Funding Opportunities

Country

- Funding
Climate Technology Initiative — Funding for Climate or Clean Energy Projects
Open until30 Apr 2019
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Australian Government — International Relations Grants Program
Open until28 Mar 2019
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Women for Africa Foundation — Research Fellowships in Spain
Open until30 Sep 2019
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Worldwide Universities Network — Research Development Fund
Open until31 Oct 2019
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IDEX Accelerator — IDEX Fellowship 2022
Open until30 Sep 2019
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American Philosophical Society — Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
Open until01 Nov 2019
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German Academic Exchange Service — Postgraduate Courses in Germany 2022-2023
Open until31 Dec 2021
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IHE Delft Institute for Water Education — Free Online Courses
Open until31 Dec 2019
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Green Climate Fund — Readiness Grants
Open until31 Dec 2019
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Partnership for Forests — Ideas wanted for Innovative Partnerships
Open until31 Dec 2019
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InfoNile — COVID-19 Pandemic and Water Crisis
Open until31 Jul 2020
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U.S. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation — Seabird Conservation Program 2021
Open until22 Aug 2019
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Prince Claus Fund — Cultural and Artistic responses to Environmental Change
Open until14 Jun 2019
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British Ecological Society — Training & Travel Grants
Open until31 Jul 2020
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British Ecological Society — Grants for Ecologists in Africa 2021
Open until09 Sep 2019
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British Ecological Society — Research Grants 2021
Open until09 Sep 2019
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British Ecological Society — Outreach Grants 2021
Open until09 Sep 2019
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International Iguana Foundation — Grants for Iguana Conservation
Open until20 Sep 2019
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Borlaug Global Rust Initiative — Support for Women in Wheat Research
Open until30 Oct 2019
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Lipman Family Prize — Funding for Social Change
Open until01 Aug 2019
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Society for Conservation Biology — Research in Marine Conservation
Open until15 Aug 2019
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British Herpetological Society — Student Grants
Open until01 Dec 2019
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Pulitzer Center — Rainforest Journalism Fund
Open until31 Dec 2019
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TREE Fund — Research in Arboriculture
Open until01 Oct 2018
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Empower a Billion Lives — Solutions to Energy Poverty
Open until31 Aug 2018
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Schlumberger Foundation — Funding for Women in PhD and Postdoctoral Studies
Open until07 Nov 2019
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — World Food Day Poster Contest (Age 5-19)
Open until08 Nov 2019
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Stockholm Resilience Center — SwedBio Collaboration Program
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African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement — Waterbird Conservation Award 2021
Open until04 Jun 2018
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ETH Zurich — Opportunity Grants
Open until31 Dec 2020

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Youth success stories

From the Czech Republic to Asia, Africa and beyond my agricultural story so far!

Introducing Dr. Hynek Roubík, an expert in organic waste management and sustainable technologies, leader of the Biogas Research Team at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU), an agriculture enthusiast with a passion for his work and the second-youngest member of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Bioeconomy platform of the Czech Republic.

Youthful passion to contribute to sustainable food systems

Charles Masereka Yoronimu's commitment to contributing to building sustainable food systems drives him to be an active agent of youth engagement in agriculture.

5 years of YPARD: a life-changing journey

"Being a YPARD representative gave me so many empowering opportunities, but also a chance to empower others" Testimonial by Ivana Radic Jean highlighting her experience and journey in working with youth in agriculture within the YPARD Serbia community since February 2013.

YPARDian bags home the 2017 SFIAR Master Thesis award!

In 2017, YPARD member, Sebastian Mengel, was the recipient of the Master Thesis award for his collaborative research with YPARD, HAFL and CGIAR CRP drylands program on agricultural livelihoods of rural youth in the drylands of Midelt, Morocco.

Good-bye from YPARD Nepal: Creating a space for young leaders

This testimonial by Dinesh Panday highlights his experience in working with youth in agriculture within the YPARD Nepal community since 2012. He is currently a doctoral graduate research assistant (2016-2019) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the former YPARD Nepal country representative.

A season of innovation

The climate-smart irrigation system was designed with the aim of addressing these challenges; by collecting rainwater, transferring it below the soil surface and using it during the time of low rainfall thus making water available and accessible for perennial plants all year round.

Climate resilient agriculture and producer-consumer justice through ICT

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 was created to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts to ensure climate resilient agriculture and ICT based business promotional interventions from producer to consumer level. Youth, therefore, can play a supporting role to increase awareness and promote the agenda of SDG for agricultural sustainability to make sure others are aware of it.

From nowhere to somewhere; YPARD made a way

Marc Ghislain tells about all the changing scenes in his life as a young professional in agriculture: the anxiety in choosing a profession in agriculture and how his engagement with YPARD helped him find his feet in the agricultural sector.

A non-traditional career path

I strongly support and believe in an inclusive and equitable quality education together with lifelong learning opportunities for all. It is very important that we start to facilitate more flexible career paths in science if we want to encourage diversity and creativity. Being a lifelong learner is a value of sustainable self-development. It opens the door to life-changing, rewarding, fulfilling and continuous growth.

Easier said than done: Gender equality and women empowerment

The role of young people in helping shift gender perceptions is paramount. We can no longer employ tradition and culture as excuses for allowing basic inequalities between genders to occur and to keep perpetuating themselves. We need to acknowledge and cherish culture, but also acknowledge that culture is not a static entity and that it can, and must, evolve towards a more equal society.