Issue 27 | Volume 11 | July 13, 2023 |
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International Funding Opportunities Update |
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Fulbright US Scholar Program Information Session
Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 2:00pm ET
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This session will be led by an outreach and recruitment specialist from the Institute of International Education, and MSU staff who will be available for MSU-related questions. The session is appropriate for anyone contemplating a September 2023 application for a 2024-25 award or planning for a future application cycle.
Key points about Fulbright Scholar awards:
- This prestigious grant program (funded by the State Dept.) enables US citizen faculty and other professionals to do research and/or teach in some 150 countries.
- Fulbright Scholar grants range from a few months to a full year and many awards offer flexible durations; some offer a Flex option designed for Scholars who require multiple visits to the host country.
- Awards vary, but generally provide round-trip airfare and a maintenance allowance based on living costs in the host country.
- The national deadline is September 15 for most programs.
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Listed below are international funding opportunities identified in the past week. All other open opportunities may be accessed in a searchable database by clicking on the button to the right. |
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Global IDEAS hosts the International Data Portal where you can learn about MSU's international presence. There is information about past international awards, educational programming, and MSU's international student body. |
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Visit the new foundation funding opportunities website created and maintained by the MSU Office of Foundation Relations. This website is updated daily and provides a resource for MSU researchers to learn more about current and upcoming foundation funding opportunities. |
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Interested in pursuing a subaward opportunity with USAID?
to search open subaward opportunities by sector and location.
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Verra invites proposals for the development of a new VCS methodology or module under VM0042 Methodology for Improved Agricultural Land Management, v2.0 for the quantification of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in rice production systems.
Verra is initiating the development of a new methodology or module following the inactivation of the UNFCCC CDM rice methodology AMS-III.AU.: Methane emission reduction by adjusted water management practice in rice cultivation.
Practices used in rice production systems that focus on shortening the intermittent flooding period to alternate wet and dry soil conditions, such as midseason drainage and alternate wetting and drying, have a high potential to reduce methane emissions. However, there is some evidence that these activities contribute to increased nitrogen emissions and soil organic carbon losses, which must be taken into account when quantifying the total GHG emission balances of these practices.
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Award size: $80,000
Deadline: August 25, 2023
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Since 1984, the U.S. Congress has made funds available to the Cochran Fellowship Program for training agriculturalists from middle-income countries, emerging markets, and emerging democracies. Training opportunities are for senior and mid-level specialists and administrators working in agricultural trade and policy, agribusiness development, management, animal, plant, and food sciences, extension services, agricultural marketing, and many other areas.
Please see appendix for full SOWs and learning objectives that include:
- Adoption of Biotechnology and Science-Based Agricultural Policy for Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Uganda
- Community Based Aquaculture Development for Senegal
- Women in Agriculture: Entrepreneurship for Food Processing, Packaging and Value Chain for India
- Peoples Republic of China – Feed Ingredients for Aquaculture and Animal Husbandry
- Peoples Republic of China – Food Service Chief Training Program
- Climate Smart Agriculture for Vietnam
- Effective Implementation of Climate Smart Agricultural Technology for Thailand
- Biotechnology Adoption and Biosafety for Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras
- Biotechnology: Policies, Management, and Public Outreach for Argentina and Paraguay
- Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices and Extension for Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Guyana
- Post-Harvest and Storage Handling of U.S. Grains for Dominican Republic
- Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Initiative for Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Peru
- Hotel Foodservice Industry Trends & Best Practices for Mexico, Monterrey
- Stock Inventory Management for Peru and Ecuador
- U.S. Tree Nuts as Food Ingredients for Brazil
- Hotel Foodservice Industry Trends & Best Practices for Mexico
- Introduction to U.S. Gastronomy and Food Ingredients for Colombia
- Promotion & Marketing of U.S. Seafood for Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo
- U.S. Private Label Management for People’s Republic of China
- Utilization of American Softwood for Vietnam
- U.S. Sweets and Snacks for Bangladesh
- Marketing and Grading of U.S. Hardwood for Pakistan
- Overview of U.S. East Coast Seafood and New Species for People’s Republic of China
- Promotion of U.S. Tree Nuts for Turkey
- Building Resilience through Climate-Smart Agriculture for Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Overview of Animal Health and Disease Management for Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Climate Smart Agriculture and Food Systems Innovation for Serbia
- Women in Agriculture Entrepreneurship and Food Production for Serbia
- Overview of Climate-Smart Agricultural for Turkey
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Award size: $ 150,000
Deadline: August 25, 2023
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Since 1984, the U.S. Congress has made funds available to the Cochran Fellowship Program for training agriculturalists from middle-income countries, emerging markets, and emerging democracies. Training opportunities are for senior and mid-level specialists and administrators working in agricultural trade and policy, agribusiness development, management, animal, plant, and food sciences, extension services, agricultural marketing, and many other areas.
