SAMS - Funding opportunities - World

Africa

Region/Country	Name	Organization	Application information	Application deadline	Amout $$	Description	Target group /Who should apply?	Website/ Link	Current Status
Africa	Young Africa Works	MasterCard Foundation	every year (recurring)	always open	300 mill USD based on the program (but maxium project length can be upto five years)	Young Africa Works is strategy to help young people in Africa, particularly young women, secure dignified and fulfilling work. For example MasterCard Foundation with ICIPE and Ethiopian Job Creation Commission (JCC), currently launched MOYESH project to make 100,000 youth in honey and silk in Ethiopia	Reseach Organizations, development partners like NGOs, SME incubetors de	https://mastercardfdn.org/	valid
Africa	Challenge Fund for Youth Employment	Randstad, Palladium and development organization Volunteer Services Overseas (VSO).	2020-2026	Open, project based	5 million euros per country  (Minimum of 100,000 euros per project)	Dutch government-backed Challenge Fund for Youth Employment (CFYE) Private companies and non-government organizations with projects that can create employment for youth	Private companies and non-government organizations with projects that can create employment for youth in 23 African countries	https://www.independent.co.ug/ugx-20-billion-challenge-fund-for-youth-employment-launched/	valid
Africa	Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa	US National Institutes of Health	started in 2020	October/ November 2020	$58 Million	The program aims to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship that will result in new software solutions and technologies, produce start-ups and spinoff companies, and partner with governments and businesses to reach scale and impact. It is a five-year program.	African organizations in partnership with private sector, government, NGO, and other research partners	https://commonfund.nih.gov/africadata/funding	valid
Africa	SAIS	GIZ & German Federal Minstry for Economic Cooperation and Development	ongoing	ongoing, next announcement beginning of 2021	not mentioned	GIZ-SAIS. The programme includes weekly advisory and coaching sessions, access to additional service providers, integration of the selected start-ups in one of our partner hubs, a virtual kick-off event, a demo-day with investors and business partners	SAIS is looking for innovative start-ups that are about to scale rapidly and apply digital solutions to the agriculture and food sector which enable their users to improve their income.	Contact: sais@giz.de	valid
Africa	Renew Strategy	Renew Strategy	ongoing	ongoing	not mentioned	At RENEW, it is focused on opportunities in developing nations rather than on problems. It is focused on investing rather than providing handouts. RENEW finds promising businesses, connects them to investors around the world and grows them into world-class companies. RENEW do this because it believes that many growing businesses together create the engine that lifts entire nations out of poverty.	promising businesses	https://renewstrategies.com/	valid
Africa	GreenTech Partners	GreenTech Partners	ongoing	ongoing	not mentioned	GreenTec Capital Partners invests in African start-ups and SMEs with a focus on combining social and environmental impact with financial success. GreenTec Capital Partners use capacity building, process optimization and a diverse team of international experts to help them implement and adapt the latest technologies to their models so they can extend their value chains and have more impact locally. The mandate is to maintain at least 75 percent impact focused enterprises and it aspires to grow 400 companies by 2023.	African start-ups and SMEs with a focus on combining social and environmental impact with financial success	https://greentec-capital.com/	valid
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Togo, Tunisia, Zambia	Green Innovation Centres for the Agriculture and Food Sector	GIZ	2014 - 2023	always open up to 2023	Up 50000 USD	In collaboration with WTO to busild business capacity	SMEs, local processing and input producing , service providers etc.	https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/32209.html	valid
Cambodia, Ethiopia, Uganda and Zambia	Innovation Against Poverty	SNV-Ethiopia	2020-2021	Open, based on the proposal up to 2022	It various - but mostly up 25000 USD every year	Innovations Against Poverty challenges the private sector to develop products, services and business models that can contribute to the fight against poverty, and climate protection.	Coopratives, Processing companies, SMES, private company owners who wants to craet job for the poor	https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/	valid

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Asia

Region / Country	Name	Organization	Application information	Application deadline	Amout $$	Description	Target group / Who should apply?	Website/ Link	Current Status
China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Singapore and Taiwan	DBS Foundation Social Enterprise Grant Programme	DBS Foundation	every year (recurring)	Mai 15, 2020	$ 35143 - $ 175717 (50000 SGD - 250000 SGD)	DBS Foundation Social Enterprise Grant Programme supports social enterprises that are scaling up their business and increasing social impact in Asia In 2020, DBS Foundation will be introducing a special category of grants for innovative businesses workin	social enterprises registered and operating in China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Singapore and Taiwan. Social enterprises who have a business product/solution that has been validated in the market, as evidenced by revenue generation and/or traction in	https://www.dbs.com/foundation/	Closed
South Asia/ Sub-Saharan Africa	Women’s Economic Empowerment and Digital Finance (WEE-DiFine)	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	started in 2020	November 25, 2021	$ 850,000	The WEE-DiFine initiative aims to generate rigorous evidence that defines the causal mechanisms between digital financial services and women’s economic empowerment. The four-year initiative (2020-2024) will provide research funding for five areas of resea	women	https://bigd.bracu.ac.bd/all-projects/womens-economic-empowerment-and-digital-finance/about-wee-difine/	valid

