Issue 34 | Volume 10 | September 8, 2022
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International Funding Opportunities Update
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Are you a new faculty member?
Please join us to learn about support services that are offered by Global IDEAS and how we can facilitate your research internationally. Lunch will be provided.
Friday, September 16, noon-1:30pm
Room 303, International Center
We look forward to meeting you!
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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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Incorporated in 1985, the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to promote the conservation of natural resources, improve the production and distribution of food, and improve health in the developing world. The foundation helps build capacity within developing countries in its three areas of interest with grants that support research or projects that solve specific problems.
The foundation supports projects that demonstrate strong local leadership, promote professional development in the conservation, agricultural, and health sciences; develop the capacity of local organizations; and address a particular problem in the field. It prefers to support projects addressing under-funded issues and geographic areas.
The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation supports special projects and programs of non governmental organizations in three primary fields of interest -conservation, food, and health. Examples of areas of interest within these fields follow, but are not meant to be exclusive.
Conservation grants help improve ecological and environmental conditions in the developing world. The foundation supports field research and related research activities, training, and technical assistance efforts that help conserve viable ecosystems and protect biological diversity in developing countries train local leaders in conservation and protection of resources, with an emphasis on technical and scientific training.
Food grants support focused efforts to improve access to food for consumption in developing countries. Areas of interest include projects that promote or develop specific sustainable agriculture practices with potential to advance science and practice in other countries; explore and refine innovative education and training interventions for small scale food producers and farmers; and advance new approaches to control pests and diseases affecting important food crops of developing countries.
The foundation supports public health programs that are preventive rather than curative in nature. It supports research, technical assistance, and training projects that improve public health through community-based efforts that address health promotion, disease prevention, family planning, and reproductive health, increase the understanding and treatment of tropical diseases.
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Award size: up to $30,000
Concept notes are due: January 1, 2023
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The Nestlé Foundation supports research in human nutrition in low-income and lower middle-income countries. In relation to agriculture, the Foundation will consider research on food policy, food production, and food technology if the intervention has high potential for improved nutritional status and public health.
The Foundation offers training grants, pilot grants, and full project grants. Priority is for proposals submitted by researchers in developing countries, or jointly with partners in developed countries.
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Award size: up to $100,000
Deadline: letters of intent accepted at any time
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Climate, Water, Environment, & Energy
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The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite new and renewal applications for Centers for Oceans and Human Health. These multi-component projects will characterize and evaluate the impact of climate change on emerging public health threats associated with marine and Great Lakes Basin environments.
Each center will include distinct but integrated research projects on marine or Great Lakes exposures, mechanisms of toxicity or human exposure, and the influence of climate change, using multidisciplinary ocean science, analytical, toxicological and biomedical approaches. Centers will foster strong community partnerships through a Community Engagement Core for impactful communication and translation of research.
The scope of research solicited by this program spans studies involving human health in relation to marine and freshwater environments.
Examples include, but are not limited to:
- understanding human exposure to and mechanisms of toxicity underlying health impacts from marine and Great Lakes toxicants,
- developing methods to detect, quantify and forecast ocean-related health threats, including improved surveillance and monitoring of disease-causing agents in coastal waters, marine organisms (esp. seafood), aerosols, sediments, and exposed human populations, and
- identifying relationships among parameters of climate change and increased human exposure to toxins and waterborne pathogens.
Each Center will include a Community Engagement Core (CEC) through which they will engage communities in collaborative activities. Community engagement can also be an integral part of research projects that contribute to the Center. Projects and Centers addressing populations in US coastal and Great Lakes regions that will be more vulnerable to human health risks (e.g., those with existing health or social disparities) that are associated with or exacerbated by climate change are particularly encouraged.
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Award size: up to $950,000 per year
Letters of intent due: October 1, 2022 (full proposals due November 1, 2022)
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The Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) plays a leading role in increasing energy efficiency along with decarbonizing the industrial sector. AMO drives the innovation and deployment that can lead to a more resilient, robust, and competitive domestic clean energy manufacturing sector that provides economic opportunities across diverse communities.
