CCG INSIGHT NEWSLETTER
Available funding opportunities:
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Programme: SOPHIE DANFORTH CONSERVATION BIOLOGY FUND (SDCBF)
Objective:
The Sophie Danforth Conservation Biology Fund (SDCBF), established by Roger Williams Park Zoo and the Rhode Island Zoological Society in 1989, supports conservation programs that protect threatened wildlife and habitats worldwide. Field studies and other projects that demonstrate a multi-disciplinary approach to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation, and projects that involve in-country collaborators receive the highest funding priority.
Eligible Activities:
Environmental education programs, development of techniques that can be used in a natural environment, and captive propagation programs that stress an integrative approach to conservation are also appropriate. Projects must directly affect biological conservation.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants must be associated with an organization (e.g. NGO, university, etc.) through which s/he can receive funding. Organizations, not individuals, receive funding check. There are no eligibility restrictions on the nationality of the applicant. Projects that have been funded by the SDCBF are eligible for a second year of funding. A second application must be submitted according to the application guidelines, along with a progress report from the first year of SDCBF funding.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 01/01/2025
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Programme: LALOR FOUNDATION
Objective:
The Lalor Foundation postdoctoral fellowship program supports promising new researchers in establishing scientific and teaching careers.
Eligible Activities:
The program’s mission is to support these researchers early in their work so that they can become independently funded in the field of mammalian reproductive biology as related to the regulation of fertility.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
U.S. institutions must be exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and must submit a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service stating that it is “not a private foundation.” Any nonprofit research institution, such as a university or medical research center, may apply. If the institution is not located in the United States and has not been classified by the Internal Revenue Service, applicants must submit proof of the institution’s nonprofit status.
Total Budget: €55,000
Deadline: 15/01/2025
More information and official documents:
https://lalorfound.org/postdoctoral-fellowship-program/application-instructions/
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Programme: Tinker Foundation
Objective:
The Tinker Foundation was created by Edward Larocque Tinker in 1959. The mission of the Tinker Foundation is to promote the development of an equitable, sustainable and productive society in Latin America and how U.S. policies may impact the region. The Foundation’s Institutional Grant Program offers grants in the programmatic areas of (1) democratic governance – to establish conditions for equitable economic growth by strengthening the institutions for democratic governance, particularly those related to public security, access to justice and financial inclusion; (2) education – to improve access to high-quality secondary or vocational public education; and (3) sustainable resource management – to support sustainable management of habitat and resources and incorporate social and economic dimensions affecting the well-being of local communities.
Eligible Activities:
Successful proposals have a strong public policy component, offer innovative solutions to problems facing these regions, and incorporate new mechanisms for addressing these programmatic areas. Activities may include, but are not restricted to, research projects, workshops, and conferences related to the Foundation’s areas of interest. The Foundation encourages collaboration among organisations in the United States and Latin America and prefers to fund institutions that are actively engaged with a broad array of stakeholders impacted by the identified challenge.
They are supporting projects in any country in Latin America.
Eligible Applicants:
Proposals can be submitted by an organisational entity with 501(c)3 charitable status or its equivalent, if the organisation is based outside the United States. Not-for-profit organisations based outside the U.S. are eligible for funding as long as they meet certain guidelines for charitable status.
Total Budget: $150,000
Deadline: 20/01/2025
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Programme: STEG
Objective:
STEG invites applications to the fifth call for proposals for Larger Research Grants (LRGs). LRGs of up to £100,000 can fund research assistance, data collection and/or purchase, and teaching buyouts, or relevant remuneration practices, for the principal investigator and co-investigators from partner institutions. Grants also support travel to field sites, even when secondary data is utilised.
Eligible Activities:
Research may focus on broad systemic patterns and processes of structural transformation and growth for low- and middle-income countries, in a comparative sense across time or space, or more narrowly defined topics related to one or more of the following six research themes:
Data, measurement, and conceptual framing;
Firms, frictions and spillovers, and industrial policy;
Labour, home production, and structural transformation at the level of households;
Agricultural productivity and sectoral gaps;
Trade and spatial frictions;
Political economy and public investment.
STEG is also focused around three cross-cutting issues that are simultaneously relevant to many areas of structural transformation, including the six research themes:
Gender;
Climate change and the environment;
Inequality and inclusion.
2) Eligibility
Please note that an important criterion for funding of proposals is the relevance to policy in low-income countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Proposals focused on middle- and/or high-income countries need to make a clear case for the relevance of the research to policy in specific low-income countries.
Eligible Applicants:
They welcome applications to SRG calls from researchers all over the world.
Total Budget: £100,000
Deadline: 20/01/2025
More information and official documents:
https://steg.cepr.org/call-for-proposals/fifth-call-proposals-steg-larger-research-grants
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Programme: MINOR FOUNDATION FOR MAJOR CHALLENGES
Objective:
The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges is a Norwegian trust that funds communication projects which mitigate anthropogenic climate change. The board grants support to the projects they believe have the greatest impact on influencing public opinion and increasing political support for cutting green house gas emissions. The Foundation’s work focuses on providing inspiration, changing attitudes, spreading information, etc., all meant to have an impact on decision-makers in society.
Eligible Activities:
Their ultimate goal is to reach as many people as possible in the hope of limiting and helping to prevent global climate changes. Most of their funding goes to Europe. So far they have supported around 30 projects. Innovative and experimental projects with high impact are particularly encouraged. The thematic areas of eligible for funding are (1) climate change and (2) environment and natural resources. The foundation’s priorities are to:
– encourage and support innovation in climate communication
– increase the number of voices and narratives in climate advocacy
– help strengthen social and political movements that open up for radical change
– concentrate on supporting European proposals
They have funded projects in Asia (China) and Europe but welcome applications from all over the world.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible for funding are non-profit organisations with a mission to combat climate change and environmental concerns.
Total Budget: €200,000
Deadline: 22/01/2025
More information and official documents:
https://unifor.no/stiftelser/the-minor-foundation-for-major-challenges/?_sf_s=Minor
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Programme: Nigeria USAID-Abuja
Objective:
The USAID Community Health Activity will support priority populations and communities, community organizations and networks, and public- or private-sector actors that work in partnership with civil society at the community level, in the design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of activities aimed at achieving the purpose of increasing the adoption and sustained uptake of priority health behaviours, services, and products.
Eligible Activities:
Actions must be implemented in Nigeria.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility for this award is restricted to local organizations in Nigeria.
Total Budget: $35,000,000
Deadline: 24/01/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - CERV
Objective:
The objective of this call is to protect, promote and raise awareness of rights by providing financial support to civil society organisations active at local, regional, national and transnational level in promoting and cultivating those rights. The call thereby also aims at strengthening the protection and promotion of Union values including respect for the rule of law and contributing to the construction of a more democratic Union, democratic dialogue, transparency as well as good governance.
Eligible Activities:
The call intends to set up 3-year framework partnership agreements with European networks, civil society organisations active at EU level and European think tanks, and to increase the capacities of the framework partners to contribute actively to the development and implementation of EU policies.
Actions must take place in EU member states.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 28/01/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
The global objective of this call for proposals is to empower civil society organisations and to support their efforts to promote, protect, and ensure the full enjoyment of human rights in the context of digital transformation.
Eligible Activities:
The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
· Promoting use of technology as a tool to monitor and report human rights violations and improvement of public service provision;
· Promoting innovative approaches in addressing participation in decision-making, accountability and transparency and building connections and share ideas;
· Promoting cooperation between all relevant stakeholders, and in particular the building of partnerships between governments, civil society and technology companies.
Actions can take place in Kosovo.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be a specific type of organisation such as: civil society organisation and (3) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €370,000
Deadline: 03/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
The general objective of this call for proposals is to support the engagement of civil society for Senegalese youth in their social, entrepreneurial, participation, inclusion and governance dynamics.
Eligible Activities:
The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
1. Support the actions of civil society organizations contributing to the emergence of an entrepreneurship ecosystem for sustainable and inclusive endogenous development through young people in rural and peri-urban areas.
2. Support responses to the social challenges and aspirations of youth (public participation, leadership, access to sport, culture, etc.), particularly young girls and women.
Actions can take place in Senegal.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be a specific type of organisation such as: civil society organisation and (3) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €6,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
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Programme: Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders (EMHRF)
Objective:
The Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders (EMHRF) is an independent regional foundation led by human rights defenders and experts in the affairs of the Arab region and acting for local human rights defenders, groups and NGOs from the region. The Foundation was established and registered as a Danish foundation in 2004 by EuroMed Rights, a network comprising of more than 80 human rights organisations and defenders from the region, following a feasibility study that acknowledged the need for creating a flexible financial instrument to cover funding gaps for independent civil society actors.
Eligible Activities:
It aims at providing flexible financial assistance to regional, national and local human rights NGOs and institutes as well as individuals who promote, support, protect and monitor the observance of human rights in the South-Mediterranean region. Grants are allocated to human rights defenders in difficulty or at risk, for the specific purpose of allowing them to protect their safety and pursue their activities, as well as to small human rights organisations or groups with the aim of strengthening their operational capacities to implement innovative activities in the region.
Actions must take place in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants are regional, national and local human rights NGOs and institutes as well as individuals who promote, support, protect and monitor the observance of human rights in the South-Mediterranean region.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 05/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
LOT 1: PROMOTE CIVIC RIGHTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ENGAGEMENT
The global objective of this lot is to strengthen a democratic space that is inclusive, participatory and empowered, as well as to reinforce a viable, independent civil society in Zambia. The specific objective of this lot is to nhance public participation and free and independent engagement in the definition and implementation of the country’s development agenda with a special focus on promoting transparent and accountable governance.
LOT 2: SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CHILDREN’S CODE ACT
The global objective of this lot is to promote and protect rights of children in Zambia. The specific objective of this lot is t promote grassroots participation, including interfaces between local level challenges and national policies on the implementation of the Children’s Code Act.
Eligible Activities:
Actions must take place in Zambia.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be non-profit-making and (3) be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation and (4) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €2,857,000
Deadline: 10/02/2025
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Programme: Swedish Institute (SI)
Objective:
The Creative Partnerships Programme grants funding to Swedish organisations and their international partners in civil society, culture and the media. The programme supports projects which aim to promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.
Eligible Activities:
Creative Partnerships awards funding to projects which:
· aim to strengthen democracy, human rights and/or freedom of expression in one or more of the programme’s target countries.
· aim to strengthen the professional capacity of people who are in a position to bring about change in the organisations or sectors they work in.
· involve the project partners in knowledge exchange, network building and/or the development of innovative methods.
· are sustainable. This means that the methods and results of the projects live on and continue to be used after the project has formally ended.
· are firmly rooted in the partner country and reflect needs which have been identified and formulated locally rather than by the Swedish partner.
· do not have a profit motive.
Countries eligible for funding are Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye, Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
The main applicant must be a Swedish organisation from civil society or the public or private sectors. Your project partner(s) may be formal or informal cultural actors, networks of journalists or other types of media organisation in the target country. They can also be found in civil society or the public or private sectors.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 11/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://si.se/en/apply/funding-grants/creative-partnerships-eng/
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Programme: U.S. Mission to Ukraine
Objective:
U.S. Embassy Kyiv’s Office of the Assistance Coordinator announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications for the twelfth round of the DCP to continue building U.S. foreign assistance partnerships with 11 eligible partner donor governments (PDGs) in Central and Eastern Europe aimed at supporting aspirations of the Ukrainian people for European integration, democratic transformation, peace, and security.
Eligible Activities:
Actions must take place in Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants are Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations; Public and private educational institutions, research institutions; Public International Organizations and Governmental institutions.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: 13/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
The global objective of this call for proposals is: to contribute to the economic and social well-being of Zimbabwean citizens while improving the management of natural resources in the South East Lowveld and the Mid-Zambezi. The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
1. Improve natural resource management with the participation of local communities, including women.
2. Improve resilience of communities and reduce vulnerability of communities to human-wildlife conflict (HWC).
Eligible Activities:
The priorities of this call for proposals are:
· Priority 1: Promotion of wildlife conservation, protection of wildlife corridors, reduction of degradation of natural habitats and halting biodiversity loss in protected areas and surrounding areas, and
· Priority 2: Mitigation of Human-Wildlife Conflict and its impact on local communities, safeguarding both human and wildlife populations, and
· Priority 3: Increased resilience of communities neighbouring well-preserved natural areas.
Actions can take place in Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation and (3) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €10,000,000
Deadline: 17/02/2025
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Programme: United States Department of Health and Human Services
Objective:
The United States Department of Health and Human Services is seeking applications for its Ending HIV as A Public Health Threat by Sustaining and Accelerating a Comprehensive HIV and TB Response in India.
They seek to support the National AIDS Control Program (NACP) to sustain and accelerate HIV epidemic control in priority geographies (e.g. Andhra Pradesh and others as applicable) across the prevention to treatment cascade including viral load suppression (VLS). In alignment with the NACP Phase V, you will build on innovative, evidence-based, person-centered strategies to improve:
· HIV and TB prevention.
· HIV and TB case-finding.
· Improved tools for TB case identification.
· Linkage to care continuum.
· Treatment retention and viral load suppression.
Purpose
The purpose of this NOFO is to provide impactful and evidence-based technical support to GOI in ending HIV as a public health threat by:
Accelerating the HIV/TB response within priority and emerging geographies with focus on priority populations.
Building sustainable and comprehensive, stigma-free HIV/TB services that leverage efficiencies across health systems.
Eligible Activities:
Priority Areas
Strategic priorities include:
· Develop and implement comprehensive, stigma-free HIV/TB prevention services.
· Implement innovative case-finding activities to ensure early diagnosis and linkage to appropriate comprehensive, stigma-free HIV/TB services for all priority populations.
· Enhance adherence to, retention in, and reengagement with comprehensive, stigma-free HIV/TB care and treatment services through integration of person-centred approaches for HIV and associated comorbidities.
· Expand collaborations and community partnerships at the national and sub-national levels to promote equitable access to HIV/TB services and enhance capacity to manage the HIV epidemic, sustain gains, and respond to emerging public health threats.
Eligible Activities
Technical assistance activities may include, but are not limited to:
Closing testing, treatment, and equity gaps.
Reinforcing collaborations to complement NACP.
Improving data use for impact.
Expanding ability to respond to emerging public health threats.
Expected Outcomes
Some expected outcomes of this NOFO will include:
Increasing proportion of people living with HIV who know their HIV and TB status.
Increasing access to and use of comprehensive, stigma-free HIV/TB services.
Increasing national rates of VLS.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any and all types of organizations are eligible and encouraged to apply, including but not limited to those listed below:
State governments.
County governments.
City or township governments.
Special district governments.
Independent school districts.
Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education.
Native American tribal governments (federally recognized).
Public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities.
Native American tribal organizations, other than federally recognized tribal governments.
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education.
Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education.
Private institutions of higher education.
For-profit organizations other than small businesses.
Small businesses.
Foreign or non-U.S. based entities.
Evaluation Criteria
They will expect you to conduct a mid-term and/or end-term evaluation:
Facilitators/Barriers to implementation of innovative approaches for prevention, case-finding, care and treatment: process evaluation.
Effects of innovative, integrated service delivery models on reaching priority populations for HTS: outcome evaluation.
Total Budget: $4,000,000
Deadline: 24/02/2025
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Programme: U.S. Mission to Suriname
Objective:
The proposals should meet the following objectives:
· Provide resources for women to engage in U.S.-style online education with guided facilitation and localization from ECA exchange program alumni, local women business leaders, or other local partners.
· Foster networks that support participants’ access to peer-to-peer mentorship, business partners, and scaling opportunities with businesses in the region and in the United States.
· Build a network of female entrepreneurs that is committed to supporting and promoting relationships that help grow businesses and drive local partnerships, and
· Equip participants with skills and knowledge to build sustainable businesses
Eligible Activities:
Actions must take place in Suriname.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations, Public and private educational institutions, Individuals.
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: 01/01/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: U.S. Mission to Morocco
Objective:
The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce the start of the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP). The AFCP Grants Program supports the preservation of archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, museum collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression, such as indigenous languages and crafts.
Eligible Activities:
Appropriate project activities may include:
a) Anastylosis (reassembling a site from its original parts)
b) Conservation (addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site)
c) Consolidation (connecting or reconnecting elements of an object or site)
d) Documentation (recording in analog or digital format the condition and salient features of an object, site, or tradition)
e) Inventory (listing of objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristic or state)
f) Preventive Conservation (addressing conditions that threaten or damage a site, object, collection, or tradition)
g) Restoration (replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or site, usually appropriate only with fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings)
h) Stabilization (reducing the physical disturbance of an object or site)
Actions must take place in Morocco.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants are Moroccan non-profit organizations/nongovernment organizations (NGO), Moroccan Public Entity, where permitted, U.S. Non-Profit Organization (IRC section 501(c)(3)), U.S. Institution of Higher Educations.
Total Budget: $500,000
Deadline: 03/01/2025
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Programme: US Department of State
Objective:
The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) seeks concept notes for humanitarian assistance activities in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan, focusing on various sectors such as education, health, protection and WASH.
Eligible Activities:
The document available on the given link outlines the eligibility criteria, program sectors for each country, and application process for interested organizations. Concept notes must target at least 50 percent of their participants as refugees or returnees and should incorporate protection activities across all sectors.
Actions must take place in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants include U.S. based and overseas based non profits with proof of non profit status, and international organizations
Total Budget: $5,000,000
Deadline: 17/01/2025
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Programme: FCDO
Objective:
This grant is a component of the FCDO’s Just Rural Transition Support program. This is a £65 million 5-year programme that will support the design and implementation of public policies and support (including through subsidy reforms) that scale sustainable agriculture approaches in developing countries to benefit:
· people (healthy diets, incomes)
· climate (mitigation, adaptation)
· nature (protect and restore biodiversity)
Eligible Activities:
The grant will provide support over 4 years to deliver a well organised, non-state-actor community that can influence policy reform processes and contributes to driving positive food systems change. This will focus on 3 key areas:
a) convening and curating a community of practice: they want to promote an inclusive and positive global dialogue on food systems transformation focusing on non-state actors and farmers, which sets out the roles different actors can play and what good looks like
b) knowledge sharing and communications on food systems transformation: the community of practice should highlight compelling case studies and examples of state and non-state actor action on food systems that can show what works and drive action from others
c) collaborating to develop key political and policy messages to take to government and to global convenings and platforms: this element will focus on the wider community and support non state actors to identify key messages to take to governments and global meetings such as COP
Actions must take place in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Priority countries for component 1 are: Indonesia, Colombia, tbc: Philippines, Brazil. Priority countries for component 2: Indonesia, Colombia, Malawi, Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique, Bangladesh with scope for up to additional 5 countries tbc.
Eligible Applicants:
Note that this funding opportunity is only available to not-for-profit organisations. Any bids by for-profit organisations will not be eligible for funding and will not be considered.
Total Budget: £1,000,000+
Deadline: 28/01/2025
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Programme: Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF)
Objective:
The Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF) provides annual grants to scholars and artists using their intellect, creativity, and compassion to build a deeper understanding of human–animal relationships and a greater respect for animal rights. CAF funds academic and artistic projects that raise public awareness about animal rights. On average, CAF awards fewer than 20 grants annually.
Eligible Activities:
Grants are awarded in three categories:
· Research (scholarly projects about animal advocacy and its cultural roots and impact);
· Creativity (original work by artists and thinkers that expresses positive concern for animals); and
· Performance (public performances and exhibitions to raise awareness of animal advocacy).
AF does not fund “hands-on” projects, including animal rescue, public protest or trap-neuter-release programs. CAF also does not support species conservation projects, unless they include a commitment to animal rights and fit into one of our three categories of creativity, performance, or research. CAF does not fund projects that consist entirely of attending or speaking at a conference or conferences. It does not fund book production (CAF does support research and writing). CAF does not fund indirect costs: no portion of a CAF grant may be used for “administrative costs,” “overhead,” or any other form of indirect cost.
Actions can take place worldwide. CAF accepts grant applications from any country.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are individuals.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 31/01/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: JACOBS FOUNDATION
Objective:
The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is a globally competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers whose work is dedicated to improving the learning and development of children and youth worldwide. The relevant disciplines include, but are not limited to, education sciences, psychology, economics, sociology, behavioral science, computer science, pedagogy, linguistics, neurosciences, and science of learning.
Eligible Activities:
Particularly encouraged to apply are scholars who seek to combine multiple levels of analysis and engage in interdisciplinary work. A special focus lies on work to understand and embrace variability in learning; promote the generation, transfer, and practical application of evidence on human learning and development or increase the capacity to scale up effective education policies and practices.
The program is open globally.
Eligible Applicants:
The ideal candidate: has obtained his/her PhD or equivalent degree within the past 10 years; is employed at an institution of higher education or research institute; is conducting high-quality research in an area of interest to the Jacobs Foundation; is committed to engaging with the Jacobs Foundation and the Fellowship Network and contributing to the Foundation’s activities.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://jacobsfoundation.org/activity/jacobs-foundation-research-fellowship-program/
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Programme: Madagascar USAID-Antananarivo
Objective:
SOROKA is a Malagasy word which constitutes the root of the verb “misoroka”, meaning “to prevent”, corresponding to the aim of surveillance. SOROKA can be the acronym of the specific objectives of the project: Surveillance, Operational Research, and Optimization of Knowledge-sharing for Action activity. SOROKA’s main objective is to advance the health of the Malagasy people through improvements in capacity-building and coordination and execution of data collection, management, synthesis, and use for public health action. Following the RISE project, SOROKA will enhance local capacity and expand leadership within the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) to detect threats to global health security, and to plan and conduct emergency outbreak response. It will reinforce the country’s capacity to plan, implement, and disseminate locally led research and evaluations, and increase public sector capacity to use epidemiologic and surveillance data for public health action.
Eligible Activities:
SOROKA will be the main activity of USAID/Madagascar’s Health Office for research on malaria, MNCH (mother, neonatal, and child health), WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene), and GHS (global health security), for program evaluation, biological surveillance including AMR (antimicrobial resistance), emergency responses to health threats and institutionalization of epidemiology and laboratory data use for decision making. SOROKA will also provide targeted and need-based cross-sectorial training for the MOPH staff throughout its implementation. In general, SOROKA is intended to cover all HPN program elements, particularly malaria, MNCH, GHS and WASH.
Actions must take place in Madagascar.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is restricted to Local entities and organizations that have received less than $25 million in USAID funding, at any tier, over the past five years; or for global health awards the organization has received less than $25 million in U.S. Government funding at any tier, over the past five years.
Total Budget: $7,500,000
Deadline: 10/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
The global objective of this call for proposals is: to support greener and sustainable agri-business and climate resilience in Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector.
Eligible Activities:
The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
· To promote climate-resilient agriculture and sustainable value chains by fostering the adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices, enhancing market linkages, and developing inclusive agri-business hubs that empower smallholder farmers, especially women and youth.
· To “green” agricultural production processes by integrating renewable energy and upgrading infrastructure / equipment to improve the efficiency, sustainability, and competitiveness of agri-business hubs, with a focus on drought-resistant crops and climate adaptation.
Actions can take place in Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation and (3) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €15,000,000
Deadline: 17/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Capacity building projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of VET in EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme, and third countries not associated to the Programme. They aim to support the relevance, accessibility, and responsiveness of VET institutions and systems in third countries not associated to the Programme as a driver of sustainable socio-economic development.
Through joint initiatives that foster cooperation across different regions of the world, this action intends to increase the capacity of VET providers – especially in the fields of management, governance, inclusion, quality assurance, and innovation – so that they are better equipped to engage with private sector/enterprises/business associations to explore employment opportunities and jointly develop responsive VET interventions. International partnerships should contribute to improving the quality of VET in the third countries not associated to the Programme, notably by reinforcing the capacities of VET staff and teachers as well as by strengthening the link between VET providers and the labour market.
Eligible Activities:
It is envisaged that the capacity building projects VET contribute to the broader policy objectives that are being pursued between the European Commission and the third countries not associated to the Programme or region concerned, including Global Gateway investment packages and the development of Talent partnerships and the Talent pool as laid down in the Commission Communication on attracting skills and talent to the EU of April 2022.
Activities must take place in EU Member States and Caribbean countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must be private or public bodies established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. EU Member State, third country associated to the Programme, third country not associated to the Programme from an eligible region.
Total Budget: €400,000 per project
Deadline: 27/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Capacity building projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of VET in EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme, and third countries not associated to the Programme. They aim to support the relevance, accessibility, and responsiveness of VET institutions and systems in third countries not associated to the Programme as a driver of sustainable socio-economic development.
Through joint initiatives that foster cooperation across different regions of the world, this action intends to increase the capacity of VET providers – especially in the fields of management, governance, inclusion, quality assurance, and innovation – so that they are better equipped to engage with private sector/enterprises/business associations to explore employment opportunities and jointly develop responsive VET interventions. International partnerships should contribute to improving the quality of VET in the third countries not associated to the Programme, notably by reinforcing the capacities of VET staff and teachers as well as by strengthening the link between VET providers and the labour market.
Eligible Activities:
It is envisaged that the capacity building projects VET contribute to the broader policy objectives that are being pursued between the European Commission and the third countries not associated to the Programme or region concerned, including Global Gateway investment packages and the development of Talent partnerships and the Talent pool as laid down in the Commission Communication on attracting skills and talent to the EU of April 2022.
Activities must take place in EU Member States and Sub-Saharan Africa countries: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo – Democratic Republic of the, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must be private or public bodies established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. EU Member State, third country associated to the Programme, third country not associated to the Programme from an eligible region.
Total Budget: €100,000 to €400,000. Total available funding is €8,072,432.
Deadline: 27/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Capacity building projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of VET in EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme, and third countries not associated to the Programme. They aim to support the relevance, accessibility, and responsiveness of VET institutions and systems in third countries not associated to the Programme as a driver of sustainable socio-economic development.
Eligible Activities:
Through joint initiatives that foster cooperation across different regions of the world, this action intends to increase the capacity of VET providers – especially in the fields of management, governance, inclusion, quality assurance, and innovation – so that they are better equipped to engage with private sector/enterprises/business associations to explore employment opportunities and jointly develop responsive VET interventions. International partnerships should contribute to improving the quality of VET in the third countries not associated to the Programme, notably by reinforcing the capacities of VET staff and teachers as well as by strengthening the link between VET providers and the labour market.
It is envisaged that the capacity building projects VET contribute to the broader policy objectives that are being pursued between the European Commission and the third countries not associated to the Programme or region concerned, including Global Gateway investment packages and the development of Talent partnerships and the Talent pool as laid down in the Commission Communication on attracting skills and talent to the EU of April 2022.
Activities must take place in EU Member States and South Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must be private or public bodies established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. EU Member State, third country associated to the Programme, third country not associated to the Programme from an eligible region.
Total Budget: €100,000 to €400,000. Total available funding is €4,677, 788.
Deadline: 27/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Capacity building projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of VET in EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme, and third countries not associated to the Programme. They aim to support the relevance, accessibility, and responsiveness of VET institutions and systems in third countries not associated to the Programme as a driver of sustainable socio-economic development.
Eligible Activities:
Through joint initiatives that foster cooperation across different regions of the world, this action intends to increase the capacity of VET providers – especially in the fields of management, governance, inclusion, quality assurance, and innovation – so that they are better equipped to engage with private sector/enterprises/business associations to explore employment opportunities and jointly develop responsive VET interventions. International partnerships should contribute to improving the quality of VET in the third countries not associated to the Programme, notably by reinforcing the capacities of VET staff and teachers as well as by strengthening the link between VET providers and the labour market.
It is envisaged that the capacity building projects VET contribute to the broader policy objectives that are being pursued between the European Commission and the third countries not associated to the Programme or region concerned, including Global Gateway investment packages and the development of Talent partnerships and the Talent pool as laid down in the Commission Communication on attracting skills and talent to the EU of April 2022.
Activities must take place in EU Member States and Sub-Saharan Africa countries: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo – Democratic Republic of the, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must be private or public bodies established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. EU Member State, third country associated to the Programme, third country not associated to the Programme from an eligible region.
Total Budget: €100,000 to €400,000. Total available funding is €4,000,000.
Deadline: 27/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Capacity building projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of VET in EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme, and third countries not associated to the Programme. They aim to support the relevance, accessibility, and responsiveness of VET institutions and systems in third countries not associated to the Programme as a driver of sustainable socio-economic development.
Eligible Activities:
Through joint initiatives that foster cooperation across different regions of the world, this action intends to increase the capacity of VET providers – especially in the fields of management, governance, inclusion, quality assurance, and innovation – so that they are better equipped to engage with private sector/enterprises/business associations to explore employment opportunities and jointly develop responsive VET interventions. International partnerships should contribute to improving the quality of VET in the third countries not associated to the Programme, notably by reinforcing the capacities of VET staff and teachers as well as by strengthening the link between VET providers and the labour market.
It is envisaged that the capacity building projects VET contribute to the broader policy objectives that are being pursued between the European Commission and the third countries not associated to the Programme or region concerned, including Global Gateway investment packages and the development of Talent partnerships and the Talent pool as laid down in the Commission Communication on attracting skills and talent to the EU of April 2022.
Activities must take place in EU Member States and Latin America countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must be private or public bodies established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. EU Member State, third country associated to the Programme, third country not associated to the Programme from an eligible region.
Total Budget: €100,000 to €400,000. Total available funding is €1,949,078.
Deadline: 27/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Capacity building projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of VET in EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme, and third countries not associated to the Programme. They aim to support the relevance, accessibility, and responsiveness of VET institutions and systems in third countries not associated to the Programme as a driver of sustainable socio-economic development.
Eligible Activities:
Through joint initiatives that foster cooperation across different regions of the world, this action intends to increase the capacity of VET providers – especially in the fields of management, governance, inclusion, quality assurance, and innovation – so that they are better equipped to engage with private sector/enterprises/business associations to explore employment opportunities and jointly develop responsive VET interventions. International partnerships should contribute to improving the quality of VET in the third countries not associated to the Programme, notably by reinforcing the capacities of VET staff and teachers as well as by strengthening the link between VET providers and the labour market.
It is envisaged that the capacity building projects VET contribute to the broader policy objectives that are being pursued between the European Commission and the third countries not associated to the Programme or region concerned, including Global Gateway investment packages and the development of Talent partnerships and the Talent pool as laid down in the Commission Communication on attracting skills and talent to the EU of April 2022.
3) Location
Activities must take place in EU Member States and Western Balkans countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must be private or public bodies established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. EU Member State, third country associated to the Programme, third country not associated to the Programme from an eligible region.
Total Budget: €100,000 to €400,000. Total available funding is €8,500,000.
Deadline: 27/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
European Youth Together projects aim to create cooperation, enabling young people across Europe to set up joint projects, organise exchanges and promote trainings (e.g. for youth leaders/ youth workers) through both physical and online activities. The action will support transnational partnerships for youth organisations from both grassroots and large-scale level, aiming to reinforce the European dimension of their activities.
Eligible Activities:
Important thematic priorities are working with and promoting the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027 and the European Youth Goals. The European Youth Goals are also reflected in the President von der Leyen Commission’s political guidelines. Project proposals may also treat the legacy of the European Year of Youth 2022 (e.g., exploration of youth check or youth mainstreaming processes) and the outcomes of the ‘Conference for the Future of Europe’. Youth networks should consider ways of forging solidarity and inclusiveness in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Activities must take place in EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme. Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of minimum of 5 applicants (beneficiaries, not affiliated entities) from at least 5 EU Member States and/or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: The maximum EU grant per project is €500,000. Total available funding is €8,000,000.
Deadline: 06/03/2025
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Programme: European Union (EU)
Objective:
The 3rd Open Call for Open Innovation and Creativity OIC 3 – Business for Community invites creative agencies, artists, technology companies, innovation agencies and SMEs to partner with STARHAUS experts in commercialization and product development.
STARHAUS is an innovative project funded under the Horizon Europe programme, building upon the successes of the previous DIY4U initiative. STARHAUS aims to advance manufacturing capabilities through the development, testing, and validation of eight innovative hardware module prototypes. These prototypes will enhance existing Manufacturing Demonstration Facilities (MDFs) established in the DIY4U project, facilitating the production of personalized fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) in the areas of pet food, fertilizers, beverages, and breakfast cereals.
The project aims to attract third parties, i.e., SMEs, which can contribute by providing additional tools, services, applications, ideas or devices, as well as by proposing strategies to enhance the acceptance of the project solutions in the target communities, municipalities and following an EU-wide adoption.
This final Open Call under the EU-funded STARHAUS project is your opportunity to contribute to shaping scalable business models and market integration plans for STARHAUS solutions.
Eligible Activities:
Objectives
OIC#3 | Business for Community:
Brainstorming and prototyping to create tangible results and methods for presenting the concept and project outcomes to local communities.
Eligible Activities
Activities to be funded within the 3rd Open Call include:
Business Model and Market Integration: Formulate a viable business model for STARHAUS, outlining plans for market entry, distribution channels, pricing, and promotional strategies, and construct a commercialization roadmap with scalability options for various contexts.
Engagement and Communication Tools: Design engaging tools (e.g., infographics, visual presentations) that clearly convey the environmental and social benefits of STARHAUS to target communities, enhancing public understanding and adoption.
Market and Community Analysis: Gather community insights through surveys and interviews and conduct a techno-economic analysis to identify expansion opportunities beyond the initial use-cases and adapt to community needs.
What they’re looking for?
Clear, innovative strategies for commercialization and community engagement
Scalability and adaptability of the technology across different contexts
An ability to articulate environmental and societal benefits
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
The first eligibility screening process will access the following:
Applicant entities must be registered in EU Member States or Horizon Europe associated countries.
Applications made by organisations that are not SMEs are NOT eligible.
Applications need to be submitted by the deadline of the call. Late application will not be admitted.
Applications must be submitted in English. Applications submitted in any other language will not be eligible.
Duration of the proposed Experiments is limited to a minimum of six (6) months and a maximum of ten (10) months. Applications proposing Experiments with duration outside these limits are NOT eligible.
Entities from the STARHAUS consortium are NOT eligible.
The STARHAUS Open Call #OIC3 | Business for Community (OC3-STARHAUS 2024) will fund projects implemented by one (1) legal entity or consortia of a minimum of 2 legal entities that are considered eligible under Horizon Europe rules. The following type of entities are invited to submit their innovative research or application ideas:
Private-for-profit start-ups and SMEs established in an eligible country. A beneficiary is qualified as an SME as defined in the EU recommendation 2003/3614.
The following additional conditions apply:
The participating organisations should not have been declared bankrupt or have initiated bankruptcy procedures.
The organisations applying should not have convictions for fraudulent behaviour, other financial irregularities, and unethical or illegal business practices.
There should not be any conflict of interest with any of the STARHAUS partners (beneficiaries).
Entities established in any of the following countries are eligible to participate in the STARHAUS Open Call #OIC3 | Business for Community (OC3-STARHAUS-2024):
The Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU), including their outermost regions.
Horizon Europe associated countries: according to the updated list published by the EC.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 27/01/2025
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Programme: European Union (EU)
Objective:
The European Union is pleased to announce its call for Jean Monnet Actions in the field of Higher Education Centers of Excellence Program.
Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence are focal points of competence and knowledge on European Union subjects. They should gather the expertise and competences of high-level experts aiming to at develop synergies between the various disciplines and resources in European studies as well as at creating joint transnational activities. They also ensure openness to civil society. Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence have a major role in reaching out to students from faculties not normally dealing with European Union issues as well as to policy makers, civil servants, organised civil society and the general public at large.
Eligible Activities:
Objectives
The Programme has the following specific objectives:
to promote learning mobility of individuals and groups, as well as cooperation, quality, inclusion and equity, excellence, creativity and innovation at the level of organisations and policies in the field of education and training;
to promote non-formal and informal learning mobility and active participation among young people, as well as cooperation, quality, inclusion, creativity and innovation at the level of organisations and policies in the field of youth;
to promote learning mobility of sport staff, as well as cooperation, quality, inclusion, creativity and innovation at the level of sport organisations and sport policies.
Scope
Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence are focal points of competence and knowledge on European Union subjects. They should gather the expertise and competences of high-level experts aiming to at develop synergies between the various disciplines and resources in European studies as well as at creating joint transnational activities, they also ensure openness to civil society. Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence have a major role in reaching out to students from faculties not normally dealing with European Union issues as well as to policy makers, civil servants, organised civil society and the general public at large.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities, if applicable) must be:
a higher education institution (HEI); and
established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme or in a third country not associated to the Programme.
HEIs established in EU Member States and third countries associated with the Programme must be holders of the ECHE Certificate.
Only one Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence will be supported at the same time in any participating HEI.
Only applications by single applicants are allowed.
Ineligibility Criteria
Organisations from Belarus (Region 2) and the Russian Federation (Region 4) are not eligible to participate in this action.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 12/02/2025
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Programme: European Union (EU)
Objective:
The European Union is seeking applications for its Jean Monnet Actions for other fields of Education and Training Teacher Training Program to promote a better understanding in general education and vocational training.
Eligible Activities:
Objectives
The main objectives are to:
allow schools and VET providers (ISCED 1- 4) to build knowledge about the EU among their teaching staff;
Offer structured training proposals on EU subjects for schools and VET providers, provide content and methodologies for teacher teaching at various levels, from different backgrounds and experience;
deliver specific individual or group training courses (modular, residential, blended or online) for teachers interested in the EU and willing to integrate EU subjects in their daily work;
foster the confidence of teachers in integrating an EU angle in their daily work.
Aim
Jean Monnet Teacher Training aims to support schools and VET providers in planning, organising and delivering EU content in their curricular and extra-curricular activities.
Scopes
Higher Education Institutions or Teacher Training Institutes/Agencies will organise activities under this action enabling teachers in schools and Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers to develop new skills, to teach and engage on EU matters, thus empowering them through a better understanding of the EU and its functioning.
Teacher training bodies (both for initial teacher education and for continuous professional development for teachers) will strengthen their internal knowledge and skills on teaching about EU matters, and this will, leave teachers better equipped when introducing EU content in their activities.
Teacher Training activities will support educational staff in schools and VET providers (ISCED 1 – 4).
Expected Impact
The expected impact of the teacher training and the long-lasting effects:
on schools and VET providers (ISCED 1 - 4):
increased capacity to teach on EU subjects;
improved or innovative content, development of new angles to include EU subjects in the curricula;
on the institution organising the activities;
reinforced cooperation and capacity to connect with partners;
number and level of the training proposed and potential number of beneficiaries;
increased allocation of financial resources to enhance more targeted training activities within the institution.
On teachers benefitting from the Jean Monnet Action:
Strengthen teaching skills on EU content in their activities.
Dissemination and communication:
The appropriateness and quality of actions aimed at disseminating the outcomes of the activities within and outside the institution hosting the Jean Monnet Action,
raising awareness of projects and results, enhancing visibility of participants and organizations,
reaching out to groups outside the direct target group,
The extent to which the dissemination tools foreseen will reach the target audience.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities, if applicable) must be:
a higher education institution providing initial and/or in service training to teachers of schools and/or VET institutions (ISCED 1 - 4) and holders of the ECHE Certificate; or
a teacher training / education institution or agency providing initial and/or in service training to teachers in schools and/or VET institutions (ISCED 1 - 4).
Applicants must be established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme.
Only applications by a single applicant are allowed.
Total Budget: €300,000
Deadline: 12/02/2025
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Programme: European Union (EU)
Objective:
The European Commission is seeking applications for its program titled “Jean Monnet Actions for other fields of Education and Training: Learning EU”.
Learning EU initiatives will support schools & Vocational education and training institutions (VETs), enabling them to provide specific content on EU based subjects (democracy, EU history, how the EU works, cultural diversity – among others). Activities should be taught during the school year and could include project weeks, study visits, and other immersive activities.
Activities will be offered by schools and VETs (ISCED 1 – 4). They may design and deliver content on EU issues and create learning experiences themselves or with the support of higher education institutions or other relevant organisations (NGOs, Associations, etc.). Activities organised under this section will boost learning about the European Union in ways that inspire. They will help students to strengthen their sense of belonging to the EU, the impact it has on their lives and their understanding of EU mechanisms and policies.
Eligible Activities:
Objectives
Jean Monnet Learning EU initiatives will foster the introduction of a European Union angle in the educational culture of schools and VETs (ISCED 1 –4) and contribute to strengthen European identity and active citizenship among students and teachers.
In particular, the main objectives are:
increased number of schools and VETs (ISCED 1 –4) teaching European Union issues by EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme;
increased number of classes in schools and VETs (ISCED 1 –4) involved in learning experiences on European Union subjects;
increased number of key subject areas, or extra-curricular activities, where the EU is being taught in schools and VETs (ISCED 1 –4) for each EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme;
increased number of teachers to engage with the improvement of EU literacy;
increased quality of EU innovative teaching and learning methods, with particular attention to the EU priorities;
improved learning results about the EU of students who are better equipped with knowledge and understanding of the EU, its history, values, objectives as well as the institutions, decision making processes which influence the daily lives of young Europeans and enhanced active citizenship among students and teachers.
Program Specifications
Jean Monnet Learning EU initiatives must respect one or more of the following:
teaching on European Union matters officially embedded in the curricula (teaching in one or more existing subjects);
learning experiences on European Union subjects which complement already existing courses: collaborative learning, co-teaching, among other subjects;
extracurricular seminars, study visits, other kinds of EU experiences involving other organisations.
For the purpose of the action, a teaching hour is understood to be an hour of learning experience in the context of school or VET activities. It can be classroom or not classroom learning (i.e. workshops, meetings with experts, study visits) but needs to be linked to concrete learning outcomes and to EU studies/EU values.
National Authorities may be informed about the public schools applying to this Action per country, including limited personal data such as the name and email of the contact person, in order to facilitate the validation process of their entities.
Expected Outcome
Jean Monnet Learning EU Initiatives is expected to bring positive and long-lasting effects both to the schools and VET providers and to the participants to their activities, in particular teachers and students.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible Activities
A Jean Monnet Learning EU initiative must be implemented for a minimum of 40 teaching hours per school year for three consecutive years on EU based subjects.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities, if applicable) must be:
school or vocational education and training institution (VET) (ISCED 1 - 4);
established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme.
Only applications by single applicants are allowed.
Total Budget: €35,000
Deadline: 12/02/2025
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Programme: European Union (EU)
Objective:
The European Commission is inviting applications for its Erasmus Mundus Design Measures.
To reinforce the international dimension of the European Education Area, Erasmus Mundus Design Measures aim to enhance the capacities of higher education institutions in Europe to modernise and internationalise their curricula by developing new master programmes in partnership with universities worldwide.
Developing international master programmes is crucial for universities in Europe. International collaboration brings diverse academic perspectives and teaching methodologies, enriching the curriculum and broadening students' educational experiences. International master programmes also attract students from around the world, thus increasing diversity and the talent pool, as well as enhancing the universities' reputation and competitiveness on the global stage.
Eligible Activities:
By collaborating with institutions worldwide, universities in Europe can pool resources and knowledge to address pressing global issues such as climate change, digital transformation and sustainable development. In the long run, Erasmus Mundus Design Measures will foster the development of common mechanisms in higher education related to quality assurance, accreditation and recognition of degrees and credits.
Therefore, the main objective of the Erasmus Mundus Design Measures is to encourage the development of innovative, highly integrated new international study programmes at Master level. These international study programmes are jointly delivered by an international consortium of higher education institutions from different countries worldwide and, where relevant, other educational and/or non-educational partners with specific expertise and interest in the concerned study areas/professional domains.
Expected Outcomes
Provide European and non-European HEIs with opportunities for developing new partnerships;
Improve the quality and foster innovation in programmes at Master level and supervision arrangements;
Increase internationalisation and competitiveness of participating organisations;
Increase the attractiveness of the participating organisation(s) towards talented students worldwide;
Contribute to the internationalisation policies of universities by developing international awareness through their curricula and the design of comprehensive internationalisation strategies (institutional cooperation and cross border mobility of people).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible for an Erasmus+ grant, project proposals for Erasmus Mundus Design Measures must comply with the following criteria:
In order to be eligible, applicants must be:
legal entities (public or private bodies);
higher education institutions (HEIs) established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme;
holders of the ECHE certificate (Erasmus Charter for Higher Education). Exception: organisations from Belarus and the Russian Federation are not eligible to participate in this action.
Total Budget: €60,000
Deadline: 13/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Cooperation Partnerships aim at:
· increasing quality in the work, activities and practices of organisations and institutions involved, opening up to new actors, not naturally included within one sector;
· building capacity of organisations to work transnationally and across sectors;
· addressing common needs and priorities in the fields of education, training, youth and sport;
· enabling transformation and change (at individual, organisational or sectoral level), leading to improvements and new approaches, in proportion to the context of each organisation.
Eligible Activities:
A Cooperation Partnership is a transnational project and must involve minimum three organisations from three different EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: €120,000, €250,000 or €400,000
Deadline: 05/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Small-scale Partnerships are designed to widen access to the programme to small-scale actors and individuals who are hard to reach in the fields of school education, adult education, vocational education and training, youth and sport. With lower grant amounts awarded to organisations, shorter duration and simpler administrative requirements compared to the Cooperation Partnerships, this action aims at reaching out to grassroots organisations, less experienced organisations and newcomers to the Programme, reducing entry barriers to the programme for organisations with smaller organisational capacity. This action will also support flexible formats – mixing activities with transnational and national character although with a European dimension – allowing organisations to have more means to reach out to people with fewer opportunities. Small-scale Partnerships can also contribute to the creation and development of transnational networks and to fostering synergies with, and between, local, regional, national and international policies.
Eligible Activities:
The objectives are:
· Attract and widen access for newcomers, less experienced organisations and small-scale actors to the programme. These partnerships should act as a first step for organisations into cooperation at European level.
· Support the inclusion of target groups with fewer opportunities
· Support active European citizenship and bring the European dimension to the local level
Actions must take place in EU member states and Republic of North Macedonia, Republic of Turkey and Republic of Serbia.
Eligible Applicants:
Any public body or organisation, with its affiliated entities (if any), active in the field of sport, established in a Programme Country, can apply.
Total Budget: €30,000 or €60,000
Deadline: 05/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
The primary goal of Cooperation Partnerships is to allow organisations to increase the quality and relevance of their activities, to develop and reinforce their networks of partners, to increase their capacity to operate jointly at transnational level, boosting internationalisation of their activities and through exchanging or developing new practices and methods as well as sharing and confronting ideas.
They aim to support the development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices as well as the implementation of joint initiatives promoting cooperation, peer learning and exchanges of experience at European level. Results should be re-usable, transferable, up-scalable and, if possible, have a strong transdisciplinary dimension.
Eligible Activities:
Cooperation Partnerships aim at:
· Increasing quality in the work, activities and practices of organisations and institutions involved, opening up to new actors, not naturally included within one sector
· Building capacity of organisations to work transnationally and across sectors;
· Addressing common needs and priorities in the fields of education, training, youth and sport;
· Enabling transformation and change (at individual, organisational or sectoral level), leading to improvements and new approaches, in proportion to the context of each organisation.
A Cooperation Partnership is a transnational project and must involve minimum three organisations from three different EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: €120,000, €250,000 or €400,000
Deadline: 05/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
Capacity Building projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of sport in Programme and third countries not associated to the Programme in Region 1 (Western Balkans) and Region 2 (Neighbourhood East). They aim to support sport activities and policies in third countries not associated to the Programme as a vehicle to promote values as well as an educational tool to promote the personal and social development of individuals and build more cohesive communities.
Eligible Activities:
The action will aim at:
· raising the capacity of grassroots sport organisations;
· encouraging the practice of sport and physical activity in third countries not associated to the Programme;
· promoting social inclusion through sport;
· promoting positive values through sport (such as fair play, tolerance, team spirit);
· fostering cooperation across different regions of the world through joint initiatives.
Proposals should focus on certain thematic areas defined at programming stage.
Examples of particularly relevant areas are:
· promotion of common values, non-discrimination and gender equality through sport;
· development of skills (through sport) needed to improve the social involvement of disadvantaged groups (e.g. independence, leadership etc.);
· integration of migrants;
· post-conflict reconciliation.
Actions must take place in EU Member States, third countries associated to the Programme or in third countries not associated to the Programme from Region 1 (Western Balkans) or Region 2 (Neighbourhood East).
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants must be either public bodies or non-profit organisations with legal personality. Applicants must be established in the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €2,170,000. The EU grant per project should vary between €100,000-€200,000.
Deadline: 05/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
This Action aims to support the organisation of sport events with a European dimension in the following fields:
· volunteering in sport;
· social inclusion through sport;
· fight against discrimination in sport, including gender equality;
· encouraging healthy lifestyles for all: projects under this priority will mainly focus on:
· the implementation of the three pillars of the HealthyLifestyleAll initiative;
· the implementation of the Council Recommendation on health-enhancing physical activity and the EU Physical Activity Guidelines;
· the support to the implementation of the European Week of Sport;
· the promotion of sport and physical activity as a tool for health;
· the promotion of all activities encouraging the practice of sport and physical activity;
· promotion of traditional sport and games.
Eligible Activities:
Actions must take place in EU Member States, third countries associated to the Programme or in third countries not associated to the Programme from Region 1 (Western Balkans) or Region 2 (Neighbourhood East).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible is any public or private organisation, with its affiliated entities (if any), active in the field of sport, established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme.
Total Budget: €10,920,000. Grant sizes range up to €450,000.
Deadline: 05/05/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - JUST
Objective:
The primary objective of the call is to support training promoting the digitalisation of national justice systems. Training funded under this call is expected to build the “digital capacity” of justice professionals, address training needs stemming from the Regulation on the digitalisation of judicial cooperation and access to justice in cross-border civil, commercial and criminal matters, the e-evidence Regulation, service of documents Regulation, and Taking of evidence Regulation and promote the digital transition of judicial training methodologies, while also contributing to the effective and coherent application of EU law in the areas of civil law, criminal law, and fundamental rights, including non-discrimination, equality, and the rule of law.
Eligible Activities:
Actions must take place in EU Member States, the EFTA/EEA countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, EU candidate countries: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova and North Macedonia.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants (the notion of applicants concerns applicants and partners) must be either public bodies or non-profit organisations with legal personality.
Total Budget: €4,075,000
Deadline: 26/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
The Erasmus+ Teacher Academies aim to facilitate networking, knowledge sharing, mobility and provide teachers and trainers with learning opportunities at all phases of teachers’ and trainers’ careers by promoting close cooperation between organisations active in initial and continuing teacher education and training, complement other work done in achieving the Education Area, and help transfer the results to national and regional policy making and eventually to teacher education and support for schools.
Eligible Activities:
The overall objective of this action is to create European partnerships of teacher education institutions and training providers to set up Teacher Academies that will develop a European and international outlook in teacher education. These Academies aim to develop teacher education in line with the EU’s priorities in education policy and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the European Education Area. The action focusses on networking, mobility and innovative methods, and will also embrace multilingualism, language awareness and cultural diversity topics.
Activities must take place in EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: The maximum EU grant per project is €1,500,000. Total funding is €25,500,000.
Deadline: 26/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - JUST
Objective:
The call for proposals’ objectives are to facilitate and support judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters, and promote the rule of law, independence and impartiality of the judiciary, including by supporting the efforts to improve the effectiveness of national justice systems, and the effective enforcement of decisions.
Eligible Activities:
There are three priorities for 2025:
· Judicial cooperation in civil matters
· Judicial cooperation in criminal matters
· Support to the Member States for the setting up and strengthening of national networks active in the area of judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters
Actions must take place in EU Member States, the EFTA/EEA countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, EU candidate countries: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova and North Macedonia.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants (the notion of applicants concerns applicants and partners) must be either public bodies or non-profit organisations with legal personality.
Total Budget: €5,900,000
Deadline: 23/04/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - Erasmus+
Objective:
This action supports the gradual establishment and development of international collaborative networks of Centres of Vocational Excellence.
Eligible Activities:
The Centres of Vocational Excellence aim at achieving the following objectives:
· to ensure high quality skills through flexible and learner-centred VET provisions that lead to quality employment and career-long opportunities, swiftly responding to the needs of an innovative, inclusive and sustainable economy as well as to societal needs;
· to support and act as drivers for local and regional development, innovation and social inclusion in the context of the green and digital transitions;
· to contribute to upward convergence on VET excellence, to increase the quality of VET at system level in more and more countries;
· to ensure that outputs and results are taken into use and have impact beyond the project partner organisations and beyond the project period.
Activities must take place in EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.
Total Budget: The maximum EU grant per project is €4,000,000. Total funding is €60,000,000.
Deadline: 11/06/2025
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Programme: Kiwa Initiative
Objective:
The Kiwa Initiative launches a news call for regional projects. This call for regional projects aims to implement NbS projects for climate change adaptation in the Pacific while mainstreaming gender equality and a human-rights-based approach. It focuses on:
· Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) that tackle climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation.
· Gender equality, disability, and social inclusion (GEDSI) to ensure the inclusion of vulnerable populations, particularly women and youth, and to reduce existing inequalities.
Eligible Activities:
Regional projects must include a relevant regional cooperation dimension between countries and/or territories (pooling, capitalization, sharing), whether they are implemented in French territories and/or other eligible Pacific countries. A regional project must involve at least two countries and/or territories. Alignment with regional, national, and local policy frameworks must be clearly demonstrated. For this 2024 Call for regional projects, particular attention will be paid to projects submitted by national authorities and/or directly involving national authorities in the project implementation.
Actions must take place in Federated States of Micronesia – Fiji – French Polynesia – Kiribati – Nauru – New Caledonia – Niue – Marshall Islands – Palau – Papua New Guinea – Solomon Islands – Samoa – Timor-Leste – Tokelau – Tonga – Tuvalu – Vanuatu – Wallis-and-Futuna.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are (1) National and local authorities; (2) Public bodies and institutions present in one of the 18 eligible countries and territories; (3) Regional organisations (Council of Regional Organisations of the Pacific, CROP) recognised by Pacific Island countries and territories; and (4) International and national NGOs.
Total Budget: €5,000,000
Deadline: 15/12/2024
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Programme: SYNERGIE RENOUVELABLE
Objective:
Access to energy is a key factor in improving living conditions and fostering economic development in developing countries. It is essential for their empowerment. Renewable energy offers sustainable and effective solutions for countries, many of which have significant solar potential. Through its actions, Synergie Renouvelable aligns with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations for 2015-2030.
Eligible Activities:
Synergie Renouvelable provides human, technical, and financial resources to NGOs to carry out their development aid projects through access to energy. They support sustainable energy access projects through financial support. They offer our NGOs the benefit of our technical department’s expertise throughout the projects (upstream work, during the project and at the end).
In the past they have funded in Africa, America and Asia.
Eligible Applicants:
Since its creation, Synergie Renouvelable has funded and supported 185 humanitarian projects implemented on the ground by 107 partner NGOs in 40 countries.
