Funding Friday...
Develop Impact - Issue 142
Happy Friday!
I hope you have had a great work week and happy lunar new year to our readers who celebrate it.
This week, we are sharing more funding opportunities across the globe for your #techforgood projects in developing and implementing technological solutions to address challenges and help build a more sustainable and inclusive world.
As always, please let me know if you have anything you’d like to share with this community, I would love to hear from you!
Have a great weekend!
Jesse
What’s funding this week…
Global
Open Startup Call for L’Oréal Green Sciences Incubator
L’Oréal Green Sciences Incubator is looking for game-changing solutions to onboard on their innovation journey. Through this call, L’Oréal GSI will offer a unique opportunity for selected startups to collaborate with L’Oréal and reveal their potential.
The collaboration will be tailored to your startup’s needs and will include:
Co-innovative mindset – share a common project, team, and space.
A common team – collaborate with a wide range of L’Oréal experts.
Access to L’Oréal resources – benefit from privileged access to L’Oréal laboratory facilities.
Open Call for SOCAR Wennovation Challenge Program
SOCAR Wennovation Challenge – an online open innovation program – welcomes entrepreneurs and game-changers all around the world, who are shaping technologies of the future today in refinery and petrochemical industries.
The innovation program provides an open and collaborative approach to building partnerships to solve the digital transformation challenges of SOCAR Türkiye by fostering digital innovation together.
SOCAR Wennovation Challenge Program provides pitching and partnership opportunities (i.e. pilot or PoC) for startups. If you are ready to become a solution partner, explore their challenges and submit your digital innovation.
Open Call for GSMA AgriTech Accelerator Programme
The GSMA will provide up to 10 selected applicants (cohort members) with technical assistance for a period of two years to support the scaling of digital agriculture solutions.
Cohort members will benefit from a range of technical assistance tools, including targeted consulting from the GSMA team, user experience and product design/management support, farmer feedback surveys, access to GSMA events and insights, and capacity building for investor readiness.
Eligible Countries
Digital agriculture solution providers from the following countries are eligible to participate in the Accelerator:
Africa: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Tunisia, Zambia
Asia: Cambodia, Jordan, Pakistan
Latin America: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.
World Data Visualization Prize
This year's prize focuses on the past, present and future. How well has the world progressed and improved in recent years? Where do we stand right now and how could we measure that? And what factors and drivers might shape society, government, and citizens of the future?
The winning works will receive cash prizes, international press coverage, and the chance to have their work exhibited to world leaders at the World Government Summit in February 2023.
The competition is open to anyone interested in design, data analytics, and visual story-telling, all are welcome to take part.
Global Impact Cash Grant Program - Cisco
Cisco welcomes applications for Global Impact Cash Grants from community partners around the world who share our vision and offer an innovative approach to a critical social challenge.
They identify, incubate, and develop innovative solutions with the most impact. Global Impact Cash Grants go to nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that address a significant social problem. They are looking for programs that fit within their investment areas, serve the underserved, and leverage technology to improve the reach and efficiency of services.
They accept applications year-round from eligible organizations. An initial information form is used to determine whether your organization will be invited to complete a full application.
The maximum request amount for first-time grant recipients is US$75,000.
Asia-Pacific
SEED Starter Programme in Indonesia
SEED Starter program guides participants from the early stages of ideation to the generation of a viable business plan used to launch an eco-inclusive enterprise. Participants join together in teams during Starter workshops to blueprint and refine their business plans with the support of peer learning and expert guidance.
As a SEED Starter Team, you along with other aspiring entrepreneurs will receive valuable resources and professional support to expand on your entrepreneurial ideas while learning from your peers during interactive SEED Starter workshops.
Vietnamese Student Program 2024-2025
The U.S. Mission in Vietnam is pleased to announce the Fulbright Vietnamese Student Scholarship Program for the academic year 2024-2025.
