Information on External Research Grants, Fellowships, and other opportunities for the week of April 8- April 13
08 Apr 2024 | Office of the Assistant Vice President for Research, Creative Work, and Innovation
8 April 2024
Memo to:
The University Community
From:
Office of the Assistant Vice President for Research, Creative Work, and Innovation
Subject:
Information on External Grants, Networking Grants and Conferences
The Office of the Assistant Vice President for Research, Creative Work, and Innovation is happy to announce this week's information on external grants, scholarships, and conferences that we have received and gathered. Let us know if you are interested and need assistance in applying for these grants, and we will be more than happy to help you. Please do not hesitate to contact the Office of the Assistant Vice President for Research, Creative Work, and Innovation at research@ateneo.edu.
Please check External Research Grants Opportunities, Conferences, and Fellowships database if you would like to see the list of active grants catered for Ateneo faculty members.
Research Grants
Coalition of Human Rights Development: Defenders in Development Policy Grants
The Defenders in Development (DID) campaign is awarding a limited number of small grants (up to USD 5,000) to support groups from the Global South to carry out work to prevent and address risks human rights defenders face, when raising their voices about projects financed by development banks.
In addition to the financial support, the Campaign is also ready to offer technical support and guidance on research and advocacy on reprisals related to activities supported by development banks.
CRITERIA
All countries are eligible, but proposals must meet the following criteria:
- have a component related to civic space, the security of defenders or reprisals (such as threats, attacks, judicial harassment, etc) against human rights defenders;
- involve at least one development finance institution or have the potential to involve at least one development finance institution.
- supply chain research: support for salary for a staff person or external consultants to identify linkages between cases of reprisals and projects funded by development banks;
- advocacy: Support for a staff person to raise cases of reprisals with the development banks;
- convening: funds for meeting and logistical costs associated with facilitating a meeting, conference or consultation on a topic related to the development banks and reprisals and/or the campaign’s objectives;
- research and documentation: Conducting research which supports the goals of the campaign such as into what failures by the development banks have led to a specific reprisal, or into trends in a region related to reprisals linked to development projects.
- Alongside the funding, the campaign coordination team will offer support and expertise on the topic of development finance. It is therefore not expected that recipients will be experts in this topic. Reporting requirements and deliverables will be agreed once the grant is confirmed.
- Link to full description: DEFENDERS IN DEVELOPMENT POLICY GRANTS
- Link to application: Application form for DiD Policy Grants
- Maximum funding: 5,000.00 USD
- Deadline: Rolling Basis/available all year round
Pulitzer Center: Transparency & Governance Reporting Grants
This grant is open to freelance and staff journalists worldwide.
Pulitzer Center grantees report on shadowy finance schemes, mismanagement, abuse of power, and other systemic exploits and failures that destabilize countries, erode democracies and governance, and empty national coffers. They investigate the root causes of corruption, including the laws and policies that provide cover to otherwise immoral activities.
We are actively seeking to support deep reporting projects that follow the money across borders; shed light on opaque and harmful supply chains; and investigate the systems, organizations, and people that enable corruption. You can apply for a Transparency and Governance grant or propose your project via one of our yearlong investigative fellowships on Rainforests, Oceans, and AI. We value cross-border and collaborative reporting, data-driven projects, and innovative, interdisciplinary approaches.
- Link to full description: Transparency & Governance Reporting Grants
- Link to application: Pulitzer Center Grant Application
- Maximum funding: Depending on project
- Deadline: Rolling Basis/available all year round
Adidas Foundation United By Sport Program
United By Sport strives to leverage the transformational power of sport to promote equality and fight hate and discrimination which can come in all its forms, spanning various grounds such as religion or belief, racial or ethnic origin, gender, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation and more. The United by Sport program has been created to provide support to organizations that fight such hate and discrimination through sport or in the sport sector.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
All projects should contribute to at least one of the below expected outcomes:
Increasing access to coaches that practice anti-discrimination approaches and techniques in their sessions and/or increasing access to facilities where anti-discrimination approaches and techniques are implemented.
The Program will support projects that use sport as a tool (either as a core activity adapted to achieve specific goals, as an entry point, or as additional component for development objectives) for responding to the vulnerabilities of specific groups and communities particularly affected by intolerance, racism, xenophobia, and discrimination listed in the previous section.
The Program also intends to support projects
designed to tackle discrimination and hate at different levels within the sports sector.
