Calls for Propsals- 2.0 March
Calls for proposal
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| Name of call | BeChangeMaker 2025: Global Acceleration Program for young Social Entrepreneurs. |
| Funding agency | BeChangeMaker |
| Amount | Unspecified |
| Deadline | 31 May, 2025 |
| Grant summary | Applications are now open for the 2025 BeChangeMaker Global Acceleration Program. BeChangeMaker provides access to high quality learning content on HP LIFE, tools and technology for startup acceleration, dedicated coaching, mentoring and customized support, as well as the opportunity to tap into a diverse global network of potential supporters and investors. |
| Link | https://worldskills.org/what/projects/bechangemaker/2025/apply/ |
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| Name of call | 2025 UNODA Youth Leader Fund for a World Without Nuclear Weapons |
| Funding agency | The Youth Leader Fund (YLF) |
| Amount | Fully funded |
| Deadline | 13 April 2025 |
| Grant summary | Applications are now open for the 2025 UNODA Youth Leader Fund for a World Without Nuclear Weapons. The Youth Leader Fund (YLF) is an innovative learning programme aimed at equipping the leaders of the future with the knowledge, skills, and network to join global efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons – the most dangerous weapons on earth. The programme is seeking youth who are motivated to use their talents to promote change for a more peaceful and secure world. |
| Link | https://www.disarmamenteducation.org/#/en/resources/type-41/project/798 |
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| Name of call | TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme – SSA |
| Funding agency | The TWAS-DFG Cooperation |
| Amount | Unspecified |
| Deadline | 19 May 2025 |
| Grant summary | The aim of the visit is to initiate research collaboration between African and German scientists with the ultimate goal of developing longer-term links, perhaps through other Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, or German Research Foundation) programmes. DFG will cover travel expenses and provide subsistence costs for the stay in Germany. The administration and financial operation of TWAS is undertaken by UNESCO in accordance with an agreement signed by the two organizations. |
| Link | https://twas.org/opportunity/twas-dfg-cooperation-visits-programme-ssa |
4
| Name of call | IUC 2026 – Stage 2 – Call for Concept Notes |
| Funding agency | VLIR-UOS |
| Amount | 600.000 EUR |
| Deadline | 05 June 2025 |
| Grant summary | An Institutional University Cooperation (IUC) partnership is a long-term institutional cooperation project between a university in a partner country and Flemish higher education institutions, lasting 12 years. |
| Link | https://www.vliruos.be/get-funded/calls/iuc-2026-stage-2-call-concept-notes |
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| Name of call | Accelerate |
| Funding agency | VLIR-UOS |
| Amount | 200,000 EUR |
| Deadline | 24 June 2025 |
| Grant summary | Accelerate aims to provide policy and policy implementation support to the VLIRUOS community, both in Belgium as well as in all partner and scholarship countries, in a limited number of strategic themes. Accelerate will identify, connect, deepen and mobilise relevant expertise available in the VLIRUOS network, supporting the acceleration of these themes within the VLIRUOS community. |
| Link | https://www.vliruos.be/get-funded/calls/accelerate |
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| Name of call | UNESCO International Fund for Cultural Diversity |
| Funding agency | The IFCD |
| Amount | US$ 100,000 |
| Deadline | 21 May 2025 |
| Grant summary | Its purpose is to foster the emergence of dynamic cultural sectors in developing countries that are Parties to the 2005 Convention, through strengthening the means to create, produce, distribute and have access to diverse cultural goods and services. |
| Link | https://www.unesco.org/creativity/en/ifcd/apply |
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| Name of call | Interest for Cancer Grand Challenges |
| Funding agency | Cancer Grand |
| Amount | £20m -$25m |
| Deadline | 18 June 2025 |
| Grant summary | Submissions open for the Cancer Grand Challenges, an initiative to support teams involving investigators from institutions across the globe and from different disciplines. Ultimately, they are looking for the best teams with the best ideas to address the challenges. They also anticipate that proposals will drive global collaboration and bring together scientifically diverse expertise in a way that is not already happening. |
| Link | https://www.cancergrandchallenges.org/applications |
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| Name of call | Aspire Leaders Program |
| Funding agency | The Aspire |
| Amount | Unspecified |
| Deadline | 30 April 2025 |
| Grant summary | The Aspire Leaders Program welcomes first-generation university students and recent graduates from around the world to join a free online interactive leadership development journey that is manageable along your other commitments. |
| Link | https://www.aspireleaders.org/program/aspire-leaders-program/ |
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| Name of call | Innovation Fund 2024 Net Zero Technologies – General Decarbonisation |
