Funding Opportunities

Paired Early Career Fellowship in Applied Research (PECFAR)

Location: India/ Germany

Eligibility: Early Career Researchers holding regular positions in academia/research institution/industry or holding long-term nationally recognized fellowships (4 years and above).

Minimum Qualification: Masters in Science/Bachelors in Engineering (4 years).

Duration: 1 - 2 Months

Deadline: March 31, 2025

Women Involvement in Science and Engineering Research (WISER) 2025

Location: India/ Germany

Eligibility: Women holding a regular/ long-term research position in academia or research institutes/industry.

Minimum Qualification: No age limit

Duration: 3 Years

Deadline: February 1st to March 31st, 2025

Excellence Scholarship Campaign for InnovInOnco Graduate Initiative

Location: France

Eligibility: To qualify for this scholarship, applicants must

• Be international students residing outside France at the time of application (dual citizenship with France is allowed).
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree or have completed one year of a Master’s program in oncology or related fields (e.g., biosciences, biophysics, bioinformatics).

Duration: 10 months

Deadline: January 31, 2025

DST-WISE Internship in IPR (WISE-IPR)

Eligibility: Women in the age group of 25-45 years and having a PG/ Ph.D. or equivalent degree in Basic and Applied Sciences are eligible to apply. Women in permanent/ regular employment are not eligible for this programme.

Duration: 1 Year

Deadline: January 15, 2025

Projects and workshops/ seminars under Collaborative Scientific Research Programme (CSRP) and Industry-Academia research & Development programme (IARDP)

Deadline: February 20, 2025

Abel Visiting Scholar Program

Eligibility: Applicants must:

• Hold at the time of application a PhD in Mathematics.
• Be based in a developing country at the time of application (As defined by IMU)
• Hold a position in a university/ research institution
• be in the early stages of their professional careers, more precisely: the applicants should not yet be of full professorial rank but have a working contract in a university/ college and be under 35 years of age at the day of the application deadline.

Duration: 1 Month

Deadline: April 30, 2025 for visits between September 1 and December 31, 2025

Support in Converting Journal Club to a Preprint Review Club

Location: Global (Online)

Eligibility: Departmental or lab-based journal clubs interested in converting to preprint review clubs. Clubs are expected to produce four preprint reviews posted publicly.

ThinkSwiss Research Scholarships 2025

Location: Switzerland

Eligibility: Master’s or undergraduate students in their second year enrolled in an Indian university. Preference is given to research in fields like Antimicrobial Resistance and Climate Change.

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Call For Research Proposals Under Start-up Grant For Induction Into Biomedical & Health Research

Qualifications: January 30, 2025 (till 5:00 PM)

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Call for Applications for ICMR Emeritus Scientist Program

Eligibility: Scientists/Technologists retired or due to retire (within 3 months from the date of advertisement) not above the age of 67 years, from various Academic Institutions & National Laboratories in the pay level 13A who have held the post of the status of a Professor/Associate Professor in a Medical College or of Director/Deputy Director in a Institute of an All India Character or scientists with comparable scientific experience and achievements in an organization of the ICMR and have been actively engaged in biomedical research/projects as PI or Co-PI for past years of their service.

Deadline: February 17, 2025

Dieter Schumacher International PhD Scholarship

Location: Germany

Eligibility: Applicants should be PhD students with a research focus on fiscal and monetary policy, labor markets, income distribution and financial markets or other fields of research that are relevant from an employee’s perspective.

Qualifications: Ph.D in Economics

Duration: 24 Months

Deadline: February 28, 2025

ICGEB Collaborative Research Programme (CRP)

Eligibility: Applicants for research grant proposals (identified as “CRPs”) should hold positions at Universities or Research Institutes in any of the ICGEB Member States.

Deadline: April 30, 2025

ICGEB Arturo Falaschi Fellowships

Eligibility:Applicants must be nationals of an ICGEB Member State in order to apply.

Qualification:Applicants for ICGEB Trieste should hold a BSc (Honours) degree; applicants for ICGEB Cape Town and New Delhi should hold an MSc degree.

Deadline: March 31, 2025