Please see appendix for full SOWs and learning objectives that include:
- Women in Agriculture: Entrepreneurship for Food Processing, Packaging, and Value Chain
- Food Safety Standards and Regulations for Nigeria
- WTO Adherence: SPS, TBT, & TFA Agreements
- Food Safety Standards and Regulations
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Award size: $150,000
Deadline: August 25, 2023
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Climate, Water, Environment, & Energy
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Both U.S.-based and Japan-based science and engineering communities have separately demonstrated commitment to conducting rigorous, cutting-edge research to support improved policies and practices for disaster risk reduction. This DCL invites teams of U.S. and Japan researchers to propose new data and data-driven research projects centered on human dimensions of disaster resilience. Proposers are particularly encouraged to submit proposal that exploit special synergies and transfer learning between Japanese and U.S. contexts. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, new measures and data types; new data integration methods; novel approaches to leveraging existing and emerging data sources; and efforts that move beyond discipline-based science and engineering approaches, including multidisciplinary and large-scale simulations. Projects that have potential to advance the four priority areas of the Sendai Framework are of particular interest.
This opportunity invites joint research proposals from U.S.-Japan team. JST will fund the Japan side of selected projects; NSF will fund the U.S. side. NSF encourages proposals from teams that bring together a diversity of expertise and perspectives.
Proposals in response to this DCL are welcomed by the following NSF programs:
- Smart and Connected Communities (Integrative Research Grants, Track 2) in Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
- Budgets may be up to the limit specified below.
- Note that NSF-JST proposals count against the limit on proposals per PI in this solicitation.
- Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
- Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (HDBE) in Engineering (ENG)
- Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS) in Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE)
JST and NSF will each independently review the proposals submitted through their systems using their own review criteria and procedures. Following those reviews, joint decisions will be made regarding funding. Proposals submitted in response to this DCL, and corresponding unattributed reviews and panel summaries may be shared with JST to facilitate joint award decision-making.
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Award size: up to $500,000
Deadline: August 18, 2023
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Launched in 2017, the Allianz Climate Risk Award celebrates scientists at the start of their career whose work sheds light on the nexus between climate change and extreme weather events.
The award is open to PhD candidates and Post-Doctoral researchers whose research focuses on:
- Reducing the risk of extreme weather events that are intensified by climate change;
- Fostering resilience by applying technological solutions.
Ten candidates are shortlisted by a jury and their work is published in a Compendium. Out of the 10, three are invited to Munich, Germany, to present their research at an awards ceremony. The finalists all receive funding to support their research.
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Award size: see website
Deadline: August 31, 2023
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NOAA’s mission is to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, ocean, and coasts, to share that knowledge and information with others, and to conserve and manage coastal marine ecosystems and resources. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) complements the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) to provide the largest direct investment to date in our Nation’s coastal resilience. Over 40% of the U.S. population lives in coastal counties, producing more than $9.65 trillion in goods and services and employing 54.6 million people.
