OTHER RESOURCES
List in alphabetic order of various Institutions that offer Awards, Grants, Fellowships or have Funding Agencies Lists
ACADEMIA DE CIENCIAS DE AMERICA LATINAwww.acal-scientia.orgLa ACAL fue creada en 1982 con el apoyo de la Pontifícia Academia de Ciencias y se estableció en Caracas en 1983. Su función es promover y contribuir al avance de la matemática, la física, la química, las ciencias de la tierra y de la vida, y sus aplicaciones, con el propósito de darle soporte al desarrollo y a laintegración de América Latina y el Caribe. Para el logro de su misión, la Academia promueve la cooperación entre las instituciones científicas, el intercambio de investigadores y de conocimientos científicos, las actividades científicas regionales, la realización de estudios de política científica, el interés por la ciencia y la educación científica para todos. Alexander von Humboldt Foundationwww.avh.de/en/index.htmThe Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a non-profit foundation established by the Federal Republic of Germany for the promotion of international research cooperation. Humboldt Research Awards to Outstanding Scholars resident outside Germany The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) grants up to 150 Humboldt Research Awards annually to foreign scholars with internationally recognized academic qualifications. The award is intended as a lifelong tribute to the past academic accomplishments of award winners. Furthermore, award winners are invited to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany in cooperation with German specialist colleagues for periods of between six months and one year. The award can amount up to DM 150,000. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY - Internationalwww.asmusa.orgThe International Activities office of ASM was created to identify programs and member services that will ensure the continuing leadership of ASM in promoting the microbiological sciences worldwide. International pages are: http://www.asmusa.org/international/intsecti.htm |
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
www.cdc.gov/default.htmCDC's Procurement and Grants Office (PGO) is responsible for: 1) The awarding and administration of CDC's grants and cooperative agreements and those of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR); 2) The acquisition of program related health studies, professional services and research and development; and 3) The procurement of services, equipment, commodities, construction, and architectural and engineering services for CDC Programs.
COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
www.cs.virginia.edu/research/sponsors.htmlThe funding agencies listed maintain WWW sites containing information of interest to researchers in all fields of science and technology. These should be helpful in assisting faculty, students, and companies in identifying research funding and scholarships opportunities.
CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
www.csic.esThe role of the CSIC in the Spanish Science and Technology system was consolidated by the Scientific and Technical Research (Promotion and General Coordination) act (act13/1986, 14 April), which assigned it a number of functions in connection with national science policy. The current objectives and functions of the CSIC, as provided in the above Act and in the regulations promulgated under it (R.D. 140/1993, 29 January), are as follows: To prepare and execute scientific and technological research projects. To assist in the analysis and selection of future scientific and technological objectives and to advise the authorities on questions of research and technological innovation. To foster progress in basic research. To collaborate with the Autonomous Regions in research activities as identified in formal agreements. To collaborate with the universities in research and higher education activities. To undertake researcher and technician training programs within the sphere of science and technology. To collaborate with the National R&D Plan in such advisory and management tasks as may be assigned to it, and with any Governments of Autonomous Regions requesting such collaboration in furtherance of their science policies.
DAAD
www.conare.ac.cr/daad/index.htm German Service for Academic Exchange for Central Americans. Offers fellowships for postgraduate studies. For more information contact:COSTA RICA DAAD, Centro de Información para Centroamérica MA.Neddy Zamora Ch. DAAD c/o Conare, Apdo. 1174-1200 Tel: (506) 2968231, 2903325 Fax: (506) 2968276 nzamora@conare.ac.cr daad@conare.ac.cr www.conare.ac.cr/daad/index.htm
GUATEMALA M.Sc. Lucía Prado Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Museo de Historia Natural Tel.: (502) 23346065 y 23346064 Fax. (502) 23346065 y 24424299 mushnat@itelgua.com
EL SALVADOR M.Sc. Francisco Alvarado Panameño Universidad de El Salvador Tel.: (503) 22256903, ext. 4602 jfranciscosv@yahoo.com
HONDURAS Dra. Ana Corina Hernández Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras Postgrado Latinoamericano de Trabajo Social Tel./ Fax: (504) 2394225 platsunah@yahoo.es
NICARAGUA Licda. Irene Guevara UNAN-Managua Escuela de Economía Agrícola (ESECA) Tel.: (505) 2497069, ext. 117/119 irenemariana@hotmail.com
PANAMÁ M.Sc. Pedro Caballero Ruiz Escuela de Biología Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí Estafeta de Correo Universitaria Tel.: (507) 7751114 , 7747057 Fax: (507) 7745329, 7742679 pedrocab_14@yahoo.com
UNION
europa.eu.int/comm/research/era/index_en.htmlEurope has a long standing tradition of excellence in research and innovation, and European teams continue to lead progress in many fields of science and technology. However our centres of excellence are scattered across the continent and all too often their efforts fail to add up in the absence of adequate networking and cooperation. In the past, collaborative actions have been initiated at European and Community level, but now is the time to bring our endeavours together and to build a research and innovation equivalent of the "common market" for goods and services. That structure is called the European Research Area and is regrouping all Community supports for the better coordination of research activities and the convergence of research and innovation policies, at national and EU levels.
