is on a mission to build thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging and underserved markets around the world. Endeavor creates a Multiplier Effect by inspiring high-growth founders to dream bigger, supporting and investing in them to scale faster, and providing a platform to pay it forward — thereby compounding their individual impact. To sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way, Endeavor created Endeavor Catalyst, a co-investment fund, set up to invest in the same High-Impact Entrepreneurs that Endeavor supports.
Eligible Activities: Thematic Interest
• Economic development
• Social entrepreneurship
Focus Countries
Endeavor operates across Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Eligible Applicants: Endeavor launches mentorship programs for entrepreneurs and also invests in the form of equity in some selected companies. First, they launch a call for proposal to new cities, regions and countries, their pull model is led by local private sector leaders who pledge their time and money to open a new office. Then they select and support a group of innovative individuals. Through a rigorous, multi-step selection process, Endeavor annually screens thousands of entrepreneurs from around the world to identify those with the best talent and potential for impact and funding.
Total Budget: €5,000,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: http://www.endeavor.org/
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Programme: Network for Social Change Charitable Trust
Objective: Objective
The Network for Social Change Charitable Trust is a group of individuals providing funding for progressive social change projects, particularly in the areas of justice, peace and the environment. The Trust supports projects which are innovative, highly leveraged, and/or difficult to fund, addressing the root causes of a problem.
Eligible Activities: The Trust provides 3 types of grants:
1) Pools – sponsoring projects for grants with a thematic focus on one of the 6 Pools (green planet, human rights, economic justice, health and wholeness, peace, arts and education)
2) Major Projects – focusing on a neglected area of social change (a sustainable economy, income inequality, asylum injustice, remote control warfare), providing funding for 3-6 years
3) Fast Track – providing grants to projects that are identified, assessed and sponsored by a single member of the Trust, who then invites fellow members to join them in funding it.
They support projects in the area of health, HIVA/AIDS, children and alike.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants: Non-profit organisations whose focus areas are: (1) justice; (2) peace and (3) environment are eligible to apply.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.thenetworkforsocialchange.org.uk/funding/project-submission.html
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Programme: Daiwa Foundation
Objective: Objective
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is a UK charity established in 1988 with a generous benefaction from Daiwa Securities Co Ltd. The Foundation’s purpose is to support closer links between Britain and Japan. It does this by: (1) making grants available to individuals, institutions and organisations to promote links between the UK and Japan across all fields of activity; (2) awarding scholarships to young British graduates to study Japan and its language and; (3) organising a year-round program of events to increase intercultural understanding between Japan and the UK.
Eligible Activities: Daiwa Foundation Small Grants can cover all fields of activity, including educational and grassroots exchanges, research travel, the organisation of conferences, exhibitions, and other projects and events that fulfill this broad objective. New initiatives are especially encouraged. Grants are available to individuals, societies, associations or other bodies in the UK or Japan to promote and support interaction between the two countries.
Actions must take place in UK and Japan.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants are: individuals, societies, associations or other bodies in the UK or Japan.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://dajf.org.uk/daiwa-foundation-small-grants-and-awards
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Programme: ERANDA ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION
Objective: Objective
The Eranda Rothschild Foundation is a UK registered charitable trust and makes donations to registered charities working in the fields of medical research, education and the arts. While for their medical research and arts program the Foundation usually supports work well known to the Trustees, for their education program they invite applications from universities and other non-profit organisations to support young professionals in fields including medicine, science and business. They support disadvantaged young people and apprenticeships. Since its founding fifty years ago, the Foundation has made donations totalling more than £74 million to a wide range of charities in the UK and across the globe.
Eligible Activities: Thematic areas are: (1) Education: they consider applications from universities and other charities to support young professionals in fields including medicine, science and business. They support disadvantaged young people and apprenticeships; (2) Medical Research: they support original research and the continuation of existing research. Welfare is also considered under the medical theme and here the priority is to support work well known to the Trustees; and (3) The Arts: they support the education and outreach work of arts charities and prioritise work which is well known to the Foundation.
Actions can take place in various countries worldwide.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants are non-profit organisations registered in the UK and abroad. They support registered charities, including Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) and those correctly registered as charities in their own countries.
Total Budget: €2,500,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.erandarothschild.org/
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Programme: CISV INTERNATIONAL PEACE FUND
Objective: Objective
The CISV International Peace Fund Trust (PFT) was created in 1988 with the objectives (1) to advance education in the understanding, internationally, of children throughout the world, without distinction of race, religion or politics, so that they may grow to maturity, conscious of their responsibilities as human beings; (2) to develop the individual child’s potential for cooperation with others; and (3) to further research contributing to this work. They have a grants program for which they launch four calls for applications throughout the year.
Eligible Activities: Trustees may approve grants for projects which are in line with PFT objectives and the purpose of the sub-fund, provided accumulated interest is available. Some examples of projects that have been funded in the past include: (1) first time programmes hosted by promotional associations; (2) participation by promotional associations at CISV workshops/activities; and (3) international or regional workshops co-hosted by CISV and like-minded organizations.
