Tag: Grants

FMSH: Themis Programme Grants (France)

GrantsCall for applications: Themis Programme, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH), Paris, France. Deadline: 23 November 2026.

Thanks to the Marquis bequest, the FMSH supports the intellectual community in countries marked by various obstacles to academic freedom. The Themis mobility program is dedicated to researchers whose fields and research are hindered.

The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme offers mobility grants for stays in France of 2 to 3 months for researchers of all nationalities who face obstacles to academic freedom in their countries.

This mobility grant is intended for research work in France: fieldwork, library and archive work.

A monthly allowance of €2,000 is awarded to fellows to cover travel and living expenses. In addition, the FMSH provides assistance in obtaining a visa to France.

Information on other FMSH programs available here.

Carnegie Foundation: Peacebuilding & Mediation Grants 2027

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Peacebuilding and Mediation grants, Carnegie Foundation, New York, NY, USA. Deadline: concept notes due 8 November 2026.

Armed conflict is now at its highest recorded level since the Second World War, and the international mechanisms built to prevent, manage, and respond to it have weakened. The Andrew Carnegie Foundation’s International Program responds to this challenge through complementary lines of work: preventing violence before it escalates, mitigating or resolving ongoing warfare, ensuring accountability for violations that have already occurred, and building the foundations for lasting peace once conflict subsides.

Inspired by Andrew Carnegie’s founding vision, the International Program is guided by a definition of peace that extends beyond the absence of armed conflict and violence to the active creation of conditions that sustain nonviolent growth and change. The International Program seeks to support organizations that, through peacebuilding and mediation work, mitigate or prevent armed conflict and political violence, build the foundations for lasting peace, and shape policy and practice. They are looking for:

  • Credible diplomatic, dialogue, and mediation initiatives, from formal engagement to grassroots efforts.
  • Innovative and nonconventional interventions that existing peacebuilding and mediation models have not yet tested.
  • Research that is action-oriented and supports peacebuilding, with a clear connection to policymakers and practitioners.
  • A clear theory of change for shifting conditions that lead to violence.
  • Organizations that have strong relationships with local and regional actors, and whose access and expertise position them to shape the processes that lead to durable peace.
  • Work in which the U.S. is a central party to peacebuilding and mediation efforts. (Note: this is a preference but not a requirement.)
  • All regions, prioritizing violent conflicts where conditions create a genuine window of opportunity.

Creative Europe: Culture Helps Solidarity Grants

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Culture Helps Solidarity Grants, Creative Europe Programme,  European Union. Deadline: 10 November 2026.

Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає is a Creative Europe-funded project running from October 2025 until March 2028- that empowers Ukrainian arts and cultural professionals to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war. These calls are a part of a longer series of opportunities. Multiple rounds follow across different formats, including rolling individual grants, project-based support linked to learning and training, and additional collaboration grants. Together, these calls create sustained pathways for both care and cooperation, allowing cultural professionals and organisations to plan, recover and continue their work over time rather than through one-off interventions.

Open Call for Second round of Collaboration Grants

Culture Helps Solidarity is launching its second and final call for Collaboration Grants. This call supports international projects that use arts and culture to aid the integration of displaced Ukrainians into host communities, with a strong focus on mental well-being, vulnerable groups, and veterans.

The fund prioritises cross-border partnerships between at least one Ukrainian-led organisation (operating in Ukraine or in exile) and at least one organisation based in a Creative Europe country. Grants of up to €20,000 are available for partnerships of two organisations, and up to €30,000 for partnerships involving three or more partners. The projects should foster intercultural dialogue, professional exchange, and long-term solidarity.

This open call is the second and final call for proposals for collaboration grants. At least 15 international projects will be awarded. Culture Helps Solidarity will continue to open Calls for thematic project grants and individual care grants also in 2027.

European Heritage Hub: Small Grants for Heritage Related Projects (EU)

GrantsSmall grants for heritage-related projects led by civil society in EU candidate and neighbouring countries, European Heritage Hub, European Union. Deadline for eligibility assessment: 7 September 2026.

