Deadline: 6 May 2014
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) is inviting innovative ideas for its Round 13 of funding that can receive grants of up to US $100,000 during the Phase I. Ideas transformed into projects during the Phase II period can receive grants of up to US $1 million. Project ideas are accepted on following topics:
Explorations Round 13 Topics –
- New Ways of Working Together: Integrating Community-Based Interventions
- Explore New Ways to Measure Fetal and Infant Brain Development
- Inciting Healthy Behaviors: nudge, disrupt, leapfrog, reach
- Novel Enabling Tools and Models Supporting Development of Interventions for Enteric Dysfunction
- Innovations in Feedback & Accountability Systems for Agricultural Development
Eligibility Criteria –
- Both foreign and domestic non-profit organizations, for-profit companies, international organizations, government agencies and academic institutions are eligible to apply.
- Individuals are not eligible.
- Organizations that are classified as individuals for U.S. tax purposes (including sole proprietorships and some single member limited liability companies) are also not eligible.
- Applicants must provide information about the tax status of their organization.
- Applicants planning to conduct project activities in India may be required to register with the Ministry of Home Affairs under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), 2010.
- Proposal must demonstrate an innovative approach that complies with all restrictions and guidelines for the topic to which application is being made.
- Work proposed in the application must include a clear set of key experiments or activities that test the applicant’s idea in a way that could provide sufficient evidence to warrant funding. Proposals with vague descriptions or vague testing methodologies will not be funded.
Applicants must create an account, register for a topic and submit their proposal.
For more information, please visit Grand Challenges in Global Health page.
