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 GMT74 days left
Value
Lead researcher’s salary plus up to £400,000 research costs
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 202681 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.
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 202695 days left
Value
Up to USD 500,000 (most awards USD 50,000–200,000)
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.
The Neville Shulman Challenge Award from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) supports a challenging research project or expedition that advances understanding of the planet, its cultures, peoples and environments, while promoting personal development through intellectual or physical challenge.
Annual prize for outstanding scientific work that makes a significant contribution to understanding environmental and sustainability issues. Self-nominations and nominations by others are both accepted.
Deadline
Closes 20 January 2027145 days left
Value
SEK 1,500,000 (~€135,000 / US$142,000), plus a diploma and glass sculpture
Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) · United Kingdom
Supports SEB members undertaking projects that advance the teaching and learning of biology at the university level, curriculum innovation, assessment design, student engagement, or pedagogical research. Ideal for UNIMA Biology faculty developing new teaching methods.
Deadline
Rolling (Every year 31 January and 30 June)156 days left
Value
Up to £2,000 (SEB members) or up to £200 (non-members)
European Commission — Horizon Europe · European Union
HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MAT-PROD-16: This call funds R&D into novel processing technologies for raw and secondary materials, targeting improved efficiency, reduced environmental footprint, and lower dependency on scarce input materials. Topics include novel smelting, refining, separation, and beneficiation technologies applicable to African mineral resource contexts.
Deadline
Opens: 22 September 2026 | Closes: 2 February 2027158 days left
Value
€5–6 million per project | Up to 4 projects funded
European Commission — Horizon Europe · European Union
HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MAT-PROD-17: This coordination action funds the establishment of a global expert network on critical raw materials, bringing together research institutions, geological surveys, industry, and policymakers across Europe and partner countries, including Africa, to share knowledge, build common methodologies, and provide scientific advice to policy processes.
Deadline
Opens: 22 September 2026 | Closes: 2 February 2027158 days left
European Commission — Horizon Europe · European Union
HORIZON-CL5-2027-02-D3-10: This call supports the development of integrated Renewable Energy Valley (REV) models in Africa - geographic zones where multiple renewable energy sources (solar, wind, hydropower, green hydrogen) are co-located with industrial, agricultural, or community users to maximise energy access and security. Projects should demonstrate scalable and replicable models.
Deadline
Opens: 3 December 2026 | Closes: 31 March 2027215 days left
Value
€4.5 million per project | Up to 2 projects funded
European Commission — Horizon Europe · European Union
HORIZON-CL6-2027-02-FARM2FORK-02: This two-stage call supports integrated research on the water–nutrient–energy nexus in African smallholder and commercial agriculture, examining how trade-offs and synergies between water use, fertiliser application, and energy consumption can be optimised for climate-smart, productive, and sustainable outcomes. The two-stage process means a short Stage 1 concept note is submitted first, with full proposals submitted only by invited applicants.
Deadline
Opens: 3 December 2026 | Closes: 31 March 2027223 days left
