Deadline: CLOSED
Award: Socially-Responsible Design’s Highest Award and $100,000 prize.
The Buckminster Fuller Institute formally announces the Call for Proposals to the 2015 Fuller Challenge. Recognized as “Socially-Responsible Design’s Highest Award”, the Fuller Challenge invites activists, architects, artists, designers, entrepreneurs, scientists, students and planners from all over the world to submit their innovative solutions to some of humanity’s most pressing problems. A $100,000 prize is awarded to support the development and implementation of one outstanding strategy. Entries will be accepted until March 31, 2015 at 5pm EDT
If you know of a project that demonstrates excellence in comprehensive problem solving and anticipatory design, please enter the project name and contact information via this link: RECOMMEND A PROJECT
If you yourself are interested in applying, register your intent by emailing challenge@bfi.org
THE FULLER CHALLENGE CRITERIA
Winning entries for the last six years have applied a rare combination of pragmatic, visionary, comprehensive and anticipatory thinking to tackling issues as broad as urban mobility, coastal restoration and innovation in biomaterials packaging. BFI has created an application process for entry to the Fuller Challenge in which global change makers grapple deeply with a unique set of criteria.
FORWARD THE CALL!
If you know someone or you are that someone working on a holistic solution to make the world work for 100%? Read below for more information on what BFI is looking for, download the full Call for Proposals, and APPLY!
Follow the links below for more information:
http://bfi.org/dymaxion-forum/2015/02/2015-call-proposals
http://bfi.org/dymaxion-forum/2015/01/recommend-project-2015-fuller-challenge
Monash International Merit Scholarship
Benefits: Total average value of up to $50,000 (based on a 5 year degree)
$10,000 for a full time study load (48 credit points) paid per year until the minimum number of points for your degree are completed
Number Offered
31 scholarships will be available in 2015. Applications from students from all countries are invited and countries with strategic priorities for Monash will be given preference.
Selection
Based on academic achievement
Students will also be assessed on their scholarship application statement (1000 words), and their potential to be an ambassador for Monash University
Preference will be given to commencing students.
Eligibility
International student
Commencing students with a full Monash course offer or continuing students, and
Undertaking a full time undergraduate or postgraduate (coursework) degree at a Monash campus in Australia.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.monash.edu/study/scholarships/international/international-merit
$10,000 for a full time study load (48 credit points) paid per year until the minimum number of points for your degree are completed
Number Offered
31 scholarships will be available in 2015. Applications from students from all countries are invited and countries with strategic priorities for Monash will be given preference.
Selection
Based on academic achievement
Students will also be assessed on their scholarship application statement (1000 words), and their potential to be an ambassador for Monash University
Preference will be given to commencing students.
Eligibility
International student
Commencing students with a full Monash course offer or continuing students, and
Undertaking a full time undergraduate or postgraduate (coursework) degree at a Monash campus in Australia.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.monash.edu/study/scholarships/international/international-merit
International Master in Rural Development (IMRD)
The joint International Master in Rural Development (IMRD), part of the European Commission's Erasmus Mundus JMD programme, offers the opportunity to become an international expert on rural development in its diversity of approaches and applications, on a scholarship provided by the European Union.
The IMRD master course programme, is a high level academic programme aimed at training top students from all over the world into specialists in integrated rural development, focussed on socio-economic and institutional aspects; not only from the European Union but also from developed, developing and transition countries outside the EU. The IMRD master course programme is a 2 year master programme (120 ECTS) jointly organised by 16 worldwide leading universities in rural development and agricultural economics. The methodology consists of a combination of basic and specialised training in technical, economic and social sciences, a case study of one month, an individual master thesis and a high extent of student and scholar mobility.
Depending on their geographic interest and foreseen specialisation, students may opt for a regional and specific comparative course programme which leads to the awarding of a double degree on rural development and agricultural Economics (i.e. the IMRD joint diploma + a national diploma of a non-EU partner).
applications.imrd@ugent.be
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.imrd.ugent.be/index.asp?p=86&a=86
The IMRD master course programme, is a high level academic programme aimed at training top students from all over the world into specialists in integrated rural development, focussed on socio-economic and institutional aspects; not only from the European Union but also from developed, developing and transition countries outside the EU. The IMRD master course programme is a 2 year master programme (120 ECTS) jointly organised by 16 worldwide leading universities in rural development and agricultural economics. The methodology consists of a combination of basic and specialised training in technical, economic and social sciences, a case study of one month, an individual master thesis and a high extent of student and scholar mobility.
