[May 2025]
Discover powerful grant opportunities designed to uplift communities, advance development goals, and accelerate change in developing countries. From climate action and education to health and livelihoods, these funding programs support innovative projects with real impact. Explore, apply, and be the change your region needs.
Applications open for Conference Support Grant Program
Deadline: 15 July 2025
The International Mathematical Union is seeking applications for its Conference Support Grant Program to support mathematical science-based conferences and research schools organized in developing countries…[more]
Call for Submissions: Artists’ Contacts Programme
Deadline: 15 July 2025
The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen is requesting applications for its Artists’ Contacts Programme to support Artists and Cultural practitioners from Germany and from transformation or developing countries for projects in contemporary visual arts, architecture, photography, media art and design…[more]
Call for Nominations: TWAS-Apex Award
Deadline: 15 May 2025
The World Academy of Sciences is seeking applications for its TWAS-Apex Award to honor exceptional scientific contributions by researchers living and working in developing countries…[more]
Entries open for ABF-FIGF Research Grant 2025-26
Deadline: 11 May 2025
The Aubrey Barker Fund and FIG Foundation are pleased to invite applications for the 2025-26 Research Grant…[more]
RFAs: IMU-Simons Research Fellowship Program for Developing Countries
Deadline: 15 July 2025
The International Mathematical Union is pleased to announce its IMU-Simons Research Fellowship Program to support mathematicians from developing countries to travel to a mathematical institution for collaborative research for up to three months…[more]
Training and Research in Italian Laboratories Programme
Deadline: 31 December 2025
The Training and Research in Italian Laboratories (TRIL) Programme offers scientists from developing countries the opportunity to undertake training and research in an Italian laboratory in different branches of the physical sciences…[more]
Nominations open for Japan International Award for Young Agricultural Researchers
Deadline: 17 May 2025
Nominations are now open for the Japan International Award for Young Agricultural Researchers to increase motivation among young researchers who are contributing to research and development in agriculture, forestry, fisheries and related industries in developing regions and show outstanding performance and research achievements that may lead to future innovation…[more]
Submit Applications for TWAS-ICCBS Postgraduate Fellowship Programme
Deadline: 14 August 2025
The International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) in partnership with the World Academy of Sciences are offering fellowships to young scientists from developing countries who wish to pursue research towards a PhD in chemical and biological sciences…[more]
RFPs: TWAS-NCP Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme
Deadline: 31 July 2025
The World Academy of Sciences is requesting applications for its TWAS-NCP Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for young scientists from developing countries (other than Pakistan) who wish to pursue postdoctoral research in physical sciences in departments and laboratories of the National Centre for Physics (NCP) in Islamabad…[more]
CFPs: TWAS-SN Bose Postgraduate Fellowship Programme
Deadline: 22 September 2025
The TWAS and the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Kolkata, India, offer fellowships to young foreign scientists from developing countries who wish to pursue research towards a PhD in physical sciences…[more]
RFAs: TWAS-SN Bose Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme
Deadline: 22 September 2025
The S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Science in Kolkata, India, and The World Academy of Sciences has launched a fellowship programme for foreign scholars from developing countries who wish to pursue postdoctoral research in physical sciences…[more]
Apply for TWAS-ICCBS Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme
Deadline: 14 August 2025
Young scientists from developing countries (other than Pakistan) who wish to pursue postdoctoral research in organic chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology, molecular medicine, pharmacology or physical chemistry at the International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences are invited to apply for the TWAS-ICCBS Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme…[more]