Actions can take place in various countries worldwide.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants are: (1) CISV charities (officials of the International Association (e.g. International Office, Governing Board), a National Association (NA itself or one of its Chapters), Promotional Association); (2) Official delegates to regional or international CISV activities/ conferences with endorsement of relevant CISV entity; and (3) PFT trustees for projects consistent with PFT’s objectives.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:https://international-peacefund.org/
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Programme: Patagonia Inc
Objective: Objective
Patagonia Inc. is an American clothing company founded in 1973 that sells and showcases mainly sustainable outdoor clothing. The Patagonia Environmental Grants Programme surges from the company’s commitment to use 1% of their total sales or 10% of their profit, whichever is more, to environmental concerns. Patagonia supports environmental organizations with bold, direct-action agendas and a commitment to long-term change.
Eligible Activities: They support innovative work that addresses the root causes of the environmental crisis and seeks to protect both the environment and affected communities. They focus on places where we’ve built connections through outdoor recreation and through our network of retail stores, nationally and internationally. They encourage work that brings underrepresented communities to the forefront of the environmental movement and defend communities whose health and livelihoods are threatened by environmental exploitation. They support multipronged campaigns that push for greater environmental protections and force the government to abide by its own laws.
They fund projects in Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom).
Eligible Applicants: Their funding focuses on organizations that have or can create a strong base of support.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.patagonia.com/how-we-fund/international-grant/
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Programme: WWF NEDBANK GREEN TRUST
Objective: Objective
The WWF Nedbank Green Trust was established by the Trustees in 1990 in order to promote the conservation of nature and ecological processes. Nedbank was the first, and subsequently only, funder for the Trust and WWF appointed as the management agency for the Trust and subsequently the environmental outcomes strategist for the Trust. The Trust has planned to achieve its mission through “…the preservation of genetic, species and ecosystem diversity; by ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and by promoting actions aimed at reducing, to the absolute minimum, pollution and the wasteful exploitation and consumption of resources and energy”.
Eligible Activities: Since 1990, the WWF Nedbank Green Trust has invested more R300 million in various catalytic conservation projects which have grown to a scale that has had a significant impact for environ- mental health and wealth of South Africa.
Actions must take place in South Africa.
Eligible Applicants: The WWF Nedbank Green Trust welcomes all organizations, aligned to its strategy, to partner with the Trust to achieve its vision of igniting new ways for people and nature to thrive.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.greentrust.org.za/funding/
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Programme: European Youth Foundation (EYF)
Objective: Objective
The European Youth Foundation (EYF) is a fund established in 1972 by the Council of Europe to provide financial and educational support for European youth activities. An international activity is an international meeting of young people or youth leaders in Europe which contribute to the work of the youth sector of the Council of Europe in topic, methodology and with a clear European dimension. Until now, four working days were considered as a minimum duration for an international activity based on the principles of non-formal education/learning. However, in order to adapt to NGOs’ needs, the EYF will no longer consider this duration as a hard criterion.
Eligible Activities: The EYF will continue to assess grant applications on the basis of their merit and the quality of the programme provided. NGOs applying for activities lasting less than four days will have to convince the EYF that the activity is based on a non-formal education approach.
Special attention will be given to applications integrating a gender perspective. This should be clearly explained in the grant application. Gender perspective does not mean having an equal number of female and male participants. You should try to develop your project looking through different gender glasses, taking into account the needs of young women and men.
Action must take place in Europe.
Eligible Applicants: The following hard criteria are a requirement for an international activity: (1) participants must represent at least 7 Council of Europe member states; (2) it has to be run by an international team (4 nationalities represented in the project team); (3) 75 % of participants under 30 years old; (4) a gender and geographical balance must be ensured; and (5) a gender perspective is taken into account throughout the whole process.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-youth-foundation/international-activity
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Programme: RTL FOUNDATION
Objective: Objective
Since 1996, Stiftung RTL – We help children eV has been helping children in need of care in Germany and around the world. In the awareness of the social responsibility of a successful media company, the management at that time decided to put the transmitter’s existing charitable commitment on a stable footing. The goal is to provide sustained support for the most vulnerable in society, the children – both in Germany and abroad.
Eligible Activities: In the past they have funded projects like: health projects (eye health) for children and adults, construction of therapy rooms for disabled children, support for abused children and their families, education projects for children in Africa, etc.
Actions can take place across the globe.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants are NGOs.
Total Budget:€100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://wirhelfenkindern.rtl.de/informieren/ueber-die-stiftung
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Programme: RICHARD S. REYNOLDS FOUNDATION
Objective: Objective
Founded in 1955, the Richard S. Reynolds Foundation is devoted to building strong communities and creating a positive and enduring impact on the world around us.
Eligible Activities: To that end, the Foundation provides assistance to community and worldwide organisations in the United States and across the globe in the areas of (1) science; (2) education; (3) healthcare; (4) environment; and (5) arts.
The Foundation offers grant funding to initiatives across the globe.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible for grant funding are non-profit organisations that are tax-exempt under IRS Section 501(c)(3).
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: http://richardsreynoldsfoundation.org/apply-2/
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Programme: MARTHE VAN RIJSWIJCK FOUNDATION
Objective: Objective
The Marthe van Rijswijck Foundation (MvRF) financially supports charitable, scientific or non-profit organisations and its main goal is to contribute to the development of ideas and/or support projects of social importance with idealistic and social intent. The main focus of this support are projects that support people or groups of people who, because of social circumstances or disabilities of mental or physical nature, are limited in their development and help them create a place in society where their skills are developed, optimized and brought to good use.
