International Research Funding Alert May 2018
| Title: |
FY 2018 Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute |
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| Sponsor: | Department of State |
| Deadline: | June 1st, 2018 |
| Location: | USA |
| Amount: | $250,000 |
| Website: | https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=303117 |
| Summary: | The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition for the Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellow Summer Institute. Potential host universities may submit proposals to provide a four-week U.S.-based institute in the summer of 2019. The institute will engage 45 teenagers from Europe and 10 teenagers from the United States. The institute will focus on transatlantic relationships, leadership development, critical thinking, diplomacy, community activism, and the media as ways that young adults can unite around their common goals. |
| Title: |
Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program (MSP) |
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| Sponsor: | US Department of Agriculture |
| Deadline: | June 20th, 2018 |
| Location: | Global |
| Amount: | See solicitation |
| Website: | https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=303937 |
| Summary: | NIFA requests applications for the Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program (MSP) for fiscal year (FY) 2018 to conduct scholarship programs leading to either baccalaureate degrees within the Food, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Human (FANH) Sciences or Doctors of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) in order to meet national and international needs for training scientists and professionals in the FANH science fields. |
| Title: |
Clean and Advanced Energy Investment Accelerator |
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| Sponsor: | Department of State |
| Deadline: | June 25th, 2018 |
| Location: | See solicitation |
| Amount: | $641,975 |
| Website: | https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=304382 |
| Summary: | The purpose of the CAEIA project is to support public-private partnerships to link developing country clean energy needs with a growing interest among U.S. and international companies to procure and support clean and advanced energy technologies. CAEIA will support a limited number of developing countries that may include Vietnam, Colombia, Mexico, Indonesia, Philippines, and Kenya. Success will be achieved via identifying and enabling effective policy structures in order to unlock public and private sources of funding for various energy-related sectors, providing technical assistance to support the development and growth of clean and advanced energy markets, and by aggregating demand and creating investment-ready clean and advanced energy projects to attract U.S. and international investment. |
| Title: |
Symposium for International Exchange Alumni from Western India |
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| Sponsor: | Department of State |
| Deadline: | June 27th, 2018 |
| Location: | India |
| Amount: | $25,000 - $30,000 |
| Website: | https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=304313 |
| Summary: | The U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Consulate General in Mumbai (PAS Mumbai) seeks proposals to assist in all logistical arrangements for an international alumni symposium. The grantee will work collaboratively with PAS Mumbai and get its approval on its recommendations for any program topics and speakers. The one-and-one-half-day outreach symposium will bring together 100 U.S. State Department exchange alumni for a networking reception in the evening that will provide an opportunity for alumni to connect among themselves and with U.S. Consulate General Mumbai staff to develop contacts to advise them on future programs and activities. |
| Title: |
Professional Development for Young Legal Practitioners in East Asia and the Pacific |
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| Sponsor: | US Agency for International Development |
| Deadline: | June 29th, 2018 |
| Location: | East Asia and the Pacific |
| Amount: | $500,000 |
| Website: | https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=304393 |
| Summary: | To support continued capacity development in the justice sector in East Asia and Pacific region, International Narcotics and Law has allocated $500,000 in FY 2017 funds for a two-year, pilot project on capacity development for young legal professionals. This project will pilot professional development opportunities for legal professionals in the first five years of their career. The project will focus on sustainable legal professional development for prosecutors, judges, and public defense attorneys involved in criminal cases in the proposed pilot country. In the second year of the project, the implementer will conduct an assessment of a proposed second country for expansion. |
| Title: |
Addressing Education in Northeast Nigeria |
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| Sponsor: | US Agency for International Development |
| Deadline: | June 29th, 2018 |
| Location: | Nigeria |
| Amount: | See solicitation |
| Website: | https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=301133 |
| Summary: | The purpose of this solicitation is to address education in Northeast Nigeria targeting internally displaced people (IDPs) and host communities in Adamawa, Borno, Gombe and Yobe states, as and when conditions permit. This activity will address acute emergency education needs while laying the foundation to rebuild and transform the education system in Northeast Nigeria, redressing long-standing education grievances related to the insurgency and building trust in Nigerian education institutions. Many out of school girls and boys, ages 6-15, will benefit from equitable access to certified high-quality basic education opportunities, including those who will gain access for the first time. |
| Title: |
Collaborative International Research Coordination Networks |
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| Sponsor: | National Science Foundation/National Research Foundation of South Africa |
| Deadline: | June 30th, 2018 |
| Location: | South Africa |
| Amount: | $500,000 |
| Website: | https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18024/nsf18024.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click |
| Summary: | The National Science Foundation and National Research Foundation of South Africa announce a co-funding opportunity to support collaborative International Research Coordination Networks (IRCN) comprised of U.S. and South African researchers in the field of environmental biology. The IRCN mechanism provides an opportunity for the South African and U.S. research communities to communicate and coordinate their research activities on a wide range of environmental biology topics, including: ecosystem forecasting and monitoring, community origin, maintenance and function, species diversity and evolutionary relationships, emerging diseases and pests, and biodiversity theory. |
| Title: |
Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) |
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| Sponsor: | National Science Foundation |
| Deadline: | September 17th, 2018 |
| Location: | Global |
| Amount: | See solicitation for details |
| Website: | https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13352 |
| Summary: | The Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) program supports fundamental and innovative research in the design, operation and management of civil infrastructure that contributes to creating smart, sustainable and resilient communities at local, national and international scales. All critical civil infrastructure systems are of interest, including transportation, power, water, pipelines and others. The program values diverse theoretical, scientific, mathematical, or computational contributions from a broad set of disciplines. |
| Title: |
Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) |
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| Sponsor: | National Science Foundation |
| Deadline: | September 26th, 2018 |
| Location: | Global |
| Amount: | $2,500,000 |
| Website: | https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505241 |
| Summary: | The INFEWS program seeks to support research that conceptualizes food, energy, and water (FEW) systems broadly and inclusively, incorporating social and behavioral processes, physical processes, natural processes, biological processes, and cyber-components. The overarching goal of the INFEWS program is to catalyze well-integrated, convergent research to transform understanding of the FEW Nexus as integrated social, engineering, physical, and natural systems in order to improve system function and management, address system stress, increase resilience, and ensure sustainability. |
| Title: |
Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy |
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| Sponsor: | American Academy of Arts & Sciences |
| Deadline: | January 7th, 2019 |
| Location: | Global |
| Amount: | See Solicitation |
| Website: | https://www.amacad.org/content/about/about.aspx?d=96&t=4&s=94 |
| Summary: | As part of the Academy's Initiative for Science, Engineering, and Technology, the Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy provides an opportunity for an early-career professional with training in science or engineering to learn about a career in public policy and administration. While in residence, Hellman Fellows work with senior scientists and policy experts on critical national and international policy issues related to science, engineering, and technology. |
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