Issue 12 | Volume 11 | March 23, 2023
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International Funding Opportunities Update
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Upcoming events of the
Community of Practice on Global Development
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Town hall meeting: Engaging US and African Universities on
the US Strategy towards Sub-Saharan Africa
Monday, March 27
9:00 - 11:00AM
Networking reception to follow
Guest Speaker-
Paul Zeleza, Associate Provost and North Star Distinguished Professor at Case Western Reserve University; former President of the African Studies Association
This town hall meeting will feature Dr. Zeleza, a renowned scholar, public intellectual, and seasoned university administrator with experience in the higher education sector in six countries on three continents. Award winning author of more than two dozen books and hundreds of academic articles and popular essays, he is skilled in Academic Governance, Policy Analysis, Lecturing and Public Speaking, as well as in African, Gender, Diaspora, and Development Studies.
This event is co-hosted by Global IDEAS, the Alliance for African Partnership, and the African Studies Center.
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Global Climate Change and Food Security
Thursday, April 6
3-5PM
MSU Kellogg Center
Connect with your colleagues across multiple disciplines to discuss Global Climate Change and Food Security, April 6, from 3:00 - 5:00 P.M. at the Kellogg Center. This workshop aims to bring people from different disciplines and experiences to leverage the investments in team building and seed grants to broaden impacts and strengthen teams, while identifying specific traditional and non-traditional funding organizations, individuals, and processes.
Featuring a series of flash talks followed by break-out sessions with reporting back to the larger group, this workshop works toward a goal of developing a focused effort toward a project and grant submission. Breakout groups will meet for an hour in regionally-organized groups: Southern/Eastern Africa; West/Central/North Africa; Middle East/South Asia/Central Asia; Far East Asia/Mekong Region; Central/South America; Eurasia/Eastern Europe.
Featured Speakers
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Kristin Arola, Karen L. Gillmor Endowed Associate Professor, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Culture
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Mariel Borgman, Community Food Systems Educator, Extension Community Food and Environment
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Krista Isaacs, Assistant Professor, International Seed Systems, International agriculture, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences
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Pang-Ning Tan, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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David Tschirley, Professor, International Development, Department of Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics
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Felicia Wu, John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor, Food Safety, Toxicology, and Risk Assessment, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
This event is co-hosted by Global IDEAS, the Office of Research and Innovation and
the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
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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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The primary goal of Farmer-to-Farmer Program (F2F) is to generate sustainable, broad-based economic growth in the agricultural sector. A secondary goal is to increase the American public’s understanding of international development issues and programs and international understanding of the U.S. and U.S. development programs.
F2F objectives are to:
- increase agricultural sector productivity and profitability;
- improve conservation and sustainable use of environmental and natural resources;
- expand sector access to financial services; and
- strengthen agricultural sector institutions.
F2F activities are varied and conform to local country needs and strategic objectives. Activities are inclusive and fully demand-driven, responding to requests and needs of local hosts. F2F country project areas align with or support USAID Mission Strategies and objectives or those of other USG programs.
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Award Size: up to $12.5M
Deadline: April 20, 2023
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The technical Assistance for Specialty Crops (TASC) program is designed to assist U.S. organizations by providing funding for projects that seek to remove, resolve, or mitigate existing or potential sanitary, phytosanitary, or technical barriers that prohibit or threaten the export of U.S. specialty crops. The TASC program is administered by personnel of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC).
To be found eligible for consideration, TASC applications must address the following criteria:
- Applications must identify and address an existing or potential sanitary, phytosanitary, or technical barrier that prohibits or threatens the export of commercially available U.S. specialty crops;
- Applications must demonstrate that the proposed activities will benefit an entire industry rather than a specific company or brand;
- Applications must include an explanation as to what specifically could not be accomplished without Federal funding assistance and why the eligible organization(s) would be unlikely to carry out the project without such assistance; and
- Applications must include performance measures for quantifying progress and demonstrating results.
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Award Size: up to $500,000
Deadline: May 19, 2023
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The Emerging Markets Program (EMP) is established to develop, maintain, or expand markets for exports of United States agricultural commodities and to promote cooperation and exchange of information between agricultural institutions and agribusinesses in the United States and emerging markets.