Within the Climate Ready Coasts component of the IRA, NOAA will work with partners from multiple sectors in the U.S. coastal and Great Lakes states and territories to help address localized impacts of climate change that would otherwise have an outsized economic and societal impact on the entire nation. The Climate Resilience Accelerators component of the IRA will fund accelerator entities to support businesses navigating commercialization pathways for coastal and ocean-based resilience solutions related to NOAA’s mission to help communities prepare for, adapt to, and build resilience to climate challenges. The accelerators will support entrepreneurs and startups with training, resources, mentorship, and funding to bring ocean-based climate resilience solutions to market. Climate resilience focused start-ups and innovative technologies are critical to the growth of the resilience economy in the United States. Start-ups drive technology development, business model innovation, and job creation. However, the market has not demonstrated the ability to provide sufficient capital, business development services, and entrepreneurial training to early-stage climate resilience-focused companies.
NOAA recognizes that successfully navigating commercialization pathways in the climate resilience market requires a variety of services over and above capital access, including mentorship, capacity building, testing facilities, business development, data processing and storage capabilities, and connections to manufacturers. Business accelerators provide important services that assist start-ups in commercialization pathways and play an increasingly important role for companies and entrepreneurs who may have raised initial capital through private foundations or small business innovation research (SBIR) grants but
struggle to bring their company to market. Strong business accelerator services—including, but not limited to, mentoring, entrepreneurial training, prototyping assistance, and follow-on commercialization support—not only provide direct support for early-stage start-ups, but also have the potential to de-risk the start-ups for follow-on investors.
Accelerators have the potential to spur regional economic development, strengthen national innovation capacity, and propel the advancement of ocean-based climate resilience solutions to market. By recruiting and selecting promising entrepreneurs and startups, connecting entrepreneurs with manufacturers and other key resources, and advising start-ups to prudently use their capital on vital services, accelerators play a critical role in supporting commercialization pathways. Accelerators can also play a key role in advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility within innovation ecosystems by prioritizing these practices within the accelerator’s own organizational culture, by engaging in partnerships with diverse organizations and stakeholders, through the entrepreneurs and businesses that are selected to participate in accelerator programming, and by integrating relevant best practices into the accelerator’s approach to outreach, curriculum, and retention.
The objectives of the NOAA Ocean-Based Climate Resilience Accelerators two-phase opportunity are to:
- Establish a network of ocean-based climate resilience accelerator entities across the nation with coordinated support to better understand how ocean observation technologies and information services can support solutions to climate resilience challenges, enable sustainable business models for US businesses delivering such solutions, and increase competitive advantages for innovators to meet these challenges.
- Support entrepreneurs and startups that are developing ocean-based climate resilience focused products or services.
- Accelerate and catalyze investment in ocean-based climate resilience-focused businesses by providing funding, where appropriate, as well as access to growth capital and support in networking for innovative technologies and startups.
- Leverage and advance startups and technologies that have already received federal investments (from SBIR/STTR and other BIL and IRA projects) to enable more product and service development and industry adoption.
- Advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility within ocean-based climate resilience business innovation ecosystems.
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Award size: $50,000 up to $250,000
Deadline: September 11, 2023
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Climate variability and change present society with significant economic, health, safety, and security challenges. As part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) climate portfolio within the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), the Climate Program Office (CPO) addresses these climate challenges by managing competitive research programs through which high-priority climate science, assessments, decision-support research, outreach, education, and capacity-building activities are funded to advance our understanding of the Earth’s climate system, and to foster the application and use of this knowledge to improve the resilience of our Nation and its partners.
Through this announcement, CPO is seeking applications for three individual competitions in FY23. These competitions are relevant to one of the high-priority climate risk areas CPO is focusing on to improve science understanding and/or capabilities that result in user-driven outcomes: Extreme Heat.
NOAA, OAR, and CPO require applicants and awardees to support the principles of diversity and inclusion when writing their proposals and performing their work; indeed, applicants will be evaluated, in part, on how well principles of diversity and inclusion are addressed. Diversity is defined as a collection of individual attributes that together help organizations achieve objectives. Inclusion is defined as a culture that connects each employee to the organization. Promoting diversity and inclusion improves creativity, productivity, and the vitality of the climate research community in which CPO engages.
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Award size: $3M up to $9M
Deadline: October 16, 2023
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The U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong & Macau’s Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for one cooperative agreement to carry out the 2024 EducationUSA Academy Scholarship Program (Academy) in Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR, China.
