Closing Date: April through August 2013.

Education is vital to the New Zealand Aid Programme's mission of supporting sustainable development in order to reduce poverty and contribute to a more secure, equitable and prosperous world. Scholarships are available to citizens from selected developing countries to undertake vocational training or tertiary level study in their home country, in New Zealand, or in the Pacific region.

These scholarships enhance the skills, training and knowledge of individuals, and build their capacity to contribute to the sustainable development of key areas in their home country. Scholarship information for the 2013 intake is now available.

The priorities for support often include agriculture, renewable energy, fisheries, disaster risk management, and other areas related to natural resources and environment.

Eligible countries/regions:

All New Zealand Aid Program scholarships are for applicants from developing countries. See the list ofeligible countries.

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Closing Date: April 24,2013.

The Swedish Research Links Program offers International Collaborative Research Grants, aiming to support research cooperation between Swedish scientists and scientists within selected low-income to middle-income countries.

The long-term aim of the program is to contribute to mutual scientific and socioeconomic development of the countries involved through support for collaborative research projects of high scientific quality and mutual relevance. The program is open to researchers in basic and applied research within all academic disciplines.

In brief, the program seeks to fulfil the following objectives:

Eligible countries 2013; Sweden and the following countries:

Applicants for International Collaborative Research Grants are individual researchers who also serve as project leaders and have the scientific responsibility for the project. The application must include at least two principal researchers: one affiliated to a university or research institution in Sweden and one affiliated to a university or research institution in a program country.

The applicants must be citizens or have permanent residence in an eligible country. If more than one program country outside Sweden is involved, each must be represented by a principal researcher. Applicants must hold a Swedish doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. The doctoral degree must have been awarded no later than the closing date for applications in this call. We deem your PhD to have been awarded when all requirements for the degree (e.g.compulsory courses, oral public defence and approved doctoral thesis) are completed Co-workers are those researchers with a doctoral degree that are most relevant to the implementation of the proposed project.

Grant Period:

International Collaborative Research Grants are awarded for a maximum of three years.

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Closing Date: April 30,2013.

APEC Climate Center (APCC) located in Busan, South Korea, aims at realizing the APEC vision of regional prosperity by providing climate information services and technical support for better regional planning and reduction of economic losses due to adverse climate conditions. APCC produces real-time operational climate prediction information based on a well-validated multi-model ensemble system, with contributions from over 17 institutes in the APEC region. APCC contributes to building capacity in prediction and monitoring of weather and climate for developing countries by making available costly climate data and information. Developing countries without the capacity to produce their own climate predictions are able to access optimized, high-cost global climate predictions produced by APCC. 

The APEC Climate Center (South Korea) will host a training program in August 2013 on "Producing High-Resolution Climate Information: Scientific Basis and Application." The program invites applications from young scientists at research institutes in developing countries who are working in climate science or a climate-related field. It also invites professionals at national and regional meteorological agencies who work in climate prediction and monitoring. 

The program will fund participants' airfare, accommodation, and perdiem.

Participants who successfully complete the training program will receive a certificate of completion. The program will be taught by a highly qualified and diverse team of scientists.

The details of the program are following; 

Closing Date: May 31,2013.

The EU FAO FLEGT programme will issue one call for proposals in the year 2012 and in 2013. Calls for proposals are opened to local stakeholders (government, civil society and private sector organizations) who play a role in the VPA implementation. Each project is limited to a maximum funding of 100 000 EUR.

Projects selected through the call for proposals mechanism will support initiatives that advance the VPA process and encourage active engagement of stakeholders. Projects will address targeted thematic areas that will have been identified in collaboration with the VPA country and the European Union.

This refers to the countries that have negotiated or are negotiating a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union. Under this definition, the list of 14 eligible countries in this call for proposals is as follows:

·         Cameroon,

·         Gabon,

·         Ghana,

·         Guyana

·         Honduras,

·         Indonesia,

·         Ivory Coast

·         Liberia,

·         Malaysia,

·         Central African Republic,

·         Republic of the Congo,

·         Democratic Republic of the Congo,

·         Lao People's Democratic Republic

·         Viet Nam.

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Dynamic changes have transformed many, if not all, countries in Asia. A number of countries in the region have become more prosperous. These countries will soon share similar challenges with Japan. As equals, Japan and these countries need to create a new style of cooperation. Benefit from mutual learning gets larger than ever before.

Target countries:

Thematic Areas:

The duration of projects is limited to one year, without any extension. All projects need to start on 1st November, 2013 and finish all activities by 31st October, 2014.

Grant Amount:

The Open Society Foundations’ Youth Initiative requests proposals for up to $10,000 in funding to develop and curate thematic pages on the new global youth portal and community at youthpolicy.org.

The site aims to consolidate knowledge and information on youth policies across the international sector, ranging from analysis and formulation to implementation and evaluation.

Themes:

Potential themes for website pages include, but are not limited to:

Eligibility:

Organizations seeking funding must be registered NGOs. Please note: grants will not be made to individuals or for-profit entities. Proposals should not exceed $10,000 or one year in length. All proposals must be submitted in English. To Apply, download the complete application guidelines below.

Deadline:

Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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