The EMP assists U.S. entities in developing, maintaining, or expanding exports of U.S. agricultural commodities and products by funding activities that enhance emerging markets’ food and rural business systems, including reducing trade barriers. The EMP is intended primarily to support export market development efforts of the private sector, but EMP resources may also be used to assist public organizations. The EMP is administered by personnel of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC).
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Award Size: up to $500,000
Deadline: May 19, 2023
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Climate, Water, Environment, & Energy
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This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeks opportunities to co-create, co-design, co-invest and collaborate in the research, development, piloting, testing and scaling of innovative and cost-effective solutions that will advance climate action in and through education with a focus on girls' education. USAID seeks solutions that are relevant to sub-Saharan Africa and/or Southeast Asia.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) invites organizations, companies, foundations, community-based enterprises and other public and private entities, academic and research institutions, partner country government agencies, and investors to propose novel or creative approaches that:
- demonstrate how international education policy and programming can directly, intentionally, and effectively advance climate action; and
- reduce the impact of climate-related barriers on girls' education.
The Climate Action Partnership for Education (CAPE) BAA will facilitate USAID’s interest in bringing together diverse expertise from two sectors that, until recently, have been largely disparate: education and climate. While there has been more activity at the intersection of education and climate in recent years, including in USAID’s own development policies, we are far from exhausting all the opportunities at the nexus with gender.
USAID will work closely with the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) throughout this process, utilizing basic research published by FCDO on the relationship between education, girls’ education, and climate change. Partners participating in this process will work with USAID to develop and test innovative solutions that apply this and other research to deliver assistance at the intersection of education, climate, and gender.
Bold ideas championed by local and global leaders will have the potential to inspire transformational change across sectors and broaden the ways in which education, climate, and gender programming may intersect and connect in contexts where we seek to advance cross-sectoral goals.
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Award size: $4M up to $5M
Deadline: April 28, 2023
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites investigators at U.S. organizations to submit proposals to the Arctic Sciences Section in the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) within the Geosciences Directorate, to conduct research about the Arctic region.
The goal of this solicitation is to attract research proposals that advance a fundamental, process, and/or systems-level understanding of the Arctic's rapidly changing natural environment, social and cultural systems, and, where appropriate, to improve our capacity to project future change. The Arctic Sciences Section supports research focused on the Arctic region and its connectivity with lower latitudes. The scientific scope is aligned with, but not limited to, research priorities outlined in the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC)five-year plan.
The Arctic Sciences Section coordinates with programs across NSF and with other federal and international partners to co-review and co-fund Arctic-related proposals as appropriate. The Arctic Sciences Section also maintains Arctic logistical infrastructure and field support capabilities that are available to enable research.
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Award size: $300,000 min. award
Deadline: July 17, 2023
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This NOFO aims to support developmental research projects to assess the effectiveness and implementation of therapeutic and services interventions for the post-acute phase management of mental health conditions affecting children, youth, adults, and older adults in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Pilot clinical trials may assess such facilitators and barriers, whereas non-clinical trials may derive these from novel secondary data analytic approaches. The potential for reciprocal learning will be considered an added value.
For this NOFO, acute care refers to managing an episode, crisis, or worsening of mental illness that requires intense treatment to contain symptoms, prevent harm, and stabilize functioning in outpatient or hospital settings.
Across conditions, post-acute phase interventions/service strategies are needed that match the stage of illness in terms of both the focus (e.g., consolidating and maintaining gains from acute treatment, managing residual symptoms/impairment, preventing relapse, restoring community functioning, promoting adherence and appropriate service use) and intensity/burden, in order to ensure that the interventions are not only relevant and effective but also acceptable and sustainable for promoting optimal longer-term outcomes. Task-sharing (task-shifting) approaches have been used in LMICs.
