Issue 38 | Volume 10 | October 6, 2022
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International Funding Opportunities Update
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Upcoming events of the
Community of Practice on Global Development
Coming in November:
Gender and Global Development (date/time TBD)
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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, October 27, 4pm in Room 303 of the International Center
- Thursday, December 1, 4pm 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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This Funding Opportunity Announcement invites applications to conduct a study to establish a longitudinal cohort of individuals who developed diabetes following SARS-CoV-2 infection to understand the pathophysiology and clinical course post-COVID diabetes. The cohort must include children and adults and reflect the geography and demographics of COVID-19 in the U.S. There must be an appropriate comparator population recruited and followed.
The goals are to determine the contribution of:
- specific pathophysiologic pathways;
- overall health impact of the pandemic;
- COVID-19 severity, and
- COVID-19 treatment upon excess new onset diabetes from SARS-CoV-2 infection and response to diabetes therapy.
The NIDDK strongly encourages Research on Sex/Gender Differences, Sexual and Gender Minority-Related Research and Race/Ethnic Diversity. This FOA aligns with the Mission and Vision of the NIDDK Strategic Plan for Research, including the theme of empowering a multidisciplinary workforce, engaging diverse stakeholders, and pursuing pathways to health for all. Specifically, this FOA aligns with the Scientific Goals (1.1 and 1.2) and Cross-cutting Topics (reducing health disparities and increasing health equity among racial and ethnic minority populations and others who are underserved) of the Strategic Plan.
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Award size: $3.75M
Deadline: December 20, 2022
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This international contest is open to entrepreneurs offering innovative responses to the challenges facing African agriculture to showcase their solutions to the plant nutrition industry.
Categories:
- Soil and nutrition solutions
- Advisory and information services
- Market access solutions
- Supply chain services
- Financial services
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Award size: $10,000 up to $100,000
Deadline: November 30, 2022
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Climate, Water, Environment, & Energy
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The Water Research Foundation (WRF) is seeking applications for several funding opportunities related to climate change:
Integrating Climate Change Impacts with Wet Weather Management, Capital Improvement, and Stream Network Enhancement:
Project Objectives:
- To enhance precipitation projection and modeling techniques with risk-based criteria to mitigate risks for utilities (e.g., sewer overflows, flooding, stream network deterioration)
- To advance current practices for climate change rainfall statistics and projections by region, and identity research gaps and other areas for refinement
- To advance an integrated and risk-based approach for adopting water infrastructure systems and capital improvement planning to climate change while enhancing the protection of stream networks to meet receiving water quality requirements and mitigate wet weather.
Award Size: $200,000
Deadline: November 22, 2022
Incorporating Equity and Social Dimensions into Community Climate Adaptation Planning and Watershed Management
Project Objectives
- Identify appropriate metrics and measures for building resilient communities with equity and social considerations that blend lived experience of the community with technical expertise.
- Develop holistic mitigation strategies, including planning-level costs to reconcile the social inequities associated with community climate adaptation and watershed management.
- Develop or modify an easy‐to‐use supporting triple bottom line (TBL) tool and analysis framework that incorporates the ability to identify who receives the benefits and who pays for them so utilities can better assess equity implications of various options.
- Identify the leadership roles and engagement opportunities for communities when defining resilience and desired benefits for their communities (e.g., utilities and municipalities).
Award Size: $150,000
Deadline: November 22, 2022
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The Adaptation Sciences Program resides in the Climate Program Office’s (CPO’s) Climate and Societal Interactions Division (CSI). CSI has traditionally been a home for high-impact science, catalyzing some of the earliest U.S. government investments in regionally scaled, societally relevant, interdisciplinary climate research and engagement focused on characterizing risk and addressing vulnerability and adaptation through the use of climate knowledge and information in social context. Today, CSI continues to work with partners to enhance community, sectoral and national resilience in the face of climatic changes, through human-centered research, engagement and capacity building activities designed to connect innovative science directly to complex and dynamic preparedness, adaptation, and resilience challenges and opportunities.
The Adaptation Sciences Program
The AdSci program is composed of several lines of effort - each shaped by ongoing engagement and structured partnerships with key stakeholders - and program strategies that reflect the societal needs and opportunities for collaboration that emerge from these partnerships. AdSci’s current lines of effort include partnerships and projects focused on the following: international collaboration to advance adaptation and resilience; climate impacts on fisheries and pathways for adaptation in fishing communities; and water-resources challenges and opportunities in coastal communities.