Successful candidates will receive a full scholarship which covers tuition and fees, monthly stipend, round-trip airfare to the United States, and health insurance to pursue a Master’s degree that begins in the academic year 2024-2025. Successful candidates will also receive support from the Fulbright Program during the application process to American universities.
Europe
Open Call for Organisation of the Women TechEU Scheme
The Women TechEU scheme has been launched under the European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE) Work Programme 2021 as a pilot scheme and became a fully-fledged initiative under the EIE Work Programme 2022.
As a final objective, the scheme supports European early-stage deep tech start-ups, registered and established in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country for at least six months at the time of the submission, founded or co-founded by women, holding a top management position (chief executive officer (CEO), chief technology officer (CTO), chief scientific officer (CSO), or equivalent).
The check will normally be done for the coordinator if the requested grant amount is equal to or greater than EUR 500 000, except for:
Public bodies (entities established as a public body under national law, including local, regional or national authorities) or international organizations; and
Cases where the individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000 (low-value grant).
Visegrad Strategic Grants Program is now open for Applications
Strategic Grants support projects addressing the annual strategic priorities of the Visegrad Group. Strategic priorities are announced annually by the V4 country holding the rotating presidency over the group, which is from July 2021 to June 2022 in Hungary.
Strategic Priorities:
Research, development, and innovation; digitalization
Post-COVID Recovery
Challenges and perspectives of the young generation in the Visegrad region
Funding Information
Overall digitalization up to €1,000, on an individual basis.
Grants cover up to 100% of the project budget with 15% for overheads.
Duration: Maximum duration of projects is 36 months, and the minimum is 12 months.
Middle East and Africa
SME Growth Lab Africa: 2023 Digital Accelerator Program
The SME Growth Lab Africa (SGLAfrica) is a Digital Accelerator Program designed to empower business owners with digital skills, knowledge, mentorship, and community events with the aim of transforming their businesses and driving economic growth.
Key benefits of the program:
Training on business acumen: sales, marketing, finance & legal.
Mentorship from business experts
Access to business resources
Exclusive access to community events
Certificate of completion
Strategic partnerships
24/7 support
Plastics Innovation and Circularity Challenge in South Africa
With the support of the UK South Africa -Tech Hub, an initiative of the UK Government, SOLVE@Waterfront, and OceanHub Africa is calling for innovative solutions to address plastic issues in South Africa.
As the winning finalist of the plastic innovation and circularity challenge, you will:
Be awarded R175 000 to further develop your innovation and business
Be featured on the partners’ websites and their social media channels
Have a chance to pitch in front of investors and other stakeholders during the leading African event on ocean-impact innovation, Ocean Innovation Africa Summit,
Automatically secure admission in OceanHub Africa’s 2023-2024 cohort, 1st Pan-African accelerator program designed to support blue entrepreneurs
As the runner-up of the plastics innovation and circularity challenge, you will:
Be awarded R25 000 to further develop your innovation and business
Be featured on the partners’ websites and their social media channels
Have a chance to pitch in front of investors and other stakeholders during the leading African event on ocean-impact innovation, Ocean Innovation Africa Summit,
Automatically secure admission in OceanHub Africa’s 2023-2024 cohort, 1st Pan-African accelerator program designed to support blue entrepreneurs
The FUTURE AFRICA CHALLENGE is a special project administered by the Future Africa Leaders Foundation to motivate and inspire creativity in young people within Africa and Africans in the diaspora to proffer innovative solutions to the challenges in Africa.
The challenge is set to help the creative innovator actualize change and become a radical change agent, offering an investment grant of $10,000 to the most innovative applicant whose idea is solving problems with innovative means, methods, solutions, and projects.
Americas
2023 Call for Projects with Canadian Organisations
Canada’s national funding body has allocated funding for organizations collaborating on international R&D projects in all technological fields. Your project consortium must include at least one Canadian SME and an organization based in one of the Eureka member countries/regions.
Eligible Canadian SMEs may receive up to 50% reimbursement of eligible project costs up to a maximum total funding amount of $500,000 CAD over 12 to 36 months.