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Research Grants for Economists in the CIS

Ukrainian (Re)Sources

The EERC grant competition
http://www.eerc.kiev.ua/eroc/grants/index.shtml and www.eerc.ru

The site of the Ministry of Education has announcements of grant opportunities
www.mon.gov.ua

The UN in Ukraine sometimes has calls for research projects
http://www.un.kiev.ua/bc/tenders/index.php

The Poland America Ukraine Cooperation Initiative has funds for supporting, mainly, awareness increasing initiatives
http://www.pauci.org/en/how/guidelines

UCAN has grants for think thanks, for research related to policy and civic society
http://www.ucan-isc.org.ua/eng/what_we_do/grants/


International (Re)Sources

The global development network has a research competition
www.gdnet.org

The Soros foundation has several funding opportunities
http://www.soros.org/grants

A specific Soros initiative to fund policy research
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/ipf/focus_areas/a_ipf/guidelines

The EURASIA foundation has an open-door policy for proposals
http://www.eurasia.org/programs/grantcriteria.aspx

The IFC ?Financial times competition on private sector development
http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/media.nsf/Content/WhatsNew_PSD_Competition


UK (Re)Sources

The DFID (UK) sometimes has calls that can be of interest to economists
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/research/research-calls.asp

The Leverhulme Trust (UK) has funding possibilities to establish international research networks
http://www.leverhulme.org.uk/grants_awards/grants/international_networks/#h2-2

DFID together with ESRC (UK) is interested in funding poverty related research
http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/current_funding_opportunities/dfid.aspx?ComponentId=8059&SourcePageId=5964


EU related grants (Re)Sources

For info on EU calls related to Ukraine
http://www.fp6-nip.kiev.ua/

The European Delegation to Ukraine also announces EU related grants
http://www.delukr.ec.europa.eu/home.html

For information on TEMPUS grant
http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/tempus/index_en.html

For Info on Erasmus Mundus (mainly mobility grants)
http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/mundus/index_en.html

Another EU-related source which both supports mobility and research projects is INTAS
www.intas.be


Other (Re)Sources

Mobility with France
http://www.egide.asso.fr/fr/programmes/pai/appels/

The Visby Program supports exchanges with Sweden
http://www.sweden.se/templates/cs/Article____5001.aspx

For mobility of Canadian faculty to Ukraine, check
http://www.aucc.ca/ptp-ppa/about/program_e.html

The Canadian International Development Agency is mainly interested in ?Governance? related proposals
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/CIDAWEB/acdicida.nsf/En/EMA-218121717-PJQ#pdf

The Central European University Initiative has limited funding opportunities
http://www.ceinet.org/main.php?pageID=81

Calls for projects related to ICT
http://www.infodev.org/section/programs/rfps

Poverty research can be funded by
http://www.pep-net.org/