The EU-funded European Heritage Hub aims to empower heritage stakeholders from candidate and neighbouring countries of the European Union to become active protagonists of the wider European heritage movement, thereby enhancing the ever-closer relationship between these countries and the European Union. As part of this mission, the Hub is launching the second edition of its Small Grants Scheme, with support from the ALIPH Foundation.

Civil society from 11 neighbouring countries of the European Union (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo*, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Ukraine) are eligible to apply.

Objectives of the call:

  • Building the capacity of civil society;
  • Enhancing the key role of cultural heritage for the triple transformation (green, digital and social);
  • Strengthening democracy, the rule of law and other fundamental rights and values;
  • Building peace and stability, through enhancing intercultural and interreligious dialogue and reconciliation.

Lisle International: Global Seed Grant Program 2026

GrantsGlobal Seed Grants, Lisle International, Leander, TX, USA. Deadlines: Last date to Request to apply: 2 June 2026; Completed application: 1 September 2026.

Do you have a project idea that will bring people of diverse backgrounds together for shared learning? Lisle International provides Global Seed Grants to support innovative projects which advance intercultural understanding through shared experiences, with the goal of creating a more just social order. Projects may seek to bridge a variety of community divides, including ethnic, cultural, religious, racial or gender perspectives, anywhere in the world.

Lisle International was an early pioneer in intercultural education programming, beginning with US projects in 1936 and expanding internationally in 1952. Since 2004, Lisle has focused on providing small “seed grants” to support programs fostering intercultural understanding.

Grants of $500 to $5,000 are available to innovative projects that match the mission of Lisle. Lisle awards between three and eight grants each year to projects in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Musser Fund Grants for Intercultural Harmony 2026 (USA)

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Intercultural Harmony Initiative, Laura Jane Musser Fund. Deadline:  12 March 2026.

Through the Intercultural Harmony Initiative, the Laura Jane Musser Fund supports projects that promote mutual understanding and cooperation between groups of community members of different cultural backgrounds. Project planning grants up to $5,000 or implementation grants up to $25,000 will be considered. Applications will be accepted online through the Fund’s website from February 12 to March 12, 2026.

Priority is placed on projects that include members of various cultural communities working together on projects with common goals; build positive relationships across cultural lines; engender intercultural harmony, tolerance, understanding, and respect; and enhance intercultural communication, rather than cultural isolation, while at the same time honoring the unique qualities of each culture. Projects must demonstrate: need in the community for the intercultural exchange project; grassroots endorsement by participants across cultural lines, as well as their active participation in planning and implementation of the project;
the ability of the organization to address the challenges of working across the cultural barriers identified by the project; and tangible benefits in the larger community.

NOTE: The geographic areas for this initiative are only Colorado, Hawaii, Minnesota, Wyoming, and limited counties in North Carolina. 

Anna Lindh Foundation: Knowledge for Action Programme (Egypt)

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Call for applications: Knowledge for Action, Anna Lindh Foundation, Alexandria, Egypt. Deadline: 23 February 2026.

The ALF Knowledge for Action (K4A) Programme promotes the production and dissemination of evidence-based and policy-oriented research that addresses relevant dimensions of Intercultural Dialogue in the Euro-Med region. The Programme seeks to enhance the capacity of academic institutions (i.e., think tanks, specialised centres, and universities) to translate knowledge into visible, rigorous and actionable policies and practices that benefit civil society and tackle pressing challenges.

To be eligible, applicants must:

  • Be affiliated with a university, a think tank, or a specialised centre.
  • Be nationals of one of the 43 Member States of the Anna Lindh Foundation

Embassy of the Netherlands in Egypt: CFP Cultures in Dialogue 2026 (Netherlands)

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Call for proposals: Cultures in Dialogue, Embassy of the Netherlands in Egypt. Deadline: 7 February 2026.

The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Egypt invites Egyptian and Dutch cultural organizations to submit project proposals that strengthen cooperation between Egypt and the Netherlands. This open call supports arts and culture projects that contribute to social and cultural development, (in)tangible heritage preservation, creative industries, sustainability, intercultural dialogue and knowledge-exchange. A Dutch component or Dutch-Egyptian collaboration is necessary for selection of the project. Interdisciplinary projects are highly encouraged.