Priority Region: Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR
Program Objectives: Up to ten 15- to 17-year-old students from Hong Kong and Macau will participate in the U.S. Department of State EducationUSA Academy (Academy) summer enrichment program in 2024. In addition to English language training, the program facilitates the development of skills necessary for success as undergraduates at U.S. higher education institutions. In-person Academy sessions are intensive campus-based programs that provide participants with the experience of living on a U.S. campus and exploring the U.S. higher education landscape and options. A list of institutions can be found here.
PAS Hong Kong and Macau invites U.S., Macau, and Hong Kong organizations skilled in facilitating and managing academic exchange programs to strengthen cultural ties between the United States and Hong Kong and Macau to submit a proposal for a Cooperative Agreement to implement this program.
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Award size: $100,000 up to $160,000
Deadline: August 31, 2023
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U.S. Embassy Abidjan (Ivory Coast) announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a new project designed to bolster the ability of African governments to negotiate effectively with non-traditional official lenders on sovereign debt and commercial transactions. Priorities include the provision of transaction advisory services and capacity-building activities for African government entities.
Projects should be designed to achieve the following U.S. Embassy Policy/Program Objectives:
- Empower host governments to negotiate effectively with non-traditional official lenders.
- Enhance African debtor countries’ understanding of debt contracting with non-traditional official lenders.
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Award size: $4M up to $4,937,500
Deadline: August 10, 2023
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Migration & Human Trafficking
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement(s) from qualified entities to implement the Combatting Forced Labor in Cuban Medical Missions program. Consistent with the Administration’s goal of supporting the Cuban people, including promoting accountability for human rights abuses, the overall objective of this program is to combat forced labor in Cuba’s medical missions programs through increased documentation of human rights abuses, and domestic and international advocacy.
Since 2019, the U.S. Department of State has categorized Cuba as “Tier 3” in its annual Trafficking in Persons Report,2 in part, due to “a government policy or pattern to profit from labor export programs with strong indications of forced labor, particularly its foreign medical missions’ program.” While the Cuban government signs lucrative contracts to send medical brigades to other countries in an attempt to buy goodwill and support, it violates the basic rights of these medical workers. There has been documentation that the Cuban government has kept the majority of overseas medical workers’ wages, confiscated their passports, controlled access to their family members, and punished any individual who defects from the program.
Applicants are encouraged to develop intermediate results, indicators and targets that would help measure progress toward achievement of the stated program objective of combatting forced labor of Cuban medical workers.
The following are illustrative activities that may be proposed:
- Provide new documentation on specific human rights violations against Cuban medical workers in overseas missions and their effects on Cubans on the island that can be used for messaging and advocacy.
- Develop and implement comprehensive communications plans to inform Cuban citizens on the island, those in overseas missions, and the international community about human rights violations against medical workers.
- Develop and distribute educational materials to Cubans on the island, and in medical missions, on indicators of human trafficking and their rights based on internationally-recognized standards.
- Develop advocacy plans and recommendations to inform policymakers in national governments and international bodies about rights abuses being committed against Cuban workers so that they can develop policies that help protect the human rights and labor conditions of these workers.
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Award size: $1 up to $2M
Deadline: August 12, 2023
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The TIP Office announces an open competition for projects to combat human trafficking in Zambia. The program will be jointly developed and implemented by the U.S. Government, the Government of Zambia, and the selected implementing partner(s) through a multi-year partnership.
The purpose of the partnership and program is to strengthen the efforts of Zambia’s government and civil society organizations to prevent human trafficking; proactively identify, protect, and provide comprehensive, trauma-informed care for victims of trafficking; effectively investigate, prosecute, and convict perpetrators of human trafficking; and create an enabling environment to promote effective collaboration and partnerships to address human trafficking. This partnership will encompass all forms of human trafficking and will target both adult and child victims. This program will be modeled after the successful Child Protection Compact (CPC) Partnerships and expanded to comprehensively address trafficking of adults.
