Catch up on open funding opportunities

See inside for 190 grant and investment opportunities that still have open deadlines.

There are some great social impact programs in Africa and emerging markets all over the world with calls for applications rapidly approaching their deadlines!

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Summary:

• 63 with rolling applications

• 15 with applications due this week!

  • February 11 - Feb 15

• 29 with applications due later in February

• 54 with applications due in March

• 19 with applications due in April

• 11 with applications due later in 2026

With 127 opportunities over $50k!

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190 Impact Funding Opportunities with Open Deadlines

Animal Welfare Grants. The Pollination Project.
• Support individuals and groups who are working to protect animals.
• 1) Reducing the consumption of land and sea animals raised using industrial agriculture practices, 2) Advocating for farmed animal welfare and 3) Helping animals that are not usually the focus of animal welfare efforts.
• Open to individuals in all countries with a special focus on Brazil, India and Mexico
• A $1k seed grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Awesome Foundation Micro Grants. Awesome Foundation.
• Awesome project on wide range of areas including arts, technology, community development, and more.
• Individuals, groups, and organizations working anywhere in the world.
• $1k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Wildlife Emergency Fund. Brevard Zoo.
• Rapid financial support to conservation-based organizations that are responding to sudden, episodic and unpredictable threats impacting wildlife.
• Applicants from 501(c)3 non-profits (or equivalent), governmental and NGOs that focus on direct in-situ conservation action.
• Global.
• Up to $2,500.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis

Conservation Fund. International Marine Animal Trainers Association (IMATA).
• Conservation-oriented issues that serve marine mammal science through training, public display, research, husbandry, conservation, and education.
• Non-profit organizations.
• Global.
• Up to $5k.
• Applications accepted on rolling basis.

The Explorers Club Impact Grants. The Explorers Club.
• Fieldwork in biological sciences, archaeology, anthropology, paleontology, earth sciences, ecology, and astronomy.
• Exploratory projects that reveal new knowledge about the planet and its inhabitants, including regions undergoing environmental or cultural change.
• Researchers and explorers.
• Global.
• Up to $25k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

The Egmont Trust EOI. Egmont.
• Innovative ways of combating the impact of HIV & AIDS on children and families and provide financial support and project management advice to local, grassroots organisations.
• NGOs/CSOs.
• Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia & Zimbabwe.
• Up to $20k grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Apply for a Rufford Small Grant. Rufford Foundation.
• Funds nature conservation projects.
• Species you are working on must be considered threatened.
• Early stages of conservation career. Focus on supporting current MSc or PhD students or recent graduates.
• Emerging or developing economy countries.
• Up to £18k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Startups for Sustainable Development program. Google.
• Supports a global ecosystem of impact-focused startups.
• Connects them to the funding ecosystem, including venture capital and other investment partners.
• Supports them with advisors and technology.
• All countries.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Conservation Fund. Neotropical Birding and Conservation (NBC).
• Conservation action or research that has an intended measurable benefit.
• Globally threatened species — those on the IUCN’s global red list.
• Middle and South America and the Caribbean.
• Up to $5k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Grants to Foster Community Philanthropy. Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF).
• Aimed at strengthening individual organizations as trusted and effective grassroots grantmakers that can harness both local and external resources.
• Women’s fund, environmental fund, national public foundation, grassroots grantmaker or any other kind of organization that identifies with the concept and practice of community philanthropy.
• Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, or Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Up to $20k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Small conservation grants. Jana Robeyst Trust Fund (JRTF).
• Early career biologists/conservationists to carry out vital field conservation and research work of endangered mammals in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• All countries.
• Up to €1,500 grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (30th April, 31th August and 31th December each year).

Call for Proposals: Right Sharing of World Resources Partner in Kenya. Right Sharing of World Resources.
• Offers training, support, and financial grants to small, grassroots women’s groups. The goal is to grow strong and sustainable women-led income-generating projects.
• Offers two different programs: 1) Preparing the soil and 2) Planting the seeds.
• Small, grassroots women’s groups that do not have access to other adequate support and funding. Leaders and all members of the Women’s Groups must be women.
• Kenya.
• Up to $6,500 grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (July 1 to December 31 of each year).