Technology-assisted approaches might be especially useful for facilitating post-acute phase monitoring, delivering interventions (e.g., maintenance therapy, relapse prevention), and promoting treatment engagement/adherence and appropriate service use. Applicants will be expected to engage key personnel in the LMIC where the study will be executed. Engagement of key stakeholders related to implementation of the study, such as patients or their representatives, ministries of health, policymakers, and local institutions, is also expected.
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Award size: $450,000
Letters of intent due: May 21, 2023
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The Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute (RGHI) is pleased to announce the launch of the RGHI International Collaboration Award (ICA). The RGHI ICA is designed to support academic collaborations that advance evidence and understanding in the field of hygiene. The ICA will support research institutions to work in partnership to develop innovative solutions to improve hygiene practices. It encompasses basic research, clinical investigation, epidemiology, behavioural science, sociology, health economics and engineering.
To be eligible, the partnership must be between at least two academic institutions with at least half of the institution(s) being based in a low- or middle-income country and having a locally led research team. Eligible applications must address a pressing public health challenge related to hygiene and sanitation.
The aim of the ICA is to support equitable research partnerships that produce new evidence and result in the translation of research findings into tangible advances in hygiene practices around the world.
RGHI funds research which generates practical, high-quality scientific evidence and behavioral insights that will lead to the adoption of global sustainable hygienic practices and achieve enduring behavior change:
- Expand the body of research around and advance the understanding of the links between hygiene and health
- Enhance the understanding of best-in-class hygiene science to encourage new hygiene standards
- Promote behavior change to improve global hygiene and health
- Inform the global public health agenda
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Award Size: up to $750,000/yr for up to 3 years
Deadline: May 31, 2023
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The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce a call for proposals from U.S.-based organizations and universities for its English Language Capacity Building program. The program invites U.S.-based organizations and universities to submit a proposal to conduct a comprehensive training certificate program for English-language teachers working in public schools throughout Azerbaijan.
The program should be innovative and cost-effective with both virtual and in-person components and utilize a synchronous online learning platform, practical curriculum, and live personal coaching in support of a key Embassy goal in Azerbaijan: improve the quality of English language instruction and increase English language fluency of Azerbaijani students at all levels of education.
The program’s objectives are:
- Provide professional development opportunities to Azerbaijani English language teachers to enhance the quality of English language teaching in Azerbaijan by helping teachers reinforce their English skills and learn the latest strategies and methods for teaching English as a foreign language.
- Offer a high-quality English-language training certificate program that is based on communicative teaching methods and that focuses on enhancing the teachers and eventually their students’ conversational and comprehension skills while taking into account the elements of the National Curriculum of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
- Strengthen people-to-people ties between the United States and Azerbaijan through promotion of community service and activities to enhance critical-thinking skills among participants, information sharing, and experiences between American experts and target audiences that increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and Azerbaijan.
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Award size: $50,000 up to $100,000
Deadline: May 7, 2023
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The Department of Education is issuing a notice inviting applications (NIA) for fiscal year (FY) 2023 for the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) Program, Assistance Listing Number 84.016A. The UISFL program provides grants for planning, developing, and carrying out projects to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages in the United States.
Training in Less Commonly Taught Languages or Thematic Focus on Area Studies or International Studies Programs: Applications that propose programs or activities focused on language training or the development of area or international studies programs focused on contemporary topics or themes in conjunction with training in any modern foreign languages, except French, German, or Spanish.
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Award size: $180,000
Deadline: May 22, 2023
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The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces an open solicitation for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects strengthening human rights and fundamental freedoms, including religious freedom, in the Tibet Autonomous Region and other Tibetan areas of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The resulting project(s) will support Tibetan institutes established by Tibetan nationals and located in Asia promoting these goals
All programs should aim to have the potential for sustainability beyond DRL resources, for example, brokering sustainable partnerships between Tibetan civil society and existing educational, research and/or other institutions to increase visibility of the Tibetan movement in identified focus countries.
Successful applicants must demonstrate an ability and/or experience in managing USG funds, and/or partner with organizations that have such ability and/or experience. DRL’s preference is to avoid duplicating past efforts by supporting new and creative approaches. This does not exclude from consideration projects that improve upon or expand existing successful projects in a new and complementary way.
