Call for Proposals funded by the Spencer Foundation
The Spencer Foundation invests in education research that cultivates learning and transforms lives. It is an US-based foundation leader in education research since 1971 and is the only national foundation focused exclusively on supporting education research. They believe education research is integral to improving education, making education systems more equitable, and increasing opportunities to learn across the lifespan. Their goals are: -invest in education research that is transformative, methodologically rigorous, and helps create a better society; -support high-quality education research training; -broaden the diversity of scholars and scholarship in education research; -strengthen the impact of education research for improving educational practice; -make education research more accessible to public audiences.
They launched “The Small Research Grants Program” which supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Their goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.
The deadline is on the 9th of August 2022, 12:00PM (Noon) CENTRAL. For more information, please visit the Spencer Foundation’s website.
Call for Proposals funded by the National Endowment for Democracy – Grants 2022
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world. Each year, NED makes more than 2,000 grants to support the projects of non-governmental groups abroad who are working for democratic goals in more than 100 countries. Since its founding in 1983, the Endowment has remained on the leading edge of democratic struggles everywhere, while evolving into a multifaceted institution that is a hub of activity, resources and intellectual exchange for activists, practitioners and scholars of democracy the world over.
Each year the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) makes direct grants to hundreds of non-governmental organizations worldwide working to advance democratic goals and strengthen democratic institutions. NED is interested in proposals from local, independent organizations for nonpartisan programs that seek to: -promote and defend human rights and the rule of law; -support freedom of information and independent media; -strengthen democratic ideas and values; -promote accountability and transparency; -strengthen civil society organizations; -strengthen democratic political processes and institutions; -promote civic education; -support democratic conflict resolution; -promote freedom of association; -strengthen a broad-based market economy.
The next deadlines are on the 25th of May and on the 22nd of September 2022.
For more information, please visit the National Endowment for Democracy’s website.
Call for Proposals funded by the Visegrad Fund
The Fund is an international donor organization, established in 2000 by the governments of the Visegrad Group countries—Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia—to promote regional cooperation in the Visegrad region (V4) as well as between the V4 region and other countries, especially in the Western Balkan and Eastern Partnership regions. The Fund does so by financing grants and awarding scholarships and artist residencies through its annual budget of €8 million annually provided by V4 governments.
Specifically, the Visegrad+ Grants support projects which contribute to the democratization and transformation processes in selected countries of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia) and the Eastern Partnership regions (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine). The objectives are: -Culture and Common Identity: projects creating/presenting common audio visual, literary, and other contemporary art products to new audiences; -Education and Capacity Building: projects strengthening professional networks of educational institutions and supporting mobility of students, researchers, and educators to share best practices; -Innovation, R&D, Entrepreneurship: projects aiming to build up new business and cluster networks for SMEs, startups, and research institutions within and outside the V4; -Democratic Values and the Media: projects promoting active participation of citizens in democratic decision-making processes and fostering democratic debate; -Public Policy and Institutional Partnership: projects connecting the expert communities to find joint solutions to common policy challenges; -Regional Development, Environment and Tourism: projects offering new solutions and activities to the fight against climate change and raising awareness of environmental protection within and outside the V4 region; -Social Development: projects promoting an inclusive mindset in society and addressing protection and empowerment of minorities.
The next deadlines are on the 1st of June and 1st of October 2022.
For more information, please visit the National Endowment for Democracy’s website.
To learn more about current calls for proposals or Eurodiaconia’s funding events, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with our our Projects and EU Funding Officer Giorgia Signoretto at giorgia.signoretto@eurodiaconia.org