Eligible Activities: A special focus is granted for the benefit of deprived and underprivileged children around the world. All projects must be managed by a Dutch organisation or individuals who do not have any commercial interest in the proposed project. The Foundation also prefers to see a certain degree of fundraising done on the NGO’s own initiative.
Projects from all over the world may be considered for financial support. Most funding of past projects has gone to initiatives in Africa and Asia. So far they have supported projects in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants: Charitable, scientific or non-profit organisations are eligible to apply. The MvRF prefers to support NGO’s with an existing organizational infrastructure of which the sustainability has been proven and whose the goal is to set up projects which, in the long run, will be more or less self-supporting. The project must be initiated by a Dutch organisation or individual who does not have any commercial interest in the project.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: http://mvrf.nl/?page_id=17&lang=en
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Programme: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Objective: Objective
Through the develoPPP.de programme, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) provides companies investing in developing and emerging countries with financial and, if required, also professional support. Submitted projects have to meet the development-policy criteria of the German government, like for example promoting sustainable economic development, strengthening human rights, social and environmental standards, education, food security.
Eligible Activities: In concrete terms, this can mean:
• Improving environmental and social standards in supply chains
• Creating decent jobs and improved working conditions
• Supporting women and marginalised groups, in particular, with careers and entrepreneurship
• Implementing measures that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation
• Taking measures to protect the natural environment, for example through sustainable cultivation methods, saving water in production processes, and avoiding and recycling waste
• Creating access to health care services
Selected countries as listed in the OECD-DAC list are eligible (Africa, Asia, America, Europe).
Eligible Applicants: Applications are open to German companies and companies registered in the EU, as well as companies in developing and emerging countries (as listed on the OECD-DAC list) in which EU-registered companies or European nationals own at least a 25% share. Any company that applies must meet the following minimum requirements: annual turnover of at least €800,000, 8 employees and three years of business operations. Although associations, foundations, non-governmental organisations, foreign chambers of commerce or registered associations are not themselves eligible to apply, they are entitled to participate in develoPPP.de projects as project partners of the applicant company.
Total Budget: €100,000 - €2,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.developpp.de/en/application/classic
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Programme: Open Technology Fund (OTF)
Objective: Objective
The Technology at Scale Fund is the primary means through which OTF directly supports the technology needs of USAGM broadcast networks, journalists, and their audiences. Many of these networks serve audiences in countries that attempt to block access to USAGM content and impede journalists’ efforts to report objective news. The Technology at Scale Fund solicits mature technology solutions to ensure that USAGM audiences can access content safely through firewalls and other government attempts to censor objective news and allow journalists to safely do their work and communicate with sources.
Eligible Activities: This fund seeks solutions to help USAGM safely create and deliver content to its online audiences in censored environments. Understanding that there may be multiple approaches to helping USAGM audience members circumvent censorship at scale and facilitate secure reporting, content sharing and communications, this fund is not limited to predetermined technologies or methodologies. Solutions must be able to securely deliver unblocked content to millions of members of the USAGM audience in multiple countries with high reliability and/or provide secure communications or content sharing capabilities to USAGM journalists.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible are: (1) individuals; (2) non-profit organisation/non-government organisation, including U.S.-based NGO, PIO, or foreign NGO; (3) non-profit university or research institution in any country; (4) for-profit organisation or business in any country; and (5) have demonstrated experience administering successful projects, preferably targeting the requested program area.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://www.opentech.fund/funds/technology-scale/
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Programme: Embassy of Japan to Georgia
Objective: The GGP is one of the grant schemes of the Embassy of Japan in Georgia, oriented towards providing support to the grassroots actors, for the promotion of Basic Human Needs and Human Security in Georgia. This involves, but is not limited to the actions, which aim to mitigate threats to human survival, human life, human dignity, as well as the actions aimed to build up the capacities of individuals and communities.
Eligible Activities: Within 22 years of its work in Georgia – from 1998 to 2022, the Grassroots Human Security Program (GGP) of the Government of Japan funded more than 200 projects, in total amounting to more than 20 million USD. Through this funding, agriculture infrastructure was developed, alleviating poverty in some of the poorest villages; thousands of hectares of land were cleared from hazardous landmines, saving lives of local population; dozens of schools, kindergartens, hospitals were rehabilitated and re-equipped, providing essential services to the most vulnerable population. Those are only a few of the examples and the range of sectors funded has been very broad.
Representing the goodwill of the ordinary Japanese people, the Embassy of Japan strives to provide support in the sectors, considered most essential by the population of Georgia itself. Vast majority of the reputable local and international research reflects that the population of Georgia considers socio-economic problems as the most acute national issues, along with the occupation of its territories. Thus, in its GGP program, the Embassy strives to emphasize the projects, which aim to resolve those problems most effectively and efficiently.
Actions must take place in Georgia.
Eligible Applicants: The following lists are examples of potential recipients: NGOs and INGOs; Local public authorities (mayor’s office).
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: https://www.ge.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/development_assistance_eng20180727.html
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Programme: Global Innovation Fund
Objective: The Global Innovation Fund (GIF) has launched its Innovating for Climate Resilience fund in partnership with the Adaptation Research Alliance and the Global Resilience Partnership, with seed funding from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office.
