Latest Funding Opportunities

Jun 2014

Sep 2014

Sep 2014

Merlion Programme 2014 - Call for Proposals

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Create or strengthen existing scientific co-operation between France and Singapore. Three types of grants are covered in this programme – the Merlion Project, Merlion Workshop, and Merlion PhD Project (for PhD students only).
 

It requires a balanced funding between the France and Singapore partners and the support provided is mainly for logistical purposes.

May 2014

Jul 2014

Aug 2014

Ministry of Education (MOE) / Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2, 1/2015 Aug 2014

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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

May 2014

Jun 2014

Jun 2014

MOE Academies Fund Request for Proposals

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Fund development and research projects that will contribute to the enhancement of pedagogical practices or the professional development of teachers, and provide opportunities for the Academies to focus on identifying key pedagogical and professional development approaches for researchers to test, evaluate and propose areas of improvements

Tier 1: Below $100,000

Tier 2: From $100,000 to less than $250,000

Tier 3: $250,000 and above

May 2014

Jun 2014

Aug 2014

Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) Risk Management Research Program –2014 Call for Proposals

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The GARP Research Committee will favor proposals covering the following topics though other topics will be considered.

• Risk Governance and the Board of Directors 
• Risks of central clearing
• Risks of the shadow banking system
• Variability of risk measures
• New approaches to extreme tail risk measurement
• New approaches to operational risk measurement

US$15,000

Mar 2014

Jun 2014

Jul 2014

eduLab (an MOE-NIE initiative) / eduLab Project Funding

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IHLs are to partner teachers (primary, secondary or JC levels) in developing pedagogical innovations that are enriched by Interactive Digital Media (IDM). The innovation should involve one or more curricular subjects at the primary, secondary or JC levels, and be related to at least 1 of these themes: a) ICT for Self-Directed Learning; b) ICT for Collaborative Learning; c) ICT in Assessment.

Tier 1: Below S$200,000

Tier 2: S$200,000 to less than S$1 million

Tier 3: S$1 milllion and above

May 2014

May 2014

Jun 2014

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Welfare Foundation (MSIWF) Research Grant – 2014 Call for Applications

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Research in the areas of (1) senior citizen welfare, and (2) traffic safety.

Up to S$10,000

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Jun 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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Jun 2014

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

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To 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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Jun 2014

The Spencer Foundation / Initiative on the New Civics 

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To 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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To 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

May 2014
(TBC)

Jun 2014
(TBC)

Jul 2014
(TBC)

A*STAR Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) / Public Sector Research Funding (PSF)

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Seek proposal in areas of upstream research, and/or exploring novel concepts.

Up to S$1 million