Research focuses on the integration of acute and chronic stressors that occur over multiple timescales, which can lead to cascading impacts that threaten to overwhelm and undermine systems important to daily life and social and economic well-being. The goal of the AdSci Program is to foster adaptation and resilience by supporting research and partnerships focused on:
*Developing an understanding of key drivers and conditions that shape and enable adaptation across multiple temporal and spatial scales (e.g., socioeconomic context, adaptive behaviors, risk perception, public awareness and education); and *Identifying key aspects of and promoting opportunities for the use of scientific information to best support preparedness and planned adaptation of high value to social and economic goals.
The AdSci International program element works with partners in the public and private sector to enhance the knowledge, engagement and capacity needed to foster adaptation and resilience in the face of a changing climate. Programs work across regions, and the sectors and systems upon which communities depend (e.g., human health, disaster risk reduction, water resources, coastal and marine ecosystem management, food security, infrastructure), and help support the integration of climate information in related risk management and decision making processes.
In FY 23, Adaptation Sciences is seeking proposals for interdisciplinary adaptation research activities to identify and better understand evolving climate -related risks, vulnerabilities, and adaptive capacity and foster the integration of this knowledge into adaptation and resilience planning for islands in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Award size: $150,000 up to $300,000
Deadline: January 31, 2023
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The Burroughs Wellcome Fund aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who might together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health.
We are particularly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as with population-focused fields including epidemiology and public health, demography, economics, and urban planning.
Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or new interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, for example, developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems.
Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large scale disruptions that will immediately impact human health and delivery of health care. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.
This call focuses on developing partnerships. Proposals from single institutions must develop partnerships that do not already occur naturally: for example, proposals from departments that draw students from the same shared graduate program are not responsive to this call. Proposals from more than one institution are responsive.
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Award size: $2,500 up to $50,000
Applications accepted on a rolling basis until: August 30, 2023
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The Lighthouse Foundation (LF) promotes science and research, teaching, culture, and the principles of environmentalism and international development in relation to the world’s seas and oceans. Funded partners of the Lighthouse Foundation include conservation NGOs, community NGOs, universities and educational organizations, and government organizations.
According to the tasks of the LF, projects and measures must have a maritime connection and be able to serve as a model for subsequent projects and measures in other regions of the world. They must be able to sensitize people in other regions to the subject and make a recognizable contribution to creating maritime awareness.
Raising awareness for sustainable development cannot just be reduced to the topic of sustainable use of maritime resources. Rather, it should be made clear that animate and inanimate nature represents a value in itself and should not be seen exclusively in relation to the satisfaction of human needs.
Utility and visibility of a project/measure are directly linked from the point of view of the LF. Striking impact and suitable dissemination of activities create intended and desired attention and curiosity for maritime topics and problem complexes. The concrete contribution of a project/measure to sustainable development with a maritime connection must be communicated effectively.
Coastal regions are the target regions for measures and projects aimed at promoting sustainable developments with a maritime connection. The ecological boundary between land and sea is also the human/sea interface and thus the focal point of all ecological, economic and social challenges.
Interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral activities are the most promising approaches to trigger sustainable development processes with a maritime connection. The interests of the regional population must be the focus and local actors must be the driving forces.
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Award size: varies with proposal
Applications accepted at any time
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The multi-agency Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, organismal, and social drivers that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The central theme of submitted projects must be the quantitative, mathematical, or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics. The intent is discovery of principles of infectious disease (re)emergence and transmission and testing mathematical or computational models that elucidate infectious disease systems.
Projects should be broad, interdisciplinary efforts that go beyond the scope of typical studies. They should focus on the determinants and interactions of (re)emergence and transmission among any host species, including but not limited to humans, non-human animals, and/or plants. This includes, for example, the spread of pathogens; the influence of environmental factors such as climate; the population dynamics and genetics of vectors and reservoir species or hosts; how the physiology or behavior of the pathogen, vector, or host species biology affects transmission dynamics; the feedback between ecological transmission and evolutionary dynamics; and the cultural, social, behavioral, and economic dimensions of pathogen transmission and disease.
Research may be on zoonotic, environmentally-borne, vector-borne, enteric, or respiratory pathogens of either terrestrial or aquatic systems and organisms, including diseases of animals and plants, at any scale from specific pathogens to inclusive environmental systems. Proposals for research on disease systems of public health concern to Low- or Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) are strongly encouraged, as are disease systems of concern in agricultural systems.
