31 Mar Research Collaboration Fund Call for Proposals 2025
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The UGPN is pleased to announce the Research Collaboration Fund (RCF) call for proposals 2025.
The RCF supports international activities leading to high-quality research collaborations between UGPN partner institutions.
For the RCF 2025 call, the network particularly welcomes proposals which:
- Food and water solutions: Addressing food and water challenges across the human, plant, and animal dimensions. Includes the nexus of food security, water scarcity, infectious diseases, and the environment, as well as related social structures, policies, and supply chains that impact global and local communities.
- Climate change and healthy communities: Protecting the health of human populations, animals, and the environment from the effects of climate change and avoiding widening health inequities among ageing adults and other vulnerable populations. Includes the challenges of climate resilient built and natural environments; sustainable cities, communities and campuses; agricultural production; and nature-based health solutions.
- One Health: The idea that the health of humans is connected to the health of other animals, plants, biodiversity and the environment. This call particularly welcomes proposals addressing the one health theme in the following topics:
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- Agricultural production and land use
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- Antimicrobial resistance
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- Biodiversity and climate change
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- Disease surveillance, prevention and response of chronic and infectious diseases
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- Environmental health and sustainability
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- Food safety and food security
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- Global trade, commerce and security
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- Mental health
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- Occupational health
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- Social structures, public policy, and ethics
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- Water safety and security
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- Wellbeing of humans, animals and ecosystems
Key Information
- Funding Amount: Up to $10,000 per institution (up to $30,000 for trilateral projects)
- Eligibility: Faculty from at least two UGPN institutions must be involved
- Application Deadline: Monday, 19 May 2025
For full details on the funding call, eligibility, and application process, please visit the RCF call webpage.
For any questions, please contact [email protected].