Call for Proposals: Right Sharing of World Resources Partner in Sierra Leone. Right Sharing of World Resources.
• Offers training, support, and financial grants to small, grassroots women’s groups. The goal is to grow strong and sustainable women-led income-generating projects.
• Small, grassroots women’s groups that do not have access to other adequate support and funding. Leaders and all members of the Women’s Groups must be women.
• Offers two different programs: 1) Preparing the soil and 2) Planting the seeds.
• Sierra Leone.
• Up to $6,500 grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (July 1 to September 30 of each year).

Empowering Student Innovation Across Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Education.
• Students and teams building high-impact solutions across Nigeria’s key development sectors: 1) Science, 2) Technology, 3) Engineering, 4) Mathematics and 5) Medical Science.
• Student-led businesses.
• Nigeria.
• Up to ~$34,528 (₦50 million) grant funding.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Rapid-Response, Advocacy & Protection Grants. Urgent Action Fund Africa.
• Strategic interventions that take advantage of opportunities to advance woman’s human rights.
• Both informal and formal women’s right organizations. Applications from non-registered collectives or groups are encouraged.
• Africa.
• Up to $20k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Empowering West African Agriculture. WASSMAS.
• Designed specifically for West African agricultural entrepreneurs.
• 1) Livestock Farming, 2) Crop Cultivation, 3) Fish Farming, 4) Agro-processing, 5) Integrated Farming and 6) Small Ruminants.
• Small and mid-scale agricultural startups.
• West Africa.
• Up to $10k grants.
• Deadline not specified (page currently down).

Youth Climate Justice Fund 2026 Grants. Youth Climate Justice Fund (YCJF).
• Solutions, campaigns, and projects that address the climate crisis by jointly tackling underrepresentation, exploitation, and oppression, as well as enhancing community power, equity and justice.
• Emerging youth-led climate justice and socio-environmental groups.
• East Asia and Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia, and North America.
• Up to $20k grants.
• 2026 application round now open.

Blue Food Futures Research Grant Program. Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions.
• Early-career scholars with a strong interest in climate change and biodiversity implications, sustainable, equitable, and resilient blue food transitions, and blue food trade.
• Early-career researchers, professionals, and practitioners from academia, government, NGOs, and the private sector.
• All countries.
• $10k in research funding and travel support for fieldwork and policy engagement.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

The Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellow Awards. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
• Recognize emerging African scholars studying aspects of violence on or directly related to the African continent.
• Individual scholars, must be aged 45 or younger.
• All countries - must be currently enrolled in an accredited Ph.D. program at an African higher-education institution, and living on the continent.
• $10k research grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (March 1 of every year).

OceanHub Africa Acceleration Program 2026. OceanHub Africa.
• Ocean-minded startups, having a direct or indirect positive impact on the oceans (addressing climate change, pollution, or overexploitation).
• Growth Stage startups seeking investments or exploring new markets.
• Africa.
• Up to $30k catalytic financial support in the form of an interest-free loan from Blue Loop Facility alongside Awards Nomination to the Earthshot Prize.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (first-come-first-serve basis).

Bridges for Enterprise Incubation Programme. Bridges for Enterprise.
• Passionate entrepreneurs seeking to solve some of the world’s most urgent challenges. Lasts between 6-8 months.
• Pre-seed and seed stage social impact startups.
• Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
• Consulting, Finance Advisory, Legal Advisory and Technical Advisory.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (April and 1 October).

Submissions open for Holohil Grant Program. Holohil.
• Supports research and educational work focused on endangered species.
• Projects that demonstrate strong conservation value and sound scientific design.
• Open to scientists and non-scientists.
• All countries.
• ~$1,800 (CAD 2,500 toward the purchase of Holohil transmitters for selected projects).
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (January 15, April 15, July 15, October 15).

