Issue 44 | Volume 10 | November 17, 2022
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International Funding Opportunities Update
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Upcoming events of the
Community of Practice on Global Development
Gender and Global Development
Wednesday, November 30
10am-11:30am
on Zoom
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Speakers at this event will include:
- Marcy Hessling O’Neil, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
- Linda Racioppi, Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, James Madison College
- Veronique Theriault, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
This event is co-hosted by Global IDEAS and the Center for Gender in Global Context
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Coffee hour with Global IDEAS
These informal gatherings present an opportunity to meet Global IDEAS staff, and network with other MSU researchers engaged in international research.
Thursday, December 1, 9am in Room 303 of the International Center
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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 Mercury Project research consortium supports the development and testing of interventions to build Covid-19 vaccination demand and healthier information environments. The Mercury Project supports the “social and behavioral science R&D” (Kremer et al 2021) necessary to develop effective interventions to increase vaccination demand. Teams funded under the Mercury Project will rigorously design and test interventions with the potential to be cost-effective at scale in increasing demand for Covid-19 vaccination, other vaccinations, and additional preventative health technologies, and in building healthier information environments.
To apply for funding through the NSF-Mercury Project partnership, investigators may apply to any of the NSF programs listed below.
Participating NSF programs include:
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Total program funding: $20M
Deadlines in January and February, 2023 (varies with NSF program)
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Climate, Water, Environment, & Energy
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The National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA/NMFS) Pacific Islands Regional Office (hereinafter, "PIRO") is soliciting competitive applications for the FY2023 International Marine Turtle Management and Conservation Program.
This program supports conservation, protection, or management actions supporting recovery of Endangered Species Act (ESA) listed sea turtle species occurring within the Pacific Islands Region (PIR) or of aggregations (or species) with international linkages to the PIR. Such internationally-shared species may migrate through, forage within, or be impacted by PIR federally managed activities and are relevant to NOAA/NMFS management and recovery obligations.
For the FY2023 funding competition, we are soliciting internationally-based projects to:
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monitor, protect and conserve western Pacific leatherback sea turtles occurring in Indonesia and Solomon Islands, and
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sea turtle management and conservation projects within Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Philippines, or Indonesia) and Japan with focus on fishery bycatch, nesting beach monitoring, poaching reduction, and/or the illegal sea turtle wildlife trade.
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Award size: $10,000 up to $120,000
Deadline: January 31, 2023
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The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support enhanced surveillance and applied research for influenza virus and other respiratory infections in humans and animals in China.
This work should help to:
- better define the global risk of novel avian, non-avian, and seasonal influenza viruses and other respiratory diseases in China; and
- build the evidence base for the prevention and control of these diseases.
The scope of research performed should include, but is not limited to:
- activities for estimating the burden and cost of illness for groups at high risk for severe disease;
- monitoring vaccine uptake and efficacy;
- promoting vaccine programs for groups at high risk for severe influenza complications; and
- conducting surveillance for detection and control of novel and seasonal influenza viruses and other respiratory pathogens.
Research activities for the prevention and control of novel and seasonal influenza viruses and other respiratory pathogens and pandemic preparedness activities should be aimed at preventing and controlling the spread and transmission of these diseases within China, and potentially to other countries, including the United States.
Continued monitoring, detection, and reporting of these diseases in China should advance efforts to inform global health infection control policies and prevent and control seasonal epidemic and pandemic influenza in countries around the world. This NOFO provides an opportunity to conduct research in these important areas.
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Award size: $250,000 up to $350,000
Deadline: January 19, 2023
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Opportunities to advance global health research careers are central to building a robust global health workforce, yet it remains a challenge for researchers to establish independent international research careers given the requisite time spent away from their home institutions. Prolonged field experience is critical for global health research and for establishing sustained research partnerships, but gaining this field experience can be difficult for junior faculty, who are balancing administrative and teaching requirements, or for individuals in standard postdoctoral positions.
The International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA) program addresses this need and fills an important global health career development gap. The IRSDA program provides opportunities to conduct mentored global health research in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings and to foster long-term research collaborations that strengthen global health research. The purpose of the IRSDA is to provide support and protected time (three to five years) to advanced postdoctoral U.S. research scientists and recently-appointed U.S. junior faculty (applicants must be at least two years beyond conferral of doctoral degree).
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications from postdoctoral research scientists and junior faculty from any health-related discipline who propose career development activities and a research project that is relevant to the health priorities of the LMIC under the mentorship of LMIC and U.S. mentors.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is designed specifically for applicants proposing to serve as the lead investigator of an independent clinical trial, a clinical trial feasibility study, or a separate ancillary clinical trial, as part of their research and career development. Applicants not planning an independent clinical trial, or proposing to gain research experience in a clinical trial led by another investigator, must apply to companion FOA (PAR-21-104).
