The following funding opportunities have been announced. Please follow the links for more information.
Global Resilience Partnership
Concept notes are welcomed for the Global Resilience Challenge’s “Water Window”. This fund offers between $250k-$1m USD in grants for teams offering innovative solutions to issues affecting flood prone communities across the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. Closing Date 8/5/16
Scottish Government
The Scottish Government have announced a tender opportunity related to “ Monitoring the environmental outcomes delivered by the 2014-20 SRDP Agri-Environment Climate Scheme“. Tenders are expected to be in the range of £250k-300k. Closing Date 26/4/16 at 12:00
If you are interested in submitting to any of the above calls you must contact RKEO with adequate notice before the deadline.
Please note that some funding bodies specify a time for submission as well as a date. Please confirm this with your RKEO Funding Development Officer
You can set up your own personalised alerts on Research Professional. If you need help setting these up, just ask your School’s/Faculty’s Funding Development Officer in RKEO or view the recent blog post here.
If thinking of applying, why not add notification of your interest on Research Professional’s record of the bid so that BU colleagues can see your intention to bid and contact you to collaborate.











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