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WHO/Europe is launching a Knowledge Community (KC) dedicated to responsible artificial intelligence (AI) in health.
The KC will focus on addressing practical and policy-relevant questions around the responsible use of AI in health. Discussions will focus on how countries can apply responsible AI to improve health outcomes and achieve optimal use of resources, while ensuring equity and sustainability. The community will begin by exploring the following guiding question: What actions are required to ensure that AI is both ethically sound and economically sustainable?
The KC will focus on addressing practical and policy-relevant questions around the responsible use of AI in health. Discussions will focus on how countries can apply responsible AI to improve health outcomes and achieve optimal use of resources, while ensuring equity and sustainability. The community will begin by exploring the following guiding question: What actions are required to ensure that AI is both ethically sound and economically sustainable?
End Date19 Sep 2025 Funding AmountN/A Funding Resource TypeExpert Working Group
Funding ProviderWorld Health Organization
Expert Working Group
World Health Organization
This RFP seeks to identify and support initiatives that research, test, pilot, and implement approaches to unlock and catalyze public and private investment in adaptation and resilience, including building resilience to extreme heat, in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. The fund focuses on innovative financial mechanisms including community-based financial tools and novel insurance instruments for urban climate resilience.
End Date19 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUpto USD 1mn Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderClimateWorks Foundation
Grant
ClimateWorks Foundation
This RFP seeks to identify and support initiatives that build institutional capacity and strengthen civil society leadership to address extreme heat and urban resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. The fund supports inclusive, coordinated, and locally grounded planning and implementation to ensure cities and communities are better prepared for and protected against extreme heat.
End Date19 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUpto USD 1mn Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderClimateWorks Foundation
Grant
ClimateWorks Foundation
The AECF team invites you to complete this concept note questionnaire as part of the competitive pre-qualification process of potential companies in the Renewable Energy and Climate Technologies (REACT) Kenya Programme. This initiative aims to contribute to Kenya’s green growth by providing low-carbon and lower-polluting employment opportunities, increasing income, enhancing resilience, and improving the quality of life.
End Date19 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUpto USD 250k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderAECF
Grant
AECF
Stanley Creators Fund offers grants of up to $50,000 USD to support leaders working at the intersection of humanity, sustainability and possibility. Grant recipients represent a dynamic group of emerging Creators, Builders and Inventors who reflect the many communities they serve and bring optimism for a better future through their work. Designed to support a wide variety of causes and challenges such as climate change, food security, housing security, and equity and justice.
End Date19 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUpto USD 50k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderStanley 1913 Creators Fund
Grant
Stanley 1913 Creators Fund
Youth Start-Up Competition (YSC) is a flagship initiative within European SME Week. This year competition aims to spotlight and support young entrepreneurs aged 18 to 25 who are developing bold, creative start-up ideas to help shape a more sustainable, inclusive, and competitive Europe.
End Date20 Sep 2025 Funding AmountN/A Funding Resource TypeVisibility
Funding ProviderPromoting Enterprise
Visibility
Promoting Enterprise
The call is exclusively open to Portuguese marine research institutions, with a particular interest in both applied and fundamental research, especially work conducted in deep-sea environments, open ocean systems, and insular coastal ecosystems. The Foundation acknowledges the significant role these institutions play in advancing marine science and policy.
End Date20 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUnspecified Funding Resource TypeResearch Grant
Funding ProviderFAM Foundation
Research Grant
FAM Foundation
Every year, as part of the jury for the ZKB Pionierpreis Technopark, I get the privilege to see some of the most exciting innovations in Switzerland. From deep-tech and medtech to cleantech and robotics.
End Date22 Sep 2025 Funding AmountCHF 100k Funding Resource TypeInnovation Award
Funding ProviderZürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB),TECHNOPARK® Zürich
Innovation Award
Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB),TECHNOPARK® Zürich
With the funding program in forestry, the foundation wants to contribute to this challenge by supporting solution-oriented research based on an interaction between science and practitioners.
End Date22 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUpto CHF 400k Funding Resource TypeResearch Grant
Funding ProviderVelux Stiftung
Research Grant
Velux Stiftung
IraSME enables consortia of SMEs and RTOs (not mandatory) from at least two participating countries to work together in transnational R&D projects. As a growing network of several national/regional funding authorities, IraSME issues calls for proposals for transnational cooperative research projects between SMEs and RTOs twice a year. The objective is to develop innovative products, processes or technical services which exceed the existing state of the art. The calls follow a bottom-up approach, i.e. research topics are not pre-defined but chosen by the applicants themselves. Funding is made available through national and regional programmes.
Start Date02 Jun 2025 End Date24 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 160k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderIraSME
Grant
IraSME
he Better Politics Fund is looking for bold and innovative ideas to build better politics across the political leadership impact path (excluding direct candidate support or political candidate campaigning). These ideas should be new or focused on testing an existing initiative in a different context or approach.
End Date24 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 20k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderBetter Politics Fund
Grant
Better Politics Fund
GCSP Prize for Innovation in Global Security recognises groundbreaking contributions that address the world’s most pressing security challenges.
