Issue 18 | Volume 11 | May 4, 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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End of Semester
Networking Event
Thursday, May 11
3:30-4:30 PM
Room 201, International Center
Join us for this informal networking event to meet new colleagues who are engaged in global development. Drinks and snacks from around the world will be provided. Bringing snacks to share is welcome, but not required.
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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 purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support dissemination and implementation (D&I) research focused on increasing access to and uptake of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing interventions – with the goal of reducing COVID-19 disparities and promoting health equity among underserved and vulnerable populations.
This NOFO will support D&I research on how evidence-based practices, interventions, and policies are effectively translated to and used in real-world settings. Projects may evaluate the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up, and sustainability of evidence-based interventions, or seek to understand the “de-implementation” of practices that are ineffective, low-value, or inequitable. Interventions developed through the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics – Underserved Populations (RADx®-UP) initiative are encouraged, but not required.
Dissemination research – the scientific study of the targeted distribution of information and intervention materials to a specific public health, clinical practice, or policy audience. The intent is to understand how best to communicate and integrate knowledge around the associated evidence-based and community engaged interventions. We are currently missing critical information about how, when, by whom, and under what circumstances scientific knowledge and evidence spreads and is understood throughout communities, organizations, front line workers, and consumers of public health and clinical services. Needed is an understanding of how and why information on COVID-19 testing may or may not reach individuals/groups or motivate uptake, as well as the processes supporting the creation, transmission, and reception of information on evidence-based COVID-19 testing interventions.
Implementation research - the scientific study of the use of strategies to adopt and integrate evidence-based health interventions into clinical and community settings to improve individual outcomes and benefit population health. Implementation research seeks to understand the behavior of practitioners and support staff, organizations, consumers, family members, and policymakers in context as key influences on the adoption, implementation, and sustainability of evidence-based COVID-19 testing interventions. Implementation studies should not assume that effective COVID-19 interventions can be integrated into any service setting and for consumer groups and populations without attention to local context, nor that a unidirectional flow of information is sufficient to achieve uptake and adoption.
Studies in the D&I field typically involve both interdisciplinary cooperation and transdisciplinary collaboration, utilizing theories, empirical findings, and methods from a variety of scientific disciplines. Relevant fields include but are not limited to: health services research, information science, organizational and management theory, health economics, behavioral science, public health, business and public administration, statistics, anthropology, epidemiology, decision science, community-engagement science, community-engaged and community-based participatory research, systems science, engineering, and marketing.
D&I research will often include significant and ongoing collaboration with stakeholders from multiple public health and/or clinical practice settings as well as communities of interest, consumers of services and their families/social networks. Wherever possible, studies of dissemination or implementation strategies should build knowledge both on the overall effectiveness of the strategies, as well as "how and why" they work. Data on mechanisms of action, moderators and mediators, and costs of dissemination and implementation strategies will greatly aid decision-making on which strategies work for which COVID-19 testing interventions, in which settings, and for what populations.
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Award size: $1.8M
Letters of intent due: June 9, 2023
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Climate, Water, Environment, & Energy
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The Save Our Seas Foundation has funded more than 480 projects in 91 countries around the globe. Each project strives for deeper understanding and more innovative solutions in marine research, conservation and education. In 2023, the foundation celebrated its 20th anniversary. With the experience and maturity we have gained during these past 20 years we look forward to the next decade as an ongoing evolutionary and refining process. We continue to grow and learn as a foundation, seeking out and supporting the best and brightest people whose innovative projects make a real and lasting impact on the health of our oceans – and ultimately for every person on the planet.
The Small Grant is designed for short (12- to 18-months) and small projects dedicated to early career scientists (within five years of a degree being awarded). Aimed at original and innovative start-up projects, the grant presents early career scientists, conservationists or educators with an opportunity to prove themselves. It targets local projects conducted by local project leaders.
Whether or not the project is part of a larger endeavour, SOSF Small Grants are for specific and finite projects. Only projects concerned with marine chondrichthyan species (sharks, rays, skates, sawfishes and chimaeras) will be considered.
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Award size: $5,000
Deadline: June 16, 2023
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Southeast Asia is a key source, transit, and destination area for illegal wildlife products. As the region acts as a lynchpin of the global wildlife trafficking supply chain, any successful effort to stop the global scourge of wildlife trafficking must include Southeast Asia. To that end, funds will support work that increases the ability of Southeast Asia to counter wildlife trafficking (CWT).
