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Nominations Open for AMA Public Healthcare Awards! Recognizing Extraordinary Contributions to Health and Society in Australia

Deadline: 22 April 2016

Nominations are open for Australian Medical Association (AMA) Public Healthcare Awards 2016 for people who do extraordinary work in order to recognize their valuable contributions to health and society.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is the most influential membership organisation representing registered medical practitioners and medical students of Australia. The AMA exists to promote and protect the professional interests of doctors and the health care needs of patients and communities.

Supporting Medical Profession

The AMA supports the medical profession through a range of essential services including:

protecting the academic, professional, and economic independence of medical practitioners
protecting the wellbeing of medical practitioners
promoting and advancing ethical behaviour of the medical profession
protecting the integrity and independence of the doctor/patient relationship
preserving and protecting the political, legal and industrial interests of medical practitioners

Award Categories

AMA Excellence in Healthcare Award: for an individual, not necessarily a doctor or AMA member, who has made a significant contribution to improving health or health care in Australia. The person may be involved in health awareness, health policy, or health delivery.
AMA Woman in Medicine Award: for a member of the AMA who has made a major contribution to the medical profession.
AMA Women’s Health Award: for a person who does not have to be an AMA member, doctor or a female, but is somebody who has made a major contribution to women’s health.
AMA Men’s Health Award: for a person who does not have to be an AMA member, doctor or a male, but is somebody who has made a major contribution to men’s health.
AMA Youth Health Award: for a young person between 15-27 years who does not have to be an AMA member or doctor, but has made an outstanding contribution to youth health in Australia.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can submit their nominations electronically and email all documents at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit Australian Medical Association Awards 2016.

Apply for the Wellcome Trust Seed Awards in Science! A Chance to win up to £100,000

Deadline: 20 June 2016

Wellcome Trust is accepting applications for its Seed Awards in science to provide responsive, flexible funding, enabling researchers to develop a novel idea to a position. The Award encourages applications which propose to carry out interdisciplinary research across the Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Innovations funding.

The Trust encourages researchers:

at the start of their independent careers
who wish to develop innovative ideas outside of their discipline or area of expertise

Award Information

Seed Awards are worth up to £100,000 and are normally for up to two years.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible, Applicants must:
- hold an appointment at an eligible institution in the UK, Republic of Ireland or a low- or middle-income country
- not be based at a core-funded research institute
- receive personal salary support from your host institution for the duration of the award, which must not come from Wellcome Trust funding (e.g. Institutional Strategic Support Fund). Alternatively, you may hold a personal award or fellowship if this provides your salary but no substantive research expenses
- not currently hold significant funding for research (as a guide, broadly equivalent to the level of the Seed Award), or have held such funding in the 12 months before the application closing date.
Applicants can only hold a Seed Award once in their career.
The award expects applicants to typically have completed a PhD or equivalent higher degree (e.g. an MD).
If applicants are based in a low- or middle-income country in Sub-Saharan Africa, South-east Asia or South Asia (with the exception of India).
If applicants are based in a low- or middle-income country outside the areas mentioned above, you are eligible to apply only if you are carrying out research in the fields of public health and tropical medicine. These research projects should be aimed at understanding and controlling diseases (either animal or human) of relevance to local, national or global health. This can include laboratory-based molecular analysis of field or clinical samples, but projects focused solely on studies in vitro or using animal models will not normally be considered.

How to Apply

Applicants can download the application form via given website.

For more information, please visit Award Program.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Awards for Health Equity Program: Building a Culture of Health

Deadline: 30 March 2016

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is seeking applications for its Awards for Health Equity program with a vision to work with others to build a Culture of Health by recognizing and celebrating individuals who have successfully implemented systems changes related to the multiple determinants of health.

Funding available

A total of four grants up to $52,000 each will be awarded.
Each grant will support an annual awards program for six years.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicant organizations must be national nonprofit membership organizations or associations.
Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.
Applicant organizations should represent one of the following sectors: business, media, faith-based, or philanthropy.
Applicant organizations must hold annual meetings.
Applicant organizations (and the organizations’ members) must work in an area that advances systems-change approaches to improve access to quality care, education, employment, income, community environment, housing, or public safety.
Applicant organizations (and the organization’s members) must have demonstrated successful efforts in improving outcomes for groups most affected by health disparities.

How to Apply

Applicants must apply online via given website.

