Latest Funding Opportunities

Jan 2015

Feb 2015

Mar 2015

Ministry of Education (MOE) / Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2, 2/2015 Feb 2015.

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Support research in Singapore-based universities for all disciplines that have academic significance and good potential for creating new knowledge.

S$100,000 to S$1 million

Dec 2014

Jan 2015

Feb 2015

Singapore NRF Fellowship (Class of 2016) 

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Support outstanding, early-stage career researchers to carry out independent research in Singapore. It is a globally competitive programme and is open to all areas of science and technology. 

Five-year research grant of up to S$3 million
(inclusive of overheads)

Oct 2014

Dec 2014

Jan 2015

MDA / Academic Engagement Programme (AEP) 

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Aim to encourage researchers to work on projects that can provide valuable inputs into MDA’s policy formulation process, and develop a network and knowledge base for media-related issues.

Up to S$100,000

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Feb 2015

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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Feb 2015

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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Feb 2015

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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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