The anticipated, broad objectives include:
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Prevention: There is widespread awareness and understanding of human trafficking crimes in targeted communities; stakeholders in government, civil society, and communities understand and address the key factors leading to human trafficking and families and individuals are stable and resilient to vulnerabilities that can lead to human trafficking.
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Protection: There is a multi-sectoral, clear, and well understood mechanism for identifying and referring trafficking victims to care. Care is available and readily accessible to trafficking victims. The mechanism and subsequent care are victim-centered and trauma informed.
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Prosecution: According to their respective roles, justice sector actors apply anti-trafficking laws to identify and investigate cases of human trafficking in victim-centered, and trauma-informed manners, and use evidence and build successful cases against perpetrators to secure convictions.
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Partnership: Partnerships, cooperation and coordination are flourishing across multiple sectors and actors involving human trafficking, including, but not limited to, government agencies, government and civil society, trafficking victims and justice sector actors, communities and civil society, and governments and their foreign counterparts when foreign trafficking victims are involved.
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Award size: $4M up to $12M
Deadline: August 31, 2023
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The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Research Cooperation. The MOU provides an overarching framework to encourage collaboration between U.S. and UK research communities and sets out the principles by which jointly supported activities might be developed. The MOU allows for a lead agency opportunity whereby a single international collaborative proposal may be submitted to either NSF or UKRI.
NSF and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of UKRI are pleased to announce their continued and expanded support of international collaboration under this NSF-EPSRC Lead Agency Opportunity. The goal of this activity is to promote transatlantic collaborative research by reducing some of the barriers to conducting international research that researchers may encounter. The NSF-EPSRC Lead Agency Opportunity allows U.S. and UK researchers to submit a single collaborative proposal that will undergo a single review process. This document provides guidelines for the preparation, submission, review, and award of joint NSF-EPSRC proposals.
Under the NSF-EPSRC Lead Agency Opportunity, proposals may be accepted for collaborative research in areas at the intersection of participating NSF units and EPSRC:
- Directorate for Engineering
- Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems
- Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation
- Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems
- Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities
- Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Division of Mathematical Sciences
- Division of Physics
- Division of Chemistry
- Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
- Division of Computing and Communication Foundations
- Division of Computer and Network Systems
- Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
- Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
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Award size: varies with proposal
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The Public Diplomacy Section of the U.S. Mission to South Africa announces an open competition for organizations to apply to manage personnel at four of its American Spaces in Pretoria, Johannesburg, and Cape Town. These spaces are part of a broader American Spaces network that connects South African audiences to American people, institutions, history, culture, and ideals. The U.S. Mission seeks proposals from organizations with capacity, experience, and knowledge of personnel matters, employment contracts, and labor law in South Africa.
Through strategic outreach, innovative programming, and productive alliances, the U.S. Mission to South Africa’s American Spaces Network engages South African youth, organizations, and key influencers on thematic topics of relevance to the United States and South Africa, and that support audiences’ ability to think critically, promote U.S. and South African linkages, and take action to advance health, security, governance, and prosperity in South Africa. American Spaces staff at these four locations are an essential component to local program design and execution.
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Award size: $125,000
Deadline: August 15, 2023
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The Global Engagement Center (GEC) at the Department of State, announces a Notice of Funding Opportunity for Understanding U.S. Investment in the Philippines, an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out research on the quantitative impact of investments that the U.S. government and U.S. based private sector companies, academic institutions, tourism, NGOs and others are having in the Philippines.
This is an open competition for organizations to submit proposals to gather data and conduct analysis to generate reports that combine into one dashboard of information. The report measures the quantitative impact of investments – financial, human capital, research, training, philanthropic, health, and others – that the U.S. government and U.S. based private sector companies, academic institutions, tourism, NGOs, and others are having in the Philippines.
Methodology must include not only immediately quantifiable benefits such as jobs created, tourism dollars spent, or patients treated and lives saved, but also second and third order effects to include value-chain improvements, economic growth, and improved professional capacity and quality of life. The grant recipient is also expected to aggregate the data and provide a dashboard of findings and a digital toolkit (i.e. interactive graphics, videos, digital timelines).
