Research Grants

Call for Applications Media Grants to Strengthen Infrastructure Reporting in Southeast Asia

Strengthening Transparency in Infrastructure Development Through Environmental Reporting in Southeast Asia (STRIDES) is a two-year project supported by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor that supports environmental reporting on infrastructure development and its impacts. The organizational grants are part of STRIDES’ efforts to strengthen infrastructure media reporting and public awareness, and improve the sustainability and accountability of infrastructure projects.

EJN’s STRIDES project is offering grants averaging $20,000 each for local media and CSOs to implement activities that will strengthen media reporting, transparency and accountability on the impacts of infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia.

• Link to full description: EJN Media Grants
• Link to application: EJN Media Grants Application (needs and EJN account to apply)
• Maximum funding:  20,000 USD
• Deadline: 12 March 2024

OCEAN Grants Programme

OCEAN supports a wide range of projects that work to protect the marine environment and reduce poverty. Projects can be based in any ODA-eligible country and proposals from in-country organisations that work directly with coastal communities are particularly encouraged.
All applications are welcomed – from Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), research institutes and others.

• Partnership Grants

Applications are open to medium and large scale organsations who can partner with local organisations and scale up effective solutions.

Applications will be through a single stage process, with some applicants being invited for a more in-depth discussion with members of our Expert Committee.

OCEAN supports a wide range of projects that work to protect the marine environment and reduce poverty. Projects can be based in any ODA-eligible country and proposals from in-country organisations that work directly with coastal communities are particularly encouraged.

1. Link to full description: Ocean Grants Programme UK Partnership Grant
2. Link to application: Ocean Grants Programme UK Application
3. Maximum funding:  250,000 GBP – 3 million GBP

Deadline: 31 March 2024

• Community Grants

Applications are open to small and medium sized, local, regional and national organisations.

There will be two stages to the application process, with the first stage being an opportunity for applicants to share the concept and ideas behind their projects. The second stage will go into more depth about how the projects will work, and applicants will be supported through our helpdesk, webinars and workshops to make sure their application accurately demonstrates what the project hopes to achieve.

OCEAN supports a wide range of projects that work to protect the marine environment and reduce poverty. Projects can be based in any ODA-eligible country and proposals from in-country organisations that work directly with coastal communities are particularly encouraged.

1. Link to full description: Ocean Grants Programme UK Community Grant
2. Link to application:Ocean Grants Programme UK Application
3. Maximum funding:  250,000 GBP
4. Deadline: 31 March 2024

iF Social Impact Prize

The iF SOCIAL IMPACT PRIZE aims to support projects that contribute to our society. The best projects will be honored with a total prize money of EUR 100,000 per year. You are welcome to submit all projects that contribute to solving the most urgent challenges of our time and help to improve conditions – your CSR projects or your active support for a specific aspect of society.

The project should already be implemented.

If you can answer one or more questions with “Yes”, you should enter your project

• Does it approach or solve a relevant problem?
• Does it reflect moral-ethical standards?
• Does it strengthen group relations?
• Does it create a positive experience?
• Does it balance effort and use value?

The size of the project does not really matter but the idea, the relevance of the problem, the target groups and the sustainable impact will be of interest to our online visitors.

Every published project and you as a company or organization behind it will also benefit from the fact being introduced to a global design community, media and the design interested public.

Projects selected by the jury will stay online on the iF Design Website without limitation in time and without any costs.

• Link to full description: iF SOCIAL IMPACT PRIZE guidelines
• Link to application: iF Design Application portal
• Maximum funding:  100,000 EUR
• Deadline: 24 April 2024

Massage Therapy Community Service Grant 2024

This program is designed to promote working partnerships between the massage therapy profession and community-based organizations.

The maximum award is $5,000 for a one-year project period. These grants are available for organizations or affiliates of organizations that have been in existence for at least one year in the respective state or province; are tax-exempt under schedule 501(c)(3) in the U.S., non-profit charitable organization in other countries; currently provide some therapeutic or other service programs to the community; and have designated a qualified staff member to oversee the program.