| Funding agency | The INNOVFUND |
| Amount | EUR 100 000 000 |
| Deadline | 24 April 2025 |
| Grant summary | For the ‘large-scale projects’ fund (INNOVFUND-2024-NZT-GENERAL-LSP), activities that are under this scope include innovation in low carbon technologies and processes, carbon capture and storage, and innovative renewable energy and energy storage technologies. |
| Link | https://projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/funding/funding-opportunities/funding-programmes-and-open-calls/horizon-europe |
10
| Name of call | UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships |
| Funding agency | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Amount | £4,000,000 |
| Deadline | 10 April 2025 |
| Grant summary | The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape, including what epistemic, Metascientific, ethical and socioeconomic questions this raises, and how governments, industry, and funding organisations should respond. |
| Link | https://www.ukri.org/councils/ahrc/ |
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| Name of call | Operating Grant to support European Networks. |
| Funding agency | The European Commission |
| Amount | EUR 2 035 000 |
| Deadline | 3-Jul-2025 |
| Grant summary | The European Commission invites applications for the Operating grants under framework partnership agreements in the area of facilitating and supporting judicial cooperation in civil and/or criminal matters and/or in the area of access to justice. |
| Link | https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details |
12
| Name of call | Wildlife Acoustics Scientific Product Grant Program 2025 |
| Funding agency | The Wildlife Acoustics |
| Amount | $12,000 USD |
| Deadline | 15-May-2025 |
| Grant summary | The Wildlife Acoustics is proud to offer a quarterly grant program that supports the advancement of wildlife research, habitat monitoring, and environmental conservation. |
| Link | https://www.wildlifeacoustics.com/grant-program |
13
| Name of call | Prevent and Combat GBV and Violence against Children. |
| Funding agency | The European Commission |
| Amount | EUR 23 000 000 |
| Deadline | 7-May-2025 |
| Grant summary | The European Commission is seeking proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children. |
| Link | https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/CERV-2025-DAPHNE?isExactMatch=true&status |
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| Name of call | Programme (AIG PLP) 2025 for emerging African public sector leaders |
| Funding agency | The AIG Public Leaders Programme (AIG PLP) |
| Amount | Unspecified |
| Deadline | 1 May 2025 |
| Grant summary | The programme is designed to ensure these public leaders, and those moving into senior leadership in the public sector over the next three years, master a range of new skills as quickly as possible. Participants have an unparalleled opportunity to develop the conceptual frameworks and practical tools they need to meet the challenges of today’s rapidly changing and complex world. |
| Link | https://www.aigimoukhuedefoundation.org/developing-leaders-in-government/aig-public-leaders-programme |
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| Name of call | Generative AI for anxiety, depression and psychosis |
| Funding agency | Wellcome |
| Amount | £3 million |
| Deadline | 28 May 2025 |
| Grant Summary | This programme will fund fundamental research on using generative AI to improve the measurement or treatment of anxiety, depression and psychosis. Successful teams will research how to optimise generative models for mental health or how generative AI, mental health professionals and people affected by mental health issues can work together safely and efficiently. |
| Link | https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes |
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| Name of Call | Data Science Africa Llama Impact Africa Grant Program |
| Funding agency | Data Science Africa, |
| Amount | $20,000 USD |
| Deadline | April 18, 2025. |
| Grant summary | In partnership with Data Science Africa, Meta is excited to announce the Llama for Africa Program, an initiative designed to support African-based startups, research laboratories, and researchers who are leveraging Llama, particularly the latest Llama 3.3 model, to develop indigenous solutions that address the continent’s unique challenges. With over 180 million download requests for Llama models, we have seen firsthand the impact that these models can have when used for social good. The Llama for Africa Program aims to identify and support the most promising applications of Llama 3.3, focusing on areas such as health, science, and agriculture, to drive innovation and societal benefit. Through this program, we will provide grants of up to $20,000 USD to projects that demonstrate a clear use case for Llama and have the potential to make a significant impact. We believe that by empowering African innovators with access to cutting-edge AI technology, we can unlock new opportunities for growth and development across the continent. |
| Link | http://www.datascienceafrica.org/dsa-Llama-impact-africa-grant/ |
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| Name of call | Environmental Grants Program 2025 |
| Funding agency | NGO’s Resilience |
| Amount | $5,000 – $15,000 |