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Award size: see website
Deadline: March 8, 2023
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The overall goal of this initiative is to support the mentored training of a sustainable critical mass of bioethics scholars in low and middle-income country (LMIC) research intensive institutions with the capabilities to conduct original empirical or conceptual ethics research that addresses challenging issues in health research and research policy in these countries as well as provide research ethics leadership to their institutions, governments and international research organizations.
FIC will support LMIC-U.S. collaborative institutional bioethics doctoral and postdoctoral research training programs that incorporate mentored research, advanced theoretical didactic courses and ethics career skills training components to prepare multiple individuals for positions of ethics scholarship and leadership in health research institutions in LMICs.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) allows appointment of Trainees (D43) proposing to serve as the lead investigator of an independent clinical trial; or proposing a separate ancillary clinical trial; or proposing to gain research experience in a clinical trial led by another investigator, as part of their research and career development.
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Award size: up to $230,000 per year
Letters of intent are due: May 6, 2023
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The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy Ulaanbaatar announces an open competition for a cooperative agreement to administer Education USA Mongolia Student Advising activities and collaborate with the embassy on various U.S. higher education outreach initiatives in Mongolia.
U.S. Embassy Ulaanbaatar is seeking a partner to help administer and manage the EducationUSA Mongolia program. The primary goal is to manage the individual EducationUSA advisers and ensure they have the resources to conduct EducationUSA advising, outreach, and programs. The partner will also manage the EducationUSA Mongolia social media accounts, creating localized content and sharing content from the State Department. The partner may oversee the planning and execution of several large-scale EducationUSA fairs each year. The partner will also conduct a market survey and needs assessment for EducationUSA Mongolia and recommend changes to U.S. Embassy on EducationUSA posture and activities.
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Award size: $35,000
Deadline: December 15, 2022
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement the Resilient Education for Crisis Affected Children in Burkina Faso.
The purpose of the Resilient Education for Crisis-Affected Children activity is to increase primary education completion, particularly for displaced and host community learners who have been marginalized due to conflict and crisis conditions, with improved foundational skills and wellbeing, even in the face of shocks and stressors.
A disproportionate number of Burkinabe primary schoolaged children are unable to complete their primary school education, nor receive quality instruction, and therefore struggle to acquire foundational skills. Insecurity, displacement and climate risks further exacerbate poor education conditions for both host community and displaced learners. This activity has been designed to support the Government of Burkina Faso’s Education Sector Plan (2017-2030).
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Award size: up to $20M
Deadline: December 30, 2022
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The U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal is accepting concept notes from interested eligible applicants (definition below) for the AFCP FY 2023 Grants Program. The projects recommended for funding advance U.S. foreign policy goals and show respect for other cultures. Cultural preservation is effective public diplomacy that resonates deeply with opinion leaders and local communities, even in countries where ties may be otherwise limited.
AFCP projects strengthen civil society, encourage good governance, and promote political and economic stability around the world. The AFCP Grants Program supports the preservation of archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, museum collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression, such as indigenous languages and crafts.
Appropriate project activities may include:
- Anastylosis (reassembling a site from its original parts)
- Conservation (addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site)
- Consolidation (connecting or reconnecting elements of an object or site)
- Documentation (recording in analog or digital format the condition and salient features of an object, site, or tradition)
- Inventory (listing of objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristic or state)
- Preventive Conservation (addressing conditions that threaten or damage a site, object, collection, or tradition)
- Restoration (replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or site, usually appropriate only with fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings)
- Stabilization (reducing the physical disturbance of an object or site)
Applications for projects that directly support one or more of the following will receive additional consideration:
- Disaster risk reduction for cultural heritage in disaster-prone areas
- Post-disaster cultural heritage recovery
- Project sites located outside of Kathmandu Valley
- Projects which connect with other U.S. Mission programs
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Award size: $10,000 up to $500,000
Deadline: December 26, 2022
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The Embassy of the United States in Beirut (Lebanon) Public Affairs Section announces a call for proposals for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2023. The projects recommended for funding advance U.S. foreign policy goals and show respect for other cultures.
