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Collaborative Funding Opportunities
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation TransCoop Program ______________________________ 3
American Academy of Religion ______________________________________________________ 3
American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS and the National Council for
Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) and the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Fellowship __________________________________ 3
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) ________________________________________ 3
Digital Innovation Fellowships ______________________________________________________________ 3
Collaborative Research Awards _____________________________________________________________ 4
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation _______________________________________________ 4
CEC ArtsLink Projects ____________________________________________________________ 4
Ford Foundation __________________________________________________________________ 5
Fulbright Scholar Program/Fulbright New Century Scholars Program _____________________ 5
Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota Quadrant Fellowships __________ 5
The John Templeton Foundation ____________________________________________________ 5
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Title VIII National Research
Competition ______________________________________________________________________ 5
National Endowment for the Arts International Partnerships _____________________________ 6
National Endowment for the Humanities ______________________________________________ 6
Bridging Cultures: Planning and Implementation Grants for Academic Forums and Program Development
Workshops ______________________________________________________________________________ 6
Collaborative Research Grants ______________________________________________________________ 6
DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Enriching Digital Collections _______________________ 7
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants __________________________________________________________ 7
Enduring Questions _______________________________________________________________________ 7
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources ________________________________________________ 8
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities __________________________________________ 8
National Digital Newspaper Program _________________________________________________________ 8
Preservation and Access: Education and Training and Research and Development _____________________ 9
Scholarly Editions and Translations __________________________________________________________ 9
Summer Seminars and Institutes _____________________________________________________________ 9
National Science Foundation ________________________________________________________ 9
International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops ______________________________ 9
International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP) ____________________________________________ 10
Research Coordination Networks (RCN) ______________________________________________________ 10
Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships _______________________________________ 10
Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’
Universities _____________________________________________________________________ 11
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Europe and Global Challenges _____________________________ 11
Russell Sage Foundation___________________________________________________________ 11
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) _____________________________________________ 11
U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education ________________________ 12
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University of Chicago Science of Virtues _____________________________________________ 12
Washington University in St. Louis __________________________________________________ 12
The Wenner-Gren Foundation International Collaborative Research Grants _______________ 12
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Collaborative Funding Opportunities
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation TransCoop Program
The Program supports transatlantic research cooperation between German, American and/or Canadian
scholars in the humanities, social sciences, economics, and law. Joint research initiatives can receive up to
55,000 EUR over a three-year period. Prerequisite is that the American and/or Canadian partners raise
matching funds equalling at least the amount granted by TransCoop. Funds can be used to finance shortterm research visits lasting up to three months, to organise conferences and workshops, for material and
equipment and printing costs, as well as for a limited amount of research assistance. Up to 15 p.c. of the
TransCoop funds granted can be earmarked for the German partner institution and used as an
administrative lump-sum.
URL: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/transcoop-en.html
DEADLINE: April 30
American Academy of Religion
Collaborative Research Grants
The AAR each year grants awards ranging from $500 to $5000 to support projects proposed by AAR
members and selected by the AAR Research Grants Review Committee. These projects can be either
collaborative or individual. Collaborative grants are intended to stimulate cooperative research among
scholars in different institutions, with a focus on a clearly identified research project. They may also be
used for interdisciplinary work with scholars outside the field of religion, especially when such work
shows promise of continuing beyond the year funded. Collaborative project proposals are expected to
describe plans for having the results of the research published.
URL: http://www.aarweb.org/Programs/Grants/Research/collaborative.asp
DEADLINE: August 1
American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS and the National Council for
Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) and the National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) Collaborative Research Fellowship
The Collaborative Research Fellowship supports a wide range of humanities topics including, but not
limited to, linguistics, literature, history, philosophy, archaeology, comparative religion, ethics and the
history criticism, and theory of the arts. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or other terminal degree and have a
working knowledge of one or more of the languages of East-Central Europe or Eurasia, or be able to
demonstrate that such language proficiency is not critical for the successful completion of their particular
projects. Additionally, all projects must involve at least one collaborator from the region. Program
organizers will make every effort to support the work of U.S. humanists from fields under-represented in
scholarship on East-Central Europe and Eurasia in the past, for example, American studies, art history,
comparative literature, cultural anthropology, musicology, and philosophy.