The ultimate goal of this program is to increase Southeast Asia’s will and ability to CWT and the criminal organizations that perpetrate these heinous crimes.
Priority Region/Countries: Southeast Asia; Thailand; Laos; Malaysia; Vietnam
INL seeks to fund programs that improve Southeast Asia’s will and capacity to investigate, arrest, prosecute, convict, and sentence to the fullest extent of the law the criminal organizations that perpetrate wildlife trafficking, especially the leaders and mid-level members of those organizations.
Proposals must include details on how the applicant proposes to provide technical assistance to Southeast Asia in one or more of the following areas: strengthen legislative frameworks, enhance law enforcement and investigative capabilities, develop prosecutorial and judicial capacity, and/or support cross-border law enforcement cooperation at the provincial, national, regional, and international levels.
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Award size: $750,000 up to $2M
Deadline: July 5, 2023
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Cancer is a universal challenge, posing tough, complex problems to researchers, clinicians and people living with the disease. Solving these problems demands tenacity, creativity and worldwide collaboration. Our teams rise above the boundaries of geography and discipline to take these challenges on and propel our understanding of cancer to new places.
We have announced nine of cancer's toughest challenges for the global research community to take on. These are the obstacles that continue to impede progress against cancer and that no one scientist, institution, or country can solve alone. We back world-class, multidisciplinary teams to come together, think differently and make radical progress against cancer.
Round Four Challenges include:
- Ageing and cancer
- Cancer cell plasticity
- Cancer inequities
- Chemotherapy-induced neutotoxicities
- Early-onset cancers
- Obesity, physical activity and cancer
- Retrotransposable elements
- Solid tumours in children
- T-cell receptors
Up to 12 teams will be shortlisted and will receive seed funding to help them build their full applications.
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Award size: up to $25M
Expressions of interest are due: June 22, 2023
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) seeks applications from qualified entities to implement USAID Lova: Foundational Skills for a Better Future in Madagascar.
A Malagasy proverb, Ny fianarana no lova tsara indrindra, means "Education is the best inheritance”, but the Education system in Madagascar is not providing Malagasy children with the fundamental skills they need to pursue their life goals and contribute to the development of their communities. The goal of the USAID Lova: Foundational Skills for a Better Future education activity is to implement a multi-year activity that will strengthen the Education system to enable at least 50 percent of Malagasy learners in the formal public primary schools1 included in USAID’s activity to improve their reading proficiency by at least one proficiency level as demonstrated by results on the Annual Status of Education Report(ASER)2.
The 2020-2025 USAID Madagascar’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) Goal is to improve the well-being and resilience of the Malagasy people. USAID Lova contributes to the achievement of the CDCS Development Objective I (DO I): Improved Human Capacity to Contribute to the Country's Journey to Self-Reliance.
Specifically, USAID Lova will contribute to each of the following Sub- intermediate Results:
- Use of data for decision making improved
- Quality of pre-service teacher professional development improved
- Early grade reading and literacy improved
The main purpose of the USAID Lova activity is to strengthen traditional and non-traditional learning systems and evidence-based instruction to ultimately improve the foundational skills of Malagasy learners in formal public primary schools, with an emphasis on foundational reading skills and inclusion of numeracy and socio-emotional learning as funding permits.
The activity will contribute to the achievement of results under each of the above IRs. The activity will align with the Plan d’Emergence Madagascar (PEM), the national Education Sector Plan (2018-2023) and the new Loi d’Orientation de l’Education (2022) to support the Government of Madagascar’s (GOM) efforts to improve the quality of education in Madagascar. The orientation of the activity should be guided by local voices, including civil society organizations, local Ministry of Education authorities and other local stakeholders.
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Award size: $10M
Deadline: May 30, 2023
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The Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) of the U.S. Mission to Afghanistan intends to issue an award for a period of at least 12 months to teach English language and personal development skills to a diverse audience of Afghan youth. The programs should take place outside of Afghanistan, in third countries where Afghan refugees are located and should aim for gender-balanced participation.