The Innovating for Climate Resilience fund invests, through grant, equity, and debt instruments, in innovations with the potential to scale and support the world’s poorest to build resilience and adaptation.
Eligible Activities: GIF has a staged funding approach, whereby the amount of funding available is tiered according to the level of maturity of your innovation and the activities proposed. The three tiers are:
Pilot – the innovation is at an early stage but you have a credible plan for how it can be developed and tested in a real-world setting. Funding of up to USD 230,000 is available to test core assumptions around operational, social, and financial viability.
Test and transition – the innovation has already shown promise of success at a small scale, and you have some information on your operational, social, and financial viability which you want to solidify before you scale. Funding of up to USD 2.3 million is available to support further growth and generate additional evidence on whether the innovation can achieve social impact and market viability, for commercial innovations.
Scale – the innovation has a strong evidence base and logistically credible plan for scaling to reach millions of people. Funding of up to USD 15 million is available to expand the reach of innovations with a view to reaching millions of people in the long term if successful.
What they fund
GIF seeks out innovations GIF believes have the greatest potential to improve the lives of millions of people living in poverty and only select those innovations which:
• Are focused on the poor.
• Are novel approaches which are not commonplace.
• Can improve upon alternatives solutions.
• Are backed by evidence of potential impact.
• Can be widely applied in many different settings.
• Have the potential to scale to reach millions of people.
• Are led by strong and dynamic teams.
• Are ready for investment.
• Will generate new knowledge on what works.
• Have a clear role for GIF.
Eligible Applicants: Any type of organisation may apply. This includes social enterprises, for-profit companies, non-profit organisations, government agencies, international organisations, and research institutions in any country. It is recommended that individual innovators, entrepreneurs, or researchers apply through an affiliated organisation.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://www.globalinnovation.fund/what-we-do/innovating-for-climate-resilience/
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Programme: USAID
Objective: USAID Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) is an open innovation fund that sources, tests, and accelerates breakthrough ideas that address global development challenges around the world. DIV seeks to bring in new ideas for solving problems facing millions around the world – delivering more impact, for less money, with greater potential for sustainable scale. Inspired by the venture capital experience, DIV uses a tiered, evidence-based funding model to test ideas, gather evidence of what works, find failures quickly and cheaply, without long-term commitments, and continue to support only proven solutions.
Eligible Activities: Funding ranges across all sectors: global health 36%, economic growth and trade 30%, energy 30%, agriculture and food security 26%, water/sanitation and hygiene 17%, education and training 12%, democracy and governance 7%, disaster relief and humanitarian assistance 3% and environment 2%.
The funding is open to countries in Asia, Middle East, Africa, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, where USAID provides funds to development efforts.
Eligible Applicants: DIV accepts applications from U.S. and non US organisations, individuals, non-profit and for profit entities, provided their work is in a country where USAID provides funds to development efforts.
Total Budget: $5,000,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://divportal.usaid.gov/s
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Programme: Inter-American Foundation (IAF)
Objective: The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) invites proposals for its grant program. The IAF funds the self-help efforts of grassroots groups in Latin America and the Caribbean to improve living conditions of the disadvantaged and the excluded, enhance their capacity for decision-making and self-governance, and develop partnerships with the public sector, business and civil society. The IAF does not identify problems or suggest projects; instead it responds to initiatives presented. Projects are selected for funding on their merits rather than by sector.
Eligible Activities: The IAF looks for the following in a project it funds:
1) innovative solutions to development problems;
2) diverse array of community voices in project development and execution;
3) substantial beneficiary engagement in: the identification of the problem addressed, the approach chosen to solve it, the design of the project, and management and evaluation of activities;
4) partnerships with local government, the business community and other civil society organizations; and
5) evidence of beneficiaries’ enhanced capacity for self-governance.
The IAF only supports projects in independent countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (excl. Cuba, Venezuela).
Eligible Applicants: Non-profit organisations (civil society groups) are eligible to apply. They only support projects submitted by community-led groups that are based in independent countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Total Budget: $400,00
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://www.iaf.gov/apply-for-grant
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Programme: Pulitzer Centre
Objective: The Pulitzer Center has announced the Machine Learning Reporting Grants to use advanced data mining techniques, such as machine learning and natural language processing, to solve a data or reporting problem related to a journalistic investigation.
Eligible Activities: Pulitzer Center seeking compelling data-driven storytelling—based on original and transparent data collection and analysis—that has the potential to shape public discourse and hold the powerful accountable.
These projects harnessed machine learning to augment the reporters’ capacity to tackle big data and systemic issues. The reporters combined the use of machine learning with geospatial analysis, satellite imagery, and traditional shoe-leather reporting, among other approaches.
Eligible Applicants: Eligibility Criteria
This opportunity is open to U.S. residents and journalists around the world. They are open to proposals from freelance data journalists, staff journalists, or groups of newsrooms working in collaboration on a data project idea. They want to make sure that people from many backgrounds and perspectives are empowered to produce data journalism. They strongly encourage proposals from journalists and newsrooms who represent a broad array of social, racial, ethnic, underrepresented groups, and economic backgrounds.
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://pulitzercenter.org/grants-fellowships/opportunities-journalists/machine-learning-reporting-grants
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Programme: NORAD
Objective: There is a need for increased focus on and attention to adaptation to future impacts of climate change. Quality weather and climate information are important tools that can be used for preparing for and reducing the negative consequences of serious climate-related events. Climate and weather services may improve stakeholders’ capacity to monitor, forecast, plan for, and cope with the impacts of climate and weather-related events. Early warning can prevent loss of life and livelihood. The weather and climate information needs to enable decision-makers, as well as end users to understand the information and to act.