URL: http://www.americancouncils.org/researchFellowships.php
DEADLINE: February 15
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
The following are ACLS fellowships and awards that focus on collaboration and digital projects. They are
sorted in deadline order according to our fiscal/academic year (July 1-June 30)
Digital Innovation Fellowships
This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and
humanities-related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance
digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust
infrastructure necessary for creating further such works. ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships are
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intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a
digital form. ACLS will award up to six digital innovation Fellowships in the competition year,
including projects on which two scholars are collaborating. Collaborating scholars should apply
separately and indicate that their project is collaborative. Each fellowship carries a stipend of up to
$60,000 towards an academic year’s leave and provides for project costs of up to $25,000. ACLS
Digital Innovation Fellowships are intended as salary replacement and may be held concurrently with
other fellowships and grants and any sabbatical pay up to an amount equal to the candidates’ current
academic year salary.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=508&linkidentifier=id&itemid=508
DEADLINE: September 30
Collaborative Research Awards
These awards support collaborative research in the humanities and related social sciences.
Collaborations need not be interdisciplinary or inter-institutional, but must involve at least two
scholars; applicants at the same institution must demonstrate why local funding is insufficient to
support the project. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help demonstrate the range
and value of both collaborative research and inquiry into the humanities, and model how such
collaboration may be carried out successfully. Collaborations that involve the participation of
assistant and associate faculty members, or that of scholars of different kinds of institutions, are
particularly encouraged. The award is for a total period of up to 24 months. The award includes
stipends to allow up to an academic year’s leave from teaching for participants, as well as up to
$20,000 in collaboration costs to facilitate face-to-face virtual interactions. Awards amounts will
range from $60,000 to $140,000 in total, depending on the nature and duration of the collaboration,
the kinds of expenses projected to carry out the research, and the number of participants. Salaryreplacement stipends are based on academic rank: up to $35,000 for Assistant professor and career
equivalent; up to $40,000 for Associate Professor and career equivalent; and up to $60,000 for full
Professor and career equivalent.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=3154&linkidentifier=id&itemid=3154
DEADLINE: September 30
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation offers grants in three major program areas: Global Development,
Global Health, and the United States. Each program area lists the current funding priorities; please check
website for details. The Foundation encourages large-scale, sustainable, collaborative projects.
URL: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx
DEADLINE: Varies, please see website
CEC ArtsLink Projects
ArtsLink Projects provides support to US artists, curators, presenters and arts organizations undertaking
projects in Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. Applicants must be
working with an artist or organization in that region and projects should be designed to benefit
participants and audiences in both the US and the host country. Support is provided to create new work
that draws inspiration from interaction with artists and the community in the US; to establish mutually
beneficial exchange of ideas and expertise between artists, arts organizations and the local community
and to pursue artistic cooperation that will enrich creative or professional development or has potential to
expand the community's access to the art of other cultures. ArtsLink has a cycle of alternate year
deadlines according to discipline.
URL: http://www.cecartslink.org/grants/artslink_projects/
DEADLINE: January 15
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Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation offers grants to institutions in the following areas of interest: Democratic and
Accountable Government, Human Rights, Social Justice and Philanthropy, Economic Fairness,
Metropolitan Opportunity, Sustainable Development, Educational Opportunity and Scholarship, Freedom
of Expression, and Sexuality and Reproductive Health Rights. Interested applicants are asked to submit an
online grant inquiry. Large-scale, sustainable, collaborative projects are encouraged by the foundation.
URL: http://www.fordfoundation.org/
DEADLINE: Rolling
Fulbright Scholar Program/Fulbright New Century Scholars Program
The Fulbright New Century Scholars Program (NCS) is a global program that annually brings together
25-30 research scholars and professionals from the US and participating countries around the world.