| Deadline | 30-Apr-2025 |
| Grant summary | The grants are available in $5,000 – $15,000 range, dependent upon capacity at the time of the campaign. They do not accept requests greater than $15,000 at this time. |
| Link | https://whitefeatherfoundation.com/news/applications-now-open-for-2025-environmental-projects/ |
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| Name of call | The Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) Research Development Fellowship Programme 2025/2026 for Early career researchers |
| Funding agency | The RDF |
| Amount | £47,000 |
| Deadline | 27 June 2025 |
| Grant Summary | Applications are now open for the 2025/2026 Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) Research Development Fellowship Programme. The fellowship aims to support researchers in Africa who are emerging leaders and working on important challenges for human health, to develop their skills as a researcher. |
| Link | https://africaresearchexcellencefund.org.uk/funding-calls/research-development-fellowship-2025-26/ |
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| Name of Call | PAGES Inter-Africa Mobility Research Fellowship Program 2025 for African early-career scientists |
| Funding agency | Past Global Changes |
| Amount | Unspecified |
| Deadline | 15 August 2025. |
| Grant summary | The program aims to give limited support for travel and subsistence to early-career researchers from African countries (PhD students and postdocs at African institutions), who are interested in gaining experience in another African country. The final goal is to contribute to the development of collaborative research and the promotion of paleoscience network within Africa. |
| Link | https://pastglobalchanges.org/support/pages-fellow-africa |
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| Name of Call | CIPESA Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Journalism Fellowship 2025 for Eastern Africa. |
| Funding agency | Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) |
| Amount | USD 1,500 |
| Deadline | 21 April 2025 |
| Grant summary | Applications are now open for the 2025 CIPESA Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Journalism Fellowship. This regional fellowship aims to build a new generation of journalists with the knowledge and skills to investigate and report on Digital Public Infrastructure and Digital Public Goods (DPGs). The fellowship is inspired by a similar Co-Develop-funded initiative implemented by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), which supported fellows to produce over 100 impactful stories that spurred public debate and influenced policy. |
| Link | https://cipesa.org/2025/04/call-for-applications-dpi-journalism-fellowship-for-eastern-africa/ |
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| Name of call | Stripe’s Economics of AI Fellowship 2025 for graduate students and early-career researchers ( $10,000 grant) |
| Funding agency | Stripe |
| Amount | $10k |
| Deadline | April 15, 2025 |
| Grant summary | Applications are now open for the 2025 Stripe’s Economics of AI Fellowship. Stripe is inviting graduate students and early-career researchers who are interested in studying the economics of AI to apply, regardless of prior experience. Fellows receive a grant of at least $10k, participate in conferences with leading economists and technologists, and have the potential to access unique data via Stripe and its customers. THe initial cohort will include 15-20 fellows, and will form the foundation of a community at the bleeding edge of economic research. |
| Link | https://stripe.events/fellowship |
22
| Name of call | Greentech Africa Investment Readiness Accelerator Program 2025 for Early-stage African startups. |
| Funding agency | Greentech Africa |
| Amount | Unspecified |
| Deadline | May 9, 2025 |
| Grant summary | Applications are now open for the 2025 Greentech Africa Investment Readiness Accelerator Program. Greentech Africa 2025: The Future of Sustainability is an investment-readiness accelerator program that will support 10-15 startups in Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa with innovative solutions for sustainable development. The program is designed to help startups identify early milestones and prepare for their next round of capital or expansion plans (if relevant). In short, through virtual workshops, we deliver a targeted, award-winning curriculum and provide countless connections to prepare startups for growth. |
| Link | https://vilcap.com/programs/greentech-africa-2025 |
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| Name of call | Rise Up Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator training program 2025 for Kenyan civil society leaders |
| Funding agency | Rise Up |
| Amount | $17,000 USD |
| Deadline | April 14, 2025 |
| Grant summary | Applications are now open for the 2025 Rise Up Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator training program. Global nonprofit Rise Up will select a group of 25 local civil society leaders from Kenya to participate in its Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator training program to advance gender equity and justice in girls’ education July 14-19, 2025. |
| Link | https://riseuptogether.org/call-for-applications-rise-up-launches-leadership-advocacy-program-in-kenya/ |