AGRICULTURAL SERVICE
www.fas.usda.govThe major services of FAS -- market intelligence, access, and development; research, trade policy formulation and monitoring; food aid; and linkages -- will only gain in importance in the years ahead as U.S.agricultural exporters work to overcome international barriers and succeed in world markets.
FOUNDATION
www.fordfound.orgThe Ford Foundation works mainly by making grants or loans that build knowledge and strengthen organizations and networks. Since our financial resources are modest in comparison to societal needs, we focus on a limited number of problem areas and program strategies within our broad goals.
Since its inception it has been an independent, nonprofit, non-governmental organization. It has provided slightly more than $10 billion in grants and loans. These funds derive from an investment portfolio that began with gifts and bequests of Ford Motor Company stock by Henry and Edsel Ford. The Foundation no longer owns Ford Motor Company stock, and its diversified portfolio is managed to provide a perpetual source of support for the Foundation's programs and operations.
FUNDACIÓN HOSPITAL CARLOS HAYA
www.fhch.netLa Fundación Hospital Carlos Haya es una organización sin ánimo de lucro, cuyo fin es promover la investigación biomédica en su área de influencia y transferir los resultados obtenidos a la sociedad, en forma de avances en el conocimiento, diagnóstico y tratamiento de patologías.
GATES FOUNDATION
www.gatesfoundation.orgThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation places a major focus on helping to improve people's lives through health and learning. We will continue to look for strategic opportunities to extend the benefits of modern science and technology to people around the world, especially where poverty serves as an obstacle to participating in these benefits. As in the past, we will invest in partnerships with individuals and organizations that bring experience, expertise and commitment to their own efforts to help people through better health and learning.
HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE
www.hhmi.org/grantsThe Institute is a nonprofit medical research organization that employs hundreds of leading biomedical scientists working at the forefront of their fields. In addition, through its grants program and other activities, HHMI is helping to enhance science education at all levels and maintain the vigor of biomedical science worldwide.
HUMAN FRONTIER SCIENCE PROGRAM (HFSP)
www.hfsp.orgThe HFSP supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms; topics range from molecular and cellular approaches to systems and cognitive neuroscience. a clear emphasis is placed on novel collaborations that brings biologists together with scientists from fields such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science and engineering to focus on problems at the frontier of the life sciences
INTERNATIONAL CENTERS FOR TROPICAL DISEASE RESEARCH- ICTDR NETWORK - NIAID
www.niaid.nih.gov/default.htmSupported investigators are conducting basic, clinical, and field research that seeks to discover and develop vaccines, drugs,and vector-control methods to prevent and treat tropical diseases. Toward this end, NIAID provides support for research to be conducted at sites in endemic areas where scientists can gain access to populations of patients, microbial pathogens and invertebrate vectors. The ICTDR network fosters the development of partnerships between:
Domestic and foreign scientists in order to enhance transfer of modern technology to institutions in endemic areas and increase opportunities for U.S. scientists to work in endemic areas.
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTER
www.idrc.caIs a public corporation created by the Canadian government to help communities in the developing world find solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems through research.
INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE
www.ifs.seIFS is an NGO providing support to developing country scientists to conduct, in a developing country, relevant and high quality research on the management, use, and conservation of biological resources and their environment. IFS believes that the interests of both science and development are best served by promoting and nurturing the research efforts of young science graduates, who are at the beginning of their research careers. Since 1974, IFS has provided support, mainly in the form of small research grants, to over 3,200 scientists in 99 developing countries.
INTERNET PROSPECTOR
www.internet-prospector.orgThe Internet Prospector is produced by a network of volunteers who mine the Net for prospect research nuggets. Our findings are published on this Web site and via a monthly electronic newsletter. The newsletter is available through private email subscription and via PRSPCT-L listserv. Readers will also find our Web site useful for its Reference Desk and Prospector exclusives, such as the directory of online Locating U.S. Incorporation Records Online, test results of leading search engines and tricks of the trade for foundation searches. Our audience is primarily non-profit fundraisers. Contributing editors from across the continental U.S. have collaborated on this project since the fall of 1994. Although we are colleagues online, we have yet to all meet in person.