At least one of the programs must be exclusively for girls to ensure diversity and allow a greater overall representation of young women. The overall goal of the program is that young Afghans will receive English language instruction and other development skills in order to better prepare them to work in a global economy and to contribute to their communities.
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Award size: $500,000 up to $1M
Deadline: June 15, 2023
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The United States Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, through the Office of Public Diplomacy Section (PDS), is pleased to announce a Notice of Funding Opportunity to design and implement the BOLD Academic Fellowships Program.
The Office of Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) invites proposal submissions from U.S. public and private non-profit organizations and accredited U.S. post-secondary educational institutions (community colleges, liberal arts colleges, public and private universities) meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 USC 501(c)(3) (see section III. Eligibility Information) to design and implement one or two BOLD (Balkanski Omladinski Lideri, Balkan Young Leaders) Academic Fellowships for BiH Student Leaders, pending the availability of FY 2023 AEECA funds.
Applicants may propose to design and implement the following:
- The BOLD Academic Fellowship on civic engagement, which includes one Institute (exchange), or
- The BOLD Academic Fellowship on economic development, which includes one Institute (exchange), or
- Two BOLD Academic Fellowships, either simultaneously or asynchronously. One on civic engagement and one on economic development.
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Award size: $125,000 up to $250,000
Deadline: June 16, 2023
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The program will introduce students to U.S. foreign policy priorities in Central Asia and allow them to engage with their peers on topics relevant across the region: (1) economics, with a focus on improving regional trade flows and prospects for U.S. trade and investment; (2) shared regional environmental challenges; (3) human rights; and (4) security, with a focus on terrorist threats.
Program Goal: Develop a regional network of civically engaged and English-speaking youth leaders across Central Asia who work to advance C5+1 priorities.
Program Objectives:
- Increase understanding and knowledge of participants on U.S. foreign policy and C5+1 priorities in the region;
- Increase connectivity between English-speaking Central Asian and Afghan students attending Central Asian universities;
- Foster youth leadership by developing critical thinking and project management skills of program participants;
- Develop and execute community-based projects led by program participants and C5+1 program alumni; and
- Increase collaboration between C5+1 YC alumni and English-speaking high school and university participants through mentorship opportunities.
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Award size: $120,000
Deadline: June 16, 2023
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The Office of Global Educational Programs in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), announces an open competition for the FY 2024 Survey of International Educational Exchange Activity in the United States. U.S. public and private non-profit organizations meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 USC 501(c)(3) may submit proposals to conduct a comprehensive statistical survey (census) of foreign nationals enrolled in U.S. higher education institutions, foreign scholars at U.S. institutions, and U.S. students studying abroad for academic credit and to collaborate with national agencies, country representatives, and academic mobility researchers from around the world to collect and report accurate, timely and comprehensive data on global student mobility.
A requirement for the execution of this survey is collaborating, under ECA’s guidance, with the U.S. Department of State’s EducationUSA network, which promotes U.S. higher education in countries around the world. This includes sharing of data to include numbers of students enrolled at U.S. institutions by state, academic level and field of study, with EducationUSA Program Officers, Regional Educational Advising Coordinators (REACs) and EducationUSA advising centers. EducationUSA representatives may provide feedback and verification on country specific mobility data and support collection of data on foreign student perceptions of study abroad.
EducationUSA centers operate in variety of physical locations including U.S. embassies and consulates, Fulbright commissions, binational centers, non-governmental organizations, universities and libraries. A complete list of centers is located at http://educationusa.state.gov. The recipient should similarly collaborate with the U.S. Department of State’s USA Study Abroad programs and initiatives as relevant. More
information is available at http://studyabroad.state.gov.
Proposals should include a careful description of the methodology to be used to obtain the data called for in this solicitation. Applicant organizations should include in their proposals an efficient and economical approach to gathering data, and how they will ensure an adequate response rate from institutions surveyed.
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Award size: $500,000
Deadline: June 29, 2023
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The United States Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, through the Office of Public Diplomacy Section (PDS), is pleased to announce a Notice of Funding Opportunity to design and implement the Youth Leadership and Teacher Development Program.
The Office of Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) invites proposal submissions from U.S. public and private non-profit organizations and accredited U.S. post-secondary and secondary educational institutions (community colleges, liberal arts colleges, public and private universities) meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 USC 501(c)(3) (see section III. Eligibility Information) to design and implement the Youth Leadership and Teacher Development Program, pending the availability of FY 2023 AEECA funds.