Total Budget: €800,000
Deadline: 08/01/2025
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Programme: FCDO
Objective:
The FCDO invites proposals by 13 January 2025 to conduct research on how humanitarian actors can address the risks associated with AI systems so they can be used responsibly.
Eligible Activities:
Respondents are encouraged to set out their own methodology to deliver the above objective, including recommendations on the scope of the project, although for illustrative purposes we expect delivering this will involve these steps:
· Mapping
· Synthesising the mapping into practical options for a responsible AI framework
· Based on the assessment, recommend a framework for responsible AI in humanitarian action
· Disseminate the agreed approach and where appropriate provide or adapt existing tools and guidance to humanitarian actors to support its use.
This opportunity is open to organisations in all ODA-eligible countries.
Eligible Applicants:
This funding opportunity is only available to not-for-profit organisations. Any bids by for-profit organisations will not be eligible for funding and will not be considered.
Total Budget: £100,000
Deadline: 13/01/2025
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Programme: International Climate Initiative (IKI)
Objective:
Through thematic and country-specific selection procedures, IKI primarily funds large-volume projects that aim to accelerate the transformation to a sustainable, low-emissions economy and supply structure. However, implementing the Paris Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) also requires increasing the capacity of smaller civil society actors in developing and emerging countries as well as the effective participation of all social groups. The IKI Medium Grants funding programme therefore addresses civil society actors based in Germany that work in collaboration with local partners in selected ODA-eligible implementing countries to put measures in place to intensify North-South cooperation on climate action, adaptation to the impacts of climate change and biodiversity conservation.
Eligible Activities:
The IKI Medium Grants funding programme therefore addresses civil society actors based in Germany by the time of the grant approval that work in collaboration with local partners in selected ODA-eligible implementing countries to put measures in place to intensify North-South cooperation on climate action, adaptation to the impacts of climate change and biodiversity conservation. The programme explicitly aims to strengthen civil society actors and their international networks. Specifically, IKI Medium Grants support project activities that address innovative, bottom-up contributions for implementing the Paris Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity. To achieve this, varying funding priorities are set each year, for which interested parties can apply with innovative project ideas.
The 2024 funding call focuses on the following areas:
· Promotion of ambitious participatory measures for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions
· Integrative measures for the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity in cities
Actions can take place worldwide in OECD DAC countries.
Eligible Applicants:
Funding is available for non-profit civil society organisations (non-governmental organisations, associations, foundations, think tanks) and academic institutions (universities and research institutions), as well as non-profit companies. At the time of the first disbursement of a grant awarded, the implementing organisation is required to have a permanent business establishment, branch, or other facility serving the activities of the grant recipient in Germany. These organisations must enter into a partnership with one or two local implementing organisations based in the implementing country or region.
Total Budget: €800,000
Deadline: 14/01/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.international-climate-initiative.com/en/find-funding/medium-grants/
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Programme: International Climate Initiative (IKI)
Objective:
The implementation of the Paris Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) requires the effective participation of all social groups. With the IKI Small Grants scheme, the Federal Ministry for Environment (BMU) specifically commits itself to strengthen small organisations worldwide.
Eligible Activities:
IKI Small Grants supports projects and organisations worldwide that tackle climate change, address local adaptation, and conserve forests and biodiversity. It promotes the capacity development of the selected applicants by financing self-organised training measures and by providing support and advice through local GIZ offices in the partner countries.
IKI Small Grants offers support in the following areas:
· Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions
· Adapting to the impacts of climate change
· Conserving natural carbon sinks / REDD+
· Conserving biological diversity
Actions can take place worldwide in OECD DAC countries.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants must be based and registered in countries that fulfil the criteria for Official Development Assistance (ODA) defined by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The proposed projects must be non-profit. Projects with a global focus are not eligible. Eligible organisations must have at least three years of relevant experience and their average annual revenue should range between 60,000 and 500,000 euros. Projects are identified in a one-stage selection procedure.
Total Budget: €200,000
Deadline: 15/01/2025
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Programme: L’Initiative
Objective:
L’Initiative is seeking proposals to strengthen the role of key and Vulnerable Populations in relation to HIV, tuberculosis and/or malaria to improve their health and wellbeing.
It supports projects seeking initial funding from L’Initiative (new projects) and designed for, and in collaboration with, key and vulnerable populations, especially young girls and women, who currently represent the majority of new HIV infections and are particularly vulnerable to malaria and tuberculosis. Promoting their health and well-being through targeted prevention and empowerment efforts is critical in combating major pandemics.
Objectives
The new Global Fund strategy focuses on strengthening, supporting and ensuring effective participation of populations with a central aim of collaborating with people and communities and meeting their health needs through three complementary and mutually reinforcing objectives:
· Maximising People-centred Integrated Systems for Health to Deliver Impact, Resilience and Sustainability.
· Maximising the Engagement and Leadership of Most Affected Communities to Leave No One Behind.
· Maximising Health Equity, Gender Equality and Human Rights.
Eligible Activities:
Aims
It is against this backdrop that L’Initiative plans to support projects that complement and/or support Global Fund programs, aimed at strengthening the role of key and vulnerable populations to improve their state of health, including mental health, and their environment.
Target beneficiaries for projects are the following – applicants do not have to reach all the population groups listed below, or address all the multiple areas of vulnerability:
Key populations: key populations are those most at-risk or affected by at least one of the three diseases and who are stakeholders involved in the response. They generally have reduced access to services and may be criminalized and/or marginalized.
The following groups are generally considered to be key populations:
For HIV: people living with HIV, men who have sex with men, male and female sex workers and their clients, transgender people, people who use drugs and their partners, people in prisons or detention centers, refugees, migrants, displaced or mobile populations.
For tuberculosis: people living with HIV, people who use drugs, people in prisons or detention centers, refugees, migrants, displaced or mobile populations.
For malaria: pregnant women and children underfive, indigenous populations living in regions where malaria is endemic, refugees, migrants, displaced or mobile populations.
Other vulnerable populations: populations that are more vulnerable in a particular context and that do not fall into the categories mentioned above, including, children and adolescent girls, young girls and women and people living with disabilities.
Under this call for proposals, L’Initiative will therefore be particularly focused on the promotion and prioritization of measures aimed at:
Capacity and skills strengthening of national and community actors: There will be a specific focus on the design of education-based activities, in particular by ensuring the analysis of initial needs, the design and monitoring of training including on the ground training, the quality of training provided, consolidation of knowledge, assessment of targeted skills and the involvement of beneficiaries at all stages and levels of the project.
Developing population empowerment strategies to increase the impact of health policies and services, and support services adapted to the needs of key and vulnerable populations.
Developing and implementing tailored and targeted advocacy plans for systematic consideration of the needs of key and vulnerable populations in the project's intervention strategies: L'Initiative encourages lead applicants to: assess and encourage the development of countries' legislative frameworks, if necessary, to document cases of human rights violations.
Effective involvement and representation of key and vulnerable populations in coordination and decision-making mechanisms.
Promoting community-based approaches by and for key and vulnerable populations in order to provide them with appropriate services at community level, by mobilizing peer educators, community health workers (CHWs), task shifting or developing outreach interventions (mobile facilities, etc.). Implementing approaches to improve the status and remuneration of CHWs in projects is encouraged.
All sexual and reproductive health and rights activities related to the three pandemics and following themes (non-exhaustive list): human papillomavirus (HPV) and associated cancers or any other sexually transmitted infection, combating gynecological and obstetric violence or sexual mutilation, menstrual hygiene, accessibility/quality/availability/acceptability of contraceptive/family planning products and services (including access to safe abortion), comprehensive sexuality education
Funding Information
The total requested grant amount must cover at least 50% of the project budget and be between €650,000 and €3,500,000.
Duration
Project duration must be between 36 and 48 months.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
It must be submitted by a lead applicant, in collaboration with “implementing partners” or “associate stakeholders”:
The “lead applicant” is the organization that submits the letter of intent and completes the full proposal if they are pre-selected. Lead applicants are the sole recipients of L'Initiative grants and shall be individually responsible vis-à-vis Expertise France for implementation of the Project.
The project lead applicant must be legally registered and have a board of directors/management committee and a registered headquarters in an eligible country or in France. International organizations, with the exception of regional non-state organizations, may not be the lead applicant or an implementing partner of projects. However, they can be associated stakeholders that do not receive any delegated budget.
The lead applicant must have been legally registered for at least 3 years at the time of project submission.
Be implemented in one or more of the 38 eligible countries listed below:
Algeria, Benin, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Morocco, Mauritius, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra, Leone, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Ukraine, Vietnam.
Total Budget: €3,500,000
Deadline: 21/01/2025
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Programme: L’Initiative
Objective:
This call supports projects seeking initial funding from L’Initiative (new projects) to strengthen health systems with a focus on human resources development.
As part of the funding cycle, L’Initiative has made health systems strengthening through support for health human resources a top priority. Well-trained and organized human resources are essential for building effective, high-performing health systems to combat HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Aims
It is against this backdrop that L’Initiative plans to support projects that take a systemic approach to sustainably strengthening health systems, health systems policy and regulation, organizational structure and the behaviors and practices of key stakeholders, including taking a "One Health" approach. This approach prioritizes strengthening human resources for health and integrates a human rights and gender equality approach into all activities.
Eligible Activities:
Under this call for proposals, L’Initiative will therefore be particularly focused on the promotion and prioritization of measures aimed at:
Strengthening human resources for health through, in particular:
L’Initiative's definition of human resources for health (HRH) refers to all medical, paramedical and nonmedical staff, including all community health workers, who carry out different roles in the health system, making it possible to address health issues and respond as a priority to Sustainable Development Goal.
Interventions to strengthen initial and ongoing training for human resources for health as a key catalyst to ensure effective provision to the population, i.e. having sufficient numbers of health personnel that are sufficiently competent and qualified to meet needs.
Promoting training that provides certificates and diplomas, including for community health workers.
Promoting gender mainstreaming as a major determinant of health in the training curricula for health professionals.
Promoting training that follows international guidelines.
Promoting the availability and quality of educational infrastructure and equipment.
Professional, teaching and interpersonal skills of trainers.
Management and accreditation of programs.
Geographic spread of training programs and internships to ensure a good distribution of health professionals.
Interventions to support policies, programs and to strengthen and manage human resources for health, aimed in particular at:
Geographic planning and distribution of human resources for health based on demographic and health data.
Programs to structure and forecast plan professions.
More efficient distribution of tasks.
Occupational health.
Regulating health professionals in the public, private, for-profit and not-for-profit sectors.
Recruitment and professional integration methods for young graduates.
Quality and practice checks.
Health professional status, particularly community health professionals.
Financing and remuneration of health personnel and benefits allowing for their retention in the system, good living conditions and a safe professional environment conducive to delivering quality care, as well as local support/mentoring, etc
Gender mainstreaming and diversity in human resources for health policies, procedures and interventions
Integration of mental health into health services.
Of the key issues relating to HRH, this call for proposals aims to take action around:
Strengthening community health systems through training and support for community actors.
Gender equality and preventing discrimination.
Improving the quality and acceptability of health services, including how welcoming they are.
Improving the quality of health services and the care relationship.
Strengthening national systems for procurement and supply management (PSM)systems for drugs and health products, as well as strengthening pharmaceutical governance including linkages with national and regional drug agencies.
Projects that align HIV, tuberculosis and malaria control programs with sexual and reproductive health, maternal, child and adolescent health programs and integrated service delivery platforms at all levels of the health system, including at the community level.
Strengthening health information systems, with particular focus on the production and use of safe, quality, timely, transparent and interoperable health data, respecting human rights and in accordance with the ethical principles for the primary and secondary use of health data adopted and promoted in global health by the European Union.
Funding Information
The total requested grant amount must cover at least 50% of the project budget and be between €650,000 and €3,500,000.
Duration
Project duration must be between 36 and 48 months.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
It must be submitted by a lead applicant, in collaboration with “implementing partners” or “associate stakeholders”
The “lead applicant” is the organization that submits the letter of intent and completes the full proposal if they are pre-selected. Lead applicants are the sole recipients of L'Initiative grants and shall be individually responsible vis-à-vis Expertise France for implementation of the Project.
The project lead applicant must be legally registered and have a board of directors/management committee and a registered headquarters in an eligible country or in France. International organizations, with the exception of regional non-state organizations, may not be the lead applicant or an implementing partner of projects. However, they can be associated stakeholders that do not receive any delegated budget.
The lead applicant must have been legally registered for at least 3 years at the time of project submission.
Lead applicants and implementing partners must not have any statutory provisions that prevent Expertise France, or any external auditor appointed by Expertise France, to carry out on-the-spot checks and inspections and have relevant rights to access the project sites and premises where the project will be carried out, including access to all documents and electronic data relating to the technical and financial management of the project.
Be implemented in one or more of the 38 eligible countries listed below:
Algeria, Benin, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Morocco, Mauritius, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra, Leone, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Ukraine, Vietnam.
Total Budget: €3,500,000
Deadline: 21/01/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships
Objective:
The overall objective of this call for proposals is: Contribute to consolidation efforts of peace in Colombia by improving the living conditions of people, especially those most affected by the conflict, the victims, people in the reintegration process, young people at risk of recruitment and women in all their diversity, through the promotion and strengthening of employability programs and labour inclusion.
Eligible Activities:
LOT 1: labour inclusion for peace construction
LOT 2: inclusive digital employment
Actions must take place in Colombia.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible organisations are: (1) non-profit-making; (2) Business Foundations or business and/or sector associations or Chambers ofNational and/or binational trade; (3) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €6,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
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Programme: African Development Bank
Objective:
The focus of this call is to enhance the bankability of Paris-aligned climate projects and mobilize additional climate finance in ADF countries. This will involve financing project preparation, capacity development, and expanding green financing initiatives.
Eligible Activities:
Key activities include preparing and strengthening Long- Term Strategies (LTSs), Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and climate diagnostics for Country Strategy Papers.
Actions must take place in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé & Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to (i) Governments and government entities of ADF countries; (ii) African Development Bank departments; (iii) Regional or sub-regional intergovernmental bodies, including climate centers, river basin organizations, economic communities; (iv) Non-sovereign entities (such as Non-Governmental Organizations, Community Based Organizations, and UN Agencies). Proposals from consortia are allowed if all members of the consortium are eligible beneficiaries.
Total Budget: €56,000,000
Deadline: 05/02/2025
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Programme: International Climate Initiative (IKI)
Objective:
The IKI Thematic Calls address current challenges in climate action, adaptation and biodiversity conservation on an annual basis.
Eligible Activities:
For these challenges, the respective IKI ministries define new thematic priorities as a basis for submission of project outlines. The financing volume provided by the IKI can range from 5 to 20 million EUR per project depending on the thematic priority.
Actions can take place worldwide in OECD DAC countries.
Eligible Applicants:
Participation in the ideas competition of IKI Thematic Calls is open to the following organisations: Non-governmental organisations; Universities and research institutions; International intergovernmental organisations and institutions such as development banks; United Nations organisations and programmes; Implementing organisations of the Federal Republic of Germany; Commercial enterprises.
Total Budget: €20,000,000
Deadline: 18/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.international-climate-initiative.com/en/find-funding/thematic-call/
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - CERV
Objective:
The scope of the call is promoting exchanges between citizens of different countries, in particular through networks of towns, to give them practical experience of the wealth and diversity of the common heritage of the Union and to make them aware that these constitute the foundation for a common future. In addition, developing sustainable networks of towns, deepening and intensifying their cooperation, while outlining their long-term vision for the future of European integration is another objective.
Eligible Activities:
In view of the overall objective stipulated above, the call may address the following topics (the list is not exhaustive):
· Bringing citizens together to discuss and share best practices, and thus helping to increase citizens’ engagement in society and ultimately to their active involvement in the democratic life of the Union;
· Promoting awareness and building knowledge of EU citizenship rights, free movement of people and associated European common values and common democratic standards, making them more tangible for EU citizens;
· Identifying ways to further strengthen the European dimension and democratic legitimacy of the EU decision-making process and fostering free, open and healthy democratic governance in an era of low turnout in elections, populism, disinformation and challenges facing civil society, including by supporting the active participation of citizens, including children, and civil society organisations in policy-making at local, national as well as European levels;
· Promoting awareness, building knowledge and sharing best practice on the benefits of diversity as well as effective measures on how to tackle discrimination and racism at local level;
· Promoting awareness and building knowledge of the role of minorities, such as people with a minority racial or ethnic background (for instance Roma and migrants), in European society and their contribution to Europe’s cultural development;
· Promoting prevention measures and awareness raising efforts, sharing best practices policies aiming to curb violence against women, domestic violence and violence against children at the local level, as well as bullying.
Actions must take place in the Member States of the European Union plus associated countries.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants must be legal entities (public or private bodies). Applicants must be established in the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €10,000,000
Deadline: 27/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - AMIF
Objective:
The general objective of this call for proposals is to enhance the prevention of irregular migration in countries of origin and transit and to undermine the business models of migrant smugglers by reducing the demand for their services. This should be achieved by raising awareness about the risks of irregular migration and migrant smuggling in key countries of origin and transit, informing potential migrants about available legal pathways to Europe, and highlighting alternative economic opportunities in their home countries.
Eligible Activities:
The aim is to provide reliable information to counter the false narrative promoted by criminal networks and to alter the perceptions and behaviour of third-country nationals considering irregular migration to the EU, as well as key influencers in their decisions, such as family members, religious or community leaders, teachers, returning migrants, and migration facilitators. This enables migrants and potential migrants to make better-informed decisions based on objective information rather than misinformation spread by smugglers.
Actions must take place in EU Member States and countries associated to the AMIF.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible organisations are legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €10,000,000
Deadline: 01/04/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - CERV
Objective:
The objective of the call is promoting citizens’ and representative associations’ participation in and contribution to the democratic and civic life of the Union by making known and publicly exchanging their views in all areas of Union action.
Eligible Activities:
This call aims to support projects promoted by transnational partnerships and networks directly involving citizens. These projects will gather a diverse range of people from different backgrounds and genders in activities directly linked to EU policies, giving them an opportunity to actively participate in the EU policymaking process and thus contribute to the democratic and civic life of the Union. The projects will encourage citizens’, including young persons, understanding of the policymaking process, showing in practice how to engage in the democratic life of the EU and enabling them to make known and publicly exchange their views in all areas of Union action.
· Priority 1. Promoting exchanges on future Union policy priorities and challenges
· Priority 2. Countering disinformation, information manipulation and interference in the democratic debate
· Priority 3. Promoting citizens’ active engagement and democratic participation
Actions must take place in the Member States of the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. Eligible are also: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants must be either public bodies or non-profit organisations with legal personality. Applicants must be established in the eligible countries. The project must be transnational; the application must involve at least two applicants (lead applicant and at least one co-applicant not being affiliated entity or associated partner) from two different eligible countries
Total Budget: €33,000,000
Deadline: 29/04/2025
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Programme: Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Objective:
Launched in 2020, this program aims to support projects run jointly by African and French higher education institutions. The PeA is a program of academic partnerships between Africa and France, financed by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) via Agence Française de Développement (AFD). Its implementation is being supported by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR), the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and Campus France.
Eligible Activities:
The Academia Partnerships Africa-France programme supports projects that:
· are led by French and African higher education and research institutions engaged in a strategic partnership to boost and implement sustainable higher education training programmes delivered in Africa;
· target a priority field for the socioeconomic development of the country or region, and where the training capacity is insufficient with respect to employment capacity;
· help build the African institution’s capacities and skills in managing this training programme;
Eligible countries are South Africa, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, and Togo.
Eligible Applicants:
Each project applying for a partnership for the PeA programme is jointly coordinated by a higher education and research institution from an African country eligible for PeA3 (see §1.4) and by a French higher education and research institution, potentially joined by other partnering higher education and research institutions from France; the public and private institutions involved are non-profit and are not recognized as an enterprise in the sense of European regulations for state aid to research, development, and innovation.
Total Budget: €3,000,000 per project
Deadline: 06/05/2025
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Programme: U.S. Mission to Georgia
Objective:
The AFCP Grants Program supports the preservation of archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, museum collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression, such as indigenous languages and crafts.
Eligible Activities:
Appropriate project activities may include:
Anastylosis: Reassembling a site using its original parts.
Conservation: Addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site.
Consolidation: Connecting or reconnecting elements of an object or site.
Documentation: Recording the condition and important features of an object, site, or tradition in analogue or digital format.
Inventory: Listing objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristics.
Preventive Conservation: Addressing conditions that threaten or damage a site, object, collection, or tradition.
Restoration: Replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or site, usually appropriate for fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings.
Stabilization: Reducing the physical disturbance of an object or site.
Actions must take place in Georgia.
Eligible Applicants:
The following entities are eligible to apply: Foreign Institution of Higher Education; Foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernment organizations (NGO); U.S. Non-Profit Organization (IRC section 501(c)(3)); U.S. Institution of Higher Education
Total Budget: $500,000
Deadline: 13/12/2024
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Programme: United Nations Women's Guild Vienna (UNWG)
Objective:
Each year the UNWG financially supports many children’s charities in Austria and the developing world. This project-based programme is organised for the sole purpose of benefitting children in need. The UNWG charity programme assists abused children, those having restricted access to education, children with serious health problems, children having no access to clean drinking water, victims of calamity or catastrophe, orphans, children with special needs or children suffering from extreme poverty or starvation. Projects must benefit children no older than 18 (21 if disabled), or mother and child care programmes.
Eligible Activities:
The services of the organisation must be available to all children without discrimination, regardless of race, gender, ethnic origin or religion. Projects must be sustainable and have continuation plans. Requests should address basic needs in health, education, water and shelter, focusing on long term assistance (e.g. clean water supply, sanitation facilities, school construction or repair, classroom furniture, educational or vocational materials/equipment, medical equipment, special needs support.)
They are supporting projects in developing countries worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicant organisations must be registered as charities with their government.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 15/12/2024
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Programme: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Objective:
With develoPPP Ventures funding, the BMZ is supporting young companies that are already active in a developing or emerging economy and whose business model contributes to sustainable local economic, ecological and social development.
Eligible Activities:
The aim is to scale innovative solutions in order to make them accessible to more people. Therefore, it is important that the proof of concept has already been achieved and first revenues have been generated. Funding the start-up phase via develoPPP Ventures is not possible.
The current develoPPP Ventures call for applications (November 15 to December 31, 2024) takes place in Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania.
Eligible Applicants:
The start-up must be privately owned and profit-oriented and must be registered in the target country or register there prior to the funded growth investment. The business model has high development relevance and scalability and thus contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There must be proof of concept and initial revenues must have been generated.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 31/12/2024
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Programme: U.S. Mission to Nigeria
Objective:
The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce the start of the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP). The AFCP Grants Program supports the preservation of archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, museum collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression, such as indigenous languages and crafts.
Eligible Activities:
Appropriate project activities may include:
a) Anastylosis (reassembling a site from its original parts)
b) Conservation (addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site)
c) Consolidation (connecting or reconnecting elements of an object or site)
d) Documentation (recording in analog or digital format the condition and salient features of an object, site, or tradition)
e) Inventory (listing of objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristic or state)
f) Preventive Conservation (addressing conditions that threaten or damage a site, object, collection, or tradition)
g) Restoration (replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or site, usually appropriate only with fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings)
h) Stabilization (reducing the physical disturbance of an object or site)
Actions must take place in Nigeria.
Eligible Applicants:
The U.S Mission to Nigeria defines eligible project applicants as reputable and accountable non-commercial entities that are able to demonstrate they have the requisite capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage. These may include non-governmental organizations, museums, educational institutions, ministries of culture, or similar institutions and organizations, including U.S.-based educational institutions and organizations subject to Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code.
Total Budget: $500,000
Deadline: 10/01/2025
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Programme: U.S. Mission to Zimbabwe
Objective:
The Public Diplomacy Section invites proposals for the 2025 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) program in Zimbabwe. The program aims to develop the skills, capabilities, and resources for women entrepreneurs to fully participate in the private sector.
Eligible Activities:
The AWE program facilitates in-person and virtual sessions to complete the online interactive DreamBuilder course. The program may hold sessions with established Zimbabwean and U.S. entrepreneurs, alumni of U.S.-funded exchange programs, and other experts from different fields to enrich the AWE program. Proposals may include elements from the online curriculum, the Najafi 100 Million Learners Global Initiative, on key topics in entrepreneurship and innovation as part of the proposal. The program may be held in several locations to make it easier for participants. Proposals must have entrepreneurship programming or engagement activities for AWE alumnae from previous years.
Actions must take place in Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants:
The following organizations are eligible to apply: Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks, civil society, and non-governmental organizations; Business development organizations registered as non-profits; United States government alumni organizations. For-profit or commercial entities are not eligible.
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: 10/01/2025
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Programme: U.S. Mission to Bangladesh
Objective:
The U.S. Embassy in Dhaka is now accepting Concept Notes for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) fiscal year 2023 competition. The deadline for the announcement to submit the concept notes to the U.S. Embassy is 11:59 p.m. Bangladesh Standard Time on Thursday, December 22, 2022. Submissions received after this date will not be considered. Selected applicants will be asked to submit full project proposals shortly after.
Eligible Activities:
Appropriate project activities may include:
a) Anastylosis (reassembling a site from its original parts)
b) Conservation (addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site)
c) Consolidation (connecting or reconnecting elements of an object or site)
d) Documentation (recording in analog or digital format the condition and salient features of an object, site, or tradition)
e) Inventory (listing of objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristic or state)
f) Preventive Conservation (addressing conditions that threaten or damage a site, object, collection, or tradition)
g) Restoration (replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or site, usually appropriate only with fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings)
h) Stabilization (reducing the physical disturbance of an object or site)
Actions must take place in Bangladesh.
Eligible Applicants:
The Cultural Heritage Centre defines eligible project applicants as reputable and accountable non-commercial entities that can demonstrate they have the requisite capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage. Eligible implementers may include non-governmental organizations, museums, educational institutions, ministries of culture, or similar institutions and organizations, including U.S.-based education institutions and organizations subject to Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code.
Total Budget: $500,000
Deadline: 14/01/2025
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Programme: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
Objective:
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation has been operating since 1976 with two main purposes. They offer grants to individual visual artists through two programs: an annual Individual Support Grant and a separate program to assist visual artists in cases of catastrophic events through an Emergency Grant program. They also maintain an archive on the art and life of Adolph Gottlieb and organize exhibitions of his art and that of others.
Eligible Activities:
Individual grants are available only to mature individual visual artists. The Foundation defines maturity in this case as having worked for 20 years or more in a mature phase of art. Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate that they have been working in a mature phase of their art for at least 20 years. Maturity is based on the level of intellectual, technical, and creative development maintained over this time period. Artists must show that their primary involvement has been with their artistic goals, regardless of other personal or financial responsibilities. Artists must work in the disciplines of painting, sculpture, or printmaking.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
The Gottlieb Foundation does not fund organizations, educational institutions, students, graphic artists, or those working in crafts. The disciplines of photography, film, video, or related forms are not eligible unless the work directly involves, or can be interpreted as, painting or sculpture. The Foundation does not fund exhibitions, installations, or projects of any kind
Total Budget: €500,000
Deadline: 15/01/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.gottliebfoundation.org/individual-support-grant-1
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
The global objective of this call for proposals is to strengthen local CSOs as independent actors of good governance and development in their own right in priority areas of EU-Indonesia cooperation.
Eligible Activities:
The two priorities of this call for proposals are:
PRIORITY 1: Just green transition – The specific objective is to strengthen CSOs’ engagement in the just green transition, notably in sectors such as energy, agriculture and forestry, with a focus on regions and populations most affected by the transition, women as well as vulnerable groups.
PRIORITY 2: Gender equality and women’s empowerment – There are two specific objectives:
2.1 To prevent and respond to gender-based violence in the public and private spheres (offline and online)
2.2 To enhance the economic empowerment of women and strengthen their economic and social rights
For both priorities, the proposals must foresee capacity development activities (e.g. through training, mentoring and peer support, joint advocacy, etc.) as well as meaningful engagement with all sectors of society, especially women and youth. Proposals contributing to the development of partnerships and networks between EU and Indonesian CSOs are encouraged.
Actions must take place in Indonesia.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be non-profit-making and (3) be a specific type of organisation such as: Civil Society Organisation (CSO) and/or its associations constituted in accordance with the legislation in force in the country concerned and (4) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €9,500,00
Deadline: 21/01/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
The overall objective of this call for proposals is: Facilitate the meeting and coordination between local authorities, civil society and the private sector, promoting actions framed in the strategy EU cooperation in Bolivia (MIP) 2021-2027. The specific objectives of this call for proposals are presented by lot.
Eligible Activities:
Applicants may develop your proposal solely in reference to one of these lots.
LOT 1: ECONOMIC REACTIVATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN SECTORS LINKED TO THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Specific objective: In line with Priority Area 1 of the MIP, support the economic reactivation of young people, with a focus on environmental sustainability, innovation and gender equity, with special emphasis emphasis on private sector participation (SDG 1, 5, 8, 12)
LOT 2: LOCAL GOVERNANCE FOR TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT
Specific objective: In line with Priority Area 2 of the MIP, from the Local Development approach Territorial (Territorial Approach to Local Development – TALD), support the strengthening of the governance of local authorities and their dialogue, decision making based on Post-information Census, and articulation with civil society (SDG 3 and 16)
Actions must take place in Bolivia.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be non-profit-making and (3) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €5,000,000
Deadline: 27/01/2025
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Programme: Ocean Park Conservation Foundation (OPCF) Hong Kong
Objective:
Regular projects (1 to 2 years) should be geared towards one of the areas whereas Long-term projects (3-5 years) must address both:
- Wildlife Conservation
Conduct in-situ field studies to enhance the understanding of the target species population, the condition of their habitats and the threats they face in the wild, and/or
Collaborate with local communities, institutes, and the government to formulate effective conservation management plans to preserve threatened species and their habitats, and/or
Conduct ex-situ studies on the target species to promote and improve in-situ conservation efforts.
- Social Science-based Conservation
Design and organise in-situ and ex-situ conservation education programmes to raise public awareness of wildlife conservation and to engage locals to change their daily activities and behaviour in support of conservation efforts, and/or
Conduct capacity-building programmes or workshops to advance the nature reserve and conservation education teams’ knowledge and skills for effective conservation action.
Eligible Activities:
The Foundation solicits proposals worldwide, but the proposed work must be conducted in countries or regions in Asia according to United Nations Statistical Division plus Papua New Guinea, higher priority will be given to projects from Eastern, Southern and South-Eastern Asia. Coastal countries connected to Asia where funding is limited and with threatened wide-ranging Asian species (e.g. Far East Russian western grey whales), will be considered.
Eligible Applicants:
Principal Investigator (PI), Deputy PI and Co-Investigator(s): Each applicant can submit only one application as the Principal Investigator of a project and act as PI in not more than two concurrent projects funded by the Foundation.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 31/01/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.opcf.org.hk/en/conservation-research/research-funding/funding-application
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Programme: Ocean Park Conservation Foundation (OPCF) Hong Kong
Objective:
As a new initiative to contribute to the local ecology and society, the Foundation has created a funding programme focused on Hong Kong’s local biodiversity. Applications are invited for projects which can demonstrate the potential for long term, beneficial impacts on the conservation of Hong Kong’s habitats and associated biodiversity. It is anticipated that funded projects will adopt a habitat-approach in conserving biodiversity in Hong Kong’s humid subtropical climate landscape.
Eligible Activities:
Funded projects should foster collaboration among various parties, including but not limited to OPCFHK, different universities or educational institutes, non-government organizations, and the wider community:
Habitat Conservation: This funding programme is dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of local habitats, with a primary focus on biodiversity conservation.
Collaboration and Partnership: We aim to foster collaboration and partnership between multiple organizations, emphasizing a proven history of working together to maximize project effectiveness. The power of partnerships is central to achieving our conservation goals.
Education and Outreach for Sustainability: This funding programme shall integrate a strong and clearly defined education and outreach component, aiming to raise awareness about Hong Kong’s biodiversity, promote stewardship, and create a lasting impact on the community.
The Foundation solicits proposals for Hong Kong.
Eligible Applicants:
Principal Investigator (PI), Deputy PI and Co-Investigator(s): Each applicant can submit only one application as the Principal Investigator of a project and act as PI in not more than two concurrent projects funded by the Foundation.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: 28/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.opcf.org.hk/en/conservation-research/research-funding/funding-application
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim to maximise the value of the excellent research that the ERC funds, by funding further work (i.e. activities which were not scheduled to be funded by the original ERC frontier research grant) to verify the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC funded projects. The objective is to provide funds to enable ERC-funded ideas to be brought to a pre-demonstration stage where potential commercialisation or societal opportunities have been identified.
Eligible Activities:
The ERC Proof of Concept call aims at supporting ERC grant-holders to establish the innovation potential of their idea during the pre-demonstration phase. This would help among others: (1) establishing viability, technical issues and overall direction; (2) clarifying IPR position and strategy; (3) providing feedback for budgeting and other forms of commercial discussion; (4) providing connections to later stage funding; and (5) covering initial expenses for establishing a company.
Actions must take place in EU member states or Horizon Associated Country.
Eligible Applicants:
The ERC actions are open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any EU Member State or H2020 Associated Country. Principal Investigators may be of any age and nationality and may reside in any country in the world at the time of the application. ERC Principal Investigators do not have to be based full-time in Europe. The host institution must either be established in an EU Member State or Horizon Associated Country as a legal entity created under national law, or it may be an International European Interest Organisation (such as CERN, EMBL, etc.), the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) or any other entity created under EU law.
Total Budget: €30,000,000
Deadline: 18/09/2025
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Programme: U.S. Mission to Albania
Objective:
The AFCP Grants Program supports the preservation of archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, museum collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression, such as indigenous languages and crafts.
Eligible Activities:
Appropriate project activities may include:
Anastylosis: Reassembling a site using its original parts.
Conservation: Addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site.
Consolidation: Connecting or reconnecting elements of an object or site.
Documentation: Recording the condition and important features of an object, site, or tradition in analog or digital format.
Inventory: Listing objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristics.
Preventive Conservation: Addressing conditions that threaten or damage a site, object, collection, or tradition.
Restoration: Replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or site, usually appropriate for fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings.
Stabilization: Reducing the physical disturbance of an object or site.
Actions must take place in Albania.
Eligible Applicants:
The following entities are eligible to apply: Foreign Institution of Higher Education; Foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernment organizations (NGO); U.S. Non-Profit Organization (IRC section 501(c)(3)); U.S. Institution of Higher Education
Total Budget: $500,000
Deadline: 13/12/2024
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Programme: EU Commission
Objective:
The EIC Accelerator supports companies (principally SMEs, including start-ups) to scale up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones. The EIC Accelerator provides a unique combination of grant and investment funding and Business Acceleration Services.
The EIC Accelerator focuses in particular on innovations building on scientific discovery or technological breakthroughs (‘deep tech’) and where significant funding is needed over a long timeframe before returns can be generated (‘patient capital’). Such innovations often struggle to attract financing because the risks and time period involved are too high. Funding and support from the EIC Accelerator is designed to enable such innovators to attract the full investment amounts needed for scale up in a shorter timeframe.
The EIC Accelerator supports the later stages of technology development as well as scale up. The technology component of your innovation must therefore have been tested and validated in a laboratory and other relevant environment (e.g., at least Technology Readiness Level 5). The EIC Accelerator looks to support companies where the EIC support will act as a catalyst to crowd in other investors necessary for the scale up of the innovation.
Eligible Activities:
Topics
Applicants to EIC Accelerator can submit proposals through Topics:
EIC Accelerator Open, which has no predefined thematic priorities and is open to proposals in any field of technology or application;
EIC Accelerator Challenges in predefined areas of emerging and strategic technologies.
Funding Information
The total indicative budget for this call is EUR 634 million. EUR 384 million of the total indicative budget will be allocated to EIC Accelerator Open and EUR 250 million to EIC Accelerator Challenges.
The indicative budget for investment components is EUR 348 million and is managed by the EIC Fund. This budget may be increased by unused amounts allocated to the EIC Fund under previous EIC Work Programmes.
The EIC Accelerator provides:
grant component only (‘Grant Only’) that will take the form of a lump sum contribution via a grant agreement. Grant only shall be provided only once to any legal entity for the duration of the Horizon Europe programme (2021-27) and under the following cumulative conditions:
the project shall include information on the capacities and willingness of the applicant to scale-up;
the beneficiary shall be a start-up or an SME
a grant-only support under the Accelerator shall be provided only once to a beneficiary during the period of implementation of the Programme for a maximum of EUR 2.5 million.
The 30% co-funding of the work packages to be covered by the grant component has to be financed by the beneficiary through its own resources.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
To be an eligible applicant to EIC Accelerator, you must apply as one of the following eligible entities:
a single company classified as a SME, and established within a Member State or an Associated Country; or
a single company classified as a small mid-cap (up to 499 employees) established in a Member State or an Associated Country, but only for “investment component only” support or for “blended finance” in exceptional cases for rapid scale up purposes; or
one or more natural persons (including individual entrepreneurs) or legal entities, which are either:
from a Member State or an Associated Country intending to establish an SME or small mid-cap (as defined above) in a Member State or Associated Country by the time of signing the EIC Accelerator grant agreement or, in case the equity only is awarded, at the latest at the date of signature of the investment agreement;
intending to invest in an SME or small mid-cap established in a Member State or an Associated Country and may submit a proposal on behalf of that SME or small mid-cap, provided that a prior agreement exists with the company. The grant agreement and/or the investment agreement will be signed with the beneficiary/ final recipient of funding company only, subject to the "Approach in specific cases relating to a parent or holding company and an operating company" (see below); or
from a non-associated third country intending to establish an SME (including start-ups) or to relocate an existing SME to a Member State or an Associated Country. The company must prove its effective establishment in a Member State or an Associated Country at the time of submission of the full proposal.
Total Budget: €384,000,000
Deadline: 18/12/2024
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Programme: ALDA Europe
Objective:
ALDA is excited to announce that the first round of grants is available for regional projects within the BOOST Programme, an initiative funded by AFD – Agence Française de Développement designed to support and strengthen civil society organisations (CSOs) across the Western Balkans. Through this programme, ALDA aims to foster democratic, economic, social, and cultural growth across six Western Balkan countries, supporting them on their journey toward EU integration. BOOST stands for Balkans for Optimizing Opportunities, Sustainability, and Transformation of Civil Society. This initiative promotes sustainable development and collaboration by providing a unique sub-granting scheme, designed to empower CSOs in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia.
Eligible Activities:
Projects will focus on three key pillars:
· Youth and Entrepreneurship
· Rural Development and Environmental Protection
· Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Community Development
Actions must take place in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants must be non-profit CSOs registered in one of the six targeted countries. Each regional partnership must include at least three organisations from different countries.
Total Budget: €2,250,000
Deadline: 27/12/2024
More information and official documents:
https://www.alda-europe.eu/call-for-proposal-boost-programme-western-balkans/
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
The ScienceUs project has launched an open call to identify, scale up, and connect exceptional citizen science projects in these key areas, fostering collaboration and innovation in addressing climate adaptation challenges.
The ScienceUs project aims to establish an EU-wide network of interconnected citizen science initiatives across various research and technological fields aligned with the EU mission "Adaptation to Climate Change."
In the Open Call, climate change adaptation represents the ability of natural and human systems to respond to climate change's effects, including climate variability, extreme weather events, sea level rise, and food insecurity, to reduce potential damage, take advantage of opportunities, and cope with its consequences.
Eligible Activities:
Topics
Citizen science projects can address topics related to the economy (agriculture, forestry, fishery, industry, tourism, trade, transport), nature conservation and protection, green and blue infrastructure, also considering its innovative components as nature-based solutions, built infrastructure (including residential and non-residential buildings); public services (e.g., water supply, sanitation, sewage, heating) and other infrastructure (e.g., emergency, health, education); natural and human risk prevention and management; energy management; water management; transport management; health system; environmental education; environmental government and governance; outdoor and indoor climate monitoring.
Challenges and topics addressed by the ScienceUs citizen sciences call are:
Challenge 1: Enhancing Education and Awareness Regarding Climate Change Adaptation
Increasing Reach and Engagement
Addressing Resource Constraints for Long-term Campaigns
Overcoming the Perception of Climate Change as a Distant Threat
Fighting Misinformation and Fake News
Challenge 2: Increasing Engagement, Participation, and Collaboration for research in climate change adaptation within and among the Quadruple Helix (citizens, academia, industry, and institutions)
Building Trust in Science and Science Institutions
Increasing Institutional Capacity and Interest
Closing Coordination and Communication Gaps
Creating Incentives for Citizen Participation
Addressing Institutional and Policy Barriers
Challenge 3: Increasing Inclusion in Citizen Science Initiatives
Bridging the Technology Gaps
Overcoming Language and Communication Barrier
Increasing Diversity in Leadership Roles
Overcoming Perceived Lack of Relevance
Challenges
ScienceUs will provide a 3-phase combined support program of direct funding and support services to the selected projects/initiatives. A robust set of communication, dissemination, and knowledge transfer activities will be implemented to help them scale up their activities and engage all relevant actors in the quadruple helix.
ScienceUs will assist the citizen science projects in:
Defining a transnational citizen science campaign and upscaling plan,
Implementing the transnational campaign plan by facilitating the matchmaking between EU citizen science initiatives and the involvement of quadruple helix actors in the projects,
Helping the selected Citizen Science projects transfer the best practices and lessons learned to other initiatives and projects and quadruple helix actors (mainly policymakers), generating a knowledge spillover effect.
Funding Information
The Open Call proposes a three-phase approach.
The First Phase (SEED PHASE) will select 25 projects by an open call. Funding available - €1000
The Second Phase (FLOURISH PHASE) - the selection will include only the 25 applications selected for the SEED PHASE. Funding available - €25000
The Third Phase (HARVEST PHASE) - the selection will include only the 5 applications selected for the FLOURISH PHASE. Funding available - €14000
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any legal entity (including consortia) from EU Member States or third-European countries associated with Horizon Europe, with an ongoing citizen science initiative related to adaptation to climate change, can apply for the first phase (SEED phase) of the open call organized into the ScienceUs project. For consortia, all applicants must be eligible. They must choose a lead who will submit the application and engage with ScienceUs on their behalf.
The legal entity (including consortia) must belong to an EU Member State or third-European country associated with Horizon Europe.
Applications for the first phase (SEED) will consist of a proposal including a description of the ongoing citizen science projects, with details about the quality and relevance of existing results for climate change adaptation, demand for the project in other regions, potential for scalability and replicability, applicant's resources and expected impact on European, national, regional, or local policies. The short proposal should follow the template available in the ScienceUs ‘guide for applicants’ and must not exceed five pages.
Evaluation Criteria
The evaluation will be divided into the following stages:
Eligibility check: The funding is available for ongoing projects relevant to the EU mission “Adaptation to climate change.” All legal entities established in a country or territory eligible for Horizon Europe grants are eligible to apply for this call.
Proposal evaluation: For the first phase (SEED), each proposal will be assessed against five criteria:
quality and relevance of existing results for climate change adaptation,
demand for the project in other regions,
potential for scalability and replicability,
applicant's resources and
expected impact on European, national, regional, or local policies.
Total Budget: €Various
Deadline: 06/01/2025
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Programme: Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)
Objective:
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and the Seeding the Future Foundation are calling on all scientists, engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and multidisciplinary teams from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), non-profits, social enterprises, universities, research institutions as well as small and emerging for-profit enterprises to submit game-changing innovations that will help transform the food system.
The goal of the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge is to inspire and support innovative, diverse, and multidisciplinary teams to create game-changing innovations that will help transform the food system.
Eligible Activities:
Focus Areas
Empower Conscious Consumer Choices
Sustainable Regenerative Practices
Safe, Nutritious Food for a Healthy Diet
Mission
Seeding The Future's Mission is to seed and support impactful initiatives and organizations that create and accelerate the pace of innovations that help transform food systems to become more nutritious, regenerative, and equitable for everyone in alignment with the overall vision.
Vision
Seeding The Future's vision is a global food system that always provides equitable access to safe, nutritious, trusted, affordable and appealing food for everyone and improves the health of people and the planet by being sustainable, resilient, and regenerative. The moonshot goal is to positively impact the lives of one billion people.
Funding Information
The Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge will provide monetary awards in the form of grants and prizes totalling up to one million US dollars annually.
Seed Grants ($25,000 each)
Growth Grants ($100,000 each)
Seeding The Future Grand Prizes ($250,000 each)
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for an award, the project must be innovative, impactful and lead to new advances that benefit at least one but ideally more than one of the intersecting domains of the Innovation Focus Area, while not negatively affecting any of the other domains. Innovations that benefit two or more domains and are at an advanced development stage are eligible for the highest award levels. The definition of Innovation in the context of this challenge is: A novel idea, approach, concept or technology that is practicable and leads to a significant beneficial for people or the environment.
The following organizations are eligible to compete in the Challenge:
Non-profits located in any country
Academic or research institutions located in any country
Early stage or emerging for-profit companies located in any country
Note: Excluded are countries or territories against which the U.S. maintains comprehensive sanctions (currently, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, and the Crimea, Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic Regions of Ukraine).
Individuals are not eligible to apply.
Total Budget: €500,000
Deadline: 06/01/2025
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Programme: Tinker Foundation
Objective:
The Tinker Foundation was created by Edward Larocque Tinker in 1959. The mission of the Tinker Foundation is to promote the development of an equitable, sustainable and productive society in Latin America and how U.S. policies may impact the region. The Foundation’s Institutional Grant Program offers grants in the programmatic areas of (1) democratic governance – to establish conditions for equitable economic growth by strengthening the institutions for democratic governance, particularly those related to public security, access to justice and financial inclusion; (2) education – to improve access to high-quality secondary or vocational public education; and (3) sustainable resource management – to support sustainable management of habitat and resources and incorporate social and economic dimensions affecting the well-being of local communities.
Eligible Activities:
Successful proposals have a strong public policy component, offer innovative solutions to problems facing these regions, and incorporate new mechanisms for addressing these programmatic areas. Activities may include, but are not restricted to, research projects, workshops, and conferences related to the Foundation’s areas of interest. The Foundation encourages collaboration among organisations in the United States and Latin America and prefers to fund institutions that are actively engaged with a broad array of stakeholders impacted by the identified challenge.
They are supporting projects in any country in Latin America.
Eligible Applicants:
Proposals can be submitted by an organisational entity with 501(c)3 charitable status or its equivalent, if the organisation is based outside the United States. Not-for-profit organisations based outside the U.S. are eligible for funding as long as they meet certain guidelines for charitable status.
Total Budget: $450,000
Deadline: 20/01/2025
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Programme: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Objective:
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is now accepting applications for its UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
The Network brings together cities from all continents and regions with different geodemographic, economic, social, cultural and environmental settings. They work together towards a common mission: placing culture and creativity at the core of their urban development plans to make cities safe, resilient, inclusive, sustainable and future-proof in line with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Eligible Activities:
Selection Criteria
A city may be designated based on its assets and added value in the fields of culture and creativity, but also on the content, impact and outreach of its proposed action plan. It shall demonstrate its potential contribution to the Network’s overall vision and objectives, as well as its commitment to UNESCO’s mandate and priorities, including the promotion of cooperation, solidarity and dialogue at all levels, and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Application Requirements
All applications must be submitted exclusively through the dedicated online application platform.
Drafting and submitting an application online can take longer than anticipated. Adequate time needs to be dedicated to the preparation phase, the constitution of a management team and the consultative group.
The management team and the focal point should start by carefully reading the UCCN Mission Statement, the online Application Form and the present Application Guidelines.
It is important to ensure an active participation of all the relevant local stakeholders and actors to reinforce engagement and ownership of the process, gather the necessary information on the cultural assets, experiences and expertise of the city, sketch out the main lines of the city’s vision, strategy and action plan.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
The Call for Applications is open to all cities of UNESCO’s Member States and Associate Members.
UNESCO reserves itself the right to restrict the Call for Applications, by taking into account specific geographical or thematic priorities, and may limit the maximum number of designations. For the 2025 Call, a maximum of two applications from a same country, and in two different creative fields, can be eligible for designation.
Moreover, applications from under-represented regions within the Network, especially those from Africa and Arab States, are encouraged in order to enhance the Network’s geographic representation. The specific Cooperation Framework is available to cities from these twos regions in the current Call (please refer to the Annex for further details on the Cooperation Framework).
Cities that have submitted two consecutive unsuccessful applications to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, shall respect a moratorium of 4 years before presenting a new application.
Total Budget: €N/A
Deadline: 31/01/2023
More information and official documents:
https://www.unesco.org/en/creative-cities/call-applications?hub=80094
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Programme: P4G
Objective:
P4G is now accepting applications for partnerships working on climate mitigation or adaptation solutions in the areas of food, energy and water. Partnerships must comprise at least one early-stage business and one nonprofit organization implementing in one of P4G’s ODA-eligible partner countries: Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa and Vietnam. Applicants must provide services or products that contribute to poverty alleviation, gender equity and economic growth in one of the following sub-sectors: climate-smart agriculture, food loss and waste, water resilience, zero emission mobility and renewable energy.
Eligible Activities:
P4G will provide grant funding and technical assistance to help the early-stage business in the partnership become investment ready. To be considered for the next funding round, partnerships should submit their proposal by March 7, 2025. All applications must be submitted in English.
The program is open to partnerships operating in P4G’s ODA-eligible partner countries, which include Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
Eligible Applicants:
The eligibility criteria require partnerships to comprise at least one early-stage climate business and one NGO administrative partner. Applicants must demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the sectoral, policy, and regulatory environment in their country, along with skills in business, financial, social, environmental development, and grant management. The proposed climate business solution should be innovative and at a seed or post-seed financing stage with a clear path to commercialization or capital raising. Additionally, applicants must show their project’s potential for climate, economic growth, poverty reduction, gender, and development impact, and adhere to responsible business conduct, including having an ESG plan or developing one.
Total Budget: €350,000
Deadline: 07/03/2025
More information and official documents:
https://p4gpartnerships.org/p4g-call-partnership-applications
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Programme: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Objective:
Sustainable and locally driven ideas come from a diversity of organizations around the world. To ensure that these ideas have the opportunity to be considered, the Unsolicited Solutions for Locally Led Development (US4LLD) Program provides funding to enable USAID Missions to support unsolicited applications that advance locally led development in any sector. All concepts must demonstrate how they advance locally led development.
Eligible Activities:
Concepts must show how they include:
Local input: Communities are involved in identifying the development challenge and designing a solution.
Local leadership: Local actors are empowered to own and implement the process.
Innovation: Activities go beyond and/or improve upon traditional development practices.
Sustainability: Activity outcomes will be sustained over the long-term.
Locally Informed Adaptation: There is a strategy for involving local communities in monitoring and learning, responding to potential challenges, and adapting as necessary.
Local Capacity Strengthening (as relevant): The needs, goals, and methods of any planned capacity strengthening activities are directly informed by potential activity participants and local partners.
Organizational Capacity Strengthening (optional, but encouraged): There are resources and a plan to strengthen the applicant organization’s own ability to better achieve its self-defined organizational goals.
Actions can take place worldwide except certain countries due to certain limits.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants must: (1) have received less than $5 million from USAID directly over the previous five fiscal years and; (2) be a small local, international, or United States-based non-governmental organization, educational institution, or other small entity.
Total Budget: €2,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: CHRYSALIS TRUST
Objective:
The Chrysalis Trust was established in 2009. They are funding poverty reduction and disability projects as well as provision of access to shelter, education, healthcare and water. The Trust supports local projects in the North East of England only, national organisations providing benefit across the UK, as well as, international charities registered in the UK.
Eligible Activities:
The trust is able to provide support for both capital projects and core funding with ‘one off’ donations.
Less popular and harder to fund projects are prioritised. The Trust makes grants to registered charities and other organisations that demonstrate their ability to carry out charitable activities which provide public benefit as well.
They do not have any focus countries and so far have funded projects in Bangladesh, Ghana, Honduras, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Nepal, Romania, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Gambia, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Lebanon.
Eligible Applicants:
International charities registered in the UK are eligible to apply.
Total Budget: £1,500,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: Haiti USAID-Port Au Prince
Objective:
The purpose for the Activity is to advance the United States’ goal of a more prosperous and democratic Haiti by helping to strengthen the Haitian private sector, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to improve their managerial and operating performance and access the financing they need to grow, thereby creating jobs and fostering inclusive economic growth in Haiti. This will support Haiti to take charge of its own development and provide a better standard of living for its citizens.
Eligible Activities:
The activity will create a project that aims to build up the capacity of Haitian and other finance providers to serve local SMEs, strengthen the network of local Transaction Advisors capacity to identify and prepare high potential SMEs for capital while creating trade and supply chain linkages in these SMEs’ targeted sectors.
Actions must take place in Haiti.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility for this award is unrestricted.
Total Budget: €15,000,000
Deadline: 13/12/2024
More information and official documents:
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Programme: United States Department of State International Security and Nonproliferation
Objective:
The Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction is pleased to announce an open competition for assistance awards titled "Advancing Nuclear Safety, Security, and Nonproliferation through the First Program".
ISN/CTR administers the Foundational Infrastructure for Responsible Use of Small Modular Reactor Technology Program (FIRST), which was launched in 2019 and formally announced at the Leaders’ Climate Summit in April 2021. FIRST provides technical capacity-building support to potential nuclear energy newcomer countries and current nuclear energy countries that are considering small modular reactors (SMRs) and other advanced reactor designs to meet their energy needs, consistent with the highest international standards of nuclear security, nonproliferation, and safety. FIRST is designed to enhance U.S. bilateral and multilateral cooperation, consistent with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) nuclear energy infrastructure development milestones approach, in nuclear energy infrastructure development, nuclear security, and capacity-building. In so doing, the program supports secure, safe, and proliferation-resistant deployment of SMRs or other advanced reactors to partner countries.
Recognizing the many years required to develop the necessary infrastructure to support a nuclear power program, FIRST provides essential capacity-building support and technical expertise to priority partner countries to advance the secure and responsible utilization of civilian nuclear reactors, especially SMRs and other advanced reactors.
While global in scope, FIRST directs its efforts towards individual priority countries on both a bilateral and regional basis to maximize its programmatic impact. FIRST is primarily interested in engaging partner countries’ nuclear energy agencies, regulatory authorities, reactor operators, utilities, nuclear research institutes, technical and non-technical organization decision makers, energy, environmental, and foreign ministries, and academia (at the faculty level). Audiences for these activities may include, but are not limited to:
Nuclear Security and Nonproliferation Decision Makers: FIRST engages various policy makers in partner countries, including at senior levels, on paths forward for secure, sustainable, proliferation-resistant approaches to civil nuclear energy in their respective countries. This community may include officials from energy and environmental ministries, science ministries, finance ministries, foreign diplomats, university partners, and local officials in the context of capacity-building for FIRST.
Government Operators, Regulators, Utilities, Technical Experts, and Security Personnel: FIRST engages operators, regulators, and security personnel to implement programs that ensure the highest standards for nuclear safety, security, and nonproliferation.
