Are you a scientist looking for funding, fellowships, or career advancement? This curated list features 19 global opportunities currently open for scientists across various disciplines. Whether you’re seeking grants, scholarships, or research collaborations, explore these opportunities and take your career to the next level!
1. IOCAfrica Travel Grants for African ECOPs to Attend the UN Ocean Conference and the One Ocean Science Congress 2025.
The importance of African ECOP representation in global ocean governance, IOCAFRICA will provide travel, accommodation, and subsistence support for selected African ECOPs to attend UNOC3 and the OOS Congress.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 31
2. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Metascience & Al Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025.
This is a postdoctoral fellowship program for grants of up to $250,000 USD to support early career researchers in the social sciences and humanities with particular emphasis on philosophy, sociology of science, and metascience) who are interested in building a career in understanding the implications of Al for the science and research ecosystem.
Click here to apply | Deadline: April 10
3. International AIDS Society (IAS) HIV Vaccine Science Academy 2025.
The HIV Vaccine Science Academy aims at supporting early- and mid-career investigators conducting HIV vaccine research in Africa by providing opportunities for training, networking and mentorship. The Academy is designed to support the participants in establishing themselves as independent researchers and team leaders in their respective host institutions, thus contributing to long-term continuity, networking and research ownership in central, eastern, southern and western Africa in the effort to develop a safe and effective HIV vaccine.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Ongoing
4. University of Toronto Interdisciplinary Science Program in Research and Entrepreneurship (INSPIRE) 2025.
Science is becoming increasingly collaborative and interdisciplinary. The INSPIRE Scholars Program introduces students to the cutting-edge of research in the quantitative biological and translational sciences. Learn how researchers from physicists to computer scientists are developing biophysical technologies and exploiting artificial intelligence and computational models to understand the biological world. This immersive, interdisciplinary program is designed to prepare students for graduate school and beyond.
Click here to apply | Deadline: April 1
5. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Impact Awards 2025.
SSHRC Impact Awards are designed to build on and sustain Canada’s research-based knowledge culture in all research areas of the social sciences and humanities. The awards recognize outstanding researchers and celebrate their research achievements, research training, knowledge mobilization and outreach activities funded partially or entirely by SSHRC.
Click here to apply | Deadline: April 1
6. TWAS-Abdool Karim Award in Biological Sciences 2025.
This award, named after TWAS President Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim, is designed to honour women scientists in Least Developed African countries for their achievements in Biological Sciences.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 14
7. Al for Science Masters Program at AIMS South Africa 2025.
Al for Science is a stream in AIMS South Africa’s Master’s degree in Mathematical Science, made possible through a partnership with Google DeepMind. The program sits at the exciting intersection of Al and the Sciences. This exciting program started with its first intake of students in September 2023. It is a fully residential one-year taught masters with a research component.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 21
8. Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Global Science Scholars Program 2025.
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network (CZ Biohub Network) and the Stellar Science Foundation (SS-F) invite applications for the Global Science Scholars program, an up to two-year international postdoctoral fellowship program between the U.S. and Japan designed to advance excellence in bioengineering and biomedical research by supporting early-career researchers to advance their careers and conduct groundbreaking science in U.S. and Japanese research labs.
Click here to apply | Deadline: May 27
9. Science Without Borders® Challenge 2025.
The Science Without Borders® Challenge is an international contest that engages students and teachers in ocean conservation through art. This annual competition inspires students to be creative while promoting public awareness of the need to preserve, protect, and restore the world’s oceans and aquatic resources, contributing to the overarching goals of the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 3
10. UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea Fellowship Programme 2025 for Young Women Scientists in Africa.
UNESCO and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea are launching for the first time a fellowship programme entirely dedicated to young African women scientists. It is designed to create concrete opportunities for young women to become actively involved in various life science disciplines in the African continent.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 31
11. Innovation Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Centre (ISC3) Innovation Challenge 2025.
They are seeking groundbreaking chemistry or chemical technology innovations that tackle climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 3
12. TWAS Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators (SG-NAPI) 2025.
With the support of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), UNESCO-TWAS launched a new programme to strengthen the capacity of African countries lagging in science and technology. The programme is aimed at early career researchers who have obtained their PhD abroad and have recently returned or will shortly return to an academic position in their home country.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 27
13. LCRF Leading Edge Research Grant Program 2025.
Lung cancer continues to be the number one cause of cancer deaths worldwide, accounting for an estimated 130,180 deaths annually in the United States alone. Despite being the most common cancer killer of both men and women, lung cancer research remains critically underfunded.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 3
14. Royal Society Biology Letters Early Career Researcher Competition 2025.
Biology Letters has been a home for quality research since 2005. In that time, they have cultivated great relationships with scientists from across the world and at different stages in their career. This is especially true for early career researchers (ECR) who may be starting to submit their studies for publication the first time.
Click here to apply | Deadline: April 30
15. EMBL-UNESCO Residency in Infection Biology Research 2025.
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), are calling for applications from young women scientists working on infection biology to conduct a short-term research project at EMBL during 2025.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 31
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