Through a series of three plenary seminar meetings and a Fulbright exchange visit, scholars engage in
collaborative thinking and multi-disciplinary research on a theme of global significance. NCS scholars
engage in multi-disciplinary collaboration under the leadership of a Distinguished Scholar Facilitator and
work together to seek solutions to issues and concerns that affect all humankind and deserve the attention
of researchers, policy makers, and practitioners.
URL: http://www.cies.org/NCS/ncs_description.htm#Programparticipantrequirements
DEADLINE: November 15 (last known deadline; please check back for updated information)
Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota Quadrant Fellowships
Scholars pursuing interdisciplinary work are invited to apply for a semester-long Quadrant Fellowship at
the University of Minnesota to be held in academic year 2010-2011. Quadrant is a joint initiative of the
University of Minnesota Press, a leader in interdisciplinary scholarly publishing, and the Institute for
Advanced Study. Fellows will receive a stipend of up to $30,000, depending on rank and experience;
fellowships include medical and dental coverage. At the IAS, fellows will participate in weekly lunches,
coffees, and public lectures with a lively interdisciplinary community that includes University of
Minnesota fellows and other Quadrant fellows. They will also be involved in at least one of Quadrant's
research and publishing collaboratives: Design, Architecture, and Culture; Environment, Culture, and
Sustainability; Global Cultures; and Health and Society. Fellows will give a public lecture and will
present a work-in-progress in a workshop setting with their Quadrant collaborative group or groups. In
addition, they will work directly with an editor from the University of Minnesota Press to develop their
manuscripts for submission. Manuscripts submitted to the University of Minnesota Press will undergo
standard peer review and Press board approval process.
URL: http://www.ias.umn.edu/quadrantapply.php
DEADLINE: November 20
The John Templeton Foundation
The Templeton Foundation offers grants in the core area of “Science and the Big Questions,” including
Human Sciences (anthropology, sociology, political science and psychology) and Philosophy and
Theology.
URL: http://www.templeton.org/
DEADLINE: October 15 and April 15 (Letters of Inquiry)
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Title VIII National Research
Competition
The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) invites proposals for its
National Research Competition. This competition provides funds for both collaborative and individual
research projects in the humanities and social sciences in or on any country of Eurasia or East-Central
Europe. Research Contracts support collaborative projects involving multiple post-doctoral scholars, or
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individuals with comparable research skills who do not hold PhDs, including at least one U.S.-based
scholar or researcher with a maximum award of $70,000.
URL: http://www.nceeer.org/Programs/NRC/nrc.php
DEADLINE: February 15
National Endowment for the Arts International Partnerships
USArtists International, U.S./ Japan Creative Artists' Program, ArtsLink Residencies, Open World
Cultural Leaders Program, NEA International Literary Exchanges, The Big Read International, and
Presentation of Foreign Artists in the U.S.
Through cooperative initiatives with other funders, the National Endowment for the Arts brings the
benefit of international exchange to arts organizations, artists, and audiences nationwide. NEA's
international activities increase recognition of the excellence of U.S. arts around the world and broaden
the scope of experience of American artists, thereby enriching the art they create. Through partnerships
with other government agencies and the private sector, the NEA fosters international creative
collaboration by strengthening residency programs of foreign artists in communities across the country.
Local citizens as well as the arts community benefit from the lasting international ties that result.
URL: http://www.arts.gov/partner/international/index.html
DEADLINE: Various, see website for individual program deadlines
National Endowment for the Humanities
The following are NEH programs that require, encourage, or accept collaborative proposals.