Technical Organization Decision Makers: To ensure the sustainability and success of FIRST engagement with operators, regulators, and security personnel, FIRST engages relevant decision makers and nuclear industry officials.
Goal
FIRST helps partner countries:
establish a nuclear power program under the highest international standards for nuclear security, safety, and nonproliferation,
take advantage of next generation nuclear innovations and technologies in their sustainable energy plans and meet their energy needs, and
deepen relationships through government, industry, national laboratory, and university engagements.
FIRST tailors each engagement to meet the partner’s specific needs through a multi-module collaborative training and capacity building program. With partners from across the U.S. Government and experts from academia, private industry,
non-governmental organizations, and U.S. national laboratories, FIRST brings diverse expertise on the cutting edge of nuclear technology to build partner country capacity.
Eligible Activities:
Objectives
FIRST will fund activities that align with tailored capacity-building support for countries participating in FIRST, including both potential new FIRST partners and countries already engaged. Proposals should clearly indicate how the work is intended to support this objective.
Empower potential nuclear energy newcomer countries to prioritize nuclear security, nonproliferation, and safety considerations from the outset as key decisional criteria when evaluating civil nuclear reactor technologies, with an emphasis on SMRs and other advanced reactor designs. FIRST provides capacity building support to partner countries as they develop their nuclear energy programs to achieve their energy goals under the highest international standards for nuclear security, safety, and nonproliferation. FIRST provides this support in a manner consistent with the IAEA Milestones Approach for implementing a responsible nuclear power program. These efforts support the ability of the United States to uphold and strengthen global nuclear nonproliferation, security, and safety norms at the facility and national level and in international forums such as the IAEA.
Expected Outcomes
The FIRST program engages with partners on nuclear security, energy, and sovereignty in an ongoing endeavor. To this end, ISN/CTR will evaluate each proposal, and each project during implementation, based on the strength of its proposed structure of engagement activities and established milestones, seeking work that will continue throughout the period of the project and utilize in-country activities where necessary to ensure the effectiveness of the ongoing training effort.
All proposals will measure partner capacity before and after training and engagement, with the expectation that skills, procedures, technical understanding, and abilities have increased due to ISN/CTR support.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible Countries
FIRST prioritizes nuclear energy newcomer countries and, in some cases, current nuclear energy countries located primarily in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa.
This line of effort for FY25 is primarily focused on partner states including but not limited to Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, and regional), Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand), sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana, Kenya, and regional), and a limited number of Central Asian (Kazakhstan, and regional), Latin American and the Caribbean (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Jamaica, Peru, and regional).
Eligibility Criteria
U.S.-based non-profit/non-governmental organizations with or without 501(c) (3) status of the U.S. tax code; foreign-based non-profit organizations/non-government organizations (NGO); federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs); public International Organizations; Foreign Public Entity; U.S.-based private, public, or state institutions of higher education; foreign-based institutions of higher education, and U.S. for-profit organizations or businesses
Total Budget: $19,500,000
Deadline: 17/01/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - CERV
Objective:
The objective of this call is to protect, promote and raise awareness of rights by providing financial support to civil society organisations active at local, regional, national and transnational level in promoting and cultivating those rights. The call thereby also aims at strengthening the protection and promotion of Union values including respect for the rule of law and contributing to the construction of a more democratic Union, democratic dialogue, transparency as well as good governance.
Eligible Activities:
The call intends to set up 3-year framework partnership agreements with European networks, civil society organisations active at EU level and European think tanks, and to increase the capacities of the framework partners to contribute actively to the development and implementation of EU policies.
Actions must take place in EU member states.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 28/01/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The objective of this call for proposals is to select projects to respond to the mentioned challenges and to help Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals tackle the ongoing and future consequences of the war, in cooperation with organisations from other Creative Europe countries. Proposals under this Topic should help preparing the post-war recovery of the Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors and support their contribution to societal resilience through capacity building and networking activities.
Eligible Activities:
This action will support cultural cooperation projects between Ukraine and other Creative Europe countries that will help and strengthen Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals. Projects shall demonstrate a very good understanding of the complexity of the current situation in Ukraine and develop actions encouraging the development, experimentation, dissemination or application of concrete practices on how culture and the arts can contribute to wartime resilience and post-war recovery.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 06/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The objective of this call for proposals is to select projects to respond to the mentioned challenges and to help Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals tackle the ongoing and future consequences of the war, in cooperation with organisations from other Creative Europe countries. Proposals under this topic should foster Ukrainians’ access to culture and cultural heritage – namely for displaced people, in Ukraine or Creative Europe participating countries – promote integration, social cohesion or health through culture.
Eligible Activities:
This action will support cultural cooperation projects between Ukraine and other Creative Europe countries that will help and strengthen Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals. Projects shall demonstrate a very good understanding of the complexity of the current situation in Ukraine and develop actions encouraging the development, experimentation, dissemination or application of concrete practices on how culture and the arts can contribute to wartime resilience and post-war recovery.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €2,000,000
Deadline: 06/02/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The objective of this call for proposals is to select projects to respond to the mentioned challenges and to help Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals tackle the ongoing and future consequences of the war, in cooperation with organisations from other Creative Europe countries. Proposals under this Topic should support Ukrainian artists and cultural organisations co-create with their peers and showcase their art and works in Ukraine and in Creative Europe participating countries.
Eligible Activities:
This action will support cultural cooperation projects between Ukraine and other Creative Europe countries that will help and strengthen Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals. Projects shall demonstrate a very good understanding of the complexity of the current situation in Ukraine and develop actions encouraging the development, experimentation, dissemination or application of concrete practices on how culture and the arts can contribute to wartime resilience and post-war recovery.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €2,000,000
Deadline: 06/02/2025
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Programme: ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation
Objective:
Submissions are now open for New Investigator Grant program to support newly independent DIPG researchers working to establish DIPG research labs OR established researchers to encourage them to start DIPG research.
Eligible Activities:
Review Criteria
Each application is reviewed by the ChadTough Defeat DIPG Scientific Advisory Council.
The Scientific Advisory Council makes recommendations to the ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation, and the foundation makes the final funding decision.
All application evaluations are considered confidential and are available only to the Scientific Advisory Council and the foundation’s Board of Directors and staff.
When an application is approved for funding, the grant award is contingent upon all legal documents being signed and approved by the foundation and the applicant’s institution.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have an academic appointment and be in their first independent faculty position or equivalent at an accredited college, university, medical school, or other research facility.
Applicants should be in their faculty role for not more than 6 years at the time of application.
Independence is typically demonstrated by a full-time faculty appointment, a tenure-track position, allocated space, a start-up package, and institutional commitment.
Applicants who are beyond their first independent faculty position for more than 6 years are eligible if they have no previous research on DIPG/DMG tumors.
Applicants must be employed by an academic institution, nonprofit research institution, or laboratory.
Applicants need not be U.S. citizens
Total Budget: $400,000
Deadline: 06/02/2025
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Programme: Journalismfund.eu
Objective:
The aim of Journalismfund.eu is to promote quality journalism in Europe by giving journalists the chance to carry out journalistic research projects. Journalismfund.eu will support professional journalists, who have good ideas for cross-border research and for research on European affairs. The stories must be relevant for European target groups.
Eligible Activities:
The project should be one that, in principle, could not be realised in this format within the remit of regular journalism – a project that can include cross-border research, networking between colleagues, established and innovative investigative methods and that is at the same time original, innovative and intensive.
Journalismfund.eu supports costs related to journalistic research for all media. This can include travel, translation, access to pay-databases or simply time to research. They do not support fixed costs such as office costs, investments such as cameras or computers or production costs.
Actions must take place in Europe.
Eligible Applicants:
Teams of journalists from at least two countries in geographical Europe are eligible to apply. When relevant for the story, team members from elsewhere can be accepted too.
Total Budget: €900,000
Deadline: 27/03/2025
More information and official documents:
https://grants.journalismfund.eu/en/european-cross-border-grants
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Programme: Yidan Prize Foundation
Objective:
Applications are now open for the Yidan Prize to create a better world through education.
The prize aims to progress learning by building a global community committed to advancing ideas in education.
Eligible Activities:
Areas
They award the Yidan Prize to individuals and teams in two areas:
Education Research
The theory of learning — science, psychology, statistics — that can help educators gain a more methodical understanding of their approaches.
Education Development
The practice of learning — new methods, ways to make education more widespread — so they can champion techniques that work.
Prize Information
They award each year’s laureates a gold medal and a total sum of HK$30 million — half is a cash prize to recognize their contribution to the sector (shared equally for teams); the other half is a project fund distributed over three years to support the laureate’s work.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
They welcome all nominations; the process is open to everyone. You don’t need to be invited to nominate a team or individual for either the Education Research or Education Development prize.
The prizes are open to teams of up to three. That could be a research group working on a project together.
Same nominee can be nominated more than once in the same category, or they can be nominated in both categories if their work spans both research and development.
Having more than one nomination in one category doesn’t increase the nominee’s chances. If you know others who are also interested in nominating the same person or team, consider choosing one nominator between you, and asking everyone else to be a supporter. It’ll probably make a stronger application overall.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 31/03/2025
More information and official documents:
https://yidanprize.org/the-prize-and-nominations/nominations
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Programme: U.S. Mission to Albania
Objective:
The U.S. Embassy Tirana Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce that funding is available through its Public Diplomacy Annual Grants Program.
Eligible Activities:
Purpose of PAS Grants: PAS Tirana invites proposals for programs that strengthen cultural ties between the U.S. and Albania through cultural and exchange programming that highlights shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation. All programs must include an American cultural element or connection with American expert/s, organization/s, or institution/s in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives.
Actions must take place in Albania.
Eligible Applicants:
The Public Affairs Section encourages applications from U.S. and Albania: Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experience; Individuals: an individual can apply for up to $150,000 in funding; Non-profit or governmental educational institutions (registered as non-profit); Albanian governmental institutions.
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: 21/09/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: Journalismfund.eu
Objective:
Journalismfund.eu’s flexible grants programmes enable journalists to produce relevant public interest stories with a European mind-set from international, national, and regional perspectives.
Eligible Activities:
This grant facility supports enabling activities and supporting services for environmental investigative journalism as a whole. It seeks to promote collective development and support services for environmental investigative journalism, by providing funding to project ideas from organisations and institutions for training and professional development programmes, i.e. skills-focused professional training or fellowship programmes targeted at enabling investigative journalists to upskill with regards to reporting on environment related issues.
Actions must take place in Europe.
Eligible Applicants:
Incorporated legal entities (organisations, companies, …) can apply with a project proposal for collective development and support services for environmental investigative journalism. Individuals (natural persons) cannot apply for this grant.
Total Budget: €84,000
Deadline: 09/10/2025
More information and official documents:
https://grants.journalismfund.eu/en/professional-development-grants-environmental-journalism
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Programme: Journalismfund.eu
Objective:
Journalismfund.eu’s flexible grants programmes enable journalists to produce relevant public interest stories with a European mind-set from international, national, and regional perspectives.
Eligible Activities:
This grant can be awarded to cross-border teams of professional journalists and/or news outlets to conduct investigations into environmental affairs related to Europe (all the countries, not only the EU). The resulting stories must be published in at least two outlets in two different countries, at least one must be a European media. While news media and newsrooms still predominantly operate nationally, most power structures and societal and environmental problems transcend national boundaries. This grant programme is therefore aimed at cross-border teams of investigative journalists and newsrooms to investigate and document illegal, unreported and unregulated abuse of nature that involves European affairs in and outside Europe.
Actions must take place in Europe.
Eligible Applicants:
Cross-border teams of at least two professional journalists and/or news outlets can submit a proposal for a journalistic investigation about an issue that concerns the environment and relates to the European continent (islands included).
Total Budget: €1,600,000
Deadline: 23/10/2025
More information and official documents:
https://www.journalismfund.eu/environmental-investigative-journalism
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Programme: NZAID
Objective:
The New Zealand Aid Programme is the New Zealand Government’s international aid and development agency (NZAID). Their mission is to support sustainable development in order to reduce poverty and contribute to a more secure, equitable and prosperous world. In order to eliminate global poverty, it works with NGOs, civil society, governments and other agencies by supporting them through grants, aid and scholarships.
Eligible Activities:
They focus on improving well-being and reducing poverty, hardship and vulnerability through access to economic opportunities and high-quality public services. Their priorities also support resilience to climate change, natural disasters and external economic events.
Thematic interest
Economic well-being
Education and health
Emergencies and disaster preparedness
Governance and peace
Their focus lies on Pacific and Asia (around 80%) but they also support Afghanistan, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Eligible Applicants:
The New Zealand Aid Programme has a range of funding and contracting opportunities to provide effective, sustainable aid in developing countries (i.e. New Zealand Partnerships for International Development Fund, Research Funds, New Zealand Disaster Response Partnership or Strategic Relationships) and each of those has different funding and application guidelines. Some schemes are open all year round and others are only accessible during open calls for proposals windows.
Total Budget: €550,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing (10 per year)
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Programme: PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION TRUST
Objective:
The New Zealand’s Pacific Development and Conservation Trust makes grants for conservation, cultural heritage, development, and goodwill in the Pacific Islands. The priority is community projects, including conservation projects that involve representative, endangered, threatened, or unique habitats and species.
Eligible Activities:
Thematic Interest
Environment and natural resources
Community development
Cultural heritage
Eligible to receive grant funding are organisations from New Zealand and eligible Pacific countries and territories.
Eligible Applicants:
The Trust has about $250,000 to give as grants each year. The preferred way of receiving an application is via the Trust’s online application system (paper applications can also be downloaded from the Trust’s website). Applications may be submitted on a rolling basis throughout the year. There is no minimum or maximum grant amount and grants are usually in the range from $2,000 to $50,000. There are two full funding rounds per year. The opening cycle for the new rounds is February and August each year. Requests for funding must have a detailed budget, quotes and price lists, audited accounts or other financial information, and project lead CVs.
Total Budget: €250,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:
https://www.communitymatters.govt.nz/pacific-development-and-conservation-trust-2/
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - International Partnerships (IP)
Objective:
The global objective of this call for proposals is to improve the local climate change adaptation and mitigation capacity. The specific objective of this call for proposals is to improve and increase climate change adaptation and mitigation solutions planning and implementation at local level.
Eligible Activities:
A project must focus on at least one of these areas:
– in line with the priorities of the existing national adaptation1 and mitigation action plans between 2024- 2030,
– promoting resilient and low-carbon cities and sectors,
– implementing adaptation and/or mitigation actions in line with existing local or national climate strategies.
Actions can take place in Turkey.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: (1) be a legal person and (2) be a specific type of organisation such as: municipality, local authority, university and research institution/centre, development agency etc. and (3) be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
Total Budget: €14,706,000
Deadline: 16/12/2024
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
This action is expected to provide practical help to protect journalists under threat, including concrete tools such as advice and legal support as well as offering shelter and logistical assistance thereby enabling the targeted journalists to continue pursuing their professional activities. This can include financial support when needed. The project will also organise visits to affected countries. Anti-impunity action shall be supported through advocacy. The tools used will be adjusted to accommodate individual needs on a case-by-case basis.
Eligible Activities:
Violations of press and media freedom will be systematically and comprehensively monitored across the EU, countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme and candidate countries in order to ensure the provision of reliable and comprehensive information on such violations to the general public as well as to the European institutions. The monitoring should be geared to ensure early warnings about violations. The alerts related to EU, countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme and candidate countries will be systematically published on a dedicated website. Regular reports listing all alerts and identifying main trends will also be published. Such monitoring will generate data and insights beyond the scope or reach of several existing monitoring tools, covering, in particular, risks to media freedom and pluralism as well as selected serious incidents and authorities’ reactions to such incidents.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies)
Total Budget: €3,000,000
Deadline: 15/01/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - CERV
Objective:
The objective of this call is to protect, promote and raise awareness of rights by providing financial support to civil society organisations active at local, regional, national and transnational level in promoting and cultivating those rights. The call thereby also aims at strengthening the protection and promotion of Union values including respect for the rule of law and contributing to the construction of a more democratic Union, democratic dialogue, transparency as well as good governance.
Eligible Activities:
The call intends to set up 3-year framework partnership agreements with European networks, civil society organisations active at EU level and European think tanks, and to increase the capacities of the framework partners to contribute actively to the development and implementation of EU policies.
Actions must take place in EU member states.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €36,000,000
Deadline: 28/01/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - CERV
Objective:
The objective of this call is to protect, promote and raise awareness of rights by providing financial support to civil society organisations active at local, regional, national and transnational level in promoting and cultivating those rights. The call thereby also aims at strengthening the protection and promotion of Union values including respect for the rule of law and contributing to the construction of a more democratic Union, democratic dialogue, transparency as well as good governance.
Eligible Activities:
The call intends to support the 2026 annual work programmes of framework partners (European networks, civil society organisations active at EU level and European think tanks), and to increase the capacities of the framework partners to contribute actively to the development and implementation of EU policies.
Actions must take place in EU member states.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €36,000,000
Deadline: 05/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
Expected results of this call are:
· Increased innovation and creativity in business models, journalistic production processes and distribution processes;
· Increased viability of professionally produced journalistic content.
· Increased interest in professionally produced journalistic content, among various social groups, language groups and age groups;
· Increased media collaboration.
· Sector-wide networks for the exchange of best practices among news media organisations and professionals;
· Knowledge-hubs for sub-sectors around technical formats (written/online press, radio/podcasts, TV, etc.) and/or journalistic genres (data journalism, general topics, specialised journalism, etc.);
· Acquisition and improvement of professional skills by journalists as well as media business professionals.
Eligible Activities:
Activities that can be funded
This topic seeks to help the wider European news media sector become more sustainable and resilient, including small media. Support is foreseen for collaborative projects in and between any news media (sub)sector and/or genre that aim to enhance cooperation, help media adapt to new economic and consumption realities and instil systemic change across that (sub)sector.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €5,266,270
Deadline: 27/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
Expected results
· Increased innovation and creativity in business models, journalistic production processes and distribution processes;
· Increased viability of professionally produced journalistic content.
· Increased interest in professionally produced journalistic content, among various social groups, language groups and age groups;
· Increased resilience, pluralism and editorial independence at EU level of sectors such as local, regional and community media, investigative media or media specialised in public interest topics.
· Increased resilience of organisations active in the targeted news media sectors and protection of the news media landscape.
· Improved uptake of new technologies across the targeted media sectors in as much this contributes to media pluralism and a diverse media landscape.
· Fostering repositories of knowledge about media sectors delivering public interest news (e.g. by detecting areas with low provision of high-quality content and/or in which media pluralism is strained).
Eligible Activities:
This topic covers media sectors that are particularly relevant for democracy. Certain sectors having an important role for democratic debate lack the means to adapt to the digital environment, and phenomena such as shrinking newsrooms or media deserts can lead to a deterioration of pluralism. Support is thus needed for them to improve their position, adapt their methods, continue providing a first-hand source of original reporting to citizens, help keep decision-makers accountable and ultimately contribute to a more diverse and independent sector.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €5,266,270
Deadline: 27/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The Call for Proposals will result in:
· pan-European consortia, scaling up best practices across national, cultural and linguistic borders, and developing and upscaling media literacy tools and actions to ensure the transfer of such practices to the widest possible audience, covering different types of media delivery modalities;
· forums for exchange of best practices around specific age groups, groups with limited media literacy skills or access, or those at risk of social exclusion;
· support for media literacy professionals to adapt their practices to fast developing media formats and changing media consumption patterns.
Eligible Activities:
Support is foreseen for collaborative projects with clearly defined objective(s) to advance/target specific area(s)/goal(s) within the field of media literacy, addressing at least two of the following areas of activities:
· Activities building on, sharing and scaling up best practices from innovative media literacy projects that take into account a changing media ecosystem, especially by crossing cultural, country or linguistic borders and strengthening collaboration between different regions of Europe.
· Developing innovative, interactive online toolkits to provide solutions to existing and future challenges in the online environment, including disinformation.
· Developing materials and toolkits to enable citizens to develop a critical approach to the media, and to recognise and appropriately react to disinformation.
· Develop media literacy practices adapted to the changing media environment including manipulative techniques and AI-based media production.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €2,570,000
Deadline: 06/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The InnovLab support shall support the design, development and/or spread of innovative tools, models or solutions applicable in the audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors (CCSs) with a high potential of replicability in those sectors.
Eligible Activities:
The objectives of the scheme is to encourage cooperation between the audiovisual sector and other CCSs in order to accompany their environmental transition and/or to improve their competitiveness and/or the circulation, visibility, discoverability, availability, diversity and the audience of European content across borders. The support also aims to enable the European audiovisual sector and other CCSs to better adapt to the opportunities offered by the development of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Worlds.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €5,001,863
Deadline: 14/04/2025
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Programme: German Embassy Zimbabwe
Objective:
The German Embassy Harare has a fund which supports small scale anti-poverty projects by Zimbabwean Non-Governmental Organizations, associations, interest groups and communities. The Small Scale Project Scheme is part of Germany’s overall development co-operation that contributes to poverty alleviation and the improvement of living standards, especially in rural areas. Project examples are bore holes, street children shelters, training centres, orphanages, community halls, sewing machines, construction of a classroom, renovation of maternity ward, installation of solar power, etc.
Eligible Activities:
The German Embassy only supports projects that can be completed within one year and which do not cause any further costs after termination. A project cannot be funded if it has been supported by the German Embassy or by any other German development organisation before. The projects have to be initiated by local groups or communities at the grassroots’ level. They should be directed towards improving the living conditions of the community as a whole in the form of long term investments. The communities themselves have to make a substantial contribution towards the project.
Actions must take place in Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are Zimbabwean non-governmental organisations, associations, interest groups and communities.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: National Institute for Health and Care Research
Objective:
The Global Health Research Professorship award is NIHR’s flagship career development award, open to all health, public health and social care research and methodology professions.
It aims to fund research leaders to promote effective translation of research and to strengthen research leadership at the highest academic levels.
The Global Health Research Professorship programme supports outstanding academics to work at professorial level. The award provides an extensive support package alongside the professorship, to include support posts, research costs and a leadership and development programme.
Eligible Activities:
Scopes
The award consists of a package to support a Professorship. This includes:
Academic support posts
Research running costs
A travel fund
Funding to support a sabbatical
Basic salary costs (plus indirect costs, for the host organisation, if applicable)
Institutional capacity strengthening
Funding Information
Award funding: Up to £2 million over 5 years.
Eligible Activities
Activities should be identified and developed in partnership with the LMIC host or partner institution and they may include:
Training and development for research support staff (for example, finance, HR, data managers, grant managers, project managers, technicians)
Establishing or strengthening institutional systems for coaching, mentoring and/or peer-mentorship.
Strengthening and sustaining support systems, such as IT and libraries
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Individual Eligibility:
To apply for a Global Health Research Professorship you must be:
An individual with an outstanding record of public health, health or care research including clinical and non-clinical researchers.
On track to become a future global health research leader
Based in the UK or in a LMIC
Nominated by your host institution.
Institutional eligibility:
If your host organisation is in an LMIC
The institution must be able to provide appropriate academic support throughout the length of your Professorship such as: skills development, professional development activities, career development pathway and mentoring
The institution should be research active, and have examples of recent research awards and publications, and a track record of research funding
You may wish to include other LMIC partner organisations
The research outputs must be of direct and primary relevance to the health challenges of LMICs
The institution must be a registered independent entity. LMIC-based academic Research Institutes that are affiliated with a UK or other High Income Country (HIC) HEI are eligible as the LMIC host, provided that the LMIC Research Institute is legally independent from the affiliated UK or HIC HEI.
Total Budget: £2,000,000
Deadline: 11/12/2024
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Programme: Embassy of Japan East-Timor
Objective:
The Japanese Government offers small scale grants for development projects in order to meet the diverse needs of the vulnerable communities and people. “Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP)” supports projects proposed by various organizations such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and municipalities. The goal of GGP is to improve the livelihood of socially and economically vulnerable people. The Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Program (GGP) was established to assist NGOs and local public authorities to implement small-scale projects directly benefiting the people at grassroots level as well as contributing to the socio-economic development.
Eligible Activities:
The GGP mainly targets areas that aim to improve Basic Human Needs (BHN) such as projects that are highly beneficial at the grass-roots level and those that require timely support on humanitarian grounds. Typical projects include construction of primary and junior high schools, improvement of fundamental medical equipment for hospitals, excavation of wells, vocational training and seminars concerning poverty alleviation.
Actions must take place in Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, St. Christopher and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname & Trinidad and Tobago.
Eligible Applicants:
The GGP targets nonprofit organisations that implement development projects at grass-roots level in eligible countries and regions. These include: international and local non governmental organisations (NGOs) working in developing countries, local public authorities, educational institutions such as primary and junior high schools, hospitals and medical institutions.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: 20/12/2024
More information and official documents:
https://www.tt.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/EconomicCooperation.html?
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Programme: European AI & Society Fund
Objective:
The focus of the AI Accountability Grants is to support work that will contribute to addressing how AI affects people and society.
The Fund does not prescribe which approaches, tactics and regulations to use. They have also not specified geographies or issue areas to prioritise – they want to hear from organisations and coalitions in the field where there are opportunities to make change happen.
Eligible Activities:
Examples of work that could be funded:
Conducting research to identify provisions in labour and human rights laws that may provide a path to justice for communities harmed by algorithmic decisions in the workplace or when accessing welfare benefits.
Using transparency mechanisms to find evidence of AI harms that can be used in future campaigns, complaints, and legal cases.
Preparation of complaints on high-risk systems, to be submitted under the AI Act once it is in force.
Drafting and submitting complaints under EU regulations, such as the GDPR, that challenge the unlawful use of personal data for training AI systems, for example in healthcare.
Developing experimental litigation strategies to limit the harmful environmental impact of data centres, including pre-litigation research, evidence gathering and legal fees.
Strategies to challenge corporate power through antitrust mechanisms, such as investigations by competition authorities or actions under the Digital Markets Act. This could involve research to provide evidence to regulators and cooperation with consumer bodies.
Actions must take place in EU, EEA, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Switzerland and the UK.
Eligible Applicants:
Organisations should be registered and carry out their work in one or several of the following countries: the EU, EEA, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Switzerland and the UK. Organisations must have non-profit status.
Total Budget: €2,000,000
Deadline: 6/01/2025
More information and official documents:
https://europeanaifund.org/newspublications/ai-accountability-grants/
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Programme: Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND)
Objective:
Since its establishment in 1999, the prize has been known as AGFUND International Prize for Pioneering Human Development Projects. Following the passing away of His Royal Highness Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, founder of AGFUND, in December 2018, the AGFUND’s Board of Directors decided to rename the prize after the late Prince Talal. This decision was taken to commemorate his lifelong dedication to the service of human development and poverty alleviation through AGFUND and the other institutions he established. Hence, the prize new name is “Prince Talal International Prize for Human Development”.
Eligible Activities:
It is an annual prize established in 1999 by the Arab Gulf Programme for Development (AGFUND), with the aim of inciting and encouraging innovation and creativity in the areas of human development. The idea of the Prize was stemmed from AGFUND’s approach to enhance development performance and support key development projects in order to achieve the goal of sustainability and investment in people. In this sense, Prince Talal International Prize is considered to be an important tool to identify successful development projects, reward them and disseminate their innovative ideas to best contribute to the improvement of development work. It is also an innovative approach and a strategic instrument to exchange successful experiences to strengthen the mechanisms of development cooperation and project funding with special emphasis on the most prominent factors that militate against development and affect the vulnerable groups, particularly women and children in developing countries. These include poverty, social exclusion, socio-economic marginalization, education and health.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
No one can nominate his/her or its project. However, each of the following entities is eligible, as third party, to nominate for the Prize; UN organizations, regional, international and national NGOs, governments agencies, public institutions, universities and research centres, syndicates and experts in the field.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: 15/01/2025
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
The European Commission is seeking applications to support for information measures relating to the common agricultural policy (IMCAP).
Objectives
The general objective of the call is to raise awareness about the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) within the EU and amongst all citizens, farmers and non-farmers alike. The CAP is a policy for all EU citizens and the benefits that it provides must be more widely explained and demonstrated.
The key messaging should be fully consistent with the Commission's legal requirement to carry out information measures on the CAP within the meaning of Article 46 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2116.
The proposals submitted shall provide coherent, objective, evidence-based and comprehensive information in order to help explain, implement and develop the CAP and to raise public awareness of its content and objectives, including its contribution to ensuring a fair income for farmers, stable supply of affordable food, tackling climate change, promoting the sustainable management of natural resources, encouraging the highest standards of animal welfare and supporting the rural economy.
The focus of proposals submitted should be on addressing lack of information about European agriculture and the CAP within identified target audiences. This should be achieved using facts, backed-up with reliable data, and overall raising public awareness on the relevance of EU support to agriculture and rural development through the CAP.
Eligible Activities:
Themes
The CAP plays a key role in supporting the EU’s farming sector and rural areas. It aims to ensure a competitive and sustainable agriculture model with respect to economic, social and environmental aspects.
The information measures should specifically focus on the role of the CAP and CAP Strategic Plans in supporting a fair and sufficient income for farmers), in ensuring food security and the long-term competitiveness of EU agriculture, in the resilience and the transition to sustainable food production systems, including for the livestock sector, in supporting generational renewal and improving gender balance and participation of women, and (e) in strengthening the position of farmers in the value chain and protecting them from unfair trading practices.
Eligible Activities
This call targets large-audience information and communication measures to inform citizens about the CAP (including the national CAP strategic plans).
The information measures must include one or several activities reaching a significant number of citizens, such as:
Production and distribution/broadcast of print, multimedia or audio-visual material.
Web and social media outreach activities that reach a significant number of citizens.
Media events.
Conferences, seminars, workshops that reach a significant number of citizens.
Studies on CAP-related issues (if required to support the implementation of the information measures).
Ineligible Activities
Measures required by law.
General or statutory meetings.
Other activities where the communication and information measures are not the main component.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
Be legal entities (public or private bodies).
Be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.: − EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs).
Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation). For the validation, they will be requested to upload documents showing legal status and origin.
Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners, subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc.
Total Budget: €4,000,000
Deadline: 16/01/2025
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Programme: WELLCOME
Objective:
The Wellcome is requesting proposals for its Trust Awards for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity.
Eligible Activities:
Through innovative projects, they will deliver shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing. By the end of the award, they will be ready to lead their own independent research programme.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
You can apply to this scheme if you are an early-career researcher and you are ready to design, plan and deliver your own innovative research project that aims to:
Advance understanding in your field
Develop methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research.
During the award, they expect you to:
Expand your technical skills and/or your experience of different research methodologies or frameworks
Build a collaborative network with other researchers in your field
Develop your people management skills
Advance your understanding of how to complete research responsibly and promote a positive and inclusive culture.
Lead applicant career stage and experience
At the point you submit your application, you must have completed a substantive period of research training relevant to your discipline.
You must have:
completed a PhD (for example, in the life sciences) or an equivalent higher research degree. At the point of application you must have passed your viva examination, or
if you have not started a PhD or equivalent degree, at least four years' equivalent research experience (for example, in the humanities and social sciences).
You may also have some postdoctoral experience in your proposed field of study, but no more than three years unless you can demonstrate how other factors have impacted on your research career. When they review how much postdoctoral experience you have, they will allow for part-time work, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, career breaks (for example, parental leave or long-term sick leave) and other significant amounts of time spent outside research (for example, clinical training).
They will also consider whether you have changed research discipline. For example, moving from astrophysics to computational neuroscience. There may be some crossover, such as in research sites or techniques, but the shift should still be a significant change.
They consider postdoctoral experience as any periods spent in research after you passed your PhD/higher research degree viva.
You should be able to demonstrate:
a good understanding of research methodology
evidence of project delivery and analysis.
You should not need close supervision to complete your proposed research, although you may need training in new techniques and experimental approaches.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 25/02/2025
More information and official documents:
https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/early-career-awards
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Programme: P4G
Objective:
P4G is now accepting applications for partnerships working on climate mitigation or adaptation solutions in the areas of food, energy and water. Partnerships must comprise at least one early-stage business and one nonprofit organization implementing in one of P4G’s ODA-eligible partner countries: Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa and Vietnam. Applicants must provide services or products that contribute to poverty alleviation, gender equity and economic growth in one of the following sub-sectors: climate-smart agriculture, food loss and waste, water resilience, zero emission mobility and renewable energy.
Eligible Activities:
P4G will provide grant funding and technical assistance to help the early-stage business in the partnership become investment ready. To be considered for the next funding round, partnerships should submit their proposal by March 7, 2025. All applications must be submitted in English.
The program is open to partnerships operating in P4G’s ODA-eligible partner countries, which include Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
Eligible Applicants:
The eligibility criteria require partnerships to comprise at least one early-stage climate business and one NGO administrative partner. Applicants must demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the sectoral, policy, and regulatory environment in their country, along with skills in business, financial, social, environmental development, and grant management. The proposed climate business solution should be innovative and at a seed or post-seed financing stage with a clear path to commercialization or capital raising. Additionally, applicants must show their project’s potential for climate, economic growth, poverty reduction, gender, and development impact, and adhere to responsible business conduct, including having an ESG plan or developing one.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 07/03/2025
More information and official documents:
https://p4gpartnerships.org/p4g-call-partnership-applications
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Programme: European AI & Society Fund
Objective:
The AI Act Implementation Grants will support work that puts social justice at the heart of the AI Act’s implementation at EU and national levels. The Fund does not prescribe which approaches or tactics to use.
Eligible Activities:
Examples of work that may qualify for funding include:
Soliciting expert advice or commissioning research on a specific aspect of the AI Act implementation, for example the fundamental rights impact assessments
Ad-hoc convening costs to coordinate among stakeholders involved in the implementation, including travel costs and venues
Systematising coordination between organisations working in Brussels and at the national and regional level.
Convening costs to engage with authorities responsible for the enforcement of the AI act
Travel costs and compensation for experts and advocates that provide substantial input as part of the AI Act implementation process
Compensation for time spent on one of the sub-committees of the Code of Practice, or in similar processes
Actions must take place in EU, EEA, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Switzerland and the UK.
Eligible Applicants:
Organisations should be registered and carry out their work in one or several of the following countries: the EU, EEA, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Switzerland and the UK. Organisations must have non-profit status.
Total Budget: €400,000
Deadline: ONGOING
More information and official documents:
https://europeanaifund.org/newspublications/call-ai-act-implementation-grants/
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Programme: KIWA INITIATIVE
Objective:
The Kiwa Initiative launches a news call for regional projects. This call for regional projects aims to implement NbS projects for climate change adaptation in the Pacific while mainstreaming gender equality and a human-rights-based approach.
Eligible Activities:
It focuses on:
· Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) that tackle climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation.
· Gender equality, disability, and social inclusion (GEDSI) to ensure the inclusion of vulnerable populations, particularly women and youth, and to reduce existing inequalities.
· Regional projects must include a relevant regional cooperation dimension between countries and/or territories (pooling, capitalization, sharing), whether they are implemented in French territories and/or other eligible Pacific countries. A regional project must involve at least two countries and/or territories. Alignment with regional, national, and local policy frameworks must be clearly demonstrated. For this 2024 Call for regional projects, particular attention will be paid to projects submitted by national authorities and/or directly involving national authorities in the project implementation.
Actions must take place in Federated States of Micronesia – Fiji – French Polynesia – Kiribati – Nauru – New Caledonia – Niue – Marshall Islands – Palau – Papua New Guinea – Solomon Islands – Samoa – Timor-Leste – Tokelau – Tonga – Tuvalu – Vanuatu – Wallis-and-Futuna.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are (1) National and local authorities; (2) Public bodies and institutions present in one of the 18 eligible countries and territories; (3) Regional organisations (Council of Regional Organisations of the Pacific, CROP) recognised by Pacific Island countries and territories; and (4) International and national NGOs.
Total Budget: €5,000,000
Deadline: 15/12/2024
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The objective of the MEDIA 360 action is to develop major audiovisual hubs capable of proposing a strategic set of activities which respond to key opportunities and challenges at the European level. To encourage a coherent approach where the hubs exploit their unique identities and capabilities, as well as economies of scale, MEDIA 360 supports a package of activities implementing a shared vision and objectives with an impact across the value-chain.
Eligible Activities:
The action will support a package of activities facilitating the creation, promotion and distribution of European content, and/or the uptake of new technologies or business models by the audiovisual sector. The activities shall have impacts across the value chain (for example supporting talents and skills, developing markets and networking, supporting innovation and private investment, supporting international co-productions, as well as other relevant areas) and be implemented by European organizations able to attract European and international participants. The applicants shall present a comprehensive strategy and a coherent package of activities and be able to demonstrate their strong added-value and structuring effect across the European audiovisual industry.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €21,000,000
Deadline: 09/01/2025
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The Innovative tools and business models action is aimed at encouraging the development and/or the spread of innovative tools and business models to improve the visibility, availability, audience and diversity of European works in the digital age and/or the competitiveness and/or the greening process of the European audiovisual industry.
Eligible Activities:
Expected results:
· Improve the competitiveness of the European audiovisual industry and seize the benefits of the innovative developments in technology and business models;
· Improve the adaptation of the European audiovisual industry to the opportunities offered by Artificial Intelligence and the development of virtual worlds (also called Metaverse(s));
· Improve the greening process of the European audiovisual industry;
· Improve the production and circulation of European audiovisual works in the digital era;
· Increase the number and diversity of European works available online and increase their visibility in order to allow them to reach more audiences.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €8,000,000
Deadline: 16/01/2025
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The objective of the support to Video games and immersive content development is to increase the capacity of European video game producers, XR studios and audiovisual production companies to develop video games and interactive immersive experiences with the potential to reach global audiences. The support also aims to improve the competitiveness of the European video games industry and other companies producing interactive immersive content in European and international markets by enabling the retention of intellectual property by European developers.
Eligible Activities:
Expected results
· Increased quality, appeal, feasibility and cross-border potential for selected projects.
· A stronger position on the European and international market for video games developers and companies producing interactive immersive experiences.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €7,000,000
Deadline: 12/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
Expected results:
· Stimulate interest and increase knowledge of audiences in European films and audiovisual works including specific programmes on film heritage
· Strengthen pan-European cooperation for innovative audience development and film education projects especially using new digital tools
· Increase pan-European impact and audience outreach
· Develop film education projects across European and non-European territories
Eligible Activities:
Description of the activities: Projects ensuring pan-European cooperation and providing innovative projects, especially using new digital tools aiming at:
· Increasing interest and knowledge of audiences, in particular young audiences, in European films and audiovisual works including specific programmes on film heritage.
· Activities shall include audience-oriented events and innovative or cross-border film education initiatives. Cooperation between film institutions and online platforms is encouraged.
· Increasing pan-European impact and audience outreach.
· Promoting and increase the contribution that existing European films and audiovisual works, including curated catalogues of films, make towards audience development, film education and film literacy.
· Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €6,000,000
Deadline: 27/03/2025
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
The objective of the Skills and Talent Development support is to enhance the capacity of audiovisual professionals to adapt to new creative processes, market developments and digital technologies that affect the whole value chain.
Particular focus will be put on supporting new creative processes (e.g. cross disciplinary creative collaboration, innovative storytelling blending creative and digital skills), harnessing digital innovation in audiovisual production (e.g. virtual production, post-production) and distribution (marketing, promotion, audience engagement); uptake of digital tools for videogames production and distribution; enhancing IP rights exploitation; green transition (aiming at promoting sustainable practices across the entire value chain).
Eligible Activities:
Expected results:
· To promote sustainable and more environmentally respectful solutions for the audiovisual industry
· Harness Europe’s creative talent by embracing new creative processes
· To accompany the digital transition of the audiovisual sector in support of content creation and dissemination
· To foster growth and investment through greater exploitation of IP across the EU and beyond
· Equip audiovisual and gaming professionals with a new combination of creative and digital skills, thereby increasing the competitiveness potential of the European industry
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €7,500,000
Deadline: 24/04/2025
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
Scope: The objective of the support to TV and online content is to increase the capacity of audiovisual producers to develop and produce strong projects with significant potential to circulate throughout Europe and beyond, and to facilitate European and international co-productions within the television and online sector.
The action aims to strengthen the independence of producers in relation to broadcasters and digital platforms, to enhance collaboration between operators, including independent producers, broadcasters, digital platforms and sales agents, from different countries participating in the MEDIA Strand, in order to produce high quality programming aimed at wide international distribution and promoted to a wide audience including commercial exploitation in the multi-platform environment. Particular attention will be given to projects presenting innovative aspects in the content and in the financing that show a clear link with the envisaged distribution strategies.
Eligible Activities:
Expected results
· Increased production of high quality European works for linear and non-linear broadcasting including on digital platforms, as well as an increase in the number of co-productions.
· Enhanced cooperation between operators from different countries participating in the MEDIA Strand, including between broadcasters.
· Increased audience for European works through linear and non-linear broadcasting including on digital platforms.
· Description of the activities to be funded
· Applicants should present adequate strategies to ensure a more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry (in particular through the use of greening consultants allowing to reduce the environmental impact of productions and shootings) and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €20,000,000
Deadline: 14/05/2025
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Programme: European Commission - CREA
Objective:
Objective: The Films on the Move action shall encourage and support the wider distribution of recent non-national European films by encouraging sales agents and theatrical distributors in particular to invest in promotion and adequate distribution of non-national European films.
Eligible Activities:
Expected Results:
· Development of pan-European theatrical and/or online distribution strategies for non-national European films.
· Increased investment in theatrical and/or online promotion and distribution of non-national European films in view of expanding audience reach.
· Develop links between the production and distribution sector thus improving the competitive position of non-national European films on a global market
Description of the activities to be funded under the call for proposals:
· The activities to be funded are campaigns for the pan-European theatrical and/or online distribution of eligible European films, coordinated by the sales agent of the film. Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €16,000,000
Deadline: 17/07/2025
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Programme: European Commission - Horizon
Objective:
The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme.
Eligible Activities:
Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their research proposal.
A competitive Consolidator Grant Principal Investigator should have already shown evidence of research independence.
Actions must take place in EU member states or Associated Country.
Eligible Applicants:
The ERC actions are open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any EU Member State or Horizon Associated Country. Principal Investigators may be of any age and nationality and may reside in any country in the world at the time of the application. The host institution must engage and host the Principal Investigator for at least the
duration of the project, as defined in the grant agreement.
Total Budget: € a maximum of €2,000,000 for a period of 5 years
Deadline: 14/01/2025
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Programme: European Commission – Horizon Europe
Objective:
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce the Industrialisation of Sustainable & Circular Deep Renovation Workflows Programme.
Expected Outcomes
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
· Streamlining resource-efficient nearly zero-energy performance renovation processes.
· Renovations with reduction of at least 30 % waste, 25% cost, and 30% work time (to 1-2 days per dwelling/building unit), compared to current deep renovation processes.
· Reduced energy performance gap between as-built and as-designed (difference between theoretical and measured performance), and higher construction quality.
· Innovative, tailored business models for deep renovation, generating economies of scale and contributing to an increased rate of renovation.
· Improved comfort, Indoor Air Quality and Indoor Environmental Quality.
Eligible Activities:
Scope
Proposals are expected to address all of the following:
· Investigate innovative approaches for industrialised deep circular renovation, covering the whole workflow from design through to off-site prefabrication, installation, construction on-site and strategies for maintenance, operation and end of life.
· Ensure the proposed approaches aim to achieve the highest level of energy performance (at least NZEB level) with a view toward zero-emission buildings, ensuring a high level of indoor environment quality, keeping costs in an attractive range for owners and investors.
· Make use of innovative processes and technologies, including those delivered by previous research, such as design based on circularity principles, prefabricated components, and digital tools that allow to optimise workflows (cost, time, quality, resource use).
· Demonstrate a seamless integration of the proposed approaches with state-of-the-art digital technologies for construction and renovation (Building Information Modelling, Digital Twins, etc.).
· Select processes and technologies that can be easily tailored to give a maximum potential for rapid and broad deployment at European level.
· Investigate innovative business models (e.g. as-a-service models), accounting for potential market and regulatory barriers, in view of mass deployment and Europe-wide impact.
· Apply the proposed workflows to at least three demonstrations to assess the proposed approaches for different buildings typologies representative of the European building stock, ensuring the most adequate coverage of the respective climatic conditions. The demonstrations can be either single buildings or clusters of buildings, and at least one of the demonstrations has to address residential buildings.
· Contribute to the activities of the Built4People partners and to the Built4People network of innovation clusters.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom
the following low- and middle-income countries
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Total Budget: €16,000,000
Deadline: 05/02/2025
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Programme: European Commission
Objective:
Submissions are now open for the 6G-BRICKS (Building Reusable testbed Infrastructures for validating Cloud-to-device breaKthrough technologieS) project to offer a trusted, agile and evolvable 6G experimentation facility, federating two experimentation platforms in Belgium (KUL) and France (EUR) from previous 5G-PPP initiatives under a Core Site (ISI/ATH) acting as the facility entry point, and offering Public Cloud and experimentation services.
6G-BRICKS will adopt the trend of Software-Defined Infrastructures (SDI) and Software Networks that replace “black boxes” (e.g., physical network functions, such as firewalls) with their softwarised equivalents. This trend will be extended to the RAN via the O-RAN initiative, aiming to evolve O-RAN elements in the 6G era via the integration of breakthrough technologies. To this end, 6G-BRICKS will deliver the first open and programmable O-RAN Radio Unit (RU) for 6G networks, termed the OpenRU, based on an NI USRP-based platform. Moreover, 6G-BRICKS will integrate the RIS concept into the OAI. In addition, 6G-BRICKS will deliver breakthrough experimentation tools, going well beyond the current Testing as a Service (TaaS) capabilities of current initiatives, and allowing experiments also on devices via O-RAN compliant Extended Applications (xAPPs). Thus, the 6G-BRICKS experimentation facility aims to serve a dual role, both as a playground for testing advanced vertical applications and for validating and showcasing the clear benefits and capabilities of 6G breakthrough technologies and devices. Moreover, it will deliver and test new architecture principles, with multi-tenancy, disaggregated Operations Support Systems (OSS) and Deep Edge integration at the forefront.
Eligible Activities:
Project Tiers
More specifically, the 6G-BRICKS facility will include the following architectural tiers:
The Core Tier acts as the entry point to the experimentation facility, offering Public Cloud services to the 6G Sites. Mature frontend elements and experimentation engines will be leveraged and deployed at the Core Site from the 5GMediaHUB project, delivering DevOps Driven Testing as a Service functionality which allows test cases and validation testing workflows to be authored via standard DevOps tools. A unique testing tool based on Near-RT RIC will also be delivered for the first time, giving experimenters access to low-level RRM and RAN slicing capabilities via standardized xApps. Moreover, the Core Site will offer Business Support System (BSS) services to the 6G-BRICKS facility, allowing vertical application owners to upload their applications and Business Intents (SLOs).
A disaggregated Management Plane, which consists of a set of Domain Manager Orchestrators (DMOs) for each Cloud, Edge, and Network orchestration domain. The DMO layer, deployed at each facility site, acts as a unified controllability framework aiming to provide the ability to enforce and propagate state-to-action mappings, automatically generating service objectives based on the SLOs (or business intents) submitted at the Business Layer. These actions are subsequently implemented by the infrastructure domain (e.g., RAN controller, SDN, VIM, etc.). Explainable AI mechanisms are leveraged for policy translation and unification. This breakthrough explainable architecture design supports end-to-end slicing, provides explainable feedback to experimenters for potential SLA breaches and facilitates a loose coupling with the Business Layer, avoiding bottlenecks.
6G Experimentation Platforms layer, where breakthrough 6G technologies are integrated into reusable, selfcontained modules with O-RAN interfaces to ensure the openness and reusability of the developed components. At the KUL site, a Distributed Cell-Free RAN is delivered, leveraging on the MARSAL baseline work and an O-RAN stack from ISRD. The EUR site builds on the 5G-EVE facility and the EUR OpenAirInterface ORAN stack, which will be integrated with a RIS platform from the RISE-6G project. In both sites, UE Farms will be deployed, i.e., a managed constellation of UE devices to be offered to experimenters, supporting Experimentation Plane System Portal Edge Node PaaS Core Node Edge Node RIS Controller RIS xApps Deep Edge OpenRU OpenRU OpenRU Cell Free APs verticals intents MEP Intent Engine Conflict Resolution Engine Security Orchestrator DMO X-Haul π-Edge CEC Manager SMO π-Edge CU MEO DMO SMO System Registry (xApps, Docker images) VPNaaS Zero Trust automation DU RIC DU CU RIC virtualization and service placement at the device level, termed the Deep Edge. The UE farm may include (i) 5G enabled remotely controlled smartphone devices or (ii) similarly spaced clusters of Single Board Computers (e.g., Raspberry PIs) and IoT devices.
Innovation Areas
Innovation Area 1: Network-controlled open RIS platform
Innovation Area 2: Distributed CFmMIMO processing and synchronization
Innovation Area 3: Multi-band and mmWave CFmMIMO
Innovation Area 4: Communication and sensing: RIS and cell-free based approaches
Innovation Area 5: Explainable AI and Machine Reasoning for Unified, Zero Touch Orchestration
Innovation Area 6: Platform as a Service Abstraction for a self-synthesized compute continuum
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Beneficiaries must be consortia composed of up to 2 legal entities (SME and/or Big Company and/or RTO) acting as technology providers and/or application providers for use case implementation. All organizations have to be established in any of EU Member States and their Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or Horizon Europe Associated Country.
6G-BRICKS partners can NOT be involved in the grantees’ projects, neither their affiliates nor employees – including persons working under employment contracts or contracts or similar to employment contracts and board members.
Total Budget: €120,000 per project
Deadline: 23/12/2024
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls-cs/8524
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Programme: European Commission
Objective:
The European Commission is currently accepting applications to deliver the best possible solutions to the challenges faced by researchers.
Building on the available results of past and on-going Researchers at Risk initiatives which have strengthened support structures across the EU and provided some form of guidance for researchers at risk, further support is envisaged for scaling up and moving towards more customised support for researchers at risk based on the needs already identified in the national and EU initiatives implemented so far.
Lack of regular needs-based training and targeted networking activities remains a challenge for many researchers at risk in Europe without professional networks and direct sources of information addressing their specific needs.
Eligible Activities:
The support action should be aligned with the general objectives of the MSCA, in particular scientific excellence, skills and career development, inter-sectoral mobility, equal opportunities and inclusiveness, attractive working conditions, work/life balance, while fostering open science, innovation and entrepreneurship. This action will place a specific focus on training and networking activities for researchers, in line with the MSCA priorities and as a step further in providing sustainable and needs-based professional development support for researchers at risk across Europe.
MSCA Support
MSCA Support includes a set of activities organised through calls for proposals to promote, support and complement the MSCA implementation. They will cover:
the exploitation of the MSCA contribution to EU policies and priorities;
the facilitation of cooperation between MSCA National Contact Points (NCPs);
the promotion of the MSCA at international level;
the support to European and national initiatives and programmes in support of researchers at risk.
Expected Impact
Proposals under MSCA Support should contribute to some of the following expected impacts:
Ensure a coordinated and strategic monitoring, assessment and dissemination of the MSCA results and best practices vis-à-vis relevant EU priorities (including EU Missions) and ERA objectives;
Improve and further professionalise MSCA NCP services allowing a wider diffusion of the programme, lowering entry barriers for newcomers and increasing the overall quality of submitted proposals;
Contribute to a more strategic international cooperation in MSCA in line with R&I mutual interests and EU external policies;
Strengthen co-operation between European and national initiatives and programmes in support of researchers who are experiencing threats to their life, liberty, or research career, and those who are forced or have been forced to flee because of such threats.
Expected Outcome
Project results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:
More targeted and customised support for researchers at risk at European, national and institutional level;
Improved support to researchers at risk through the provision of policy recommendations, as well as advice and assistance on their implementation;
A more sustainable and professionalised support network/structure/system for researchers at risk across Europe, facilitating access to funding and networking opportunities, creating level playing field for applicants to European and national R&I programmes, and raising the quality of submitted proposals;
More synergies between initiatives supporting researchers at risk funded by EU programmes (such as Horizon Europe and Erasmus+) and national or institutional actors;
Increased exposure of researchers at risk to the industry and to the non-academic sector notably through targeted networking events, professional training, mentoring and guidance;
Greater awareness in Europe and beyond on why researchers are at risk and ways to support them.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met.
Total Budget: €Not available
Deadline: 14/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-MSCA-2024-RR-01-01
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
· Increased performance of ocean energy technologies with the focus on sustainability, operation and maintenance of ocean energy devices.
· Improved knowledge on how to operate ocean energy devices, their availability, maintainability, reliability, survivability, and sustainability.
· Reduction of LCOE.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Projects are expected to address at least one of the following areas:
· Components and systems used in ocean energy devices need to be resistant to corrosion and the heavy loads they are subject to. Develop new sustainable materials with improved fatigue, damping, stiffness, sustainability and bio-fouling management or other cost-reducing characteristics. Materials such as reinforced concrete, polymers, composites, and concrete-steel/composite-steel hybrids systems have demonstrated some advantages such as reduced costs. Demonstrating the potential benefits of these new sustainable materials in ocean energy converters, moorings and foundations whilst ensuring structural integrity, durability and circularity is required.
· Advance the design of sustainable tailored mooring and connection of electrical or other power transmission systems for floating or subsea wave and tidal devices. Advance combined mooring and electrical connectors or hydraulic power transmission to reduce component cost and number of connection operations, included in systems for sharing an anchor between devices in arrays. Develop novel systems for safe and quick connection/disconnection that do not require large vessels and/or diving teams.
· Instrumentation for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance of ocean energy devices. Apply recent advances in condition and structural health monitoring from other sectors to ocean energy – particularly those currently developed for offshore wind. Apply latest sensor technology to existing ocean energy deployments. Document and share experience on sensors performance and reliability, and methods for adapting them to the harsh ocean energy environment. Improve transmission or storage of data collected from sensors, such as underwater data transmission.
· Artificial Intelligence (AI) in ocean energy technology development. Develop or apply advanced simulation of ocean energy systems. Use of big data with analysis of data streams, application of big data methods and machine learning, including artificial intelligence, or digital twin models for the design, installation, operation and decommissioning of ocean energy devices.
· Improvements in the discrete technology areas should be developed holistically – e.g. work on monitoring instrumentation should be consistent with work on moorings & connections. The innovative technologies should not significantly harm the environment (DNSH principle), have low impact on ecosystem biodiversity and consider potential mitigation measures. Projects should use the precautionary principle to elaborate proposals for acceptable harm and what low impact on biodiversity mean.
It is expected that key performance indicators are used based on international recognised metrics.
Projects should demonstrate how improvements in the different technology topics can be applied to multiple different ocean energy devices – for example to a wide range of floating devices, or a wide range of sub-sea devices.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call/topic.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
The Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
Countries associated to Horizon Europe;
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo , Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom
The following low- and middle-income countries:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine , Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Legal entities which are established in countries not listed above will be eligible for funding if provided for in the specific call/topic conditions, or if their participation is considered essential for implementing the action by the granting authority.
