[June 2025]

Looking to bring your project to life? These grant opportunities, backed by Swiss donors, can provide the funding you need to make a real impact. Explore and apply now before the deadlines close!

Save Our Seas Foundation Small Grant Program

Deadline: 28 June 2025

The Save Our Seas Foundation is pleased to invite applications for its Small Grant Program designed for short (12 to 18 months) and small projects dedicated to early career scientists.

Funding Information

• Small Grants may be up to 10,000 USD, but average 5,000 USD.

Eligibility Criteria

• Aimed at original and innovative start-up projects, the grant presents early career scientists, conservationists or educators with an opportunity to prove themselves.
• Only projects concerned with marine chondrichthyan species (sharks, rays, skates, sawfishes and chimaeras) will be considered.

For more information, visit Save Our Seas Foundation.

 

EOCA launches Conservation Project Funding Program 2025

Deadline: 30-Jun-25

The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) has launched the Conservation Project Funding Program.

Categories

EOCA’s focus areas lie within the following 2 categories of action and 11 specific response options:

• Conserve Ecosystems
  Area Based Conservation
  Halt Conversion of Intact Ecosystems
  Forest Conservation

 

• Restore Ecosystems
  Forest landscape restoration
  Restoration of coastal and marine ecosystems
  Restoration of inland water systems
  Rewilding
  Restore Soil Health
  Mangrove conservation and restoration
  Wetland conservation and restoration
  Restoration of blue carbon ecosystems

 

Funding Information

• Nonprofit organisations can apply to EOCA for grants of up to €30,000, to implement a conservation project of up to two years in duration.

For more information, visit EOCA.

 

RFAs: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Forest Products Program

Deadline: 22-Sep-25

The Velux Stiftung is requesting applications for the Climate Change, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Forest Products Program.

Thematic Areas

• Innovative and integrative sustainable forest management to develop and provide solutions for adapting to or mitigating climate change, promoting biodiversity, providing resilient ecosystems services and supplying sustainable forest products.
• Incentives or tools for action and behavioural change towards sustainable forest management by transforming theoretical and abstract values of forest products and services.

Funding Information

• Scale of funding: Up to max. CHF 100000 per year.
• Duration of the projects: 1 to max. 4 years.

For more information, visit Velux Stiftung.

 

Applications open for Tutator Forward Grants Program 2025

Deadline: 22-Jun-25
Applications are now open for the Tutator Forward Grants Program to provide custom software solutions to mission-driven organizations.

Funding Information

• Grantees receive a fully customized software solution built on Tutator’s Beneficiary Management Platform (BMP) to ensure scalability and impact. While there is no fixed scope, projects typically involve 5,000 and 20,000 hours of specialized work valued between $75,000 and $1,000,000 USD.

Duration

• Project timeline (4 to 12 months)

Eligible Projects

Examples of Eligible Projects:

• Access to Justice: A legal aid platform to train paralegals, track cases, and provide remote legal support.
• Youth Empowerment: A system that connects young people with educational and employment opportunities, tracking progress and outcomes.
• Public Health: A tool for community health centers to manage patient records, coordinate treatments, and track disease outbreaks.
• Food Security: A nutrition monitoring platform to track food distribution, participation trends, and generate real-time impact reports.
• Environmental Protection: A conservation tracking system to manage reforestation projects, collect environmental data, and engage local communities.

For more information, visit Tutator.

 

CFPs: Ophthalmology Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Deadline: 29 September 2025

The Velux Stiftung wants to contribute to ultimately reduce visual impairments and blindness in LMICs through research funding.

Goals

• The projects foster and contribute to the development of local biomedical ophthalmology research institutions in LMICs through partnerships, scientific network development and research capacity strengthening.
• The projects contribute to develop the scientific expertise and reputation of the involved institutions.
• The knowledge produced is of direct relevance for LMICs.
• The new knowledge can be applied by the scientific community or other stakeholders for the benefit of patients and populations in LMICs in the medium to longer term.

Funding Information

• Scale of funding: from CHF 50’000 to CHF 100’000 per year, for one to four years, with at least 50% of the funding to be used in LMICs.
• Duration of the projects: 1 to 4 years.

For more information, visit Velux Stiftung.

 

Leading House MENA: Research Partnership Grants

Deadline: 22 August 2025

The Swiss Academy of Sciences is requesting applications for its Research Partnership Grants to support the development of new joint project proposals or to connect existing, independently funded projects in Switzerland and in the MENA partner countries into long-lasting collaborations.

Aims and Objectives

• The RPGs aim to support the development of new joint project proposals or to connect existing, independently funded projects in Switzerland and in the MENA partner countries into long-lasting collaborations.
• Open to all scientific fields, the RPGs recognize and support a wide range of research approaches and methodologies.
• These may include desk-based research, fieldwork, feasibility studies, archival research, qualitative interviews, surveys, artistic practices, design thinking, or other forms of collaborative work, depending on the needs and methods of the discipline.
• The ultimate objective is to build partnerships that can lead to applications for further funding from other agencies (e.g., national funding agencies or EU funding schemes), and/or to develop long-term partnerships between two or more institutions or research groups.

Funding Information

• The maximum amount for a research partnership grant is CHF 25,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• The call is open to all scientific disciplines and fields of research. However, proposals planning developments for military application will be rejected.
• All scientists of Swiss federal and cantonal universities, universities of applied sciences and universities of teachers’ education, as well as public research institutions (as defined in art. 5 of the Federal Act on the Promotion of Research and Innovation), are eligible to apply.
• The Swiss scientist is the main applicant. He or she must hold a position, either permanent or lasting until the end of the project, and have a research or practical experience of three years or more.
• The principal investigator/researcher in the MENA region must be affiliated to an accredited university or a public research institute and must hold a faculty or scientist position in addition to several years of research or practical experience.
• The following countries of the MENA region are eligible for this call: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Occupied Palestinian territory, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.

For more information, visit SCNAT.