Deadline: 23-Sep-22 Applications are now open for the 8th Edition of the Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge, the world-renowned early-stage, deep tech startup competition to address the needs of early-stage deep tech startups across all industries. The Challenge gives deep tech and science-based entrepreneurs around the globe a platform for their projects, providing opportunities for equity-free funding, global visibility and connections with key players in the deep tech ecosystem. To date, … [Read more…] about 8th Edition of the Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge
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Deadline: 14-Jul-22 Nominations are now open for the AfriSAFE 2022 Award. For this Among other things, the judges are more concern on how nominees have impacted the society at large while keeping their workplace safe. add prize info and eligibility Africa Safety Award For Excellence (AfriSAFE) is an annual award project raising awareness in all areas of Health, Safety, Security, and Environment (HSSE), while also celebrating and showcasing the efforts and achievements of organizations, … [Read more…] about Nominate Now! AfriSAFE 2022 Award (Africa)
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Deadline: 26-Aug-22 Applications are now open for the THRIVE Global Impact Challenge, a global search for the most innovative startups who are advancing a more sustainable future for agriculture. Aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Impact Challenge is focused on three key themes each one central to supporting the transition to a net-zero future for agriculture. Themes Startups should be Seed to Series A with technologies focused in the following areas: … [Read more…] about Applications Open for Thrive Global Impact Challenge
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Deadline: 30-Jun-22 The Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC) is inviting media outlets, journalists, and freelancers for the Collaborative Investigation Grants. The Collaborative Investigation grants are specifically aimed at promoting collaboration, and allowing journalists from different countries to work together to fill in gaps in each others’ reporting, especially when tracing environmental crimes across borders. Funds can be used creatively, and there is no travel … [Read more…] about Up to $3000 USD available under Collaborative Investigation Grants
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Deadline: 1-Jul-22 Applications are now open for the Getty Images Creative Grant to provide financial support and mentorship to artists who are committed to authentically representing members within the disability community. With Getty Images’ mission to move the world, they are partnering with Verizon and the National Disability Leadership Alliance (NDLA) to promote diversity within creative commercial photography and videography, elevating the work and voices of people within disability … [Read more…] about Getty Images Creative Grant: Disability Communities
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Deadline: 31-Jul-22 Applications are now open for the Palladium Challenge Fund which brings in ideas from their network in over 90 countries and partnership with over 1,600 organisations globally to source innovative responses to global challenges. The fund organisations and initiatives that: Pilot new technologies and innovative approaches De-risk start-up ventures Deliver outcomes from innovative financial mechanisms Support the convening of innovative … [Read more…] about Palladium launches Call for Proposals for 2022 Challenge Fund
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Deadline: 29-Jul-22 AGRF and Heifer International have launched the Pitch AgriHack 2022, a digital agriculture competition focused on accelerating entrepreneurial growth and job creation in the agriculture sector by leveraging advanced technologies and youth participation in Africa’s food security agenda. This seventh edition of Pitch AgriHack invites African businesses to pitch their approach to driving technological innovation in the agriculture sector. Generation Africa, a thematic … [Read more…] about Pitch AgriHack 2022: Digital Agriculture Competition
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Deadline: 4-Nov-22 If you’re aged between 5 and 19, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations wants to hear from you! Use your imagination and create a poster showing a world where no one is left behind, and everyone has access to healthy and affordable food. Everything in our world is connected – from our food to our cultures, environment and economies. Today, many people continue to face global challenges like poverty and hunger, climate change, conflict and … [Read more…] about FAO: World Food Day Poster Contest 2022
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Deadline: 14-Aug-22 Under the banner of Generation Restoration, the Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL) and the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) are launching the third edition of the Restoration Stewards program to support and highlight the work of young restoration practitioners and their teams, who represent the next group of ‘Restoration Stewards’. The year-long program provides funding, mentorship, and training to deepen the impact of youth-led restoration projects. During the … [Read more…] about 3rd Edition of the Restoration Stewards Program (EUR 5,000)
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Deadline: 5-Aug-22 The Innovations for Poverty Action’s (IPA) Human Trafficking Research Initiative (HTRI) has launched its second Call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) for full randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and other rigorous impact evaluations to assess the impact of counter-trafficking programs. HTRI welcomes proposals to assess counter-trafficking interventions that fall into any or all of the “4P’s” (prevention, protection, prosecution, and partnership). Funding priorities are … [Read more…] about IPA: Human Trafficking Research Initiative