Depending on their geographic interest and foreseen specialisation, students may opt for a regional and specific comparative course programme which leads to the awarding of a double degree on rural development and agricultural Economics (i.e. the IMRD joint diploma + a national diploma of a non-EU partner).
applications.imrd@ugent.be
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.imrd.ugent.be/index.asp?p=86&a=86
The MasterCard Foundation $50 Million Fund to Help Small holder Farmers in Africa
The Foundation’s “Fund for Rural
Prosperity” will promote innovation in financial services to improve the lives
of one million financially excluded people
The MasterCard Foundation has
launched a US$50 million challenge fund to improve the lives of smallholder
farmers in Africa by enabling businesses to begin or expand financial services
in rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa.
The
MasterCard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity
will support innovative ideas that have the potential to grow to scale and also
have a deep social impact on the lives of rural people living in poverty
throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. The Fund will operate under two broad
categories:
- Innovation: $15 million will support the development of ideas for new products, services or processes that increase access to finance for the rural poor; and
- Scaling: $35 million will help to scale the most promising ideas or pilots that have the potential to drive financial inclusion for smallholder farmers in new geographic areas.
The MasterCard Foundation Fund for
Rural Prosperity will be managed by KPMG International Advisory Services .
Initial applications for innovation proposals will be accepted from January 20, 2015 to March 20, 2015
for projects in 24 countries (see list of countries below). Later in the
year, applicants will have the opportunity to submit proposals for scaling
business ideas, products or services in eight countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana,
Kenya, Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia). More information,
including application forms, guidance notes and details on eligible countries
are on the website: www.frp.org
The
24 countries where The MasterCard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity will
operate its innovation competition are: Burundi, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon,
Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, DRC, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia,
Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone,
Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zambia.
For more information, please
contact:
Rose Ndung’u
Operations Manager
The MasterCard Foundation Fund for
Rural Prosperity
+254-722-945-712
Roger Morier
Senior Communications Manager,
Financial Inclusion
The MasterCard Foundation
+1-416-616-1864
CODESRIA National Working Groups: Call for 2015 Proposals
Deadline: CLOSED
Grants range between USD7, 500 and USD20,000.
CODESRIA uses National Working Groups (NWGs) Programme to mobilize national-level research capacities and channel them into organised reflections.
NWG sizes vary over time and space but most of the groups sponsored by CODESRIA in the past have had between five and seven members. It is advantageous to ensure that a proposed NWG is multidisciplinary in composition, sensitive to gender issues both in its composition and research concerns, and accommodating of younger scholars who might simultaneously benefit from being mentored through their participation in the research project.
NWG proposals can focus on any topic that explores the economy, politics, culture, environment and society in any African country.
All proposals for CODESRIA’s 2015 NWG competition should be sent electronically to CODESRIA at nwg@codesria.sn by 15 March, 2015 at the latest. All proposals received will undergo an independent review process and successful applicants will be informed by 20 April, 2015. Kindly use the subject line NWG 2015 in your email to ensure your application does not get lost.
Visit CODESRIA official website for more details: http://www.codesria.org
CODESRIA National Working Groups Programme,
CODESRIA,
Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop x Canal IV
BP 3304, CP 18524
Dakar, Senegal.
Tel: +221-33 825 98 22/23
Fax: +221-33 824 12 89
E-Mail: nwg@codesria.sn
Website: http://www.codesria.org
Grants range between USD7, 500 and USD20,000.
CODESRIA uses National Working Groups (NWGs) Programme to mobilize national-level research capacities and channel them into organised reflections.
NWG sizes vary over time and space but most of the groups sponsored by CODESRIA in the past have had between five and seven members. It is advantageous to ensure that a proposed NWG is multidisciplinary in composition, sensitive to gender issues both in its composition and research concerns, and accommodating of younger scholars who might simultaneously benefit from being mentored through their participation in the research project.
NWG proposals can focus on any topic that explores the economy, politics, culture, environment and society in any African country.
All proposals for CODESRIA’s 2015 NWG competition should be sent electronically to CODESRIA at nwg@codesria.sn by 15 March, 2015 at the latest. All proposals received will undergo an independent review process and successful applicants will be informed by 20 April, 2015. Kindly use the subject line NWG 2015 in your email to ensure your application does not get lost.
Visit CODESRIA official website for more details: http://www.codesria.org
CODESRIA National Working Groups Programme,
CODESRIA,
Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop x Canal IV
BP 3304, CP 18524
Dakar, Senegal.
Tel: +221-33 825 98 22/23
Fax: +221-33 824 12 89
E-Mail: nwg@codesria.sn
Website: http://www.codesria.org
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