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OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES AND FOUNDATIONS

OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES AND FOUNDATIONS

VolkswagenStiftung
Summary	The Volkswagen Foundation supports research in the humanities and social sciences, as well as the use of science and technology in higher education. They periodically release open calls on a variety of topics, including societal and academic challenges, international post-doctoral fellowships, and research in the digital age.
Objetive	The Volkswagen Foundation funds research projects in ground-breaking areas and provides assistance to academic institutions for the improvement of the structural conditions for their work. In particular, the Foundation perceives its mission in supporting aspiring young academics and in promoting interdisciplinary and international collaboration.
Modality	The Foundation focuses its funding activities on selected initiatives. By means of these initiatives, it endeavors to provide effective stimuli for research and to establish forward-looking topics. The funding initiatives are grouped into the areas: Persons and Structures Challenges - for Academia and Society International Focus Research in the Digital Age Completed Initiatives
Link	https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding.html

Academic Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
Summary	The object of the Association is to advance education for the public benefit through the promotion of teaching and research in contemporary European Studies.
Objective	The UACES primarily makes small grants to support events and collaborative networks related to the study of contemporary Europe. It makes regular calls for proposals.
Modality	•Collaborative Research Networks (CRNs) •Small Event Grants •UACES Scholarships for Postgraduate Students •Travel Support
Link	http://www.uaces.org/funding/

Wenner-Gren Foundation (Anthropology)
Summary	This private foundation is dedicated to the advancement of anthropology throughout the world. It is particularly concerned with human biological and cultural origins, development, and variation.
Objective	The Wenner-Gren Foundation provides research support at the post-graduate level and beyond, and also funds conferences and workshops. Most of its programs have 2 deadlines per year.
Modality	•Dissertation Fieldwork Grants •Post-PhD Research Grants •Feijos Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethnographic Film •International Collaborative Research Grants •Others
Link	http://www.wennergren.org/grantprograms/4

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (Violence and Aggression)
Summary	This foundation requests proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Questions that interest the foundation concern violence and aggression in relation to social change, intergroup conflict, war, terrorism, crime, and family relationships, among other subjects.
Objective	The Guggenheim Foundation provides 1-2 year grants ranging from US$15.000-40.000. Annual deadline: August 1.
Modality	•Research Grants
Link	http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm

American Psychological Foundation
Summary	This foundation fund research related to behaviors and health, reducing stigma and prejudice, understanding and preventing violence, and addressing psychological needs following disasters.
Objective	The APA Foundation primarily finances early career psychology research. It has a wide variety of calls each year, many of which are open to non-U.S.-based investigators.
Modality	•Barlow Grant (anxiety) •Wechsler Early Career Grant (neuropsychology, cognition) •Rosen Fund Grants (gifted children) •McGuigan Prize on Understanding the Human Mind • Others
Link	http://apa.org/about/awards/index.aspx

For more information: proyectoseuropeos@ehu.eus

Social Sciences & Humanities Projects

Youth employment partnerSHIP - evaluation studies in Spain, Hungary, Italy and Poland

Specific programme: EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment

UPV/EHU Partner Status: Beneficiary

UPV/EHU PI: Sara de la RICA

Project start: 01/10/2018

Project end: 30/09/2021

Brief description: The project aims at evaluating employment initiatives targeting youth in Spain, Hungary, Italy and Poland. The participating countries share common challenges of high youth unemployment and low capacity to perform high quality impact studies of youth employment initiatives.

The project will evaluate two set of initiatives: outreach activities of Public Employment Services (PES) and job trials/job subsidies to different job contracts offered to youth, with a particular attention paid to gender dimension of policy targeting and outcomes. We will use harmonized methods of evaluation based on similar administrative data, which are little explored in Central-East and South European countries.

In addition, the project will build capacity in research institutions to implement evaluation studies of employment initiatives by creating a transnational research network on youth employment policies, internships for PhD students and workshops on evaluation methods for researchers from other institutions. It will also promote the use of impact studies among policy-makers.