Total Budget: €12,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-04
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
· Increased knowledge about design, construction, assembly and operation and maintenance of floating wind farms.
· Improved overall constructability, reliability, installability, operability and maintainability of floating offshore wind systems.
· Demonstrated efficient, low-cost and sustainable emerging technologies for floating wind turbines; reduction of the LCoE.
· Reinforced European offshore wind turbine value chain and skills.
· Data for future optimisation of industry scale commissioning of the floater, mooring and anchor system.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
The overall aim is to accelerate the cost-effective construction and deployment of floating wind farms, facilitating their rapid and sustainable deployment across Europe and lower their overall costs. Projects are expected to
· Do the design optimisation of a full floating system, facilitate the execution of the project addressing space needs in ports, vessels, etc., supply chain development
· Demonstrate innovative floating vertical or horizontal axis offshore wind energy platforms (4 MW or higher total capacity for horizontal and 2 MW or more for vertical axis) in real sea conditions for long periods of time (12-24 months), collect data for future improvement design of the concept, to accurate predict future floating wind energy production and providing valuable learnings regarding performance, reliability, availability, maintainability, survivability and environmental impact. The wind energy system should be grid connected.
· Develop and implement pilot projects for floating wind by identifying the best existing practices and the remaining knowledge gaps.
· Proposals are expected to address also industrial design and manufacturing processes, circularity of (critical) raw materials, scalability, installation methods, transport, operation & maintenance, supply chains and the related digital infrastructures.
Projects are requested to demonstrate the technologies at sea while respecting existing environmental regulatory framework. Present an environmental monitoring plan to be implemented during the demonstration action. Data on environmental monitoring have to be shared with EMODNET, the IEA Wind Task 34 on the Environmental Impact of Wind Energy Projects, IEA Wind Task 49 on Floating Offshore Wind and IEA OES Environmental Task 4.
The project has to include a clear go/no go moment ahead of entering the deployment phase. Before this go/no-go moment, the project has to deliver the detailed engineering plans, a techno-economic assessment, including key performance indicators based on international recognized metrics, a complete implementation plan and all needed permits for the deployment of the project and a plan to achieve certification by an independent certification body before the end of the action. The project proposal is expected to clearly demonstrate a proposed pathway to obtaining necessary permits for the demonstration actions and allow for appropriate timelines to achieve these. The project is expected also to demonstrate how it will get a financial close for the whole action. Independent experts will assess all deliverables and will advise for the go/no-go decision.
Plan for the exploitation and dissemination of results for proposals submitted under this topic should include a strong business case and sound exploitation strategy, as outlined in the introduction to this Destination. The exploitation plans should include preliminary plans for scalability, commercialisation, and deployment (feasibility study, business plan) indicating the possible funding sources to be potentially used (in particular the Innovation Fund).
The selected projects are expected to contribute to the BRIDGE initiative[1], actively participate to its activities and allocate up to 2% of their budgets to that end. Additional contributions to the ‘Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation’ (AIOTI) and other relevant activities (e.g. clusters of digital projects and coordinating actions) might be considered, when relevant.
This R&I need is identified in the offshore renewable energy strategy (COM(2020) 741 final) that commits the Commission to ‘develop new wind, ocean energy and solar floating technology designs, for example through Horizon Europe’.
Eligible Applicants:
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organization) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been
Total Budget: €30,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-09
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to at least two of the following expected outcomes:
· Facilitate the wider uptake of renewable energy systems (RES) in the energy, industrial and residential sectors leading to an increased share of renewable energy in the final energy consumption by 2030 and beyond.
· Contribute to provide open source validated tools and methodologies for policy makers and stakeholders for developing more informed RES policy and for analysing the market dynamics when including all renewable energies.
· Contribute to the development of markets and respective financial frameworks that can operate in an efficiently and incentive-compatible manner while accommodating massive shares of renewables.
· Improve social acceptability of renewable energy facilities and installations.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
The proposal is expected to develop solutions addressing at least 2 of the expected outcomes either for the entire renewable energy market or focusing on a specific energy sector, such as electricity, heating, cooling or renewable fuels. Proposals can also address issues within a specific geographical region such as urban and peri-urban areas. Issues related to acceptability of RES technologies due to ecologic, economic and social aspects are expected to be addressed. Self-consumption issues can be addressed too. International aspects, such as collaboration with third countries and promoting solution in new markets, can be addressed as well.
The proposed solution can be developed to address a local challenge but needs to have wide potential for reapplication. The solution is expected to have a long-term viability and not be limited to an ad-hoc fix. The methodologies applied may be inspired by successful approaches already tested in other fields or contexts.
For all actions, the consortia have to involve relevant stakeholders (e.g. businesses, public authorities, civil society organisations) and market actors who are committed to adopting/implementing the results. The complexity of these challenges and of the related market uptake barriers may call for multi-disciplinary approaches, which requires contributions from the social sciences and humanities. Where relevant, local, regional specificities, socio-economic, gender-related, spatial and environmental aspects will be considered from a life-cycle perspective.
Proposals are encouraged to address social acceptability through the assessment of the environmental economic and social impacts associated with the development of these renewable energies and through the adequate involvement of stakeholders in decision-making processes.
This topic requires the effective contribution of SSH disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise, in order to produce meaningful and significant effects for understanding and addressing societal barriers to the uptake of renewable energy systems.
Where relevant, proposals are expected to also assess the legal, institutional, and political frameworks at local, national and European level and examine how, why and under what conditions these could act as a barrier or an enabler.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call/topic.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
The Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
Countries associated to Horizon Europe;
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo , Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom
The following low- and middle-income countries:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine , Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Legal entities which are established in countries not listed above will be eligible for funding if provided for in the specific call/topic conditions, or if their participation is considered essential for implementing the action by the granting authority.
Total Budget: €8,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-10
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:
· Development and implementation of solutions for a smart urban public space design and physical infrastructure planning and management across different areas related to the transport and integrated energy systems, which enable the integration of mobility services within the city and its street network and layout.
· Mobility and/or energy solutions that respond to people’s and cities’ needs co-designed with local authorities, citizens, and stakeholders, tested and implemented in cities to achieve climate neutrality by 2030.
· Raise awareness on the potential of this policy area to support urban public space revitalization and reallocation as well as more economically viable and resilient urban environments.
· Improvement of public health with better local air quality, reducing the urban overheating and pollutant emissions (air and noise), with better conditions and infrastructure for active modes and increased liveability.
· Improve overall urban public space connectivity and the accessibility of different urban districts/neighbourhoods/industrial districts by integrating/embedding multimodality and shared services within the street/urban public space layout and infrastructure.
· More efficient and fair use of urban space through the dynamic management of space in general and of the curb side in particular, according to varying needs and functions, and with the help of digital tools.
· Contribution to a better use of vehicles (in particular public transport and active modes for passengers and for urban logistics), better use of car parking spaces for other usages, prioritising modes and shared mobility services which have the smallest impact on the public domain and environment.
· Reducing the pressure on public space thanks to reduced parking needs and integration of off-street space use in the overall public space concept.
· Creation of smart energy and/or transport services management in cities thanks to digitalisation and consumer awareness related to smart charging and energy demand response.
· Improving the planning of green infrastructures/green city zones, enhancing their capability to increase human restoration and well-being.
· Better preparedness of citizens and urban planners to shift from fossil to renewable energy and energy system integration to allow electrifying mobility, in ways that optimise the use of public space and budgets.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
With our cities being overly populated and dense, the scarcity of urban public space requires smart urban design, planning, management and prioritisation in urban space allocation to different uses, amenities, and services. From the reallocation of the urban public space to more sustainable forms of transport and energy generation and use, intermodal hubs, and interchanges to the dynamic management of the street profile and curb side, and the integration of suburban/peripheral areas in the general urban fabric and patterns, current and future research should aim to make urban public spaces more liveable while enabling better a connectivity, accessibility, social interaction, inclusion and transit in the context of a changing climate. Concepts like the “15-minute city” and “superblocks” are gaining momentum and have an enormous potential in shaping the urban planning and design practice and the mobility services based on the principle of proximity. This is supporting the efficient and green mobility goals, the transport and energy policies, the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy and the new EU Urban Mobility Framework.
Considering the optimisation of urban public spaces, aspects related to air quality and urban climate must be considered by designing strategies based on new technologies and green infrastructures/green city zones.
The proposal should address the question on how to deal with limited urban public space and conflicting demands for it between transport and other users, considering social and climate goals and the need to shift towards more energy efficient and sustainable modes of transport, decarbonisation of the heating and cooling infrastructures.
Each proposal should envisage pilot demonstrations in at least three cities (lead cities) situated each in a different Member State or Associated Country including both urban and sub-urban areas. Proposals should provide the necessary evidence of the cities’ commitment to test and implement the co-designed solutions. To foster replicability and up-taking of the outcomes, each proposal should also engage at least three replication/follower cities with the development of local replication plans. The size and characteristics of the cities should be considered. Each proposal should include at least one city of the 112 selected ones for the EU Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities for the lead cities and one for the replication/follower cities.
The pilots should involve a co-design process with the stakeholders concerned by the re-design of the urban space. The pilots should involve public and private local energy, mobility and industrial stakeholders as well as civil society to identify integrated, locally supported and space-saving solutions and related pre-conditions (incentives, participatory methods, etc.) in a change management process to gain public acceptance by information, participation and consideration of groups that were so far disadvantaged by existing conditions.
Demonstrations should be ‘digital by default’ and use Local Digital Twins and, where possible, Mobility Data Spaces as tools for optimizing traffic, improving mobility services, monitoring environmental benefits in air and noise, and modelling a better use of urban space.
Activities and pilot demonstrations of technological nature of the proposed solutions in operational environment are expected to be at minimum TRL 7 by the end of the project.
Proposals should address the following two areas of intervention:
1. Reallocation of space and re-design of infrastructure
This is a major game changer in cities in favour of more sustainable and efficient use of resources through integrated approaches that promote decarbonisation of different sectors notably sustainable modes of transport, buildings and industry and related services. By (re)designing and reallocating the urban public space to reflect the level of use of different transport modes, unsustainable transport, heating and cooling modes can be discouraged while sustainable ones incentivised. Smart urban public space design and management is also a key enabler for scaling-up new mobility services. First, it can help to develop more sustainable and accessible mobility services, with stations and hubs for shared devices and charging infrastructures, dedicated lanes for light and active modes, pick-up and drop-off zones, etc. Also, it can help to increase the acceptance of sustainable mobility services, by mitigating negative externalities caused by the inadequate use of urban space, such as illegal parking, and cluttering the sidewalks by e-scooters, advertising banners, traffic signals and others. The reallocation of space is also important to transform roads from mere transit spaces into public spaces with a higher socioeconomic value to people – a feature which has become extremely important for local recreation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The same applies to the planning and management of urban space to accommodate local clean and smart energy infrastructures to power the different uses of energy including mobility, buildings, commercial and industrial activities. One goal of the energy system integration would be to optimise the use of urban space and existing infrastructures to avoid unnecessary investments in distribution grids while increasing energy autonomy of the municipalities and reducing losses in transmission and distribution of energy. Moreover, planning and implementing simultaneously infrastructure projects can significantly reduce investment costs and space needs such as e.g. building an underground car park together with space for a geothermal heat pump or thermal heat storage.
Four of the following research actions should be addressed to overcome these challenges either in the mobility (points 1 to 4) or energy area (points 5 to 8):
· Develop integrated transport and urban planning tools and methods to coordinate sustainable mobility services and the design of future public realms, accounting also for their interrelations and impacts across different spatial and temporal scales. This should be linked to the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) of the cities.
· For electromobility, foster research results from pilot projects on reallocation of use of transport infrastructure – or use of the single infrastructure for diverse types of vehicles, amenities (such as bi-directional charging points), and vehicles (e.g. after hours sharing of publicly accessible transport fleets) throughout the community of stakeholders at EU level.
· Research solutions for the exploitation of legacy infrastructure and how it can contribute to the scaling of sustainable mobility services followed by projects and demonstrations that can help to better understand this space shift, and play a significant role in the design, piloting and roll-out and assessment of these new mobility services.; Past experiences with street space reallocation (e.g. temporary infrastructures under COVID-19) can serve as a basis.
· Involvement of current service providers and infrastructure managers (e.g. parking service providers) in the urban space ecosystem to understand how current players can contribute to new mobility services, increased multimodality, electrification and integrated city logistics and citizens’ mobility.
· With regards to energy, support pilot projects to increase understanding and exploitation of the potential of road space allocation and smart distributed energy generation and green city zones/infrastructures in a systemic manner and monitoring their positive effects on human well-being.
· Research opportunities for exploiting current infrastructures (e.g. buildings, grids, underground spaces) complemented by additional elements (e.g. access to data in real time, demand response, storage, smart charging, heat and energy storage) to facilitate local energy communities, virtual power plants and energy sharing while minimising the need for new infrastructures requiring space and facilitating multipurpose construction projects. This should also include the integration of thermal and electricity grids and storage to better manage and balance renewable electricity generation and demand.
· Establish an integrated approach for designing and decarbonising the heating and cooling networks (including distributed installations and small-scale networks and related storage) in cities and urban areas in synchronisation with planning of new housing, major renovations or industrial development related to major heat consuming or waste heat generating facilities.
· Explore ways of using/optimising green and blue infrastructures to city and street scale for improving urban climate, reduce the energy demand and in view of emission free transport.
2. Dynamic curb-side management and use
Smart management of urban space and existing infrastructure includes their dynamic use, when considering curb space, changing its role and function in time, depending on parameters, functions and needs in relation to commuting peak hours, deliveries, public transport priority, market days, nightlife, etc. Dynamic space management is already being explored in some cities and represents an opportunity for further integration in mobility plans with the support of smart technologies, Intelligent Transport Systems, Local Digital Twins and Mobility Data Spaces, AI based autonomous optimal control and management systems.
As the rise of new shared mobility services such as ride hailing, micromobility and the growth in urban goods delivery (even more so with the recent exponential growth of e-commerce) are challenging traditional ways of managing curb space, novel approaches are needed. Research on a shift away from curb use focused on street parking to a more flexible and dynamic allocation that for example includes pick-up and drop-off zones for passengers and freight or dedicated public transport lanes during peak hours, has also shown the potential to enhance and prioritise sustainable mobility services, and thus decrease the pressure on traffic thanks to an increased percentage of shared rides.
To ensure the implementation of these innovative approaches, R&I could support by developing:
· Tools and guidelines to ensure the implementation of innovative approaches of dynamic space and curb use, resulting from tests and pilots of flexible allocation of curb side functions, including pick-up and drop-off zones for passengers and freight.
· New models of fee calculation (e.g. trip purpose, space demand (size) of each vehicle using the public domain, etc.) and financial model for the use of public space in cities in view of reaching public policy goals including climate neutrality.
· To increase impact and coherence, project(s) should maximise coordination with leading European associations and initiatives in this domain, e.g. Living-In.EU, the New European Bauhaus, Covenant of Mayors, the EIT KIC Culture and Creativity, the EIT Urban Mobility, the CIVITAS initiative, the 2Zero partnership and EU co-funded projects in the domain of Technologies for Smart Communities. Collaboration with the Cities Mission Platform is essential, and projects must ensure that appropriate provisions for activities and resources aimed at enforcing this collaboration are included in the work plan of the proposal. The collaboration with the Mission Platform must be formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding to be concluded as soon as possible after the project starting date.
Eligible Applicants:
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met.
Total Budget: €28,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-01
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Engagement of stakeholders is pivotal in the transition to a clean energy system and the achievement of the zero-emissions target.
Project results are expected to contribute to both of the following outcomes:
· Consolidation of strong and sustainable networks in the technology area of renewable fuels & bioenergy covered through the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan and its integrated roadmap.
· Cooperation among ETIPs or similar stakeholders fora, support to existing SET Plan Implementation Plan and advancement towards more interconnected activities, both in terms of contents and implementation mechanisms.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
In 2015, the launch of the Energy Union saw the SET Plan incorporated as the Energy Union’s fifth pillar on ‘Research, Innovation and Competitiveness’. Through the Communication “Towards an Integrated Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan”, the Integrated SET Plan set ambitious R&I targets which remain relevant and essential in the new context of the European Green Deal and the Recovery Plan for Europe.
Proposals should address the following SET Plan sector: renewable fuels & bioenergy.
They should take into consideration the coordination needs of the sector and the emerging policy priorities for their implementation, as well as the coordination with other initiatives/projects, to avoid overlaps.
Proposals will support the update and the execution/realisation of the Implementation Plan launched in 2018 by the Implementation Working Group (IWG) in renewable fuels and bioenergy, taking into account the DNSH (do-not-significant-harm-principle). This IWG needs to update the targets included in its implementation plan to comply with the new policy framework of the European Green Deal and the Fit For 55 implementing legislative package, and in particular the targets of the Renewable Energy Directive, the REFuelEU Aviation and the FuelEU Maritime for 2030 and 2050, as well as the targets of the ETS for transport and buildings. Other EU policies and legislation such as the REPowerEU Plan, the Net-Zero Industry Act and the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Clean Energy Transition Partnership and the European Research Area in the field of Energy should be also addressed.
Proposals should count on the participation of research organisations and/or companies (industry) committed in principle to execute all or some of the SET Plan related R&I activities specified in the Implementation Plan. In this sense, proposals shall detail, to the extent possible, the financial contributions from public and private funding sources at national level needed for the execution of the R&I activities and explain which processes or mechanisms will be put in place to execute and monitor the R&I activities. They should generate and provide input to national and EU policy initiatives, like the National Energy and Climate Plans, the Recovery and Resilience Plans, the Cohesion policy and the Regional Development policy funds, the support to REPowerEU funds, the Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform, the Net-Zero Europe Platform, and possible emerging initiatives of Common European Interest in the sector, taking into account biodiversity.
Proposals shall support the monitoring of the renewable fuels and bioenergy sector development, collecting and analysing data of projects in the area, industrial scale plants, industry’s perspectives and SET Plan countries’ policies and strategic plans, such as the National Energy and Climate Plans and the Recovery and Resilience Plans, as well as the information on financing sources and instruments. They should create databases and information tools for project developers. They should assist the IWG renewable fuels and bioenergy to its annual report to the SET Plan through SETIS Information System on the progress of the execution of the implementation plan.
Furthermore, proposals should develop a dissemination and exploitation strategy and implement dissemination and networking activities with other existing ETIPs and IWGs (e.g. joint workshops, thematic conferences, webinar series, regular exchanges, etc.).
This topic requires the effective contribution of SSH disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise, to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related research activities.
Proposals submitted under this topic are encouraged to include actions designed to facilitate cooperation, across Europe, with other projects and to ensure the accessibility and reusability of data produced during the project.
The indicative project duration is 3 years.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call/topic.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
The Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
Countries associated to Horizon Europe;
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo , Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom
The following low- and middle-income countries:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine , Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Total Budget: €8,000,000
Deadline: 03/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-13
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:
· Methods for more precisely assessing exposure to air, water, soil and/or noise pollution, health impacts and public information at regional and/or local level;
· Methods for better assessing exposure of vulnerable groups (including due to socio-economic context) to air, water, soil and/or noise pollution at regional and/or local level, enabling more precise evidence to inform health impact assessments;
· Improved and comparable assessment of mortality and morbidity impacts of air, water, soil and/or noise pollution at regional and/or local level[1];
· Improved understanding of the role of behavioural economics, psychology and organizational behaviour to design measures oriented to lower pollution in urban environments;
· Improved understanding of the correlation between improving environmental quality of urban spaces and human health and wellbeing;
· Methods for determining the sources of air pollutants at urban level so that local authorities, stakeholders and citizens know the proportion of the pollutant emissions attributable to urban transport, heating etc.
· Comparative analysis of selected successful pollution reduction/abatement strategies at local level and identify key factors underlying such successes and their replication potential.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Cities are concerned by various types of pollution, including air, water, soil and noise pollution, and their negative impacts on human health and the environment. Many of these pollutants emanate from the same sources as greenhouse gas emissions being tackled in the context of the EU Mission Climate-Neutral Smart Cities, so it is clear there are potential environmental co-benefits from reducing GHG emissions.[2] Designing effective policies to protect city dwellers from pollution depends on solid evidence as well as on cooperation and communication between and with policy makers and citizens.
Due to resource constraints, city administrations may often need to prioritise between different actions on different forms of pollution – and for this a solid risk-based evidence-base of the exposure to, impacts of and measures against pollution will allow to arrive at more informed and cost-effective local measures. These measures are often closely connected and affected by energy policy choices demonstrating the benefits of holistic approaches in for instance the planning, budgeting and assessment of costs and benefits in environmental, energy and climate policies at local level.
More informed, coherent and targeted local measures will help European cities to deliver environmental co-benefits under the EU Mission for Climate-Neutral, Smart Cities, comply with or exceed EU legislative standards for air and water quality, and supporting the delivery of environmental objectives such as the targets of the EU Zero Pollution Action Plan and commitments under the Green City Accord.
Applicants should propose projects that deliver better and innovative local measures against pollution through, among others, improved knowledge on the exposures of citizens to pollution and improved health impact assessments and strategies to reduce health impacts related to air, water, soil and/or noise pollution. Where technological solutions are proposed, these are expected to reach up to TRL 5 by the end of the project.
In order to address these needs, individual projects must address at least two of the following areas:
Improved health impact assessments to highlight and attempt to monetize the (co-)benefits and socio-economic impacts of zero pollution measures, in combination with climate neutrality policies, contributing to better ex-ante cost-benefit analysis and increasing public acceptance of measures.
Measurement and modelling methods for more precisely assessing exposure and risk-based health impacts at regional and/or local level (should deliver results that can be communicated to the wider public as well).
More precise evidence on exposure, notably of vulnerable population groups, and making health impact assessments easily comparable.
Exploration of the effectiveness of dynamic abatement strategies by monitoring changes in pollution levels, complemented by citizen science / observations.
All projects are required to:
Develop methods and tools that can swiftly be deployed and used by cities and regional authorities. Once implemented they should help policy makers prioritise actions, and address social aspects of zero pollution policies,
Support implementation of zero pollution policies by overcoming barriers to behavioural change which natural science and evidence alone cannot overcome. New approaches to address these barriers should be explored from the angles of behavioural economics, psychology, communication and organisational behaviour, with a view to inform effective local and regional zero pollution policies.
Project(s) funded under this topic should involve at least two cities. Ideally at least one city in each project should be a city selected for the EU Mission Climate-Neutral Smart Cities and/or a city signatory to the EU Green City Accord (these can be the same city).
To increase impact and coherence, project(s) should maximise coordination and complementarity with the ‘Climate-Neutral Smart cities’ Mission platform. Collaboration with the Cities Mission Platform is essential, and projects must ensure that appropriate provisions for activities and resources aimed at enforcing this collaboration are included in the work plan of the proposal. The collaboration with the Mission Platform must be formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding to be concluded as soon as possible after the project starting date. Synergies should also be explored and, as appropriate, pursued with other relevant initiatives, such as the European Green Capital / Leaf Awards, European Urban Initiative, the Covenant of Mayors Europe and the New European Bauhaus. Work performed or underway in other Horizon funded projects should also be considered, to the extent feasible, to avoid overlaps or contradictory conclusions. Cooperation with various stakeholders is recommended, for example, with health experts to professionally assess the impact of environmental influences on human health.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met.
Total Budget: €20,000,000
Deadline: 11/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-02
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to the Climate-neutral and Smart Cities Mission’s objective of climate neutrality in at least 2 of the 4 domains listed below (Mobility, Energy, Industry, Governance) and give all the following outcomes in the selected domains by the end of the project:
Mobility:
· Increase accessibility and connectivity of peri-urban areas by providing inclusive, suitable and affordable alternatives with:
· 30% increase of sustainable transport modes, providing diversity of the transport offer, especially with regards to ensuring mass-transit, including among others energy-efficient shared and/or on-demand mobility services
· 20% reduction of GHG emissions
· 20% Improvement of air quality and noise reduction
· 30% Reduction of urban road congestion whilst increasing the accessibility for both passengers and freight, and the reliability, predictability and efficiency of travel times and transport operations
· 30% reduction of human health effects due to exposure to transport pollution
· Improved transport peri-urban network performance (demand and supply) and transport connectivity through enhanced interoperability and multimodality;
· Improved access to/from commercial and health services, educational establishments, businesses, leisure and recreational facilities for the inhabitants of peri-urban areas;
· Inclusive mobility solutions that respond to the needs of all peri-urban inhabitants, irrespective of their age, gender, economic or social status, which are co-designed with all the relevant stakeholders (including, local and regional authorities, settled populations, in-migrants, transient workers, developers, entrepreneurs, etc.), and then tested and implemented in the identified peri-urban areas, which could have a geographical coverage that goes as far as the full functional urban area;
· Improved safety particularly for vulnerable road users;
· Optimize and improve the use of the existent infrastructure (following the principle of re-use and circularity);
· Integrated land-use and transport planning models and policies, which could have a geographical coverage that goes as far as the full functional urban area.
Energy:
· Improved and decarbonized energy grids with economic & social benefits to peri-urban areas thanks to the vicinity of the city;
· Business models, and technological solutions and/or guidance for setting up local energy communities, with RES and energy storage infrastructure co-financed by peri-urban dwellers, industrial actors and proceeds from energy sales or ancillary service provision (e.g. storage) to the city grid and/or heating and cooling networks. Together with electricity sharing leading to reduction of electricity prices for the community members, counter energy poverty, reduce fossil fuel use and facilitate sustainable mobility;
· Business models and/or guidance for energy generation (biomethane, electricity, biofuels) from agricultural waste, second generation bioenergy crops and technologies such as ground mounted solar or agrivoltaics in rural dominated peri-urban areas. They should include also thermal storage systems (seasonal STES, shorter term UTES etc) and thermal energy generation technologies (e.g. solar thermal, geothermal, etc.) for heating and cooling.
Industry:
· Reduction of GHG emissions (CO2, methane from waste/wastewater, fluorinated gas, refrigerants) in industries located in peri-urban areas, supporting the 55% reduction goal for 2030;
· 25% improved energy efficiency in industrial processes;
· 30% increase in deployment of strategic net-zero technologies, such as solar (PV and thermal, wind, hydrogen, batteries and storage (incl. thermal energy storage), heat pumps and geothermal energy, electrolysers and fuel cells, biogas/biomethane, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and grid technologies, notably for energy-intensive industries located in peri-urban areas;
· Reinforce the green transition of industry, through Local Green Deals, i.e., mutual agreements between city authorities and local businesses and industry and citizens associations to support the territorial sustainability agenda in the peri-urban areas;
· 25% enhanced recycling in industrial processes and materials reuse, including construction materials and demonstration and optimisation of recycling facilities for industries and processes located in peri-urban areas.
Governance:
· Capacity building (such as training courses and awareness raising activities) among local authorities, users and mobility systems providers, energy and industry stakeholders to accelerate the take-up of shared, smart and zero emission solutions and to implement their monitoring and evaluation;
· Support the development of planning and implementation skills, policy implementation/infrastructure investment impact assessment and funding aspects;
· Better integration of peri-urban areas into the current spatial/land-use/transport/landscape planning;
· Integration of development strategies with planning and regulatory documentations across different administrative levels/scales/territorial units, at least from local level to regional level).
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Peri-urban areas lie at the periphery of cities. They are the interface between rural and urban environments and are often the subject of high pressure from the urban core which results in an un-controlled and uneven urban expansion towards the rural territory often triggering environmental degradation. While dispersed and heterogenous in terms of land-occupancy, density and services and amenities distribution, the peri-urban territory integrates mutual inter-dependences within the urban-rural continuum. These can be associated with people (inwards and outwards migration or socio-demographic change) as well as with linkages and flows between a variety of rural and urban related functions and activities (ranging from industrial and recycling manufacturing, agriculture production and food processing, sanitation, waste disposal, drinking water provisions, to housing – including slums and gated communities – transport and associated infrastructure, large-scale commercial sites, and large recreational areas such as parks or forests), which juxtapose, collide and mesh in unintended and unplanned ways.
Peri-urban areas are also the subject of weaker governance structures and limited institutional capacity, which in return limits the capacity to regulate economic activities and land-use and land coverage and makes it difficult to implement effective and integrated local, regional, and functional urban area wide policies and programs. This is particularly challenging in areas that straddle multiple jurisdictions, such as urban-rural fringe.
This topic aims to foster the integration of green and smart mobility, energy, industry and governance solutions and measures within the current peri-urban development and planning practice to reduce these areas GHG emissions and to improve their liveability.
Proposals, depending on chosen domains, should investigate a sustainable and decarbonised development of the peri-urban areas by shifting from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources in mobility, energy or industry domains supported by adequate governance structures and practices based on a sustainable land-use planning and an urban expansion which integrates environmental considerations and determinants. In addition, proposals should provide European demonstration-type examples on how to sustainably integrate climate-neutral, green, and smart solutions and measures into the peri-urban/urban development and the existing transport, energy, and industrial infrastructures, to achieve long-term decarbonization impacts and necessary climate resilience. Activities and pilot demonstrations of technological nature of the proposed solutions in operational environment are expected to be at minimum TRL 7 by the end of the project. Positive, long-term impacts on social cohesion, economic development, and public perception – resulting in behavioural change and policy change – should be fostered and anticipated. Proposals, depending on selected domains should:
Explore particular characteristics of peri-urban areas that are distinct from rural and urban ones and analyse relevant urban-rural dynamics such as continuous and frequent land-use and functional changes, poor and inaccessible transport infrastructure, scattered and unevenly distributed day-to-day services and amenities.
Explore models of urban/peri-urban development and planning containing the above-mentioned dynamics (e.g., expansion model, densification model, green-belts and green-corridors model) aimed at overcoming the sustainability, decarbonisation and local climate (e.g. heat islands) challenges of the urban-rural fringe while ensuring co-creation with and engagement of the relevant stakeholders (including citizens and communities).
Focus on domains that are particularly pertinent in achieving progress in sustainable development, such as:
Mobility and transport with extensive use of personal cars with combustion engines, poor and scattered infrastructure, and lack of sustainable transport options. Transport related emissions that are exacerbated by intensive commuter flows generated by peri-urban areas. City focused solutions that are not adapted to peri-urban areas and challenges often exceeding organizational, financial and knowledge capacities of local authorities. Proposals should analyse and explore how peri-urban generated traffic impacts the transport flows (for both goods and people) and its contribution to the total CO2/emissions of the entire urbanized territory.
Industry, accounting for 30% of CO2 emissions and often located in peri-urban areas, is capital in succeeding the transition towards a net zero economy. Proposals should analyse the contribution to the total emissions reduction, of improved energy efficiency measures in industrial processes located in peri-urban areas, as well as of the deployment of strategic net-zero technologies, such as solar, (PV and thermal), wind, hydrogen, batteries and storage (incl. thermal energy storage), heat pumps and geothermal energy, electrolysers and fuel cells, biogas/biomethane, carbon capture and storage, and grid technologies, as envisaged in the EU Net Zero Industry Act. Proposals should ramp up and facilitate public-private partnerships, notably the key role of Local Green Deals (LGDs).
Circular economy: Peri-urban areas are key for setting up recycling facilities for materials, products and equipment and scaling up material reuse, such as Social Urban Mining and recycling infrastructure across different industries (e.g., online marketplaces to empower exchange for materials, or physical Materials Banks for construction and demolition materials). Proposals should explore, analyse and facilitate the deployment of innovative industrial recycling processes, industrial symbiosis and closed-loop systems, as well as supporting knowledge transfer through innovative practices; piloting local platforms for Social Urban Mining[1]; demonstrating recycling and re-use processes for building and public works materials, industrial waste, water and waste management; enabling material reuse; inducing circular practices, reuse of materials and behavioural change.
Vulnerability of peri-urban areas to environmental damage as most of the urban wastes (solid and liquid) and pollutant activities are pushed in the peripheries.
Electricity grids and heating/cooling solutions are suboptimal in some peri-urban areas. The often-low energy efficiency and individual fossil fuel or even solid fuel-based heating of the building stock exacerbates energy poverty in the absence of sufficient population density for district heating while the lower real estate prices hamper deep renovation. The opportunities of available space for i.e., clean energy production or electricity and thermal storage are not sufficiently exploited to increase living comfort, accelerate energy transition for the benefit of the local economy and nearby urban areas.
Governance, as peri-urban areas can be beyond the legal authority of cities, nor are they considered as part of the rural administrative units. Therefore, the capacity to regulate economic activities (and thus land-use and land coverage) is weak. This results in the peri-urbanization being largely an unplanned process, informal and sometime illegal and often resulting in environmental hazards and degradation of natural resources. This also results in a scattered and uneven distribution of services, amenities, and resources across the peri-urban area. The weaker governance structures complicate also integrated planning and green procurement of energy, transport, and other services.
Social and cultural characteristics of peri-urban areas that are gaining on heterogeneity with continuous social dynamics. In many (Central and Eastern) EU cities the peri-urban expansion was driven by the emergence of a stronger middle class. However, in more recent years there has been an increasingly heterogenous mix of occupants/actors with multiple and most often conflicting interests, including settled populations, populations living in gated estates, in-migrants, transient workers, emerging middle-class among others. This overall leads to heterogeneous communities and, in general, to a lack of social cohesion.
The research actions should cover the following:
Take stock of existing studies, analyse in a structured way, and provide a summary of measures contributing to climate neutrality in European peri-urban areas, identifying barriers.
Establish co-designing process and engaging with the relevant stakeholders (such as: citizens, local authorities, mobility operators, service providers, energy companies, private businesses…) to ensure a successful uptake of solutions contributing to climate neutrality of peri-urban areas.
Develop, test, and demonstrate scalable solutions in real life in at least two out of the four domains (Mobility, Energy, Industry, Governance) contributing to climate neutrality of peri-urban areas.
Each proposal should involve stakeholders from at least three ‘lead urban/peri-urban areas’, and at least three ‘replicator’ urban/peri-urban areas. Each urban/peri-urban area should establish a living laboratory where, under real life-conditions, a set of complementary and reinforcing solutions, centred on two to four aspects from the ones presented above (mobility, energy, industry, and governance) should be developed, tested, and implemented in an integrated approach. The participating urban/peri-urban areas, which may have a geographical coverage that goes as far as the full functional urban area, should demonstrate their common interests, and outline how they will ensure a meaningful and close cooperation. The peri-urban areas should each be situated in different EU Member States or countries associated to Horizon Europe. Each proposal should at least include one urban area of the 112 selected ones for the EU Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities.
To allow for a thorough evaluation of the projects’ outcomes, proposals are expected to provide measurable indicators to demonstrate how the tested solutions are contributing to the climate neutrality objectives of the Climate-neutral and Smart Cities Mission and participating peri-urban areas. These should be supported by clear baselines, quantified targets, and appropriate review processes for each participating urban area. The baselines for the expected outcomes should take into account expected technological developments and policy implementation.
Projects are expected to collaborate with the established and widely applied process and impact evaluation framework (using both clear baselines and measurable impact indicators) as well as the corporate design, the dissemination and information exchange frameworks put in place by the Commission (e.g. the Mission Platform, the CIVITAS initiative, Scalable cities, New European Bauhaus Community, the European Urban Initiative of Cohesion Policy, etc.) and the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) of the EIT, such as, for example, EIT Urban Mobility, EIT Culture and Creativity or EIT Food, EU Mission Adaptation to Climate Change, and Driving Urban Transitions Partnership (DUT), depending on the area. They shall contribute to the development of the existing European knowledge base on the effectiveness and impacts resulting from the implementation of innovative, sustainable, green, and inclusive solutions in urban areas.
Clear commitments and contributions to Europe-wide take-up during and beyond the project are expected, which could, for example, be in the form of follow-up actions funded by CEF, ELENA, or similar programmes.
This topic requires the effective contribution of SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) disciplines including ethics and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise, in order to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related research activities. Inclusiveness of vulnerable populations (older people, children) as well as gender perspectives should be considered.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met.
Total Budget: €28,000,000
Deadline: 11/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-04
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Programme: Cisco Foundation
Objective:
he Cisco Foundation was established in 1997 by Cisco. Cisco and the Cisco Foundation partner with non-profits, non-governmental organisations, and community-based organisations to carry out many of its Corporate Social Responsibility programs. Cisco invests in scalable and self-sustaining programs that use technology to meet some of society’s biggest challenges. It deploys its expertise, technology, partnerships, and financial resources to help build thriving, prosperous communities that improve people’s lives and support our business. Through the Global Impact Cash Grants, it offers an innovative approach to a significant social problem. The social investment programs focus on four areas where Cisco CSR can add the most value and make a significant and lasting impact investing in local communities to solve global challenges.
Eligible Activities:
Cisco welcomes applications for Global Impact Cash Grants from community partners around the world who share their vision and offer an innovative approach to a critical social challenge. They identify, incubate, and develop innovative solutions with the most impact. Global Impact Cash Grants go to nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that address a significant social problem. They are looking for programs that fit within our investment areas, serve the underserved, and leverage technology to improve the reach and efficiency of services. Cisco’s cash and product grant programs help nonprofits apply digital technology to have the broadest impact in some of the most economically underserved parts of the world.
They offer two funding streams:
climate impact investing: for climate impact and regeneration for-profit investing
nonprofit grant proposals: for climate, education, crisis response, and economic empowerment
Actions can take place in various countries worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants are nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that address a significant social problem.
Total Budget: $16,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/csr/community/nonprofits/global-impact-cash-grants.html
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Programme: Cisco Foundation
Objective:
Cisco donates their own technology to qualifying nonprofit organizations to help them realize significant gains in productivity, security, scalability, and cost efficiency. The program enables partners to make innovative use of networking and communications technology to create a measurable impact. The Cisco Technology Grant Program focuses on the same social investment areas as the cash grants: climate impact and regeneration; Cisco Crisis Response (which includes shelter, water, food, and disaster relief); economic empowerment; and education.
Eligible Activities:
Cisco offers two primary pathways for technology grants. For larger, more complex requests, use the customized process managed directly by Cisco. For smaller, more routine requests, use the simpler process managed by their partner TechSoup:
Application Path 1: TGP Donations Managed by Cisco – To inquire about a larger or more complex TGP grant request from Cisco, use the TGP contact form to send them a message.
Application Path 2: TGP Donations Managed by TechSoup – Since 2003, Cisco has partnered with TechSoup to provide smaller and more routine TGP donations in select countries (namely, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, UK, and US).
Actions can take place in various countries worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
Only registered non-profit (NPO) or non-governmental (NGO) organisations can apply.
Total Budget: $100,000 per applicant
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/csr/community/nonprofits/technology-grant-program.html
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - EU4Health Programme (EU4H)
Objective:
The expected result is to enable stakeholders to contribute to the delivery of the joint action on new networks of expertise launched under the EU4Health work programme 2023. This will include of establishing within the networks of expertise supporting actions for patients, families, caregivers and other participants in the fight against cancer.
Eligible Activities:
This action will help Member States to improve cooperation among their cancer services and with health professionals and patient advocates (by for instance addressing skill gaps and better equipping the health workforce in cancer care); and to improve and deepen the cooperation with the non-governmental sector.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Ukraine, Moldova and Montenegro.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: 22/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/EU4H-2024-PJ-03-5
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - EU4Health Programme (EU4H)
Objective:
This action will involve public or private entities with expertise on organising events in public health domain topics. Applicants must clearly describe the expected number and profile/function of target participants in the event, including their distribution by Member States or third countries associated to the EU4Health Programme, organisation and type of expertise. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution of EUR 150 000 would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. This does not prevent applicants to submit proposals requesting a different contribution.
Eligible Activities:
The events should include high level speakers, and a representative number of participants from all relevant fields of the challenges to be discussed. The action will support communication activities addressed to the general public and/or to specific groups of people or professionals, in order to promote the European Health Union and its different initiatives. Conferences and/or events must have a Union-wide dimension. The events will not focus on a specific condition or disease however, they will focus on current cross-cutting Union policy issues.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Ukraine, Moldova and Montenegro.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €450,000
Deadline: 22/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/EU4H-2024-PJ-03-7
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - EU4Health Programme (EU4H)
Objective:
The action will benefit cancer patients accessing personalised cancer medicine services, which is expected to reduce the burden of cancer in the Member States. The expected results will include initiatives to complement the Member States’ efforts in the design, planning and implementation of best practices, such as support for the development of public health guidelines (e.g., personalised cancer medicine, genomic testing/screening and metastatic cancer management) guidelines and, support for the preparation and roll out of new policy approaches; participation in the pilot testing of innovative practices; development of capacity building actions such as training and twinning, health communication or health literacy.
Eligible Activities:
The actions that will complement the Joint Action on Personalized Cancer Medicine are expected to bring short-term improvements in implementing personalised cancer medicine and sharing best practice among Member States and countries associated to the EU4Health Programme. In the mid- to long- term, this is expected to improve innovation and patient management in the cancer pathway, including metastatic cancer, by improving knowledge and skills in implementing personalised medicine in oncology.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Ukraine, Moldova and Montenegro.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €3,000,000
Deadline: 22/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/EU4H-2024-PJ-03-4
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - EU4Health Programme (EU4H)
Objective:
The overarching objective of this project is to accelerate the safe deployment of AI systems in particular in clinical settings. One project is expected to be funded under this call.
Eligible Activities:
The activities for this action should include the following actions:
· the setting up and running of one or more communities of experts (e.g., healthcare professionals who have experience in using/implementing AI in clinical practice and hospital managers who have experience in implementing AI solutions in healthcare organisations) and relevant stakeholders
· the analysis and identification of the factors that lead to the successful and less successful deployment of AI in healthcare as well as challenges and obstacles
· the preparation of good deployment practices for AI in healthcare, recommendations and guidelines tailored to the needs of the specific users/environments in healthcare to accelerate the safe and effective deployment of AI in clinical practice in collaboration with the expert community or communities
· the design, development, and execution of pilots to test and evaluate in diverse real-life environments the expert community(ies)’s developed good deployment practices, guidelines and recommendations
· the development of user friendly interactive digital tool(s) that allows for the collection and communication of AI solutions successfully deployed in different clinical settings
· the organisation of workshops and communication activities (e.g., knowledge translation and dissemination of evidence-based practice/outcomes) addressed to different stakeholders (e.g., AI developers and users, hospital managers, the general public, patients)
· the provision of a summary of lessons learned and recommendations for potential policy measures that would contribute to accelerating the safe and effective deployment of AI in clinical practice.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Ukraine, Moldova and Montenegro.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €4,500,000
Deadline: 22/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/EU4H-2024-PJ-03-6
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - EU4Health Programme (EU4H)
Objective:
As an expected outcome of the activities and in line with the SAMIRA objective to ensure that applications of ionising radiation in Member States operate in line with high standards for quality and safety, medical staff should have improved tools to ensure justification and optimisation of medical procedures involving ionising radiation in children and young adults.
Eligible Activities:
This should take various forms of technical/practical tools, like improved imaging referral and clinical guidelines, guidance, protocols and tools for specific exams and equipment, education and training curricula and material. Trainings for the hospital staff and information campaigns should also be organised.
This will benefit paediatric, adolescents, and young adult patients, and parents and young adults accessing imaging services in Member States. The actions are expected to bring short-term improvements in radiation safety and quality of CT and other radiological imaging in children and young patients and reduction of avoidable exposure to ionising radiation. In the mid- to long- term, this is expected to translate into reduced avoidable secondary effects, such as brain cancer linked to head CT exams. The outcomes of these activities should also reduce discrepancies in Europe to current radiation technology in medical applications through a coordinated approach.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Ukraine, Moldova and Montenegro.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €3,000,000
Deadline: 22/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/EU4H-2024-PJ-03-3
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - EU4Health Programme (EU4H)
Objective:
The expected results of this action are an improved and accelerated move towards the development and implementation of a comprehensive approach to mental health, including in areas such as mental health promotion and prevention, better and earlier detection, and interventions to tackle mental health issues, access to innovative approaches to managing mental health conditions in communities, and quality of life of patients and their families/(in)formal carers in the Member States.
Eligible Activities:
Through:
· collection and sharing of information, knowledge, promising and best practice approaches on a comprehensive approach to mental health under the above-mentioned areas of actions;
· support for national, regional and local policymakers and decision-makers in the move towards a more comprehensive approach to mental health;
· data identification and dissemination on the key social, environmental, commercial and behavioural factors that influence the mental health of citizens, especially children and young people;
· development of policy advice and of a communication toolkit on how to best reach and involve vulnerable and socio-economically disadvantaged population groups in local community settings, on mental health issues, especially depression, suicide prevention and addressing stigma and discrimination;
· reinforced cooperation, exchange networks and dissemination between civil society organisation to support the move towards a comprehensive approach on mental health.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Ukraine, Moldova and Montenegro.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €2,000,000
Deadline: 22/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/EU4H-2024-PJ-03-1
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - EU4Health Programme (EU4H)
Objective:
The aim of this action is to contribute to reducing the burden caused by NCDs and communicable diseases and their risk factors, supporting Member States’ actions. The action targets:
· Sub-topic (c): Communicable diseases (HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, viral hepatitis).
· Sub-topic (c) is linked to and supports the activities under DP/CR-g-24-28 Direct grants to Member States’ authorities: Cancers caused by infections, vaccine-preventable cancers and addressing communicable diseases (HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis).
Eligible Activities:
The expected results include:
· identification and piloting of best and promising practices through population-level interventions;
· guidelines and evidence-based recommendations for prevention and control of communicable diseases;
· awareness-raising campaigns and activities targeting vulnerable groups and communities;
· training, upskilling and reskilling for health professionals in terms of prevention, monitoring and management of communicable diseases, focusing on vulnerable groups;
· activities that provide support to patient groups and organisations representing vulnerable groups.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Ukraine, Moldova and Montenegro.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €833,333
Deadline: 22/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/EU4H-2024-PJ-03-2-c
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Programme: Eco-Business
Objective:
The Liveability Challenge (TLC) returns for the eighth edition, seeking submissions for the groundbreaking climate solutions from across the world that push the boundaries of innovation.
Winners are to conduct their proof-of-value pilot in Singapore (tech-based) or within Southeast Asia (nature-based).
Eligible Activities:
Themes
The eighth edition of The Liveability Challenge features two main themes:
Decarbonisation
They are looking for disruptive deep-tech solutions that provide scalable and impactful solutions to reduce carbon emissions across diverse industries.
Examples of such solutions include, but not limited to:
Waste-to-resource
Effective capture and conversion of key waste streams (e.g., point-source carbon, biomass-based or other waste carbon) into value-added products (e.g., point-source or direct CCUS into consumables such as sustainable aviation fuels, marine fuels, chemicals, higher carbon products, fertilisers, proteins) or permanent carbon removal and storage (e.g., point-source or direct CCUS into stable building materials)
Renewable energy
To generate cost-effective energy from renewable sources (e.g., wind, solar, hydropower), technologies that accelerate the clean energy transition (e.g., green hydrogen, ammonia), as well as solutions that facilitate the long-term storage of energy and address energy intermittency (e.g., batteries and battery energy storage systems).
Energy efficiency
Significantly reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions produced by built environment systems (e.g., building cooling systems) as well as hard-to-abate industries (e.g., manufacturing - food & agriculture, cement, steel, aviation, marine, logistics, healthcare).
Additionally, solutions should be:
Carbon negative in the overall lifecycle and have zero/minimal externalities
Technology-based (e.g., physical, chemical); or nature-based solutions (e.g., community models)
Commercially viable and scalable
Able to conduct the pilot in Singapore (for technology-based solutions) or within Southeast Asia (for nature-based solutions)
Cool Earth
They are seeking groundbreaking innovations that specifically address the challenges posed by climate-induced extreme weather conditions.
They are on the hunt for innovative solutions that enhance mitigation, resilience and adaptation to extreme weather events (especially heat) for a more liveable planet. They are also open to proposals that provide large-scale cooling benefits and adaptive solutions that strengthen resilience across diverse industries.
Examples of such solutions include, but not limited to:
Heat mitigation
To mitigate the growing challenge of excessive heat by focusing on reducing temperatures and/or adaptation solutions to help societies, especially vulnerable populations, withstand and adapt to the adverse effects of rising temperatures and more frequent heatwaves (e.g., climate-smart and climate-resilient food & agriculture, advanced materials for cooling – nano-coatings and film).
Nature-based solutions
For building climate resilient societies for at-risk groups through replicable and viable models that deliver impact for planet, people, and profit in the space of blue carbon (e.g., seaweed cultivation, mangrove restoration for coastal communities) and green carbon (e.g., bamboo cultivation, low-methane agriculture).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
You are eligible if you are:
18 years or older.
Not an employee of Temasek Foundation or Eco-Business.
Not a close relative or connected otherwise with the organisation or the judging of the competition.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: 09/02/2025
More information and official documents: https://www.theliveabilitychallenge.org/participate
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Programme: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Objective:
The Agency for International Development (USAID) encourages the submission of new and innovative ideas consistent with and contributing to the accomplishment of USAID’s objectives. Such opportunities are routinely announced through broad Agency announcements or specific Requests for Proposals (RFPs). When new or innovative ideas do not fall under topic areas publicized through those techniques, offerors may consider submitting them as unsolicited proposals. Note that the criteria for unsolicited proposals are quite stringent.
Eligible Activities:
An unsolicited proposal is a written proposal for a new or innovative idea that is submitted on the initiative of the offeror for the purpose of obtaining a contract with the Government, and that is not in response to a request for proposals or any other Government-initiated solicitation or program. A valid unsolicited proposal must (1) be innovative and unique; (2) be independently originated and developed by the offeror; (3) be prepared without Government supervision, endorsement, direction, or direct Government involvement; (4) include sufficient detail to permit a determination that USAID support could be worthwhile and the proposed work could benefit USAID’s research and development or other responsibilities; (5) not be an advance proposal for a known USAID requirement that can be acquired by competitive methods; and (6) unsolicited proposals in response to a publicized general statement of Agency needs are considered to be independently originated.
Actions can take place worldwide where USAID operates.
Eligible Applicants:
Non-profit organisations and businesses are eligible.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.usaid.gov/partner-with-us/unsolicited-submissions
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Programme: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Objective:
Through its Small Grants Program, the Swiss Cooperation Office in Moldova (SCO-M) supports local initiatives promoting democratic values, human rights, including gender equality, social inclusion, good governance, or propose innovative interventions that complement the SCO-M’s domains of interventions in Moldova. As well, the program supports art and culture projects promoting freedom of expression, diversity and social cohesion.
Eligible Activities:
Eligible are:
· Small actions that contribute towards fostering peace and security, promote democracy and human rights, as well as those addressing issues related to social inclusion, gender equality and good governance in the main areas of Switzerland’s support for Moldova — Health, Local Governance, and Economic Development & Employment.
· Culture projects that contribute towards building trust and social cohesion, a free and open society, and towards the development of the culture sector; initiatives that support partnerships between public, private and civic organizations, and strengthen civil society.
Actions must take place in Moldova.
Eligible Applicants:
The applicant shall be a legal entity registered in the Republic of Moldova: Non-governmental organizations, Professional associations and unions, Local offices of international organizations, Central and local governmental institutions, Public institutions, including educational, Media organizations, Commercial entities with non-profit projects.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.eda.admin.ch/countries/moldova/en/home/international-cooperation/themes/smallgrantsprogramme.html
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Programme: Embassy of Japan in Pakistan
Objective:
As part of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) to developing countries, the Government of Japan offers a program to support non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community based organisations (CBOs) that are working specifically in the social development sector. Known as the GGP (Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects), it provides flexible and timely support to small-scale development projects, which aim to improve the social well-being of the people at the grassroots level.
Eligible Activities:
Priority is given to the following sectors: (1) basic education (pre-school to class eight, and adult literacy); (2) primary health (includes population welfare/reproductive health); (3) vocational training/skill development; (4) special education (education/training for handicapped, orphanages, etc.); (5) agriculture (irrigation system.); (6) public welfare/basic infrastructure (drinking water supply, sanitation, road, bridges, electricity, etc.) and (7) environment.
Actions must take place in Pakistan.
Eligible Applicants:
All non-profit organisations implementing social development projects at grassroots level are eligible. It includes local/international NGOs, CBOs, village organisations, local institutions, schools, hospitals, etc.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.pk.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/GGP_Info.html
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Programme: GERMAN EMBASSY MOLDOVA
Objective:
The embassy has been supporting micro-measures since 2004. They complement German development cooperation with the Republic of Moldova as part of major bilaterally agreed projects, which are usually handled by GIZ and KfW. The micro-projects, on the other hand, can be applied for and implemented much faster and with comparatively less effort. The following requirements must be met:
Eligible Activities:
Your project brings about a long-term improvement in the living conditions of the local population.
You cannot fully finance the project yourself. However, your own financial contribution increases your chances of receiving funding. This can also be a non-financial contribution such as work performance.
The project will remain in place for the long term, is not a pure training measure, but is associated with equipment assistance.
The financial support is one-time and does not result in any recurring obligations from the embassy.
The institution that is the project sponsor fulfils a general-benefit function (e.g. an NGO, a school). The project must improve the common good.
The overall financing of the project is secured.
Any follow-up costs can be borne by the project sponsor.
Actions must take place in Moldova.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are local non-profit organisations (NGOs, self help groups, kindergartens, etc.).
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://chisinau.diplo.de/md-de/willkommen/-/1338302
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Programme: Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC)
Objective:
The Swiss Embassy offers financial support to small-scale initiatives by organizations registered in Bosnia and Herzegovina that can contribute to achieving the results outlined in the Swiss Cooperation Programme 2021–24.
Eligible Activities:
The current Programme focuses primarily on the following priority areas:
· Local governance and municipal services
· Economic development and employment
· Health
· Migration
· Arts and culture
Projects must:
• directly and demonstrably contribute to at least one of the Swiss Portfolio outcomes under the Swiss Cooperation Programme 2021-2024 or the intervention areas of the Swiss Migration Strategic Framework for the Western Balkans.
• be developed in a participatory way and reflect a clear need among the selected target beneficiaries;
• provide quality information and describe the feasibility of proposed activities in the application (applicant’s understanding of the problem to be addressed by the project, general description of the activities and the results to be achieved);
• take into account the sustainability of results.
Actions must take place in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Eligible Applicants:
The partner organisation must: have an adequate organisational structure and a sound financial record; provide information about selected reference projects implemented over the past five years and indicate whether (and for what purpose) the organisations has received funds from the Swiss Government; demonstrate that they have the knowledge and capacities to conduct the proposed activities.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.eda.admin.ch/countries/bosnia-and-herzegovina/en/home/international-cooperation/projects/small-projects-program-2021-2024.html
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Programme: Martin Roth Initiative
Objective:
The Martin Roth-Initiative protects artists who are committed in their home country to the freedom of art, democracy and human rights by enabling temporary residence in Germany or third countries for the purpose of protecting those who are being persecuted. Special significance is placed on the cultural scenes and local civil society in the host countries which, during the scholarship period, work with the scholarship holders, provide support and enable their professional development. The Martin Roth-Initiative aims to ensure that, at the end of the scholarship period, it is possible for the scholarship holder to return safely to their home country, or that the foundation for their successful integration in the society of the host country has been laid. The joint performance between the Martin Roth-Initiative and its partners, both domestically and abroad, expresses the commitment of civil society to take on responsibility and nail its colours to the mast.