As part of its industrial efficiency and decarbonization efforts, AMO supports applied research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) targeting the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from high emitting industrial sectors and through cross-sector technologies relevant across multiple industrial sectors. Significant decarbonization of the industrial sector is essential to achieving the overall goal of economy-wide decarbonization by 2050 and creating good paying jobs; while ensuring that U.S. industry remains globally competitive and production is not transferred to locations with higher carbon emissions.
The Department of Energy is committed to pushing the frontiers of science and engineering, catalyzing clean energy jobs through research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D), and ensuring environmental justice and inclusion of underserved communities. The projects selected under this FOA are expected to contribute to the Justice40 Initiative, which set a goal that 40% of the overall benefits of government’s climate and clean energy investments will flow to disadvantaged communities.
The research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) activities to be funded under this FOA will support the government-wide approach to the climate crisis by driving the innovation that can lead to the deployment of clean energy technologies, which are critical for climate protection.
Specifically, this FOA will fund high-impact, applied research and development and prototype or pilot-scale technology validation and demonstration projects in order to expedite the adoption of transformational industrial technology necessary to increase energy efficiency across industry and in high GHG-emitting industrial subsectors, reducing both energy usage and GHG emissions.
Research topics include:
- cross-sector industrial decarbonization approaches via opportunities in energy efficiency;
- industrial electrification;
- low carbon fuels,
- feedstocks and energy sources; and
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industrial carbon capture and utilization.
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Award size: up to $10M
Concept notes are due: December 20, 2022
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Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) embodies an important forward-looking response by the Foundation to these profound challenges. NNA seeks innovations in fundamental convergence research across the social, natural, environmental, computing and information sciences, and engineering that address the interactions or connections among natural and built environments and social systems, and how these connections inform our understanding of Arctic change and its local and global effects.
This solicitation requests proposals that fall within one of three tracks:
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NNA Incubator Grants, dedicated to developing convergent teams to carry out research projects of larger scope in the future;
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NNA Research Grants, aimed to support creative projects on fundamental research that address convergent scientific and engineering challenges related to the rapidly changing Arctic; and
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NNA Collaboratory Grants, designed to support collaborative teams undertaking research and training initiatives addressing grand challenges related to the rapidly changing New Arctic.
NSF encourages NNA proposals that include international components.
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Award size varies with proposal type:
- Incubator- up to $300,000, maximum duration of 24 months.
- Research- up to $3,000,000, maximum duration of 5 years.
- Collaboratory- no budget restrictions, maximum duration of 5 years.
Deadline: February 8, 2023
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) invites eligible entities to submit competitive grant applications for the fiscal year 2022 new, one-time Services for Afghan Survivors Impacted by Combat (SASIC) Program.
The goals of this new, one-time program are to help ASA-eligible Afghan arrivals overcome the severe, pervasive, and long-lasting effects of combat-related trauma and to facilitate their achievement of sustained physical, social, emotional, and economic well-being.
The objective of the SASIC Program is to increase eligible Afghan arrivals’ access to, and engagement with, effective, holistic, strengths-based, trauma-informed, and culturally and linguistically appropriate services. For the purpose of this NOFO, holistic services are defined as medical, psychological, and social work services to address the physical, psychological, and social effects of combat-related trauma. Recipients must provide all these services either directly or through a combination of direct and indirect services provided via partnerships and/or affiliations.
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Award size: $1.5 up to $3M
Deadline: October 20, 2022
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The Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL, or the Department), announces the availability of approximately $3 million total costs (subject to the availability of Federal funds) for 1 cooperative agreement to fund 1 technical assistance project with the overarching objective to increase field workers and their families' use of formal and informal mechanisms to improve working and living conditions in the Dominican sugar sector.
The project will increase access to these mechanisms by building connections between civil society organizations and sugarcane field workers, while helping unions in the sugar sector, government ministries, and sugar companies to more effectively involve field workers in improving their working and living conditions.
In particular, this project will address underdeveloped support networks, knowledge gaps and communication barriers, and other constraints that prevent Dominican sugar sector workers and their families from realizing their labor rights, including through use of various services, dialogue and outreach, and remediation approaches to resolve concerns about working and living conditions. The project must be designed to achieve two or more outcomes that are considered both necessary and sufficient to achieve the project objective, and substantially contribute to the desired long-term impact(s).
