Latest Funding Opportunities

By the SMU Corporate Communications team

Launch Date

Deadline for Submission to ORE

Deadline for Submission to Funding Agency

Funding Agency / Grant Name

Scope

Quantum

Sep 2014

Oct 2014

Nov 2014

MSF / Family Research Fund (FRF) Grant Call 2014

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Aim to promote research on emerging family trends and issues in Singapore. Applicants can choose to develop their research proposals based on these Suggested Research Topics, or related to the MSF’s Family Research Agenda.

Up to $100,000 

Sep 2014

N.A.

Oct 2014

East Asian Development Network (EADN) / Individual Research Grants

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Research proposals related to economics, human development, political and social dynamics, gender issues, international relations and other topics within the social sciences will be considered. Topics related to the Research Priority Areas are encouraged.

US$5,000 to US$15,000 

Aug 2014

Sep 2014

Oct 2014

NRF / 14th CRP Grant Call (General: All Areas of Science and Technology)

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Seek to foster the formation of multi-disciplinary teams in Singapore to conduct cutting-edge research of relevance to Singapore. This will be a general/open call for research ideas in all areas of science and technology, except biomedical sciences. Research ideas at the intersection of multiple disciplines are encouraged

Offer funding support for programmes of varying size, up to a period of 5 years. 

N.A.

N.A.

Oct 2014

Microsoft Research / Windows Azure Research Award Program

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The Windows Azure for Research Award Program facilitates and accelerates scholarly and scientific research by enabling researchers to use the power of Windows Azure to perform big data computations in the cloud.

Large allocations of Windows Azure storage and compute resources for a period of one year.

Mar 2014

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Nov 2014

The Spencer Foundation / Small Research Grants in the Areas of Inquiry

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Invite research proposals in (a) the relation between education and social opportunity; (b) organisational learning in schools, school systems and higher education systems; (c) teaching, learning and instructional resources; (d) purposes and values of education; (e) field-initiated proposals.

Up to US$50,000

Mar 2014

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Nov 2014

 

The Spencer Foundation / Initiative on the New Civics 

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Invite research proposals that ask critical questions about how education can more effectively contribute to the civic development of young people.

Up to US$50,000

 

Mar 2014

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N.A.

The Spencer Foundation / Initiative on Philosophy in Educational Policy and Practice (IPEPP)

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Strengthen work that brings the tools and perspectives of contemporary moral and political philosophy to bear on concrete problems that may arise in addressing problems of education practice and policy.

Up to US$40,000


Please contact the respective grant managers if you are interested to apply for the above programmes.

 
Office of Research, Singapore Management University