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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

Novel Sensors based on Laser Ablated Graphene

Specific programme: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) – Science for Peace Programme
UPV/EHU Partner Status:  Leader
UPV/EHU Supervisor: Radmila Tomovska
Project start: 01/05/2017
Project end:   30/04/2020

Brief description:  This project is focused on development of gas sensors based on polymer/graphene composites based on two techniques: on one side production of water borne composites by emulsion polymerization techniques and on the other, ablation of these composites by IR or UV lasers and preparation of electrically conductive thin films. The specific thermal process occurring during laser ablation leads to ablative deposition of materials which cannot be produced by slow conventional heating.