Note: Finalists notified of funding recommendations on 1 June 2016.

For more information, please visit Call for Proposals.

Advocate Europe: Seeking Unconventional and Transnational Projects Proposals!

Deadline: 8 March 2016

MitOst in cooperation with Liquid Democracy are seeking applications for Advocate Europe which is an annual idea challenge for European initiatives and projects funded by Stiftung Mercator. Advocate Europe is looking for unconventional and transnational project proposals which strengthen connection and cohesion in Europe.

Advocate Europe is aimed at civil society actors who are looking for start-up funding and support to implement sustainable ideas in the fields of civic education, arts and culture, democracy and participation, social innovation or advocacy.

Advocate Europe encourages applicants to submit their ideas for a Europe that is co-created by its citizens – one that that is based on open-mindedness and tolerance, that offers justice and equal opportunities, that protects individual rights, that guarantees democracy and the rule of law, and that ensures freedom.

Funding Information

Advocate Europe will fund up to 12 pioneering proposals with grants of up to €50,000 each.

Community Awards: Very special is the Community Award, whose winners are solely determined by public voting until 15 March 2016.The three ideas with the most user votes receive Community Awards.

First Prize: €5,000
Second Prize: €3,000
Third Prize: €2,000

Selection Criteria

Strengthen connection and cohesion in Europe: Proposals are accepted that support the exchange of people and ideas, and promote international and intercultural understanding. The goal is to identify critical topics for the further development of a unified Europe and to bring together key groups such as multipliers, stakeholders, activists, administrators, young Europeans and change-makers.
Are Surprising and unconventional: Supports original approaches and courageous ideas that are oriented towards the current and future needs of Europe’s civil society and citizens. Also looking for ideas that help to design the future, not just manage the status quo.
Are based on everyday life: Looking for project ideas that have practical relevance and a clear relationship to the everyday life of people in Europe.
Are based on unusual partnerships: Team up with a friend, neighbor or colleague who works on the same topic, but in completely different field. Connect things that don’t seem to belong together at first glance. Advocate Europe is particularly interested in ideas and partnerships from organisations and initiatives that are made up of two or more actors outside of typical constellations.

Eligible Countries: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and Vatican City.

Eligibility Criteria

Non-profit organisations and initiatives from across Europe are eligible to apply for and receive funding.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can register themselves through the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit Advocate Europe.

Nominations Open for Right Livelihood Award 2016! Meeting the Human Challenges of the World

Deadline: 1 March 2016

Nominations are open for the Right Livelihood Award to honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing today.

The Right Livelihood Award recognizes that, in striving to meet the human challenges of today’s world, the most inspiring and remarkable work often defies any standard classification.

The Right Livelihood Award is not an award for the world’s political, scientific or economic elite, but an award for the people and their work and struggles for a better future. The Laureates come from all walks of life: they are farmers, teachers, doctors, or simply, concerned citizens.

This open nomination process works like a seismic detector of the most urgent problems of today and thus allows for timely, often even agenda-setting awards.

The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to honour and support those “offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today”. It has become widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ and there are now 162 Laureates from 67 countries.

The Right Livelihood Award aims to help the North find wisdom to match its science, and the South to find a science to match its ancient wisdom.

Normally, the Foundation makes three Cash Awards and one Honorary Award each year. The Cash Awards are intended for work in progress or the extension of existing activities; they are never given for personal use.

Through this open nomination process, the Foundation gets a sense of what people around the world perceive as the most urgent problems – and who develops ways to solve them.

Purpose

The purpose of the Foundation shall be by presentation of the Right Livelihood Awards, to promote scientific research, education, public understanding and practical activities which:

contribute to a global ecological balance
are aimed at eliminating material and spiritual poverty
contribute to lasting peace and justice in the world.

Eligibility Criteria

Any individual or organization from anywhere in the world can be nominated for the Right Livelihood Award 2016.
Participant must be working in any of the field offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today.
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation reserves the right to refuse clearly unsuitable proposals
Proposals must not be publicised, except to the candidate and possible referees. Failure to observe this invalidates a proposal.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can submit their forms both electronically as a word document and as a paper copy via regular mail at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit Right Livelihood Awards.

