International Grants Database

The Fulbright Specialist Program sends U.S. faculty and professionals to serve as expert consultants on curriculum, faculty development, institutional planning, and related subjects at academic institutions abroad for a period of 2 to 6 weeks. Spanning a wide range of professional and academic fields, Fulbright Specialist projects have an educational or training focus, address institutional priorities, and promote beneficial linkages between American and foreign host institutions. Specialists may conduct activities including, but not limited to: delivering a seminar or workshop, consulting on faculty or workforce development, developing academic or training curricula and materials, lecturing at the graduate or undergraduate level, conducting needs assessments or evaluations for a program or institution.

Since 1923, the SSRC has awarded more than fifteen thousand fellowships to researchers around the globe. Council fellowship programs are strategic—they target specific problems, promote individual and institutional change, and expand networks. The SSRC Global Summer Semester Residency at the University of Göttingen is a short-term fellowship opportunity offered in collaboration with the Global and Transregional Studies Platform at the University of Göttingen in Germany. Support will be provided to a small cohort of researchers who are working on projects that reflect the existing research expertise at the University, and that build upon the Global and Transregional Studies Platform's research themes: Movements of Knowledge, Transregional Populisms, and Religious Networks. This collaboration exemplifies an ongoing goal of the SSRC’s InterAsia Program and its partners, and a specific goal of the Transregional Research Program, that of integrating trans- and cross-regional frameworks, as well as mechanisms for support, into existing university curricula and structures. Fellows will be provided with a small stipend for the three-month 2018 summer semester as well as in-kind support, and will be able to develop and work on their own projects while simultaneously benefitting from their placement in what we hope will serve as a German and European “hub” for international networks of transregional research.

The Japan Foundation provides funding to support greater learning about Japanese art and culture outside of Japan. This program is designed to provide financial support for foreign publishers to translate and/or publish Japan-related books. The grant shall cover part of the translation cost and/or publishing costs (paper costs, plate-making costs, printing costs, binding costs, etc.).

The Volkswagen Foundation is dedicated to the support of the humanities and social sciences as well as science and technology in higher education and research. Within the framework of “Symposia and Summer Schools”, the Foundation supports events which provide the opportunity to develop new ideas and cutting-edge research perspectives and to promote the discussion of topics and approaches which have not yet been addressed. Generally, these meetings have to have an interdisciplinary and international orientation. In exceptional and duly justified cases, it may also be possible to fund events within the context of a single discipline, provided that the results are expected to shed new light on the respective subject. The Foundation puts emphasis on a significant scientific issue as initial motivation and the active participation of young researchers (doctoral candidates and post-doctoral researchers). In addition, the Foundation expects a significant representation of women both as speakers and participants. The Foundation particularly wants to encourage the development and testing of new event formats and instruments to promote the interaction among the participants. The primary applicant should be affiliated with a German institution, but international collaborations are welcome.

The Kosciuszko Foundation invites American teachers of all subject areas and levels, American college/university students, and American high school students who are at least eighteen years of age, to apply for participation in a unique three-week educational and cultural exchange program in Poland. We also encourage Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and pre-service educators to apply. Applicants need not speak Polish or have Polish ancestry to apply to participate in the Teaching English in Poland Program. The Foundation will cover all expenses for volunteers during the duration of the program but does not offer additional compensation.

Israel Institute of Technology offers undergraduate and graduate studies in engineering, architecture and town planning, the sciences, and medicine. The Lady Davis Trust offers three types of Fellowships with Technion: visiting professors (two month posting), post-doctoral (one-year posting), and graduate students (full-time enrollment).

Founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka, as The School of Vision, the International Summer Academy offers a unique working environment at the Hohensalzburg Fortress, situated on a hill overlooking the city. The fellowship recipients study with well-known artists, curators and art critics from around the world and immerse themselves in a European contemporary art scene, quite different from their U.S. academic environment. The AAF/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts is a summer fellowship that provides the opportunity to study fine arts at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg in Austria. Fellows are provided full Summer Academy tuition, up to $1,500 in travel expenses, accommodations at Schloss Arenberg, and a stipend for meals. Current graduate students from U.S. schools or those who have just completed their graduate studies in the past two years may apply. Non-U.S. citizens are welcome to apply, as long as they are a student or recent graduate of an American art program.