| Name of call | 2025 African Plant Nutrition Scholar Award Program for African graduate students |
| Funding agency | African Plant Nutrition Institute (APNI) |
| Amount | $2,000 |
| Deadline | April 30, 2025 |
| Grant summary | Applications are now open for the 2025 African Plant Nutrition Scholar Award Program. The African Plant Nutrition Institute (APNI) has opened its call for graduate students in Africa to apply for the 2025 edition of the Plant Nutrition Scholar Award program. |
| Link | https://www.apni.net/2025/02/27/2025-african-plant-nutrition-scholarship-now-open-for-applications/ |
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| Name of Call | Call for Proposals: Catalytic Climate Finance Facility (CC Facility) – Application Cycle 4 2025 |
| Funding agency | The CC Facility |
| Amount | Unspecified |
| Deadline | April 24 2025 |
| Grant summary | The CC Facility is a funding initiative designed to support projects that align with the goals and criteria set out by the program. To ensure the funding is directed towards the most impactful and relevant projects, applicants must meet specific eligibility F requirements. These guidelines have been outlined in detail, so before proceeding with the application process, it is important to thoroughly review the eligibility criteria to ensure that your project qualifies. |
| Link | https://www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2025/03/25/cc-facility/ |
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| Name of call | Spaces of Culture Funding Scheme in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Funding agency | The space of culture |
| Amount | EUR 50,000. |
| Deadline | 8-Jun-2025 |
| Grant summary | The Spaces of Culture Funding Scheme is part of the EU-funded Africa-Europe Partnerships for Culture programme, is looking for new and exciting collaborative cultural relations projects taking place in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Link | https://www.eunicglobal.eu/news/spaces-of-culture-2025 |
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| Name of call | UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub is looking for Proven Innovative WASH Solutions with Potential for Accelerated Scale |
| Funding agency | The UNICEF |
| Amount | 150,000 USD |
| Deadline | 30 April 2025 |
| Grant summary | The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub is focused on sourcing, accelerating, and scaling transformative water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) solutions that drive lasting impact for children and their families. By selecting solutions based on their potential to accelerate results for children across multiple countries, regions, and globally, the hub aims to ensure that innovations are strategic, program-driven, and evidence-based for scaling up across different geographies. |
| Link | https://www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2025/03/24/wash/ |
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| Name of call | NIERA Policy Fellowship Program 2025 for Emerging & Mid-Career Professionals in West & East Africa. |
| Funding agency | The NIERA (National Institute for Economic Research and Analysis) |
| Amount | $50 + $1000 |
| Deadline | May 7, 2025. |
| Grant summary | The NIERA (National Institute for Economic Research and Analysis) is pleased to announce the opening of applications for its prestigious Policy Fellowship Program for 2025. This fellowship is designed to provide emerging and mid-career professionals with the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge research and policy analysis in the fields of economics, social development, and public policy. The program aims to promote innovative solutions to complex global challenges through high-level research, dialogue, and collaboration. |
| Link | https://www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2025/03/26/niera/ |
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| Name of call | Empowering Young Climate Change Innovators |
| Funding agency | The 776 Fellowship Program |
| Amount | $100,000 Grant |
| Deadline | April 14th 2025 |
| Grant summary | The 776 Fellowship Program is a unique opportunity that supports young, driven individuals focused on solving the global climate crisis. This program is designed to give the next generation of innovators the resources and support they need to turn their groundbreaking ideas into reality. Through this fellowship, 776 provides funding, mentorship, and access to an extensive network, enabling fellows to dedicate two years to tackling climate change without the constraints of other obligations. |
| Link | https://www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2025/03/27/776/ |
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| Name of call | 2025 Early Career Grants Application |
| Funding agency | The RSTMH (Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) |
| Amount | GBP £5,000 |
| Deadline | 14 May 2025 |
| Grant summary | To enable early career researchers and global health professionals in the field of tropical medicine or global health to undertake clinical or scientific research and/or fieldwork, either as stand-alone projects or distinct elements within a larger project. |
| Link | https://www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2025/03/21/early-career-grants/ |