Grants, fellowships, scholarships and prizes — what’s the difference

The aggregator classifies every call by funding type. Knowing the difference helps you filter to what fits your stage and goal.

• Grant — money for a specific project or activity, usually held by your institution. Budgets fund research costs, staff, fieldwork and equipment.
• Fellowship — support for a person to develop their career, typically covering salary plus research costs for a fixed period. Often tied to a career stage (early-career, postdoctoral).
• Scholarship — funding to undertake study, usually a Master’s or PhD, covering fees and a stipend.
• Travel grant — smaller awards for conference attendance, training visits or collaboration trips.
• Seed grant — modest funding to start a new line of work or pilot an idea, often for new principal investigators.
• Prize — recognition of past achievement, usually by nomination rather than application.
• Consortium — funding for a partnership of institutions working together; you join as a partner, often led from another country.

Filter by funding type on the Funding calls page to match opportunities to where you are now.