The Korean Studies Workshop for Non-Korean Educators provides secondary-school teachers and education administrators outside of Korea an opportunity to promote understanding about Korea and broaden the scope of Korea-related education in classrooms. Education and research organizations abroad (including universities and research institutes) or Korea-related exchange organizations are eligible to apply for funding to hold Korea Studies workshops for secondary school educators, education administrators, textbook writers and others involved in education. It is recommended that there be at least 30 participants, of which 70 percent be occupied by teachers of history/social studies. Funds may be used to support inviting lecturers (honorarium, accommodations and transportation), employing administrative staff, producing source books or PR materials, organizing preparatory meetings, and/or accommodations for workshop participants.

The Distinguished Speakers Bureau (DSB) of the Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) supports public presentations by senior scholars in Japanese and Korean studies at American colleges and universities, especially those without well-established programs on East Asia. Colleges and universities may apply to host one of the distinguished scholars of Japan or Korea on the NEAC Distinguished Speakers Bureau. The invited speaker would be expected to give one formal, public lecture as well as meet with classes and interact extensively with host faculty and their students while on campus. NEAC grant monies fund the honorarium and air travel for the NEAC Distinguished Speaker, up to the amount of the approved NEAC grant award, and the host institution is responsible for all local costs (food, lodging, marketing, airport transfer, etc.). The DSB funds specific, identified speakers for presentations on specific topics relating to Japanese and Korean Studies each year. Check the grant website for a current list of funded presentations. The application period is open annually from July to December.

The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Japan-US Friendship Commission (JUFC), supports a variety of grant programs in Japanese studies designed to facilitate the research of individual scholars, to improve the quality of teaching about Japan on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Japan into the major academic disciplines in the United States. The following types of grants are available: Research Travel within the United States (up to $2,000), Short-Term Research Travel to Japan (up to $5,000), Seminars on Teaching about Japan (up to $5,000), Small Scholarly Conferences on Japanese Studies (up to $5,000), and Short Term Research Grants in the History of Japanese Studies (up to $3,500). Applicants must be current AAS members.

The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (NEAC), in conjunction with the Korea Foundation, offers a grant program in Korean studies designed to assist the research of individual scholars based in North America to improve the quality of teaching about Korea on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Korea into the major academic disciplines. Applicants must be current AAS members. Graduate student applicants in any grant category (where eligible) must provide an advisor recommendation letter—sent directly to the AAS by the advisor—in order to be considered for grant funding. Grants are available in the following categories: Research Travel - North America Grants are available to scholars who are based in North America and are engaged in research on Korea and wish to use museum, library, or other archival materials located in the United States and Canada; Short-term Research Travel Outside North America Grants are available for North American-based scholars to cover travel expenses on trips to Korea or other sites outside North America for projects explicitly related to Korean studies that can be accomplished in a relatively short period; Workshops and Conferences Grants are available for organizing conferences on Korea and held in North America, including support for planning meetings for larger conferences funded from other sources. Applications are accepted twice annually with deadlines in February and October.

The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (NEAC), in conjunction with the Korea Foundation, offers a grant program in Korean studies designed to assist the research of individual scholars based in North America in improving the quality of teaching about Korea and integrating the study of Korea into the major academic disciplines. Grants are available in the following categories: Research Travel - North America Grants of up to $1,500 are available to scholars who are based in North America and are engaged in research on Korea and wish to use museum, library, or other archival materials located in the United States and Canada; Short-term Research Travel Outside North America Grants of up to $5,000 are available for North American-based scholars to cover travel expenses on trips to Korea or other sites outside North America for projects explicitly related to Korean studies that can be accomplished in a relatively short period; Workshops and Conferences Grants of varying amounts are available for organizing conferences on Korea and held in North America, including support for planning meetings for larger conferences funded from other sources. Applicants must be current AAS members. Applications are accepted twice annually with deadlines in February and October.