Nature Portfolio / Yakult · United Kingdom / Japan
Grants for researchers investigating the gut microbiota and its role in human health. The Global Grants for Gut Health is a competitive funding initiative that supports innovative, investigator-led research focused on the human gut microbiota. Jointly supported by Yakult and Nature Portfolio, the program aims to advance scientific understanding of the critical role the gut microbiome plays in human health.
Deadline
Closes 14 July 2026Due today
Value
Up to US$100,000 per grant (max 3 grants); one-year project; overhead up to 10% of direct costs, capped at US$10,000
The Leakey Foundation funds research on human origins, including paleoanthropology, primatology, evolutionary behavioural ecology, and cultural anthropology. It is one of the few funders focused explicitly on understanding what makes us human.
Deadline
Closes 15 July 20261 day left
Value
Up to US$30,000 (doctoral students up to US$20,000; most awards US$3,000–US$15,000)
African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) · Africa (HQ Ghana / South Africa)
Up to 42 fellowships across ARUA Centres of Excellence and Africa-Europe Clusters, spanning agriculture, health, climate, governance, energy, education and ICT.
Deadline
Closes 15 July 20261 day left
Value
Monthly stipend of US$2,000, plus accommodation and return travel; extra adjustment support for eligible women (e.g. childcare)
UK Government — Defra (Darwin Initiative) · United Kingdom
Funds projects in low- and middle-income countries that deliver measurable biodiversity conservation outcomes alongside poverty reduction, built on good evidence and with potential to scale.
Deadline
Closes 20 July 20266 days left
Value
£200,000, £1,000,000 per project
Focus
Agriculture & food systems · Environment & climate
African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) · Kenya (Pan-African)
The inaugural GROW cohort builds the leadership pipeline of African women in plant and livestock breeding, strengthening their capacity to lead gender-responsive crop and livestock improvement research and to influence science and policy agendas.
Deadline
Closes 24 July 202610 days left
Value
Non-monetary: customised leadership, negotiation and mentoring training (two-year, non-residential)
Fully funded Master’s scholarships in Germany for future leaders from developing and emerging countries who want to strengthen democracy, good governance and social justice at home. Included here as a capacity-building route for early-career staff in law, governance and public administration.
Deadline
Closes 31 July 202617 days left
Value
Monthly stipend (~€934–€992), plus travel, health insurance and study/research allowances; tuition covered
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) · United States
Funds research on violence, aggression, and dominance, causes, manifestations, and control. Covers natural and social sciences, humanities. Open worldwide.
Up to two 12-month postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, for early-career researchers from ODA-recipient countries, with a final knowledge-exchange phase back home.
Deadline
Closes 31 July 202617 days left
Value
£2,500/month bursary plus travel; desk space, library access and academic mentoring at IASH
Fogarty International Center (FIC), NIH · United States
The Global Infectious Disease (GID) research training program addresses research training needs related to infectious diseases that are predominantly endemic in or have an impact upon people living in developing countries. The training programs include a variety of research training options to match the needs of the developing country institution. The program focuses on a major endemic or life-threatening emerging infectious disease, neglected tropical disease, infections that frequently occur as a co-infection in HIV infected individuals, or infections associated with noncommunicable disease conditions of public health importance in LMICs. The ultimate goal is to build a critical mass of researchers and support staff to conduct independent infectious disease research in developing country institutions.
Deadline
Closes 6 August 202623 days left
Value
Up to $230,000 per year for new awards and $276,000 per year for renewal awards (total direct costs).
Vision Grants are research planning grants to bring together a team, for 12 to 18 months, to collaboratively develop ambitious, large-scale research projects focused on transforming educational systems toward greater equity. This program takes as its core that the development of these kinds of research projects requires time, space, and thoughtfulness to incubate and plan. Proposals to the Vision Grant program must be for planning research projects that study education and/or learning, broadly conceived, though they will more than likely include scholars and partners in other sectors and fields. See the Funders page for more details and previously funded projects.
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) · Canada
Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) underpin healthy, productive lives, yet evidence on sustainable, equitable, gender-transformative SRHR interventions for under-served populations in sub-Saharan Africa remains thin. ANeSA, co-funded by IDRC, Global Affairs Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, funds implementation research that improves SRHR service design, policy and systems. This call supports a second cohort of up to six Implementation Research Teams.
Deadline
LoI launch 29 June 2026 · Letters of Interest deadline 23 August 2026 (00:00 ET)40 days left
Value
Up to CAD 1,200,000 per team (up to 6 new teams); shortlisted LoIs receive a CAD 50,000 proposal-development award
LEO Foundation’s Strategic Research Grants are multi-year, large-scale awards for biomedical research focused on skin diseases, dermatological conditions, and skin biology. This is distinct from the LEO Serendipity Grants (exploratory; May 21 deadline): these are hypothesis-driven, multi-year strategic projects. LEO funds international applications with strong scientific foundations in dermatology and adjacent biomedical fields.