- Organizations have the opportunity to apply for funding to support one or more of the core activities listed below:
- Strengthening leadership and capacity to use sport as an instrument in the community to educate and tackle systemic discrimination.
- Increasing access to and uptake of community-based sports programs that combat the effects and root causes of hate and discrimination.
- Improving equity outcomes and reducing community-based indicators of hate and discrimination.
- Link to full description: United by Sport Program Request for Proposals
- Link to application: Pulitzer Center Grant Application
- Maximum funding: Up to 700,000.00 EUR
- Deadline: 31 May 2024
IEEE Computer Society: Grants for Emerging Technology Activities
Computer Society is looking for new types of projects, activities and events not already covered by existing program areas.
- Have an idea around the next coolest technology out there?
- Are you ready to experiment with an out of the box idea?
- Do you have an innovative concept to convene a community around a new emerging technology?
- Have an idea to advance a concept from either the IEEE Future Directions Roadmap or IEEE CS Technology Trends?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions or if you have an idea for an activity focused on an emerging technology, don’t miss this chance to make it a reality!
- Link to full description: IEEE Computer Society Emerging Tech Grants Program
- Link to application: IEEE Computer Society grants portal
- Maximum funding: 50,000.00 USD
- Deadline: 21 January 2024
Minor Foundation for Major Challenges (MFMC) Grants
The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges (MFMC) is a Norwegian foundation that supports communication projects which advance the transition to a low carbon economy.
MFMC supports projects that support urgent, large-scale transformation, with a focus on changing policies and practices in public or private institutions. The foundation’s priorities for the 2019-2023 period 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
The foundation will only consider applications that clearly fall under its strategy. Further information about the foundation, including its bylaws and its complete strategy for the period 2019–2023, is available on the MFMC website.
Please note that the foundation will not consider applications that have a purely local focus, that focus on implementation of community-level projects such as forest conservation, tree planting, climate change adaptation, or that primarily seek to disseminate climate-related information to the general public.
MFMC traditionally announces six calls for applications every year, in two different categories: large and small grants.
LARGE GRANTS In this category, MFMC is looking for projects typically in the range of EUR 20,000 to EUR 200,000, although larger projects may be considered. The application process consists of two steps, where interested organizations are asked to initially submit a short pitch. Based on this, the organization may be invited to submit a full application if the MFMC board finds the project appealing.
SMALL GRANTS In this category, it is possible to apply for smaller grants of up to EUR 10,000 in a simplified one-stage process. Applications will be assessed by the MFMC board based on its aims and strategy.
- Link to full description: MFMC Grants
- Link to application: MFMC Grants application (translate into English)
- Maximum funding: Up to 200,000.00 EUR
- Deadline: 31 May 2024
Fellowships
Global Translation Fellowship
As part of its African Languages and Translation Program, The Africa Institute invites applications to the fourth cohort of the Global Africa Translation Fellowship for the year 2024.
The fellowship welcomes applications from across the Global South for a grant of up to $5,000 to complete translations of works from the African continent and its diaspora, into English or Arabic (other languages are considered).
This is a non-residential fellowship that allows the recipient scholar to complete the work outside of The Africa Institute (Sharjah, UAE). The aim of the fellowship is to make important texts in African and African Diaspora studies accessible to a wider readership across the world.
The fellowship provides funding in the range of $1,000 to $5,000, depending on the quality and breadth of the project. Selected projects may be retranslations of old, classic texts, previously untranslated works, poetry, prose, or critical theory collections. The project may be a work-in-progress, or a new project feasible for completion within the timeframe of the grant.
Applications must include:
- A two-page CV/résumé including institutional affiliation, educational qualifications, including highest degree received, and key publications/works produced
- A two-page narrative explaining the translation to be undertaken during the fellowship period, an explanation of the importance of the work, a justification for a re-translation, if applicable, and proposed dates of completion. The project may be a work-in-progress or a new project that fits within the timeframe of the grant.
- A 4–5-page (double-spaced) sample of the original text(s) and translation.
- An explanation of the work’s copyright status: If the work is not in the public domain, please include a copy of the copyright notice from the original text, and a letter from the copyright holder stating that English language rights to the work are available.
- Link to full description: GLOBAL AFRICA TRANSLATION FELLOWSHIP
- Link to application: Send application as an email attachment to this email
- Maximum funding: 1,000 - 5,000 USD
- Deadline: 1 June 2024