Bridging Cultures: Planning and Implementation Grants for Academic Forums and Program
Development Workshops
As part of its Bridging Cultures initiative, NEH welcomes proposals to plan and implement a
program consisting of a forum and a workshop on one of two humanities themes: “Civility and
Democracy” or “The Muslim World and the Humanities.” Project proposals for “Civility and
Democracy” or “The Muslim World and the Humanities” should consist of two elements: a forum
that engages scholars and humanities practitioners in discussion among themselves and with a public
audience about one of the two themes; and a workshop at which humanities practitioners, scholars,
and teachers collaborate to devise content, formats, training strategies, and education and
dissemination methods for a nationwide or regional program that engages people in communities
across the country in reflection on, and discussion of, the forum theme. The forum and workshop
should be integrated intellectually and programmatically.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/BridgingCultures.html
DEADLINE: June 1
Collaborative Research Grants
These institutional grants support original research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars or
research coordinated by an individual scholar that, because of its scope or complexity, requires
additional staff and resources beyond the individual's salary. Eligible projects include research that
significantly adds to knowledge and understanding in the humanities; conferences on topics of major
importance in the humanities that will benefit ongoing research; archaeological projects that include
the interpretation and communication of results (projects may encompass excavation, materials
analysis, laboratory work, field reports, and preparation of interpretive monographs); translations into
English of works that provide insight into the history, literature, philosophy, and artistic achievements
of other cultures; and research that uses the knowledge, methods, and perspectives of the humanities
to enhance understanding of science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences. These grants
support full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Support is available for
various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel;
fieldwork; applications of information technology; and technical support and services. All grantees
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are expected to communicate the results of their work to the appropriate scholarly and public
audiences.
URL: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/collaborative.html
DEADLINE: October 29
DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Enriching Digital Collections
These grants offer support for digitization projects in the humanities. These grants provide funding
for up to three years of development in any of the following areas: new digitization projects and pilot
projects; the addition of important materials to existing digitization projects; and the development of
tools and infrastructure to enhance the use of digitized resources and support international digitization
work. Collaboration between U.S. and German partners is a key requirement for this grant category.
Each application must be sponsored by at least one eligible German individual or institution, and at
least one U.S. institution, and there must be a project director from each country.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/DFG_EDC.html
DEADLINE: October 8
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
These institutional grants are intended to foster new collaborations and advance the role of cultural
repositories in online teaching, learning, and research, this program is co-sponsored by the Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS). NEH and IMLS encourage library and museum officials as
well as scholars, scientists, educational institutions, and other non-profit organizations to apply for
these grants and to collaborate when appropriate. Innovation is a hallmark of this grant category. All
applicants must propose an innovative approach, method, tool, or idea that has not been used before
in the humanities. These grants are modeled, in part, on the “high risk/high reward ” paradigm often
used by funding agencies in the sciences. NEH is requesting proposals for projects that take some
risks in the pursuit of innovation and excellence. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants should result in
plans, prototypes, or proofs of concept for long-term digital humanities projects prior to
implementation. Two levels of awards are made in this program. Level I awards are small grants
designed to fund brainstorming sessions, workshops, early alpha-level prototypes, and initial
planning. Level II awards are larger grants that can be used for more fully-formed projects that are
ready to start the first stage of implementation or the creation of working prototypes.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html
DEADLINE: March 23
Enduring Questions
The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports the development of a new course that will
foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This course will encourage
undergraduates and teachers to grapple with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities, and
to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers
over the centuries and into the present day. Enduring questions are questions to which no discipline,
field, or professions can lay an exclusive claim. In many cases they predate the formation of the
academic disciplines themselves. Enduring questions can be tackled by reflective individuals
regardless of their chosen vocations, areas of expertise, or personal backgrounds. They are questions
that have more than one plausible or compelling answer. They have long held interest for young
people, and they allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations. The Enduring Questions
grant program will help promote such dialogue in today’s undergraduate environment. The course is
to be developed by one or more (up to four) faculty members, but not team taught. Enduring
Questions courses must be taught from a common syllabus and must be offered during the grant
period at least twice by each faculty member involved in developing the course. The grant supports
the work of a faculty member in designing, preparing, and assessing the course.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html
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DEADLINE: September 15
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program supports projects that provide an
essential foundation for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities.
Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain
important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images,
archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from
this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content
widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various
reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information
quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HCRR.html
DEADLINE: July 15
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
These institutional grants support national or regional (multi-state) training programs on approaches
in humanities computing. NEH strongly encourages applicants to develop proposals for
multidisciplinary teams of co-applicants, partners, and collaborators that will offer the necessary
range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise. This program is designed to bring together
humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, computer scientists, and others to learn new tools
and technologies and to foster relationships for future collaborations in the humanities. Partners and
collaborators may be drawn from the private and public sectors and include appropriate specialists
from within and outside the US. The purpose is to increase the number of humanities scholars using
digital technology in their research and broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology
applications relevant to the humanities. The objectives are to: bring together humanities scholars and
digital technology specialists from different disciplines to share ideas and methods that advance
humanities research through the use of digital technologies, reflect on, interpret, and analyze new
digital media, multimedia, and text-based computing technologies and integrate these into humanities
research, prepare current and future generations of humanities scholars to design, develop, and use
cyber-based tools and environments for research, and devise new and creative uses for technology
that offer valuable models that can be applied specifically to research in the humanities.The projects
may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences, although the duration of
a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IATDH.html
DEADLINE: February 17
National Digital Newspaper Program
NDNP is creating a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between
1836 and 1922, from all the states and U.S. territories. This searchable database will be permanently
maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be freely accessible via the Internet. NEH intends to
support projects in all states and U.S. territories, provided that sufficient funds allocated for this
purpose are available. One organization within each U.S. state or territory will receive an award
to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort. Previously funded projects will be eligible
for continued support, but the program will give priority to new projects. Applications that involve
collaboration between previously funded and new projects are welcome. Such collaborations might
involve, for example, arranging with current awardees to manage the creation and delivery of digital
files; offering regular and ongoing consultation on managing aspects of the project; or providing
formal training for project staff at an onsite institute or workshop.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html
DEADLINE: November 3
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Preservation and Access: Education and Training and Research and Development
Preservation and Access Education and Training grants help the staff of cultural institutions, large and
small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve as effective stewards of humanities
collections. Grants also support educational programs that prepare the next generation of conservators
and preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce the staff of cultural institutions to
new information and advances in preservation and access practices. Preservation and Access
Research and Development grants support projects that address major challenges in preserving or
providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find
better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage—from fragile
artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological
obsolescence—and to develop advanced modes of searching, discovering, and using such materials.
Deadline: July 1 (for both)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pet.html (Education and Training)
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PARD.html (Research and Development)
Scholarly Editions and Translations
These institutional grants support the preparation of editions of pre-existing texts and documents that
are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. Projects must be undertaken by a team
of at least one editor and one other staff member. Grants typically support editions of significant
literary, philosophical, and historical materials, but other types of work, such as musical notation, are
also eligible. This program is open to collaborative applications involving faculty members from the
same or multiple campuses. Applicants must demonstrate familiarity with the best practices
recommended by the Association for Documentary Editing or the Modern Language Association
Committee on Scholarly Editions. Editions produced with NEH support contain scholarly and critical
apparatus appropriate to the subject matter and format of the edition. This usually means
introductions and annotations that provide essential information about the form, transmission, and
historical and intellectual context of the texts and documents involved. Proposals for editions of
foreign language materials in the original language are eligible for funding, but proposals for editions
of translated materials should be submitted to the Collaborative Research program.
URL: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/editions.html
DEADLINE: October 29
Summer Seminars and Institutes
These grants support faculty development programs in the humanities for school teachers and for
college and university teachers. NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes may be as short as two weeks
or as long as six weeks. The duration of a program should allow for a rigorous treatment of its topic.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html
DEADLINE: March 2
National Science Foundation
The following competitions within NSF offer collaborative opportunities within its SBE (Social,
Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) directorate.
International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops
These awards support the early phases of developing and coordinating a research and education
activity with a foreign partner(s). This program provides educational opportunities for Undergraduate
Students, Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows. This program provides indirect funding for
students at this level or focuses on educational developments for this group such as curricula
development, training or retention.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12815&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39
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DEADLINE: Planning Visits, Rolling; Workshops, September 20
International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP)
The objective of the International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP) is to introduce scientists and
engineers in the early stages of their careers to international collaborative research opportunities,
thereby furthering their research capacity and global perspective and forging long-term relationships
with scientists, technologists and engineers abroad. These awards are available in any field of science
and engineering research and education supported by NSF.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5179&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
DEADLINE: second Tuesday in September
Research Coordination Networks (RCN)
The goal of this program is to advance a field or create new directions in research or education.