JICA-JAPANESE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY
www.jica.go.jpGrant aid is made available mainly for human resources development such as education and research, health and medical care, daily water supply (service water and drainage development), agriculture and farming villages, public infrastructure such as roads, bridges and airports, and environmental conservation projects. The grant aid program thus gives priority in particular to BHN-related projects that answer the most basic needs of human life. It is intended to contribute to nation-building in recipient countries while ensuring wide-ranging linkage with technical cooperation provided by Japan and other donors (i.e. countries and agencies providing aid). The question of which fields deserve priority in recipient countries is determined in accordance with policies announced by the Japanese government at economic summits and conferences to support developing countries initiated by international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank. When selecting projects, emphasis is placed upon whether the government of the recipient country has sufficient maintenance and administrative capacity, including budgetary and human resources.
LINDBERGH FOUNDATION - CHARLES A. AND ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH FOUNDATION
www.lindberghfoundation.orgThe mission of the Foundation is to further a balance between technological advancement and environmental preservation. The changing of the organization's name, which took place in 1994, honors Anne Morrow Lindbergh and recognizes that she and her husband shared the vision of this balance in the devoted partnership they formed in pioneering aviation, exploration, conservation, writing and philosophy.
The Lindbergh Award ~ Annually, the Foundation presents its honorary Lindbergh Award for significant contributions toward the balance between technology and nature. Lindbergh Grants ~ Each year, grants are made in support of research or public education projects that further the concept of balance. Educational Programs and Publications ~ The Foundation sponsors publications, prizes and other events that further the Lindberghs' balance vision.
Microenterprise innovation project
www.mip.orgThe Microenterprise Best Practices (MBP) Project is expanding the knowledge base of microenterprise practices in developing countries through: research and publications, a grant facility, and information sharing. MBP is the research and learning component of the U.S. Agency for International Development's Microenterprise Innovation Project (MIP).
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
www.nih.govSimply described, the goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. First-rate scientists are key to NIH intramural research. They collaborate with one another regardless of institute affiliation or scientific discipline, and have the intellectual freedom to pursue their research leads in their own laboratories. These explorations range from basic biology, to behavioral research, to studies on treatment of major diseases.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS
www.rarediseases.orgThe National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) is a unique federation of voluntary health organizations dedicated to helping people with rare "orphan" diseases and assisting the organizations that serve them. NORD is committed to the identification, treatment, and cure of rare disorders through programs of education, advocacy, research, and service
NATIONAL FOUNDATION
www.emcf.orgThe point of the National Foundation, is not simply to feed the field with new ideas, but to equip its practitioners and stakeholders with the practical tools they need to break down or reshape the organizational barriers that have thus far slowed or prevented change. We are therefore supporting the Forum's work on several fronts - improved curricula, professional development for teachers and administrators and researchers and create a resource bank of effective tools and tactics - to put some institutional strength and collective will behind the many good, but still disparate, efforts for international research reform.
NETROPICA
www.netropica.orgNeTropica encourages and supports the formation of teams of three to four groups to work on joint projects in areas of priority health and medicine in Central America. It promotes links with other Networks and it seeks contacts for project develpments in all Latin American countries.
OFFICE OF RESEARCH---FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
www.research.fsu.eduEstablished in 1969, the Division of Sponsored Research represents an invaluable resource for University faculty seeking information and assistance in applying for or managing a grant or contract with an outside agency.
PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION-PAHO
www.paho.orgThe Research Grants Program (RGP) is a special fund administered by the Research Coordination Program of the Pan American Health Organization to finance research projects in public health. The objective of RGP is to promote the generation of knowledge in diverse fields of health and to collaborate in strengthening research capacity in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. By means of its varied modalities, RGP seeks to: (1) Promote and support the elaboration and execution of research projects aimed at solving relevant public health problems. (2) Collaborate in researcher training, continuing education and exchange. (3) Facilitate the dissemination and utilization of research findings.
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
www.ippu.purdue.eduThe office of international programs promotes international research collaborations, encourages and cultivates an international dimension to academic programs, develops and administers overseas study and exchange programs, recruits international students and offers support services, provides expertise to the people of Indiana and to the public and private sectors worldwide, as requested, assists in the coordination of development assistance projects the University undertakes abroad, maintains an international alumni network.
RD INFO
www.rdinfo.org.ukRD Info provides researchers with direct access to up to the minute information on health-related funding and training opportunities. While every effort is made to ensure that the information contained within this resource is correct, RD Info cannot be held responsible for any errors which may occur. In particular, deadline dates may change from time to time and should be checked with the relevant funding body.
RESEARCH ADVOCATE FUNDING GUIDE
www.spo.berkeley.eduUniversity of California-Berkeley. Guide to links for research and proposal preparation.
rESEARCH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND LINK PAGE
www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~nurdin/2org/2org.htmlThis link page has compiled a list of over 70 research granting organizations. Each listing contains the necessary information regarding grants, name of contact person, grant amounts and required level of education to participate.
