University Units - Funding Opportunities - Call for Proposals

Ran Naor Foundation - Promotion of Road Safety Research - Scholarship grants RDA Announcement Forms	The goal of the Ran Naor Foundation is to reduce the high human and economic costs of road accidents via research. The Foundation awards scholarship grants for students whose projects are related to improving road safety.
Naval Research Laboratory - Broad Agency Announcement	The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the American Navy's corporate laboratory. NRL conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines. The basic research program is driven by perceptions about future requirements of the Navy.
The Batsheva de Rothschild Foundation - Support of Seminars - Natural Science Research Seminars RDA Announcement Call for proposals	Keren Batsheva de Rothschild for the Advancement of Science in Israel (Foundation), of the National Academy of Science in Israel, attaches great importance to promoting innovative research topics that are interdisciplinary in nature, by encouraging the cooperation of university researchers throughout the country to create a new "scientific infrastructure" .To this end, the fund is promoting the natural sciences.
The Research Fund on Insurance Matters RDA Announcement Call for proposals	The Research Fund on Insurance Matters welcomes applications for financial support for the purpose of conducting research on insurance matters, especially on the subject of motor bodily injury insurance, and other insurance branches of importance to the public interest.
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International - Conference Grants	The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation supports scientific meetings, conferences, and workshops relevant to its mission
The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) - Request for applications Announcement Call for proposals	The award program is designed to enhance the existing support of autism research by providing timely resources to enable focused experiments highly relevant to the mission. A deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying autism spectrum disorders or potential therapeutic approaches will require investigation at multiple levels, including but not limited to studies focused on gene discovery, molecular mechanisms, circuits, anatomy, and cognition and behavior. Deadline: Applications will be accepted online at proposalCENTRAL starting 1 June 2011. Applications are considered on a rolling basis, with a response time as early as 30 days.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - Science for Peace and Security Project RDA Announcement	The Science for Peace and Security Programme (SPS) offers grants to scientists in NATO, Partner, and Mediterranean Dialogue countries to collaborate on priority research topics. Multi-year Science for Peace (SfP) Project grants offer support for applied research and development projects to cover project-related costs such as scientific equipment, computers, software, travel and training of project personnel and project-specific consumables.
Thrasher Fund - Medical research grants to improve the lives of children RDA Announcement	The Thrasher Fund awards grants for pediatric medical research that offers substantial promise for meaningful advances in prevention and treatment of children's diseases, particularly research that offers broad-based applications. Between 5 – 10% of the Foundation's grants are awarded to institutes outside the U.S.
The Broad Medical Research Program - Research Grants RDA Announcement	The Broad Medical Research Program (BMRP) aims to help persons with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) by stimulating innovative, early stage research that opens new avenues for the diagnosis, therapy and prevention of these diseases.
BARD - Bi-National Agricultural Research and Development - MARD	The purpose of the new Facilitating Grant program is to enable small multinational research groups to jointly prepare a detailed research proposal, focused on a priority area listed below, to be submitted to other international granting organizations. The grant could also be used to fund preliminary research that would strengthen the team’s proposal when applying to the international granting agency. Priority areas: Ø Plant and animal production Ø Plant and animal diseases Ø Irrigation and water quality issues Ø Food quality and safety Ø Technology transfer and capacity building
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – Research Grants RDA ANNOUNCEMENT Guidelines	The DFG is the central, self-governing research funding organization that promotes research at universities and other publicly financed research institutions in Germany. The DFG serves all branches of science and the humanities by funding research projects and facilitating cooperation among researchers.
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Mercator Visiting Professorships RDA ANNOUNCEMENT Guidelines	The DFG offers the Mercator Programme to enable Germany's research universities to invite highly qualified scientists and academics working abroad to complete a DFG-funded stay at their institutes. The visit should focus on joint cooperative projects by the guest and host. By assuming teaching duties, visiting professors will contribute to providing a clear international dimension to the research-oriented training of young researchers in the host departments.
Israel Anti-Drug Authority RDA Announcement Forms	The Israel Anti Drug Authority awards grants for research on drug abuse, for improvement of the infrastructure ability to deal with drug abuse.
Human Frontier Science Program: short term Fellowships	The HFSP supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms; topics range from molecular and cellular approaches to systems and cognitive neuroscience. a clear emphasis is placed on novel collaborations that brings biologists together with scientists from fields such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science and engineering to focus on problems at the frontier of the life sciences.
The Middle East Desalination Research Center	The Middle East Desalination Research Center is an international non-profit organization, based in Muscat, Oman. The mission of the Center’s research program is to conduct, support and coordinate basic and applied R&D in water desalination and supporting fields, with the overall objective to reduce the cost of desalination.
National Geographic Society Grants RDA Announcement	The National Geographic Society (NGS) awards grants for scientific field research and exploration through its Committee for Research and Exploration (CRE). All proposed projects must have both a geographical dimension and relevance to other scientific fields and be of broad scientific interest. Applications are generally limited to the following disciplines: anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, biology, botany, geography, geology, oceanography, paleontology, and zoology.
William T. Grant Foundation: Research Grants	The goal of the William T. Grant Foundation is to help create a society that values young people and enables them to reach their full potential.
Manof Foundation (Keren Manof: Ha-Mosad Le-Bituach Leumi) General Guidelines Forms	SCIENTIFIC AREAS: Keren Manof supports research that will lead to prevention of occupational injuries, and the promotion of occupational health and safety. SUPPORT PERIOD: 1-3 years. The average funding level is 100,000 NIS per year. Requests for funding exceeding the average funding level will be considered provided the justification is adequate
Michael J. Fox Parkinson Foundation	Supports innovative, high-risk/high-reward projects tackling critical scientific and therapeutic roadblocks that, if successful, open new avenues for PD therapy development. The program accelerates work in real time through the use of a unique rolling submission deadline and six -weeks-or-less funding decisions. The program is well suited to projects with little-to-no existing preliminary data.
The Spencer Foundation - Major Research Grants RDA Announcement	The Spencer Foundation provides funding for investigations that promise to yield new knowledge about education in the United States or abroad. The Foundation funds research grants that range in size from smaller grants that can be completed within a year, to larger, multi-year endeavors. Whereas in the past the Foundation had two distinct research grant programs based on budget size, we now have reorganized our research grant programs around the areas of inquiry identified on our home page.
Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Jewish Studies The Ruth and Baruch Rappaport Center for Assimilation Research and Strengthening Jewish Vitality	In order to encourage serious and sustained research into the analysis of phenomena and processes in contemporary Jewish life that contribute to assimilation, and into successful counter-strategies, the Rappaport center offers research grants to scholars, thus enabling them to carry out original research culminating in a research paper appropriate for inclusion in the center's publication series. Researchers interested in conducting studies in topics which are relevant to the Rappaport Center are requested to send a written proposal that will include a short description of the proposed study and its predicted contribution to the promotion of the Rappaport Center goals.
Advancing Diabetes Care to Cure Aplication for Young Investigators Travel Grants	D-Cure Travel grants are intended for investigators whose work has been accepted for presentation in an international diabetes-related meeting taking place during 2008. The applicant must be first author on an accepted abstract. If applicable, D-Cure support of the research should be indicated on the abstract.