Innovative ideas for implementing novel networking strategies are especially encouraged. Groups of
investigators will be supported to communicate and coordinate their research, training and
educational activities across disciplinary, organizational, geographic and international boundaries.
Proposed networking activities directed to the general RCN program should focus on a theme to give
coherence to the collaboration, such as a broad research question or particular technologies or
approaches. The general RCN program will provide review for proposals to participating core
programs and directorates listed in the solicitation, excepting Mathematical & Physical Sciences.
Proposals involving mathematical and physical scientists will be accepted under the targeted
physical/life science interface track described below. Additional targeted tracks within the RCN
programs are intended to foster linkages across selected directorates.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11691&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
DEADLINE: Various, please see website
Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships
The Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships program supports innovative,
potentially transformative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, longterm awards. STCs conduct world-class research through partnerships among academic institutions,
national laboratories, industrial organizations, and/or other public/private entities, and via
international collaborations, as appropriate. They provide a means to undertake important
investigations at the interfaces of disciplines and/or fresh approaches within disciplines. STC
investments support the NSF vision of advancing discovery, innovation and education beyond the
frontiers of current knowledge, and empowering future generations in science and engineering.
Centers provide a rich environment for encouraging future scientists, engineers, and educators to take
risks in pursuing discoveries and new knowledge. STCs foster excellence in education by integrating
education and research, and by creating bonds between learning and inquiry so that discovery and
creativity fully support the learning process. NSF expects STCs to demonstrate leadership in the
involvement of groups traditionally underrepresented in science and engineering at all levels within
the Center. To achieve their diversity objectives, STCs are expected to involve individuals from
underrepresented groups as members of the Center faculty, and as students actively engaged in Center
activities. STCs are strongly encouraged to form meaningful, substantive and long-term partnerships
with minority-serving institutions, women's colleges and institutions that primarily serve students
with disabilities, thereby providing formal connections with institutions that serve large populations
of underrepresented students interested in STEM. Centers undertake activities that will facilitate
knowledge transfer, i.e., the mutual exchange of scientific and technical information among the
Center partners and others with the objective of disseminating and utilizing knowledge broadly in
multiple sectors.
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URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5541&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
DEADLINE: not yet posted, please check website for updates
Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’
Universities
Symposia and Seminars. The program is designed to promote closer ties between scholarly Hispanicism
in the US in the areas of humanities, social sciences, and the cultural and academic developments of
Spain. Projects oriented toward the dissemination of Spanish culture throughout the academic systems of
the US are reviewed for subsidy. Priority is given to those proposals of high scholarly quality which will
have an important impact upon the field of Hispanicism, both regionally and nationwide. Priority will be
given to those proposals of an interdisciplinary nature involving collaborative research with individuals,
Spanish scholars, and academic institutions.
URL: http://www.umabroad.umn.edu/pcc/
DEADLINE: April 1
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Europe and Global Challenges
Today, problems ranging from regional conflicts, migration, and terrorism to pandemics and financial
instabilities are perceived as "global challenges." Europeans share these problems with the rest of the
world, but do they also share a knowledge base to address them through collective action? In order to
explore concrete answers to this question the European foundations Compagnia di San Paolo in Turin,
Italy, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond in Stockholm, Sweden, and VolkswagenStiftung in Hanover, Germany,
have joined together to offer research funding and networking support in scope and scale to encourage
transnational and transdisciplinary research groups. The focus of the research groups should be on policy
issues of special concern for the European Union (EU) and for its partners in the neighbourhood as well
as in other regions of the world. Procedural and organisational aspects of addressing policy issues might
be covered along with the research issues themselves. Disciplines concerned with "global governance"
will obviously contribute to the new programme. Inputs from other areas of knowledge, e.g., science and
medicine, might be needed to address some of the issues under examination, but the disciplinary focus
within each research group should be on the social sciences and the humanities. The issues studied should
be relevant for the EU as a global actor. Preference will be given to proposals that relate to contributions
from various disciplines, that are innovative and cover new ground.