Eligible Activities:
With this funding from the Martin Roth-Initiative, cultural and civil society institutions (host organisations) are enabled to temporarily host at-risk artists and cultural actors in their region of origin (e.g. in a neighbouring country), provide them with scholarships, and enable them to continue their work.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are Artists and cultural actors who through their artistic work are committed to an open society, freedom, peace and democracy, who reject any kind of discrimination and who, because of their work or due to other circumstances, experience restrictions on their freedom or threats from state and/or non-state actors .
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 31/12/2024
More information and official documents: https://www.martin-roth-initiative.de/en/application_programme_line_2
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Programme: Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Objective:
Applications are now open for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s India Fund Program.
Aims
The work in India centres around funding small NGOs working with the most vulnerable communities in priority geographical areas.
They believe that communities must be central to the work partners undertake and should place people facing disadvantage in India at the heart of leading change and designing solutions to overcome inequality.
Eligible Activities:
The strategic aims of the fund are to:
encourage NGOs to take on community-centric development programmes;
enable communities to take charge of their own development and improve their lives;
encourage development funding to address systemic change; and
enhance the capacity of organisations and people who facilitate the above aims.
Vulnerable communities
They fund organisations working with vulnerable communities. This includes but is not limited the following groups:
Communities with little or no access to education
Communities with little or no access to health services
Dalit communities, particularly those in dangerous or harmful work
Disabled people, particularly children
Families living in extreme poverty
Tribal communities fighting for or dispossessed of their land and resources
Women
Priority geographical areas
This focuses on central parts of India which are among the poorest parts of the country, stretching between the eastern part of Gujarat in the west-to-West Bengal and Assam in the east.
They support work in the following states:
Madhya Pradesh
Chhattisgarh
Odisha
Jharkhand
Bihar
West Bengal
Assam
In addition to these states, they also support work in certain culturally identifiable regions in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan which face more extreme poverty than other parts in those states:
Mewar and Hadoti (southern and south-eastern Rajasthan)
Bundelkhand (Northern Madhya Pradesh and southern districts of Uttar Pradesh bordering Madhya Pradesh)
The Dangs (south-eastern Gujarat)
Telangana (northern Andhra Pradesh)
Vidharbha (eastern and northern Maharashtra)
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Organisations supported within the Fund have to be local Indian NGOs with Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration.
They are looking to fund organisations who are:
working with communities to develop their ideas;
improving the overall wellbeing of communities in the long-term – not just short-term improvements;
developing links between their own work and those of the panchayats (in rural areas) and the municipalities (in urban areas);
aware of and mitigating their environmental impact and seeking to improve the ecology of the area they’re based; and
working to promote gender equality and support people of all genders to make change.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 31/12/2024
More information and official documents: https://www.phf.org.uk/funding/india-fund#heading-6879
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Programme: LIFE-PJG LIFE Project Grants
Objective:
Expected Impact:
The expected impact is an increase of the participation and the quality of the proposals submitted under the LIFE calls by applicants from the Member State or associated country. The impact in terms of higher participation or better scoring of proposals should, as far as possible, be estimated.
Objective:
In line with article 11(4) of the LIFE Regulation (EU) 2021/783, technical assistance projects for capacity building aim at supporting national level public bodies responsible for the implementation of the LIFE Programme in improving the participation and increasing the quality of submitted proposals from Member States and countries associated to the LIFE Programme.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Only national level public bodies responsible for implementation of LIFE programme in an eligible Member State in the European Union or country associated to the LIFE Programme may apply for capacity-building projects. Project consortium may include additional entities provided that their participation is justified by the project objectives and their role is clearly defined. In principle, the project should be coordinated by public bodies responsible for implementation of LIFE.
The actions included in proposals for capacity-building projects must take place primarily within the territory of the Member State or associated country of the main applicant.
Each proposal should preferably include analysis of the participation from that country and the success rate in the last calls. The analysis should include also the potential and current type of organisations that benefit from the call and why some organisations are more applying then others.
Based on this needs assessment the applicants should identify the most effective activities addressing the participation and/or the ineffective participation rate of different types of applicants (public organisations, private entities and civil society organisations) for the different types of calls (standard action projects, coordinated and support actions, strategic integrated and strategic nature projects).
Eligible activities may include:
· Targeted and tailor-made communication campaigns on the LIFE Programme addressed, among others, to public national and local authorities responsible for the implementation of environmental and climate action policies and plans at all levels and across the entire national territory (e.g. municipalities, provinces, environment protection agencies, ecological operational units responsible for the enforcement of national environmental laws, public research institutes, academia), as well as to private sector stakeholders which are relevant for the programme.
· Trainings activities for the staff members of the National Contact Points and possible exchanges with more experienced staff members of National Contact Points of other countries.
· Tailor-made workshops on writing solid proposals; helping applicants to build (transnational) consortia; trainings on the use and monitoring of key performance indicators, etc.
· Screening of national environmental and climate actions priorities to support, through LIFE projects, the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of relevant Union legislations,
· Actions aimed at increasing the participation of those types of applicants that struggle to access LIFE funding in a given Member State or country associated to the LIFE Programme (e.g. public organisations, private entities, civil society organisations) as identified in the needs assessment,
· Actions aimed at increasing the use of certain types of LIFE projects. In particular,in the context of increasing use of SIPs and SNAPs in a given Member State or country associated to the LIFE Programme. Capacity building projects may include actions reinforcing the mainstreaming of environmental and climate actions into other sectors, enhancing synergies between LIFE and other EU funds, and supporting the use of cumulative financing from other Union programmes or the private sector,
· Procurement of external experts to address ad-hoc gaps, to provide advice and to support in the preparation of a proposal (note: the same level of support must be provided to any entity planning to prepare a proposal. Drafting of proposals for submission under the annual LIFE calls for proposals would be considered as an ineligible expense),
· Gap analysis and assessment of policy uptake of LIFE project results.
The Commission expects that the budget will be proportionate to the activities that will be implemented under each project to address the participation rate of the different types of applicants.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible participants (eligible countries)
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries
EU Member States
Non-EU countries
Specific cases
Natural persons - Natural persons are not eligible (with the exception of self-employed persons, i.e., sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person).
International organisations - International organisations are not eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.
Entities without legal personality - Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
EU bodies - EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) cannot be part of the consortium.
Total Budget: €8,000,000
Deadline: 28/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/LIFE-2025-TA-CAP
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Programme: COGNIZANT FOUNDATION
Objective:
Cognizant Foundation was established to spearhead CSR initiatives in Cognizant and is based in Chennai, India. The vision of Cognizant Foundation is to be a model social organisation that enables and facilitates the under privileged sections of the society to access quality education, healthcare and livelihood opportunities. To this end, the Foundation provides financial and technical support to institutions for improving the quality of education (VET, scholarships), livelihood (youth, PWD, women) and healthcare (i.e. avoidable blindness, women and child health, capacity building).
Eligible Activities:
To achieve its vision, the Foundation partners with NGOs, educational and healthcare institutions, government and other corporates for achieving the vision. Grants are particularly provided to enhance infrastructure facilities including equipment, training aids, etc. in the areas of education, healthcare and livelihood. Its focus areas are:
Focus on promoting inclusion through interventions with a focus on children, women and persons with disabilities
Leverage digital technology as an enabler to amplify and scale the impact of interventions
Explore avenues to leverage Cognizant’s expertise in leveraging technology as well as learning from CF’s past partnerships
Create knowledge and assets that benefit the overall ecosystem and promote thought leadership to move the needle on impact
Grant funding is provided for projects in all states of India.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible for grant funding are local and international non-profit organisations with a track record of projects in India.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.cognizantfoundation.org/
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Programme: Western Digital
Objective:
Western Digital believes in their responsibility to be a good neighbor in the communities in which they operate, and a steward of our world’s resources. The quality of life and education, the well-being of their employees and their families, and the economic health of society are of vital interest to Western Digital.
Eligible Activities:
As a corporation, they support organizations that improve education, support hunger relief, as well as programs protecting the environment and our communities. It currently considers applications for grants to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and public schools whose programs align with their philanthropic focus areas:
· STEM Education: Organizations providing opportunities for underrepresented and/or underserved K-12 youth
· Hunger Relief: Innovative programs focused on alleviating hunger in local communities
· Environment: Work in environmental preservation and conservation, and the public education of such issues
Actions must take place in: China, India, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand.
Eligible Applicants:
Priority consideration is given to those organizations that offer programs/services in proximity to Western Digital offices and facilities. Prior to completing an application, requestors should review our Global Giving Guidelines for complete details on their giving policies. In addition to the guidelines, applicants must be able to exhibit tax-exempt status equivalent to U.S. IRS 501c3 status.
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.westerndigital.com/company/corporate-philanthropy/community-grants-program
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Programme: ASIA FOUNDATION
Objective:
The Asia Foundation’s mission is to improve lives, expand on opportunities, and help societies flourish across a dynamic and developing Asia. Their programs address critical issues affecting Asia in the 21st century – governance and law, economic development, women’s empowerment, environment, and regional cooperation. In addition, their Books for Asia and professional exchange programs are among the ways they encourage Asia’s continued development as a peaceful, just, and thriving region of the world.
Eligible Activities:
Their program areas are:
· Climate Action: They work with businesses, governments, NGOs, and community leaders to develop participatory approaches to managing natural resources, reducing the risk of disasters, and protecting environments across Asia and the Pacific.
· Education and Leadership: They invest in people because tackling critical development challenges rests not only on sustainable frameworks and systems but also on the people who power them.
· Gender Equality: Their teams innovate new ways to open doors and disrupt the status quo of gender because gender should never hold anyone back.
· Governance: Across Asia and the Pacific, their programs catalyze inclusive decision-making by promoting collaborative, transparent, and participatory systems that represent the needs of their communities.
· Inclusive Growth: Amid rapid economic and industrial transition across Asia and the Pacific, they strive to ensure that all people have access to the future skills they need and that governments craft policies that foster inclusive growth, leaving no one behind.
· International Cooperation: Their work strengthens cooperation and collaboration between nations to foster peace, stability, and prosperity, and to catalyze regional solutions to regional challenges.
The foundation is operational in Asia and Pacific Islands.
Eligible Applicants:
The Foundation does not make grants to individuals nor to U.S-based organizations but provides grants to selected Asian non profit organisations.
Total Budget: $100,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://asiafoundation.org/about/grant-guidelines/
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Programme: Safari Club International (SCI)
Objective:
SCI Foundation is a non-profit IRS 501(c)(3) corporation. The mission of SCI Foundation is to fund and direct wildlife programs dedicated to wildlife conservation and outdoor education. More specifically, the conservation purpose of SCI Foundation is to conduct and support scientific and technical studies in the field of wildlife conservation, to assist in the design and development of scientifically sound wildlife programs for the management of wildlife and sustainable-use hunting, and to demonstrate the constructive role that hunting and hunters play in the conservation of wildlife and in preserving biodiversity worldwide.
Eligible Activities:
Eligible projects could include wildlife population surveys, implementation of wildlife management plans, purchase of equipment for state agencies to conduct conservation projects, reintroduction and translocation of species, and habitat restoration or improvement projects. Proposals should include a project description and estimated budget, as well as an explanation of how it will benefit sustainable use conservation.
Support has so far been provided to projects implemented in Africa, North America and Asia.
Eligible Applicants:
All grant applications must come from a SCI Chapter and any active chapter engaged in conservation projects is eligible.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 30/03/2025
More information and official documents:
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
Task description
Demonstrate exceptional results as MERIT study program student, including, but not limiting to:
· research activities and their result publication;
· active participation in advanced digital skill application contents and hackathon type events, promoting the benefits of advanced digital skills, MERIT project and its study program values and possibilities;
· advanced digital skill upskilling, gaining new experiences, competences and sharing it with others;
· utilizing advanced digital skills by applying it for business and public sector growth.
Eligible Activities:
Further information
The call for the scholarship is announced on the VILNIUS TECH website, both in English and Lithuanian. The links are the following:
https://vilniustech.lt/studies/study-programmes/master-study-programmes
https://vilniustech.lt/-stojantiesiems-/magistranturos-studijos/studiju-programos
https://vilniustech.lt/studies/study-programmes/master-study-programmes
https://vilniustech.lt/-stojantiesiems-/magistranturos-studijos/studiju-programos
Regarding questions, related to the call and MERIT studies at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, the main contact is Simona Ramanauskaitė (e-mail. simona.ramanauskaite@vilniustech.lt).
Eligible Applicants:
Total Budget: €21,000
Deadline: 30/06/2026
More information and official documents:
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Programme: EIT Urban Mobility Business Plan 2023-2025
Objective:
The Innovation’s Targeted Projects Programme addresses a) gaps in our innovation portfolio regarding the business plan, strategic agenda, and b) external changes and influences such as technological developments, policies/regulations, and (urgent) events.
This is a long-term call with different cut-off dates that will be announced at least 2 months before the set submission deadline.
Each cut-off date will be specific in terms of topics to be addressed and requirements.
Eligible Activities:
TOPIC 1
EIT Urban Mobility is looking for a project consortium to develop and commercialise hydrogen technology solutions capable of accelerating the hydrogen transition, by tackling at least one of the following challenges: (1) Improving Performance and Viability of Zero-Emission Hydrogen Vehicles, (2) Facilitating Early Diffusion of Hydrogen Infrastructures for Mobility, (3) Overcoming Regulatory Hurdles to Speed Up the Product Deployment, (4) Reducing the Cost of Hydrogen Technology Adoption.
TOPIC 2
EIT Urban Mobility is seeking a project consortium that can develop and commercialise a product that will support companies to report their scope 3 GHG emissions according to the new CSRD regulations by enabling cheaper and higher-quality data collection and analytics on employees’ commuting and business travel behaviours. The solution needs to be demonstrated with a relevant end-client, who is part of the project consortium.
TOPIC 3
EIT Urban Mobility is looking for a project consortium to develop and commercialise a comprehensive Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) for city buses. The solution needs to incorporate all mandatory features, aiding bus manufacturers—particularly smaller and mid-sized ones from RIS countries with limited internal resources—in complying with the new GSR2 regulations.
TOPIC 4
EIT Urban Mobility is seeking a project consortium to develop and commercialise Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) solutions in RIS countries, particularly in Eastern Europe. The solution needs to implement DRT to connect suburban areas and innovate DRT solutions for deep integration with wider public transport services.
TOPIC 5
EIT Urban Mobility is looking for a project consortium consisting of a government authority and SMEs to expedite market innovation among SMEs with targeted solutions for niche urban mobility challenges. The solutions must be scalable in the piloting city and replicable to other cities.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicants are invited to submit proposals using the PLAZA tool.
Proposals will be evaluated based on pre-defined evaluation criteria and following the evaluation process described in Chapter 5 “Evaluation and selection process” of the Call Manual.
Total Budget: €4,200,000
Deadline: 31/12/2026
More information and official documents:
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Programme: MISEREOR
Objective:
MISEREOR supports the weakest members of society: the poor, the sick, the hungry and the disadvantaged. It is of no importance whether those in need of help are men or women, what religious beliefs they hold or where they come from. To love one’s neighbour is a basic attitude of Christian life, and MISEREOR’s vocation is to translate this attitude into concrete action; the poor are our sisters and brothers, who have a right to a life of dignity. MISEREOR supports them in realising it. The organisation does not pursue any ends other than the promotion of development. The mandate given to MISEREOR by the German Bishops rules out the promotion of pastoral or missionary measures.
Eligible Activities:
For MISEREOR, each individual project is part of a larger task. In dialogue with partners in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America joint visions and goals are developed so that social processes can be effectively supported. MISEREOR underpins these processes by facilitating exchange of experiences and networking, and by providing professional advisory and consultancy inputs on themes such as urban and rural development, human rights, health, peace and many more. The partner organisations are closely accompanied by MISEREOR, and if required are also advised on management and organisational development issues.
Actions must take place in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Eligible Applicants:
The projects supported by MISEREOR are implemented by independent partner organisations. These are either local legal entities of the Catholic Church (dioceses, orders, bishops’ conferences etc.) or non-governmental organisations.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: ONGOING
More information and official documents:
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Programme: FAIRTRADE ACCESS FUND
Objective:
Launched in 2012, the Fairtrade Access Fund is designed to meet the most important financing and technical assistance needs of Fairtrade smallholder farmer cooperatives and associations in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Africa. It offers a full range of loans and technical assistance. The Fund is a joint project of the Fairtrade International, Incofin Investment Management and the Grameen Foundation.
Eligible Activities:
The Fund offers three types of loans: (1) long-term loans (1-5 years; these loans allow an organisation to invest in building up its business and to plan for the long term like crop renewal, farm improvements, equipment, and processing facilities); (2) working capital (up to 1 year; these loans provide working capital for fertilisers, machinery and other inputs); and (3) trade finance (up to 1 year; these loans serve as bridge payments to purchase members’ produce during the harvest).
Loans and technical assistance are available for organisations based in Latin America and the Caribbean (Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras), and Africa (Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, DR Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible for loans are private companies and organisations (e.g. agricultural cooperatives or associations of small-holder farmers) that are legally registered and based in the country of operation (Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa). Candidates for the fund must be strong and responsible organizations that are certified by Fairtrade International (FLO), or another sustainable certificate (Such as Rainforest Alliance, Utz, World Fair Trade, Café Practices,) or in the process of being certified. The fund also provides financing services to plantations (farms), processors and traders that are certified, as well as microfinance institutions that focus on small farmers.
Total Budget: $2,000,000
Deadline: ONGOING
More information and official documents:
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Programme: ELEANOR CROOK FOUNDATION
Objective:
Founded in 1997, the Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF) is a grant-making foundation that works to scale improved solutions to child undernutrition by deploying the power of research, policy analysis, and advocacy, with the ultimate goal of saving children’s lives and enabling them to excel in school, work, and beyond.
Eligible Activities:
With its mission that no person should go hungry, the Foundation supports organisations that: (1) implement sustainable, community-based approaches to the root causes of hunger and extreme poverty; (2) carry out research and innovation to identify more impactful nutrition and food security interventions; and (3) raise hunger awareness and advocate for policy reform to end hunger.
The Foundation provides grant funding to projects in East Africa.
Eligible Applicants:
Non-profit organisations are eligible to apply.
Total Budget: $100,000,000
Deadline: ONGOING
More information and official documents:
https://eleanorcrookfoundation.org/grants-investments/for-grantees/
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Programme: MEDICAL CREDIT FUND
Objective:
The Medical Credit Fund (MCF) is a non-profit health investment fund that was founded in 2009 by PharmAccess International. It supports private healthcare facilities in Africa obtaining capital to strengthen and upgrade their operations in order to enhance access to affordable quality healthcare. The Fund’s primary objective is to increase the delivery of affordable quality healthcare services by reducing the investment risk. To achieve this objective, the Fund provides performance-based financing in combination with technical support to eligible private primary healthcare providers.
Eligible Activities:
The selected health facilities participate in a medical and business quality improvement program which will strengthen their business case and debt servicing capacity, and reduce credit and medical risk. To achieve its objectives, the Fund’s investment strategy is via two programs: (1) the Finance Program and (2) the Technical Assistance (TA) Program. The TA Program contains quality improvement and business planning while the Finance Program provides access to loans.
Current focus countries are Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria (aiming to expand further into Sub-Sahara Africa).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are: (1) Healthcare SMEs: hospitals, health centers, dispensaries, maternity homes and nurse-driven clinics; (2) Specialist care providers: diagnostic centers, laboratories, and pharmacies; and (3) Healthcare businesses catering to health facilities, distributors of drugs, training institutes and equipment providers.
Total Budget: $150,000,000
Deadline: ONGOING
More information and official documents:
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Programme: GEMSTONE
Objective:
Gemstone is inviting applications is offering a financial support to facilitate SMEs internationalisation strategy by supporting their participation to business fairs and other international event deemed interesting for their activities, in targeted countries and in relation to Green Manufacturing.
GEMSTONE aims to mobilise manufacturing companies, in particular innovative SMEs, on the challenges of “Green Manufacturing” by developing a dedicated joint service offer and operational and financial support tools around the 3 pillars “Train, Innovate, Explore” to encourage and empower manufacturing companies in their environmental and digital transition process.
The project aims to define, deepen and apply a common methodology on issues related to Green Manufacturing in 5 identified industrial sectors: Aeronautics/Defence, Energy, Mobility, Agriculture/Agri-food, Materials. This ambition is driven by the thoughtful association of European clusters with complementary ecosystems both in terms of expertise and priority targets, bringing together organizations and people facilitating innovation.
Eligible Activities:
Eligible Activities
Each selected SME in this call will receive financial support to be used to support:
Participation in trade fairs/international event for companies providing services, technologies, solutions linked to green transition and green manufacturing:
Market exploration;
Branding, sales and marketing of company;
Demonstrate their solutions/technologies (e.g., booth visitations and exhibitions);
Sharing knowledge, experience and information in Green Manufacturing specific areas;
Participation in trade fairs/international event, study visits or learning mission having a specific focus on Green manufacturing:
To gain knowledges, explore Green Manufacturing existing solutions;
To attend B2B events,
To do networking activities, identification of new partners and creation of new business opportunities;
To support project development, innovation and research and development;
Eligible Applicants:
Who can apply?
Maximum one application will be granted per SME.
Cluster organisations/networks are not eligible.
To be eligible, applicants must meet all the following conditions:
Be a legal entity;
Be a small or medium sized enterprise (SME): Companies must declare their SME status in accordance with the SME definition of the European Union as part of the application;
Apply as an individual organization;
Be located in one of the Single Market Programme (SMP) associated countries
EU Member States
Other countries which participate in SMP Work Programmes 2022 and 2023.
Do not have a conflict of interest5 with the partners in GEMSTONE project.
Total Budget: €50,000
Deadline: 31/12/2024
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Programme: ROBERT BOSCH FOUNDATION
Objective:
The Robert Bosch Foundation is one of the major German Foundations associated with a private company and has managed the philanthropic bequest of company founder Robert Bosch for over 50 years. Their international funding aims to support those projects that serve to facilitate conflict transformation in conflict (and post-conflict) societies in different regions. The Robert Bosch also pursues its aims in a nonpartisan and independent manner. Their projects and programs tackle social challenges in order to develop solutions and bring about change.
Eligible Activities:
Their international program areas of support are: (1) health (mainly focused on Germany and the Bosch health campus); (2) education (including social development, pre-school and day care); and (3) global issues (promoting peace and stability to alleviate human suffering including climate change, democracy, migration, inequality and peace building).
They fund projects in Africa, America, Asia, Europe (with a focus on Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Turkey, Russia, North Africa, United States, China, Japan, and India).
They have an annual grant budget of around €100,000,000: the main share goes to health (app. 60%) followed by global issues and education. Since its establishment in 1964, the Robert Bosch Stiftung has spent around €2,3 billion on its charitable work.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible to receive grant funding are non-profit organisations and institutions whose projects align with the Foundation’s aims.
Total Budget: $100,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: John Deer Foundation
Objective:
The John Deer Foundation is the corporate Foundation of the U.S.-based John Deere company. Their vision is to aspire being a catalyst for positive global change by focusing our energy, intellect, and resources on solving world hunger, empowering others through education, and developing home communities. Within their philanthropic portfolio they have a grant-making program and a volunteer program.
Eligible Activities:
It focuses on unlocking economic, social, and environmental value for smallholder and resource-constrained farmers, marginalized families and youth in John Deere home communities, and the workforce.
Grant support is provided to projects in countries were John Deere is active: (1) Asia (China, India, Singapore, Israel); (2) Africa (South Africa); (3) Europe (Turkey, Poland, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, France, Finland); (4) America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico) as well as USA.
Grant sizes range from a few hundred $ up to various million $.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible to receive grant funding are non-profit organisations and institutions whose projects align with the Foundation’s aims. Requesting organisations must have a current IRS IRS 501(C)(3) not-for-profit designation.
Total Budget: +$1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:
https://about.deere.com/en-us/our-company-and-purpose/empowering-communities
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Programme: Gilead
Objective:
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercialises innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need.
Eligible Activities:
They strive to transform and simplify care for people with life-threatening illnesses around the world. Gilead welcomes funding requests for innovative, high impact projects that relate to at least one of our core therapeutic areas:
P HIV
P Liver disease: HCV, HBV, HDV
P Oncology: Haematology, Solid tumours
P Inflammatory and respiratory disease
P Abroad, they also fund projects that (1) improve access to healthcare; (2) reduce disparities for disadvantaged groups; (3) educate among patients and healthcare professionals; and (4) support local communities.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
They work with patient advocates, nonprofits, and healthcare professionals across all our therapeutic areas of focus to improve care through partnerships and community engagement. Only tax exempt nonprofits are eligible.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO)
Objective:
The Dutch Fund for Climate and Development allows for investments in projects aimed at climate adaptation and prevention in developing countries. It seeks to improve the wellbeing, economic prospects, and livelihoods of vulnerable groups – particularly women and youth – and enhance the health of critical ecosystems, from river basins to tropical rainforests, marshland, and mangroves. The consortium’s activities will also help protect communities and cities from the increasing frequency of extreme weather events and benefit weakening biodiversity in areas that provide people with water, food, medicine, and economic opportunity.
Eligible Activities:
The fund will be focusing on several high impact investment themes, including climate-resilient water systems and freshwater ecosystems, forestry, climate-smart agriculture, and restoration of ecosystems to protect the environment. The fund will be structured with three separate but operationally linked facilities, each with a specific sub-sector focus and role across the project lifecycle.
The Origination Facility is responsible for project identification and feasibility activities across a range of sectors; it is co-managed by WWF and SNV.
The Investment Facilities target projects which have “graduated” from the Origination Facility. Each has its own focus: Water projects are managed by CFM, while Land Use projects are managed by FMO.
They work with projects across Africa, Asia and Latin America, in communities and ecosystems that are some of the most vulnerable to climate change.
Eligible Applicants:
The consortium seeks to cooperate with a diverse stakeholder base, including; civil society; (local) government; NGOs and the private sector.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Objective:
Reflecting the values of their founder Paul Hamlyn, the Foundation aims to improve opportunities and life chances for young people. Besides their support programs in the UK (including support programs in arts, migration and integration as well as a special youth fund), the Foundation also supports Indian development NGOs who work in health, education, women’s rights, children’s rights and political representation.
Eligible Activities:
They fund organisations working with vulnerable communities. This includes but is not limited the following groups:
§ Communities with little or no access to education
§ Communities with little or no access to health services
§ Dalit communities, particularly those in dangerous or harmful work
§ Disabled people, particularly children
§ Families living in extreme poverty
§ Tribal communities fighting for or dispossessed of their land and resources
§ Women
Their geographic focus is mainly on the poorest Indian states and priority is given to particularly vulnerable groups within Indian society. This focuses on central parts of India which are among the poorest parts of the country, stretching between the eastern part of Gujarat in the west to West Bengal and Assam in the east.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible for funding are only local Indian NGOs with a Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration (no support for locally registered branches of non-Indian organisations). At the meso/macro level, we will fund organisations that operate on a slightly larger scale and can view changes from a broader perspective. Initiatives at this level will bring together experiences from multiple smaller micro-level initiatives, compiling and consolidating their learning to help us address factors likely to improve the ecosystem.
Total Budget: €100,000 - €300,000 per project
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: JRS BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION
Objective:
JRS invests in the technical and the institutional activities necessary to: (1) Enhance the value of biodiversity data; (2) Connect biodiversity data users to biodiversity data providers; (3) Create broad awareness of the value of biodiversity data and information services, and (4) Build the capacity to use and produce biodiversity data, including the partnerships and networks to sustain the work over the long-term.
Eligible Activities:
JRS’ strategy to advance the field of biodiversity informatics and improve conservation decision making is to connect data publication to knowledge use related to pollinators’ biodiversity and to freshwater biodiversity. By focusing our resources on two domains of conservation and within limited geographic areas, we aim to sustain our investments in technology, capacity, and projects. Our three programs of grantmaking are:
§ Freshwater Biodiversity and Resources
§ Pollinator Biodiversity and Services
§ Building Capacity and Partnerships for Biodiversity Informatics
They fund projects across Africa, America and occasionally in Europe with a focus sub-Saharan Africa.
Eligible Applicants:
JRS grants are open to institutions based in sub-Saharan Africa.
Total Budget: Average €175,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM)
Objective:
The French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) has been working to promote protection of the global environment in developing countries since it was established by the French government in 1994. It is mandated to cofinance development projects with high environmental component in the areas of biodiversity, the greenhouse effect, international waters, land degradation and desertification, persistent organic pollutants and the stratospheric ozone layer.
Eligible Activities:
To receive FFEM funding, a project must meet nine eligibility criteria::
§ contributes to global environmental protection;
§ contributes to local sustainable development in one or more developing countries;
§ is innovative;
§ has demonstrative value and replicability;
§ is economically and financially sustainable once funding ends;
§ is ecologically and environmentally viable;
§ is socially and culturally acceptable, with local ownership;
§ has an appropriate institutional framework;
§ has a monitoring and evaluation mechanism.
All developing countries eligible for official development assistance as defined by the OECD, with priority given to Africa and the Mediterranean. French overseas areas may draw on FFEM financing through regional projects, but the FFEM contribution is then limited to 25% of the total cost of the project.
Eligible Applicants:
Non-profit and for-profit organisations are eligible
Total Budget: €500,000 - €2,000,000 per project
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: FINNPARTNERSHIP
Objective:
Business Partnership Support is financial support for the planning, development and training phases of projects aiming at establishing commercial activity in developing countries, or starting importing from developing countries. The support can be granted to Finnish companies and other organisations for commercially viable, long-term activities aimed at economic cooperation in developing countries. All projects should contribute to positive developmental effects in the target country.
Eligible Activities:
The purpose of Business Partnership Support is to encourage commercial cooperation between Finnish companies and companies and organisations in developing countries. The aim is to achieve positive developmental effects in the target countries. Business Partnership Support is de minimis aid as of 1.1.2010. Under certain conditions, de minimis regulations can be considered not applicable to Business Partnership Support.
Eligible target countries are all developing countries listed as ODA recipients by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants for Business Partnership Support are: (1) companies registered in Finland or elsewhere that have a substantial link to Finland; (2) substantial link to Finland is a significant Finnish ownership in the applicant company, or a contractual relationship between a Finnish company and the company registered abroad; (3) public utilities or other institutions that are operating according to the principles of the public sector, and are registered in Finland; (4) research facilities, universities, cooperatives and chambers of commerce or similar organisations based in Finland and (5) non-governmental organisations/associations registered in Finland that practice or contribute to economic operations consortium of several companies or organisation.
Total Budget: > €400,000 per project
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: Open Technology Fund (OTF)
Objective:
The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Sustainability Fund is Open Technology Fund’s newest mechanism to support the long-term maintenance of established FOSS projects and the communities that sustain them. The FOSS Sustainability Fund helps to ensure that free and open source software projects and the communities that sustain them have the resources and support needed for long-term maintenance, security, and community well-being. Ensuring a diverse, vibrant, and sustainable FOSS ecosystem is critical to OTF’s commitment to support the development and maintenance of anti-censorship technologies, and ensures that all users have better access to privacy and security tools.
Eligible Activities:
The Fund is available to all internet freedom FOSS tools, apps, open standards, protocols and libraries, that have come into shape from inception to development, and are seeking to work on the sustainability of the project beyond initial release.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are: (1) individuals; (2) non-profit organisation/non-government organisation, including U.S.-based NGO, PIO, or foreign NGO; (3) non-profit university or research institution in any country; (4) for-profit organisation or business in any country; and (5) have demonstrated experience administering successful projects, preferably targeting the requested program area.
Total Budget: €400,000 per preoect
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:
https://www.opentech.fund/funds/free-and-open-source-software-sustainability-fund/
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Programme: HORIZON-JU-RIA HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Objective:
The action under this topic must contribute to all of the following outcomes:
· A horizon scanning for potential sandbox candidates including how sandboxes provide an additional tool to existing frameworks and identified examples to model the process;
· Analysis of how regulatory sandboxes can drive science and health technology innovation in an evolving environment;
· Recommendations for end-to-end operations of regulatory sandboxes to inform healthcare innovation developers, regulators, and other decision makers.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
While there is no concrete definition, regulatory sandboxes generally refer to regulatory frameworks that provide a structure for healthcare innovation developers to test and experiment with new and innovative products, services, or approaches under the oversight of a regulator for a limited period of time. These adaptive tools are meant to address challenges arising from the acceleration of technological/scientific advances and the mechanisms intended to regulate them. It offers customisation in terms of how a regulatory framework can be applied, combined with appropriate safeguards.
Regulatory sandboxes, first tested in the fintech sector (2015), are starting to transform the traditional methods used by regulatory agencies in the health sector to accompany the development of safe, efficacious, and high-quality health technologies1, which, due to their level of novelty, challenge the current regulatory framework. The mechanism enables breakthrough developments and the testing of alternative regulatory approaches for disruptive innovations for medicinal products, related platforms and their combinations, including where appropriate medical and digital technologies. Regulatory sandboxes are mentioned as important future-proofing elements in the legislative proposal2 of the European Commission on the general pharmaceutical legislation. The European Commission’s communication to boost biotechnology and biomanufacturing in the EU further promotes the establishment of regulatory sandboxes that allow the testing of novel solutions in a controlled environment for a limited amount of time under the supervision of regulators as a way of quickly bringing more of them to the market3. Regulatory sandboxes are not featured in the medical devices and in vitro diagnostics regulations (MDR and IVDR)4, but the artificial intelligence (AI) Act5 creates an opportunity for regulatory sandboxes focused on case studies for AI-enabled medical devices. Regulatory sandboxes entail a shared learning objective for innovators (finding a pathway and getting regulatory predictability) and regulators (understanding the technology and defining how best to regulate it). The mechanism helps to inform future regulation through experimentation and evidence generation and minimises the risks of regulating ex-ante innovative and novel approaches prematurely or inappropriately. For the same reasons regulatory sandboxes also potentially facilitate the more efficient or rapid subsequent adaptation of the legislation either through translation into an adapted regulatory framework and/or through recommendations when the time comes for revising existing or developing new legislation.
Regulatory sandboxes should be able to experiment and draw on several relevant healthcare innovation related frameworks other than pharmaceutical products (i.e. medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics, AI, digital health technologies, and substances of human origin among others). Due to their anticipatory and adaptive nature, regulatory sandboxes are well placed to address gaps and complexity within and across regulatory frameworks. Indeed, as the number of drug and device combinations increases, and technology integration becomes the norm rather than an exception in healthcare innovation R&D, manufacturing and healthcare delivery, the current siloed technology-specific frameworks may not provide a clear path forward. To that end, when considering an innovation, it is important to consider all relevant legislative frameworks including MDR and IVDR, the Clinical Trials Regulation6, the General Product Safety Regulation7 and AI ACT among others.
Although still new to the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector, there are a few examples of regulatory sandboxes such as the Sante Canada sandbox for advanced therapeutic products or the Singapore sandbox to test telemedicine. More recently, the UK launched the MHRA AI-airlock to assist in the development and deployment of software and AI medical devices, safely providing patients with earlier access to cutting edge innovations that improve care.
The overall aim of this IHI topic is to contribute to the progression and successful implementation of regulatory sandboxes for healthcare innovations by developing a comprehensive and shared understanding of their value and process of implementation. The topic should also enable the development of a cross-sectoral community of stakeholders including pharma and medical device companies, regulators, and health technology assessment bodies (HTAs), among other stakeholders.
To fulfil this aim, the proposal should:
1. Scan the horizon for potential sandbox candidates including how sandboxes provide an additional tool to existing frameworks, and use the examples identified to model the process.
To this end, a key objective is to identify a number of healthcare innovation case studies to better understand how a regulatory sandbox could be used to solve further-defined challenges at an existing regulation level and inform recommendations for end-to-end operations. These cases could draw from the past, present and from horizon scanning activities (the EMA’s work in this area already provides a hint8) to anticipate future innovations, looking across their development value chain.
2. Analyse how regulatory sandboxes can drive science and health technology innovation in an evolving environment.
The proposal should do this by:
anticipating consequences for health technology development under a regulatory sandbox mechanism, acknowledging its time-limited scope and the consequences (considering the technical particularities of healthcare innovation) for other downstream activities e.g., standardisation, health technology assessment;
proactively identifying any guardrails and mitigation measures.
3. Develop recommendations for end-to-end operations of regulatory sandboxes to inform healthcare innovation developers, regulators and downstream decision makers.
The proposal should do this by:
· mapping out conceptual elements and operationalisation features of future sandbox mechanisms based on existing experiences in other fields such as governance, conditions fostering dialogue and collaboration, access to the right type of expertise, support, regulatory customisation, sharing/communicating lessons learned and their translation via the appropriate frameworks into new standards, among other elements to be further defined;
· modelling how to operationalise the sandbox(es) (including governance, operations, principles) and how they could be used in healthcare innovation development and evaluation in conjunction with existing regulatory mechanisms to advance innovation at European and national levels.
Part of the topic entails modelling a regulatory sandbox. The proposal should therefore consider good practices for designing and evaluating the necessary operating models to ensure the robustness and future applicability of the output of the project.
The project outcomes could also offer directions for the translation of the resulting recommendations into digital tools and systems deemed necessary for the functioning of regulatory sandboxes (e.g. ensuring collaboration between different health authorities’ triage mechanisms, horizon scanning, fitness check evaluations), as relevant.
When developing a comprehensive and shared understanding of the value of regulatory sandboxes, applicants will have to explore key aspects across the life-cycle of healthcare innovations with the objective of accompanying their ultimate adoption, which could include as appropriate R&D, regulatory authorities, HTA bodies, payers, governments, clinicians and patients. Ethical considerations would also have to be considered as some innovations could trigger questions in this field.A shared objective should include to develop a regulatory strategy and interaction plan for generating appropriate evidence, enabling engagement across all the different decision makers in a timely manner (e.g. national competent authorities, EMA and the respective Innovation Task Force, qualification advice) and identifying aspects that can be leveraged by existing regulatory tools, as well as the limiting aspects and the flexibilities that would be required under a regulatory sandbox to achieve the timely development and access of healthcare innovations.
Eligible Applicants:
Entities Eligible for Funding
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe;
Total Budget: €47,550,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 10 October 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time & 23 April 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
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Programme: United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
Objective:
The UNICEF Global Learning Innovation Hub has announced a groundbreaking portfolio initiative called the "Blue Unicorn Farm," which seeks innovative EdTech solutions to address the global learning crisis.
Eligible Activities:
With up to $150,000 in funding available for selected EdTech tools, the portfolio, launched in June 2024, aims to fund and support cutting-edge educational technologies that can transform learning outcomes for millions of children worldwide, particularly in low-resource settings.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants for the Blue Unicorn Farm initiative include technology companies, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations with evidence-backed EdTech tools. Additionally, selected tools will be showcased on the Learning Cabinet, a global platform for innovative EdTech tools, and will engage with local ecosystems for market insights and collaboration.
Solutions will be evaluated based on their potential to impact over 100 million children, grounding in the science of learning, proven evidence of positive outcomes, secure data management, adaptability to low-resource contexts, and overall affordability and innovation. To this end, the Learning Innovation Hub, alongside with partners such as the Asian Development Bank, ARM, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, and others, have developed a stringent methodology to assess EdTech tools, called the EdTech for Good Framework. The program is particularly interested in solutions that employ innovative approaches such as personalized and adaptive learning, formative assessment, and immersive learning experiences.
Total Budget: €500,000
Deadline: 31/12/2024
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Programme: HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Objective:
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
· Expand the portfolio of cost-effective advanced biofuel production concepts through energy-driven biorefineries.
· Reduce cost, improve efficiency, support de-risking, to accelerate the availability of competitive and zero-waste advanced biofuel production concepts.
· Contribute to the Mission Innovation 2.0 mission of Integrated Biorefineries.
· Optimize resource efficiency, energy output and total products value from biomass
· Reinforce the European scientific basis and European export potential for renewable fuel production solutions through international collaborations.
Specific Topic Conditions: Activities are expected to achieve TRL 5 by the end of the project
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Development of zero-waste and neutral or negative carbon emission energy-efficient biorefinery concepts for enabling the production of low-cost advanced biofuels through co-production of added value bio-based products and bioenergy. Conversion of biogenic wastes and residues as well as algae and aquatic biomass through chemical, biochemical, electrochemical, biological, thermochemical pathways or combinations of them in highly circular processes are in scope. The integration design is expected to include mass and energy flows, addressing the process heat and power needs by the use of co-produced bio-heat and bio-power, capturing and reusing biogenic effluent gases and sequestering biogenic emissions, for example in the form of biochar as soil amendment, such as to maximize overall material and energy efficiencies. An assessment of the feedstock cost supply at regional and local level and improvement of feedstock mobilisation patterns including via enabling technologies, such as digitalisation, should be included. Socioeconomic and environmental sustainability including circular economy, social, economic and environmental aspects are expected to be assessed on a life-cycle analysis basis. The advanced biofuels cost should aim to be reduced at parity with marketed biofuel equivalents or in the absence of these competitive to the fossil fuel equivalents. Technology validated in relevant environment is required. International cooperation with Mission Innovation countries is expected. Proposals should provide information and assessment about the economic feasibility and the potential of scaling-up the technology at commercial scale as appropriate.
Synergies are possible with topic HORIZON-CL6-2023-ZEROPOLLUTION: Innovative technologies for zero pollution, zero-waste biorefineries (RIA) and respective cooperation activities are encouraged.
Eligible Applicants:
Entities Eligible for Funding
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe;
Total Budget: €7,000,000
Deadline: 04/02/2025
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Programme: Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
Objective:
The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation was set up in 1999. Susan and Michael Dell have supported the foundation primarily through investing the proceeds of sales of shares of Dell Inc. They are helping children living in urban poverty. The international grant program aims to transform the lives of children living in urban poverty in India and South Africa.
Eligible Activities:
The strategies supported are: (1) high quality education for children; (2) health: creating a system that promotes wellness and prevents illness; and (3) family economic stability: micro-financing for stable family incomes including financial inclusion, job creation and livelihoods.
Apart from the US, they are funding projects in India and South Africa.
Eligible Applicants:
They fund social enterprises that directly serve or impact children or youth from urban low-income communities in the areas of education, health, and family economic stability (including livelihoods and financial inclusion). These social enterprises may be structured as for-profit or nonprofit entities.
Total Budget: $10,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: OAK FOUNDATION
Objective:
The grant program supports issues of global social and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged.
Eligible Activities:
The sector areas eligible for funding are:
(1) child abuse: they support initiatives that eliminate the sexual exploitation of children; engage men and boys in combating the sexual abuse of children; and promote the prevention of violence against children;
(2) environment: they fund climate change mitigation, wildlife conservation, and the conservation of marine resources;
(3) international human rights: they want to end impunity for the gross violations of human rights, uphold prohibitions on arbitrary detention and torture, protect human rights defenders at risk, and multiply and amplify influential voices on IHRP global priorities;
(4) women: to end patterns of violence and exploitation that disrupt women’s lives by ensuring that rights-based laws and policies guarantee an environment free from violence;
(5) learning differences: they support teacher development, student engagement and parental understanding;
(6) Joint India program as well as the
(7) Zimbabwe program.
They work in Bulgaria, Latvia, Moldova, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania for the child abuse program; Balkans, Brazil, Central America, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Moldova, Bulgaria, the North Caucasus and India for the women programs; and international for the other programs.
Eligible Applicants:
Most of the grantees are non-profit organisations (incl. universities, UN-organisations, associations and networks).
Total Budget: $200,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: ENERGY FOUNDATION CHINA
Objective:
The Energy Foundation was launched in 1991 by three leading foundations who decided it was time for philanthropy to help the world meet its energy challenges. In 1999, with support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Energy Foundation established the China Sustainable Energy Program now called Energy Foundation China.
Eligible Activities:
They support work in the sectors of clean power, environmental management, industry, low-carbon development, sustainable cities, and transportation, as well as strategic communications.
The foundation evaluates grant requests primarily on their ability to: (1) deliver real commitments to energy efficiency and renewable energy in China; and (2) build capacity in organizations within China and thereby further sustainable energy policy progress.
They focus on China.
Eligible Applicants:
Grants are provided to charitable organizations (commonly referred to as non-profit, non-governmental, or civil society organizations). This includes many Universities and research organizations. Eligible organizations include U.S. 501(c)(3) public charities as well as organizations in China and other countries outside of the U.S. whose projects are assessed and deemed to be charitable.
Total Budget: €30,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
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Programme: METLIFE FOUNDATION
Objective:
MetLife Foundation was founded in 1976 to continue MetLife’s long tradition of corporate contributions and community involvement. While financial inclusion is their global focus, the Foundation also sponsors initiatives in other philanthropic areas. These programmatic areas include medical research, arts and cultural institutions, disaster relief, and civic initiatives. Since its creation, the Foundation has provided more than $700 million in grants to make a positive difference for the people, families and communities they serve. Its global focus is financial inclusion and it works in both developing and developed economies to expand and improve financial services.
Eligible Activities:
Their four core areas are: (1) Economic Inclusion: upskilling and reskilling talent to be competitive in a new economy, establish a career and earn family-sustaining wages to achieve intergenerational economic mobility; (2) Financial Health: efforts focused on building financial resiliency through the enablement of budget management, savings, access to credit and public/private benefits; (3) Resilient Communities: efforts that open up and expand access to physical and mental well-being resources, support for a more resilient planet through climate focused partnerships and promote resiliency through arts and culture; and (4) Impact Investing.
They fund intervention in the US, Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe.
Eligible Applicants:
Their grant recipient partners need to be aligned with their strategy, be capable partners to deliver on their grants, and be willing to measure and share results with them and with the broader financial inclusion community about both their successful interventions, and their “lessons learned.” Most of their partners are likely to be not-for-profit or NGOs, but they may make grants to other organisations seeking to reach low- and moderate-income populations with appropriate financial services (i.e. banks, Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs), and, in some markets, telecom companies).
Total Budget: $50,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:
https://www.metlife.com/sustainability/MetLife-Foundation/resources/
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Programme: European Commission - LIFE
Objective:
Objective:
Support the full implementation of the following strategies and plans:
· National Energy and Climate Plans (NECP, Regulation on the governance of the energy union and climate action (EU)2018/1999).
· National Energy Efficiency Action Plans (NEEAP).
· National or regional adaptation strategies or action plans.
· Urban or community-based action plans pioneering the transition to a low carbon and/or climate resilient society.
· National, regional or industry-/sector-specific greenhouse gas mitigation strategies or low carbon economy roadmaps contributing to climate neutrality.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
SIPs should aim at the full implementation of the strategies and plans listed in "Objective". This might not mean that the SIP will cover all actions foreseen in the strategy/plan or that the strategy/plan will be fully implemented during the lifetime of the SIP. However, the SIP shall include strategic actions to catalyse a process and mobilise supplementary commitments and funding that will lead, in due time, to the full implementation of the plan or strategy.
SIPs shall promote the coordination with and mobilisation of other relevant Union, national or private funding sources for the implementation of the complementary measures or actions outside of the SIP in the framework of the targeted plan or strategy, giving preference to EU funding. Within the SIP itself, however, co-funding may not come from other EU funding sources.
SIPs shall actively involve the main stakeholders necessary for the implementation of the targeted plan or strategy. They should be involved in both the design and implementation of the given project. This involvement is expected to be achieved by including them - where possible and reasonable - as associated beneficiaries of the SIP, or through their active participation in the implementation of the SIP itself and/or of the complementary actions.
SIPs should facilitate and result in the building up of strategic capacities among the competent authorities and stakeholders to ensure a long-term sustainability of project results and actions, and to ensure that they will be able to function as co-deliverers of the targeted plan or strategy during or after the end of the SIP.
The SIP complexity requires an adaptive approach in the design of the implementing mechanism. For this reason, SIPs will be implemented based on a revolving programming mechanism structured in phases (i.e. Phase 1, Phase 2, etc.). Each phase should normally last at least 3 years, to reduce administrative burden, although duration might be shorter if properly justified.
See Call document and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for a more detailed description of SIPs scope and features.
Expected Impact:
By the end of the project: at least substantial contribution to the implementation of the targeted plan/strategy, and mechanisms established to ensure full implementation of the plan/strategy.
After the project: Full implementation of the plan/strategy.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must: be legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €30,000,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 05 September 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time 06 March 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/life-2024-strat-clima-sip-two-stage
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Programme: European Commission - LIFE
Objective:
Objective:
Support the full implementation of the following plans and strategies:
· Prioritised Action Frameworks (PAF) pursuant to Article 8 of Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (the Habitats Directive); and
Other plans or strategies adopted at international, national, regional or multiregional level by nature and biodiversity authorities, that implement EU nature and/or biodiversity policy or legislation and include specific and measurable actions, or targets, with a clear timeline and budget.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
A SNAP will not have to cover all actions foreseen in the strategy/plan or ensure that the strategy/plan will be fully implemented during the lifetime of the SNAP. However, the SNAP shall include strategic actions to catalyse a process and mobilise supplementary commitments and funding that will lead, in due time, to the full implementation of the plan or strategy.
SNAPs shall promote the coordination with and mobilisation of other relevant Union, national or private funding sources for the implementation of the complementary measures or actions outside of the SNAP in the framework of the targeted plan or strategy, giving preference to Union funding. Within the SNAP itself, however, co-funding may not come from other Union funding sources.
SNAPs shall actively involve the main stakeholders necessary for the implementation of the targeted plan or strategy. They should be involved in both the design and implementation of the given project. This involvement is expected to be achieved by including them - where possible and reasonable - as associated beneficiaries of the SNAP, or through their active participation in the implementation of the SNAP itself and/or of the complementary actions.
SNAPs should facilitate and result in the building up of strategic capacities among the competent authorities and stakeholders to ensure a long-term sustainability of project results and actions, and to ensure that they will be able to function as co-deliverers of the targeted plan or strategy after the end of the SNAP.
Depending on the needs of the given Members States (or regions) as identified in their PAFs or in other nature and biodiversity plans (which must be available by the time a SNAP full proposal is submitted), the set of measures to be included in a SNAP programme of actions shall include the following:
institutional support and capacity building actions;
mobilisation and coordination of additional finance for complementary actions, in particular from other EU funding instruments and programmes.
In addition, SNAPs:
may also include concrete conservation and restoration measures, in particular where these cannot be supported through other EU funding programmes;
shall also work to change (when applicable) the rules for other funds or adapting other policies/actions which might be leading to failure of the target plan/strategy.
The SNAP complexity requires an adaptive approach in the design of the implementing mechanism. For this reason, SNAPs will be implemented based on a revolving programming mechanism structured in phases (i.e. Phase 1, Phase 2, etc.). Each phase should normally last at least 3 years, to reduce administrative burden, although duration might be shorter if properly justified.
See Call document and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for a more detailed description of SNAP scope and features.
Expected Impact:
By the end of the project: at least substantial contribution to the implementation of the targeted plan/strategy, and mechanisms established to ensure full implementation of the plan/strategy.
After the project: Full implementation of the plan/strategy.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must: be legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €70,000,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 05 September 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time
06 March 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/life-2024-strat-nat-snap-two-stage
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Programme: European Commission - LIFE
Objective:
Objective:
Support the full implementation of the following plans and strategies:
· Circular Economy: National or Regional Circular Economy Action Plans, Strategies, Roadmaps or similar, which are officially approved, and which include specific and measurable actions, or targets, with a clear timeline and are in line with or complementing the objectives of the EU Circular Economy Action Plan.
· Waste: National and regional Waste Management Plans pursuant to Article 28 of the Waste Framework Directive and/or Waste Prevention Programmes as requested by article 29 of the Waste Framework Directive.
· Water: River basin management plans pursuant to Annex VII to the Water Framework Directive, Flood Risk Management Plans pursuant to the Floods Directive or Marine Strategies pursuant to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.
· Air: Air quality plans pursuant to the Ambient Air Quality Directive or National Air Pollution Control Programmes pursuant to the National Emission Ceilings Directive.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
SIPs should aim at the full implementation of the strategies and plans listed in "Objective". This might not mean that the SIP will cover all actions foreseen in the strategy/plan or that the strategy/plan will be fully implemented during the lifetime of the SIP. However, the SIP shall include strategic actions to catalyse a process and mobilise supplementary commitments and funding that will lead, in due time, to the full implementation of the plan or strategy.
SIPs shall promote the coordination with and mobilisation of other relevant Union, national or private funding sources for the implementation of the complementary measures or actions outside of the SIP in the framework of the targeted plan or strategy, giving preference to EU funding. Within the SIP itself, however, co-funding may not come from other EU funding sources.
SIPs shall actively involve the main stakeholders necessary for the implementation of the targeted plan or strategy. They should be involved in both the design and implementation of the given project. This involvement is expected to be achieved by including them - where possible and reasonable - as associated beneficiaries of the SIP, or through their active participation in the implementation of the SIP itself and/or of the complementary actions.
SIPs should facilitate and result in the building up of strategic capacities among the competent authorities and stakeholders to ensure a long-term sustainability of project results and actions, and to ensure that they will be able to function as co-deliverers of the targeted plan or strategy during or after the end of the SIP.
The SIP complexity requires an adaptive approach in the design of the implementing mechanism. For this reason, SIPs will be implemented based on a revolving programming mechanism structured in phases (i.e. Phase 1, Phase 2, etc.). Each phase should normally last at least 3 years, to reduce administrative burden, although duration might be shorter if properly justified.
See Call document and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for a more detailed description of SIPs scope and features.
Expected Impact:
By the end of the project: at least substantial contribution to the implementation of the targeted plan/strategy, and mechanisms established to ensure full implementation of the plan/strategy.
After the project: Full implementation of the plan/strategy.
Eligible Applicants:
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must: be legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €49,000,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 05 September 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time 06 March 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/life-2024-strat-env-sip-two-stage
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Programme: HORIZON-JU-RIA HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
The action under this topic must contribute to all the outcomes listed below, by integrating existing data sets (clinical registries, prospective observational trials and real-world evidence data, for example from medical claims and biobanks as well as genotypic and epigenetic information), and data collections from historical and ongoing clinical trials (provided by industry partners).
Algorithms and models, including Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based models, that are adaptable to differences in data availability have been developed and validated in different datasets to allow for the identification of osteoarthritis (OA) patient subpopulations (phenotypes/endotypes) that will benefit from specific, targeted treatment approaches. The identification of subpopulations will be based on:
· the patient-specific burden of osteoarthritis with focus on underlying drivers (e.g. metabolic disease) and multi-morbidity/holistic patient profiles;
· the evaluation of underlying pathways driving local vs. centralised pain in joint disease and the correlation of symptoms to joint tissue pathology;
· the identification of key risk factors for pain in joint disease that can be linked to structural disease progression providing insights into the symptom–structure discordance in OA;
· the detection of joint areas at risk of progression and quantification of structural progression to a more advanced stage;
· the measures from existing innovative tools such as functional assessments with mobility and activity assessing devices (including algorithms) to reflect independence, gait measures, and assessments of muscular strength and function, as well as balance and coordination to subtly measure functional changes;
· evaluating the differences and commonalities of osteoarthritis (OA) and inflammation-driven joint diseases such as psoriatic arthritis (PsA), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), erosive hand osteoarthritis (eHOA).