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Europe

Region / Country	Name	Organization	Application information	Application deadline	Amout $$	Description	Target group / Who should apply?	Website/ Link	Current Status
EU countries	National apiculture programmes	EU	2020-2022	not known yet	€240 million	Each EU country may draw up a national apiculture programme, this is then supported by the EU. These programmes cover a three-year period. Apiculture programmes for 2020-22, were approved by EU implementing decision 2019/974 in all EU countries. Under th	all	https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/animals-and-animal-products/animal-products/honey_en#nationalapicultureprogrammes	valid
EU countries	Shaping Europe's digital future	EU	N/A Funding database, regularly updated	N/A Funding database, regularly updated	N/A Funding database, regularly updated	Funding Database with different funding opportunities, filtered per topic and regularly updated: A European approach to digital transformation means empowering and including every citizen, strengthening the potential of every business and meeting global c	all	https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/newsroom-agenda/funding-opportunity/all	valid
Germany	Programm zur Innovationsförderung des BMEL	<a href="http://climateworks.org/">BMEL (Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft)</a>	ongoing	ongoing, announcements	depends on company, research institution	Aim of the program is to support technical and non-technical innovations in Germany. Funding is provided for projects in areas such as agricultural engineering, plant breeding, plant protection, livestock breeding and husbandry and health, food safety and	In Germany based companies, research institutions and natural and juristical persons cooperating with companies	https://www.ble.de/DE/Projektfoerderung/Foerderungen-Auftraege/Innovationen/Programm-BMEL/programm-bmel_node.html	valid

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World

Region / Country	Name	Organization	Application information	Application deadline	Amout $$	Description	Target group / Who should apply?	Website/ Link	Current Status
Global/Indonesia	The Green Business Ideas Competition	EIT Climate-KIC	every year (recurring)	information available beginning of 2021	Global Grand Final receives $ 10,869 (10,000 EUR), the runner up gets $ 5,434 (5,000 EUR) and the idea that comes in third place wins $ 2,717 (2,500 EUR) The top 16 teams selected by the jury to perform in the Final Round of the Global Grand Final, will	ClimateLaunchpad is the world’s largest green business ideas competition. Its mission is to unlock the world’s cleantech potential that addresses climate change. The competition creates a stage for those ideas. ClimateLaunchpad is part of the Entrepreneur	Green business Start-ups, anyone who has green business idea (cleantech)	https://climatelaunchpad.org/	Closed for 2020, winner announced (submission was on Feb-Jun 2020)
Global/Indonesia	Funding Opportunity	ClimateWorks.org	every year (recurring)	always open	Depends on the grants applied	ClimateWorks manages a portfolio of grants that support organizations and projects working to mitigate climate change. Our grantmaking is guided by portfolio priorities and aligned with our values. ClimateWorks supports regionally based programs in China,	Organizations and initiatives around the world that work to end the climate crisis and ensure that our planet is a thriving home for all living beings for generations to come. The programs are classified into 10 scope, namely: Carbon Dioxide Removal, Cool	https://www.climateworks.org/	valid
Global	2020 Global Challenges - Sustainable Food System	MIT Solve	only in 2020	June 18, 2020 12:00 EDT	up to $ 385,000	MIT Solve is a marketplace for social impact innovation with a mission to solve world challenges. The MIT Solve community is looking for technology-based solutions for a low-carbon global food system that provides nutrition with minimal environmental imp	anyone, everyone around the world innovators and entrepreneurs	https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/sustainable-food-systems https://solve.mit.edu/become-a-solver
Global	Extreme Tech Challenge	Extreme Tech Challenge, a California nonprofit public corporation.	2020-2021	For the current competition, submissions are accepted continuously on the XTC website through March 31, 2021	up to $10,000,000 in funding, FEMALE FOUNDER AWARD and COVID-19 INNOVATION AWARD	The Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) competition is the world’s largest startup competition for entrepreneurs addressing global challenges. Drawing from the United Nation's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, XTC connects innovators with a network of investors,	The XTC Competition is open to all product or service submissions based on a new technology or an innovative application of an existing technology built by the submitting company that has potential address one of XTC’s Tech for Good categories. Applicants	https://extremetechchallenge.org/challenge	valid
Global	2020 Research Grants	SMERU Research	only in 2020	March 31, 2020	AU$5000 to AU$15000	The research grant are designed to stimulate research cooperation between Indonesia and Australian Research Institute. Main research themes of ANU Indonesia Project: trade and industry, politics and governance, agriculture resources and the environment, s	The grant is intended to support and strengthen research done by indonesian researchers, and provide indonesian researchers with opportunities to engage with researchers in Australia.	https://indonesia.crawford.anu.edu.au/grants-and-fellowship/research-grants/how-apply	Postponed due to covid-19
EU/ Global	Start up Europe Club	Eureopean Comission	N/A Funding database, regularly updated	N/A Funding database, regularly updated	N/A Funding database, regularly updated	N/A Funding database, regularly updated: The Startup Europe Club, an initiative of the European Commission, is the website for everyone in the world of startups to find everything they need in one place. From building partnerships to getting startup inves	all	https://startupeuropeclub.eu/	valid
Global	Programs	VC4A	N/A Funding database, regularly updated	N/A Funding database, regularly updated	N/A Funding database, regularly updated	VC4A is connecting startup entrepreneurs with the knowledge, support programs, mentors and investors they need to succeed.	all	https://vc4a.com/programs/	valid
Global	Seedstars	Seedstars	ongoing	ongoing	not mentioned	The principal sectors of activity are: entrepreneurship capacity building, impact investment, community & events execution, market insights, program management, innovation advisory and talent development across all tech-enabled industries and emerging mar	tech-enabled industries and start-ups	https://www.seedstars.com/	valid