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Deadline: 29-Jul-22 The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) is pleased to announce the ninth edition of the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa 2022 (FIFAfrica22). The Forum is set to take place in Lusaka, Zambia on September 26-29, 2022, offers a platform for deliberation on gaps and opportunities for advancing privacy, free expression, inclusion, free flow of information, civic participation, and innovation online. As part of the registration, … [Read more…] about Forum on Internet Freedom 2022 in Africa
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Deadline: 31-Jul-22 Nominations are now open for the 2023 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders to honor individuals and organizations who have shown exceptional commitment to defending human rights, despite the risks involved. The Martin Ennals Award (MEA) is an international Award given to human rights defenders in urgent need of protection. Many defenders who are nominated for the Award face serious risks – for example, they are in jail or at risk of detention; they have been … [Read more…] about 2023 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders
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Deadline: 12-Aug-22 With financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, the #Youth4Disarmament initiative invites young people, aged 13-29, to share what disarmament means to them and their communities by creating their own music. The Pitching Peace Youth Music Challenge has been inspired by the uniting and healing power of music that can support efforts for Securing their Common Future. Pillars The original scores should also reflect one of the four … [Read more…] about #Youth4Disarmament launches Pitching Peace Youth Music Challenge
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Deadline: 7-Sep-22 The Smart City Expo World Congress is currently seeking nominations for the World Smart City Awards (WSCA) 2022 to recognize and support innovative city strategies, projects and ideas that can potentially make an impact on citizens’ lives and turn the cities into more sustainable and inclusive places to live in. The aim of the Call for Awards is to recognize, promote and support innovative solutions or strategies that can potentially change citizen’s lives by increasing … [Read more…] about Submit Nominations for World Smart City Awards 2022
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Deadline: 27-Jun-22 Sanofi is pleased to partner with One Young World to offer the Future Women in Tech Scholarship. This global program will enable five women leaders to participate in the One Young World Summit 2022 as part of Sanofi’s global delegation; have a fast-tracked opportunity to join Sanofi’s early careers program and receive 1:1 mentoring to support their first career steps in Sanofi. What does the scholarship provide? Delegate access to the One Young World Summit 2022 … [Read more…] about Sanofi: Future Women in Tech Scholarship 2022
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Deadline: 31-Jul-22 The Financial Times and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, are proud to announce the 2022 edition of the Transformational Business Awards. The FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards are a leading global initiative that highlights and promotes ground-breaking, long-term private sector solutions to major development challenges. This year’s program marks 17 years of collaboration between the Financial Times and the … [Read more…] about Apply Now for FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards
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Deadline: 8-Jul-22 The U.S. Embassy in Cameroon is inviting applications for its Africa Regional Democracy Fund Program (ARDF) for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance to strengthen democratic institutions, improve governance, and promote respect for human rights in Cameroon. The ARDF provides assistance to Cameroonian organizations that seek to implement short-term, highly targeted activities designed to show measurable results. Program Objectives Promote Accountable, … [Read more…] about The Africa Regional Democracy Fund Program (Cameroon)
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Deadline: 31-Jul-22 The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has announced the Science and Innovation Forum for harnessing science, technology and innovation to transform their agrifood systems. Harnessing science, technology and innovation (STI) is key for leveraging emerging opportunities for reaching a world free from poverty, hunger and malnutrition. FAO is integrating STI to provide solutions that address the three dimensions of sustainability. To bring FAO’s … [Read more…] about FAO Science and Innovation Forum 2022
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Deadline: 15-Jul-22 The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism is pleased to launch the Tuition-free Product Immersion program for journalists and staff inside small to midsize news organizations who have little to no experience with product development and management but have an interest in adopting a product approach. Product Immersion for Small Newsrooms, an online, tuition-free training program for journalists by the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, welcomes … [Read more…] about Tuition-free Product Immersion Program
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Deadline: 8-Aug-22 The Wellcome Trust is accepting nominations for the Biological vulnerability to extreme heat in maternal and child health. This award will fund research teams to significantly advance understanding of the biological vulnerability to extreme heat in the context of maternal and child health. By the end of the award, successful applicants will have delivered new knowledge at this intersection and generated evidence with the potential to inform new interventions that can be … [Read more…] about Wellcome Open Call: Biological Vulnerability to Extreme Heat in Maternal and Child Health