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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

FEMALE-CONQUEST: Female Conquest of Labour Markets: Enlightening Lessons from Biomedical Fields and Academia

Specific programme: Convocatoria del año 2022 del procedimiento de concesión de ayudas a proyectos «Europa Excelencia», del Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica, Técnica y de Innovación para el período 2021-2023, en el marco del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.

Code: EUR2022-134025

UPV/EHU Partner Status: Beneficiary

UPV/EHU PI: Nagore Iriberri

Project start: 01/12/2022
Project end:   30/11/2024
 

Brief description:  The labour force is not distributed in a gender neutral manner. There is both horizontal and vertical segregation. Women are underrepresented in some fields, such as STEM, and overrepresented in other fields, such as biomedical fields. Within a field or profession, women are also underrepresented in the top positions. Importantly, over the last century, there has been progress in both dimensions: women are conquering their share of the labour market.

Does the existing gender representation affect gender gaps in performance? This project proposes an empirical approach for documenting and understanding how women have progressed in the conquest of the labour markets in biomedical fields and across different fields in academia. Analytically, the lack of datasets that contained individual level performance data has been a pervasive limitation. I propose the use of two new databases, with rich individual level performance data, that will overcome this limitation. The first one is administrative data that includes, since 1983 to 2019, all recent graduates in medicine, nursing, psychology, pharmacy, biology, chemistry and physics, who take an annual standardized test, which will give them access to a finite and highly demanded set of postgraduate specialization positions in the Spanish Health System. The second database will include all male and female academic scholars who work in different fields (STEM, natural and social sciences), as well as their academic performance: publications and citations, over the past century.

Empirical analysis of these two new databases will allow measuring and understanding the female conquest of labour markets. The final objective is to draw policy conclusions that would facilitate the female conquest.

EUR2022-134025, financiado por AEI/10.13039/501100011033 y por la Unión Europea “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR.