Information on External Research Grants, Fellowships, and other opportunities for the week of 18 to 22 December
18 Dec 2023 | Office of the Assistant Vice President for Research, Creative Work, and Innovation
18 December 2023
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Office of the Assistant Vice President for Research, Creative Work, and Innovation
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Information on External Grants, Networking Grants and Conferences
The Office of the Vice President for Research, Creative Work, and Innovation is happy to announce this week's information on eight external grants and one conference that we have received and gathered. Let us know if you are interested and need assistance in applying for these grants, and we will be more than happy to help you. Please do not hesitate to contact the Office of the Assistant Vice President for Research, Creative Work, and Innovation at research@ateneo.edu.
Please check External Research Grants Opportunities, Conferences, and Fellowships database if you would like to see the list of active grants catered for Ateneo faculty members.
Research/Project Grants
UKRI:APPLIED GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH: STAGE ONE
We’re looking to fund research projects that will lead to tangible change in health policy and practice in the near future through practical, impact focused research. The aim is to fund a portfolio of high-quality global research, which will be diverse, promote multidisciplinarity and strengthen global health research capacity.
This includes:
- late-stage intervention development and testing, which can include global health trials from phase 2b (efficacy) onwards
- implementation and scale-up research
- health systems, health policy and health economics research
We also welcome cross-sector research combining expertise to meet a global health challenge. For example, an application may include aspects of urban planning, health policy and non-communicable disease research. The research question might involve different disciplines and approaches from outside the health sector, but the primary objective must be health focused.
Examples of areas in which applied research may be conducted include, but are not limited to, the following:
- maternal and neonatal health
- early childhood development
- adolescent health
- healthy ageing
- sexual and reproductive health
- infectious diseases, including neglected tropical diseases and COVID-19
- non-communicable diseases, including mental health disorders
- multimorbidity
- nutrition and food security
- snakebite
- intentional and unintentional injury
- urban health, including indoor and outdoor air pollution, road traffic accidents and healthy housing
- planetary health
- informal settlements, conflict zones and displaced populations
- primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
- detection and diagnostics
- mobile health
- treatment, including surgery
- pain management and palliative care
The MRC and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) concordat supports global health research projects funded through the Applied Global Health Research Board in specific strategic areas of mutual interest, for example:
- infections, including epidemic and pandemic preparedness and response
- maternal and newborn health
- implementation science
- adolescent health
- early child development
- sexual and reproductive health and rights
- climate and health
- Link to full description: Applied global health research full info
- Link to application: Applied global health research stage one applications
- Maximum funding: 150,000 - 2,000,000 GBP
- Deadline: 13 February 2024
UNESCO Safeguarding Initiative
The UNESCO Memory of the World Initiative to Safeguard Documentary Heritage at Risk aims to protect the world's documentary items and collections at risk of loss as a result of natural or human-induced threats by granting financial support to cover specific needs on the ground.
At a time of increasing environmental issues caused by climate change and escalating conflicts, documents of universal value are not exempt from being permanently damaged or destroyed. Documentary heritage items at risk include many forms of paper-based and audiovisual materials, yet physical collections and digital repositories are also vulnerable to rising global challenges.
In this context, the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme provides financial support for projects of national, regional, or international scope that address specific needs for safeguarding all forms of endangered documentary heritage and ensuring its accessibility, including in a post-crisis scenario.
- Link to full description: Safeguarding Documentary Heritage at Risk full info
- Link to application: Full UNESCO grant details and application
- Maximum funding: 15,000 - 70,000 USD
- Deadline: 16 February 2024
Mitigation Action Facility Call for Projects 2024
- The Call focuses on three priority sectors – energy, transport, industry – and supports cross-sectoral projects linked to one of the priority sectors •
- Continued focus on the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), as well as emphasis on long-term strategies (LTS), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) processes and global cooperation (NDC Partnership)
- Provision of a grant-based funding for projects that combine technical assistance and financial cooperation targeting market-based, sustainable and scalable financial mechanisms
- Overall funding volume of the Call of up to EUR 100 million as well as an upper funding volume of EUR 25 million per project
- A simplified application process featuring a competition of Project Concepts, preceding the submission of Project Outlines
- A limit of 10 Project Concepts per Applicant including its regional representations and /or subsidiaries
- An upper limit of up to 25 Project Concepts selected to proceed into the Project Outline Phase in which further, more detailed, elaboration of the project needs to take place
- Tailored support in the Outline development provided to a limited number of promising Project Concepts (out of the 25 selected for the Project Outline Phase) submitted by Applicants that have limited previous experience with the Mitigation Action Facility (and its predecessor, the NAMA Facility)
- Piloting modality for novel technologies
- Public and private actors invited to submit Project Concepts
- Link to full description: Full details for the Mitigation Action Facility Project 2024
- Link to application: Application Platform of the Mitigation Action Facility
- Maximum funding: 5 Million - 25 Million EUR
- Deadline: 29 February 2024
Fellowships
2024 EaP Civil Society Fellowships
- Support for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
- Improvement of CSO accountability and link to constituencies
- Link to full description: 2024 EaP Civil Society Fellowship
- Link to application: Application Concept Form 2024
- Maximum funding: 5,000 EUR
- Deadline: 27 December 2023
Prizes
Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity
- Link to full description: Gulbenkian Prize Call conditions
- Link to application: Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity
- Maximum funding: 1,000,000 EURO
- Deadline: 2 February 2024
Scholarships
Deloitte One Young World Scholarship 2024
In securing the future of the planet, however, we must also ensure that it is a future in which the next generation is equipped to meet the challenges that will come with it. Investing in education and skills is key to empowering individuals, nations, and societies to face the challenges of tomorrow. However, millions of people around the world are held back by educational inequality, with 800 million youth today not predicted to have even the basic skills to succeed in the workforce by 2030.
At Deloitte, we believe we have a responsibility to build a better, more sustainable, future within which every individual is empowered, uplifted, and able to achieve their full potential. Through our strategic initiatives, WorldClass and WorldClimate, we are respectively committed to expanding opportunities for 100 million people globally by 2030, as well as addressing climate change, both within our organisation and beyond.
As a longstanding partner of One Young World, we’re proud to support the Deloitte One Young World Scholarships 2024 which will enable 5 outstanding young leaders to attend the One Young World Summit in Montreal, Canada on 18 - 21 September 2024.
The scholarships are intended for young leaders focused on tackling these challenges, by either reducing the causes and effects of climate change, or improving the education, skills, and access to opportunities, in their communities, countries, or the world at large.
The scholarship is seeking candidates who have demonstrated commitment to:
- Create, scale, or support efforts that reduce carbon emissions
- Reduce the negative impacts of climate change through technology, activism, community programs, policy, nature-based solutions, or other similar efforts
- Empower individuals within the community or around the world to take climate action
- Plan and strategize around reducing climate change-related natural disaster impacts and strengthening resiliency
Or:
- Improve access to education, skills, or employment opportunities for those that may be left behind by the rapidly changing global economy. For example, women and girls, and disadvantaged youth.
- Create skills development or lifelong learning opportunities for people to prepare for the future workforce, including in areas where there are talent shortage
- Accelerate entrepreneurship, new types of employment, or provide opportunities for people to overcome traditional barriers to employment.
- Link to full description: One Young World Scholarship 2024
- Link to application: Deloitte Scholarship 2024 Application
- Deadline: 21 January 2024