Provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity and drive shifts in understanding of human life, health, and wellbeing. By the end of the award, recipients should have the research maturity to lead their own independent research programme. No co-applicants accepted. This is a sole investigator award.
Deadline
Three rounds per year - Next round: 10 November 2026, 15:00 GMT1 day left
Value
Lead researcher’s salary plus up to £400,000 research costs
Global EbA Fund (IUCN and UNEP) · IUCN Switzerland; UNEP Kenya
The Fund's first Medium-Size Grants call, running concurrently with the 8th Small-Size Grants call (combined USD 7.5 million on offer), targets larger ecosystem-based adaptation projects and shares the same catalytic/innovative and clear adaptation-chain requirements.
Deadline
Submission window 12 October - 16 November 20267 days left
This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programmes of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.
Deadline
Three times a year. This round -full application: 17 November 20268 days left
Value
Annual expenditure usually below £250,000 (excluding salary)
A German private foundation funding the historical humanities—archaeology, history, art history, legal history, prehistory, the history of science, and Islamic history. Its significance for UNIMA is a single sentence on its own eligibility page: support does not depend on the applicant's nationality or location. Almost every comparable European humanities funder reviewed in this search required a European anchor institution; this one does not.
Fogarty International Center (FIC), NIH · United States
The Malawi HIV Implementation Science Research Training (M-HIRST) Program, run by the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences and the University of North Carolina with NIH Fogarty International Centre funding, invites applications for pilot grants. Projects must either identify facilitators of, or barriers to, implementing evidence-based HIV interventions, or evaluate novel strategies to scale them up. Proposals must focus on a specific area of HIV prevention or the 95-95-95 targets, show familiarity with the Revised Malawi National HIV Strategic Plan 2023–2027, and be completed within 12 months.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) · European Union
The European Commission has announced the MSCA Doctoral Networks 2026 call under its Horizon Europe framework. This initiative funds highly competitive, international doctoral programmes implemented by partnerships of universities, research institutions, and businesses. The program is explicitly open to third-country organizations, allowing the University of Malawi (UNIMA) to join global consortia to host, train, and exchange elite PhD researchers. The funding supports structured doctoral programs, including traditional, Industrial, or Joint Doctorates.
Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) · United States
Funds research on solid waste management, recycling, landfill technology, circular economy, and environmental management. EREF supports applied research with clear industry and policy implications, including in developing-country settings where waste management is an urgent challenge.
Deadline
Closes 1 December 202622 days left
Value
Up to USD 500,000 (most awards USD 50,000–200,000)
Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund (CIEIF) · US
CIEIF funds the due-diligence layer around climate intervention field tests, not the interventions themselves. A grant pays for environmental impact assessment, predictive impact modelling, and/or engagement with potentially affected stakeholders for an innovative climate intervention technology that is on the verge of field testing. Applications that do not centre on at least one of those three elements are rejected quickly.
Deadline
1 December 202622 days left
Value
USD 75,000 (first third paid up front, remainder against negotiated benchmarks).
The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Grants program offers targeted financial assistance to doctoral candidates during the critical dissertation stage of their academic careers. Operating with a strict bottom-up framework, the foundation does not restrict applications to pre-defined geographic regions. Instead, it invites innovative proposals from across the social sciences, provided the core research directly addresses contemporary public or social policy issues. Rather than funding institutional overhead or basic tuition, these grants provide flexible funding to support direct field research and data collection. The program publicly announces award winners each June.
The British Academy funds in-person writing workshops that help early-career researchers in developing countries publish in high-impact humanities and social science journals and build links with academics and journal editors. Awards run for two years to cover preparation, the workshops and follow-up mentoring. The call is funded by the UK International Science Partnerships Fund, and all proposals must be ODA-eligible.
The British Academy funds partnerships between research offices and research-management functions (including finance, HR and legal) in ODA-eligible countries and the UK. The aim is lasting institutional change: policies, systems and training that make equitable international research collaboration easier. The call is funded by the UK International Science Partnerships Fund, and all proposals must be ODA-eligible.
Fogarty International Center (FIC), NIH · United States
The K43 is a career development award that protects a junior faculty member's time to build an independent research career at their own low- or middle-income country institution. Two parallel announcements run: PAR-24-296, where no independent clinical trial is allowed, and PAR-24-295, where the candidate leads an independent clinical trial. Both require the LMIC institution itself to be the applicant organisation, one LMIC-based and one US-based mentor, and research addressing the health priorities of the candidate's own country.