Submitted projects should be in the fields of cultural heritage, design, visual arts, performing arts, music & film and contribute to the following objectives:

    • Supporting and empowering the Egyptian and Dutch cultural scenes;

    • Strengthening cultural exchange and intercultural dialogue;

    • Promoting sustainable preservation of (in)tangible cultural heritage;

    • Strengthening bilateral relations between Egypt and the Netherlands and the positive visibility of the Netherlands and the Dutch cultural sector in Egypt.

    To be eligible for a contribution to funding, the proposed activities must contribute to at least one of these objectives.

Anna Lindh Foundation: ALF in Motion (2025-6)

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ALF in Motion: Anna Lindh Foundation Mobility Programme, Alexandria, Egypt. Deadline: 8 November 2025.

ALF in Motion gives intercultural dialogue civil society entities the chance to connect face-to face with partners from a complementary shore of the Mediterranean. ALF in Motion provides financial support to cover mobility costs. Through this programme, entities can choose to develop projects with new partners, bring an expert to their existing event, co-create art or produce new knowledge. In this programme, ALF introduces four distinct modalities.

Choose the modality that best fits your intercultural dialogue initiative:

Mobility for Partnership
Duration: Minimum 7 days, excluding traveling days
Funding: 1.300 euro
Purpose: Develop joint project proposals for international donors

Mobility for Action
Duration: Minimum 2 days, excluding traveling days
Funding: 1.000 euro
Purpose: Bring external expertise to workshops, debates, trainings, and cultural events, among others

Mobility for Creativity
Duration: Minimum 20 days, excluding traveling days
Funding: 2.200 euro
Purpose: Host artists and creative individuals for collaborative cultural initiatives

Mobility for Knowledge
Duration: Minimum 7 days, excluding traveling days
Funding: 1.300 euro
Purpose: Partner with specialized entities to produce intercultural dialogue know-how

NCA: Communication Grants 2026

GrantsGrant opportunities, National Communication Association, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 1 September 2025.

Applications are being accepted for NCA’s Research Cultivation Grants, Advancing the Discipline Grants, the Communication Pedagogy Grant, grants funded by the Dale Leathers Fund to Promote Communication Studies in Emerging Democracies, and the NCA President’s L.I.F.T. Grant, new as of this year. Grant recipients will be notified in mid-November, and projects are expected to begin Jan. 1, 2026.

Research Cultivation Grants facilitate first-time grant-seeking for those without prior grant experience and/or those desiring to build a foundation for future grant pursuits. RCG-funded projects should propose innovative research (such as understudied domains, novel or creative methodologies), focus on internationalization (focused on historically marginalized groups in non-U.S. contexts, for example), and/or focus on engaged scholarship (such as research mobilized in non-academic contexts of pressing social, civic, and ethical concerns, or that translates communication theory into practice). Applicants may seek support up to $12,500.

The NCA President’s L.I.F.T. Grant seeks to support NCA members who are pursuing scholarship related to threats to academic freedom, scholarship that faces censorship due to the political or ideological content of the work, scholarship related to dehumanizing language in general and/or the dehumanization of Palestinians in particular, and other work outlined in criteria for evaluation available on NCA’s website linked below. Applicants may seek support up to $10,000.

Advancing the Discipline Grants fund projects and events that support work that is focused on the discipline itself. All funded activities align with the goals of NCA’s strategic plan and have widespread impact that reaches beyond a single department, campus, or NCA unit. Applicants may seek one-time funding not to exceed $5,000.

The Communication Pedagogy Grant is designed to support communication educators in exploring innovative pedagogical practices, assessment design, and learning environments. This grant funds proposals that aim to create long-term impacts on faculty, students, or communities, particularly in marginalized spaces, and foster critical thinking and engagement with social discourses. Applicants may seek support up to $15,000.

Named for NCA’s 78th President, the Dale G. Leathers Memorial Fund Grants promote scholarship and teaching in Communication Studies to benefit emerging democracies and their peoples. The Leathers Award varies from year to year but has recently been between $500 and $600.