To whom it might be of interest, we have made a short list of organizations and other institutions offering means of finance to researchers and students worldwide. The first selection focuses on financial agreements between two or more institutions in the South, while the second selection aims at facilitating cooperations between institutions in the North and those in the South, or vice versa. 

Should you have any questions about the information in the links below, please do not hesitate to contact us. Updates and alterations of websites are frequent so please take note that these programs change over time.

South – South

• TWAS offers fellowships and research grants for a duration from 3 up to 12 months. A distinction is made between postgraduate training, postdoctoral research, advanced research and research collaboration. The program focuses on Brazil, China, India, Pakistan and various developing countries. For more information please visit www.twas.org
  
  
• TWOWS offers postgraduate training fellowships for women in Sub-Saharan Africa or Least Developed Countries (LDC’s). Applications should reach the TWOWS secretariat by 31 May of each year. For more information please visit www.twows.org
  
  
• TWNSO joint research grants. At least one of the two cooperating institutions must be located in a least developed country. For more information please visit www.twnso.org
  
  
• Scidev regularly provides grants within the field of biotechnology, molecular genetics and biology. For more information please visit www.scidev.net/grants
  
  
• Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program. One must be citizen of an IFP member country in order to apply. For more information please visit www.ifpsa.org
  
  
• Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation Network offer grants, scholarships and fellowships. For more information please visit www.soros.org/grants
  
  
• The CGIAR has launched a new competitive grants program designed to cultivate stronger relationships between civil society organizations and the CGIAR in agricultural research for development. This initiative is part of the building blocks for further expanding engagement with CSOs and sharing knowledge for impact.  For more information please visit http://www.cgiar.org/csos/cso_cgiar_grant_program.html

North – South

• Scholarships for Development: Still can’t find a scholarship in your preferred field of study? or a scholarship in the university/country you want to study in? Explore more scholarships by looking into scholars4dev.com’s lists of scholarships in any field of study and scholarships for study in any country.
  

• VLIR-UOS offers over one hundred scholarships per year for international courses (ICP’s) and training programs (ITP’s). These courses are master programs, lasting one or two academic years, all of which lead to a master’s degree. They focus on specific problems of developing countries. The main target group for the courses are students from developing countries, although the courses can also be attended by students from other countries. For more information please visit www.vliruos.be/index.php?navid=425&direct_to=Scholarships

• University of Ghent, in collaboration with VLIR-UOS, offers a number of programs that include doctorate ships for Flemish researchers to continue their work in developing countries. For more information and guidelines please visit http://www.vliruos.be/index.php?language=EN&navid=425
  
  
• GrantsNet is the free resource service for research and training in Science Careers from the journal Science. For more information please visit http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/funding
  
  
• University of Toronto’s Joint Centre for Bioethics organizes a graduate study in bioethics, which offers a master of health science in bioethics and a doctoral stream Collaborative Program in Bioethics. For more information please visit the School of Graduate Studies website www.sgs.utoronto.ca or www.utoronto.ca/jcb/ethics/fellowship.htm
  
  
• UNESCO in collaboration with L’Oreal offers 15 fellowships for young women in life sciences. Study fields include biotechnology, biology, biochemistry and agriculture. Special attention is given to candidatures from the LDC’s.
  For more information please visit http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.phpURL_ID=14633&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
  
  
• ASM offers a wide range of fellowships, international professorships and travel grants. The program focuses on partnerships between North America and the rest of the world. For more information please visit http://www.asm.org/
  
  
• HFSP holds a Research Grant and Fellowship Program for young scientists all over the world. Two types of grants are available: young investigators’ grants and program grants. For more information please visit http://www.hfsp.org/about/AboutProg.php
  
  
  
• NATO Science Program offers collaborative grants, among them one about food security. For more information please visit http://www.nato.int/science/nato_funded_activities/nato_funded_activities.htm
  
  
  
• NSF grants for institutions in the USA offer a wide spectrum of funding projects within the field of biological sciences. For more information please visit http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=BIO
  
  
  
• EMBO offers long-term fellowships for a period up to 2 years and for advanced postdoctoral research.  EMBO also offers a number of short-term fellowships for a period up to 3 months and aimed at collaborative research and intended for both EMBC members states and non-member states. For non-European applicants the fellowships are for a fixed duration of 90 days. Deadlines are ideally 3 months before a proposed start date. For more information please visit http://www.embo.org/fellowships/index.html
  
  
  
• Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) frequently updates its offer of fellowships and professorships. For more information please visit http://www.sfi.ie/content/content.asp?section_id=574
  
  
  
• CSO-CGIAR offers a competitive grant program designed to cultivate stronger relationships between civil society organizations and the CGIAR in agricultural research for development. This initiative is part of the building blocks for further expanding engagement with CSOs and sharing knowledge for impact. For more information please visit http://www.cgiar.org/csos/cso_cgiar_grant_program.html
  
  
  
• ICGEB yearly holds a number of fellowships and research grants within the field of genetic engineering and biotechnology. For more information please visit http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/fellowships.html
  
  
• CEU-Canon Foundation in Europe grants up to 15 Research Fellowships annually to highly qualified European and Japanese researchers. For more information please visit: http://www.canonfoundation.org/_images/_bulletin/bulletin_2009.pdf
  http://www.canonfoundation.org/