Deadline: 28-Aug-22
The 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund is offering grants to support innovative partnerships between HEIs that will result in new models of inclusive student exchange and training programs between the United States and Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia.
They encourage proposals focused on developing exchange and training programs between a diversity of HEIs that will be inclusive of students and faculty.
Thematical Requirements
The purpose of the 2022 U.S.-Andean Innovation Fund Grant Competition is to provide funding to increase partnerships and inclusive student training and exchange programs between HEIs in the U.S. and Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia in various eligible academic areas.
- Grant Proposals between the U.S. and Colombia
- Sustainable Energy
- Convergent Technologies – Industry 4.0
- Biotechnology, Environment, Bio-economics
- Oceanography and Hydrobiology
- Social Sciences and human development with a focus on equity
- Life and Health Sciences
- Basic and Space Sciences
- Creative and Cultural Industries
- Environment and Climate Solutions
- Public Health
- Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)
- Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)
- Human Rights and Public Policy
- Education Technology
- Food and Agricultural Sciences
- Economic Development
- Grant Proposals between the U.S. and Peru, Ecuador, and/or Bolivia
- Green Economy
- Environment, Climate Action, and Energy Transition
- Digital Transformation
- Gender, Inclusion & Diversity
- Regional Integration
- Public Health
- Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)
- Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)
- Human Rights and Public Policy
- Education Technology
- Food and Agricultural Sciences
- Economic Development
Awards Available
The intent of the 2022 U.S.-Andean Innovation Fund Grant Competition is to award up to eighteen (18) Innovation Fund grants.
- 9 awards of up to $34,034 to U.S.-Colombia programs, and
- 9 awards of up to $36,100 to U.S.-Peru, Ecuador, and/or Bolivia programs
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Higher Education Institutions
- Higher education institutions (HEIs) located and legally registered in the United States, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia are eligible to apply for the 2022 U.S.-Andean Innovation Fund Grant Competition.
- The Innovation Fund seeks the broadest diversity of institutions to compete for 100K grants to create and implement new models of student academic exchange and training programs that will have the greatest possibility of replication throughout the U.S. and rest of the Western Hemisphere.
- As such, HEIs, including two-year and four-year degree-issuing institutions (public & private), colleges, community colleges, technical/vocational schools, and other post-secondary institutions with credit-bearing programs, are eligible to apply.
- Eligible Partnerships
- Grant proposals must include a team of at least one higher education institution in the U.S. and one higher education institution in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, or Bolivia. Proposals can involve new institutional partnerships or build on existing partnerships.
For more information, visit http://www.100kstrongamericas.org/grants/