TCF Grant Program. Turtle Conservation Fund.
• Projects that focus on tortoises or freshwater turtles that are highly threatened according to the IUCN Red List or the TFTSG Provisional Red List, as either Critically Endangered or Endangered, or which may be highly threatened but not yet officially classified as such on the Red List. We do not support work on marine turtles.
• Organizations or individuals.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (June 1 and December 1).

The United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery. United Nations.
• Providing rehabilitation and assistance to thousands of individuals whose human rights have been severely violated as a result of contemporary forms of slavery, including: children in armed conflict, debt bondage, forced and early marriage, forced labour, traditional slavery, trafficking of persons, sale of children, sale of wives, serfdom, sexual slavery, widow inheritance and worst forms of child labour.
• Civil society organizations (e.g. NGOs, rehabilitation centers, foundations, associations of victims, hospitals, legal clinics). Been in operation for at least two years.
• All countries.
• Up to $35k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (every year from 15 January to 1 March).

Stephen R. Tully Research Grant. Raptor Research Foundation.
• To support research, and conservation of raptors.
• Students and amateurs with limited access to alternative funding.
• All countries.
• Up to $4,500 grant, plus waived page charges to publish the research in the Journal of Raptor Research.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (30 June each year).

Kevin Kritz Research Grant. Raptor Research Foundation.
• Seeks to provide support and advance research on eagles and eagle conservation anywhere in the world.
• Conservationists.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grant plus waived page charges to publish their research in the Journal of Raptor Research.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (30 June each year).

Qualcomm Make in Africa Startup Mentorship Program. Qualcomm.
• Promising early-stage startups keen on applying advanced connectivity and processing technologies to innovative end-to-end systems solutions, including hardware, and provide these companies with business coaching, access to engineering consultation for product development, and guidance on protecting intellectual property.
• Early-stage tech startups.
• Africa.
• One startup will be awarded a Social Impact Fund grant. All other participating startups will be eligible for a $5k stipend upon successful completion of program requirements.
• February 15, 2026.

Apply now for the 2026 Innovation Award. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
• 1) Demonstrate impact on more than one level of the supply chain, from small-scale agricultural producers (e.g. farmers, herders, fishers) to consumers; 2) Strengthen the link between small-scale producers and consumers through innovative mechanisms such as innovative institutional arrangements, policy and financial mechanisms, social processes, innovative technological solutions with due consideration to environmental, economic and social dimensions of sustainability.
• Individuals, international/regional organizations, academic or research entities, civil society organizations private sector entities.
• All countries.
• A cash prize of $10k.
• February 15, 2026.

The Vast x Explorers Club Grant. The Explorers Club.
• Explorers who are helping make life beyond Earth possible. This program fuels research that brings us closer to living, working, and thriving in space—whether in low Earth orbit, on the Moon, or on Mars.
• Early-career and established researchers, technologists, and explorers from any discipline relevant to space science or human adaptation beyond Earth.
• All countries.
• Up to $25k grants.
• February 15, 2026.

2026 Call for Proposals for the Snow Leopard Training Grant. Snow Leopard Network.
• Designed to further strengthen snow leopard conservation and research, especially at the grassroots level.
• Researchers/practitioners/organizations.
• All countries.
• Up to $1,500 grants.
• February 15, 2026.

Africa NextGen Economist Prize 2026. The Economic Misfit.
• Economists developing innovative concepts tailored to African realities and capable of influencing public policy and sustainable development.
• 1) Highlight original work deeply rooted in Africa’s economic issues, 2) Facilitate research circulation among decision-makers and 3) Inspire new generation to engage in economic research.
• PhD holders, under age 40 as of March 31, 2026.
• Africa.
• €10k grants.
• February 15, 2026.

GTY Youth Support Grant. Global Taskforce for Youth Combatants.
• Grassroots initiatives to tackle issues related to Youth Associated with Non-State Armed Groups (YANSAG).
• Individuals or organizations, with a priority for grassroots projects over larger organizations.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grant alongside one year of mentoring and networking support.
• February 15, 2026.