Priority region: All of Philippines with a focus on key areas in Luzon
Target audience: Philippine media, media adjacent organizations, NGOs, and general public
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Award size: up to $350,000
Deadline: August 25, 2023
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The Global Engagement Center (GEC) at the Department of State, announces the Notice of Funding Opportunity for Understanding PRC Economic Activities in the Philippines, an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out research and assessment of activity of the PRC state-owned enterprises in the Philippines and their societal, environmental and economic impacts.
Since 2016, there has been a significant increase in interest by PRC firms to invest in the Philippines. PRC state-owned companies’ investments in infrastructure have included several key investments in critical infrastructure sectors, including power and energy, communications, and transportation (roads, airports, ports, etc.). These investments have created social, economic, and environmental impacts in the Philippines, many of which may be unknown to key stakeholders.
The Global Engagement Center is seeking an organization capable of gathering and analyzing data on these practices, issuing analytic reports, developing dashboards and digital toolkits, and organizing regional workshops, in order to develop a comprehensive understanding of PRC investments in the Philippines, including but not limited to state-funded infrastructure, special purpose vehicles, foreign direct investment, and “flexible capital”, and their societal, environmental and economic impacts. It also seeks to map out PRC messaging in this domain.
The first report will provide an overview and assessment of PRC activity in critical industries and infrastructure. The second report will outline PRC public messaging and provide an overview of the media landscape to include the prevalence and impact of disinformation and propaganda. Furthermore, the project will host regional workshops on an array of infrastructure and critical industry activities in the Indo-Pacific. Audience will include media, local government, and civil society. The grant recipient will also aggregate the data and provide a dashboard of findings.
Priority region: All of Philippines with a focus on key areas in Luzon
Target audience: Philippine media, media adjacent organizations, NGOs, and general public
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Award size: up to $350,000
Deadline: August 25, 2023
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The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a project to support and build capacity of special justice sector actors (SJSA) while improving access to justice in Peru for rural and vulnerable populations, particularly in the regions of Puno, Cusco, Callao, and Ica. Special justice sector actors include indigenous justice systems and justices of the peace (non-lettered, meaning that they do not hold a law degree) and women judicial counselors (WJC or orientadoras judiciales in Spanish).
The project will seek to better understand, organize, build capacity, and support SJSAs, whose success will help expand access to justice for vulnerable populations and make Peru more secure, as per Mission Lima Integrated Country Strategy goals: Peru partners with the United States to create a more secure and equitable country and region and Peru strengthens inclusive democratic governance at home and abroad.
The program will also coordinate with other actors of special justice in rural areas. By strengthening SJSAs that are associated with justice sector institutions, INL can foster sustainable, stable relationships with important but often overlooked community members, while expanding access to justice in rural and/or indigenous communities, particularly regarding gender-based violence.
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Award size: $210,000 up to $250,000
Deadline: September 5, 2023
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The Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to develop and implement a Model Police Precinct (MPP) project aimed at assisting the Peruvian National Police (PNP) implement successful crime prevention strategies through the adoption of modern, proactive community policing strategies in selected designated high crime regions of Peru to increase the PNP capacity to prevent crime, reduce violence, enhance citizen security, and provide educational opportunities to vulnerable/marginalized populations to pursue PNP careers.
Partnering with the private sector and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Peru’s Model Police Precinct (MPP) project will assist the PNP in implementing modern, proactive policing strategies throughout Peru to enhance PNP capacity to prevent crime and reduce violence. This will benefit the citizenry of Peru by promoting security in local communities and fostering increased trust in the PNP, which has suffered in the wake of recent protests. The Peru MPP project is being developed for nationwide coverage. However, it will initially be implemented in up to four prioritized high-crime regions after consultation between INL, the project implementer, the PNP, and the Minister of Interior (MOI). Buy-in from the government of Peru (GOP) is critical to the project’s long-term sustainability. Later, this may be increased to seven designated regions.