Eligible Activities: The collection and analysis of data require sufficient infrastructure, technology, and capacity at local and national level. Additionally, the information needs to be communicated in a way that the end-users understand it and act on it. This entails tailoring communication to the various groups of end users. According to the end users’ needs, the weather and climate services may be linked to non-meteorological data, such as road and infrastructure maps, demographic data and census information, food and agricultural production, health sector information, and socio-economic variables.
The target group for the scheme is the population in ODA-approved developing countries.
Eligible Applicants: Potential grant recipients under this scheme are: Public actors/bodies in Norway and in recipient country; Norwegian and international civil society organisations/non-governmental organisations; Norwegian and international analysis and research institutes; Private sector actors in Norway and in recipient country.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: https://grants.mfa.no/#call/2621/details
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Programme: Rapid Response Facility (RRF)
Objective: The Rapid Response Facility (RRF) provides emergency support to natural World Heritage sites in times of crisis. The RRF is a partnership between the UNESCO World Heritage Center and Fauna & Flora International (FFI). RRF grants are available for UNESCO natural World Heritage sites. The RRF only funds actions at a site facing an ‘emergency’ threat to its biodiversity. They do not fund on-going issues even if they require urgent action.
Eligible Activities: The RRF’s definition of emergency is based on the following criteria, all of which will be considered during the decision process:
(1) Suddenness: How recently has the threat emerged or worsened? RRF only consider a situation an emergency if it has arisen in the last few months or weeks, or if the intensity of an existing threat has got suddenly worse. RRF advise applicants to provide evidence of any recent increases in the threat profile where possible;
(2) Predictability: Based on past experience, how predictable was the situation? The RRF prioritises funding for situations where the threat was unpredictable and thus difficult to prepare for in advance;
(3) Time sensitivity: Will there be a measurable conservation benefit if work starts immediately (within days / 1-2 weeks), rather than in months or years? The RRF prioritises projects that require immediate assistance;
and (4) Duration and reversibility of impact: Does the threat have the potential to cause long-lasting negative impact to the biodiversity value of the site? The RRF prioritises actions that avert irreversible damage or reduce long-term negative impacts.
RRF grants are restricted to countries that are eligible for ‘official development assistance’ according to the OECD.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible are: (1) government bodies responsible for site management (for example national wildlife agencies, park managers, government ministries etc.); (2) registered local, national or international non-governmental organisations (NGOs); (3) private sector organisations (including local and multinational corporations). Applicant organisations must be able to accept funds into an organisational bank account, directly from the UK in US Dollars (USD).
Applications are accepted year round, there are no deadlines. Requests for funding are only accepted through submission of the official RRF application form to the RRF email address (rrf(a)fauna-flora.org). Applications from NGOs or private sector organisations must include a letter of support from the relevant site management authority as part of their application. The templates can be downloaded from their website. Proposals shall not exceed 6 pages.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: http://www.rapid-response.org/
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Programme: European Youth Foundation (EYF)
Objective: The European Youth Foundation (EYF) is a fund established in 1972 by the Council of Europe to provide financial and educational support for European youth activities.
Eligible Activities: An international activity is an international meeting of young people or youth leaders in Europe which contribute to the work of the youth sector of the Council of Europe in topic, methodology and with a clear European dimension. Until now, four working days were considered as a minimum duration for an international activity based on the principles of non-formal education/learning. However, in order to adapt to NGOs’ needs, the EYF will no longer consider this duration as a hard criterion. Nevertheless, the EYF will continue to assess grant applications on the basis of their merit and the quality of the programme provided. NGOs applying for activities lasting less than four days will have to convince the EYF that the activity is based on a non-formal education approach.
Special attention will be given to applications integrating a gender perspective. This should be clearly explained in the grant application. Gender perspective does not mean having an equal number of female and male participants. You should try to develop your project looking through different gender glasses, taking into account the needs of young women and men.
Action must take place in Europe.
Eligible Applicants: The following hard criteria are a requirement for an international activity: (1) participants must represent at least 7 Council of Europe member states; (2) it has to be run by an international team (4 nationalities represented in the project team); (3) 75 % of participants under 30 years old; (4) a gender and geographical balance must be ensured; and (5) a gender perspective is taken into account throughout the whole process.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: http://www.coe.int/en/web/european-youth-foundation/international-activity
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Programme: Democracy and Media Foundation (DMF)
Objective: Do you want to contribute to independent media and a strong, just democratic state? Do you have an initiative that stimulates independent and critical media, or one that sustains or promotes a strong, and just democratic state? Does your initiative match their pillars of truth-seeking, innovation in media, fundamental rights and liberties, vigorous democracy or commemoration and remembrance? Then you are welcome to submit a project proposal.
Eligible Activities: Types of projects that the Democracy and Media Foundation supports include (but are not limited to):
1) Media productions (long-form) journalistic articles, books, documentaries, podcasts and web or TV series);
2) Digital journalistic platforms;
3) Strategic awareness campaigns;
4) Policy advocacy;
5) Strategic juridical litigation;
6) Cultural and art projects (installations, expositions, theatre, etc.). These only qualify for funding by the Democracy and Media Foundation if they further the objectives of the foundation;
7) Lectures and debates (as long as they are rooted in a broader adaptation strategy); and
8) Training/capacity building.