Call for development projects under the Polish Aid programme. Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dakar.
• Project applications must relate to one of the following areas: 1) Peace, justice and effective institutions, 2) Quality education, 3) Decent work and economic growth, 4) Good health and well-being, 5) Gender equality or 6) Measures to combat climate change.
• Local NGOs (associations, foundations), Catholic missions and other religious organisations, Public benefit institutions, Central and local government.
• Senegal, Guinea or Gambia.
• Up to €25k grant funding.
• February 18, 2026.

GEO Mountains Small Grants Call 2026-2027. GEO Mountains.
• Proposals that address mountain monitoring, data, and information. Projects that consolidate the ‘state-of-the-art’ or promote transformative research capabilities for sustainable mountain development are particularly encouraged.
• Project proponents should encourage the inclusion and participation of early-career researchers.
• Andes, Central Asia, East Africa, South Caucasus, and Hindu Kush Himalaya.
• Up to ~$12,497 (CHF 10k) grants.
• February 20, 2026.

Royal Society Africa Prize. The Royal Society.
• Research scientists based in Africa who are making an innovative contribution to the biological or physical sciences which contribute significantly to capacity building in Africa.
• Researchers at a senior stage of their research career.
• Africa.
• £15k grant and a personal gift of £2k.
• February 20, 2026.

Sustainable Investing Challenge. Kellogg-Morgan Stanley.
• Develop and pitch creative financial approaches to tackle pressing social and environmental challenges.
• Teams of graduate students.
• All countries.
• $10k prize for First Place Team.
• February 22, 2026.

AI Ventures Accelerator: Turn Your Idea Into an AI-Powered Business. Technovation.
• To jumpstart new tech businesses from young women with exciting ideas and an interest in technology and entrepreneurship.
• Team of young women aged 19-24 (teams of 2-4 preferred, solo founders also welcome).
• UNICEF Program Countries (see list).
• Up to $10k in equity-free seed funding.
• February 22, 2026.

2026 Rebecca Rhodes African Inclusive Literacy Research Grant. Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA).
• Supports rigorous, locally grounded studies that advance literacy learning for children and youth with disabilities across Africa.
• An individual (not an organization).
• West, Central, East, or Southern Africa.
• $5k research grant.
• February 27, 2026.

Call for Research Proposals. African Institute for Capacity Development (AICAD).
• Research projects focused on community-level interventions, training programmes, extension activities, and policy-relevant applications that contribute to poverty reduction.
• Individuals or research teams.
• Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
• Up to $10k grant funding.
• February 28, 2026.

United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons (UNVTF). United Nations.
• 1) To provide direct assistance and protection to vulnerable victims of trafficking in persons and 2) To improve health and well-being, facilitate social integration and prevent re-trafficking amongst vulnerable victims of trafficking in persons .
• Survivor-led organizations: non-profits (NGO, CSO, or CBO).
• All countries.
• Up to $20k grants.
• February 28, 2026.

Children’s Rights Education or Research Projects 2026. Children’s Rights Research (CRR).
• Funding for schooling and analysis tasks targeted on advancing youngsters’s rights. Assisting impactful initiatives within the Netherlands and internationally, with a powerful emphasis on significant participation of kids and high-quality tutorial or instructional outcomes.
• All applications must include at least one Maastricht University (UM) affiliated person on the project team.
• Students, researchers.
• Netherlands, all countries.
• Up to €5k grants.
• March 1, 2026.

Small Grants Program. Mérieux Foundation.
• Local initiatives aimed at fighting infectious diseases in developing countries, particularly projects relating to maternal and child health.
• Non-profit association or a foundation.
• Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, DRC, Egypt, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Republic of the Congo, Tunisia, Senegal, Togo. Americas: Brazil, Haiti. Asia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Tajikistan, Vietnam. Middle East: Iraq, Iran, Lebanon.
• Up to €5k grants.
• March 1, 2026.

Open Call for Knowledge Transfer. European Commission.
• Interactive, practice-oriented courses connecting researchers with farmers, producers, start-ups, and public health actors.
• Academies, national/regional authorities or agencies, public or private research funding organizations, research centres, research infrastructures, universities, NGOs.
• Africa and Europe.
• €25k grants.
• March 2, 2026.