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Award size: $60,000 up to $120,000
Deadline: June 30, 2023
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Migration & Human Trafficking
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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 strengthening labor rights protections for migrant workers in Southeast Asia. Proposals may target up to three sectors (with the exclusion of the fishing industry), and should have particular emphasis on workers in the informal economy. Programs may propose to work with migrants in one country or across multiple countries.
Programs should aim to achieve the following objectives:
- Migrant workers in host country or countries in Southeast Asia organize to advocate for their rights, including legal wages and formalized payments; legal work hours and paid overtime; health and safety at work and remedy of work related health issues; and access to social protections;
- Workers advocate for governments across Southeast Asia to coordinate in facilitating safe migration patterns, including through memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with sourcing countries, to ensure fair recruitment; and
- Workers and allied groups advocate for labor inspectors to practice due diligence in enforcing labor law within migrant labor workplaces, whether in formal or informal sectors.
Proposed projects should be designed to achieve the following outcomes:
- Workers and allied groups advocate for improved due diligence and enforcement of labor law within migrant labor workplaces via labor inspectors or other methods;
- Migrant workers have access to formalized payments, paid overtime, better occupational health and safety conditions, and social protections;
- Governments have policies and practices in place to ensure safe migration patterns and fair recruitment;
- Application of labor laws to special economic zones is expanded and strengthened; and
- Workers are aware of their rights to organize.
Competitive programs must be implemented by, or partner with, local civil society organizations and support locally led efforts. Proposals should clearly outline the roles and responsibilities of partners and include letters of commitment from proposed groups. Applicants should consider all stakeholders when designing the program approach. Applicants must discuss other ongoing efforts and existing work in this area, as well as how the proposed program will add to and align with this work without duplicating efforts.
All programs should aim to have impact that leads to reforms and have the potential for sustainability beyond DRL resources. 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: $1.2M
Deadline: June 14, 2023
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The Bureau of Global Public Affairs (GPA) serves the American people by effectively communicating U.S. foreign policy priorities and the importance of diplomacy to American audiences, and engaging foreign publics to enhance their understanding of and support for the values and policies of the United States. Through proactive outreach, interaction, and engagement with foreign media, GPA expands the reach and effectiveness of U.S. policy messaging on issues that are important to the United States and the American people.
The FPC invites qualified and experienced applicants to submit proposals for a cooperative agreement to serve as an implementation partner for their International Media Reporting Programs, which support Department of State (DOS) foreign policy goals and objectives for foreign audiences.
Awardee will implement all three types of FPC International Media Programs:
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Co-operative Media Productions (CMP; 2-4 participants): CMPs are conducted primarily for foreign visual or audio content creators from the same country or region. Most CMPs are comprised of one or two media outlets. Participants from each outlet typically include a journalist and a camera operator. CMPs are led by an American contracted field producer with extensive experience in both visual productions and in arranging "on location" coverage of sites and events.
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Sub-regional Reporting Programs (SRRP; 4-12 participants): SRRPs are conducted primarily for foreign media from the same country or region. SRRPs are typically comprised of three to six media outlets, including a journalist/editor and camera operator from each outlet. These outlets from the same country or region share common reporting interests on a narrowly defined topic. SRRPs are normally led by an American contracted field producer with extensive experience in both visual productions and in arranging "on location" coverage of sites and events; and
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Multi-Regional Reporting Programs (MRRP; 12-25): MRRPs are conducted for groups of 12-25 foreign correspondents reporting in all formats: print, radio, online, and self-sufficient video or multi-media. These groups may consist of twelve or more journalists from a single country, from different countries within a geographic sub-region, or from multiple regions of the world. MRRPs do not typically accommodate broadcast television crews with accompanying camera operators, although group participants may capture their own video.
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Award size: $600,000
Deadline: May 22, 2023
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The Hinrich Foundation supports trade research projects that advance the understanding of global trade issues and support policy development.
The objective of our research program is to support informed policymaking and business decision making through analysis and insights on global trade issues. We aim to provide easily accessible research products for stakeholders of trade, who may be government agencies, companies, advisers, media, trade professionals, think tanks, NGOs, industry associations, chambers of commerce, academia, or students.