Organised by GCSP's Geopolitics and Global Futures Department, this prestigious annual award celebrates individuals and organisations that are advancing bold, creative, and impactful solutions in the field of global security.
Organised by GCSP's Geopolitics and Global Futures Department, this prestigious annual award celebrates individuals and organisations that are advancing bold, creative, and impactful solutions in the field of global security.
End Date25 Sep 2025 Funding AmountCHF 10k Funding Resource TypeInnovation Award
Funding ProviderGeneva Centre for Security Policy
Innovation Award
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
A second phase of the EU-WOP Programme (EU-WOP 2), launched in 2024, will run until 2030. The new phase will support the development of 15-20 new Water Operators' Partnerships, while expanding or scaling up successful partnerships from Phase 1 for four more years.
EU-WOP 2 will continue to support utilities in developing, anchoring and applying capacity for sustainable performance improvements. The new phase will further emphasise the potential of digitalization, investment linking and human rights frameworks to leverage capacity improvements for sustainable services.
Utilities in eligible countries that are committed to making transformative improvements towards the SDGs and supporting their peer utilities are encouraged to seize the opportunity presented by the new phase of the programme.
EU-WOP 2 will continue to support utilities in developing, anchoring and applying capacity for sustainable performance improvements. The new phase will further emphasise the potential of digitalization, investment linking and human rights frameworks to leverage capacity improvements for sustainable services.
Utilities in eligible countries that are committed to making transformative improvements towards the SDGs and supporting their peer utilities are encouraged to seize the opportunity presented by the new phase of the programme.
End Date26 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUpto USD 400k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Grant
Calling all food start-ups & innovators working tirelessly to create a healthy, equitable & sustainable future of food!! Big shout-out to the amazing team and partners behind the Future of Food Competition
End Date26 Sep 2025 Funding AmountGBP 10k Funding Resource TypeInnovation Award
Funding ProviderFuture of Food Competition
Innovation Award
Future of Food Competition
The Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP) is an instrument supporting projects and programmes focused on the transfer of know-how and best practices from EU to non-EU CEI Member States. By co‐financing capacity building and technical assistance projects, the KEP offers grants to institutions willing to share their experience with their partners, thus helping non-members to advance on their path towards EU standards and policies. The KEP operates through calls for proposals with funding made available by Italy through the CEI Fund at the EBRD.
End Date26 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 40k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderCentral European Initiative - CEI
Grant
Central European Initiative - CEI
Each year, we seek to partner and support non-profit organizations making an impact in the focus areas listed below. We only accept unsolicited grant applications from select areas of focus that are highlighted in the list below.
End Date26 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUSD 50k to USD 200k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderThe J.W. Couch Foundation
Grant
The J.W. Couch Foundation
Tech Startup Competition for founders who think differently.
This contest is a game-changing opportunity for values-driven entrepreneurs to secure early-stage/seed investment.
Whether your focus is on improving productivity or financial processes, enhancing customer experience, fighting fraud, leveraging data insights, streamlining logistics, pioneering sustainability or anything else, this is an opportunity to grow.
This contest is a game-changing opportunity for values-driven entrepreneurs to secure early-stage/seed investment.
Whether your focus is on improving productivity or financial processes, enhancing customer experience, fighting fraud, leveraging data insights, streamlining logistics, pioneering sustainability or anything else, this is an opportunity to grow.
End Date26 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUpto USD 1mn Funding Resource TypeInvestment
Funding ProviderFuture of Capitalism Competition,Leo Lion Foundation
Investment
Future of Capitalism Competition,Leo Lion Foundation
With the current ophthalmology funding program, Velux Stiftung wants to contribute to ultimately reduce visual impairments and blindness in LMICs through research funding.
End Date29 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUpto CHF 400k Funding Resource TypeResearch Grant
Research Grant
This call for projects concerns innovative, sustainable collaborative projects in the catering and food sectors. Projects may involve collective catering, mass catering, or food production and associated supply chains.
Start Date01 Apr 2025 End Date30 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUpto CHF 100k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderVaud Service for the Promotion of the Economy and Innovation (SPEI)
Grant
Vaud Service for the Promotion of the Economy and Innovation (SPEI)
MarLEN (Maritime Low Emission Network) will be a partnership of European ministries and funding organisations responsible for funding RTD in maritime technologies from European countries.
The objective of this initiative is to strengthen the European Research Area in waterborne research by coordinating and developing synergies between national and regional maritime research programmes and policies in line with the aims of the partnership Zero Emission Waterborne Transport (ZEWT). The activities will include: exchange of information and knowledge among national programme owners and programme managers as well as the implementation of distinct joint activities.
The objective of this initiative is to strengthen the European Research Area in waterborne research by coordinating and developing synergies between national and regional maritime research programmes and policies in line with the aims of the partnership Zero Emission Waterborne Transport (ZEWT). The activities will include: exchange of information and knowledge among national programme owners and programme managers as well as the implementation of distinct joint activities.