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Award size: $2.5M up to $3.2M
Deadline: September 7, 2023
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The Department of State’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) aims to support a program to advance Women Peace and Security in Ukraine (WPS) by promoting women’s meaningful participation in Ukraine’s governance and decision-making on conflict prevention, mitigation, and resolution. This program will be implemented in a manner that supports the priorities of Ukraine’s revised WPS National Action Plan (2022-2025), and achieves the vision laid out in Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) and the U.S. WPS Act of 2017. Furthermore, this program will help realize the vision of a national recovery for Ukraine that achieves gender equity and social inclusion.
Women in Ukraine have stepped into new leadership roles since Ukraine’s democracy-oriented Revolution of Dignity in 2013-2014 and Russia’s aggression. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, their participation has taken on increased urgency. In December 2022, Ukraine updated its National Action Plan for WPS to emphasize women as vital actors in the war effort and at the center of reconstruction. Under extraordinarily challenging circumstances, Ukraine must build its promising post-war future by taking steps that advance sustainable peace and inclusive recovery. This initiative will amplify the contributions women have made in Ukraine’s national political leadership and local communities for years while addressing a gap in women’s meaningful participation in governance during war-time administration, as identified by UN Women and others.
Program activities will be based on a solid foundation of evidence, grounded in knowledge and expertise from Ukraine itself. Applications should take an intersectional approach and include how members of ethnic and religious minorities, people with disabilities, IDPs and refugees, veterans, youth, and sexual and gender minorities and other relevant target groups will be incorporated into the program based on the research gaps identified.
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Award size: $1.9M up to $1,975,308
Deadline: September 11, 2023
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In 2015, under the umbrella of its Creativity and Innovation Initiative, the GCSP and its Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme established a prize in order to recognize deserving individuals or organizations that have an innovative approach to addressing international security challenges.
The prize is designed to reach across all relevant disciplines and fields. It is intended to encourage and recognize excellence in contributing to new approaches to enhancing sustainable global security. A broad range of projects could qualify for consideration, including, but not limited to, technological and conceptual innovations, original research or grassroots initiatives.
They strive to provide an analysis of the broad range of factors that will shape tomorrow’s world under 5 themes:
- emerging strategic technologies: artificial intelligence and run-away technologies, synthetic biology, human enhancement, human destiny and their implications for geopolitics, security, civil liberties
- outer space: space security, space weaponization, space debris, astrobiology and their role in the future of humanity
- new international relations paradigms: neo-statecraft, meta-geopolitics, symbiotic realism, multi-sum security, and sustainable national and global governance
- neuroscience and international relations: emotionality of states, identities, neuro-philosophy, inequality, human nature, universal axiology, and human dignity
- the five dimensions of global security: human, national, transnational, environmental and transcultural security
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Award size: $10,000 up to $100,000
Deadline: September 25, 2023
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Scholarships & Fellowships
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CIFAR invites exceptional early-career researchers from across the natural, biomedical and social sciences and the humanities to join one of our interdisciplinary research programs that address some of the most important questions facing science and humanity. The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program accelerates the development of the next generation of research leaders and positions them to heighten their impact in academia and beyond.
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Award size: $100,000 CAD
Deadline: September 1, 2023
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This U.S Scholars program provides opportunities for American faculty members, artists, and independent scholars to lecture and/or conduct research at universities or research institutions in Egypt for 3 – 9 months. Awards are available in multiple disciplines.
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Award size: Stipend, travel expenses, housing, health insurance
Deadline: September 15, 2023
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The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program provides funding to the very best postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and internationally, who will positively contribute to the country's economic, social and research-based growth. There are eligible areas of research in health research, natural sciences and/or engineering, social sciences and/or humanities.
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Award size: $70,000/year (up to 2 years)
Deadline: September 20, 2023
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Global Innovations in Development, Engagement, and Scholarship (Global IDEAS) catalyzes interdisciplinary thought, research, and action to solve global/grand challenges in an international development context. We facilitate communities of practice; collaborate and engage with external partners and donors; enhance opportunities for faculty and staff to conduct research, education, and engagement; and provide proposal development and project management to support MSU’s international objectives. |
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East Lansing, MI 48823
Phone: (517) 884-2987
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