Research Focus
While the Foundation’s research program promotes research across many sectors, we strive to highlight areas of study that require more attention, notably:
- Sustainable trade;
- Digital trade;
- Trade and geopolitics; and
- Foreign direct investment (FDI).
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Award size: varies with proposal
Deadline: May 31, 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 ISN-ECC FY23 NOFO SAMS Domestic 2 items, and to detect, interdict, investigate, and prosecute illicit transfers of such items.
ISN/ECC envisions that this award will produce the following deliverables:
- Develop a mentorship framework to serve as a guide for the mentor/mentee relationship;
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Enroll at least six mentees from Southeast Asia. Grantee will work with EXBS to identify and select appropriate candidates in the first round and in the second round of pairings;
- dentify at least six individuals from the strategic trade community to serve as mentors for the first and second rounds of pairings;
- Project completion (and roll out of project, as appropriate), presentation, and report from mentor/mentee pair;
- At least two virtual check-in engagements with mentor/mentee pair;
- One in-person workshop for at least 12 individuals (six mentors, six mentees) for the first round of pairings; and
- One in-person workshop for at least 18 individuals (six mentors, six mentees from round one, six mentees from round 2) for completion of the first round of pairings and launch of second round of pairings.
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Award size: $450,000
Deadline: June 8, 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 a project that supports media literacy in Bulgaria.
DRL’s goal is that citizens of Bulgaria engage critically with the many forms of media available to them to build a healthier, more vibrant civil society and democracy. The main program objective is to empower citizens with media literacy skills to engage in the information environment in a safe, responsible, and discerning manner, and with tools to detect and reject dis- and misinformation.
A preliminary activity should include conducting or leveraging existing baseline surveys or assessments of which populations require media literacy training most and which methodologies will be most effective. Participant demographics could include youth, specific sectors of business and civil society, elderly, religious, racial, or ethnic communities, underserved groups, and/or those living in geographic regions determined to have low levels of media literacy, especially regions outside Sofia.
Additional activities should include:
- partnerships with relevant entities (public and/or private) to build robust media literacy curricula and/or activities based on identified needs;
- delivery of the curricula and programs to the target populations via relevant and innovative platforms;
- other initiatives (such as public awareness campaigns, fact-checking tools and methodologies, youth debates, competitions, games, or infotainment/news programs) that encourage critical thinking to detect and reject dis- and misinformation in media; and
- a monitoring and evaluation plan to inform the life cycle of the program as well as best practices for future media literacy efforts.
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Award size: $878,045
Deadline: June 19, 2023
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Project Goal: A group of Indian opinion leaders will have a deeper understanding of the extent, scope, and significance U.S.-India strategic partnership in the current geopolitical scenario; analyze the prospects and challenges of taking it to the next level; recognize that in the present geopolitical scenario, the United States is able and willing to be a partner of choice for India; and disseminate this knowledge to key audiences through media platforms of their choice.
Program Objectives:
- Within six months of the project period, a group of at least 40 Indian strategic analysts and opinion leaders representing key thematic areas and sectors influencing U.S.-India Defense and Security partnership will engage in a series of (at least four) virtual meetings to analyze the current extent and significance of the partnership and identify prospects and challenges of taking it to the next level.
- Within eight months of the project period, the 40 analysts representing different sectors will convene in a city in Southern India to explore cross-sectoral cooperation by participating in a series of interactive engagements, networking opportunities, and site visits, and formulate a media plan to further disseminate the significance of the partnership to key audiences.
- Within 10 months of the project period, the grantee will work with the U.S. experts and Indian participants to create/produce/broadcast at least five opinion pieces in leading Indian publications; 10 podcasts and/or interviews with prominent Indian media with significant viewership.
- Within 12 months of the project period, the grantee will organize follow on virtual meetings with the participants as required and assess the change in understanding and behavior of project participants through curated pre-and post-event polls and surveys and conduct qualitative as well as quantitative analyses of the participants’ traditional and social media output over a period of time, including (but not limited to) writings, interviews, podcasts etc. commissioned as part of the project.
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Award size: $130,000 up to $150,000
Deadline: June 24, 2023
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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards recognize fundamental contributions in a broad array of areas of scientific knowledge, technology, humanities and artistic creation.