Goals:
- Strengthened networks among workers, their communities, and civil society advocates that facilitate trust and participation in mechanisms to improve working and living conditions.
- Increased availability of local resources and capacity to use mechanisms for improving working and living conditions in the Dominican sugar sector.
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Award size: up to $3M
Deadline: October 11, 2022
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U.S. Embassy Kyiv’s Office of the Assistance Coordinator announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications for the tenth round of the DCP to continue building U.S. foreign assistance partnerships with 11 partner donor governments in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia) aimed at supporting aspirations of the Ukrainian people for European integration, democratic transformation, peace, and security.
Objectives:
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Energy and Cyber Security could include: proposals that support Ukraine’s efforts to improve the legislative and regulatory environment for the energy sector and comply with EU and Energy Community requirements. Proposals could also enhance energy diversification by improving the ability of Ukraine to plan, implement, and sustain energy projects, including clean technology and renewable energy initiatives, and by increasing opportunities for Western investment. Cyber activities could include proposals to assist Ukraine to develop critical cybersecurity capacities within the public and private sector, promote public awareness of cybersecurity and cyber hygiene, strengthen detection and response mechanisms, or develop curricula for cybersecurity training.
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Access to Western Markets could include: proposals that increase integration with Western markets, establish a fair and transparent business environment, and increase opportunities for U.S. investment and trade. Proposals could include facilitating the implementation of relevant EU and international standards, improving the ease of doing business, or enhancing the ability of private sector companies to compete in Western markets and increase exports.
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Strengthening Resilience through Democratic Consolidation could include: proposals to strengthen independent media and civil society organizations, combat disinformation, improve media literacy, approximate EU legislation in judicial and anti-corruption areas, bolster democratic institutions, and increase government transparency and accountability, including through e-governance capabilities and decentralization reform and other efforts needed to narrow the space for corruption to occur.
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Societal Resilience & Protection could include: services provided to women and children, who have been the victims of war crimes, including the victims of the gender bases violence (GBV), and accountability & oversight element of holding individuals responsible for GBV; uninterrupted provision of social services to refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs), vulnerable and war-affected populations, including support for critical local and regional government functions and provision of education. The proposals may include training of social service professionals to continue providing social protection services, psycho-social support, psychological and physical rehabilitation of war victims and war veterans.
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Award size: $10,000 up to $100,000
Deadline: October 31, 2022
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The U.S. Embassy Baghdad Public Affairs Office (PA) in Iraq is pleased to announce that funding is available through its Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program. This is an Annual Program Statement outlining our funding priorities, the strategic themes we focus on, and the procedures for submitting requests for funding.
Examples of Public Diplomacy Small Grants programs include, but are not limited to:
- Strengthening Governance, Democracy, and the Rule of Law
- Strengthening Civil Society and Promoting Civic Engagement
- Enhancing Professionalism in the Media
- Combatting Disinformation
- Countering Violent Extremism
- Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Empowering Women and Youth
- Fostering U.S.-Iraqi Cultural Ties
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Award size: $5,000 up to $100,000
Deadline: September 30, 2022
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This grant aims to support nonprofit organizations to create and develop networks between the U.S. and Japan to help resolve common social issues.
Projects that address one (or more) of the following thematic areas are welcome:
Building a resilient society. Efforts to meet global threats such as natural disasters, pandemics, and environmental pollution.
Examples:
- Disaster prevention,
- Post-disaster reconstruction,
- Pandemic and infectious disease control,
- Public health,
- Economic recovery,
- Environmental issues,
- Community development, etc.
Developing an inclusive society. Efforts to develop a more prosperous and vibrant society; efforts to overcome societal divisions.
Examples:
- Revitalization of local communities,
- Urban issues,
- Low birthrate and aging population,
- Women’s empowerment,
- Access for individuals, children, and families,
- Mental health,
- Art’s impact on social issues, etc.
Creating a society enriched by science and technology. Efforts to better understand and meet cultural and social needs resulting from advances in science and technology.