Investigators are encouraged to develop the appropriate multidisciplinary team, including:
- anthropologists,
- modelers,
- ecologists,
- bioinformaticians,
- genomics researchers,
- social scientists,
- economists,
- oceanographers,
- mathematical scientists,
- behaviorists,
- epidemiologists,
- evolutionary biologists,
- entomologists,
- immunologists,
- parasitologists,
- microbiologists,
- bacteriologists,
- virologists,
- pathologists or
- veterinarians
The goal is to integrate knowledge across disciplines to enhance our ability to predict and control infectious diseases.
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Award size: varies with proposal and international collaborators
Deadline: November 16, 2022
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The Spencer Foundation is seeking applications for its Small Research Grants Program to support education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years.
This program is "field-initiated" in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular topic, discipline, design, or method. The goal of this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education. The Foundation seeks to support scholarship that develops new foundational knowledge that may have a lasting impact on educational discourse.
The Foundation recognizes that learning occurs across the life course as well as across settings–from the classroom to the workplace, to family and community contexts and even onto the playing field–any of which may, in the right circumstance, provide the basis for rewarding study that makes significant contributions to the field. The Foundation values work that fosters creative and open-minded scholarship, engages in deep inquiry, and examines robust questions related to education.
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Award size: up to $50,000
Deadline: December 5, 2022
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The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs’ Office of Assistance Coordination (NEA/AC) seeks proposals promoting the Syrian-led political process facilitated by the United Nations. Proposals should include activities aimed at strengthening the ability of stakeholders unaffiliated with the Syrian regime to participate in the political process established by United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2254, addressing U.S. priorities towards an eventual political solution. This may include access to relevant technical knowledge, outreach to Syrian citizens, and engagement through media platforms.
In addition, activities should seek to create the conditions for peace and coexistence in selected regions of Syria outside the control of the Syrian regime. Activities should seek to ease tensions and promote cooperation between rival political groups and/or citizens across conflict lines. Other initiatives may seek to advance sub-national political reforms in ways consistent with UNSCR 2254, creating the conditions for its implementation.
Applicants should structure the project to effectively implement programming in areas of Syria outside the control of the Syrian regime as well as among the Syrian diaspora. Applicants should be prepared to implement activities primarily in areas of the northern Aleppo countryside such as Azaz, Marea, al-Bab, Jarablus, and the surrounding smaller population centers; and in areas of northeast Syria where the Syrian Democratic Forces maintain control such as parts of Aleppo, Raqqa, Deir Ezzour, and Hasakeh governorates.
As Turkey remains a hub for Syrian opposition leaders and civil society as well as the host of about 3.7 million Syrians, applicants should also prepare to implement some activities in areas such as Istanbul and Gaziantep where substantial populations of Syrians reside. At least some programming is likely to be delivered in Geneva, Switzerland, or another site where formal negotiations occur.
Project activities should include:
- Approaches to strengthen relationships, engagement, and outreach among Syrian PPS involved in formal negotiations (including the Constitutional Committee) and Syrian citizens (both in Syria and the diaspora);
- Mechanisms to strengthen the media and communications capabilities of PPS;
- Approaches to elevate the participation and voices of marginalized groups such as religious and ethnic minorities, youth, and women in the Constitutional Committee, other elements of the political process, and subnational reforms;
- Efforts to enhance the technical capacity and skills of PPS to effectively participate in negotiations;
- Supporting logistics for PPS to travel for participation in negotiations;
- Activities to promote democratic reforms, greater accountability to constituents, and transparency at the sub-national level in areas outside of Syrian regime control in ways that create the conditions for the eventual implementation of UNSCR 2254; and
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Activities to ease tensions across conflict lines in areas outside of Syrian regime control (i.e. between northeast Syria and northwest Syria) and among political groups active in those regions.
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Award size: $1M up to $3M
Deadline: November 30, 2022
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Scholarships & Fellowships
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The D. Ross Robertson Research Award Fellowship for Field Studies on Neotropical Deep-Reef fishes. It is a research award to a predoctoral or recent PhD for fieldwork, anywhere in the Neotropics.
The endowment supports field research on any aspects of the biology of living reef-fishes found between 40-300m, anywhere in the Neotropics. Awardees are not required to use STRI facilities nor to conduct research in Panama.
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Award size: up to $30,000
Deadline: November 1, 2022
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The Anthony G. Coates 3-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship is open to projects in any field of STRI research in the tropics.
Applications proposing to conduct research in following disciplines will be considered:
- ecology,
- anthropology,
- paleontology,
- paleoecology,
- evolutionary biology,
- conservation biology,
- functional genomics,
- microbial ecology,
- sensory ecology,
- chemical ecology,
- animal behavior,
- neurobiology,
- soils sciences,
- archeology and
- physiology of tropical plants and animals.
Research should be based at one of the STRI facilities. Proposals that include comparative research in other tropical countries will also be considered.