Appropriate project activities may include:
- Anastylosis (reassembling a site from its original parts)
- Conservation (addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site)
- Consolidation (connecting or reconnecting elements of an object or site)
- Documentation (recording in analog or digital format the condition and salient features of an object, site, or tradition)
- Inventory (listing of objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristic or state)
- Preventive Conservation (addressing conditions that threaten or damage a site, object, collection, or tradition)
- Restoration (replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or site, usually appropriate only with fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings)
- Stabilization (reducing the physical disturbance of an object or site)
Sites and Objects Having a Religious Connection: The establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution permits the government to include religious objects and sites within an aid program under certain conditions. For example, an item with a religious connection (including a place of worship) may be the subject of a cultural preservation grant if the item derives its primary significance and is nominated solely on the basis of architectural, artistic, historical, or other cultural (not religious) criteria.
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Award size: $10,000 up to $500,000
Deadline: December 26, 2022
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The U.S. Embassy Beirut (Lebanon) Public Affairs Section requests statements of interest (SOI) from past participants (“alumni”) of U.S. government-funded and U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs for funding through the 2023 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF 2023). AEIF provides alumni of U.S. government-sponsored and facilitated exchange programs with funding to expand on skills gained during their exchange experience to design and implement innovative solutions to global challenges facing their community.
This year, the U.S. Embassy Beirut Public Affairs Section will accept public service projects for funding under AEIF 2023 that are proposed and managed by teams of at least two (2) alumni which directly support the Embassy’s goals and foreign policy objectives, promote shared interests, and benefit local communities. Team members are expected to address a specific theme in the Lebanese community.
Project themes may include (but are not limited to):
- good governance;
- climate change;
- strengthening economic prosperity and inclusive economic growth;
- promoting innovation;
- improving the digital economy;
- fostering entrepreneurship;
- skill building to improve job opportunities;
- enhancing education and English language programs;
- protecting cultural heritage, or
- countering disinformation, propaganda, and malign influence.
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Award size: $5,000 up to $35,000
Deadline: January 30, 2023
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We are pleased to announce that U.S. Mission Morocco is considering proposals for the Public Diplomacy Grants Program. The objectives of the Public Diplomacy Grant Program are to promote positive relations between Morocco and the United States; to reinforce shared values; and to connect Morocco’s emerging leaders to the American people. New this year, Public Affairs will solicit a Concept Paper and a budget summary, only, for the first-phase submission. If you are shortlisted, you will be invited to participate in the second phase of the APS and submit a full proposal.
We fund projects that:
- Help Moroccan youth build and develop skills to improve their potential through innovative science (especially environmental and health awareness), technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) programs, as well as through entrepreneurship programs and vocational training.
- Focus on educating youth and publics about current environmental issues, including crafting creative solutions to environmental challenges, green energy initiatives and energy conservation, climate change adaptation strategies, as well as action plans to deal with water scarcity exacerbated by climate change and urbanization.
- Encourage Moroccan youth to participate in civic life through social entrepreneurship, volunteerism, and community engagement.
- Strengthen understanding of U.S. values and institutions; highlight US culture, including American Studies, English language teaching/learning, and study in the United States; as well as support diversity through the acceptance of minority groups, including individuals with special needs or handicapping conditions, and other areas of mutual interest.
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Award size: $5,000 up to $25,000
Deadline: March 15, 2023
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The Venezuela Affairs Unit (VAU) of the U.S. Department of State announces a request for Statements of Interest (SOI) that strengthens people-to-people ties between the United States and the people of Venezuela through cultural, educational, and media support programs that highlight shared values and promote a peaceful, democratic transition.
PAS VAU invites proposals for communications, cultural and educational programs that support democratic initiatives and economic empowerment in Venezuela, highlight shared values, promote bilateral cooperation, and support diversity, equality, accessibility and inclusion. All programs must convey an element of U.S. culture, history, and/or shared values. This must be a concrete element that establishes or strengthens ties between people in Venezuela and Americans in the United States. For example, competitive proposals will include a connection with U.S. experts, organizations, or institutions that promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives and/or increased cooperation between the people of the United States and Venezuela even after the program has concluded.
PAS VAU will prioritize grant proposals that address the following themes:
- Supporting freedom of speech and expression, including via civic education.
- Strengthening independent media through media literacy, training, and other engagement.
- Ensuring participation of citizens in the democratic process through education and outreach.
- Economic growth and entrepreneurship, particularly for marginalized groups, including women, LGBTI+, persons with disabilities, indigenous, and Afro-Venezuelans.
- Supporting grassroots activism that promotes human rights, democratic governance, and/or addresses Venezuelan citizens' needs due to the man-made humanitarian crisis
- Promoting inclusive social development, particularly through empowering women and girls, persons with disabilities, LGBTI+, indigenous, and Afro-Venezuelans.