A validation strategy is provided for a selected set of novel endpoints to measure and predict OA disease progression that enables planning of regulatory implementation pathways. This validation strategy supports innovative outcome-based and patient-centred development approaches for medicines and other therapeutic options to be discussed by regulatory authorities, health technology assessment (HTA) bodies, healthcare providers, patients, scientists and industry, shaping new approaches to the development of efficient treatments in OA and respective regulatory frameworks;
A decision tool is developed – based on the predictive models – that supports shared decision-making for patients, their caregivers and healthcare providers according to the predicted disease progression, the most likely associated OA disease drivers and the current disease burden;
A robust, trustworthy, and interpretable AI framework is established, that enables the development of guidelines or determines any boundaries for predictive modelling at various stages of value generation e.g. biological discovery, patient subgrouping, and clinical trials enrichment. Measures to mitigate the risk of bias and discrimination are implemented including, but not limited, to:
· careful consideration of data sets to ensure diversity and inclusion (or account for the lack thereof);
· the running of bias-unaware AI models and provision of fairness metrics;
· applying AI models within frameworks mitigating bias and promoting fairness during the pre-processing, in-processing and post-processing phases.
Data platform(s) are designed and implemented to allow a workable and efficient collaboration across the participating organisations in their respective geographies, respecting each data contributor’s access, privacy and consent approaches, which can be facilitated by federated data sharing. This outcome may serve as a blueprint for other data collaborations under the umbrella of the EU’s newly implemented AI act and data policies 1, 2.
It is expected that certain existing assets like clinical data, algorithms, and data storage infrastructure will be used as background in this action. Therefore, beneficiaries intending to participate in this data-driven action need to be comfortable with the principle that ownership of specific deliverables / project results which would be considered direct improvements to a beneficiary’s background asset, will need to be transferred back to the beneficiary who contributed the background asset to the project. Provision for, and conditions relating to such transfers should be specified in the project’s consortium agreement.
1 Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and amending certain Union legislative acts (2021/0106(COD), 26 Jan. 2024, pdf (europa.eu), last accessed 04.04.2024
2 Proposal for a regulation - The European Health Data Space Proposal for a regulation - The European Health Data Space - European Commission (europa.eu), last accessed 04.04.2024
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Osteoarthritis (OA) has no cure and affects the lives of more than 500 million people worldwide with widespread individual, societal and economic consequences. Economic consequences pertain on one hand to health care utilisation and health care spending, OA is however also associated with relevant economic impact on the individual due to missed days at work, early retirement, and substantial out-of-pocket expenditures. Since OA primarily affects the elderly, females, patients with lower levels of education and socio-economic status and certain ethnicities, the associated economic risk hits already vulnerable populations. OA has long been underestimated in its impact; the disease negatively affects social functioning and ranks 7th for years lived with disability in people over 70 years. With its impact on activities of daily living, OA is a major risk factor for loss of independence. Additionally, OA is associated with increased mortality.
Despite major research efforts and increasing insights into the mechanism, epidemiology, risk factors and natural history of OA, various development efforts over the years have failed to provide a disease-modifying treatment. The epidemiology as well as clinical and biological insights strongly suggest the existence of several pheno- and endotypes of osteoarthritis; failure to account for those differences critically hampers progress in the field. The implementation of innovative approaches to stratify the patient population, predict the course of disease and define patient-relevant endpoints is specifically relevant in an ageing society with a high prevalence of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and multi-morbidity. Furthermore, there is an increasing prevalence of post-traumatic secondary OA in relatively young individuals affected at the prime of their lives. First studies towards the clustering of patient groups and development of predictive models have been published suggesting the feasibility of these approaches. Bringing all those insights together requires the collaboration of experts from various fields and can only be achieved in the concerted action of a public-private partnership, including existing initiatives.
The overall aim of this topic is to build a public-private partnership that is able to integrate and leverage the plethora of existing and currently collected data on OA, as well as the increasing insights and expertise gathered over decades of research. Further, the goal is to use a data driven approach to significantly progress the field by leveraging the novel opportunities that have emerged thanks to increased computing power and innovative methodologies in big data analysis, in order to:
· integrate different perspectives to improve the understanding of osteoarthritis as a complex disease;
· foster progress towards regulatory validation of patient-relevant endpoints to measure and predict OA disease progression as well as alternative endpoints to measure response to treatment;
· allow predictive modelling while actively seeking feedback to incorporate the perception of patients, care givers, primary care physicians and regulators.
The action generated by this topic should pave the way towards transforming the current isolated research efforts and static late-stage development approaches into a more patient-centred and simplified (more inclusive/enriched patient population, shorter study duration, potential enablement of the evaluation of preventive or early therapeutic strategies based on predicted outcomes, cost-effectiveness etc.) as well as sustainable part of clinical research and development. This aim is supported by increasing the insights into OA as an heterogenous disease with various underlying patient risk profiles, patho-mechanistic pathways and underlying genotypic/epigenetic/ metabolomic/transcriptomic phenomena based on big data. Such insights will allow for the creation of integrated risk profiles combining clinical and multi-omic approaches (e.g. clinical characteristics, transcriptomics, proteomics, genetic markers, and in-depth multimodal imaging data).
These advances are needed to support the development of patient-relevant and cost-efficient integrated health care solutions including focused, individualised treatments for specific patient segments. The use of AI-based approaches is crucial for the integration of the totality of existing patient datasets and mechanistic disease insights to better understand disease drivers in various tissues of joints thereby upscaling, broadening and/or sharpening current methodology.
The proposed action must:
· gather and provide access to high quality data – including clinical data from trials (mainly data from placebo arms from studies run outside the project) provided by the pre-identified industry consortium and by applicants as well as prospective observational data, registry data and cohort data including genetic, imaging, soluble biomarker, and data from wearables among others;
· provide a flexible federated data lake house with appropriate tools for access, management and governance, data curation, integration, and augmentation for consequent high-performance analytics using for example new or contributed AI (foundation) models and modelling workflows. This infrastructure will deploy existing or newly developed approaches or implementations to host and analyse disparate data assets ranging from public, commercial, and not-for-profit observational and trial clinical data to -omics, images, or data from wearables. In their proposal applicants should address key challenges around federated data collection, data privacy, data transfer, data storage, data processing, curation, and harmonisation of data, etc. to achieve a comprehensive understanding of OA by upscaled, big data analytics from:
· genetic analyses (GWAS);
· AI-driven big data analyses for identification of clinical patterns in phenotypes and endotypes;
· algorithm-based imaging analyses of whole joints and peri-articular tissues;
· the evaluation of performance assessments using novel technologies and devices.
· generate and provide a validation strategy for a risk model of disease progression by evaluating whether and to which extent risk factors and predictive models identified in the literature and the above-mentioned data sets are reliably predictive for the progression of structural joint changes as evidenced by imaging, pain and functional decline documented by patients and ultimately leading to joint replacement surgery. The combination of surrogate markers such as imaging [1] with medical history and medication, as well as with predictive markers (plasma-based multi-omics, polygenic risk scores) [2][3], patient reported outcome data and data from wearables or performance tests [4], will generate a more refined predictive engine in analogy to, for example, established fracture risk prediction algorithms in osteoporosis;
· work towards a broad consensus between all stakeholders especially linking patients, caregivers and healthcare providers’ perspectives to regulatory and health technology assessment (HTA) bodies. This will enable the elaboration of a set of endpoints relevant to these groups depending on the phase of development of treatments (i.e. early phase trials for medication or device efficacy, while late-stage development needs to prove effectiveness, which may necessitate different sets of outcomes), incorporating the various domains of assessments, and taking into account the predominant effect (structural or symptomatic) of the evaluated treatment. This will help to shape new regulatory frameworks for accelerated targeted OA treatment development based on big data analyses, in-silico trials, digital twin approaches and similar innovative trial designs;
· use data analysis and modelling to provide evidence and knowledge that could enable the evaluation of existing innovative tools (such as functional assessments, imaging approaches etc.) and innovative treatment solutions for OA, based on their scientific validity and feasibility as a prerequisite. Design a strategy to progress them towards regulatory validation and implementation. The action should provide an exploratory and interactive platform to evaluate the validity and user-preference of novel methods of evidence generation, such as the use of data from wearable devices, innovative imaging, and surrogate markers for joint replacement surgery;
· model short- and long-term economic and public health impact from OA including morbidity and mortality. These new risk models should support benefit/risk assessment as well as quality and efficacy assessments of therapeutic interventions in patients diagnosed with OA to prevent or delay the onset of disease progression, but also avoid overtreatment and thereby optimise the use of health care resources;
· develop a decision tool based on predictive models that can support shared decision-making between physicians, patients and their caregivers to select the intervention best suited to address the various stages and symptoms of OA in an individual patient, integrating also patient reported outcome and experience measure (PROMs and PREMs) data as well as patient preferences. The diversity of patients at risk or affected by the disease must be considered when discussing patient-relevant outcomes to enable the focused development of treatments and healthcare solutions specific to the needs of individual patients;
· leverage real-world evidence (RWE) data to address the diversity of patients including sex and gender, ethnicity, and race disparities to develop patient engagement strategies. This should enable engagement with specific groups for the design of OA outcome trials and better promotion of OA management.
The action should contribute to addressing the research needs outlined in the Regulatory Science Research Needs initiative1, launched by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), assessing the utility of real-world healthcare data to improve the quality of randomised controlled trial simulations and patient and public involvement and engagement.
Therefore, applicants are expected to consider the potential regulatory impact of the results and – as relevant – develop a regulatory strategy and interaction plan for generating appropriate evidence as well as engaging with regulators in a timely manner (e.g. national competent authorities, EMA Innovation Task Force, qualification advice).
Consideration should be specifically given to patient and public involvement and engagement in the implementation of all of the above activities. The applicants are expected to leverage prior learnings, for example, previous experiences that have demonstrated the importance of transparent and accessible structures to receive input from patients, caregivers and health care providers as key stakeholders and integrate expertise from various fields relevant in this context [5]. The continuous and active engagement of all groups is indispensable to meet patients’ and providers’ needs and leverage synergies between practitioners and scientists, especially to ensure the sustainability of potential outputs.
Applicants should provide in their proposal evidence that they have in place all permissions (legal, ethical) needed for accessing the data necessary to implement the action.
Note that the implementation of prospective clinical studies is not supported by this topic.
1 https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/other/regulatory-science-research-needs_en.pdf, last accessed March 19th 2024
Expected Impact:
The project should contribute to all of the following impacts:
· the federated integration of big data from disparate data sources including the use of digital twin and similar methodological approaches will lay the foundation for advanced clinical trial designs that allow for more efficient and smaller trials, as well as the reduction of patients’ burden and exposure to placebo;
· the development of predictive models for disease progression and joint replacement, which are crucial to efficiently discuss treatment strategies, support assessments of quality in health care and equitably plan and allocate health care resources. In addition, such predictive models can revolutionise outcome trial designs, shortening the trial duration and patient burden as well as reducing development costs. The aspired modular flexibility to data availability allows for their sustained use in various settings and economic circumstances;
· the stratification of different patient groups and targeting of treatments to patients’ needs and preferences, which enables the development of successful therapies, informs development strategies, improves patient and caregiver engagement and optimises trial designs. This stratification also supports data-based shared decision making for health care solutions in clinical practice;
· availability of tools that enable specific functional measurements and reflect the real-life treatment benefit for patients. These tools have been positively evaluated for practicality and scientific validity and could be used for systematic assessments complementing clinical and patient reported information. All of the above will allow for better trial designs that can demonstrate the treatment benefits of medicines and health care solutions in early development programmes with limited numbers of patients.
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €47,550,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 10 October 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time 23 April 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-ju-ihi-2024-08-02-two-stage
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Programme: HORIZON-JU-RIA HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
The action under this topic must contribute to all of the following outcomes:
· A horizon scanning for potential sandbox candidates including how sandboxes provide an additional tool to existing frameworks and identified examples to model the process;
· Analysis of how regulatory sandboxes can drive science and health technology innovation in an evolving environment;
· Recommendations for end-to-end operations of regulatory sandboxes to inform healthcare innovation developers, regulators, and other decision makers.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
While there is no concrete definition, regulatory sandboxes generally refer to regulatory frameworks that provide a structure for healthcare innovation developers to test and experiment with new and innovative products, services, or approaches under the oversight of a regulator for a limited period of time. These adaptive tools are meant to address challenges arising from the acceleration of technological/scientific advances and the mechanisms intended to regulate them. It offers customisation in terms of how a regulatory framework can be applied, combined with appropriate safeguards.
Regulatory sandboxes, first tested in the fintech sector (2015), are starting to transform the traditional methods used by regulatory agencies in the health sector to accompany the development of safe, efficacious, and high-quality health technologies1, which, due to their level of novelty, challenge the current regulatory framework. The mechanism enables breakthrough developments and the testing of alternative regulatory approaches for disruptive innovations for medicinal products, related platforms and their combinations, including where appropriate medical and digital technologies. Regulatory sandboxes are mentioned as important future-proofing elements in the legislative proposal2 of the European Commission on the general pharmaceutical legislation. The European Commission’s communication to boost biotechnology and biomanufacturing in the EU further promotes the establishment of regulatory sandboxes that allow the testing of novel solutions in a controlled environment for a limited amount of time under the supervision of regulators as a way of quickly bringing more of them to the market3. Regulatory sandboxes are not featured in the medical devices and in vitro diagnostics regulations (MDR and IVDR)4, but the artificial intelligence (AI) Act5 creates an opportunity for regulatory sandboxes focused on case studies for AI-enabled medical devices. Regulatory sandboxes entail a shared learning objective for innovators (finding a pathway and getting regulatory predictability) and regulators (understanding the technology and defining how best to regulate it). The mechanism helps to inform future regulation through experimentation and evidence generation and minimises the risks of regulating ex-ante innovative and novel approaches prematurely or inappropriately. For the same reasons regulatory sandboxes also potentially facilitate the more efficient or rapid subsequent adaptation of the legislation either through translation into an adapted regulatory framework and/or through recommendations when the time comes for revising existing or developing new legislation.
Regulatory sandboxes should be able to experiment and draw on several relevant healthcare innovation related frameworks other than pharmaceutical products (i.e. medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics, AI, digital health technologies, and substances of human origin among others). Due to their anticipatory and adaptive nature, regulatory sandboxes are well placed to address gaps and complexity within and across regulatory frameworks. Indeed, as the number of drug and device combinations increases, and technology integration becomes the norm rather than an exception in healthcare innovation R&D, manufacturing and healthcare delivery, the current siloed technology-specific frameworks may not provide a clear path forward. To that end, when considering an innovation, it is important to consider all relevant legislative frameworks including MDR and IVDR, the Clinical Trials Regulation6, the General Product Safety Regulation7 and AI ACT among others.
Although still new to the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector, there are a few examples of regulatory sandboxes such as the Sante Canada sandbox for advanced therapeutic products or the Singapore sandbox to test telemedicine. More recently, the UK launched the MHRA AI-airlock to assist in the development and deployment of software and AI medical devices, safely providing patients with earlier access to cutting edge innovations that improve care.
The overall aim of this IHI topic is to contribute to the progression and successful implementation of regulatory sandboxes for healthcare innovations by developing a comprehensive and shared understanding of their value and process of implementation. The topic should also enable the development of a cross-sectoral community of stakeholders including pharma and medical device companies, regulators, and health technology assessment bodies (HTAs), among other stakeholders.
To fulfil this aim, the proposal should:
1. Scan the horizon for potential sandbox candidates including how sandboxes provide an additional tool to existing frameworks, and use the examples identified to model the process.
To this end, a key objective is to identify a number of healthcare innovation case studies to better understand how a regulatory sandbox could be used to solve further-defined challenges at an existing regulation level and inform recommendations for end-to-end operations. These cases could draw from the past, present and from horizon scanning activities (the EMA’s work in this area already provides a hint8) to anticipate future innovations, looking across their development value chain.
2. Analyse how regulatory sandboxes can drive science and health technology innovation in an evolving environment.
The proposal should do this by:
· anticipating consequences for health technology development under a regulatory sandbox mechanism, acknowledging its time-limited scope and the consequences (considering the technical particularities of healthcare innovation) for other downstream activities e.g., standardisation, health technology assessment;
· proactively identifying any guardrails and mitigation measures.
3. Develop recommendations for end-to-end operations of regulatory sandboxes to inform healthcare innovation developers, regulators and downstream decision makers.
The proposal should do this by:
· mapping out conceptual elements and operationalisation features of future sandbox mechanisms based on existing experiences in other fields such as governance, conditions fostering dialogue and collaboration, access to the right type of expertise, support, regulatory customisation, sharing/communicating lessons learned and their translation via the appropriate frameworks into new standards, among other elements to be further defined;
· modelling how to operationalise the sandbox(es) (including governance, operations, principles) and how they could be used in healthcare innovation development and evaluation in conjunction with existing regulatory mechanisms to advance innovation at European and national levels.
Part of the topic entails modelling a regulatory sandbox. The proposal should therefore consider good practices for designing and evaluating the necessary operating models to ensure the robustness and future applicability of the output of the project.
The project outcomes could also offer directions for the translation of the resulting recommendations into digital tools and systems deemed necessary for the functioning of regulatory sandboxes (e.g. ensuring collaboration between different health authorities’ triage mechanisms, horizon scanning, fitness check evaluations), as relevant.
When developing a comprehensive and shared understanding of the value of regulatory sandboxes, applicants will have to explore key aspects across the life-cycle of healthcare innovations with the objective of accompanying their ultimate adoption, which could include as appropriate R&D, regulatory authorities, HTA bodies, payers, governments, clinicians and patients. Ethical considerations would also have to be considered as some innovations could trigger questions in this field.A shared objective should include to develop a regulatory strategy and interaction plan for generating appropriate evidence, enabling engagement across all the different decision makers in a timely manner (e.g. national competent authorities, EMA and the respective Innovation Task Force, qualification advice) and identifying aspects that can be leveraged by existing regulatory tools, as well as the limiting aspects and the flexibilities that would be required under a regulatory sandbox to achieve the timely development and access of healthcare innovations.
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €47,550,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 10 October 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time 23 April 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-ju-ihi-2024-08-03-two-stage
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Programme: HORIZON-JU-RIA HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
The action under this topic must contribute to all of the following outcomes:
· organisations and institutions involved in the development of therapies for the treatment and management of chronic disease have access to a unifying framework and consensus-based recommendations for:
· using a combination of patient preference information (PPI), clinical outcome assessments (COAs), and digital health technology (DHT)-derived measures to demonstrate the importance to patients of what is being measured by DHT-derived clinical-study endpoints;
· determining, from the patient perspective, what constitutes a minimal clinically important difference (MCID) in a patient-centred, DHT-derived clinical-study endpoint.
· new methods for analysing PPI and COA data collected using DHT and for combining data from PPI, COA, and DHT-derived measures are available to researchers;
· a consistent framework for engagement regarding the development and use of patient-centred, DHT-derived clinical-study endpoints is available to industry and stakeholders;
· acceptance of the use of PPI, COAs, and patient-centred DHT-derived measures in addition to or in combination with traditional clinical-study endpoints to provide a robust view of the benefits of a therapy to patients;
· acceptance of the use of patient-centred DHT-derived measures for clinical-study endpoints as reliable evidence for the evaluation of the clinical and economic benefit of therapeutic medicinal products and medical technologies among stakeholders including, but not limited to, patient groups, regulatory bodies, and health technology assessment (HTA) bodies (including the EU Member State Coordination Group on HTA), indicated by a qualification opinion, endorsement, adoption or other approval by each relevant stakeholder group;
· patient-centred, DHT-derived endpoints are implemented along with traditional clinical-study endpoints in clinical studies of therapies to treat chronic diseases, and data from DHT-derived clinical-study endpoints are used in regulatory and reimbursement decision-making.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Three types of patient-centred information related to how a patient feels and functions contribute to the evaluation of outcomes of a therapy:
patient preference information (PPI);
clinical outcome assessments (COAs) (including patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures);
digital health technology-derived (DHT-derived) measures.
Each of these types of measures can be used to understand patient-centred benefits of therapies (i.e., meaningful improvements in how a patient feels or functions).
DHT-derived measures can capture patient-centred information about disease symptoms, physical, cognitive, and emotional functions, and experience with therapy. They can measure the status of a patient’s health in ways that may be related to, but often differ from, COAs. For example, DHTs may measure activity intensity but not specific activities. Likewise, DHT-derived measures may detect changes in patient-centred outcomes - such as function - earlier than a patient may notice such a change. For patient-centred DHT-derived measures (i.e., DHT-derived measures that capture how a patient feels and functions) to be useful as endpoints in clinical studies, they must not only be technically validated, but also demonstrate that they measure functions, activities, symptoms, and other impacts of disease and treatment that are important to patients and measure changes in these outcomes that are meaningful to patients.
PPI, COAs, and DHT-derived measures are different, but complementary, types of patient-centred data. Because these measures are complementary, using these measures in combination will provide a more robust view of the benefits of therapies measured using DHT-derived endpoints from the patient perspective. Combining these complementary measures is necessary to demonstrate the utility of using DHT-derived measures as clinical study endpoints that reflect the value of treatment benefits to patients. Specifically, using these measures in combination may contribute to determining what constitutes a minimal clinically important difference (MCID) in patient-centred DHT-derived endpoints from the patient perspective in clinical studies of therapies to treat chronic diseases. For the purpose of this project, a chronic disease is defined as a long-term health condition that may not have a cure.
However, despite recent increases in the use of PPI, COAs, and patient-centred DHT-derived measures, there is no unifying framework for understanding the relationships among these measures, nor how they can be used in combination to demonstrate meaningful, patient-centred benefits of therapies for chronic diseases in clinical studies.
Therefore, uncertainties exist regarding the utility of these measures either alone or in tandem, and the meaningfulness to patients of patient-centred DHT-derived measures when used as clinical study endpoints in the development of therapeutic products (including, but not limited to, pharmaceutical products, combination products, and therapeutic devices) for the treatment of chronic diseases.
The topic aims to develop a unified framework and consensus-based recommendations for using multiple types of patient-centred information to support the use of DHT-derived endpoints to demonstrate therapeutic benefit. This will ensure that therapies addressing patients’ needs are approved for use and reimbursed at levels that reflect the value of the therapies to patients.
To fulfil this aim, the action funded under this topic must:
1. Develop a framework for using PPI, COAs, and DHT-derived measures in combination for the development, acceptance and implementation of patient-centred DHT-derived clinical-study endpoints in clinical studies of potential treatments for chronic diseases.
The framework will be designed to ensure that PPI, COAs, and patient-centred DHT-derived measures used in combination will be accepted as reliable evidence to support the use of DHT-derived clinical study endpoints in the evaluation of the clinical and economic benefit of therapeutic drugs and technologies.
The framework must:
· include recommendations for using the three types of patient-centred data in addition to or in combination with traditional clinical-study endpoints to provide evidence of the patient-centred benefits of therapeutic drugs and technologies;
· describe the potential relationships among COAs, patient-centred DHT-derived endpoints and other common types of clinical study endpoints;
· identify and address issues related to how and under which circumstances data from PPI and COAs can be used to determine what constitutes a MCID in a patient-centred DHT-derived clinical-study endpoint from the patient perspective;
· identify and address issues related to whether and how data from PPI, COAs, and patient-centred DHT-derived measures can be pooled, including the need for new techniques (including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models) to jointly analyse pooled data from the different types of measures;
· address issues related to diversity in patient populations (e.g., disease type, disease stage, health literacy, cultural factors, etc.) on the use and results of PPI, COAs, and DHT-derived measures and the ethical and equity implications of patient diversity on the interpretation and utility of patient-centred measures of therapeutic benefit.
2. Develop recommendations for:
· using quantitative PPI to better understand COA data by demonstrating the relative importance of domains, items, and scores (and changes therein) within a COA instrument and relative to other commonly used endpoints (including endpoints included in relevant core outcomes sets) in clinical studies within the same therapeutic area;
· understanding the relationships between COA data and patient-centred DHT-derived endpoints in diverse therapeutic areas;
· using DHTs (e.g., apps, smart personal devices, smart drug-delivery devices, therapeutic medical technologies, etc.) to collect PPI and COA data;
· using quantitative PPI, COAs, and patient-centred DHT-derived measures in combination to demonstrate the importance to patients of what is being measured by DHTs and determining what constitutes a MCID in a patient-centred, DHT-derived clinical-study endpoint.
3. Conduct at least four use cases to provide evidence to support the framework and recommendations.
Each use case should address one or more recommendations and all recommendations should be supported by one or more case studies. Applicants should specify the methodology to be applied in each use case and identify how each use case will inform the framework and recommendations. The set of use cases should:
· include a range of digital measurement domains (e.g., physical activity, sleep, cognition, fatigue, or others) and address differences between passive and interactive DHTs;
· include a range of patient ages (e.g., paediatric, adolescent, younger adults, and older adults);
· address issues related to diversity in patient populations (e.g., disease type, disease stage, health literacy, cultural factors, underserved patient populations);
· address issues related to combining and/or jointly analysing PPI, COA, and/or DHT-derived data using new techniques (including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models);
· be conducted in partnership with academic medical centres and focus on all of the following areas:
· paediatric radiation oncology;
· lung cancer;
· non-motor and motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease;
· obesity.
All use cases must be conducted in a way that is consistent with generally accepted international treatment guidelines in the relevant disease area.
The precise scope of the use cases will be developed by the full consortium during the preparation of the full proposal at the second stage. Case studies should not involve the de novo development of novel COAs, DHTs, or DHT-derived measures.
4. Include robust input from relevant stakeholders. Applicants are expected to specify how relevant stakeholders will be engaged and identify the type of stakeholder required and their expected role in the project. Accordingly, applicants are expected to:
· engage patients, parents or carers of juvenile patients, and patient organisations as active partners in all aspects of the project to ensure that interaction between patients and research is active, meaningful, and collaborative across all stages of the research process. In this way, research decision making is guided by patients' contributions as partners, recognising their specific experiences, values, and expertise;
· develop the framework and recommendations in consultation with stakeholders, including patient organisations, regulators, health technology assessment (HTA) bodies, and medical organisations to ensure consensus about what is required to demonstrate the patient-centred benefits of a therapy;
· develop a regulatory strategy and interaction plan for evidence generation to support the regulatory qualification of the framework and recommendations and engage with regulators in a timely manner (e.g., national competent authorities, EMA Innovation Task Force, qualification advice).
5. Complement and coordinate with other initiatives including:
· ongoing and completed European projects (and their successor organisations), and initiatives related to patient engagement and use of digital measurement technologies. Such projects may include, but are not limited to, IMI/IHI projects PRO-active, H2O, PREFER and the PREFER Expert Network, SISAQOL-IMI, IDEA-FAST, MOBILISE-D, IMPROVE, PaLaDin as well as EUnetHTA 21;
· existing frameworks and guidance documents related to patient-focused drug development such as those from FDA and EMA;
· existing frameworks and guidance documents related to the development and deployment of digital clinical measures such as those from the Digital Medicine Society.
Expected Impact:
The action under this topic is expected to achieve the following impacts:
· greater benefit to patients from improved health care by ensuring that DHT-derived measures of how a patient feels and functions are accepted as patient-centred clinical-study endpoints;
· patients having improved access to innovations that meet their needs through the development of new and improved evidence-based methodologies for a more comprehensive assessment of the added value of innovative therapeutic drugs and technologies;
· better informed decision-making at all levels of the health care system (authorities, organisations) to facilitate cost-effective allocation of health resources, continuing innovation, and better health outcomes;
· greater understanding of the relationship between multiple patient-centred measurements including PPI, COAs, and DHT-derived measures and how these measures, when considered together, can provide greater insight into the patient perspective;
· reduced uncertainty regarding the PPI and COA data required to demonstrate the patient-relevance of DHT-derived clinical-study endpoints, and that needed to determine what constitutes a MCID in a patient-centred DHT-derived clinical-study endpoint for use in the development of pharmaceutical products, diagnostics, combination products, and therapeutic devices;
· improved and more efficient engagement between industry and stakeholders in the evaluation of technologies developed using patient-centred DHT-derived endpoints in clinical studies;
· increased speed and efficiency in the development and evaluation of innovative therapeutic technologies.
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results
Total Budget: €47,550,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 10 October 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time 23 April 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-ju-ihi-2024-08-04-two-stage
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Programme: HORIZON-JU-RIA HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
The action under this topic must contribute to all the following outcomes:
· patients and citizens will benefit from better preventive measures, earlier detection and diagnosis, better outcomes for disease management, and access to innovative and effective treatments for cardiovascular disease (CVD), as needed;
· healthcare providers will benefit from updated, evidence-based guidelines on CVD management and more efficient clinical pathways. They will also gain clarity on best practice examples in health management and CVD prevention means in European cities;
· healthcare system decision-makers will have better evidence and tools to implement appropriate CVD prevention strategies, including digital therapies, allowing for their introduction into clinical practice and adoption by all segments of society;
· health technology assessment bodies, payers and regulators will benefit from better information on the real-life use of cardiovascular medicinal products, the benefit-risk profile of medical devices and the value of CVD prevention in cities / urban areas (note: a city / urban area is expected to have a population of at least 50 000 in its urban centre, in line with the OECD-EC (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – European Commission) definition of a city1, 2;
· researchers, including industry stakeholders, and clinical investigators will benefit from models and findings that will help future programme implementation in other cities in Europe and beyond.
1 OECD-EC, “Cities in Europe: The new OECD-EC definition” January 2012.
2 European Commission, “Urbanisation in Europe” last updated July 2020.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), the world's leading cause of mortality, are responsible for over 18 million deaths annually with a staggering cost of EUR 282 billion in 2021 [1]. The CVD risk has been acknowledged by WHO’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.4 which aims to reduce heart disease rates by one-third by 20301. Trends in the EU27 and the UK from 1961 to 2018 show a decline in the share of the total population living in rural areas, while towns and cities experienced a smooth and constant population increase. Europe's level of urbanisation was 75% in 20222and is expected to increase to approximately 83.7% in 20503. In cities, CVD risks are amplified by factors like pollution, scarcity of green spaces and stressful lifestyles. The trend towards urbanisation often leads to significant healthcare disparities and worsening of CVD outcomes especially among underserved and disadvantaged communities. Thus, an improvement of the management of CVD in cities would be of significant benefit for the great majority of the European citizens living in an urban context.
The focus of this topic is on identifying and creating scalable models, interventions, and practices to enhance the overall efficiency and effectiveness of CVD management based on existing (e.g. Cardio4Cities) [2] or new pilots in up to 5 cities, to build evidence for replication across Europe in different socio-economic conditions. These pilots should propose a good coverage of different locations and contexts in Europe and deliver scalable solutions that can be applied to other cities.
The action funded under this topic will consider primary and secondary prevention strategies, early detection, timely diagnosis and treatment (healthcare delivery), lifestyle changes (personal responsibility), and living environment (community responsibility).
Against this objective, the future action is expected to deliver:
predictive models (developed and validated) that integrate various data sources – including electronic health records, environmental data, and lifestyle factors – to forecast cardiovascular risk at the individual and population levels in urban settings;
models and/or good practices (including governance structure, funding/financing models, etc.) and roadmaps on cost-effective approaches to improve cardiovascular (CV) health management that can be replicated across Europe;
recommendations for updating European guidelines and standards on CVD management (including primary and secondary prevention, and treatment);
a stronger definition and improved selection of performance indicators on CV mortality, patient outcomes and economic impact of interventions;
harmonised data standards for measurement of performance and impact (including PROMs4, PREMs5, patient preference, clinical outcome assessments etc.).
an easy-to-use digital platform (ideally based on existing solutions to ensure interoperability) and high-quality data that enable a data-driven approach to CVD risk management, using standardised data reporting to facilitate comparison across cities;
new solutions: digital and telehealth for early detection and monitoring of CVD patients, leveraging technologies for monitoring by incorporating wearables and apps to continuously monitor the population's adherence to cardiovascular medications and the occurrence of potential side effects. Moreover, this will enhance predictive models with more granular data leading to more precise risk assessments;
recommendations on enhancing patient use of and access to technology and digital interventions (telemedicine, wearables, clinical mobile apps…); targeted prevention strategies, urban planning recommendations, and public health policies to mitigate these risks;
a platform, network, or another support mechanism for exchange of good practice, learnings, and experience, to support further deployment of successful approaches across Europe and beyond;
recommendations on improving living conditions to support the goal of decreasing impact of cardiovascular diseases.
To address this challenge, the action funded under this topic should:
select up to five cities to serve as pilot use cases. These cities should be representative of the European context (in particular in relation to size and population) to allow broader implementation across regions/countries, different cultural and/or economic distributions, considering different health care structures (private/public) in different countries. Indicatively, each pilot city (or another urban administrative entity) is expected to have a population of at least 50 000 in its urban centre, in line with the OECD-EC definition of a city;
conduct a gap analysis of existing cardiovascular disease screening and diagnostics, clinical pathways and public health policies to guide the development of scalable models and best practices to fill these gaps, also considering broader European application (for example, set targets, define actions, strengthen enablers). In this analysis, due attention should be given to high-stress lifestyles (nutrition, physical activity) and socio-economic disparities. The identified solutions for improvement should be based on data-driven insights to identify multi-sectorial interventions that improve the management of CVD risk factors (such as hypertension, diabetes, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol) and prevent these risks from developing. They should also consider the entire continuum of care (detect, treat, control). The work on performance indicators including harmonisation is key to set a baseline from which improvements can be made. Applicants are expected to consider all applicable legislative and regulatory constraints (national, regional, local) and their possible impact on the implementation and results of the project. End-users (including citizens, patients, healthcare professionals and providers, health technology developers among others) should be included from the start in the co-creation process to ensure future buy-in and implementation.
collaborate with patients and citizens to develop strategies and guidance for effective CV health awareness campaigns;
collaborate with healthcare professionals to review and adapt guidance on CVD prevention and management, identifying opportunities to maintain and optimise healthcare workforce resources and engagement;
set up sustainable platforms and other support mechanisms for deployment of the models (sharing best practice between pilot cities and across regions);
pilot novel and/or improved early detection and diagnostic solutions, patient management strategies, (including improved patient support, remote patient management, patient flows), and initiatives to maintain workforce engagement;
explore potential funding tools to complement healthcare systems funding for managing cardiovascular health (including bonds, insurance, crowdsourcing, etc.) which could be used to implement the models;
leverage existing and newly created sources of multimodal data (contemplating opportunities provided by EHDS) for decision making and management of CVD (collecting, connecting, standardising, processing and analysing);
design and deploy communication and awareness-raising campaigns, including training and capacity-building for health workers to effectively address various population groups affected by CVD.
Applicants should consider synergies with relevant initiatives at national level and with other European health initiatives such as the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing6, Reference Site Collaboration Network7, Urban Health Cluster8, the Cities and Cancer Missions9 and the Joint Action on Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes (JACARDI) funded by the EU4Health programme, to maximise the potential for creating models that can be applied in various urban settings to improve cardiovascular health. This collaborative approach underscores the potential for cross-applicability of health solutions in addressing chronic diseases.
The action should also consider learnings and synergies with other IMI and IHI initiatives such as H2O, EHDEN, BigData@Heart, iCARE4CVD, among others.
Applicants are expected to consider the potential regulatory impact of the results and – as relevant – develop a regulatory strategy and interaction plan for generating appropriate evidence as well as engaging with regulators in a timely manner (e.g. national competent authorities, EMA Innovation Task Force, qualification advice).
1 WHO, “Noncommunicable diseases (who.int)” September 2023.
3 European Commission, “Urbanisation in Europe” last updated July 2020.
4 PROM: Patient Reported Outcome Measurements
5 PREM: Patient Reported Experience Measurements
6 European Commission, “The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA)” Accessed March 2024.
7 Reference Site Collaboration Network, “Home - RSCN” Accessed March 2024.
8 Urban Health Cluster, “Urban Health Cluster | The first European Cluster to improve and safeguard health and well-being of citizens, leaving none behind” Accessed March 2024.
9 European Commission, “EU Missions in Horizon Europe” Accessed May 2024.
Expected Impact:
The action under this topic is expected to achieve all the following impacts and contribute to the following EU policies/initiatives:
decrease the CVD burden in European cities by the reduction of CV events, disability, and mortality;
enable future clinical pathways leading to improved patient outcomes;
reduce the pressure of patient flow in the healthcare system via innovative diagnostic/detection solutions;
strengthen the definition, standardisation and selection of performance indicators on CVD mortality, patient outcomes and economic impact of interventions, and thus improve future clinical pathways and intervention implementation studies;
optimise healthcare expenditure to tackle the financial strain of CVD, amounting to €282 billion annually in the EU [1]. The emphasis is on prioritising spending for maximum efficiency and value, balancing the costs of advanced interventions with their long-term benefits;
strengthen public awareness initiatives and incorporate improved diagnostic methods to enhance early detection and treatment of CVD, to reduce premature CVD deaths and support preventive healthcare measures;
strengthen patient and citizen input to treatment pathways, disease monitoring and scientific guideline enhancement;
contribute to the European policy on Active and Healthy Aging , and to the implementation of the European Commission’s proposal for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) by providing FAIR data that are aligned with the EHDS requirements;
start building a system for continual impact assessment and provide early evidence on the impact and effectiveness of the applied recommendations.
These impacts are in alignment with specific objectives 3 and 2 of IHI JU1.
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €47,550,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 10 October 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time 23 April 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-ju-ihi-2024-08-01-two-stage
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Programme: European Commission
Objective:
The FRONTIERS Science Journalism Initiative, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), offers fellowship residencies to science journalists interested in spending 3 to 5 months in European research institutions to increase their knowledge in a specific field of science and to carry out research for their own production. Additionally, fellows will be offered training on science journalism and science communication, and will participate in communication activities throughout their residencies.
The residencies encourage independent journalism and Frontier research topics, such as the ones funded by the ERC.
Four calls are envisaged in the period 2023-2026, supporting up to 40 fellowships.
Eligible Activities:
Eligible science journalists are invited to submit their applications using the form available at the FRONTIERS website (https://frontiers.media/ ).
FRONTIERS grants differentiate among three levels of career, based on the professional seniority:
●early-career: up to 5 years of professional experience;
●mid-career: 6-9 years of experience;
●established: ten or more years of experience.
Eligible Applicants:
Applications undergo a two-step evaluation process, focusing on project quality, journalist credentials, and societal impact. Only applications that have reached at least 50% of the maximum score in each of the three evaluation criteria (residency project: at least 20/40; journalist's career: at least 20/40; research topic: at least 10/20) will proceed to Step 2.
The final selection aims for diversity in gender, nationality, and career stages. The evaluation committee will include members of the FRONTIERS consortium and members of the FRONTIERS Advisory Board. Selection committee members will be invited to disclose all potential conflicts of interest that should arise, and the committee as a whole will deal with them appropriately.
Total Budget: €600,000
Deadline: 05/03/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls-cs
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Programme: European Commission
Objective:
This Funding Opportunity invites proposals from all sides of the knowledge triangle: innovation, education, and entrepreneurship, but in combination with a key fourth element, citizen/public engagement.
All our funded projects are collaborative and require a minimum of two organisations working together. At least one of these should be a company or social enterprise directly involved with key communities, and at least one other should be a research or university organisation. These organisations should be from at least two different countries eligible to Horizon Europe.
Type of proposals sought in the Single Projects Co-funding Opportunity
We can be flexible in what we fund. While we are always interested in funding new R&D and commercialisation projects with good prospects of getting to market within 12-18 months, we can also provide funding to:
• Existing research project teams who have a commercialisation or impact plan that needs follow-on funding to get to market. These do not have to be previous EIT Food projects – we can support projects previously funded by other EIT organisations, EU programmes and third-party funders – but we cannot “double fund” other current EU funded projects.
• Develop and market new applications and business models for existing technology. This includes transferring proven technology from other sectors into the food industry.
• Run market demonstration and scale-up activities for high impact products or services that already have promising results.
• Demonstrate and expand impact from existing innovative social enterprise, dietary health or education programmes and interventions leading to behaviour change or better consumer outcomes.
Under this scheme, we encourage proposals from consortia based around lead organisations which have the capabilities to move quickly and effectively in creating impact from our co-investment, supported by high-quality research, communications and impact assessment expertise.
Type of proposals sought in the Collaborative Programmes
We are looking to fund and co-resource alliances and collaborative programmes which aim to produce multiple results and high-impact outcomes. By “programmes” we mean connected activities and workstreams across economic, industry and social value chains. Examples of actions we could support to achieve our Mission Targets might include:
co-funding open competitions aimed at accelerating new business, products and processes
jointly funding, co-resourcing and/or co-delivering programmes of activities with other funders, NGOs or charities with shared impact goals
co-ordinating consortia across whole value-chains to scale-up, demonstrate and/or accelerate impact of innovation solutions from the EIT Food project portfolio
jointly supporting innovation and knowledge exchange clusters that deliver new programmes in citizen engagement, business, skills and agri-food innovation in cities/ regions or specialist sectors.
co-funding social enterprise or education programmes that will scale-up interventions, leading to improved outcomes for populations at risk of poor health or food security outcomes supporting the development of networks to test production/manufacturing capabilities for key markets, test farms/services and “living labs” delivering programmes
collaborative programmes resolving sector-relevant strategic issues to enable stronger progress towards meeting Mission Targets.
This may include intersecting areas such as: standards setting and data management; fundraising for systems change; citizen engagement in innovation; consumer behaviour change and improving public understanding of the benefits of innovation in agri-food. The list above is extensive, but not exhaustive.
Eligible Activities:
The Impact Funding Framework consists of two distinct calls: the Single Projects Co-funding Opportunity and the Collaborative Missions Programmes. Each call operates under its specific guidelines.
All proposals must be submitted via an application form on our portal.
For all projects, you must also submit for evaluation:
- A Business Model Canvas
- A Launch Plan (outlining strength of the commercial case and/or strategy to drive adoption by intended users – with supporting evidence and research)
- Where applicable:
Success Sharing Mechanism (for commercial projects)
Proof of current TRL (for technology-based ideas)
EIT Food will evaluate each proposal based on the criteria below on its own merits. Applicants must provide sufficient information and evidence to support claims or statements made in your application.
At least 3 external evaluators and 1 internal evaluator will evaluate proposals based on the following criteria: Excellence, Impact, Quality and efficiency of implementation and KIC Portfolio strategic fit and compliance with the financial sustainability principles and knowledge triangle integration.
The quality threshold is 3.5 for the Single Projects Co-funding Opportunity and 3.0 for the Collaborative Missions Programmes.
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €30,000,000
Deadline: 13/03/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls-cs
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Programme: European Commission
Objective:
The current EOI is a first step, focusing on matchmaking activities, to facilitate access to funding that will be available in the CIRCULOOS Open Calls #2 and #3.
Note: Participation in activities enabled by this Expression of Interest is optional and your participation in them does not constitute any guarantee of any benefit in your submission or selection to the CIRCULOOS open call #2.
CIRCULOOS Open Call #2 will only accept consortiums of 2-4 entities and will provide funds up to €60K per partner (applicable funding rate: 60% of the eligible costs for profit making entities and 100% for non-profit or academic organisations). Its main objective is to match about 32 MSMEs with 16 suppliers towards the design and implementation of at least 16 demonstrators.
Therefore, the open call will provide up to €240,000 (total lump sum) to up 16 consortia. Funds will be disbursed based upon the successful delivery of technical and business reports along the 12-month implementation program, scheduled to launch in February 2025.
Eligible Activities:
The CIRCULOOS Open Call #3 will enable the extension of pilots and/or newly established value chains, by inviting new MSMEs to benefit/contribute to the established value-chain, extending and scaling it up to improve sustainability performance, and thus, opening a second round of funding: €60,000 per new
entity. A limited number of applications by new MSMEs will be invited together with Open Call 2, up to 16, to build on the existing pilots, and more will be invited later to build on the value chains resulting from the Open Call 2 (this will be launched tentatively in 2026).
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €240,000
Deadline: 31/03/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls-cs
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Programme: European Commission
Objective:
This project funds mobilities for education and training in the nuclear field. Only individuals can be funded. Group applications from educational event(s) organizers are accepted but the funds will reach the attendees.
Eligible Activities:
The submission is continuous. Evaluation takes place every two months, according to detailed rules that can be found here: ENEN2plus Project – European Nuclear Education Network
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €2,500,000
Deadline: 31/03/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls-cs
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Programme: HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Disparities in R&I performance are due to, among other reasons, the insufficient critical mass of science and lack of centres of excellence having sufficient competence to engage countries and regions strategically in a path of innovative growth. Teaming is responding to this challenge establishing new centres of excellence or modernising existing ones with the help of leading EU or AC partnering institutions. This will help countries to increase their R&I intensity and to attain a competitive position in the European R&I system and globally, especially by becoming drivers of change.
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
· Increased scientific capabilities of the coordinating institution and the host country enabling the coordinator and other potential entities from that country to successfully apply for competitive funding in the European Union and globally;
· Improved the R&I culture of the country hosting the co-ordinator (indicators such as research intensity, innovation performance, values towards R&I) through centres of excellence as lighthouses and role models;
· Stimulus for institutional and systemic reforms and R&I investments at national level taking into account the enabling conditions on governance of smart specialisation introduced under cohesion policy programmes as far as applicable;
· Strengthened and mutually benefitting collaboration with partners from leading scientific institutions from abroad;
· Development and promotion of new research strands in relevant domains;
· Developed and enhanced research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies;
· Contribution to the achievement of the specific objectives of the supporting national/regional/EU programme as complementary funding;
· Enhanced innovation and integration of planned processes, services and products of the centre;
· Enhanced co-operation and synergies with other European projects.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Teaming is one of the actions that stimulates the European Union to exploit its potential by maximising and spreading the benefits of research and innovation. It is vital for its competitiveness and its ability to address societal challenges.
The Teaming action is designed to support the creation of new centres of excellence or modernising the existing ones in low R&I performing countries (except those centres of excellence that have already benefitted from previous Teaming calls). It is building on partnerships between leading scientific institutions in the European landscape and the main beneficiary institutions in low R&I performing countries that display the willingness to engage together for this purpose. This can help countries that are lagging behind in terms of research and innovation performance attaining a competitive position in the global value chains. Leading scientific institutions are established strategic partners that have developed an outstanding reputation in research and innovation excellence in the chosen scientific domain. Institutions that are still in the process of development or modernisation, e.g., those that are still receiving support as coordinators from widening actions under Horizon 2020 or Horizon Europe, are normally not considered leading institutions, unless a proper justification is provided in the proposal.
In order to maximise impact of research and innovation on society, environment and economy at large and to contribute in particular to the achievement of the European Union’s objectives, funding must be coherent and work in synergy. This notion is highly relevant for the Teaming action, where a complementary source of funding from a national (or regional or European or private source) is required. The implementation of Teaming action is expected to become an influential and meaningful bridge particularly between smart specialisation strategies and excellence in R&I with the aim of strengthening the European Research Area and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Whatever the source of the required complementary source of funding, a Teaming project, as a notable flagship in its host country, exemplifies not only the achievements in R&I, capacity building or competitiveness, but also sets and facilitates synergies in practice.
The evaluation of the complementary source of funding part may use additional criteria required by, where relevant, the Cohesion Policy programmes and/or legislation. The managers of the complementary funding should apply to the operations the categories, maximum amounts and methods of calculation of eligible costs established under Horizon Europe. In addition, they should be able to apply Art.25 (d) of the revised General Block Exemption Regulation.
Proposals may be evaluated by an additional panel of experts with specific knowledge on complementary funding sources.
In the first stage of evaluation the R&I excellence and the conceptual approach for the centres of excellence will be evaluated. Applicants should present a strategic vision on how to develop R&I excellence beyond the state of the art in the chosen domain and on how the co-ordinator will benefit from the partnership with a leading institution from abroad. In case of modernisation of an existing centre, the proposal should clearly indicate the development path from the initial baseline situation until the end of the project and its justification. In addition, the conceptual approach should outline how the access to complementary funding from other sources will be ensured, in the respect of national, regional and/or European strategies or policy priorities (e.g., notably smart specialisation strategies, Green Deal, Digital transformation). Proposals also should sketch out briefly how the autonomy of the envisaged centre will be ensured and the necessary human resources recruited and retained.
Proposals invited to the second stage must include an investment plan for the full project including a binding commitment for the necessary complementary funding.
At a detailed level the full proposal should:
· Present a strategy for how the centre will develop excellence in the chosen relevant R&I domain that will put it at the competitive edge beyond the state of the art enabling future success in competitive calls;
· Demonstrate the growth potential and expected socio-economic outreach of the Centre of Excellence for the benefit of the host country or region;
· Demonstrate how the project will contribute to encouraging and supporting reforms of the R&I system at regional and or/national level;
· Elaborate on the structure of the consortium and how this will create a win-win situation;
· Demonstrate how the newly established/modernised centre will have full autonomy in decision-making. In particular, the centre of excellence should have the maximum degree of autonomy in terms of taking its own decisions, being in legal, administrative, operational, personnel and academic matters. The Centre should be able to fix and pay competitive salaries for its personnel;
· Elaborate on the steps that will be taken to ensure long-term self-sustainability after the end of the Horizon Europe grant;
· In case of modernisation of an existing centre, convincingly elaborate on the development path from the initial baseline situation until the end of the project;
· Propose a robust human resource strategy that addresses gender equality (in line with the research institutions respective gender equality plans) and international component, ensuring appropriate management capacities for the effective and efficient running of the centre of excellence;
· In order to assure the autonomy of the centre of excellence, if relevant, the project might benefit of having the centre of excellence coordinating the project within the duration of the Grant;
· Present an investment plan including the letter(s) of commitment for complementary funding from the competent national/regional authorities or private sources to commit financial resources (e.g., resources coming from programmes co-financed by the ERDF (European regional development fund), IPA (Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance) or other sources) for implementing the future centre, in particular regarding investment in infrastructure and equipment. The letter(s) of commitment for complementary funding of the project will be an integral part of the evaluation of the proposal;
· The grant awarded from the Horizon Europe budget should provide substantial support for the start-up and implementation phase of the future centre of excellence including the recruitment of the managerial, technical and scientific personnel. It should also cover expenses related to team members of the future centre of excellence (e.g., their salaries, recruitment costs[1], management costs, travel and subsistence costs);
· All recruitments have to follow a transparent, merit based and open recruitment procedures;
· A minor research component can be accepted not exceeding 10% of the total Horizon Europe grant that may include a preparatory research project. Such small research project embedded in the Teaming action should be aligned with the objectives of the project and e.g., serve the purpose of developing and testing new methodologies and instruments and/or the integration of new scientific personnel. If preparatory research activity is planned to be carried out, the outline of a respective work plan with an appropriate level of detail should be presented;
The duration of the project should be up to six years.
Proposals should illustrate quantitatively and qualitatively the expected potential impact of the project and its expected results in terms of new local and international research and innovation partnerships, institutional and/or R&I system changes (various levels), increased research intensity (i.e. new scientific publications directly linked to the project’s area, protected IPR). Proposals are encouraged to choose any additional relevant indicators that will be used for measuring the impacts achieved.
The JRC, as non-funded member of the consortium selected for funding or as an associated partner, can contribute to the action with specific expertise, where relevant, for the development of R&I strategies depending on the R&I domain chosen by the project, technology transfer and IPR management as well as linking up to regional smart specialisation strategy.
Specific attention should be paid to gender equality objectives, in line with the organisations’ commitments through their adopted gender equality plans, and in line with the European Research Area objectives.
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €270,000,000
Deadline: Two Stage: 10 April 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time 20 January 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-widera-2025-access-01-01-two-stage
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Programme: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-Cofund-D HORIZON TMA MSCA Cofund Doctoral programme; HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-Cofund-P HORIZON TMA MSCA Cofund Postdoctoral programme
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Projects results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:
For supported doctoral candidates or postdoctoral researchers
· Deeper and more diverse set of research-related and transferable skills and competences;
· Improved employability and career prospects both within academia and beyond;
· New mind-sets and approaches to R&I work forged through international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary experience;
· Enhanced networking and communication capacities with scientific peers, as well as with the general public that will increase and broaden the research and innovation impact.
For participating organisations
· Enhanced quality and sustainability of research training;
· Increased global attractiveness, visibility and reputation of the participating organisation(s);
· Stronger R&I capacity and output among participating organisations;
· Increased contribution of the participating organisations to the local, regional and/or national socio-economic ecosystems;
· Regular feedback of research results into teaching and education at participating organisations.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Applicants submit proposals for new or existing doctoral or postdoctoral programmes with an impact on the enhancement of human resources in R&I at regional, national or international level. These programmes will be co-funded by MSCA COFUND.
Proposed programmes can cover any research disciplines ("bottom-up"), but exceptionally can also focus on specific disciplines, notably when they are based on national or regional Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3 strategies). In this case, the range of covered disciplines should allow reasonable flexibility for the researchers to define their topic.
Funding synergies with Cohesion policy funds and the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) are strongly encouraged[1],[2].
A Career Development Plan must be jointly established by the supervisor and each recruited researcher upon recruitment. In addition to research objectives, this Plan comprises the researcher's training and career needs, including training on transferable skills, teaching, planning for publications and participation in conferences and events aimed at opening science and research to citizens. The Plan must be established at the beginning of the recruitment and should be revised (and updated where needed) within 18 months.
COFUND takes the form of:
A) Doctoral programmes
Doctoral programmes offer research training activities to allow doctoral candidates to develop and broaden their skills and competences. They will lead to the award of a doctoral degree in at least one EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country. The training activities should be based on the EU Principles on Innovative Doctoral Training.
Substantial training modules, including digital ones, addressing key transferable skills and competences common to all fields, fostering good scientific conduct such as research integrity, and fostering the culture of Open Science, innovation and entrepreneurship will be supported. They will include, inter alia, training on the use of collaborative tools and approaches, opening access to publications and to other research outputs including data, FAIR data management, societal engagement and citizen science.
On top of compulsory international mobility, applicants are encouraged to include elements of cross-sectoral mobility and interdisciplinarity into their programmes. Collaboration with a wider set of associated partners, including from the non-academic sector, will be positively taken into account during the evaluation. These organisations may provide hosting or secondment opportunities or training modules in research or transferable skills.
Particular attention is paid to the quality of supervision and mentoring arrangements as well as career guidance. The selection procedure for doctoral candidates must be open, transparent and merit-based, in line with the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The vacancy notice (to be widely advertised internationally, including on the EURAXESS[3] website) must mention if the published rates include all employer and employee's taxes and contributions. If possible, the gross salary (net salary + employee’s taxes and contributions) should be published.