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
- Ecology and Conservation Biology
- Climate Change
- Economics, Finance and Management
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Music and Opera
The Climate Change award recognizes both research endeavors in confronting this challenge and impactful actions informed by the best science. In Humanities and Social Sciences, the award will alternate annually between these two disciplinary domains, with this sixteenth edition dedicated to the Social Sciences.
Finally, the Music and Opera category encompasses composition, instrumental and vocal performance, musical and stage direction, and video art creation associated with musical or operatic works.
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Award size: 400,000 euro in each of eight categories
Deadline: June 30, 2023
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The U.S. Embassy in Budapest, Hungary of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to provide support to Hungarian independent media outlets and civil society organizations actively advancing media freedom in Hungary.
Program Objectives: Activities under this cooperative agreement will support the independent media landscape in Hungary by enabling independent media and/or civil society organizations to promote high-quality journalism and the long-term viability of independent media outlets and journalists.
The implementing partner will manage funds that will be disbursed to sub-recipients for either pre-planned expenditures or “rapid response funds” for unforeseen expenditures that generally fall within the following funding categories:
- Travel for journalists, researchers, technicians, editorial staff, or other essential personnel for the purposes of reporting, conducting interviews, conducting research, or other activities that contribute to independent journalistic activities.
- Transportation, lodging, and meals/incidental expenses for rural journalists to travel to Budapest for media training, conferences, professional development, consultations, and reporting activities.
- Short-term professional development courses for journalists (non-degree programs) and associated travel costs.
- Programmatic and administrative costs associated with internships, fellowships, or other training and development programs for emerging journalists or technical staff.
- Fees to access to research databases, archives, or other online resources that advance independent journalistic reporting.
- Legal or administrative fees related to access to information, legal proceedings, or other administrative processes essential to operations.
- Logistical expenditures related to journalistic reporting and research (translations, transcriptions, audio/video production, equipment rental, venue rental, etc.).
- Event production costs for journalist trainings, media literacy programming, public information campaigns, public exhibitions, etc.
- Publication of educational materials (including translation of materials into Hungarian)
- Costs for licensing, subscription, marketing, financial management, or consulting services, software, or databases.
- Support for digital infrastructure, to include web design, online hosting, web optimization, development of mobile applications, community managers, etc.
- Conduct of market analysis, public opinion polling, or other research related to the Hungarian media landscape, media consumption trends.
- Other similar activities approved by the U.S. Embassy in Budapest.
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Award size: $75,000 up to $500,000
Deadline: June 30, 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, “Criminal Justice Task Force Initiative” that will provide an opportunity for police, investigators, judges, prosecutors, and other relevant justice sector representatives to produce sustainable, long-term change within their institutions and the justice system through a coordinated and integrated approach to tackling cross-sectoral criminal justice problems.
The Program should be designed to take a multi-phased approach for selected cross-sectoral teams of criminal justice officials, experts, and practitioners whose participation will be instrumental to tackling a pressing criminal justice reform issue.
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Award size: $600,000 up to $700,000
Deadline: June 30, 2023
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U.S. Embassy Tokyo’s Public Affairs Section announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to address Building Indo Pacific Cyber Security Allied with eSports.
Priority Region: Japan
Program Objectives:
- This project aims to improve regional connectivity and cooperation while increasing global competitiveness by fostering exchanges between the United States, Japan, and Indonesia through video games and interactive media.
- The project will involve a week-long tour to Indonesia for Japanese university students to participate in workshops, conferences, and visits to universities and/institutes focused on cyber security, developing technologies, and/or democracy education organized in collaboration with U.S Embassy or Consulate in Indonesia.
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Award size: $60,000 up to $70,000
Deadline: June 30, 2023
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A key initiative of the President of the Republic in favor of the modernization of French official development assistance, the Fund for Innovation in Development is a new and ambitious financing mechanism.
Its mission is to promote and accelerate innovative solutions with high potential for transformation, in response to major global development challenges and based on the rigor of scientific evaluation and experimentation.
FID provides support at the intersection of cutting-edge research development economics and innovative ideas. It opens up access to flexible grant funding at each stage of innovation development to test ideas in real conditions, take risks, demonstrate what works and deploy the most effective solutions at scale.