Membership Research Grant Scheme (MeRSA). Regional Studies Association (RSA).
• To provide opportunities for scholars who have already published in the field of regional studies and/or regional science and who are currently Individual members of the RSA.
• Welcomes research from any discipline contributing to advancing our understandings of regions and regional development.
• Individual researchers.
• All countries.
• Up to £5k grant.
• March 3, 2026.

Early Career Research Grant Scheme. Regional Studies Association (RSA).
• To support a discrete piece of regional studies and/or regional science research.
• Welcomes research from any discipline contributing to advancing our understandings of regions and regional development.
• Individual applicants in their early career (five years maximum between the date showing on their PhD certificate and the application deadline). Must be based within an eligible higher education institution and must be a current, early career member of the RSA and throughout the duration of the grant.
• All countries.
• Up to £10k grant.
• March 3, 2026.

Enter the Awards 2027. World Habitat.
• Innovative housing projects designed and/or delivered in close collaboration with residents and the local community. Currently in progress or were completed within the last ten years.
• Projects at the design, prototype, or planning stage, or those completed more than ten years ago, will not be considered.
• All countries.
• Up to €10k prize money.
• March 4, 2026.

S+T+ARTS Prize 2026 competition. S+T+ARTS.
• Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts. People and projects that contribute to mastering the social, ecological and economic challenges this continent faces.
• Artists, creative professionals, researchers, and companies.
• All countries.
• €20k prize money.
• March 5, 2026.

Postgraduate Research Grants. National Research Fund (NRF) Kenya.
• Aimed at strengthening Kenya’s Science, Technology, and Innovation (ST&I) ecosystem by supporting high-quality postgraduate research that contributes to innovation, evidence-based policymaking, and inclusive national development in line with the Government’s Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).
• Full-time postgraduate researcher (Masters or PhD) duly registered at a recognized Kenyan institution. Be below thirty-five (35) years for Masters and forty-five (45) years for PhD research.
• Kenya.
• Up to ~$15,503 (Ksh 2m) grant funding.
• March 6, 2026.

WE Empower UN SDG Challenge. Arizona State University.
• Women social entrepreneurs who are advancing the UN SDGs and inspiring entire communities to create the world we want by 2030.
• Business must be in operation for at least three years, must generate a minimum of $75k in annual revenue.
• Women entrepreneurs.
• All countries.
• Pitch Challenge for a chance to win grant funding, tailored trainings from leading and supporting partners, and curated networking with global leaders in business, policy, and philanthropy.
• March 8, 2026.

2026 Call for Proposals: Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA). Climate Finance Accelerator.
• Supports low-carbon entrepreneurs to get their businesses and projects ready for investment.
• Prioritizing transactions in the USD 3M+ range while also considering businesses raising USD 1–2M where there is strong impact potential: clean and distributed energy; sustainable transport and mobility; climate-smart agriculture and agro-processing; green manufacturing and industrial decarbonisation; digital climate solutions, carbon markets and MRV systems; sustainable land use and ecosystem restoration; circular economy and waste management; and blue economy and coastal resilience.
• Post-revenue, growth-stage SMEs.
• Kenya.
• Tailored investor-led coaching, Curated opportunities to network with investors and Increased visibility and credibility.
• March 11, 2026.

The 2026 EY AI & Data Challenge: Optimizing Clean Water Supply. EY.
• Use AI and data to tackle one of humanity’s most pressing needs: access to clean, safe water.
• University students, early career professionals and EY people.
• All countries.
• Win thousands of dollars in cash prizes and attend a global awards celebration.
• March 13, 2026.

Urban Urgencies grant scheme. Urban Studies Foundation (USF).
• Addressing the most pressing urban challenges through innovative, rapid-response research that addresses the urgency of emergent issues, while contributing to grounded, rigorous responses that proactively shape inclusive, equitable and sustainable urban futures.
• Researchers and organisations. Partner organisations may be either public or private entities, unless they are also hosting the funds, in which case they must be a public/non-profit entity.
• All countries.
• 6 innovative projects will be awarded up to £35k grant funding each.
• March 23, 2026.