B) Postdoctoral Programmes
Postdoctoral Programmes fund individual advanced research training and career development fellowships for postdoctoral researchers. The programmes should offer training to develop key transferable skills and competences common to all fields, foster good scientific conduct such as research integrity, foster innovation and entrepreneurship and promote and (where appropriate) reward Open Science practices (open access to publications and to other research outputs including data, FAIR data management, societal engagement and citizen science, etc.).
Postdoctoral Programmes should have regular selection rounds following fixed deadlines or regular cut-off dates, allowing fair competition between researchers. The selection procedure for postdoctoral candidates must be open, competitive, merit-based and with a transparent international peer review, in line with the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The vacancy notice (to be widely advertised internationally, including on the EURAXESS website) must mention if the published rates include all employer and employee's taxes and contributions. If possible, the gross salary (net salary + employee’s taxes and contributions) should be published.
On top of compulsory international mobility, applicants are encouraged to include elements of cross-sectoral mobility and interdisciplinarity into their programmes. Researchers will be able to freely choose a research topic and the appropriate organisation to host them, fitting their individual needs.
Eligible Applicants:
Any type of organisation can apply for Horizon Europe funding as long as they have the operational and financial capacity to carry out the tasks that they propose.
For most calls for proposals, you must apply as a team of at least 3 partner organisations from 3 different EU or associated countries. At least one of the 3 partners must be from an EU country. In addition to these 3 partners, organisations from other countries might be able to join your consortium. Please consult the Horizon Europe programme guide. Further details or exceptions are listed on the pages of the call topics in the Funding & tenders portal.
Some calls for proposals require a so-called multi-actor approach: this means your proposed project must involve a diverse set of stakeholders, in particular end-users and users of the project’s results.
Total Budget: €101,820,280
Deadline: 24/06/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-msca-2025-cofund-01-01
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
The European Commission aims to complement and not duplicate efforts by Member States and those at Union level to increase the level of protection and resilience to cyber threats, in particular for large industrial installations and infrastructures, by assisting Member States in their efforts to improve the preparedness for cyber threats and incidents by providing them with knowledge and expertise.
Eligible Activities:
Scope
The provision of preparedness support services (ex-ante) shall include activities mentioned below, addressing for example large industrial installations or infrastructures, operators of essential services, digital service providers and governmental entities:
Support for testing for potential vulnerabilities:
Development of penetration testing scenarios. The proposed scenarios may cover Networks, Applications, Virtualisation solutions, Cloud solutions, Industrial Control systems, and IoT.
Support for conducting testing of essential entities operating critical infrastructure for potential vulnerabilities.
Support the deployment of digital tools and infrastructures supporting the executionof testing scenarios and for conducting exercises such as the development of standardised cyber-ranges or other testing facilities, able to mimic features of critical sectors (e.g., energy sector, transport sector etc.) to facilitate the execution of cyberexercises, in particular within cross-border scenarios where relevant.
Evaluation and/or testing of MS cybersecurity capabilities (including capabilities to prevent, detect and respond to incidents).
Consulting services, providing recommendations on how to improve infrastructure security and capabilities.
Support for threat assessment and risk assessment:
Threat Assessment process implementation and life cycle
Customised risk scenarios analysis.
Risk monitoring service:
Specific continuous risk monitoring such as attack surface monitoring, risk monitoring of assets and vulnerabilities.
Outcomes
Preparedness support services
Threat assessment and risk assessment services
Risk monitoring services
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
EEA countries (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)
Total Budget: €35,000,000
Deadline: 21/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/digital-eccc-2024-deploy-cyber-07-largeoper
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Programme: European Commission (EC)
Objective:
The European Commission is seeking applications for strengthening the Security Operations Center (SOC) ecosystem to empower SOCs which are linked to National SOCs, and to a stronger collaboration between local SOCs, National SOCs and Cross-Border SOC platforms, leading to an increased data sharing and better detection capability for cyber threats.
Objectives
This topic complements other actions in this and the previous Work Programme, which are building up National SOCs and Cross-Border SOC platforms. This should in particular foster interoperability, identifying what data can be shared, how this is shared and in what format, requirements and sharing agreements, and ways to enable better exchange.
Links to the actions funded under the Cybersecurity Skills Academy (in the main Digital Europe work programme) can also be envisaged.
These actions should lead to increased engagement, including from the private sector, and to a better collaboration towards a common EU cyber threat knowledge base and technological independence.
Additionally, Cross-Border SOC Platforms will develop a comprehensive governance framework, with for example enrolment conditions and vetting procedures. The aim is to foster discussion between such platforms, sharing best practices and identifying opportunities for collaboration.
Eligible Activities:
Scope
Actions should address one or more of the following:
Activities and technical frameworks that foster the collaboration and interconnection between Cross-Border SOC platforms and National SOCs, as well as fostering the link between National SOCs and other SOCs at national level.
Actions that support the cooperation and coordination of Cross-Border SOC platforms, both between different Cross-Border SOC platforms, and with relation to national SOCs and other SOCs.
Actions to foster links between public sector and industry, and stimulate mutually beneficial exchange of information, tools and data as well as exchange of knowledge and training opportunities.
Actions to foster links between SOCs and industrial stakeholders in artificial intelligence and in other enabling technologies, fostering the adoption of such technologies, including AI techniques and tools rand facilitating getting acquainted with existing state of the art tools and knowledge exchange.
Actions to engage stakeholders from the HPC stakeholder community and practitioners of breakthrough AI technologies, to develop a blueprint for the requirements of AI models that necessitate access to large or smaller HPC facilities, and next steps to make this happen, as well as raising awareness of this in the wider SOC community.
Outcomes
Events, workshops, stakeholder consultations, architectural designs and white papers on technical coordination and interconnection support platforms.
Stronger links between public sector and industry SOCs
Technical frameworks to allow for information exchange between SOC platforms
A blueprint for the use of HPC facilities for the benefit of SOCs
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
EEA countries (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)
Total Budget: €2,000,000
Deadline: 21/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/digital-eccc-2024-deploy-cyber-07-socsys
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Programme: CS FUND AND WARSH-MOTT LEGACY
Objective:
The CS Fund and Warsh-Mott Legacy (CSF/WML) aims to promote progressive social change and has three programmatic areas for grant-making.
Eligible Activities:
These are
1) rights and governance (incl. support for initiatives to improve the social, environmental, and governance aspects of international trade agreements);
2) emerging technologies (addressing the potential risks of nanotechnology, synthetic biology, genetic engineering, and related technologies);
3) food sovereignty (incl. support of grassroots activities in seed saving, soil building, protection of pollinating insects and animals, and traditional agriculture); and
4) just transitions. Grants are for activities in the USA and internationally, including for issues important in developing countries.
Outside the United States the Foundation has no defined focus countries and provides grants for projects worldwide.
Eligible Applicants:
Applicant organisations must be classified as a 501(c)(3) by the US Internal Revenue Service. Foreign applicants should note that CSF and WML make a very limited number of direct grants abroad (i.e., without fiscal sponsorship by a US-based organization). The foundations do not provide support to individuals, endowments, or direct lobbying activities.
Total Budget: $3,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://csfund.org/grantseekers
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Programme: WORLD CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION
Objective:
The World Childhood Foundation was founded in 1999 by Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden. The mission of the Foundation is to prevent abuse and exploitation of children. They support and implement over 100 projects around the world, assisting children who are at risk of or are victims of abuse, children who are in alternative care, street children, and families at risk. Childhood supports projects financially, but also through strategic capacity building and networking opportunities.
Eligible Activities:
The Foundation promotes cooperation, knowledge transfer, and help improve and promote efforts in a cost-effective and qualitatively efficient way to support children in need. Childhood’s project managers work closely with the organizations, offering support and development assistance, both at an organizational level and with frequent visits.
Childhood’s focus currently lies in the following thematic areas:
· Child online safety
· Child supportive environments and relationships
· Child focused response to abuse
They work in Brazil, Cambodia, Moldova, Sweden, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants:
All funded projects have to be implemented by a local NGO registered in the country of implementation.
Total Budget: €7,500,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://childhood.org/propose-a-project/
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Programme: LEMELSON FOUNDATION
Objective:
The Lemelson Foundation uses the power of invention to improve lives, by inspiring and enabling the next generation of inventors and invention based enterprises in the US and developing countries. The Foundation works with partners and supports projects that inspire youth to become inventors, stimulate and provide invention and entrepreneurship education, and support the launch, earliest incubation and mentoring of invention-based enterprises.
Eligible Activities:
Their focus areas are:
· Education: Developing STEM-based, invention education
· Entrepreneurship: Supporting ecosystems for invention-based businesses from incubation to market
· Ecosystems: Fostering regional invention ecosystems for stronger economies
· Climate: Leveraging the tools of invention and innovation to improve our climate
Outside the United States, they fund initiatives in developing countries across the globe (i.e., India and West Africa – focus on technology, climate change is funded globally).
Eligible Applicants:
Non-profit organisations are eligible to apply.
Total Budget: $5,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.lemelson.org/what-we-fund/
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Programme: DEAR FOUNDATION
Objective:
The DEAR Foundation Switzerland helps people in need, particularly with a particular emphasis on women and children. They do this by supporting humanitarian projects, focused on education and empowerment. It provides grants to projects in support of children and women.
Eligible Activities:
For this, the Foundation works in the following programmatic areas:
· Education: Enabling self-determination by improving access to education and vocational training for women and children, especially those from marginalized populations.
· Health: Pomoting breast cancer awareness through the worldwide DearMamma Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign and the free DearMamma App; Financing medical equipment and facilitating access to health services for impoverished communities; Providing training for nurses and carers; Supporting access to psycho-social service; Fighting female genital mutilation (FGM); Promoting family planning programs
· Child protection: Fight against the exploitation of children by working closely with education and training providers to ensure pathways out of poverty; Fight against child labour; Protection of children from sexual exploitation and early marriage; Psycho-social support for children
· Promoting women’s rights: Providing safe spaces for women; Empowering women of all cultural and religious backgrounds through education
· Economic Empowerment: Breaking cycles of poverty through education and training; Creating employment opportunities
· Providing leadership training; Supporting women to establish and grow small businesses through microloan programs; Promoting women’s networks to support their individual independence
· Encouraging peaceful coexistence between religions: Supporting institutions actively engaged in creating peaceful coexistence between communities of diverse religious backgrounds; Working towards a world where religion, tolerance, and respect for the ‘others’ go hand-in-hand; High morals and a strong sense of humanity guide us to make ethical decisions and act with compassion and integrity
They are currently supporting projects worldwide, with a particular focus in Africa and Israel/Palestine. Past funded projects are based in Africa (e.g. Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Liberia, Ghana, Tanzania, and South Africa), Asia (e.g. India, Russia and China) and Latin America (e.g. Haiti, Honduras).
Eligible Applicants:
The DEAR Foundation allocates funds for: (1) organizations that offer evidence of their sustainability, including their projects’ measurable outcomes and intended impact on the resolution of the problem at hand; (2) applying organizations must be non-governmental and submit documentation regarding their lawful registration in their country (countries) of operation; (3) at least three years must have passed since the applying organizations’ inception; (4) applying organizations must submit copies of their last two audited financial reports; (5) organizations that can provide upfront an overall business plan of their activities for the next 3 coming years; (6) giving is limited to one of the following areas: education, health, child protection, promotion of women’s rights, economic empowerment, and encouraging peaceful coexistence between religions without exclusion of other religions.
Total Budget: €8,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://thedearfoundation.ch/foundation/applications/
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Programme: European Commission – Digital Europe
Objective:
European Commission (EC) seeking applications to support the implementation of the proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) by market surveillance authorities/notifying authorities/national accreditation bodies, by increasing their capacities to ensure effective implementation of the CRA.
Objectives
The action focuses on capacity building and the enhancement of cooperation on cybersecurity at technical, operational and strategic levels, in the context of existing and proposed EU legislation on cybersecurity in particular the NIS2 Directive (Directive (EU) 2022/2555)7 , the Cybersecurity Act8 , and the Directive on attacks against information systems (Directive 2013/40)9 . It complements the work of SOCs in the area of threat detection. It is a continuation of work currently supported under the previous Digital Work Programme.
Proposals should contribute to achieving at least one of these objectives:
Development of trust and confidence between Member States.
Supporting market surveillance authorities/notifying authorities/national accreditation bodies to implement the CRA.
Effective operational cooperation of organisations entrusted with EU or Member State’s national level cybersecurity, in particular cooperation of CSIRTs (including in relation to the CSIRT Network) or cooperation of Operators of Essential Services including public authorities.
Better security and notification processes and means for Essential and Important Entities in the EU, including cross-border (automated) incident notification systems.
Better reporting of cyber-attacks to law enforcement authorities in line with the Directive on attacks against information systems.
Eligible Activities:
Scope
The action will focus on the support of at least one of the following priorities:
Implementation, validation, piloting and deployment of technologies, tools and IT based solutions, processes and methods for monitoring and handling cybersecurity incidents.
Increasing capacity for market surveillance authorities/notifying authorities/national accreditation bodies in view of tasks as provided by the CRA.
Collaboration, communication, awareness-raising activities, knowledge exchange and training, including through the use of cybersecurity ranges, of public and private organisations working on the implementation of NIS2 (Directive (EU) 2022/2555).
Twinning schemes involving originator and adopter organisations from at least 2 different Member States to facilitate the deployment and uptake of technologies, tools, processes and methods for effective cross-border collaboration preventing, detecting and countering Cybersecurity incidents.
Robustness and resilience building measures in the cybersecurity area that strengthen suppliers’ ability to work systematically with cybersecurity relevant information or supplying actionable data to CSIRTs.
Ensure that manufacturers improve the security of products with digital elements since the design and development phase and throughout the whole life cycle.
Ensure a coherent cybersecurity framework, facilitating compliance for hardware and software producers.
Enhance the transparency of security properties of products with digital elements.
Enable businesses across all sectors and consumers to use products with digital elements securely.
Support to Cybersecurity certification, including support to national cybersecurity certification authorities and other relevant stakeholders, such as SMEs. This includes activities such as threat-led penetration testing, acquiring certification testbeds, sharing best practices, implementing innovative evaluation methods for specific ICT products or components.
Targeted Stakeholders
This topic targets relevant industrial stakeholders, including SMEs and start-ups in the scope of the upcoming CRA, concerned by the NIS2 Directive or that may benefit from the European cybersecurity certification schemes. It refers also to Member State competent authorities, which play a central role in the implementation of the NIS2 Directive, Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) including sectorial CSIRTs, Security Operation Centres (SOC), Operators of Essential Services (OES), digital service providers (DSP), Information Sharing and Analysis Centres- ISACs, actors that play a role in the implementation of the Cyber Resilience Act.
Outcomes and Deliverables
Incident management solutions reducing the overall costs of cybersecurity for individual Member States and for the EU as a whole.
Better compliance with NIS2 (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) and higher levels of situational awareness and crisis response in Member States.
Organisation of events, workshops, stakeholder consultations and white papers.
Enhanced cooperation, preparedness and cybersecurity resilience in the EU.
Support actions and cooperation for further advanced of cybersecurity certification.
Effective supervision and enforcement of the CRA by the market surveillance authorities and adequate capabilities of notifying authorities and national accreditation bodies for the implementation of the CRA.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible participants (eligible countries):
be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
EEA countries (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)
Total Budget: €20,000,000
Deadline: 21/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/digital-eccc-2024-deploy-cyber-07-cybersec-02
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Programme: European Commission – Digital Europe
Objective:
European Commission is seeking applications for the enlarging existing or launching new cross-border SOC platforms to strengthen capacities to analyse, detect and prevent cyber threats and to support the production of high-quality intelligence on cyber threats.
Objectives
This action aims at new cross-border SOC platforms, as well as supporting those that were already launched under the previous DIGITAL work programme (2021-2022). While the main focus of this action is on processes and tools for prevention, detection and analysis of emerging cyber-attacks, it also foresees in particular the acquisition and/or adoption of common (automation) tools, processes and shared data infrastructures for the management and sharing of contextualised and actionable cybersecurity operational information across the EU.
Eligible Activities:
Scope
Cross-border SOC platforms will contribute to enhancing and consolidating collective situational awareness and capabilities in detection and CTI, supporting the development of better performing data analytics, detection, and response tools, through the pooling of larger amounts of data, including new data generated internally by the consortia members.
The platforms should act as a central point allowing for broader pooling of relevant data and CTI, enable the spreading of threat information on a large scale and among a large and diverse set of actors (e.g., CERTs/CSIRTs, ISACs, operators of critical infrastructures).
Also, for cross-border SOC platforms, there is a crucial need for novel tools based on advanced Artificial Intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), data analytics and other relevant cybersecurity relevant technologies, based on research results and further tested and validated in real conditions, in combination with access to supercomputing facilities (e.g., to boost the correlation and detection features of cross-border platforms).
The platforms will support common situational awareness and effective crisis management and response by providing relevant information to networks and entities responsible for cybersecurity operational cooperation and crisis management at Union level, without undue delay, where they obtain information related to an ongoing largescale, cross-border incident, or to a major threat or a major vulnerability likely to have significant cross-border impacts or significant impacts on services and activities falling within the scope of the Directive (EU) 2022/2555.
Outcomes and Deliverables
World-class cross-border SOC platforms across the Union for pooling data on cybersecurity threat between several Member States, equipped with a highly secure infrastructures and advanced data analytics tools for detecting, gathering and storing data on cybersecurity threats, analysing this data, and sharing and reporting CTI, reviews and analyses.
Sharing of Threat Intelligence between National SOCs, and information sharing agreements with competent authorities and CSIRTs.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
EEA countries (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)
Total Budget: €5,000,000
Deadline: 21/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/digital-eccc-2024-deploy-cyber-07-socplat
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Programme: European Commission – Digital Europe
Objective:
European Commission (EC) is inviting submissions to create or strengthen National SOCs, in particular with state-of-theart tools for monitoring, understanding and proactively managing cyber events, in close collaboration with relevant entities such as CSIRTs.
They will also, where possible, benefit from information and feeds from other SOCs in their countries and use the aggregated data and analysis to deliver early warnings to targeted critical infrastructures on a need-to-know basis.
National SOCs are public entities given the role at national level to act as clearinghouses for detecting, gathering and storing data on cybersecurity threats, analysing this data, and sharing and reporting Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), reviews and analyses. They provide a central operational capacity and support other SOCs at national level (e.g., by offering guidance or training, making available data or analysis of this data, coordinating joint detection and monitoring actions). They will play a central role at national level and can act as a hub within a context of SOCs in the different countries.
Objectives
The objective is to create or strengthen National SOCs, in particular with state-of-theart tools for monitoring, understanding and proactively managing cyber events, in close collaboration with relevant entities such as CSIRTs. They will also, where possible, benefit from information and feeds from other SOCs in their countries and use the aggregated data and analysis to deliver early warnings to targeted critical infrastructures on a need-to-know basis.
Eligible Activities:
Scope
The aim is capacity building for new or existing National SOCs, e.g., equipment, tools, data feeds, as well as costs related to data analysis, interconnection with Cross-Border SOC platforms, etc. This can include for example automation, analysis and correlation tools and data feeds covering Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) at various levels ranging from field data to Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) data to higher level CTI. National SOCs should also leverage state of the art technology such as artificial intelligence and dynamic learning of the threat landscape and context.
This also includes the use of shared cybersecurity information, to the extent possible based on existing taxonomies and/or ontologies, and hardware to ensure the secure exchange and storage of information. The operations should be built upon live network data. Where relevant, consideration should be given to SMEs as the ultimate recipients of cybersecurity operational information.
A key element is the translation of advanced AI/ML, data analytics and other relevant cybersecurity tools from research results to operational tools, and further testing and validating them in real conditions in combination with access to supercomputing facilities (e.g., to boost the correlation and detection features of cross-border platforms).
Another key role for National SOCs is knowledge transfer, such as training of cybersecurity analysts. For example, SOCs dealing with critical infrastructures play a key role and should benefit from the knowledge and experience acquired by or concentrated in National SOCs.
National SOCs must share information with other stakeholders in a mutually beneficial exchange of information and commit to apply to participate in a cross-border SOC platform within the next 2 years, with a view to exchanging information with other National SOCs.
Outcomes and Deliverables
World-class National SOCs across the Union, strengthened with state-of-the-art technology, acting as clearinghouses for detecting, gathering and storing data on cybersecurity threats, analysing this data, and sharing and reporting CTI, reviews and analyses.
Threat intelligence and situational awareness capabilities and capacity building supporting strengthened collaboration between cybersecurity actors, including private and public actors.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligibility Criteria
be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
EEA countries (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)
Total Budget: €5,800,000
Deadline: 21/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/digital-eccc-2024-deploy-cyber-07-soc
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Programme: ATDTA FOUNDATION
Objective:
Established in 1997, the atDta Foundation supports individuals and development organisations promotes integral personal development in Switzerland and abroad, based on the idea “helping others to help themselves”. As far as their project support is concerned, the Foundation promotes above all small, privately set up development organisations which mainly work in an honorary capacity and carry out development and social projects that aim to help others to help themselves.
Eligible Activities:
They see training and education as one of the most effective ways of self-help:
(Vocational) training and further education for disadvantaged people
Capacity Building in agriculture and nutrition
Effective observation of fundamental human rights
Priority is given to the following countries: Switzerland, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Mexico, Myanmar, Namibia, Peru, South Africa and Tanzania.
Eligible Applicants:
They support small to medium-size semi-professional organisations with their main office in Switzerland or with a very close personal connection to Switzerland and which are run with a great deal of personal commitment.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.atdta.ch/en-gb/applications/applications-from-organisations-for-projects
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Programme: SOUTHERN AFRICA TRUST
Objective:
The aim of the Southern Africa Trust is to support processes to deepen and widen engagement in policy dialogue with a regional impact, so that the poor have an effective voice in shaping policies that overcome poverty. It was established in 2005 to support civil society organisations in Southern Africa to participate effectively and with credibility in policy dialogue so that the voices of the poor can have a better impact in the development of public policies. The Trust supports processes that deepen and widen participation in policy dialogues with a regional impact on poverty.
Eligible Activities:
The Trust has four programme areas:
· Climate Justice & Natural Resource Management: The work on the Trust responds to challenges emerging from the climate crisis and weak natural resource governance in Southern Africa.
· Economic Recovery & Social Protection: This programme supports civil society organisations and community foundations impacted by the long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
· Gender Justice: In this programme, they undertake activities that establish and strengthen civil society alliances and groups for gender justice at regional and national levels.
· Youth Empowerment: They advocate for youth’s participation and empowerment in the development agenda for southern Africa.
Actions must take place in Southern Africa.
Eligible Applicants:
Most grantees are national network associations that implement projects with a regional footprint. We also give grants to regional networks, regional apex organisations, social movements, civil society organisations, and media houses.
Total Budget: $2,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://southernafricatrust.org/grantmaking/
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Programme: MARIAMARINA FOUNDATION
Objective:
Established in 2008, the MariaMarina Foundation supports disadvantaged people and people with special needs enhancing their access to education, social care and the arts:
Eligible Activities:
· Education: Education, training and employment opportunities for people from less privileged backgrounds with physical and/or learning disabilities.
· Social Care: A route out of homelessness, substance abuse and gang culture; Care and support for people with life-limiting illnesses, special needs and mental health issues & who experience violence and/or discrimination because of their race or ethnic group, their sex, their sexual orientation or other reasons.
· The Arts: Access to the arts for those whose socio-economic circumstances present a barrier and for those with special needs.
· Cross cutting issues are (1) Empowerment of girls and women; (2) Diversity and inclusion; and (3) Environment.
Outside Europe they also fund projects in South Africa (Western Cape and Greater Johannesburg), Bolivia (Cochabamba, La Paz/El Alto) and Peru (Lima and Cusco).
Eligible Applicants:
MariaMarina Foundation: (1) does not support individuals; (2) works with both established and newly registered NGOs who act in accordance with the principles of accountability, transparency, efficiency and quality; (3) supports innovative projects with the potential of having an impact that is transformational and far-reaching, beyond the project itself; and (4) aims to support organisations directly and does not usually work with intermediary organisations.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.mmf.li/
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Programme: W.K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION (WKKF)
Objective:
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), founded in 1930 as an independent, private foundation by breakfast cereal pioneer Will Keith Kellogg, is among the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States.
Eligible Activities:
Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life. It supports children, families and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. WKKF wants all children to live a full life with high-quality, early childhood experiences, to grow up in homes with families that have stable, high-quality jobs, and to live in a community where they are nurtured. Their grant making supports thriving children, working families and equitable communities.
In Haiti they are supporting: education and employment of socially disadvantaged groups (especially children), income-generating opportunities for smallholder farming families to increase productivity and food security. In Mexico they are supporting: improving quality of education, advance families’ economic security by supporting the integration of financial habits through training and savings groups development, improve families’ health, strengthen the leadership capacity of youth etc.
Actions must take place in the U.S., Haiti, and Mexico. In Mexico, their place-based programming focuses on the Highlands of Chiapas and the Yucatán Peninsula. In Haiti, they concentrate their programming in the Central and Southern corridors.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible are: (1) non-profit organisations; (2) public or governmental entities; and (3) for-profit corporations doing charitable work.
Total Budget: $350,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.wkkf.org/grantseekers/
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Programme: SCHMITZ FOUNDATIONS
Objective:
The projects supported by the Schmitz Foundations are directed to people who live in poverty and are regarded as particularly disadvantaged by the local population. In their work the Schmitz Foundations focus their support mainly on three major sectors of development work.
Eligible Activities:
They focus their support mainly on the following three major sectors of development work:
1) basic education and training (principally in manual trades and job training)
2) securing basic living standards promoting small-scale commercial activity (i.e. micro-credits schemes, including agriculture and food security)
3) social and charitable projects (i.e. work with the handicapped, care for the elderly, rehabilitation of street children or support for disadvantaged minorities)
They give priority to target groups who have already taken the initiative before the project starts and who show through their own efforts and input their genuine commitment to ‚their‘ project. The proposed project should involve the local population in its planning and implementation and have a clearly defined goal which reflects the true needs of those it is to help.
Their focus regions are South America (Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru) and Asia (Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Philippines and Vietnam).
Eligible Applicants:
The Schmitz Foundations funds NGOs that support small-scale projects, which are planned and developed locally and bring direct benefits to the local population.
Total Budget: €2,500,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.schmitz-stiftungen.de/en/funding/application-guidelines/
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - INV
Objective:
The call aims to pioneer solutions to make peripheral and lagging areas in central Europe more attractive to live and work in. With a budget of approximately 14 million Euros ERDF, the initiative targets small-scale projects that address economic, social, and governance challenges in these regions. By fostering innovative and practical solutions, the call seeks to reduce disparities and enhance the overall development potential of targeted areas.
Eligible Activities:
The call will be thematically focused and be open for proposals in four programme specific objectives (SOs):
SO 1.2: Strengthening skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition and entrepreneurship
SO 2.5: Greening urban mobility
SO 3.1: Improving transport connections of rural and peripheral regions
SO 4.1: Strengthening governance for integrated territorial development
The call is open to partnerships from central Europe, with a focus on regions facing significant economic and social challenges. Projects can target rural or urban areas lagging in socio-economic development, ranging from local neighbourhoods to entire regions. Interreg CE covers regions and cities from nine EU Member States: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Eligible Applicants:
Eligible applicants include local and regional authorities, associations, civil society organizations, and NGOs. Each project must have at least three partners from three different countries, with at least two partners from central Europe. Involvement of research organizations is limited to supporting roles.
Total Budget: €14,000,000
Deadline: 20/12/2024
More information and official documents: https://www.interreg-central.eu/third-call-preview/
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Programme: DIGITAL-JU-SME DIGITAL JU SME Support Actions
Objective:
Expected Outcome:
Deployment of state-of-the-art technologies in the area of cybersecurity
Tools for automated threat detection, monitoring of networks, data protection and incident response
Objective:
Breakthroughs in Key Digital Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (including generative AI and adversarial AI), Big Data Analytics, Quantum, Blockchain Technology, High Performance Computing and Software-Defined Networking, create new opportunities for advancing cybersecurity in the areas of vulnerability detection, threat detection and rapid response, reducing the window of opportunity for attackers to exploit these vulnerabilities. Furthermore, they may enable new possibilities to protect data security and privacy.
The objective is to enable European cybersecurity actors to take advantage of these new breakthroughs, improving detection and prevention capabilities, efficiency, scalability, and facilitating data sharing and regulatory compliance.
In particular innovative technologies should allow for the processing of larger amounts of data, automating real-time pattern recognition, log analysis, vulnerability scanning, while enabling security professionals to focus on higher level interpretation of data and response decisions. They should allow organisations to deploy solutions and larger scale, and in increasingly complex environments.
A priority is to create and strengthen capacity for original Cyber Threat Information (CTI), e.g., in the form of CTI feeds or services.
Eligible Activities:
Scope:
Activities should fortify cybersecurity capabilities using breakthrough technologies, encompassing various aspects of cybersecurity. This involves uptake and integration for the deployment of novel tools, systems and services for threat detection, incident response, malware defence, vulnerability management, data protection and so forth. In one or more of the following topics should be addressed:
Real-time Monitoring and Incident Response: ensuring the swift identification and response to security incidents through continuous network monitoring, alert generation, and automated response mechanisms.
Malware Defence and Analysis: mitigating malware threats by analysing code behaviour, scrutinizing network traffic, and assessing file characteristics, thereby reducing opportunities for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities.
Proactive Vulnerability Management: identifying and addressing weaknesses proactively through automated vulnerability scanning and penetration testing to address potential threats before they can be exploited.
Data Protection and Anomaly Detection: safeguarding sensitive data by scrutinizing access patterns and identifying abnormal behaviour to mitigate data breaches and protect critical information.
Incident investigation to help uncover cause, scope and impact of security incidents or breaches that have occurred.
Data Utilisation with Privacy: enabling organisations to harness data for analysis and insights while preserving data security and privacy through techniques such as anonymisation and de-identification.
By addressing such issues, the cybersecurity resilience of organisations should be enhanced, improving overall cybersecurity posture, encompassing various aspects such as threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability management.
In well justified cases, access requests to the EuroHPC high performance computing infrastructure could be granted.
The systems, tools and services developed under this topic, where relevant, will be made available for licencing to National and/or Cross-Border SOC platforms under favourable market conditions.
This action aims at the deployment of key technologies in cybersecurity, in particular also in the context of securing national authorities, providers of critical infrastructures and essential services. As this involves the handling of cyber incidents, malware and management of vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious actors, the deployment of such technologies must be protected against possible dependencies and vulnerabilities in cybersecurity to pre-empt foreign influence and control. As previously noted, participation of non-EU entities entails the risk of highly sensitive information about security infrastructure, risks and incidents being subject to legislation or pressure that obliges those non-EU entities to disclose this information to non-EU governments, with an unpredictable security risk. Therefore, based on the outlined security reasons, the actions relating to these technologies are subject to Article 12(5) of Regulation (EU) 2021/694.
Eligible Applicants:
EU members states plus countries who have associated
Total Budget: €35,000,000
Deadline: 21/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/digital-eccc-2024-deploy-cyber-07-keytech
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Programme: ULVERSCROFT FOUNDATION
Objective:
The Ulverscroft Foundation was formed to (1) relieve and assist, and to provide treatment and education for sick or handicapped persons and in particular persons suffering from defective eyesight; and (2) support medical research and to provide and assist in the provision of facilities for the treatment or alleviation of sick or visually handicapped persons. To that end the Foundation provides financial help to Universities which carry out research into the causes of eye diseases; funds eye clinics, hospitals, schools, libraries and other organisations which help visually impaired people. They also provide awards to assist the development of library services for print disabled people worldwide and to foster cooperation between library services serving these persons.
Eligible Activities:
An application should include at least the following: (1) details of your current service to visually-impaired people, if any, and how it will be improved or enhanced by the proposed project. They do not need to see lengthy, generalised descriptions of the challenges faced by blind and visually-impaired people; (2) an estimate if possible of how many blind and visually-impaired people currently use your service, and how many will use it in the future; (3) any funding received or pledged to date for the project in question, and the names of other organisations to which you have applied; (4) a copy of your latest annual report and accounts; (5) confirmation that your organisation has a safeguarding policy for vulnerable children and/or adults, as appropriate; and (6) confirmation that your organisation has an equal opportunities policy.
Actions can take place overseas.
Eligible Applicants:
Applications for funding can be considered from any source, UK or overseas. Applicants need not necessarily be a charity: they can be a CIC or social group.
Total Budget: £800,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.ulverscroft-foundation.org.uk/
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Programme: BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST
Objective:
The Britford Bridge Trust is a charity supporting the prevention or relief of poverty; the advancement of education; the advancement of health or the saving of lives; and the advancement of the arts, culture, heritage, or science.
Eligible Activities:
The trustees have already fully committed to supporting the fields of medicine and related professions connected to the causes, diagnosis, treatment and care of cancer and other malignant disease and will not be accepting applications for funding in that regard. Similarly the family donates to African causes through established NGOs. As a result the Trustees regret that they will not consider applications from these areas of need.
In addition the Trustees will give due consideration to the amount of any donation that reaches the intended beneficiary and to the existing reserves and resources of the applicant.
Applicants must have national or international reach with regional consideration being given to projects in the UK (the Wolverhampton, Dorset and Cambridge areas only).
Eligible Applicants:
Currently they mainly fund through UK-based organisations. Whilst they primarily fund through UK-based organisations, they welcome collaboration with multiple partners which can be based in the targeted geography.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://thebritfordbridgetrust.org/
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Programme: NU SKIN FORCE FOR GOOD FOUNDATION
Objective: Nu Skin Enterprises’ spirit of long-term social responsibility led to the creation of the Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation: a non-profit organisation whose mission is to improve the lives of children by offering hope for a life free from disease, illiteracy, and poverty. Since its inception in 1996, the Foundation has supported hundreds of worthwhile projects in more than 50 countries throughout the world.
Eligible Activities: The focus of the Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation is on projects that aim to provide opportunity for improved children’s health & wellness around the globe. They have supported agricultural projects or health interventions for children.
The Foundation provides financial support in the countries where Nu Skin operates. These include more than 50 countries throughout Asia and the Americas (i.e. China, Malawi, Mexico).
Eligible Applicants: Non-profit organisations are eligible to apply.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 31/12/2024
More information and official documents: https://www.forceforgood.org/ffg/en/new-ffg/funding-the-future.html
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Programme: African World Heritage Fund (AWHF)
Objective: In response to the urgent need for the preservation and protection of cultural heritage sites threatened by various factors including natural disasters, armed conflicts, and other emergencies, the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF) is pleased to announce the availability of Emergency Grants for the Protection of Cultural and Natural World Heritage in Africa.
The African World Heritage Fund (AWHF) is an intergovernmental organization created in 2006 to support the effective conservation and promotion of cultural and natural heritage of outstanding universal value in Africa. The main objective of the AWHF is to address the challenges faced by African State Parties in the implementation of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, specifically, the underrepresentation of African sites on the World Heritage List and the conservation and management deficiencies of these sites. The AWHF is a category Centre under the auspices of UNESCO.
Eligible Activities: The primary purpose of this grants is to provide immediate financial support for projects and initiatives focused on safeguarding and preserving cultural and natural World Heritage properties in the face of imminent risks or damage. The projects and activities under this grant shall contribute towards disaster recovery and improving the sustainability and state of conservation of World Heritage properties.
Funding may be used for urgent conservation work, stabilization efforts, documentation, and other activities directly related to protecting the cultural heritage site or artifact.
AWHF grant will only cover direct costs related to the project activities.
Applicants should provide detailed budget in US$ for every activity to be implemented;
Applicants should indicate the State Parties’ contribution to the project.
Each project will be assessed individually, and the grant amount awarded will be determined based on the project’s scope and needs.
Eligible Applicants: Eligibility Criteria
Countries/Region – African continent
Projects activities are restricted to World Heritage Sites as declared by UNESCO.
Project proposals MUST address challenges affecting the State of Conservation of selected World Heritage property as a result of natural disasters, armed conflicts, and other emergencies.
The proposed project must address an immediate and verifiable threat to a world heritage property.
Applicants must provide evidence of the urgency of the situation and the need for immediate intervention.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 31/12/2024
More information and official documents: https://awhf.net/2538-2/
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Programme: Roddenberry Foundation
Objective: Gene Roddenberry, creator of the Star Trek series, brought to his audiences meaningful and thought-provoking science fiction to “think, question, and challenge the status quo” with the intention of creating “a brighter future”. His work has touched countless lives and continues to entertain and inspire audiences worldwide. In 2010, Gene’s son Rod established the Roddenberry Foundation to build on his father’s legacy and philosophy of inclusion, diversity, and respect for life to drive social change and meaningfully improve the lives of people around the world.
Eligible Activities: The Catalyst Fund is a small grants program focused on early-stage, unconventional ideas that have the potential for disruptive change. The Catalyst Fund awards small grants for early-stage, innovative, and unconventional ideas that address urgent challenges. The Fund is interested in innovative ideas that make a difference. A cutting-edge product, an experimental program, a new service, an invention, or an original game are all in their wheelhouse. The idea has to improve on what’s already out there and it has to have the potential for tangible, measurable impact. Ideas that can be replicated, taken to scale, or leverage existing infrastructure are a good fit. They also favor ideas that inspire others, build on partnerships (public and private), and that are inclusive of those they are intended to benefit.
The Catalyst Fund has been created to source ideas from all corners of the globe. Anyone from any country can apply.
Eligible Applicants: Individuals and organisations from around the world are eligible to apply for support.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: http://roddenberryfoundation.org/our-work/the-catalyst-fund/
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Programme: Embassy of Japan to Kosovo
Objective: The Grant Assistance for Grass Roots and Human Security Projects (GGP) was first introduced by the Government of Japan in 1989 in order to meet various socio-economic needs in developing countries. The GGP provides nonrefundable financial assistance to NGOs, hospitals, primary schools, and other nonprofit association to help implement their development projects. The availability of GGP funding in each eligible country provides Japanese ODA with a new means of cooperation that has a direct impact on the well-being of grass-roots communities.
Eligible Activities: Its focus areas in Kosovo include: (1) refurbishment and supply of equipment for primary schools; (2) refurbishment and supply of medical equipment for hospitals (projects for the benefit of women, children or prevention of infectious disease such as AIDS are given priority); (3) supply of equipment for basic skills training courses (e.g. brick making, sewing, candle making machines, etc); (4) agricultural training equipment (e.g. tractors, pumps, sprinklers); (5) public welfare (refurbishment and supply of equipment for facilities for the handicapped, orphans, family planning education, or the construction of community centers); and (6) water supply (facilities and equipment for drilling well pumps etc.).
Actions must take place in Kosovo.
Eligible Applicants: The following lists are examples of potential recipients: (1) international or local NGOs; (2) community-based organisations (CBOs); (3) local authorities; (4) health institutions; (5) primary schools and vocational (training) schools and (6) other non-profit associations.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.ks.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/ggp.html
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Programme: Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC)
Objective: The Swiss Cooperation Strategy focuses on large, long-term programmes, which are implemented with professional partners. In order to support grassroots initiatives, the embassy of Switzerland and the Swiss Cooperation Office can additionally (co-)finance projects by local organisations quickly and with a minimum of bureaucracy through small action grants.
Eligible Activities: These small action grants aim to contribute to social inclusion and improved livelihoods, especially for the most, disadvantaged and vulnerable within Kosovar society. Previous grants ranged from cultural projects, sports activities, environmental activities and human rights initiatives to small-scale development projects.
Actions must take place in Kosovo.
Eligible Applicants: To be eligible, projects should: (1) directly benefit at least one vulnerable group – including, but not limited to, minority communities, women, children, war victims, LGBTQI or people with disabilities – and address their (re)integration, empowerment or the fulfilment of their human rights; (2) take place mainly in Kosovo (regional initiatives can only be considered as long as at least half of the activities take place in Kosovo); (3) be submitted by an organisation with adequate structures, which is registered in Kosovo; (4) present a budget where administrative costs do not exceed 15 percent of total cost and where the implementing organisation contributes part of the total cost (in cash or in kind); (5) respect the law and follow sound managerial and financial practices; and (6) projects of nation-wide scope and those covering minority areas should work in both of Kosovo’s national languages, i.e. Albanian and Serbian.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.eda.admin.ch/countries/kosovo/en/home/international-cooperation/projects/small-actions.html
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Programme: HORIZON-IA HORIZON Innovation Actions
Objective: Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
• Greater engagement of representative groups of end users as well as citizens of the impacted urban context.
• Increased acceptability and uptake of sustainable deep renovation solutions in the built environment.
• Reduced energy and mobility poverty.
• Increase in plans for climate neutral and sustainable, aesthetic and inclusive built environments with enhanced climate adaptation and resilience (e.g. based on nature-based solutions).
• Enhanced climate change adaptation and resilience in built environments.
Eligible Activities: Scope:
The transition to a climate-neutral society requires that Europe’s building stock also becomes climate-neutral. At the same time, Europe’s building stock has to become climate resilient. This requires a comprehensive approach beyond individual buildings, namely at the level of neighbourhoods or urban districts. However, the decarbonisation of the built environment and its adaptation to a changing climate and to societal needs in terms of comfort, accessibility, inclusiveness, and aesthetics cannot happen without active participation of the buildings’ users and occupants, individual / collective property owners, and energy communities as beneficiaries of the value chain. Professionals, such as project developers, architects, engineers, building owners, planners and statutory authorities, require solutions that develop, analyse, model, visualise and present a multitude and complex set of information in such a way that facilitates such co-design processes. This topic focuses on the development of digital solutions for a stronger participation of end users, citizens and other relevant stakeholders in the design, planning and management of the renovation of existing buildings, neighbourhoods and / or districts.
Proposals are expected to address one or both of the following points:
• Digital solutions that facilitate participative design and planning through visualisation, analysis and engagement with data that is directly relevant to building users as well as citizens in the surrounding urban area (including e.g. immersive and interactive technologies, Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality, simulations and scenario modelling).
• Digital solutions that allow to analyse and model different scenarios for to-be-renovated buildings, neighbourhoods and / or districts in terms of energy use and generation; users’ health and wellbeing; impact on the energy grid; provisions for active and electric mobility, and sustainable delivery solutions; life-cycle environmental and micro-climatic impacts, and; socio-economic impacts for citizens, building users, owners and occupiers.
In addition, proposals are expected to address all of the following:
• Address aspects of climate-neutrality and climate-resilience, respecting the 'energy efficiency first’ principle.
• Ensure the digital solution complements, builds on and/or uses existing tools (including, where relevant, on conventional, low-tech ones) and standards recognised by the market.
• Engage citizens (seeking coverage of different genders and social characteristics), end users of the tools and other relevant stakeholders involved in the design, planning and management of urban development projects in the development process of the digital solution.
• Ensure the digital solution offers different means to exchange information and provide input that are tailored to the specific needs of laypersons, including vulnerable, minority and disadvantaged groups as well as persons with disabilities and older persons.
• Demonstrate the prototype in at least three real-life urban development projects to apply, evaluate and refine the digital solution and inform its market launch and / or commercialisation strategy.
• Ensure the project’s dissemination activities include actions that contribute to the activities of the NEB Community, and to sharing information, best practices and results within the NEB Lab.
• Contribute to the activities of the Built4People partners and to the Built4People network of innovation clusters.
This topic requires the effective contribution of SSH disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise (including social innovation), in order to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related research activities.
This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership on ‘People-centric sustainable built environment’ (Built4People). As such, projects resulting from this topic will be expected to report on results to the European Partnership ‘People-centric sustainable built environment’ (Built4People) in support of the monitoring of its KPIs.
Specific Topic Conditions: Activities are expected to achieve TRL 6-8 by the end of the project
Eligible Applicants: Applications are welcome from legal entities (public or private bodies) registered in the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €10,000,000
Deadline: 21/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl5-2024-d4-02-05
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Programme: USAID/Egypt
Objective: The USAID/Egypt Private Sector Collaboration Pathway (PSCP) Annual Program Statement (APS) seeks to foster private sector partnerships that align with USAID/Egypt’s Development Objectives (DOs) as outlined in the Egypt Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) for 2020-2025. This initiative provides a structured mechanism for USAID/Egypt to solicit and review concept papers from private sector entities interested in collaboration.
Eligible Activities: The APS emphasizes a phased co-creation process, allowing for initial interest exploration, concept submission, and subsequent detailed co-creation towards a potential funded award. This approach aims to leverage private sector resources and expertise to achieve sustainable development outcomes in various sectors such as agriculture, business, community development, education, health, and more.
Actions must take place in Egypt.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants include a range of private sector entities: for-profit commercial entities (businesses, corporations, SMEs), private foundations affiliated with commercial entities, financial institutions (banks, investment firms, mutual funds, private equity funds, pension funds, insurance companies), business or industry associations (chambers of commerce), and cooperatives. Non-profit organizations, with the exception of business and industry associations and cooperatives, are not eligible to meet the private sector partnering requirement. Government-owned companies and individuals are also ineligible.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: 30/04/2025
More information and official documents: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/354400
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Programme: GOODPLANET FOUNDATION
Objective: The GoodPlanet Foundation aims to support projects that address significant environmental challenges while simultaneously reducing socio-economic inequalities. Through its funding initiatives, the Foundation focuses on three key areas: promoting agroecology and agroforestry, providing access to essential goods and services such as water and sustainable energy, and conserving marine and coastal ecosystems. Projects funded by the Foundation must align with these thematic priorities and demonstrate a clear impact on both the environment and society. With a focus on sustainability and social equity, the Foundation seeks to empower communities and foster positive change on a global scale.
Eligible Activities: Some of their carbon finance projects are coming to an end. They would like to renew our project portfolio to support and assist new projects for access to renewable and sustainable energy and energy efficiency supported by carbon finance.
• Case n°1: Projects of up to 19,999 tonnes of CO2 equivalent avoided per year, which integrate the GoodPlanet project portfolio, supported by annual carbon finance from several financiers.
• Case n°2: Projects exceeding 20,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent avoided per year, subject to pre-financing from a single donor, with multi-year funding acquired.
Actions can take place in various countries worldwide.
Eligible Applicants: Project selection is open to non-governmental organisations, companies from the social and solidarity economy, associations, foundations, etc. The GoodPlanet Foundation does not support for-profit projects with no socio-economic benefits for disadvantaged populations. Project leaders must have proven experienced in project management and in the environmental sector. The GoodPlanet Foundation accepts applications from French and foreign organisations.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.goodplanet.org/en/submit-your-project/
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - LIFE
Objective: Objective
Climate change adaptation SIPs should help achieve the objectives of Article 5 of the European Climate Law24 or the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change. In order to do so, SIPs should support the implementation of national climate change adaptation strategies or plans, as required under the European Climate Law, or comparable regional, multi-regional or transnational strategies and plans. More specifically, they are expected to select and implement a clearly defined set of actions in the corresponding adaptation strategy or plan, which are to be financed by LIFE.
Eligible Activities: Applicants should explain how and to what extent this set of actions will help to implement the overall strategy or plan.
Also, in order to substantially contribute to the implementation of this strategy or plan, SIPs should specify
– additional, complementary adaptation actions, which are to be funded by other EU, national or private funding sources;
– how the project will mobilise complementary funds that can finance activities beyond the scope and timeframe of what is funded by LIFE, like measures to integrate climate adaptation objectives in private investment decisions;
– auxiliary actions that facilitate the implementation of the overall strategy or plan, such as capacity-building;
– how the project ensures the involvement of, and coordination between, all relevant levels of government.
Proposals must relate to activities taking place in EU countries, Ukraine, Moldova, North Macedonia.
Eligible Applicants: In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must: be legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €30,000,000
Deadline: 06/03/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/life-2024-strat-clima-sip-two-stage
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - LIFE
Objective: Objective
SIPs should aim at the full implementation of the strategies and plans listed in “Objective”. This might not mean that the SIP will cover all actions foreseen in the strategy/plan or that the strategy/plan will be fully implemented during the lifetime of the SIP. However, the SIP shall include strategic actions to catalyse a process and mobilise supplementary commitments and funding that will lead, in due time, to the full implementation of the plan or strategy. SIPs shall promote the coordination with and mobilisation of other relevant Union, national or private funding sources for the implementation of the complementary measures or actions outside of the SIP in the framework of the targeted plan or strategy, giving preference to EU funding. Within the SIP itself, however, co-funding may not come from other EU funding sources.
Eligible Activities: SIPs shall actively involve the main stakeholders necessary for the implementation of the targeted plan or strategy. They should be involved in both the design and implementation of the given project. This involvement is expected to be achieved by including them – where possible and reasonable – as associated beneficiaries of the SIP, or through their active participation in the implementation of the SIP itself and/or of the complementary actions. SIPs should facilitate and result in the building up of strategic capacities among the competent authorities and stakeholders to ensure a long-term sustainability of project results and actions, and to ensure that they will be able to function as co-deliverers of the targeted plan or strategy during or after the end of the SIP.
Proposals must relate to activities taking place in EU countries, Ukraine, Moldova, North Macedonia.
Eligible Applicants: In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must: be legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €52,000,000
Deadline: 06/03/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/life-2024-strat-env-sip-two-stage
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Programme: European Commission (EC) - LIFE
Objective: Objective
A SNAP will not have to cover all actions foreseen in the strategy/plan or ensure that the strategy/plan will be fully implemented during the lifetime of the SNAP. However, the SNAP shall include strategic actions to catalyse a process and mobilise supplementary commitments and funding that will lead, in due time, to the full implementation of the plan or strategy. SNAPs shall promote the coordination with and mobilisation of other relevant Union, national or private funding sources for the implementation of the complementary measures or actions outside of the SNAP in the framework of the targeted plan or strategy, giving preference to Union funding. Within the SNAP itself, however, co-funding may not come from other Union funding sources.
Eligible Activities: SNAPs shall actively involve the main stakeholders necessary for the implementation of the targeted plan or strategy. They should be involved in both the design and implementation of the given project. This involvement is expected to be achieved by including them – where possible and reasonable – as associated beneficiaries of the SNAP, or through their active participation in the implementation of the SNAP itself and/or of the complementary actions. SNAPs should facilitate and result in the building up of strategic capacities among the competent authorities and stakeholders to ensure a long-term sustainability of project results and actions, and to ensure that they will be able to function as co-deliverers of the targeted plan or strategy after the end of the SNAP.
Proposals must relate to activities taking place in EU countries, Moldova, North Macedonia, Ukraine.
Eligible Applicants: In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must: be legal entities (public or private bodies).
Total Budget: €70,000,000
Deadline: 06/03/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/life-2024-strat-nat-snap-two-stage
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Programme: Embassy of Japan to Georgia
Objective: Objective
The GGP is one of the grant schemes of the Embassy of Japan in Georgia, oriented towards providing support to the grassroots actors, for the promotion of Basic Human Needs and Human Security in Georgia. This involves, but is not limited to the actions, which aim to mitigate threats to human survival, human life, human dignity, as well as the actions aimed to build up the capacities of individuals and communities.
Eligible Activities: Within 22 years of its work in Georgia – from 1998 to 2022, the Grassroots Human Security Program (GGP) of the Government of Japan funded more than 200 projects, in total amounting to more than 20 million USD. Through this funding, agriculture infrastructure was developed, alleviating poverty in some of the poorest villages; thousands of hectares of land were cleared from hazardous landmines, saving lives of local population; dozens of schools, kindergartens, hospitals were rehabilitated and re-equipped, providing essential services to the most vulnerable population. Those are only a few of the examples and the range of sectors funded has been very broad.
Representing the goodwill of the ordinary Japanese people, the Embassy of Japan strives to provide support in the sectors, considered most essential by the population of Georgia itself. Vast majority of the reputable local and international research reflects that the population of Georgia considers socio-economic problems as the most acute national issues, along with the occupation of its territories. Thus, in its GGP program, the Embassy strives to emphasize the projects, which aim to resolve those problems most effectively and efficiently.
Actions must take place in Georgia.
Eligible Applicants: The following lists are examples of potential recipients: NGOs and INGOs; Local public authorities (mayor’s office).
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.ge.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/development_assistance_eng20180727.html
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Programme: Japanese Embassy Rwanda
Objective: Objective
In 1989, the Government of Japan introduced Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP/kusanone) in order to respond to the diverse development needs in developing countries. The aim of GGP is to provide financial assistance to non- profit development organizations for implementation of projects at community level. In Rwanda, 2 projects are selected per year.
Eligible Activities: The following areas are considered as deserving priority:
1) Public Welfare: Facilities and equipment for disabled people, orphans, the field of women in development (WID), etc.
2) Primary Education: Classroom preparation; desks, chairs, and bookshelves, etc.
3) Vocational Training: Vocational training facilities and equipment, etc.
4) Primary Health Care: Basic medical equipment, etc.
Actions must be implemented in Rwanda.
Eligible Applicants: Support is provided to Community-Based Organizations; Local or International Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs); Local authority (Ex. City Council, District); Educational Institutions (Ex. School Management Committee, schools); Medical or Health Institutions (Ex. Hospital Management Committee); Research Institutions.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: ongoing
More information and official documents: http://www.eg.emb-japan.go.jp/e/assistance/grass_roots/grass_roots.htm
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Programme: VAN TIENHOVEN FOUNDATION
Objective: Objective
Van Tienhoven Foundation is a small foundation that makes grants on the basis of the estate of Pieter Gerbrand van Tienhoven. They are concerned about life on earth and the delicate balance between human life, nature and biodiversity. The Foundation believes local people are instrumental and key to conserve and restore nature and species populations. They believe that small grants can have a great impact, but only if small grants lead to change in policy and practice.
Eligible Activities: Previously funded projects include: ecosystem restorations in national parks, piloting a community-based approach to ecosystems conservation, establishing biosecurity programs to protect the Critically Endangered Species, fostering human-Asian elephant coexistence with community involvement, supporting the operations of community rangers, creation of Wildlife Reserves, snow leopard conservation, community-based wildlife monitoring, climate-smart agriculture and environmental education in the tropical rainforests, etc.
Actions must be implemented in developing countries, predominantly following the most recent DAC list of ODA Recipients.
Eligible Applicants: Non-profit organisations, that are registered as legal bodies (NGOs and scientific institutions) are eligible to apply.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: 31/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://www.vantienhovenfoundation.com/application-process/
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Programme: Waterloo Foundation
Objective: Objective
The Waterloo Foundation (TWF) is an independent grant-making foundation created in 2007, and based in Cardiff, Wales. The Foundation gives grants to organisations both in the UK and worldwide. They are most interested in projects that help globally particularly in the areas of the disparity of opportunities and wealth and the unsustainable use of the world’s natural resources.
