[ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Grand Challenges Explorations | Research Funding ]
Event details
Date | 02.05.2018 |
Category | Call for proposal |
Aim: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting proposals for the latest round of Grand Challenges Explorations, which foster early-stage discovery research to expand the pipeline of ideas for solving our greatest global health and development challenges. Three main challenges are presented this call:
Funding: USD $100,00 initially, with up to USD $1 million in follow-up funding given project success.
Eligibility: Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.
How to Apply: Applications are only two pages, and no preliminary data is required.
Application Deadline: Wednesday 2 May 2017, 11:30 am PST (20:30 CEST)
Further information
- Affordable, accessible, and appealing: the next generation of nutrition
- Tools and technologies for broad-scale disease surveillance of crop-plants in low-income countries
- Innovations in immunization data management, use, and improved process efficiency
Funding: USD $100,00 initially, with up to USD $1 million in follow-up funding given project success.
Eligibility: Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.
How to Apply: Applications are only two pages, and no preliminary data is required.
Application Deadline: Wednesday 2 May 2017, 11:30 am PST (20:30 CEST)
Further information
- Application instructions are Challenge-specific, and can be found on the webpages linked above.
- Summaries of successful Grand Challenge grants can be found here.
- For more general information about the GCE program, see here.
- For any other questions, contact the Research Office.
Practical information
- General public
- Free