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
www.rockfound.orgThe Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based, global foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world. Neither this foundation, nor any other, can work alone. We must seek creative ways to leverage our limited dollars in order to attract new funding from the private sector, international aid organizations and national, state and provincial governments. Funding available in the following fields: International- Agricultural Science, Health Sciences, Population Sciences, Global Environment.
SIDA - SWEDISH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
www.sida.orgThe objective of research co-operation is to support research which is of significance for development in developing countries. This is done by providing support to improve the capacity of developing countries to run research programs of their own and by providing support to research which can contribute to the solution of important development problems.
Approximately one-quarter of the appropriation is allocated to international research programs. These are primarily research programs run under the auspices of the World Health Organization, WHO, and the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research, CGIAR.
SCIENSE WISE
www.sciencewise.comThis program supports research on tropical infectious diseases and includes the International Collaboration in Infectious Diseases Research Program (ICIDR), the Tropical Medicine Research Centers (TMRC), and individual grants with relevance to research on tropical infectious diseases, including those with foreign field components dealing with epidemiology of parasitic infections.
THE GRANDSHIP CENTER
www.tgci.comToday TGCI conducts some 200 workshops annually in grantsmanship and proposal writing. More than 100 local agencies host these workshops and every year thousands of new graduates join our roster of more than 75,000 alumni. TGCI alumni attend regular meetings in Los Angeles and other cities, receive continuing support from the TGCI organization, and benefit from technical assistance and other forms of support delivered through the Internet.
THE SCIENTIST
www.the-scientist.comFUNDING FOR THIRD WORLD RESEARCH: http://www.the-scientist.com/yr1991/mar/fund_910304.html
This is a contact page full of information for scientific researchers. Offers a great deal of information to the scientific community.
THE THIRD WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCE GLOBALIZATION OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (TWAS)
www.twas.org Objectives:- To recognize, support and promote excellence in scientific research in the South;
- To provide promising scientists in the South with research facilities necessary for the advancement of their work;
- To facilitate contacts between individual scientists and institutions in the South;
- To encourage South-North cooperation between individuals and centres of scholarship;
- To encourage scientific research on major Third World problems
THE WELCOME TRUST
www.wellcome.ac.ukThe Wellcome Trust offers grants for research in these general areas:
Biomedical research
The Trust supports research in the UK and overseas (primarily in the developing and restructuring world).
History of medicine research
The Trust supports research in medical history in UK universities, as well as in Wellcome Units for the History of Medicine at three UK universities and in the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London.
Research in biomedical ethics
The biomedical ethics research programme funds research into the social, ethical and public policy consequences of advances in biomedicine.
Public engagement with science
The Trust funds research in the public engagement with science and provides support for public communication initiatives.
TRAM
tram.east.asu.eduTRAM is a service initially developed by the Texas Research Administrators Group (TRAM). It contains a search engine for locating funding opportunities from many different agencies. The funding information is updated daily. TRAM also contains a set of grant application forms collected from various sources, as well as standard agreements for subcontracts, non-disclosures, licenses, and links to other servers related to research funding and administration.
TROPICAL AGRICULTURE ASSOCIATION
www.taa.orgWorkers in such diverse disciplines as agronomy, disease and pest control, plant breeding, animal health and production, economics, engineering, forestry, land use planning, marketing, post-harvest technology, estate management, soil and water conservation, fisheries and sociology are also very welcome as members.
Shared interest in the exchange and wider dissemination of practical information on rural development in the tropics and their interest is directed towards action Category # 7 offers Funding and Aid agencies. There are a variety of agencies that offer grants and funding for all areas of research.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL
www.umassmed.eduThe long-term goals of our research are: To define new approaches to treatment of viral disease based on the molecular mechanisms of disease pathogenesis, and to define optimal approaches for development of effective vaccines to prevent infection.
W.K.KELLOGG FOUNDATION
www.wkkf.org"To help people help themselves through the practical application of knowledge and resources to improve their quality of life and that of future generations." The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to apply knowledge to solve the problems of people. Its founder W. K. Kellogg, the cereal industry pioneer, established the Foundation in 1930. Since its beginning the Foundation has continuously focused on building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to solve their own problems. Funding available in the following fields: Latin America and The Caribbean- Health and Rural Development
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
www.who.int/tdrThe Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) is an independent global program of scientific collaboration. Established in 1975 and co-sponsored by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), it aims to help coordinate, support and influence global efforts to combat a portfolio of major diseases of the poor and disadvantaged. Objectives: Research and Development: to improve existing and develop new approaches for preventing, diagnosing, treating, and controlling neglected infectious diseases which are applicable, acceptable and affordable by developing endemic countries, which can be readily integrated into the health services of these countries, and which focus on the health problems of the poor Training and Strengthening: to strengthen the capacity of developing endemic countries to undertake the research required for developing and implementing these new and improved disease control approaches TDR's Diseases: TDR focuses on neglected infectious diseases that disproportionally affect poor and marginalized populations.