The foundation prioritizes projects and organizations with clear added value in the Netherlands. Within the Netherlands, preference goes out to projects with an international or national outlook, as well as local initiatives that are part of a broader strategy for change. Projects taking place outside the Netherlands are granted support only rarely. The foundation limits its support to organizations located in the 47 member states of the Council of Europe. Priority is granted to projects in countries were freedom of press and/or the democratic state based on the rule of law is under pressure.
Eligible Applicants: The Democracy and Media Foundation provides financial support to organizations, projects and other initiatives that promote this mission.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://www.stdem.org/en/urgency-requests/
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Programme: Samruk-Kazyna Trust
Objective: The Fund for development of social projects “Samruk-Kazyna Trust” implements charitable projects and programs aimed at solving socially important issues for the population from the whole group of companies of JSC “Samruk-Kazyna”. The Fund’s activities are carried out with the assistance of state bodies, the Government of Kazakhstan and experts in the field of public and social policy.
Eligible Activities: The priorities are:
• helping people, communities in the social and health sector;
• development of media, cultural community, development of human potential, strengthening of labor relations and investments in sustainable development of society;
• the implementation of the regional program of social investments in the regions of presence of group of the Fund;
• strengthening the reputation and promoting the image of the Fund and/or the Fund group.
Actions must take place in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Eligible Applicants: They partner with non-profit organisations. Most of their partner are local NGOs.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: https://sk-trust.kz/en/send-an-application/
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Programme: Charles Hayward Foundation
Objective: Charles Hayward Foundation is a grant-making charitable trust making awards to charities that are registered in the U.K. The organisation is governed by a board of voluntary trustees, chaired by Mrs. Sue Heath. Organisations can apply for funding for clean water and sanitation projects, basic health programmes and self sustainability projects through training in farming skills and income generation activities.
Eligible Activities: Funding priorities include:
• Projects that adopt a holistic approach throughout all project stages and have a well defined ‘exit strategy’
• Projects being delivered at the grass-roots level through an established and proven delivery partner who is fully engaged with the local community
• Projects that clearly demonstrate the local communities involvement and that necessary training and education is in place to sustain the project beyond the delivery partner’s departure
The applicant must be able to demonstrate that robust governance and monitoring procedures are in place
They focus on Commonwealth Countries of Africa.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible organisations must be UK registered charities delivering projects in Commonwealth Countries of Africa with an annual income of between £150,000 and £5,000,000. The applicant must be able to demonstrate that robust governance and monitoring procedures are in place.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: http://www.charleshaywardfoundation.org.uk/overseas/
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Programme: A.J. Muste Memorial Institute
Objective: The A.J. Muste Memorial Institute funds projects which promote the principles and practice of nonviolent social change through grant-making programs including the International Nonviolence Training Fund (INTF). The INTF was created in 1994 by a group of concerned donors with the aim of specifically supporting nonviolence trainings which prepare participants for specific nonviolent actions or campaigns.
Eligible Activities: Nonviolence trainings seek to help people develop and improve the skills they need to confront systemic injustice through organized, principled, nonviolent action. Trainings promote the exchange of ideas, information, and strategies, through which activists can become more effective at using nonviolent action in their struggles. Projects eligible for support include:
• those which prepare participants for specific nonviolent actions or campaigns;
• those which build capacity and leadership among people engaged in nonviolent struggles;
• those geared to “training the trainers,” in order to expand and multiply nonviolence training throughout a targeted community.
Projects must be located outside the United States, or within its Native nations.
Eligible Applicants: Preference is given to: projects which involve trainers from the local area or region, where such trainers are available and groups which are small, community-based and have less access to funding from other sources. The Muste Institute can and does directly fund organizations which do not have their own 501(c)3 non- profit tax-exempt status, and/or which are not incorporated. The only time we require a fiscal sponsor is if the organization does not have its own bank account
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://ajmuste.org/programs
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Programme: Embassy of Japan to Macedonia
Objective: The Grant Assistance for Grass Roots and Human Security Projects (GGP) was first introduced by the Government of Japan in 1989 in order to meet various socio-economic needs in developing countries. The GGP provides non-refundable financial assistance to NGOs, hospitals, primary schools, and other non-profit associations to help implement their development projects. The availability of GGP funding in each eligible country provides Japanese ODA with a new means of cooperation that has a direct impact on the well-being of grass-roots communities.
Eligible Activities: Its focus areas in Macedonia include: (1) refurbishment and supply of equipment for primary schools; (2) refurbishment and supply of medical equipment for hospitals (projects for the benefit of women, children or prevention of infectious disease such as AIDS are given priority); (3) supply of equipment for basic skills training courses (e.g. brick making, sewing, candle making machines, etc); (4) agricultural training equipment (e.g. tractors, pumps, sprinklers); (5) women empowerment; (6) public welfare (refurbishment and supply of equipment for facilities for the handicapped, orphans, family planning education, or the construction of community centers); and (7) water supply (facilities and equipment for drilling well pumps etc.).
Actions must take place in North Macedonia.