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Cultural Projects that promote Mutual Understanding: Cultural activities engage the public, especially youth, to bridge cultures, deepen cultural ties and understanding, discuss topics of importance, and promote the free exchange of ideas. Examples of possible programs include writing workshops (e.g. creative writing and humor workshop, comics that promote social issues, playwriting as a form of social criticism); artist collaborations (e.g. American jazz master class, orchestral joint program); gaming workshops or programs; theater/filmmaking/storytelling/photography clubs, workshops, and festivals; or similar events and activities. All cultural activities must include a clear U.S. component.
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Award size: $10,000 up to $60,000
Deadline: July 31, 2023
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Through its Small Grants Program, the United States Mission in Geneva (Switzerland) is accepting project proposals that promote U.S. policy priorities in the multilateral sphere. Project should be aimed at international (not U.S.) audiences, and impact should resonate in Geneva`s multilateral environment. Projects should be implemented by an organization or individual with a presence in Geneva and/or be carried out in Geneva itself.
U.S. Mission Geneva’s Small Grants Program supports projects that include, but are not limited to, the following priority areas:
- Promoting human rights, including the protection of human rights defenders
- Monitoring and managing the response to humanitarian crises
- Strengthening global public health and global health security systems
- Mobilizing action on climate change
- Promoting transparency, accountability, and efficiency in the UN system
- Advancing gender across the range of Mission Geneva’s priority areas
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Award size: $1,000 up to $100,000
Deadline: on a rolling basis until September 1, 2023
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Scholarships & Fellowships
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The British Academy’s Visiting Fellowships programme provides outstanding academics based in any country overseas with the opportunity to be based at a UK higher education or other research institution. The programme is open to academics at any career stage, and in any discipline within the humanities and social sciences.
Visiting Fellowships illustrate the British Academy’s profound and on-going commitment to international engagement. The aim of this programme is to ensure that the UK remains an attractive, welcoming, and productive research environment for academics globally.
Through this programme, the Academy aims to:
- enhance and build new links between scholars from around the globe and in the UK;
- foster opportunities and encourage the development of new and future partnerships for collaborative research into the humanities and social sciences;
- enable academics from across the globe to undertake research and/or professional development with UK colleagues;
- strengthen the UK’s research bases in the humanities and the social sciences.
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Award size: see website
Deadline: December 7, 2022
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The Foundation awards travel grants to individual scholars to support historical research on Venice and the former Venetian empire, and for the study of contemporary Venetian society and culture. Disciplines of the humanities and social sciences are eligible areas of study, including (but not limited to) archaeology, architecture, art, bibliography, economics, history, history of science, law, literature, music, political science, religion, and theater.
To support scholars, the Foundation has lengthened the grant period to a two-year timeframe. Grantees will be able to adjust their travel plans and submit an updated itinerary. Each will be asked to confirm the accessibility of their research sites. Grant payments will be provided close to each scholar’s research period. We hope that this added flexibility will allow scholars to stay safe while moving forward with their important work.
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Award size: $20,000
Deadline: December 15, 2023
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The Dr. Charles and Marjorie Gliozzo Dissertation Research Scholarship is available to MSU doctoral students with dissertation research objectives who have defended, or are in the process of defending, a dissertation proposal.
The scholarship supports field research abroad in support of the student's dissertation.
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Award size: up to $1,000
Deadline: March 1, 2023
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Early career researchers (including doctoral students) proposing to conduct research in systematics, evolution, ecology, zoology or paleontology of marine life and environments are invited to apply to the Lerner-Gray Grants for Marine Research.
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Award size: $500 up to $3,500
Deadline: March 15, 2023
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The Eiffel scholarship program is a tool developed by the Ministry in charge of Foreign Affairs to enable French higher education establishments to attract the best foreign students to degree courses at master's and doctoral level .
It helps to train future foreign decision-makers, from the private and public sectors, in priority fields of study , and to stimulate applications from students from emerging countries for the master's level and from emerging and industrialized countries for the doctoral level.
Two major disciplinary fields concerned by the Eiffel scholarships cover the following 7 fields of study for the Masters and Doctorate components:
For science and technology:
- Biology and health
- Ecological transition
- Mathematics and numeracy
- Engineering sciences
For the humanities and social sciences:
- French history, language and civilization
- Law and political science
- Economy Management
To apply for an Eiffel Scholarship contact the Espace Campus France in your country of origin or the cooperation and cultural action department of the French Embassy who can guide and advise you in your study project. Then contact the International Relations department of a French establishment by visiting its website, by email or by telephone, to find out the terms and the deadline for submitting an application to their department. It is up to the student to choose the school or university in connection with your study project in France.
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Award size: $1200 monthly stipend, airfare, insurance
Deadline: varies with university of interest
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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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