Team up for climate 2026. EGIS Impact Hub.
• Innovative solution on the topic: adapting and living together in the face of climate risks.
• Students and young graduates in teams of 2 to 5.
• All countries.
• Up to €4k prize alongside a boost prize of up to €5k (conditional after 6 to 8 months of development).
• March 28, 2026.

Species Conservation grants. Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund.
• All plant, animal, and fungi conservation efforts, endangered species.
• Individual species conservation initiatives.
• All countries.
• Up to $25k grants.
• March 31, 2026.

Support for Vets and Vet Students. Zebra Foundation.
• Research projects that will further skills and knowledge of zoo and wildlife health.
• Individual vets and vet students.
• All countries.
• Up to $1k grants.
• March 31, 2026.

Biology Letters Early Career Research Competition. The Royal Society.
• Outstanding research papers authored by Early career researchers.
• Early career researchers (ECRs) as defined as someone who has completed a postgraduate degree within the last six years.
• All countries.
• Up to £1k grants.
• March 31, 2026.

YLACES Grants. Youth Learning as Citizen Environmental Scientists.
• To facilitate youth environmental research and data collection with the endorsement from the GLOBE Program in their country.
• International environmental educators or organizations.
• All countries.
• Up to $1,500 grants.
• March 31, 2026.

The 2026 EMA Small Grant Program. Elephant Managers Association.
• On field-based elephant conservation projects. Higher priority will be given to proposals that: provide education and community outreach, provide capacity-building in local communities, and/or improve captive elephant management and welfare.
• Open to anyone including keepers, conservationists, and researchers.
• Africa and Asia.
• Two grants for $3k each.
• April 18, 2026.

International Herpetological Symposium (IHS) Grants. International Herpetological Symposium.
• Individuals or organizations conducting herpetological research, conservation, and education.
• Individuals from the herpetological community, PIs, students.
• All countries.
• Up to $1,500 grants.
• April 30, 2026.

ICGEB Biosecurity Grants. International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.
• Supports the implementation of activities that strengthen biosecurity, biosafety, pathogen detection, and outbreak preparedness in healthcare and research laboratories.
• Principal Investigators holding a permanent or long-term position at healthcare diagnostic laboratories, public health institutes, and research or training institutions with applied biomedical and laboratory functions.
• Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Côte D’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.
• Up to €15k grants.
• April 30, 2026.

ICGEB BiotechNet Grants 2026 CRP – Collaborative Research Programme. International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.
• Outstanding scientific research projects. International collaboration is key.
• Local investigators holding positions at Universities or Research Institutes.
• Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.
• Up to €24k grants.
• April 30, 2026.

ICGEB Research Grants 2026 CRP – Collaborative Research Programme. International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.
• Supports research projects in basic science, human healthcare, industrial and agricultural biotechnology and bioenergy.
• i) Projects addressing issues of interest for specific geographic regions; ii) projects presented by groups collaborating across more than one country; iii) projects entailing new rather than existing collaboration; and iv) projects involving ICGEB PIs in the three components.
• Principal Investigator, should hold positions at Universities or Research Institutes.
• ICGEB Member States. See full list here.
• Up to €25k grants.
• April 30, 2026.

The Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application. World Food Prize Foundation.
• Exceptional, science-based achievement in international agriculture and food production by an individual under 40 who is working closely and directly “in the field” or at the production or processing level with farmers, animal herders, fishers or others in rural communities, in any discipline or enterprise across the entire food production, processing, and distribution chain.
• Intended to be awarded to one person.
• All countries.
• $10k prize.
• June 1, 2026.

Submit Art | 2027 Exhibition. Embracing Our Differences.
• Encouraging artists to explore and express the diverse facets of identity, background, and perspective. Create a society where inclusion is embraced and individuality is celebrated.
• Artists, professionals, amateurs, students – everyone can participate.
• All countries.
• Up to $2k cash awards.
• July 1, 2026.

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