Eligible Activities: The Small Grants focus on:
1) Nutrition: promoting good nutritional practices, with a particular focus on mothers and children during the ‘1000-day window’; providing micronutrients for young children and their mothers and de-worming drugs for young children; and providing micronutrients through food fortification for all;
2) Sexual and Reproductive Health: improving access to a range of modern contraceptive methods and wider sexual health and reproductive services, and increasing understanding and awareness of, and driving demand for, family planning services;
3) Education: improving the quality of secondary, primary and early childhood education and increasing the enrolment and retention of pupils at both primary and secondary level, especially girls and young women; and
4) Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: access to safe drinking water and improved hygiene.
Actions can take place worldwide in developing countries with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally South Asia.
Eligible Applicants: They will consider applications from organisations with an annual income of less than £20,000 or that are newly established within the last 2 years; but in these cases we can only consider applications below £5,000. Applicants’ requests should always be in keeping with their organisation’s annual income; we do not usually provide grants which total more than 25% of an organisation’s annual income. Small grants are usually provided as a one-off donation. In exceptional circumstances some organisations may be invited to reapply. Grants will be prioritised for small UK charities led by committed individuals, especially those based in Wales, which are working to deliver projects in developing countries.
Total Budget: £100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.waterloofoundation.org.uk/WorldDevelopment.html
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Programme: Helmut Horten Foundation
Objective: Objective
Established in the 1970s by Helmut Horten, the Foundation aims at supporting the health care system through financial contributions to medical research facilities, hospitals, and other health care institutions, as well as to individuals who are in need of medical care. Eligible for funding are measures intended to protect and maintain people’s health. Today, the Foundation provides funding to the following two main programs: (1) the Horten Centre for Patient-Oriented Research and Knowledge Transfer: this service enables general practitioners to apply the latest medical knowledge in their practices as well as work on patient-oriented research with a focus on the quality of diagnostics; and (2) the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB): the institute’s work is upon advancing biomedical research with scientists focusing on the mechanisms of host defence against bacteria, viruses, tumours and neuro-degenerative diseases.
Eligible Activities: They offer two grant types:
• Young Investor Grants: accelerate the careers of talented young group leaders to develop their independent research within the medical sciences
• Consortium Projects for Clinical Translation: Create the desired impact of sustainably improving quality of life and life expectancy for patients by investing in multidisciplinary teams who can best generate scientific innovation and translate this into clinical, practice-changing outcomes.
Actions must take place in Switzerland and other countries provided they meet the Foundation’s requirements.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible are: (1) medical research centres; (2) hospitals; (3) health care institutions; and (4) individual researchers.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.helmut-horten-stiftung.org/en/applications/
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Programme: WEEDEN FOUNDATION
Objective: Objective
The Weeden Foundation’s primary mission is to protect biodiversity. The Foundation is working to protect old-growth forests, expand habitats for endangered species on public and private lands, and link key wildlife corridors. Their goal in Global Biodiversity is to support campaigns and/or groups in biodiversity hotspots. Specific objectives are to (1) protect global temperate rainforests, (2) support creation of wildlife corridors, (3) land acquisition and protection of endangered species and, (4) support projects that involve indigenous peoples in the process and stewardship of conservation projects.
Eligible Activities: The Foundation’s Environment Education program area focuses on supporting grantees that will provide future leaders with the tools to effect environmental policies. These policies complement the other grantees of the Foundation including biodiversity and habitat protection. Sustainable environmental policies must include both immediate actions as well as education to anticipate and to prevent future environmental impact.
The Foundation’s International Population program is focused on reducing population growth rates in countries recognized for their rich biodiverse landscapes and that have a total fertility rate exceeding replacement levels. To achieve this goal, the Foundation funds groups that facilitate initiatives related to family planning, women’s education and women’s empowerment in countries with such rich and recognized biodiversity.
They work in Latin America and Africa as well as globally.
Eligible Applicants: Non-governmental organisations are eligible. Applicants need a IRS tax exemption 501(c)(3) certification letter or an equivalency document for non-U.S. based organisations (obtained in-country).
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://weedenfoundation.org/applications/
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Programme: ISHIBASHI FOUNDATION
Objective: Objective
The Ishibashi Foundation is dedicated to upholding the tradition of cultural initiatives established by its founder, and is committed to supporting artistic, cultural, and educational initiatives aimed at the development of a more caring and humane world. It keeps a watchful eye on regions that tend to be overlooked by society, putting effort in recent years in particular into grant programs with an international focus.
Eligible Activities: They fund the following activities: (1) art: publication of the official journal of a scientific society, having art exhibition; (2) education: raising the standard of educational system, expanding the educational facilities, having commemorative event and symposium; and (3) culture: publication of the official journal of a scientific society, having commemorative event and symposium.
Actions must take place in Japan and across the globe.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants are non-profit organisations (including no profit-making enterprises or private businesses) with a track record in implementing projects that align with the Foundation’s mission: institutes, associations, schools, research institutes etc.
Total Budget: $1,800,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: http://www.ishibashi-foundation.or.jp/english/
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Programme: Lyford Cay Foundation
Objective: Objective
The Lyford Cay Foundations are dedicated to enhancing community development in The Bahamas through transformative learning opportunities. As a key grant-making organization in the country, their focus is on investing in initiatives that support education and skill development across various sectors including the arts, sports, environmental awareness, health, and economic and human resource development. Their programs are tailored to empower Bahamian children, young adults, families, and communities, especially those who are most in need.
Eligible Activities: The Foundations provide financial assistance to Bahamian non-profits, promoting both traditional and diverse educational experiences. A significant contribution of the Foundations includes a $4 million donation to the University of The Bahamas’ Harry C. Moore Library. Their approach extends beyond mere financial support, aiming for a lasting and sustainable impact in the community.
Actions must take place in Bahamas.
Eligible Applicants: Eligibility for the grants is restricted to non-profit organizations registered in The Bahamas. The projects seeking grants must take place within The Bahamas and align with the mission of the Lyford Cay Foundations. Additionally, organizations receiving grants are required to provide a report detailing the use and impact of the funds.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://lyfordcayfoundations.org/our-programmes-grants/
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Programme: Fritz Thyssen Foundation
Objective: Objective
Support of projects by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation focuses on scholars in the humanities, social sciences and biomedicine fields. The planned project should be limited in terms of the subject and time.
Eligible Activities: An application can be filed in the following areas of support:
• History, Language & Culture
• State, Economy and Society
• Medicine and the Natural Sciences
• Interdisciplinary projects are also welcomed by the foundation.
Funding is basically reserved for projects that are related to the promotion areas of the Foundation and have a clear connection to the German research system. This connection can be established either at a personal level through German scientists working on the project, at an institutional level through non-German scientists being affiliated to German research institutes or through studies on topics related thematically to German research interests.
They work in Germany and globally.
Eligible Applicants: Applications can generally only be accepted if they come from universities or non-profit research institutions. In the case of applications from non-governmental institutions within the EU/EEA, the application must be accompanied by a copy of the currently valid tax exemption notice for corporations.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de/en/funding/types-of-support/support-of-projects/
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Programme: HORIZON-IA HORIZON Innovation Actions
Efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02)
Objective: Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
• Reduced buildings construction and renovation time and costs.
• Increased buildings material reuse and recycling.
• Improvement of buildings performance (energy, sustainability including whole life-cycle carbon and the potential to store carbon in built works, comfort, health and well-being, and accessibility).
• Enhanced, interoperable and accessible buildings information across the lifecycle.
• Improvement of interoperability with existing Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Digital Twin solutions.
• Broader application of BIM and Digital Twin solutions, in particular within SMEs.
Eligible Activities: Scope:
To improve Building Information Modelling and Digital Twinning over the full life cycle of buildings, including construction and renovation of buildings, towards enhanced energy efficiency and sustainability and in compliance with circular economy and resource efficiency principles.
Proposals are expected to address all of the following:
• Develop and integrate solutions based on BIM and Digital Twins to support the whole buildings life cycle from design to deconstruction and reuse, including operation.
• Ensure the solutions developed address all the following aspects:
• Supporting optimal, adaptable and reversible building design for energy efficiency, circularity and sustainability.
• Allowing to track buildings materials and construction products, and supporting cost-effective deconstruction and reuse, recycling and recovery of building materials at end of life.
• Integrating buildings monitoring data (e.g. from sensors and IoT devices) into an interoperable Digital Twin for automated, optimised building performance monitoring and management, and preventive maintenance.
• Enabling buildings data interoperability, quality and integrity across the life cycle, in particular to reliably assess and track building performance over the lifecycle, enabling tailored data access for all life cycle’s stakeholders (architects, engineering companies, contractors, building owners, financing institutions, etc.).
• Relying where possible on open BIM standards and linking, where relevant, to digital logbooks and relevant initiatives (e.g. the Smart Readiness Indicator under the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive).
• Easiness of use and cost effectiveness, in particular for SMEs and companies with limited experience in digital solutions, and high potential for replication and commercialisation.
• Apply the solutions delivered on a set (at least two) of real-life residential and non-residential building construction and renovation projects which, taken together, allow to demonstrate the potential of the solutions across all aspects listed in the topic and across the life cycle.
• Ensure that the demonstrations of the solutions delivered:
• Cover at least two different countries, with diverse climatic conditions.
• Involve local and regional values chains, in particular SMEs, based on participatory approaches to increase innovation acceptability.
• Result in clear and, where relevant, quantified and measurable indicators on the improvements due to the use of the solutions, for all aspects listed in the topic and across the life cycle.
• Contribute to the activities of the Built4People partners and to the Built4People network of innovation clusters.
This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership on ‘People-centric sustainable built environment’ (Built4People). As such, projects resulting from this topic will be expected to report on results to the European Partnership ‘People-centric sustainable built environment’ (Built4People) in support of the monitoring of its KPIs.
Specific Topic Conditions: Activities are expected to achieve TRL 6-8 by the end of the project
Eligible Applicants: Applications are welcome from legal entities (public or private bodies) registered in the eligible countries.
Total Budget: €8,000,000
Deadline: 21/01/2025
More information and official documents: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl5-2024-d4-02-03
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Programme: European Media and Information Fund (EMIF) / Gulbenkian
Objective: Objective
The Call Boosting Fact-checking Activities in Europe aims at supporting projects from independent fact-checking organisations, which play a key role in limiting the negative effects of disinformation on the public discourse and democratic processes. In the context of the ongoing Russia – Ukraine war, and in light of its repercussions across Europe, this Call for Proposals is currently accepting applications that contemplate collaborations with Ukrainian fact-checking and media organisation and/or journalists. Though Ukrainian organisations are not eligible as funded partners, costs pertaining to such collaborations, namely subcontracting costs, will be considered as eligible.
Eligible Activities:
a. Urgent actions: projects designed to increase coverage, depth, and speed of fact-checking activities by organisations that commit to producing regular flows of fact-checks. These actions may have a duration up to 6 months and receive a grant up to €55,000.
b. Scale-up projects: free-lance collaborations within newsrooms and/or the integration of state-of-the-art technologies for content verification and media and social media monitoring. These actions may have a duration up to 12 months and receive a grant up to €80,000.
Actions must take place in Europe.
Eligible Applicants: Only individual entities or organisations in a consortium located in the EU, EFTA and UK are eligible.
Total Budget: €4,350,000
Deadline: 30/06/2025
More information and official documents: https://gulbenkian.pt/emifund/bolsas-lista/boosting-fact-checking-activities-in-europe/
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Programme: Foundation
Objective: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded in 2015 to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from eradicating disease and improving education, to addressing the needs of local communities. Priscilla Chan is co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. The Foundation’s mission is to build a more inclusive, just, and healthy future for everyone. In addition to traditional grant-making to support people and organisations working toward our missions in (1) science; (2) education, and (3) community, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative makes venture investments in impact-focused companies, builds tools and products that we can scale and give away for free, and supports movement and capacity building to achieve progress across their work. Since their launch in 2015, the Foundation has awarded approximately $5 billion in grants. Grants are awarded via three funding entities: the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, a 501(c)(3) private foundation; the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy, a 501(c)(4) organization.
Eligible Activities: Thematic Interest
• Education and training
• Science, innovation and technology
• Children and youth
• Diversity, equity and inclusion
• Social inclusion of marginalised youth
Their pillar “local community” only support organisations/projects in San Mateo County. As for the other program pillars grants are given to projects and initiatives across the globe.
Eligible Applicants: They support science through targeted grant-making and open competitions for research funds in specific issue areas with Requests for Applications, or RFAs. For education, at times they also issue calls for proposals. For ‘community’, grants are only disbursed for projects and initiatives in San Mateo County.
Total Budget: $20,000,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: https://chanzuckerberg.com
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Programme: Foundation
Objective: Danone Ecosystem catalyzes and develops projects that advance the public interest in ecosystems where Danone operates. Since 2009, they have co-created disruptive business models that strengthen inclusion and environmental sustainability, providing organisational know-how, technical expertise and financing support. Projects developed by Danone Ecosystem respond to local challenges linked to sustainable sourcing and regenerative agriculture; micro-distribution; circular economy; and the promotion of healthy drinking and eating habits. The projects are organised into four areas, corresponding to key activities in Danone’s value chain: (1) Sourcing & Watershed, for the sustainability of water resources and the sustainable sourcing of key raw materials; (2) Distribution to create new product distribution channels; (3) Caring Services to strengthen knowledge and access to nutrition and health services; and (4) Recycling to reinforce the circular economy and sourcing of rPET.
Eligible Activities: Thematic Interest
• Agricultural and rural/community development/sustainable farming
• Circular economy
• Sustainable waste management
• Community health
• Healthy drinking and eating habits
• Women’s empowerment and business development
Focus Countries
They give grants to projects across the globe (currently in more than 40 countries worldwide).
Eligible Applicants: They have no formalised application procedures displayed on their website.
Total Budget: €20,000,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: http://ecosysteme.danone.com
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Programme: Foundation
Objective: Endeavor is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world. Endeavor is the leading global community of, by, and for High-Impact Entrepreneurs — those who dream bigger, scale faster, and pay it forward. Driven by our belief that High-Impact Entrepreneurs transform economies, Endeavor is on a mission to build thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging and underserved markets around the world. Endeavor creates a Multiplier Effect by inspiring high-growth founders to dream bigger, supporting and investing in them to scale faster, and providing a platform to pay it forward — thereby compounding their individual impact. To sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way, Endeavor created Endeavor Catalyst, a co-investment fund, set up to invest in the same High-Impact Entrepreneurs that Endeavor supports.
Eligible Activities: Thematic Interest
• Economic development
• Social entrepreneurship
Focus Countries
Endeavor operates across Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Eligible Applicants: Endeavor launches mentorship programs for entrepreneurs and also invests in the form of equity in some selected companies. First, they launch a call for proposal to new cities, regions and countries, their pull model is led by local private sector leaders who pledge their time and money to open a new office. Then they select and support a group of innovative individuals. Through a rigorous, multi-step selection process, Endeavor annually screens thousands of entrepreneurs from around the world to identify those with the best talent and potential for impact and funding.
Total Budget: €5,000,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: http://www.endeavor.org/
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Programme: Network for Social Change Charitable Trust
Objective: Objective
The Network for Social Change Charitable Trust is a group of individuals providing funding for progressive social change projects, particularly in the areas of justice, peace and the environment. The Trust supports projects which are innovative, highly leveraged, and/or difficult to fund, addressing the root causes of a problem.
Eligible Activities: The Trust provides 3 types of grants:
1) Pools – sponsoring projects for grants with a thematic focus on one of the 6 Pools (green planet, human rights, economic justice, health and wholeness, peace, arts and education)
2) Major Projects – focusing on a neglected area of social change (a sustainable economy, income inequality, asylum injustice, remote control warfare), providing funding for 3-6 years
3) Fast Track – providing grants to projects that are identified, assessed and sponsored by a single member of the Trust, who then invites fellow members to join them in funding it.
They support projects in the area of health, HIVA/AIDS, children and alike.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants: Non-profit organisations whose focus areas are: (1) justice; (2) peace and (3) environment are eligible to apply.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.thenetworkforsocialchange.org.uk/funding/project-submission.html
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Programme: Daiwa Foundation
Objective: Objective
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is a UK charity established in 1988 with a generous benefaction from Daiwa Securities Co Ltd. The Foundation’s purpose is to support closer links between Britain and Japan. It does this by: (1) making grants available to individuals, institutions and organisations to promote links between the UK and Japan across all fields of activity; (2) awarding scholarships to young British graduates to study Japan and its language and; (3) organising a year-round program of events to increase intercultural understanding between Japan and the UK.
Eligible Activities: Daiwa Foundation Small Grants can cover all fields of activity, including educational and grassroots exchanges, research travel, the organisation of conferences, exhibitions, and other projects and events that fulfill this broad objective. New initiatives are especially encouraged. Grants are available to individuals, societies, associations or other bodies in the UK or Japan to promote and support interaction between the two countries.
Actions must take place in UK and Japan.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants are: individuals, societies, associations or other bodies in the UK or Japan.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://dajf.org.uk/daiwa-foundation-small-grants-and-awards
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Programme: ERANDA ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION
Objective: Objective
The Eranda Rothschild Foundation is a UK registered charitable trust and makes donations to registered charities working in the fields of medical research, education and the arts. While for their medical research and arts program the Foundation usually supports work well known to the Trustees, for their education program they invite applications from universities and other non-profit organisations to support young professionals in fields including medicine, science and business. They support disadvantaged young people and apprenticeships. Since its founding fifty years ago, the Foundation has made donations totalling more than £74 million to a wide range of charities in the UK and across the globe.
Eligible Activities: Thematic areas are: (1) Education: they consider applications from universities and other charities to support young professionals in fields including medicine, science and business. They support disadvantaged young people and apprenticeships; (2) Medical Research: they support original research and the continuation of existing research. Welfare is also considered under the medical theme and here the priority is to support work well known to the Trustees; and (3) The Arts: they support the education and outreach work of arts charities and prioritise work which is well known to the Foundation.
Actions can take place in various countries worldwide.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants are non-profit organisations registered in the UK and abroad. They support registered charities, including Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) and those correctly registered as charities in their own countries.
Total Budget: €2,500,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.erandarothschild.org/
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Programme: CISV INTERNATIONAL PEACE FUND
Objective: Objective
The CISV International Peace Fund Trust (PFT) was created in 1988 with the objectives (1) to advance education in the understanding, internationally, of children throughout the world, without distinction of race, religion or politics, so that they may grow to maturity, conscious of their responsibilities as human beings; (2) to develop the individual child’s potential for cooperation with others; and (3) to further research contributing to this work. They have a grants program for which they launch four calls for applications throughout the year.
Eligible Activities: Trustees may approve grants for projects which are in line with PFT objectives and the purpose of the sub-fund, provided accumulated interest is available. Some examples of projects that have been funded in the past include: (1) first time programmes hosted by promotional associations; (2) participation by promotional associations at CISV workshops/activities; and (3) international or regional workshops co-hosted by CISV and like-minded organizations.
Actions can take place in various countries worldwide.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants are: (1) CISV charities (officials of the International Association (e.g. International Office, Governing Board), a National Association (NA itself or one of its Chapters), Promotional Association); (2) Official delegates to regional or international CISV activities/ conferences with endorsement of relevant CISV entity; and (3) PFT trustees for projects consistent with PFT’s objectives.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents:https://international-peacefund.org/
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Programme: Patagonia Inc
Objective: Objective
Patagonia Inc. is an American clothing company founded in 1973 that sells and showcases mainly sustainable outdoor clothing. The Patagonia Environmental Grants Programme surges from the company’s commitment to use 1% of their total sales or 10% of their profit, whichever is more, to environmental concerns. Patagonia supports environmental organizations with bold, direct-action agendas and a commitment to long-term change.
Eligible Activities: They support innovative work that addresses the root causes of the environmental crisis and seeks to protect both the environment and affected communities. They focus on places where we’ve built connections through outdoor recreation and through our network of retail stores, nationally and internationally. They encourage work that brings underrepresented communities to the forefront of the environmental movement and defend communities whose health and livelihoods are threatened by environmental exploitation. They support multipronged campaigns that push for greater environmental protections and force the government to abide by its own laws.
They fund projects in Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom).
Eligible Applicants: Their funding focuses on organizations that have or can create a strong base of support.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.patagonia.com/how-we-fund/international-grant/
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Programme: WWF NEDBANK GREEN TRUST
Objective: Objective
The WWF Nedbank Green Trust was established by the Trustees in 1990 in order to promote the conservation of nature and ecological processes. Nedbank was the first, and subsequently only, funder for the Trust and WWF appointed as the management agency for the Trust and subsequently the environmental outcomes strategist for the Trust. The Trust has planned to achieve its mission through “…the preservation of genetic, species and ecosystem diversity; by ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and by promoting actions aimed at reducing, to the absolute minimum, pollution and the wasteful exploitation and consumption of resources and energy”.
Eligible Activities: Since 1990, the WWF Nedbank Green Trust has invested more R300 million in various catalytic conservation projects which have grown to a scale that has had a significant impact for environ- mental health and wealth of South Africa.
Actions must take place in South Africa.
Eligible Applicants: The WWF Nedbank Green Trust welcomes all organizations, aligned to its strategy, to partner with the Trust to achieve its vision of igniting new ways for people and nature to thrive.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.greentrust.org.za/funding/
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Programme: European Youth Foundation (EYF)
Objective: Objective
The European Youth Foundation (EYF) is a fund established in 1972 by the Council of Europe to provide financial and educational support for European youth activities. An international activity is an international meeting of young people or youth leaders in Europe which contribute to the work of the youth sector of the Council of Europe in topic, methodology and with a clear European dimension. Until now, four working days were considered as a minimum duration for an international activity based on the principles of non-formal education/learning. However, in order to adapt to NGOs’ needs, the EYF will no longer consider this duration as a hard criterion.
Eligible Activities: The EYF will continue to assess grant applications on the basis of their merit and the quality of the programme provided. NGOs applying for activities lasting less than four days will have to convince the EYF that the activity is based on a non-formal education approach.
Special attention will be given to applications integrating a gender perspective. This should be clearly explained in the grant application. Gender perspective does not mean having an equal number of female and male participants. You should try to develop your project looking through different gender glasses, taking into account the needs of young women and men.
Action must take place in Europe.
Eligible Applicants: The following hard criteria are a requirement for an international activity: (1) participants must represent at least 7 Council of Europe member states; (2) it has to be run by an international team (4 nationalities represented in the project team); (3) 75 % of participants under 30 years old; (4) a gender and geographical balance must be ensured; and (5) a gender perspective is taken into account throughout the whole process.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-youth-foundation/international-activity
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Programme: RTL FOUNDATION
Objective: Objective
Since 1996, Stiftung RTL – We help children eV has been helping children in need of care in Germany and around the world. In the awareness of the social responsibility of a successful media company, the management at that time decided to put the transmitter’s existing charitable commitment on a stable footing. The goal is to provide sustained support for the most vulnerable in society, the children – both in Germany and abroad.
Eligible Activities: In the past they have funded projects like: health projects (eye health) for children and adults, construction of therapy rooms for disabled children, support for abused children and their families, education projects for children in Africa, etc.
Actions can take place across the globe.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants are NGOs.
Total Budget:€100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://wirhelfenkindern.rtl.de/informieren/ueber-die-stiftung
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Programme: RICHARD S. REYNOLDS FOUNDATION
Objective: Objective
Founded in 1955, the Richard S. Reynolds Foundation is devoted to building strong communities and creating a positive and enduring impact on the world around us.
Eligible Activities: To that end, the Foundation provides assistance to community and worldwide organisations in the United States and across the globe in the areas of (1) science; (2) education; (3) healthcare; (4) environment; and (5) arts.
The Foundation offers grant funding to initiatives across the globe.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible for grant funding are non-profit organisations that are tax-exempt under IRS Section 501(c)(3).
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: http://richardsreynoldsfoundation.org/apply-2/
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Programme: MARTHE VAN RIJSWIJCK FOUNDATION
Objective: Objective
The Marthe van Rijswijck Foundation (MvRF) financially supports charitable, scientific or non-profit organisations and its main goal is to contribute to the development of ideas and/or support projects of social importance with idealistic and social intent. The main focus of this support are projects that support people or groups of people who, because of social circumstances or disabilities of mental or physical nature, are limited in their development and help them create a place in society where their skills are developed, optimized and brought to good use.
Eligible Activities: A special focus is granted for the benefit of deprived and underprivileged children around the world. All projects must be managed by a Dutch organisation or individuals who do not have any commercial interest in the proposed project. The Foundation also prefers to see a certain degree of fundraising done on the NGO’s own initiative.
Projects from all over the world may be considered for financial support. Most funding of past projects has gone to initiatives in Africa and Asia. So far they have supported projects in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants: Charitable, scientific or non-profit organisations are eligible to apply. The MvRF prefers to support NGO’s with an existing organizational infrastructure of which the sustainability has been proven and whose the goal is to set up projects which, in the long run, will be more or less self-supporting. The project must be initiated by a Dutch organisation or individual who does not have any commercial interest in the project.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: http://mvrf.nl/?page_id=17&lang=en
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Programme: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Objective: Objective
Through the develoPPP.de programme, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) provides companies investing in developing and emerging countries with financial and, if required, also professional support. Submitted projects have to meet the development-policy criteria of the German government, like for example promoting sustainable economic development, strengthening human rights, social and environmental standards, education, food security.
Eligible Activities: In concrete terms, this can mean:
• Improving environmental and social standards in supply chains
• Creating decent jobs and improved working conditions
• Supporting women and marginalised groups, in particular, with careers and entrepreneurship
• Implementing measures that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation
• Taking measures to protect the natural environment, for example through sustainable cultivation methods, saving water in production processes, and avoiding and recycling waste
• Creating access to health care services
Selected countries as listed in the OECD-DAC list are eligible (Africa, Asia, America, Europe).
Eligible Applicants: Applications are open to German companies and companies registered in the EU, as well as companies in developing and emerging countries (as listed on the OECD-DAC list) in which EU-registered companies or European nationals own at least a 25% share. Any company that applies must meet the following minimum requirements: annual turnover of at least €800,000, 8 employees and three years of business operations. Although associations, foundations, non-governmental organisations, foreign chambers of commerce or registered associations are not themselves eligible to apply, they are entitled to participate in develoPPP.de projects as project partners of the applicant company.
Total Budget: €100,000 - €2,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.developpp.de/en/application/classic
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Programme: Open Technology Fund (OTF)
Objective: Objective
The Technology at Scale Fund is the primary means through which OTF directly supports the technology needs of USAGM broadcast networks, journalists, and their audiences. Many of these networks serve audiences in countries that attempt to block access to USAGM content and impede journalists’ efforts to report objective news. The Technology at Scale Fund solicits mature technology solutions to ensure that USAGM audiences can access content safely through firewalls and other government attempts to censor objective news and allow journalists to safely do their work and communicate with sources.
Eligible Activities: This fund seeks solutions to help USAGM safely create and deliver content to its online audiences in censored environments. Understanding that there may be multiple approaches to helping USAGM audience members circumvent censorship at scale and facilitate secure reporting, content sharing and communications, this fund is not limited to predetermined technologies or methodologies. Solutions must be able to securely deliver unblocked content to millions of members of the USAGM audience in multiple countries with high reliability and/or provide secure communications or content sharing capabilities to USAGM journalists.
Actions can take place worldwide.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible are: (1) individuals; (2) non-profit organisation/non-government organisation, including U.S.-based NGO, PIO, or foreign NGO; (3) non-profit university or research institution in any country; (4) for-profit organisation or business in any country; and (5) have demonstrated experience administering successful projects, preferably targeting the requested program area.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://www.opentech.fund/funds/technology-scale/
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Programme: Embassy of Japan to Georgia
Objective: The GGP is one of the grant schemes of the Embassy of Japan in Georgia, oriented towards providing support to the grassroots actors, for the promotion of Basic Human Needs and Human Security in Georgia. This involves, but is not limited to the actions, which aim to mitigate threats to human survival, human life, human dignity, as well as the actions aimed to build up the capacities of individuals and communities.
Eligible Activities: Within 22 years of its work in Georgia – from 1998 to 2022, the Grassroots Human Security Program (GGP) of the Government of Japan funded more than 200 projects, in total amounting to more than 20 million USD. Through this funding, agriculture infrastructure was developed, alleviating poverty in some of the poorest villages; thousands of hectares of land were cleared from hazardous landmines, saving lives of local population; dozens of schools, kindergartens, hospitals were rehabilitated and re-equipped, providing essential services to the most vulnerable population. Those are only a few of the examples and the range of sectors funded has been very broad.
Representing the goodwill of the ordinary Japanese people, the Embassy of Japan strives to provide support in the sectors, considered most essential by the population of Georgia itself. Vast majority of the reputable local and international research reflects that the population of Georgia considers socio-economic problems as the most acute national issues, along with the occupation of its territories. Thus, in its GGP program, the Embassy strives to emphasize the projects, which aim to resolve those problems most effectively and efficiently.
Actions must take place in Georgia.
Eligible Applicants: The following lists are examples of potential recipients: NGOs and INGOs; Local public authorities (mayor’s office).
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: https://www.ge.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/development_assistance_eng20180727.html
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Programme: Global Innovation Fund
Objective: The Global Innovation Fund (GIF) has launched its Innovating for Climate Resilience fund in partnership with the Adaptation Research Alliance and the Global Resilience Partnership, with seed funding from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office.
The Innovating for Climate Resilience fund invests, through grant, equity, and debt instruments, in innovations with the potential to scale and support the world’s poorest to build resilience and adaptation.
Eligible Activities: GIF has a staged funding approach, whereby the amount of funding available is tiered according to the level of maturity of your innovation and the activities proposed. The three tiers are:
Pilot – the innovation is at an early stage but you have a credible plan for how it can be developed and tested in a real-world setting. Funding of up to USD 230,000 is available to test core assumptions around operational, social, and financial viability.
Test and transition – the innovation has already shown promise of success at a small scale, and you have some information on your operational, social, and financial viability which you want to solidify before you scale. Funding of up to USD 2.3 million is available to support further growth and generate additional evidence on whether the innovation can achieve social impact and market viability, for commercial innovations.
Scale – the innovation has a strong evidence base and logistically credible plan for scaling to reach millions of people. Funding of up to USD 15 million is available to expand the reach of innovations with a view to reaching millions of people in the long term if successful.
What they fund
GIF seeks out innovations GIF believes have the greatest potential to improve the lives of millions of people living in poverty and only select those innovations which:
• Are focused on the poor.
• Are novel approaches which are not commonplace.
• Can improve upon alternatives solutions.
• Are backed by evidence of potential impact.
• Can be widely applied in many different settings.
• Have the potential to scale to reach millions of people.
• Are led by strong and dynamic teams.
• Are ready for investment.
• Will generate new knowledge on what works.
• Have a clear role for GIF.
Eligible Applicants: Any type of organisation may apply. This includes social enterprises, for-profit companies, non-profit organisations, government agencies, international organisations, and research institutions in any country. It is recommended that individual innovators, entrepreneurs, or researchers apply through an affiliated organisation.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://www.globalinnovation.fund/what-we-do/innovating-for-climate-resilience/
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Programme: USAID
Objective: USAID Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) is an open innovation fund that sources, tests, and accelerates breakthrough ideas that address global development challenges around the world. DIV seeks to bring in new ideas for solving problems facing millions around the world – delivering more impact, for less money, with greater potential for sustainable scale. Inspired by the venture capital experience, DIV uses a tiered, evidence-based funding model to test ideas, gather evidence of what works, find failures quickly and cheaply, without long-term commitments, and continue to support only proven solutions.
Eligible Activities: Funding ranges across all sectors: global health 36%, economic growth and trade 30%, energy 30%, agriculture and food security 26%, water/sanitation and hygiene 17%, education and training 12%, democracy and governance 7%, disaster relief and humanitarian assistance 3% and environment 2%.
The funding is open to countries in Asia, Middle East, Africa, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, where USAID provides funds to development efforts.
Eligible Applicants: DIV accepts applications from U.S. and non US organisations, individuals, non-profit and for profit entities, provided their work is in a country where USAID provides funds to development efforts.
Total Budget: $5,000,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://divportal.usaid.gov/s
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Programme: Inter-American Foundation (IAF)
Objective: The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) invites proposals for its grant program. The IAF funds the self-help efforts of grassroots groups in Latin America and the Caribbean to improve living conditions of the disadvantaged and the excluded, enhance their capacity for decision-making and self-governance, and develop partnerships with the public sector, business and civil society. The IAF does not identify problems or suggest projects; instead it responds to initiatives presented. Projects are selected for funding on their merits rather than by sector.
Eligible Activities: The IAF looks for the following in a project it funds:
1) innovative solutions to development problems;
2) diverse array of community voices in project development and execution;
3) substantial beneficiary engagement in: the identification of the problem addressed, the approach chosen to solve it, the design of the project, and management and evaluation of activities;
4) partnerships with local government, the business community and other civil society organizations; and
5) evidence of beneficiaries’ enhanced capacity for self-governance.
The IAF only supports projects in independent countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (excl. Cuba, Venezuela).
Eligible Applicants: Non-profit organisations (civil society groups) are eligible to apply. They only support projects submitted by community-led groups that are based in independent countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Total Budget: $400,00
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://www.iaf.gov/apply-for-grant
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Programme: Pulitzer Centre
Objective: The Pulitzer Center has announced the Machine Learning Reporting Grants to use advanced data mining techniques, such as machine learning and natural language processing, to solve a data or reporting problem related to a journalistic investigation.
Eligible Activities: Pulitzer Center seeking compelling data-driven storytelling—based on original and transparent data collection and analysis—that has the potential to shape public discourse and hold the powerful accountable.
These projects harnessed machine learning to augment the reporters’ capacity to tackle big data and systemic issues. The reporters combined the use of machine learning with geospatial analysis, satellite imagery, and traditional shoe-leather reporting, among other approaches.
Eligible Applicants: Eligibility Criteria
This opportunity is open to U.S. residents and journalists around the world. They are open to proposals from freelance data journalists, staff journalists, or groups of newsrooms working in collaboration on a data project idea. They want to make sure that people from many backgrounds and perspectives are empowered to produce data journalism. They strongly encourage proposals from journalists and newsrooms who represent a broad array of social, racial, ethnic, underrepresented groups, and economic backgrounds.
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://pulitzercenter.org/grants-fellowships/opportunities-journalists/machine-learning-reporting-grants
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Programme: NORAD
Objective: There is a need for increased focus on and attention to adaptation to future impacts of climate change. Quality weather and climate information are important tools that can be used for preparing for and reducing the negative consequences of serious climate-related events. Climate and weather services may improve stakeholders’ capacity to monitor, forecast, plan for, and cope with the impacts of climate and weather-related events. Early warning can prevent loss of life and livelihood. The weather and climate information needs to enable decision-makers, as well as end users to understand the information and to act.
Eligible Activities: The collection and analysis of data require sufficient infrastructure, technology, and capacity at local and national level. Additionally, the information needs to be communicated in a way that the end-users understand it and act on it. This entails tailoring communication to the various groups of end users. According to the end users’ needs, the weather and climate services may be linked to non-meteorological data, such as road and infrastructure maps, demographic data and census information, food and agricultural production, health sector information, and socio-economic variables.
The target group for the scheme is the population in ODA-approved developing countries.
Eligible Applicants: Potential grant recipients under this scheme are: Public actors/bodies in Norway and in recipient country; Norwegian and international civil society organisations/non-governmental organisations; Norwegian and international analysis and research institutes; Private sector actors in Norway and in recipient country.
Total Budget: €1,000,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: https://grants.mfa.no/#call/2621/details
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Programme: Rapid Response Facility (RRF)
Objective: The Rapid Response Facility (RRF) provides emergency support to natural World Heritage sites in times of crisis. The RRF is a partnership between the UNESCO World Heritage Center and Fauna & Flora International (FFI). RRF grants are available for UNESCO natural World Heritage sites. The RRF only funds actions at a site facing an ‘emergency’ threat to its biodiversity. They do not fund on-going issues even if they require urgent action.
Eligible Activities: The RRF’s definition of emergency is based on the following criteria, all of which will be considered during the decision process:
(1) Suddenness: How recently has the threat emerged or worsened? RRF only consider a situation an emergency if it has arisen in the last few months or weeks, or if the intensity of an existing threat has got suddenly worse. RRF advise applicants to provide evidence of any recent increases in the threat profile where possible;
(2) Predictability: Based on past experience, how predictable was the situation? The RRF prioritises funding for situations where the threat was unpredictable and thus difficult to prepare for in advance;
(3) Time sensitivity: Will there be a measurable conservation benefit if work starts immediately (within days / 1-2 weeks), rather than in months or years? The RRF prioritises projects that require immediate assistance;
and (4) Duration and reversibility of impact: Does the threat have the potential to cause long-lasting negative impact to the biodiversity value of the site? The RRF prioritises actions that avert irreversible damage or reduce long-term negative impacts.
RRF grants are restricted to countries that are eligible for ‘official development assistance’ according to the OECD.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible are: (1) government bodies responsible for site management (for example national wildlife agencies, park managers, government ministries etc.); (2) registered local, national or international non-governmental organisations (NGOs); (3) private sector organisations (including local and multinational corporations). Applicant organisations must be able to accept funds into an organisational bank account, directly from the UK in US Dollars (USD).
Applications are accepted year round, there are no deadlines. Requests for funding are only accepted through submission of the official RRF application form to the RRF email address (rrf(a)fauna-flora.org). Applications from NGOs or private sector organisations must include a letter of support from the relevant site management authority as part of their application. The templates can be downloaded from their website. Proposals shall not exceed 6 pages.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: http://www.rapid-response.org/
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Programme: European Youth Foundation (EYF)
Objective: The European Youth Foundation (EYF) is a fund established in 1972 by the Council of Europe to provide financial and educational support for European youth activities.
Eligible Activities: An international activity is an international meeting of young people or youth leaders in Europe which contribute to the work of the youth sector of the Council of Europe in topic, methodology and with a clear European dimension. Until now, four working days were considered as a minimum duration for an international activity based on the principles of non-formal education/learning. However, in order to adapt to NGOs’ needs, the EYF will no longer consider this duration as a hard criterion. Nevertheless, the EYF will continue to assess grant applications on the basis of their merit and the quality of the programme provided. NGOs applying for activities lasting less than four days will have to convince the EYF that the activity is based on a non-formal education approach.
Special attention will be given to applications integrating a gender perspective. This should be clearly explained in the grant application. Gender perspective does not mean having an equal number of female and male participants. You should try to develop your project looking through different gender glasses, taking into account the needs of young women and men.
Action must take place in Europe.
Eligible Applicants: The following hard criteria are a requirement for an international activity: (1) participants must represent at least 7 Council of Europe member states; (2) it has to be run by an international team (4 nationalities represented in the project team); (3) 75 % of participants under 30 years old; (4) a gender and geographical balance must be ensured; and (5) a gender perspective is taken into account throughout the whole process.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: http://www.coe.int/en/web/european-youth-foundation/international-activity
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Programme: Democracy and Media Foundation (DMF)
Objective: Do you want to contribute to independent media and a strong, just democratic state? Do you have an initiative that stimulates independent and critical media, or one that sustains or promotes a strong, and just democratic state? Does your initiative match their pillars of truth-seeking, innovation in media, fundamental rights and liberties, vigorous democracy or commemoration and remembrance? Then you are welcome to submit a project proposal.
Eligible Activities: Types of projects that the Democracy and Media Foundation supports include (but are not limited to):
1) Media productions (long-form) journalistic articles, books, documentaries, podcasts and web or TV series);
2) Digital journalistic platforms;
3) Strategic awareness campaigns;
4) Policy advocacy;
5) Strategic juridical litigation;
6) Cultural and art projects (installations, expositions, theatre, etc.). These only qualify for funding by the Democracy and Media Foundation if they further the objectives of the foundation;
7) Lectures and debates (as long as they are rooted in a broader adaptation strategy); and
8) Training/capacity building.
The foundation prioritizes projects and organizations with clear added value in the Netherlands. Within the Netherlands, preference goes out to projects with an international or national outlook, as well as local initiatives that are part of a broader strategy for change. Projects taking place outside the Netherlands are granted support only rarely. The foundation limits its support to organizations located in the 47 member states of the Council of Europe. Priority is granted to projects in countries were freedom of press and/or the democratic state based on the rule of law is under pressure.
Eligible Applicants: The Democracy and Media Foundation provides financial support to organizations, projects and other initiatives that promote this mission.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://www.stdem.org/en/urgency-requests/
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Programme: Samruk-Kazyna Trust
Objective: The Fund for development of social projects “Samruk-Kazyna Trust” implements charitable projects and programs aimed at solving socially important issues for the population from the whole group of companies of JSC “Samruk-Kazyna”. The Fund’s activities are carried out with the assistance of state bodies, the Government of Kazakhstan and experts in the field of public and social policy.
Eligible Activities: The priorities are:
• helping people, communities in the social and health sector;
• development of media, cultural community, development of human potential, strengthening of labor relations and investments in sustainable development of society;
• the implementation of the regional program of social investments in the regions of presence of group of the Fund;
• strengthening the reputation and promoting the image of the Fund and/or the Fund group.
Actions must take place in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Eligible Applicants: They partner with non-profit organisations. Most of their partner are local NGOs.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: No Deadline
More information and official documents: https://sk-trust.kz/en/send-an-application/
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Programme: Charles Hayward Foundation
Objective: Charles Hayward Foundation is a grant-making charitable trust making awards to charities that are registered in the U.K. The organisation is governed by a board of voluntary trustees, chaired by Mrs. Sue Heath. Organisations can apply for funding for clean water and sanitation projects, basic health programmes and self sustainability projects through training in farming skills and income generation activities.
Eligible Activities: Funding priorities include:
• Projects that adopt a holistic approach throughout all project stages and have a well defined ‘exit strategy’
• Projects being delivered at the grass-roots level through an established and proven delivery partner who is fully engaged with the local community
• Projects that clearly demonstrate the local communities involvement and that necessary training and education is in place to sustain the project beyond the delivery partner’s departure
The applicant must be able to demonstrate that robust governance and monitoring procedures are in place
They focus on Commonwealth Countries of Africa.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible organisations must be UK registered charities delivering projects in Commonwealth Countries of Africa with an annual income of between £150,000 and £5,000,000. The applicant must be able to demonstrate that robust governance and monitoring procedures are in place.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: http://www.charleshaywardfoundation.org.uk/overseas/
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Programme: A.J. Muste Memorial Institute
Objective: The A.J. Muste Memorial Institute funds projects which promote the principles and practice of nonviolent social change through grant-making programs including the International Nonviolence Training Fund (INTF). The INTF was created in 1994 by a group of concerned donors with the aim of specifically supporting nonviolence trainings which prepare participants for specific nonviolent actions or campaigns.
Eligible Activities: Nonviolence trainings seek to help people develop and improve the skills they need to confront systemic injustice through organized, principled, nonviolent action. Trainings promote the exchange of ideas, information, and strategies, through which activists can become more effective at using nonviolent action in their struggles. Projects eligible for support include:
• those which prepare participants for specific nonviolent actions or campaigns;
• those which build capacity and leadership among people engaged in nonviolent struggles;
• those geared to “training the trainers,” in order to expand and multiply nonviolence training throughout a targeted community.
Projects must be located outside the United States, or within its Native nations.
Eligible Applicants: Preference is given to: projects which involve trainers from the local area or region, where such trainers are available and groups which are small, community-based and have less access to funding from other sources. The Muste Institute can and does directly fund organizations which do not have their own 501(c)3 non- profit tax-exempt status, and/or which are not incorporated. The only time we require a fiscal sponsor is if the organization does not have its own bank account
Total Budget: $100,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://ajmuste.org/programs
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Programme: Embassy of Japan to Macedonia
Objective: The Grant Assistance for Grass Roots and Human Security Projects (GGP) was first introduced by the Government of Japan in 1989 in order to meet various socio-economic needs in developing countries. The GGP provides non-refundable financial assistance to NGOs, hospitals, primary schools, and other non-profit associations to help implement their development projects. The availability of GGP funding in each eligible country provides Japanese ODA with a new means of cooperation that has a direct impact on the well-being of grass-roots communities.
Eligible Activities: Its focus areas in Macedonia include: (1) refurbishment and supply of equipment for primary schools; (2) refurbishment and supply of medical equipment for hospitals (projects for the benefit of women, children or prevention of infectious disease such as AIDS are given priority); (3) supply of equipment for basic skills training courses (e.g. brick making, sewing, candle making machines, etc); (4) agricultural training equipment (e.g. tractors, pumps, sprinklers); (5) women empowerment; (6) public welfare (refurbishment and supply of equipment for facilities for the handicapped, orphans, family planning education, or the construction of community centers); and (7) water supply (facilities and equipment for drilling well pumps etc.).
Actions must take place in North Macedonia.
Eligible Applicants: Any type of non-profit organisation is eligible to be a GGP recipient.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: http://www.at.emb-japan.go.jp/mk/en/40_bilateral/020_ggp/021_ggpintroduction.html
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Programme: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Objective: The UK government has announced a new scheme that guarantees funding for successful applicants to the third wave of Horizon Europe grant awards regardless of the outcome of the UK’s efforts to associate to Horizon Europe.
The guarantee is a short term measure intended to address the delays in formalising the UK’s association to Horizon Europe. To provide reassurance, the government has guaranteed funding for the first three waves of eligible, successful applicants to Horizon Europe with call deadlines up to 31 December 2022, if they are unable to sign their grant agreements with the EU.
This funding route is for collaborative research and innovation calls under Pillars 1, 2 and EIC calls under Pillar 3 with final application submission deadlines from 1 May up to 31 December 2022. ERC and MSCA calls are being routed through the Joint Electronic Submissions (Je-S) system. N.B. KICs 2022 activities are being routed through a separate IFS competition template.
Eligible Applicants: You will be eligible to register with UKRI for the Horizon Europe guarantee through this route if you are a UK-based organisation which has been successful through a Horizon Europe call in scope of the guarantee. For the consortium-style grants, you must remain a partner on the project and be listed on the Horizon Europe grant agreement as an Associated Partner.
This funding route is for collaborative research and innovation calls under Pillars 1, 2 and EIC calls under Pillar 3 with final application submission deadlines from 1 May up to 31 December 2022.
Total Budget: N/A
Deadline: N/A
More information and official documents: https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1389/overview/b900fdc4-c48d-4d8a-8733-ce4ca210ae9a#eligibility
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Programme: Global Fund
Objective: The Global Fund is a 21st-century partnership organization designed to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics. It is a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and people affected by the diseases. Most of their funding is earmarked for HIV/AIDS, followed by Malaria and finally TB.
Eligible Activities: The 2023-2028 Global Fund Strategy recognizes that ending HIV and TB as epidemics and eliminating malaria will require comprehensive approaches to strengthening: the financing of health systems (including raising additional resources as well as ensuring the efficient, effective and equitable use of existing resources); sustainable national responses to the three diseases; and resilient systems for health. Countries are strongly encouraged to focus on sustainability in their national planning and program design, with support from the Global Fund and partners as necessary. A sustainable approach to program planning and implementation should consider how to maximize impact while balancing short- and long-term results – not only taking into account the financing available today, but also which elements will require domestic financing in the future
The Global Fund operates worldwide (currently in over 100 countries).
Eligible Applicants: In most cases, Principal Recipients disburse funds to other smaller organizations who serve as sub-recipients or even sub-sub-recipients. A purpose of this is for financing to effectively cascade to smaller organizations, and for programs to be carried out to reach those populations or groups which may not be otherwise easily reached by a government.
Total Budget: $4 billion for an average of 450-470 grants (average grant size is $8,5 million).
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/applying-for-funding/
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Programme: WE4F (Water and Energy for Food)
Objective: Objective
Water & Energy for Food (WE4F): A Grand Challenge for Development is a joint international initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the European Union (EU), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Netherlands, The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), Sweden through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Eligible Activities: WE4F aims to:
• Increase food production along the value chain through a more sustainable and efficient usage of water and/or energy
• Increase income for base of the pyramid (BoP) women and men in both rural and urban areas working in farming and/or consuming food products
• Sustainably scale the Organizations’ solutions to meet the challenges in the WE4F nexus.
• Promote climate and environmental resilience and biodiversity through the sustainable, holistic management of natural resources and ecosystems
This Open Call for Innovation (O-CFI) is designed to address barriers to enable the production of more food with efficient and sustainable usage of water and energy along the value chain from farming to end-users, and to impact food security, gender, and poverty reduction in an environmentally sustainable way.
The S/CA RIH supports innovators from Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Eligible Applicants: WE4F is looking for mid- to late-stage enterprises, nonprofits with a for-profit program, and other organizations based in the Middle East and North Africa, who have innovative water-food, energy-food, and water-energy-food solutions. Applicants must meet the minimum requirements outlined below to participate in this call for innovation. WE4F is open to legally incorporated/registered for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations or academic institutions with a proven business model, recurring sales, an existing customer base, and the ability to generate revenue and maintain a self-sustaining operational budget.
Total Budget: $250,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://we4f.org/apply-sca
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Programme: European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM)
Objective: Objective
The latest suspensions of the right to asylum in multiple Member States in the framework of Covid-19 protection measures show once more that European asylum politics and practice move fast, especially in times of emergency. The design of EU asylum policies as well as their implementation and translation (or lack thereof) into national, bilateral, regional and local policies and practices have direct impact on the lives of people who seek international protection.
Eligible Activities: Through this Call for Proposals, EPIM aims to support (transnational) partnerships of civil society organisations active at EU, national, bilateral, regional and/or local levels. The support is for their efforts to seize (urgent) opportunities to advise European asylum policies and practices. In light of existing and future EU asylum law, policies, frameworks and human rights standards, projects should aim to:
• promote feasible (evidence-based) alternatives; and/or
• put forward thought-provoking ideas, and/or
• react to policy proposals and practices to safeguard the right to asylum and prevent backtracking.
Projects should be implemented in the European Union. Additionally, projects implemented in non-EU countries (e.g. Turkey, UK) could also be considered eligible if of EU relevance.
Eligible Applicants: Applicants must be non-profit and non-governmental organisations registered in the European Union or in the United Kingdom. Non-profit organisations active at EU, national, bilateral, regional and/or local levels are eligible for this call for proposals. Non-EU based non-profit organisations can apply as partners.
Total Budget: €40,000
Deadline: No deadline
More information and official documents: https://epim.info/proposal/epim-call-for-proposals-seizing-opportunities-to-advise-european-asylum-policies-and-practices/
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Programme: Botswana Innovation Hub
Objective: Objective
The Botswana Innovation Hub is a business accelerator with the objective to support entrepreneurship and innovation through technology transfer in Botswana. It identifies, develops and nurtures viable technology-oriented start-up businesses with potential to grow locally and into international markets. Membership also offers access to their Innovation Fund.
Eligible Activities: Within these focus sectors and categories, BIH selects partners and members based on the following aspects:
• Product / Service / Method that creates new or unique value for Botswana Innovation Hub stakeholders and Botswana
• Stage / Level of Innovation (Idea, Research / Screening and Experimentation, Testing / Proof of Concept / Prototyping, Commercialization / Production, Diffusion and Implementation)
• Target Market / Social Need being Addressed
• Benefits to Botswana:
• Employment creation
• Knowledge Creation and Skills Transfer
• Advancement of Science and Technology within the Botswana
• Business / Partnership model and Funding Aspects
• Leadership (Visionary and qualified leadership to play the critical role in driving the business towards its goal)
• Capital investment in land, buildings, infrastructure, and equipment
Actions must take place in Botswana.
Eligible Applicants: Businesses in the sectors of solar energy, water technologies, sustainability, coal utilisation, and waste management are eligible
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: http://www.bih.co.bw/benefits-criteria/
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Programme: Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD)
Objective: Objective
As Canada’s lead agency for development assistance, Global Affairs Canada aims to manage Canada’s support and resources effectively and accountably to achieve meaningful, sustainable results.
Eligible Activities: They work across many sectors:
Agriculture and food security
Disability-inclusive development
Education
Gender equality
Governance
Health
Humanitarian preparedness and response
Private sector development
Social protection
Water
Selected focus countries worldwide are eligible: Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America.
Eligible Applicants: Organizations worldwide can apply for funding through the Global Affairs Canada website. International non-governmental organizations from any country can submit an unsolicited proposal for funding, so long as they meet the eligibility requirements as published in the Application Form. Applicants also have to demonstrate proof of their legal and financial standing as per their home country’s laws or per the laws of Canada.
Total Budget: $1,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and other documents: http://international.gc.ca/world-monde/funding-financement/apply_funding-demande_financement.aspx?lang=eng
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Programme: Embassy of Japan to Philippines
Objective: Objective
The Japanese Government has various programs under its Official Development Assistance (ODA) that meets the diverse needs of developing countries. One of the ODA schemes, the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) support small-scale projects directly benefiting the grassroots level as well as contributing to the socio-economic development of developing countries. In the Philippines, GGP was launched in 1989 and as of March 2019, 543 small-scale grassroots projects have been implemented by non-government organizations (NGOs), local government units (LGUs), and other non-profit organizations. They support around 15-20 projects every year.
Eligible Activities: The following sectors and projects are examples that the GGP can assist:
· Education
· Health
· Water System (Levels I and II only)
· Agriculture
· Social Welfare
· Capacity Building
· Disaster Management
· Waste Management
· Others
Actions must take place in Philippines.
Eligible Applicants: The Embassy of Japan accepts applications from the following organisations: (1) non-government organisations (NGOs); (2) peoples’ Organisations (POs) and Cooperatives; (3) local government units (LGUs); (4) educational institutions (universities) and medical institutions.
Total Budget: €100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: http://www.ph.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/00_000032.html
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Programme: US Mission to Ghana
Objective: Objective
The U.S. Embassy in Accra, Ghana, through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out virtual and in-person peacebuilding and conflict resolution education programs in Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, and Togo. This program is in support of the U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability, authorized by the Global Fragility Act. Overall, grant-making authority for this project is contained in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended.
Eligible Activities: This program will engage early and mid-career professionals by offering a menu of virtual courses in English and French that include information adaptable to the range of countries and contexts. Central topics will include social cohesion, conflict resolution, media literacy and misinformation, engaging government from local to national level, and inclusivity. The online/hybrid course on conflict resolution will include 500 young community leaders with at least half from Ghana and the remainder from the other four countries specified. Recruitment should target regions and communities most vulnerable to conflict and instability but may include geographically diverse participants.
The courses will be followed by interactive conversations via chat or social media platforms to form a network of similarly-minded individuals willing to develop activities or policies integrating course principles in their own institutions or communities. An in-person training and networking opportunity will then be offered to 60 participants to come together and discuss more deeply the topics of the courses. The material may include U.S. authored content and reflect the diversity of opinion in the United States and underscore U.S. fundamental values of democracy and freedom. Speakers and instructors may include U.S. citizens and experts who have experience in West Africa and the United States.
Actions must take place in Ghana.
Eligible Applicants: Eligible are U.S.-based non-profit/non-governmental organizations subject to section 501(c) (3) of the U.S. tax code; foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernment organizations (NGO); Public International Organizations; Foreign Public Organizations; and private, public, or state institutions of higher education.
Total Budget: $444,375
Deadline: Ongoing
More information and official documents: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=349074
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