URL: http://www.rj.se/6/1087/var/newsID/261
DEADLINE: April 30
Russell Sage Foundation
The Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars program invites scholars to its New York headquarters to
investigate topics in social and behavioral sciences. The Foundation particularly welcomes groups of
scholars who wish to collaborate on a specific project during their residence at Russell Sage. While the
Visiting Scholars typically work on projects related to the Foundation’s current programs, a number of
scholars whose research falls outside the Foundations’ active programs also participate. Each scholar is
provided with an office at the Foundation, research assistance, computer and library facilities, salary
support of up to $110,000 for the academic year, and a subsidized apartment nearby the Foundation
offices.
URL: http://www.russellsage.org/scholars/
DEADLINE: September 30
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
ESRC/SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowships
The Economic Social Research Council and the Social Science Research Council announce a fellowship
for scholars from the Americas to visit and engage in collaborative activities with ESRC-supported
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projects in Britain, or for British scholars at ERSC-supported projects to visit collaborators in the
Americas. This is a scheme designed to encourage communication and cooperation between social
scientists in the United Kingdom and the Americas and to explore and develop possibilities for future
joint research. Candidates from the Americas must be endorsed by the holder of a major ERSC award
with whom they are interested in collaborating. The amount of each visiting fellowship award will vary
according to project needs up tot a maximum of $9,500.
URL: http://fellowships.ssrc.org/esrc/
DEADLINE: March 2
U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Programs
FIPSE offers both the Comprehensive Program and several International Programs. The Comprehensive
Program supports and disseminates innovative reform projects that promise to be models for improving
the quality of postsecondary education and increasing student access. International Program areas include:
U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program, European Union-United States Atlantis Program,
Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education, and the United States-Russia Program.
URL: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/fipse/index.html
DEADLINE: Various, please see website for specific Program information
University of Chicago Science of Virtues
The Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce a new $3 million research
program on a New Science of Virtues, which funds research that addresses the question of "in what ways
might the humanities and the sciences cooperate to develop richer understandings of virtue for modern
societies?" This is a multidisciplinary research initiative that seeks contributions from individuals and
from teams of investigators working within the humanities and the sciences. We support highly original,
scholarly projects that demonstrate promise of a distinctive contribution to virtue research and have the
potential to begin a new field of interdisciplinary study. In 2010, about twenty (20), two-year research
grants will be awarded ranging from $50,000 to $300,000. Scholars and scientists from around the world
are invited to submit Letters of Intent (LOI) as entry into a research grant competition.
URL: http://arete.uchicago.edu/projects/scienceofvirtues.shtml
DEADLINE: March 2 (letters of intent); October 1 (full proposals)
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis announces its Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral
Fellowship Program designed to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the
humanities and social sciences. The program brings to Washington University new and recent PhDs who
wish to strengthen their own advanced training and participate in the university’s ongoing
interdisciplinary programs and seminars. The Postdoctoral Fellows receive two-year appointments with
stipends. Fellows will outline a plan for their own continuing research to be pursued with a senior faculty
mentor from Washington University. Over the course of their two-year appointment, fellows will teach
three undergraduate courses and collaborate during a spring term in leading a seminar in the theory and
methods of interdisciplinary research.
URL: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~szwicker/mellonpostdoc/
DEADLINE: December 1
The Wenner-Gren Foundation International Collaborative Research Grants
The International Collaborative Research Grant (ICRG) supports international research collaborations
between two or more qualified scholars, where the principle investigators bring different and
complementary perspectives, knowledge, and/or skills to the project. Supplemental funds are also
available to provide essential training for academic research participants in ICRG-funding projects. By
providing training funds, the grant helps build capacity in countries where anthropology may be under-
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resourced. Proposals must involve collaboration between two or more researchers of different
nationalities who are working in different countries. Priority is given to those projects involving at least
one principle investigator who is a citizen of, and is working and residing in a country where
anthropology is underrepresented (country list available). The grants are for a maximum of $30,000 for
the research project. Under special circumstances grants can be renewed to support longer-term research
projects.
URL: http://www.wennergren.org/programs/international-collaborative-research-grants
DEADLINE: June 1 and December 1
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