• Link to full description: 2024 MTF Community Service Grant
• Link to application: Massage Therapy Foundation Portal
• Maximum funding:  5,000 USD
• Deadline: 1 March 2024

Fellowships

UCSIA Summer School 2024 Call for Papers

The UCSIA Summer School is a one-week mentoring programme that encourages doctoral and postdoctoral students to explore interdisciplinary ways of analysing the relationship between religion, culture and society. Key elements of the programme are expert lectures, paper presentations by the students and individual tutoring by the faculty.

The UCSIA Summer School 2024, titled God on Our Side? Questioning Theological Narratives of Nationalism, Populism and Conservatism, marks the start of a three-year cycle of summer schools, focused on the entanglements of religion and politics, the communities in which they take shape and function, and the injustices they entail or critique.

• Link to full description: UCSIA Summer School 2024 Call for Papers
• Link to application: USCIA Summer School Programme
• Deadline: 15 April 2024

Centre for Advanced Study Sofia

CAS Sofia is an independent Institute with an international and multidisciplinary profile. Located in Sofia, Bulgaria, it promotes high-level scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities. In addition to supporting focus-group research, CAS Sofia invites outstanding scholars to pursue their individual research projects during in-residence periods of up to five months. The invited Fellows participate in the intellectual life and the scholarly community of the Centre (Bulgarian and foreign fellows) while working on projects of their own choice. Fellows receive adequate material and intellectual support and can profit from the Centre’s wide international networks, international seminar- and guest-lecturer programme. CAS Sofia assists Fellows in all practical matters concerning travel, residence and research in Sofia.

The “Social Relevance of the Humanities” (RevHum) fellowship programme, proposed jointly by the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia and the New Europe College Bucharest and developed with the financial support of the Porticus Foundation, aims to underscore the cognitive functions of the humanities and their potential as critical disciplines by opening them up to issues relevant in/for the contemporary digital world – issues that are “practical”, but also epistemological, ethical, philosophical, etc. The programme is intended to accommodate a broadest range of themes pertaining to humanities and social science disciplines provided that they link up to contemporary debates about or major challenges to the human condition stemming from the technological advances and ‘digital modernity’.
The programme is guided by the belief that there is a considerable added value for humanities scholars across the academe, whatever their field, to be encouraged to rethink their topics in terms of their broader contemporary relevance (be it political, ethical, religious or academic), yet necessarily of significance for the world we are living in.
The programme addresses international scholars.

CAS Sofia provides in-residence RevHum fellowships of five- to nine-month duration to post-doctoral non-Bulgarian researchers. Junior as well as Senior scholars are invited to apply.

• Link to full description: CAS Sofia Call for Applications: Social Relevance of the Humanities
• Link to application: Call for Applications: Social Relevance of the Humanities application form
• Maximum funding:  3,200 EUR + 100 EUR per Month
• Deadline: 31 March 2024

Scholarships

MAEC-AECID Scholarships for citizens of countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia 2024-2025
The Call for applications for MAEC-AECID study grants for citizens of countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia includes the following study grant modalities for citizens of the Philippines.

Programme Modalities

Diplomatic School Programme

The purpose of this modality is to award nine-month study grants to public employees to enable them to take the inter-university master’s degree in diplomacy and international Relations at the Diplomatic School, attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain.

1. Monthly Stipend of 1,300 EUR
2. Health and Accident Insurance

Asale Programme
The purpose of this programme is to award study grants for stays in Spain to students taking the master’s degree in Hispanic Lexicography and Linguistic Accuracy. Said grants will also support their subsequent internship period associated with the Master’s and their trainee placement at the Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language.

1. Monthly Stipend of 1,300 EUR
2. Health and Accident Insurance

• Link to full description: Cooperación Española Study Grant Programmes for Philippine Nationals
• Link to application: AECID application website
• Maximum funding:  1,300 EUR - 1,900 EUR Monthly
• Deadline: 19 March 2024