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Award size: $750,000 up to $3M
Deadline: May 19, 2023
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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 projects that support a more independent judiciary in Angola. DRL’s goal is that Angola's judicial sector operates with increased independence and efficiency, which will contribute to the country’s democratic opening.
In support of this goal, programs should work towards two or more of the following programming objectives:
Objective 1: Angola’s legal framework for judicial independence is strengthened.
Judicial reform is a political, as well as technical, challenge. As such, DRL encourages applicants working towards this objective to focus on building an inclusive and broad-based coalition that can produce feasible legal and operational reforms to the judiciary. Activities can include: identifying shared reform priorities among citizens, judges, and other stakeholders; conducting advocacy campaigns and dialogue sessions around potential reforms; providing technical assistance in drafting necessary reforms; strategic litigation; and providing technical assistance in implementing any new reform agenda, including conducting trainings for judges and sensitizing the public on any new policies and procedures.
Objective 2: Citizens demonstrate improved awareness of their legal rights and responsibilities.
Activities to support this objective can center around strengthening the institutional capacity of civil society, professional legal associations, journalists, and other stakeholders with a commitment to increased judicial independence. Applicants should ensure youth and women play a prominent role in advocacy activities. Approaches can facilitate awareness raising activities to improve the understanding of legal rights and responsibilities, what resources – such as legal aid - are available to citizens, and how the judicial system operates.
Objective 3: Judges and the courts have increased ability to manage and adjudicate cases fairly and effectively.
Approaches can include implementing internal evaluations, leveraging informal dispute resolution systems such as the local soba-led civil trials; and normalizing essential standards for judicial administration. This can include international and regional best practices and standards on topics such as court administration, case management, judicial ethics, discipline, budget delay reduction, human resources, and operational effectiveness. Activities should sensitize judges to specific barriers faced by women, persons with disabilities, economically disadvantaged persons, LGBTQI+ individuals, indigenous populations, and clients from other vulnerable groups.
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Award size: $3M
Deadline: May 22, 2023
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The Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Office of Export Control Cooperation (ISN/ECC) is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).
Under this NOFO, ISN/ECC seeks proposals to advance U.S. foreign policy and national security priorities by supporting initiatives that make decision-making structures and processes in fragile, conflict, or crisis-affected contexts more reflective of and responsive to the needs and perspectives of partner states to ensure strategic trade control systems meet international standards and by engaging on bilateral, regional and multilateral levels with foreign governments to aid in the establishment of independent capabilities to regulate transfers of weapons of mass destruction, WMD-related items, conventional arms, and related dual-use items, and to detect, interdict, investigate, and prosecute illicit transfers of such items.
To promote nonproliferation outcomes in Indonesia by:
- improving understanding of the importance and mechanics of foreign direct investment (FDI) screening to mitigate malign and exploitative investment activities which can undermine nonproliferation objectives and
- helping build and socialize a body of empirical research on the economic effects associated with adopting strategic trade controls (STCs).
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Award size: up ot $900,000
Deadline: April 17, 2023
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The United States Agency for International Development’s Mission in Egypt (USAID/Egypt) is seeking applications for a Cooperative Agreement from qualified entities to implement the Ending Violence against Women and Girls Activity.
Ending violence against women and girls requires multi-faceted responses and commitment from all stakeholders, including government, public international organizations, civil society, religious and community leaders, academic institutions, and other citizens. The term Violence against Women and Girls includes female genital mutilation and/or cutting, child, early and forced marriage and seasonal marriage as a form of trafficking in persons.
To achieve the overarching goal of working to end violence against women and girls, the Ending Violence against Women and Girls Activity will focus on two approaches:
- prevention by supporting positive social norm change to end violence against women and girls through local and national outreach efforts; promoting targeted community-led initiatives and strengthening the implementation of legal and policy framework criminalizing violence against women and girls, and
- response by expanding access to quality integrated violence against women and girls services and responsive interventions such as medical, psycho-social, and legal support through building the capacity of first responders and supporting an integrated referral mechanism for all victims of violence against women and girls.
