Funding Opportunities No. 4 (2021)

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By samoduor

Funding Opportunities No. 4 (2021)

Dear University Community,

The following new funding opportunities have been added to the Grants and Opportunities Portal. Please contact our office if you need any assistance in preparation of your proposals. Also note that some of the opportunities have very tight deadlines.

Opportunities are available for:

1. Research and Innovation Grants

2. Fellowships and Scholarships

3. Awards and Prizes

4. Research Symposium

5. Grant for exchange studies

1. Research/Innovation Grants

No. Grant Area of Study Funding Agency Deadline

1. Ford Foundation Grants Multi-Disciplinary Ford Foundation Rolling Basis

Ford Foundation accepts grant

applications on a rolling basis

that address their core theme of

Challenging Inequality.

They believe in the inherent dignity

of all people. Yet around the world,

billions of people are excluded

from full participation in the

political, economic, and cultural

systems that shape their lives.

Link:

https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/challenging-inequality/

Fellowships and Scholarships

2. Master’s in Mathematical Sciences Scholarship

The AIMS Structured Master’s Mathematics Africa Institute of March 31, 2021

Program runs over three semesters. Mathematical

The requisite skills phase of the Sciences

AIMS course builds a standard

core set of problem-solving

skills: estimation, computation,

approximation, modelling, data

analysis and statistics.

The elective review phase allows

students to apply these skills

in some of the most exciting

areas of science.

https://applications.nexteinstein.org/appl-prev.php?appltype=MasterIntake

3. Mark Wainberg Fellowship Programme

The Mark Wainberg Fellowship Health Sciences IAS Education Fund March 7, 2021

Programme, an initiative of the

IAS Educational Fund, is aimed

at contributing to improving the

quality of HIV service delivery

in resource-limited settings by

providing two-year fellowships to

clinicians from sub-Saharan

Africa, who will spend one year

in Europe and one year in Africa

at clinical institutions.

The programme will offer

in-depth training for clinicians

committed to careers in HIV

clinical service delivery in

sub-Saharan Africa with the

aim of strengthening access to

high-quality services for

sub-Saharan Africa populations,

with a client-centred service

delivery approach.

Apply:

https://www.iasociety.org/IAS-Educational-Fund/Mark-Wainberg-Fellowship-Programme

4. International Climate Protection Fellowship

Apply here: Climate change/ International Climate March 1, 2021

Environment/ Initiative of the

Earth Sciences Federal Ministry for

the Environment,

Nature Conservation

and Nuclear Safety

(BMU).

https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/sponsorship-programmes/international-climate-protection-fellowship

5. PhD position and MA and/or MSc position in the broad field of climate change adaptation

WITS-GCI, UFH-RAVAC & Climate change/ University of Wits – February 28, 2021

KZN ADVERT POST-GRADS /Environment Johannesburg

2021 /Earth Sciences

Project: “Unlocking the Locked”:

moving to more engaged, inclusive,

and generative approaches to

climate change adaptation

in South Africa.

Heidi Robertson

Global Change Institute

T +27 11 717 6080

E heidi.robertson@wits.ac.za

W www.wits.ac.za/gci/

6. Einstein PhD Fellowship

Apply: Multi-Disciplinary Einstein Forum May 15, 2021

and the Daimler and

Benz Foundation

https://einsteinforum.de/about/fellowship/?lang=en

Awards and Prizes

7. UN Global Climate Action Awards

Apply: The 2021 UN Global United Nations April 30, 2021

Climate Action

Awards will

recognize climate

action that is already

achieving real and

tangible results in

three categories:

https://momentumforchange.smapply.io/prog/2021_un_global_climate_action_awards_/

1. Climate Neutral Now: recognizing efforts by individuals, companies and governments that are achieving real results in transitioning to climate neutrality.

2. Financing for Climate Friendly Investment: recognizing successful financial innovations for adaptation and climate mitigation.

3. Climate Leaders: recognizing transformational efforts by governments at any level (national, provincial, state, city, town) that are moving the needle on climate change.

Research Symposium

8. Invitation to a Virtual Symposium on Enhancing knowledge Transfer and Exchange in African HE and Research

The symposium programme will comprise of keynote lectures from European and African Industry and Higher Education representatives as well as interactive breakout rooms aligned to the themes of ARUA’s 13 Centres of Excellence.

To register your attendances please click here.

ARUA

February 24, 2021

Grant for exchange studies

9. Erasmus+ grant for exchange · Students exchange UniversityCEU May 31, 2021

studies with the University programme cardenal Herrera

CEU Cardenal Herrera · Staff training and

teaching activities

For more information,

visit:

https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/programme-guide/part-b/three-key-actions/key-action-1/mobility-education-training-youth_en

HORACE OCHANDA