Civil Society Scholar Awards 2016-2017 by Open Society Foundations

Deadline: 15 February 2016

Open Society Foundations is currently inviting applications for its Civil Society Scholar Awards (CSSA) 2016-2017. The Program will support international academic mobility to enable doctoral students and university faculty to access resources that enrich socially-engaged research and critical scholarship in their home country or region.

Competition for CSSA awards is merit-based. Selection will be made on the basis of proven academic excellence, a clear and justifiable need for international travel to complete the research project and relevance of the project to the development of open society in the applicant’s home country.

Eligible countries

Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Haiti, Kosovo, Laos, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar/Burma, Nepal, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Serbia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, or Yemen.

Subject Areas

Any subject areas within the social sciences and humanities are eligible, but particularly those related to:
- Law, justice, and governance
- sustainable development and natural resource management
- economic rights and empowerment of the poor
- public health, social work and community development
- new media law and policy
- inclusive education
- post-conflict studies
- human rights

Grants & Duration

Maximum Funding: Doctoral Students: $10,000; Faculty Members: $15,000.
Project Duration: Between 2 – 9 Months.

Eligibility Criteria

The awards are open to the following academic populations:
- doctoral students of eligible fields studying at accredited universities inside or outside of their home country
- Full-time faculty members teaching at universities in their home country.
Candidates must be citizens of the following countries (mentioned above).
Applicants with permanent resident status or dual citizenship in Australia, Canada, European Union, New Zealand, Nordic countries, or USA are not eligible to apply.
The program does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, or disability.

How to Apply

Applicants must apply online through the website.

For more information, please visit CSSA Programme 2016-2017.

Nominations Open for 2016 Knight International Journalism Awards!

Deadline: 17 February 2016

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) seeks nominations for the 2016 Knight International Journalism Awards. The Awards recognize journalists who, through their pioneering work or technological innovations, produce quality news and information that make a significant impact on the lives of people in the developing world. Nominees can be reporters, editors, technologists, media managers, citizen journalists or bloggers.

Prizes

Each winner will receive a $10,000 cash prize and a crystal trophy recognizing their achievement.
Award winners receive a trip to the United States, where they will be honored at ICFJ’s Awards Dinner on November 14, 2016.

Eligibility Criteria

Nominees must be from and work in Africa, Asia, Central/Eastern Europe, Latin America/Caribbean or the Middle East.
Nominees can be reporters, editors, technologists, media managers, citizen journalists or bloggers.

How to Apply

Applicants must fill the online application form through the website.

For more information, please visit Journalism Awards.

Wellcome Trust’s Seed Awards in Science: Grants of up to £100,000 for Researchers in low- or middle-income Countries

Deadline: 8 February 2016

The Wellcome Trust is currently inviting applications for its Seed Awards in Science which provide responsive, flexible funding, enabling researchers to develop a novel idea to a position.

The foundation encourages applications which propose to carry out interdisciplinary research across our Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Innovations funding. The Foundation encourages researchers:

At the start of their independent careers
Who wish to develop innovative ideas outside of their discipline or area of expertise.

Grants available & Duration

Seed Awards are worth up to £100,000 and are normally for up to two years.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible, Applicants must:
- hold an appointment at an eligible institution in the UK, Republic of Ireland or a low- or middle-income country;
- not be based at a core-funded research institute;
- receive personal salary support from your host institution for the duration of the award, which must not come from Wellcome Trust funding (e.g. Institutional Strategic Support Fund). Alternatively, you may hold a personal award or fellowship if this provides your salary but no substantive research expenses;
- not have held substantive funding for research in the 12 months before the application closing date.
Applicants can only hold a Seed Award once in your career.
The award expects applicants to typically have completed a PhD or equivalent higher degree (e.g. an MD).
If applicants are based in a low- or middle-income country in Sub-Saharan Africa, South-east Asia or South Asia (with the exception of India), you are eligible to apply if you fulfil the above eligibility criteria and are working within the Trust’s broad science funding remit.
If applicants are based in a low- or middle-income country outside the areas mentioned above, you are eligible to apply only if you are carrying out research in the fields of public health and tropical medicine. These research projects should be aimed at understanding and controlling diseases (either animal or human) of relevance to local, national or global health. This can include laboratory-based molecular analysis of field or clinical samples, but projects focused solely on studies in vitro or using animal models will not normally be considered.

How to Apply

Applicants must download the application form through the website.

For more information, please visit Award Program in Science.