[January 2025]
In 2025, the United Nations continues to offer a wide range of grants and partnership opportunities to address key global challenges. These grants are designed to support initiatives focused on sustainable development, humanitarian aid, environmental protection, gender equality, and more.The UN remains dedicated to collaborating with organizations and individuals passionate about creating positive and lasting impacts on a global scale. Check the list below:
CFAs: UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture
Deadline: 1 March 2025
The United Nations General Assembly mandated the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture to distribute voluntary contributions to victims of torture through “established channels of assistance”…[more]
United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery 2025
Deadline: 1 March 2025
The United Nations Human Rights is pleased to announce call for “United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery”…[more]
Call for Entries: International Contest for Minority Artists Program 2025
Deadline: 1 March 2025
The United Nations Human Rights with its International Contest for Minority Artists Program invites creative interpretation of the relationships of minorities with belonging, place and loss…[more]
Call for Nominations: UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award
Deadline: 7-Apr-25
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced the Nansen Refugee Award to recognize several individuals, groups or organizations that have taken extraordinary action to protect and assist refugees, internally displaced or stateless people…[more]
Applications open for Graduate Study Programme
Deadline: 28 February 2025
The United Nations is requesting applications for its Graduate Study Programme, an intensive two-week summer seminar that provides an opportunity for participants to deepen their understanding of the United Nations and “International Geneva” through lectures, research, work in groups, visits to institutions, and networking…[more]
Call for Nominations: UNESCO-Al Fozan International Prize for the Promotion of Young Scientists
Deadline: 15 April 2025
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is accepting nominations for the UNESCO-Al Fozan International Prize for the Promotion of Young Scientists in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) aims to boost research, education, and global cooperation to tackle challenges aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…[more]
UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences 2025
Deadline: 31 March 2025
The call for nominations for the ninth edition of the UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences is now open…[more]
UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea Fellowship Programme for Young Women Scientists in Africa 2025
Deadline: 31 March 2025
The UNESCO Young African Women Scientists Programme, seeks to promote and support two exceptional young African women in the life sciences…[more]
WIPO Global Awards for SMEs and Startups
Deadline: 31 March 2025
If you’re a small business, a start-up, including a university spinout — from tech to fashion, media, music, design, agriculture, or any other industry—and you use Intellectual Property (IP) to create value, the WIPO Global Awards are for you, because they are the UN Award for inventors and creators…[more]