Eligible Applicants: Any type of non-profit organisation is eligible to be a GGP recipient.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: http://www.at.emb-japan.go.jp/mk/en/40_bilateral/020_ggp/021_ggpintroduction.html
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Programme: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Objective: The UK government has announced a new scheme that guarantees funding for successful applicants to the third wave of Horizon Europe grant awards regardless of the outcome of the UK’s efforts to associate to Horizon Europe.
The guarantee is a short term measure intended to address the delays in formalising the UK’s association to Horizon Europe. To provide reassurance, the government has guaranteed funding for the first three waves of eligible, successful applicants to Horizon Europe with call deadlines up to 31 December 2022, if they are unable to sign their grant agreements with the EU.
This funding route is for collaborative research and innovation calls under Pillars 1, 2 and EIC calls under Pillar 3 with final application submission deadlines from 1 May up to 31 December 2022. ERC and MSCA calls are being routed through the Joint Electronic Submissions (Je-S) system. N.B. KICs 2022 activities are being routed through a separate IFS competition template.
Eligible Applicants: You will be eligible to register with UKRI for the Horizon Europe guarantee through this route if you are a UK-based organisation which has been successful through a Horizon Europe call in scope of the guarantee. For the consortium-style grants, you must remain a partner on the project and be listed on the Horizon Europe grant agreement as an Associated Partner.
This funding route is for collaborative research and innovation calls under Pillars 1, 2 and EIC calls under Pillar 3 with final application submission deadlines from 1 May up to 31 December 2022.
Total Budget: N/A
Deadline: N/A
More information and official documents: https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1389/overview/b900fdc4-c48d-4d8a-8733-ce4ca210ae9a#eligibility
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Programme: Global Fund
Objective: The Global Fund is a 21st-century partnership organization designed to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics. It is a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and people affected by the diseases. Most of their funding is earmarked for HIV/AIDS, followed by Malaria and finally TB.
Eligible Activities: The 2023-2028 Global Fund Strategy recognizes that ending HIV and TB as epidemics and eliminating malaria will require comprehensive approaches to strengthening: the financing of health systems (including raising additional resources as well as ensuring the efficient, effective and equitable use of existing resources); sustainable national responses to the three diseases; and resilient systems for health. Countries are strongly encouraged to focus on sustainability in their national planning and program design, with support from the Global Fund and partners as necessary. A sustainable approach to program planning and implementation should consider how to maximize impact while balancing short- and long-term results – not only taking into account the financing available today, but also which elements will require domestic financing in the future
The Global Fund operates worldwide (currently in over 100 countries).
Eligible Applicants: In most cases, Principal Recipients disburse funds to other smaller organizations who serve as sub-recipients or even sub-sub-recipients. A purpose of this is for financing to effectively cascade to smaller organizations, and for programs to be carried out to reach those populations or groups which may not be otherwise easily reached by a government.
Total Budget: $4 billion for an average of 450-470 grants (average grant size is $8,5 million).
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/applying-for-funding/
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Programme: WE4F (Water and Energy for Food)
Objective: Objective
Water & Energy for Food (WE4F): A Grand Challenge for Development is a joint international initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the European Union (EU), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Netherlands, The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), Sweden through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Eligible Activities: WE4F aims to:
• Increase food production along the value chain through a more sustainable and efficient usage of water and/or energy
• Increase income for base of the pyramid (BoP) women and men in both rural and urban areas working in farming and/or consuming food products
• Sustainably scale the Organizations’ solutions to meet the challenges in the WE4F nexus.
• Promote climate and environmental resilience and biodiversity through the sustainable, holistic management of natural resources and ecosystems
This Open Call for Innovation (O-CFI) is designed to address barriers to enable the production of more food with efficient and sustainable usage of water and energy along the value chain from farming to end-users, and to impact food security, gender, and poverty reduction in an environmentally sustainable way.
The S/CA RIH supports innovators from Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants: WE4F is looking for mid- to late-stage enterprises, nonprofits with a for-profit program, and other organizations based in the Middle East and North Africa, who have innovative water-food, energy-food, and water-energy-food solutions. Applicants must meet the minimum requirements outlined below to participate in this call for innovation. WE4F is open to legally incorporated/registered for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations or academic institutions with a proven business model, recurring sales, an existing customer base, and the ability to generate revenue and maintain a self-sustaining operational budget.
Total Budget: $250,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://we4f.org/apply-sca
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Programme: European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM)
Objective: Objective
The latest suspensions of the right to asylum in multiple Member States in the framework of Covid-19 protection measures show once more that European asylum politics and practice move fast, especially in times of emergency. The design of EU asylum policies as well as their implementation and translation (or lack thereof) into national, bilateral, regional and local policies and practices have direct impact on the lives of people who seek international protection.
Eligible Activities: Through this Call for Proposals, EPIM aims to support (transnational) partnerships of civil society organisations active at EU, national, bilateral, regional and/or local levels. The support is for their efforts to seize (urgent) opportunities to advise European asylum policies and practices. In light of existing and future EU asylum law, policies, frameworks and human rights standards, projects should aim to:
• promote feasible (evidence-based) alternatives; and/or
• put forward thought-provoking ideas, and/or
• react to policy proposals and practices to safeguard the right to asylum and prevent backtracking.
Projects should be implemented in the European Union. Additionally, projects implemented in non-EU countries (e.g. Turkey, UK) could also be considered eligible if of EU relevance.
