The Canada Fund for Local Initiatives offers short-term funding to community groups, NGOs, people’s organizations — and in exceptional cases, to international NGOs and government institutions — for small projects addressing empowerment, capacity-building, economic, environmental, and social development issues in Argentina and Paraguay. Proposals should have a budget of approximately CAN$10 thousand to CAN$20 thousand for six months.

The Central European Initiative( CEI) makes grants to support its action plan. Cooperation projects are mainly for seminars, workshops, training courses, and other kinds of meetings. Priority themes include climate, environment, sustainable energy, and others. They are financed out of the CEI Cooperation Fund to which all Member States contribute, through annual calls for proposals. Projects can be submitted by all public and private bodies in…

This project is designed to strengthen capacities for environmental monitoring and information management in Albania by establishing an operational environmental information management and monitoring system (EIMMS) with a focus on the MEAs of biodiversity, climate change and land degradation. The project will address the need for an environmental monitoring system that is integrated throughout relevant government institutions and that uses…

The international workshop “Innovative Forest-Based Bioeconomy for the Future” provides a platform for all initiatives engaged in forest-based Bioeconomy in Europe and South/Central America. Information exchange on current research (funding) activities and as excellent networking opportunities between scientists, funders, policy makers as well as other initiatives will create new opportunities for cooperation and joint funding between Europe and…

In collaboration with UNESCO and a number of centres of excellence in the South, TWAS has instituted a Joint Associateship Scheme to enable competent researchers from the South to visit these centres regularly. An associate is appointed for three years during which he/she can visit a Centre twice for research collaboration. TWAS provides travel support for the associates and a contribution towards subsistence costs up to USD300.00 per month while…