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Award size: $55,000 annual stipend; $16,000 research allowance
Deadline: November 1, 2022
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The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) offers intensive, immersion-based training in modern and classical South Asian languages at multiple sites in India. The AIIS Language Program offers nine-month academic year, summer and semester courses at elementary to advanced levels in many languages, including several that are rarely taught outside of India. The eligibility requirements vary depending on the particular program.
Three types of programs are offered:
- Summer Programs: 8 weeks, from June to August
- Academic Year Programs: 9 months, from September to May
- One Semester Programs
AIIS awards full fellowships, funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Group Projects Abroad program, to qualified academic-year and semester program students on a competitive basis. Fellowships are intended for students who have successfully completed the equivalent of two years of language training and who seek intensive immersion instruction within a target-language environment to work toward an advanced-to-superior level of proficiency. Summer program applicants should seek funding from their home institutions or through the Critical Language Scholarship program (for Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu), but may also be considered for financial assistance from AIIS.
Courses regularly include:
- Bangla (Bengali)
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Mughal Persian
- Pali/Prakrit
- Punjabi
- Sanskrit
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Urdu
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Award size: see website
Deadline: December 31, 2022
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The Boren Awards fund the intensive study of language and culture abroad by U.S. undergraduate or graduate students. All eligible applicants have the option to either apply for a Regional Flagship Language Initiative or select/design their own study program.
Boren Scholars and Fellows study a wide range of critical languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, and Swahili. Boren Awards are available to students of all proficiency levels who are committed to enhancing their skills. Boren Scholars and Fellows from diverse fields of study immerse themselves in the cultures in world regions underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Program design guidelines differ slightly where noted for graduate Boren Fellows and undergraduate Boren Scholars. Boren Fellows have additional guidelines for self-designed research, internship, and study programs. They are also eligible to receive funding for domestic summer language programs immediately prior to their overseas study.
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Boren Fellowships (graduate students)
Award size: up to $25,000 for 25-52 weeks (preferred); up to $12,500 for 12-24 weeks
Deadline: January 25, 2023
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Boren Scholarships (undergraduate students)
Award size: up to $25,000 for 25-52 weeks (preferred); up to $12,500 for 12-24 weeks; up to $8,000 for 8-11 weeks (STEM majors only)
Deadline: February 1, 2023
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The Benjamin H. Kean Travel Fellowship in Tropical Medicine is awarded annually to support medical students involved in clinical or research electives in tropical areas. The Fellowship is designed to encourage young people to continue their work in tropical medicine and hygiene and recognize their achievements thus far.
ASTMH presents the Ben Kean Fellowships to strengthen the link between the past accomplishments of the clinicians and researchers in tropical medicine and hygiene and the next generation of leaders in the field. This fellowship is designed to support medical students involved in clinical or research electives in tropical areas.
The Fellowship is named after Benjamin H. Kean (1912-1993), the founder of the tropical medical program and a renowned professor of clinical tropical diseases and public health at Cornell University.
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Award size: see website
Fellowship applications open February 1, 2023
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The Office of Polar Programs (OPP) offers postdoctoral research fellowships (PRF) to provide opportunities for early career scientists, including social scientists, to accomplish one or more of the following goals: expand their work across traditional disciplinary lines, develop new partnerships connecting the polar regions and/or non-polar research communities, and provide entry to researchers who have traditionally had limited access to polar research resources, sites and facilities.
The fellowship program encourages the integration of new investigators who have not previously worked in polar regions and/or innovative techniques that have not previously been applied to polar science into polar research. Additionally, the OPP-PRF aims to support beginning investigators with experiences that will establish them in positions of leadership in the scientific community. During their tenure, Fellows will affiliate with a host research institution(s) and conduct research on topics supported by OPP. Successful proposers will participate in a professional development program that will promote mentoring skills and coordinate their involvement in activities that increase the engagement of groups that have previously had limited engagement in polar Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).
Prospective fellows must be U.S. citizens, nationals or permanent residents. Proposers who are women, veterans, persons with disabilities, and underrepresented minorities in STEM, or who have attended community colleges and minority-serving institutions (e.g., Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, Alaska Native Serving Institutions, and Hawaiian Native and Pacific Islander Serving Institutions) are especially encouraged to apply.
Fellowship proposals must be submitted by individuals. However, if an award is recommended, the proposal will be transferred to the host institution where the postdoctoral Fellow will be named as the PI. The award will be issued to the host institution as a regular research award, and the award will be administered by the host institution(s).
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Award size: total program funding $3M
Fellowship applications open February 6, 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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