Eligible Applicants: Applicants must be non-profit and non-governmental organisations registered in the European Union or in the United Kingdom. Non-profit organisations active at EU, national, bilateral, regional and/or local levels are eligible for this call for proposals. Non-EU based non-profit organisations can apply as partners.
Total Budget: €40,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://epim.info/proposal/epim-call-for-proposals-seizing-opportunities-to-advise-european-asylum-policies-and-practices/
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Programme: Botswana Innovation Hub
Objective: Objective
The Botswana Innovation Hub is a business accelerator with the objective to support entrepreneurship and innovation through technology transfer in Botswana. It identifies, develops and nurtures viable technology-oriented start-up businesses with potential to grow locally and into international markets. Membership also offers access to their Innovation Fund.
Eligible Activities: Within these focus sectors and categories, BIH selects partners and members based on the following aspects:
• Product / Service / Method that creates new or unique value for Botswana Innovation Hub stakeholders and Botswana
• Stage / Level of Innovation (Idea, Research / Screening and Experimentation, Testing / Proof of Concept / Prototyping, Commercialization / Production, Diffusion and Implementation)
• Target Market / Social Need being Addressed
• Benefits to Botswana:
• Employment creation
• Knowledge Creation and Skills Transfer
• Advancement of Science and Technology within the Botswana
• Business / Partnership model and Funding Aspects
• Leadership (Visionary and qualified leadership to play the critical role in driving the business towards its goal)
• Capital investment in land, buildings, infrastructure, and equipment
Actions must take place in Botswana.
Eligible Applicants: Businesses in the sectors of solar energy, water technologies, sustainability, coal utilisation, and waste management are eligible
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: http://www.bih.co.bw/benefits-criteria/
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Programme: Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD)
Objective: Objective
As Canada’s lead agency for development assistance, Global Affairs Canada aims to manage Canada’s support and resources effectively and accountably to achieve meaningful, sustainable results.
Eligible Activities: They work across many sectors:
Agriculture and food security
Disability-inclusive development
Education
Gender equality
Governance
Health
Humanitarian preparedness and response
Private sector development
Social protection
Water
Selected focus countries worldwide are eligible: Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America.
Eligible Applicants: Organizations worldwide can apply for funding through the Global Affairs Canada website. International non-governmental organizations from any country can submit an unsolicited proposal for funding, so long as they meet the eligibility requirements as published in the Application Form. Applicants also have to demonstrate proof of their legal and financial standing as per their home country’s laws or per the laws of Canada.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and other documents: http://international.gc.ca/world-monde/funding-financement/apply_funding-demande_financement.aspx?lang=eng
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Programme: Embassy of Japan to Philippines
Objective: Objective
The Japanese Government has various programs under its Official Development Assistance (ODA) that meets the diverse needs of developing countries. One of the ODA schemes, the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) support small-scale projects directly benefiting the grassroots level as well as contributing to the socio-economic development of developing countries. In the Philippines, GGP was launched in 1989 and as of March 2019, 543 small-scale grassroots projects have been implemented by non-government organizations (NGOs), local government units (LGUs), and other non-profit organizations. They support around 15-20 projects every year.
Eligible Activities: The following sectors and projects are examples that the GGP can assist:
· Education
· Health
· Water System (Levels I and II only)
· Agriculture
· Social Welfare
· Capacity Building
· Disaster Management
· Waste Management
· Others
Actions must take place in Philippines.
Eligible Applicants: The Embassy of Japan accepts applications from the following organisations: (1) non-government organisations (NGOs); (2) peoples’ Organisations (POs) and Cooperatives; (3) local government units (LGUs); (4) educational institutions (universities) and medical institutions.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: http://www.ph.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/00_000032.html
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Programme: US Mission to Ghana
Objective: Objective
The U.S. Embassy in Accra, Ghana, through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out virtual and in-person peacebuilding and conflict resolution education programs in Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, and Togo. This program is in support of the U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability, authorized by the Global Fragility Act. Overall, grant-making authority for this project is contained in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended.
Eligible Activities: This program will engage early and mid-career professionals by offering a menu of virtual courses in English and French that include information adaptable to the range of countries and contexts. Central topics will include social cohesion, conflict resolution, media literacy and misinformation, engaging government from local to national level, and inclusivity. The online/hybrid course on conflict resolution will include 500 young community leaders with at least half from Ghana and the remainder from the other four countries specified. Recruitment should target regions and communities most vulnerable to conflict and instability but may include geographically diverse participants.
The courses will be followed by interactive conversations via chat or social media platforms to form a network of similarly-minded individuals willing to develop activities or policies integrating course principles in their own institutions or communities. An in-person training and networking opportunity will then be offered to 60 participants to come together and discuss more deeply the topics of the courses. The material may include U.S. authored content and reflect the diversity of opinion in the United States and underscore U.S. fundamental values of democracy and freedom. Speakers and instructors may include U.S. citizens and experts who have experience in West Africa and the United States.
Actions must take place in Ghana.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible are U.S.-based non-profit/non-governmental organizations subject to section 501(c) (3) of the U.S. tax code; foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernment organizations (NGO); Public International Organizations; Foreign Public Organizations; and private, public, or state institutions of higher education.
Total Budget: $444,375
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=349074
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