The ambition of the Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) is to support innovation in the service of the fight against poverty and inequality. It allows innovators from all types of organizations – research institutions, NGOs, governments, companies – to test new ideas, experiment and demonstrate what works on the basis of proven scientific evaluation approaches, and scale the most effective solutions with the most positive and lasting impact. FID offers flexible financing via staged grants for emerging or growing innovations.
FID takes a broad view of "innovation", considering any solution with strong potential to achieve development impact at scale in less costly, faster or otherwise more feasible ways than existing approaches. FID seeks to support any innovation that more effectively or efficiently addresses poverty and inequality around the world.
Funding varies with the project stage.
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Award size: Development stage (up to $50,000); Pilot (up to $200,000); Testing (up to $1.5M); Transition to scale (up to $4M)
Deadline: Applications accepted at any time
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Scholarships & Fellowships
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The Fulbright Program offers international educational and cultural exchange programs designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the US and the people of other nations. Fulbright is funded by US government grants and operates through various initiatives in over 160 partner countries.
There are Fulbright programs in diverse fields for students, scholars, professionals, and more. Fulbright recipients study, teach, or pursue important research and professional projects abroad.
Fulbright US Student Program at MSU
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Award size: varies with assignment
MSU Deadline: September 1, 2023 (National deadline mid-October)
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The Co-operative Research Programme’s (“CRP”) main aim is to strengthen scientific knowledge and provide relevant scientific information and advice that will inform future policy decisions related to the sustainable use of natural resources, in the areas of food, agriculture, forests and fisheries. The objective and work of the CRP are anchored in both a policy and scientific environment in the fields of food, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, which, more than ever, are developed in a multidisciplinary environment. This happens so as to respond to the varied demands from a range of stakeholder groups with interests in these fields, and to take into account that the world is globalised and food production systems are interlinked.
Applications are invited from research scientists working in agriculture, forestry or fisheries and who would like to conduct research projects abroad, in another member country of the Co-operative Research Programme. The aim of the Research Fellowships is to strengthen the international exchange of ideas and increase international mobility and co-operation among scientists working in these areas.
Applications relevant to the work of the OECD Committee for Agriculture and other bodies are particularly welcome:
- Sustainable and resilient productivity growth and food security and nutrition;
- Climate change mitigation, reducing emissions from agriculture and food systems, carbon sequestration in agriculture, forestry and land use;
- Halting and reversing forest loss and land degradation;
- Reducing the negative environmental impacts of livestock production and practices harmful to animal health and welfare, investigating the positive contribution livestock can make to soil quality and management, biodiversity and livelihoods;
- Biodiversity, enhancing ecosystem services;
- Improving soil health and water and air quality, including through agro-ecological and other innovative, context specific approaches.
- Innovations in the transfer and development of agricultural knowledge, including Indigenous and traditional knowledge;
- Fisheries and aquaculture productivity, sustainability and resilience.
Countries participating in the CRP: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.
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Award size: Travel expenses, stipend
Deadline: September 10, 2023
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Established in 1967, the International Affairs Fellowship (IAF) aims to bridge the gap between the study and making of U.S. foreign policy by creating the next generation of scholar-practitioners. The program offers its fellows the unique chance to experience a new environment and gain a different perspective at a pivotal moment in their careers.
Academics are placed in public service and policy-oriented settings and government officials in scholarly settings. The IAF program now has more than 650 alumni constituting a who’s who of the U.S. foreign policy community, and include a former secretary of state, several undersecretaries of state and defense, ambassadors, and many other influential leaders in government, academia, and the private sector.
Fellows seeking to spend the fellowship year working at a U.S. government agency likely will need to obtain a security clearance. The process for obtaining a security clearance can be lengthy, and the U.S. government alone determines when a clearance can be granted. Because of the time needed to obtain a security clearance, affected fellows need to be flexible about their fellowship start date and/or be willing to begin their fellowships in a position that does not require a security clearance. Placements at international organizations, academic institutions, think tanks, and on Capitol Hill typically do not require security clearances.
Each year, to ensure that national security remains a focus within the program, two or more awardees whose proposed research focuses on existing or emerging national security threats are given the special designation of International Affairs Fellow in National Security.
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Award size: $120,000
Applications can be submitted between July 1 and October 31, 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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1405 S. Harrison Rd. Manly Miles Bldg., Suite 308
East Lansing, MI 48823
Phone: (517) 884-2987
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