Texas Tech University

International Research Funding Alert August 2018

International Aridlands Conference Announcement

August 13th & 14th, 2018

Texas Tech University has long been a leader in research in arid and semi-arid environments, being home to the Water Center in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, the Water Resources Center in the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering, the Center for Water Law and Policy in the School of Law, and the International Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Land Studies in the Office of International Affairs. The primary International collaborator for this meeting is the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences but we are expecting participants from a number of other countries as well. Conference topics will include: land degradation/desertification, biodiversity, remote sensing, and rural health. Read more »

 


Title:

Abe Fellowship for International Multidisciplinary Research on Global Concerns

Sponsor: Social Science Research Council/Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership
Deadline: September 1st, 2018
Location: Global
Amount: See solicitation for details
Website: https://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/view/abe-fellowship/
Summary: The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics. It strives especially to promote a new level of intellectual cooperation between the Japanese and American academic and professional communities committed to and trained for advancing global understanding and problem solving. Research support to individuals is at the core of the Abe Fellowship Program. Applications are welcome from scholars and nonacademic research professionals. The objectives of the program are to foster high quality research in the social sciences and related disciplines, to build new collaborative networks of researchers around the four thematic foci of the program, to bring new data and new data resources to the attention of those researchers, and to obtain from them a commitment to a comparative or transnational line of inquiry.
 


Title:

Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS)

Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Deadline: Open deadline
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)

Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Deadline: September 26th, 2018
Location: Global
Amount: $750,000 - $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:

International Research Collaboration on Drug Abuse and Addiction Research

Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Deadline: October 5, 2018
Location: Global
Amount: See solicitation for details
Website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-18-773.html
Summary: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages collaborative research applications on drug abuse and addiction that take advantage of unusual opportunities that exist outside the US to access talent, resources, populations, or environmental conditions in other countries that will speed scientific discovery. Applications should describe how the research will significantly advance U.S. health sciences, as well as include a non-U.S. citizen partner living and working in another country. Applications should demonstrate specific relevance to the NIDA mission and objectives.
 


Title:

Fellowships and Grants for the American Region

Sponsor: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
Deadline: October 15, 2018
Location: Taiwan
Amount: See solicitation for details
Website: http://www.cckf.org.tw/en/programs/american/research
Summary: Scholars at academic institutions are eligible to apply for research grants. Researchers focusing on the social, cultural, economic or political development of Taiwan over the past few decades are especially encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to collaborative projects with scholars in Taiwan. Research grants are usually given for no more than two years. Applicants are eligible in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America.
 


Title:

Fellowships and Grants for the 2019/2020 Academic Year

Sponsor: The American-Scandinavian Foundation
Deadline: November 1st, 2018
Location: Scandinavia
Amount: $5,000 for short-stay research or $23,000 for year-long Fellowship
Website: http://www.amscan.org/fellowships-and-grants/fellowshipsgrants-to-study-in-scandinavia/
Summary: The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) offers fellowships (up to $23,000) and grants (up to $5,000) to individuals to pursue research, study or creative arts projects in one or more Scandinavian country for up to one year. Grants are considered suitable for post-graduate scholars, professionals, and candidates in the arts to carry out research or study visits of one to three months duration. Fellowships are intended to support a year-long stay. Priority is given to candidates at the graduate level for dissertation-related study or research. The number of awards varies each year according to total funds available. Awards are made in all fields.
 


Title:

Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)

Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Deadline: November 27, 2018
Location: Global
Amount: $1,250,000
Website: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5147
Summary: Through the CRCNS program, multiple funding agencies support collaborative activities that will advance the understanding of nervous system structure and function, mechanisms underlying nervous system disorders, and computational strategies used by the nervous system. Two classes of proposals will be considered in response to the solicitation: research proposals describing collaborative research projects, and data sharing proposals to enable sharing of data and other resources. As detailed in the solicitation, international components of collaborative projects may be funded in parallel by the participating agencies.
 


Title:

Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy

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.
 


Title:

Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM

Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Deadline: February 22, 2019
Location: Global
Amount: $275,000 - $600,000
Website: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505027
Summary: Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM (CCE STEM) funds research projects that identify (1) factors that are effective in the formation of ethical STEM researchers and (2) approaches to developing those factors in all the fields of science and engineering that NSF supports. CCE STEM research projects will use basic research to produce knowledge about what constitutes or promotes responsible or irresponsible conduct of research, and how to best instill students with this knowledge. In some cases, projects will include the development of interventions to ensure responsible research conduct. This is a limited submission opportunity.
 


Title:

Catalyzing Private Investment in Developing Countries

Sponsor: US Agency of International Development
Deadline: July 21, 2021
Location: Global
Amount: See solicitation for details
Website: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=306469
Summary: This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeks opportunities to co-create, co-design, co-invest, and collaborate in the research, development, piloting, testing, and scaling of innovative, practical and cost-effective interventions to catalyze private investment in developing countries. This BAA is intended to address the challenge of how to most effectively increase private investment, in a developing country where private funds currently only flow to traditional asset classes (e.g. debt and equity in sovereign and investment grade borrowers) in order to address the gap between the amount of investment needed in the countries where USAID works, and the public sector's ability to finance these projects. Increasing private investment will require addressing problems with supply (those with funds to invest), demand (those seeking to receive finance), and intermediation (those who match supply with demand), as well as improving the overall enabling environment.