The grants can be used for a diverse range of projects, workshops, and events in areas such as:

• Supporting women in leadership
• Raising awareness of sexual harassment and developing anti-sexual harassment initiatives
• Supporting women in science and research
• Creating effective institutional policies
• Mainstreaming gender equity into the curriculum
• To help meet the costs of organising projects that promote gender equity and equality.

Applications close: 5 May 2025 3PM UTC

For emerging academics, taking part in conferences can have a profound impact on their teaching and research. These events are a chance to share research, learn about the latest developments in an area of work, and build valuable professional networks.

Researchers find themselves better informed and better connected with new knowledge that can be shared and multiplied among colleagues and students.

All awardees will be required to complete a report on completion of their award.

Applications close: 26 June 2025, 15:00 UTC

Open to professional and academic staff at ACU member universities, the grants focus on the priority themes of the ACU Higher Education and the SDGs Network:

• Engagement and impact
• Estates and stewardship
• Partnerships
• Research
• Teaching and learning

Applications close: 3 June 2024, 16:00 UTC

Universities can use their internal criteria of what defines an early career researcher (ECR), but this must include doctoral candidates, and the training must be made available to ECRs from multiple disciplines.

Skills which are in scope of the training include:

• Career training, including doctoral careers outside higher education
• Grant writing
• Media training
• Networking
• Presentation skills
• Public engagement and communicating with non-academic audiences
• Relationship/stakeholder management
• Research data management
• Social media
• Time management

Applications close: 8 April 2025, 15:00 UTC

Available to Postgraduate, Early Career, Full, and Emeritus members, these grants assist with the cost of face-to-face attendance to support valuable opportunities to expand your network, present your work to topic experts, and benefit from world-class workshops.

Applications are considered six times a year, the deadlines for which are:

• 1 March for conferences after 1 April
• 1 May for conferences after 1 June
• 1 July for conferences after 1 August
• 1 September for conferences after 1 October
• 1 November for conferences after 1 December

This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programmes of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.

Administering organisation location:

UK, Republic of Ireland, Low- or middle-income countries (apart from India and mainland China)

scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programmes of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.

Administering organisation location:

UK, Republic of Ireland, Low- or middle-income countries (apart from India and mainland China)

This scheme provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.

The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale. We will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects that maximise policy outcomes by combining evidence generation, policy analysis, engaged research approaches and communication strategies.

All countries (excluding Germany)

Each award is valued at 100,000 EUR. In addition to this award amount, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation can provide further funding of 50,000 EUR to cover costs arising from the award winner’s collaboration with specialist colleagues in Germany, for example for attending academic conferences, for scientific equipment, for including junior researchers, or for child care. The nomination and selection process for the Carl-Zeiss-Humboldt Research Award is part of the Humboldt Research Award programme. Direct nominations are not possible.

The IMU-Simons Research Fellowship Program for Developing Countries (2024-2027) supports mathematicians from developing countries to travel to a mathematical institution (worldwide) for collaborative research for up to three months. The research visit has to be tied to a specific research project/plan and a collaborating institute.

• December 1st, 2025
• April 15th, 2025 for research visits starting between August 15th, 2024 and August 15th, 2025