Funding Opportunities

 Welcome to our new Funding Opportunities Webpage, where we offer information that our team thinks is of particular interest to researchers in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region.

• How to apply for research funding
• Where to find funding opportunities

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How to apply for research funding

• Foundation Center
• Funding Basics
• National Institutes of Health (NIH), Grant Basics
• The Grantsmanship Center

 Where to find funding opportunities

• New: Call for proposals for systematic reviews at the Cochrane Colloquium, deadline is November 29, 2010 at 9am GMT. 
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
• European Union Framework 7, International Cooperation Strategy (Spanish) 
• European Union Framework 7, Funding for International Cooperation 
• European Union Framework 7, European Commission (CORDIS) 
• Foundation Center (database on funding sources and other resources)
• Global Health Research Institute (Canada)
• IBM - University Research & Collaboration 
• Inter-American Foundation  
• L'Oreal Foundation- Fellowships for Women in Science 
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants 
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)- Fogarty International Center 
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering
• The Grantsmanship Center (database of funding sources and other resources)
• Grants.gov 
• Wellcome Trust, International Grants
• Erasmus Summer Programme 2011