Funding
Thursday 30th October 2025
Regular Grant Programme
World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) International, INT
This supports research on the link between diet, nutrition, body composition, physical activity, and cancer prevention and survival.
Maximum award: £500,000
Closing date: 30 Oct 25 (Forecast)
Friday 31st October 2025
Innovation for African Universities enterprise programme
British Council, GB
UK institutions can apply for a grant to co-design and co-deliver an innovation and enterprise programme for university students in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
This structured yet adaptive program will involve mentoring for 16 university student teams (five students each) from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. These selected teams are working on projects in digital enterprises, green enterprises, social enterprises, or a combination thereof, and their ventures are currently at various stages of development.
The selected partnership will:
- Establish a baseline understanding: Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the current stage of development, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT analysis) for each selected student-led enterprise/innovation project.
- Develop tailored support frameworks: Create individualised and actionable frameworks for each project designed to accelerate its progress towards commercialisation.
- Enhance commercialisation potential: Significantly improve the likelihood of successful commercialisation for participating student projects.
- Build student capacity: Equip student teams with practical knowledge, tools, and methodologies essential for navigating the innovation and entrepreneurship journey.
Closing date 31 October 2025
Closing date note Deadline: 31 October, 17.00 UK time.
Deadline Information
Recurrence We don't have enough information from the funder to assess whether this opportunity is likely to be renewed in future or not.
Date added 16 September 2025
Award type Institutional, Program or Curriculum Development
Award amount max £60,000
Award amount min ---
Eligibility Profile (Funding)
Country of applicant institution Ghana; Kenya; Nigeria; South Africa; United Kingdom
For more info visit - Innovation for African Universities enterprise programme | British Council
Friday 31st October 2025
Expedition award
African Bird Club, GB
In addition:
- The expedition’s objectives should preferably be derived from any of the publications identifying international conservation priorities, such as the IUCN Red List and IBA inventories or directories.
- If an expedition originates from outside the ABC region, it must include substantial local participation from local NGOs such as BirdLife Partners, bird clubs, academic institutions, or relevant government agencies.
- Salaries of local counterparts can be supported but those of professional researchers or academics will not be.
Closing date 31 October 2025
Thursday 13th November 2025
Water4All joint call
Water JPI, EU
The 2025 Joint Transnational Call will address the SRIA theme 4 “Water and health”, in particular the sub-themes:
- 4.3 on “Innovative water tools and technologies for water quality monitoring and water treatment, remediation and disinfection”
- 4.1 on “Behaviour and effects of contaminants of emerging concern, plastics, endocrine disruptors”.
Links to other SRIA themes will be explored, in particular to the sub-themes:
- 3.3. “Groundwater management” and to the cross-cutting themes on governance,
- 7.1 “Developing methods for more efficient citizen and wider stakeholder engagement” and 7.3 “Supporting the adoption of innovations”.
Closing date 13 November 2025 (Forecast)
Amended deadline Coming Soon. *** This opportunity will be available soon. The next call is expected to open in September 2025. The following information is subject to change. ***
Deadline Information
Recurrence This call is repeated once a year.
Date added 15 April 2025
Award type Research: Project Grants & Innovation
Thursday 20th November 2025
Wellcome Career Development Awards
Wellcome Trust, GB
Closing date 20 November 2025
Deadline Information Closing time: 15:00 (GMT/BST)
Recurrence This call is repeated 3 times a year.
Amount note The annual expenditure for a Career Development Award is usually below £25 ...read more
Eligibility Profile (Funding)
Country of applicant institution Albania; Algeria; American Samoa; Angola; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Bangladesh; Belarus; Belize; Bhutan; Bolivia; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Brazil; Bulgaria; Cambodia; Cameroon; Cape Verde; Colombia; Congo, Republic of the; Costa Rica; Côte d'Ivoire; Cuba; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea; Eswatini (formerly Swaziland); Fiji; Gabon; Georgia, Republic of; Ghana; Grenada; Guatemala; Guyana; Honduras; Indonesia; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Ireland; Jamaica; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Kiribati; Kosovo; Kyrgyzstan; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Lebanon; Lesotho; Libya; Low Income Countries (World Bank); Malaysia; Maldives; Marshall Islands; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mayotte; Mexico; Micronesia, Federated States of; Moldova, Republic of; Mongolia; Montenegro; Morocco; Myanmar; Namibia; Nauru; Nicaragua; Nigeria; North Macedonia; Pakistan; Palau; Palestinian Territory, Occupied; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; Romania; Russian Federation; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Samoa; Sao Tome and Principe; Serbia; Solomon Islands; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Suriname; Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Tonga; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Tuvalu; Ukraine; United Kingdom; Uzbekistan; Vanuatu; Venezuela; Vietnam; Yemen; Zambia
Nationality of researcher Unspecified
Applicant type Academic Institution; Government or Public Sector; Non-profit
Career stages Mid-Career to Established in Field
Career Development Awards - Funding for Mid-Career Researchers | Wellcome
Wednesday 31st December 2025
ARUA Early Career Research Fellowships
The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from the Mastercard Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is launching this Early-Career Research Fellowship program. The initiative will fund up to forty-two (42) early-career researchers to conduct globally competitive research at the host and affiliated institutions of ARUA’s thirteen (13) Centres of Excellence (CoEs).
Each fellowship will last six months, between July 2025 and June 2026. A maximum of four fellows will be assigned to each CoE, with all positions filled by December 2025. At least 70% of the fellowships are reserved for female candidates, and applicants must be no older than 35 years at the time of application.
ARUA will continue to accept applications for the 42 positions until they are all filled,
with a deadline of December 2025. However, candidates who apply before May 15,
2025, will be considered for the first batch of positions. Successful candidates from this
batch will be notified by June 1, 2025, and are expected to start their fellowships on
July 1, 2025.