USAID/Egypt anticipates that the Activity will take place in Delta and Upper Egypt. The preliminary geographic focus is up to 6 governorates within the governorates of Dakhalia, Portsaid, Demietta, Behira, Sharkia, Kafr El Sheikh, Assiut, Qena, Bensiuf, Sohag, Fayoum, Minia. The initial selection of governorates will be determined at the time of award and is subject to further revisions, including possibly adding additional governorates as determined through the annual implementation plan process and the Collaborating, Learning and Adapting requirement.
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Award size: $14M up to $15M
Deadline: May 2, 2023
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The U.S. Embassy in Amman (Jordan) announces an open competition for eligible not-for-profit organizations to submit proposals to design and implement projects that leverage or build innovative digital platforms and channels to reach and engage with Jordanian youth to address one or more of the following challenges: Unemployment or underemployment of underserved youth outside Amman; lack of gender parity in the workforce, with an emphasis on women in security and justice sectors; gender-based violence, honor killings, substance use, and/or gang violence; and low rates of political participation among youth.
The Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Embassy in Amman is soliciting proposals from eligible organizations for innovative and inclusive whole-of-society approaches to engaging youth between 12-35 years of age that includes a component(s) of gaming/gamification and/or strategic communications campaigns in order to address factors of social exclusion and discontent among underserved or underrepresented youth in Jordanian society in an effort to help mitigate vulnerabilities to recruitment and radicalization.
The program’s goals are to design audience-driven tools and projects that focus on building the critical thinking and problem solving skills of youth, aged 12-35, to ensure they are equipped with the skills and knowledge to remain proactive in identifying and addressing factors of social exclusion; push and pull factors influencing and driving recruitment efforts by extremist and violent groups; and building the skills of those most vulnerable to being exploited by malign actors, all in an effort to ensure participants are able to actively identify and mitigate rising and existing threats, and create and amplify alternative or counter narratives on identity, agency, and belonging.
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Award size: $100,000 up to $500,000
Deadline: June 5, 2023
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Scholarships & Fellowships
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The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10-month fellowships in the six Institutes of Aix-Marseille, Loire Valley, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris. It welcomes applications from high level international scholars and scientists primarily in the fields of the social sciences and the humanities (SSH).
Available positions for the 2024-2025 academic year:
- Aix-Marseille: 4
- Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours): 3
- Lyon: 10
- Montpellier: 3
- Nantes: 4
- Paris: 13
The call is open to all disciplines in the SSH and all research fields. Research projects from other sciences that features a transversal dialogue with SSH are also eligible. It is highly recommended to check the Institutes webpages to learn more about their focus, scientific priorities and partners. The Fellows will benefit from the support and conducive scientific environment offered by the IAS characterized by an interdisciplinary cohort of fellows and a close relation to the local research potential. The fellows will be free to organize their work and conduct research as they wish.
Eligibility
FIAS awards fellowships to outstanding researchers of all career levels, from postdoctoral researchers to senior scientists. The minimum requirement is a PhD + 2 years of research experience at the time of the application. Exception will be made for scholars with a Master + 6 years of full-time research experience after the degree (PhD training will not be considered in the calculation of experience).
Researchers from all countries are eligible to the FIAS Fellowship Programme but they must have spent no more than 12 months in France during the three years prior to the application deadline.
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Award Size: see website
Application portal opens April 14, 2023
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Schwarzman Scholars supports up to 200 Scholars annually from the U.S., China, and around the world for a one-year master’s in global affairs at Beijing’s Tsinghua University — ranked first in Asia as an indispensable base for China’s political, business, and technological leadership. Scholars chosen for this highly selective program will live in Beijing for a year of study and cultural immersion.
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Award Size: see website
Deadline: September 1, 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.
The objective of the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program is to:
- attract and retain top-tier postdoctoral talent, both nationally and internationally
- develop their leadership potential
- position them for success as research leaders of tomorrow
Applicants who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada may only hold their Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at a Canadian institution.
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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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1405 S. Harrison Rd. Manly Miles Bldg., Suite 308
East Lansing, MI 48823
Phone: (517) 884-2987
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