[September 2025]
Looking for funding to power your travel and tourism projects? This special listing of Travel & Tourism Grants 2025 brings together the latest opportunities designed for global explorers and innovators. From cultural exchange programs and international awards to eco-friendly travel initiatives and sustainable tourism projects, these grants provide vital financial support to boost creativity, growth, and impact in the travel sector. Whether you’re launching a tourism venture, promoting responsible travel, or seeking international collaborations, this listing offers exciting avenues to turn your vision into reality.
Submissions open for UN Tourism Social Innovation Challenge
Deadline: October 31, 2025
The Global Social Innovation Challenge seeks to identify and support groundbreaking startups, scale-ups, SMEs and entrepreneurs who are driving change in three key areas which are Community-based Tourism, Inclusivity and Accessibility and Green Projects…[more]
Call for Entries: Journal of Clinical Medicine Travel Award
Deadline: 31-Dec-25
Applications are now open for the Journal of Clinical Medicine Travel Award to two junior scientists for the year 2026.
This award provides financial support for the winners to attend an international conference in the field of clinical medicine to be held in 2026, in order to hold a presentation, present a poster, or both…[more]
Space for Metaverse: ESA Kick-Start Funding Opportunity
Deadline: November 14, 2025
The European Space Agency is inviting innovative proposals integrating metaverse elements with space technologies to create new commercial services…[more]
CFAs: Cross-border Cooperation Programme in Montenegro and Albania
Deadline: 31-Oct-2025
The European Commission has launched a cross-border call for proposals to boost good neighbourly relations between Montenegro and Albania while driving sustainable development in the region…[more]
Call for Applications: Kensington Conservation Grant Program
Deadline: 13-Oct-2025
The Explorers Club is seeking applications for its Kensington Conservation Grant Program to support vital, on-the-ground conservation projects now, and in the future…[more]
TÜBİTAK – NITRA Bilateral Cooperation Travel Support Program (Turkey and Serbia)
Deadline: 12-Nov-2025
The Protocol on Cooperation in Science and Technology between the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) and the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia (NITRA) has launched a call to enhance the cooperative activities in the field of research between the two countries…[more]
Interreg VI-A NEXT Programme: Call for Small and Regular-Scale Project Proposals
Deadline: 30-Nov-2025
The Interreg VI-A NEXT Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine Programme has launched its 2nd Call for Proposals, welcoming applications for small-scale and regular-scale projects without infrastructure components…[more]
Open Call for Visegrad+ Grants Program
Deadline: 01-Oct-2025
The International Visegrad Fund has opened the Visegrad+ Grants, aimed at driving transformation and democratization in countries across the Eastern Partnership and Western Balkans regions…[more]
Applications open for TUI Forests Programme
Deadline: 01-Nov-2025
The TUI Care Foundation’s TUI Forests programme places forests at the heart of thriving communities and sustainable tourism destinations while supporting local livelihoods through initiatives like community-run tree nurseries and forest-based tourism…[more]
Apply Now: Luce/ACLS Travel Grants in China Studies (Canada and US)
Deadline: 05-Nov-2025
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is offering a travel grant competition open to graduate students in PhD programs and non-tenure track faculty at any career stage. This grant is aimed at supporting travel for research either in China or related to China studies at locations around the world…[more]
Call for Applications: Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants
Deadline: 05-Oct-2025
The Max Weber Foundation confers Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants to internationally oriented researchers in the humanities and social sciences who are in the qualification phase…[more]
Open Topic on Secured and Facilitated Crossing of External Borders
Deadline: 12 November 2025
Submissions are now open for the Open Topic on Secured and Facilitated Crossing of External Borders…[more]
Applications open for the Nordic Arctic Programme 2025
Deadline: 15-Feb-26
The Nordic Institute in Greenland is accepting applications for the Nordic Arctic Programme to maintain and secure citizens, stability, growth, and prosperity in the Arctic…[more]
Applications open for Overseas Travel Grant Program in Indonesia
Deadline: 01-May-2026
The American-Indonesian Cultural and Educational Foundation grants scholarships to Indonesian PhD students currently enrolled in an accredited US university or college for their dissertation research in Indonesia…[more]
Entries open for Annual Online Ideathon Hatathon 6.0 (Ukraine)
Deadline: 20-Oct-2025
The Hatathon 6.0 has started — the annual online ideathon of the HATA Hub platform, implemented as a joint project of Digitizing Space, House of Europe and Goethe-Institut Ukraine…[more]
Local Graduate Scholarships Program (Philippines)
Deadline: 15-Oct-2025
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) is now accepting applications to its Advanced Degrees for Accelerating Strategic Space R&D and Applications (AD ASTRA) Scholarships Program…[more]
Belize Fund for a Sustainable Future Grants Program
Deadline: 07-Nov-2025
The Belize Fund for a Sustainable Future is offering a compelling grant opportunity through its annual Call for Proposals, designed to support projects that bolster the conservation and sustainable use of Belize’s coastal and marine environments…[more]
Short-Term Grants for Conferences and Research Travel in Armenia
Deadline: 03-Dec-2025
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation offers Short-Term Grants to support students, early-career academics, and researchers in Armenia to participate in international academic events and research trips abroad…[more]
YouSEED: Young People Explore Rural Development through the Prism of Social Economy Program (Montenegro)
Deadline: 31-Dec-25
Applications are now open for a new initiative aimed at promoting rural development in Montenegro through innovative, youth-driven approaches to social and green economy…[more]
Feasibility Support Program for Rural Investments in 2025 (Turkey)
Deadline: 12 December 2025
The 2025 Feasibility Support Program for Rural Investments is now open for applications to support feasibility studies of projects that will improve Ankara’s innovation and entrepreneurship capacity and can be transformed into investments in the short and medium term…[more]
Short Term Conference and Travel Grant (Armenia)
Deadline: 3 December 2025
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is inviting applications for its Short Term Conference and Travel Grant for Graduate students (Master and PhD), academics and researchers based in Armenia, under 35 years old, wishing to attend international seminars, conferences, short term courses and research trips, related to their research field, abroad…[more]
Request for Applications: International Travel Scheme (India)
Deadline: Ongoing
The Anusandhan National Research Foundation is requesting applications for its International Travel Support Scheme to provide financial assistance to Indian researchers for presenting a research paper in an international scientific event held abroad…[more]
Call for Proposals: NEMI Travel Grant Program (Netherlands)
Deadline: Ongoing
Do you want to learn more about the latest advances in EM? Want to go to a conference to present your own EM data? Or are you interested to use EM in your work but do not know where to start and want to visit a workshop on an EM-related topic? The Netherlands Electron Microscopy Infrastructure is now offering financial support for early career researchers…[more]