Examples:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI),
- Robotics,
- Bioethics,
- Non-traditional Media,
- New communication methods,
- Effects of technology on work and life,
- Education, etc.
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Award size: up to $10,000
Deadline: applications accepted on a rolling basis until December 31, 2023
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The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS) seeks grant proposals for research, projects, or events aimed at promoting an understanding of the historic relationships between the United States and Austria (including Habsburg Austria).
Eligible fields include, but are not limited to:
- history,
- politics,
- economics,
- law,
- cultural studies, and
- public history.
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Award size: $500 up to $25,000
Deadline: March 1, 2023
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Scholarships & Fellowships
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The Lewis and Clark Fund encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation. Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, paleontology, and population genetics, but grants will not be restricted to these fields. Proposals that are archival in nature or museum based will not normally be considered. The proposed work should be dissertation directed to the extent possible given the applicant’s year in the doctoral program.
Grants will be available to doctoral students. Postdoctoral fellows, master’s degree candidates, and undergraduates are not eligible. Applicants who have previously received a Lewis and Clark Fund grant may reapply after an interval of two years. Preference is given to applicants who have not yet been granted an award from the Fund.
Applicants should ask their academic advisor to write one of the two letters of recommendation, specifying the student’s qualifications to carry out the proposed work and the educational content of the trip. Budgets should be limited to travel and related expenses, including personal field equipment.
The competition is open to U.S. citizens and residents wishing to carry out research anywhere in the world. Foreign applicants must either be based at a U.S. institution or plan to carry out their work in the United States.
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Award size: up to $5,000
Deadline: November 15, 2022
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The Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) provides in-country research fellowships for US, Cambodian and French scholars (or EU citizens holding a degree from a French university) and doctoral students on a yearly basis. CKS Senior Fellows are given direct funding for their research, access to in-country resources, and provided with logistical support and contacts while in-country.
These fellowships are open to scholars who already hold a PhD degree in all disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities who seek to pursue further research focusing on Cambodia alone or on Cambodia within a regional context.
Scholars can conduct research in other countries in mainland Southeast Asia (including Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, and southern China) provided that some portion of their research is undertaken in Cambodia.
Two Categories of Senior Fellowships
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Long-Term Research Fellowships: These fellowships are available for 6 to 11 months of research (for US and Cambodian recipients) or up to 9 months of research (for French recipients).
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Short-Term Research Fellowships: These fellowships are available for up to 4 months of research (for US and Cambodian recipients).
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Award size: see website
Deadline: November 30, 2022
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Fields of study include, but are not limited to:
- history,
- philosophy,
- religious studies,
- linguistics,
- languages,
- literature,
- literary criticism, and
- visual and performing arts.
In addition, research that embraces a humanistic approach and methods will be considered.
Applicants must propose four to six consecutive months of research affiliated with an ORC in one of the following countries: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cyprus, Georgia, Indonesia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan (senior scholars may be permitted to travel to Lahore and Islamabad subject to approval), Senegal, Sri Lanka, or Tunisia.
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Award size: $5,000/month for 4 to 6 months
Deadline: January 19, 2023
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Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life on Earth and in the universe. It encompasses research in, among others, the fields of astronomy, chemistry, evolutionary biology, field and population biology, geology, microbiology, molecular biology, oceanography, paleontology, and planetary science.
Astrobiology includes investigations of the geologic and fossil record to understand the conditions of the early Earth when life arose. Its scope also includes research of contemporary locations on Earth that might be similar to early earth and to environments elsewhere in our Solar System (such as on Mars, Europa, and Titan), which may be, or have been in the past, suitable for life. Astrobiology is also about understanding the characteristics of life, which requires investigations into extreme natural environments on Earth and, eventually, elsewhere.
The Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology is open to field studies in any area of interest to astrobiology. Applications will be reviewed by a committee that includes members of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, the APS, and the wider science community as needed. Recipients will be designated as Lewis and Clark Field Scholars in Astrobiology.
The competition is open to U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, and foreign nationals formally affiliated with a U.S.-based institution, who may carry out research anywhere in the world.
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Award size: up to $5,000
Deadline: February 1, 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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