Deadline: Dec 31, 2025 Donor: Catalyst Fund Grant Type: Grant Grant Size: $100,000 to $500,000 Countries/Regions: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo DR, Cote DIvoire (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Sao Tome And Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Sudan Area: Businesses, Companies and Enterprises, Startups, Climate Change, Technology Catalyst Fund is seeking innovative, scalable African companies focused on climate adaptation and resilience to partner with. For more information, visit https://www.thecatalystfund.com/pitch-to-us Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/catalyst-fund-resilience-i-pitch-to-us-programme-africa Read more

Deadline: Aug 11, 2025 Donor: The Fashion Academy Abuja Grant Type: Training Grant Size: Not Available Countries/Regions: Nigeria Area: Business & Industry, Businesses, Companies and Enterprises, Entrepreneurship, Innovation The Fashion Academy Abuja Fashion Academy Abuja Training Programme is now open to bridge skill gaps and empower the next generation of fashion innovators with technical expertise and business acumen. For more information, visit https://clap.gov.ng/ Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/fashion-academy-abuja-training-programme-nigeria Read more

Deadline: Oct 01, 2025 Donor: Kellogg Institute for International Studies Grant Type: Fellowship Grant Size: Not Available Countries/Regions: All Countries Area: Democracy & Good Governance, Individuals, PhD Holder, Research The Kellogg Institute for International Studies is seeking applications for its Kellogg Institute Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowships to award newly minted PhDs who conduct research on global democracy. For more information, visit https://kellogg.nd.edu/opportunities/visiting-researchers/about-our-postdoctoral-visiting-fellowships#tab-3426 Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/applications-open-for-postdoctoral-visiting-fellowships Read more

Deadline: Sep 30, 2025 Donor: National Youth Development Agency Grant Type: Grant Grant Size: Not Available Countries/Regions: South Africa Area: Arts & Culture, Organizing Events, Businesses, Companies and Enterprises, Hotels, Restaurants and Hospitality, Sports & Recreation, Tourism & Travel, Transportation, Youth & Adolescents Applications are now open for the Mpumalanga Tourism Youth Fund 2025, supporting young entrepreneurs running businesses in the tourism sector. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02rbSK5Kj1tCGrDhPtbKNFUyvrPpb25tH81Vhc3LK8AkQnCFp1E83SQ4KNFHb5eZP5l&id=100064507821942 Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/mpumalanga-tourism-youth-fund-2025-south-africa Read more

Deadline: Oct 01, 2025 Donor: The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Grant Type: Awards, Prizes and Challenges Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000 Countries/Regions: All Countries Area: Career Development, , Research Entries are now open for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Foundation Research Catalyst Awards for investigators beginning their careers or returning to the workforce after an extended leave. For more information, visit https://www.arvo.org/awards-grants-and-fellowships/research-awards/research-catalyst-awards/ Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/nominations-open-for-arvo-foundation-research-catalyst-awards Read more

Deadline: Sep 30, 2025 Donor: AAUW Action Fund Grant Type: Fellowship Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000 Countries/Regions: Afghanistan, Aland Islands, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo DR, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote DIvoire (Ivory Coast), Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands, Holy See (Vatican City State), Honduras, Hong Kong SAR, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isle Of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, South Korea, North Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia Federated States Of, Moldova Republic Of, Monaco, Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Burma(Myanmar), Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestinian Territories, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts And Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre And Miquelon, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome And Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard And Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, East Timor (Timor-Leste), Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad And Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks And Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, British Virgin Islands, United States Virgin Islands, Wallis And Futuna, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Montenegro, Saint Barthélemy, Serbia, Kosovo, South Sudan , Curaçao, Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba, Saint Martin (French Part), Sint Maarten (Dutch Part) Area: Education, PhD Holder, Women and Girls, Leadership, Research, Women & Gender The AAUW’s International Postdoctoral Research Fellowships promote education and equity for women by investing in international applicants who will be pursuing postdoctoral research in the U.S., with the intention of applying their expertise, professional skills, and leadership in the context of their home countries. For more information, visit https://www.aauw.org/resources/programs/international-postdoctoral-research-fellowships/ Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/aauws-international-postdoctoral-research-fellowships Read more

Deadline: Sep 30, 2025 Donor: SurveyCTO Grant Type: Grant Grant Size: $1000 to $10,000 Countries/Regions: All Countries Area: Researchers, Students, Marketing, Research The SurveyCTO is excited to announce that the Primary Data Collection Research Grant is returning for another year! For more information, visit https://www.surveycto.com/data-collection-research-grant/ Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/surveycto-primary-data-collection-research-grant Read more

Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Donor: EDP Grant Type: Events Grant Size: Not Available Countries/Regions: All Countries Area: Businesses, Companies and Enterprises, Startups, Energy, Innovation, Technology Are you ready to scale your solution globally with a leading energy company? Join EDP on this journey and apply for the upcoming edition! For more information, visit https://theenergystarter.com/ Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/applications-open-for-energy-starter-program Read more

Deadline: Sep 24, 2025 Donor: The Dan David Prize Grant Type: Awards, Prizes and Challenges Grant Size: $100,000 to $500,000 Countries/Regions: All Countries Area: Archaeology, Art History and Preservation, Researchers, Humanities Entries are now open for Dan David Prize, a world’s largest history prize, annually awarding 9 prizes to early and midcareer scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines, to acknowledge their outstanding achievements and support future work. For more information, visit https://dandavidprize.org/nominate/ Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/nominations-open-for-dan-david-prize Read more

Deadline: Oct 01, 2025 Donor: Conservation Research Foundation Museum Grant Type: Grant Grant Size: $1000 to $10,000 Countries/Regions: All Countries Area: Arts & Culture, Researchers, Research The Getty Library Research Grants offers support for researchers to use the Getty Library’s collections. For more information, visit https://www.getty.edu/projects/library-research-grants/ Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/applications-open-for-getty-library-research-grants Read more

Taking place on September 10-12, 2025, at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden, the Eight European Congress on World and Global History invites participants to explore new avenues in global history.  At the congress 400 speakers from diverse disciplinary and national contexts who are organized in more than 80 panels will share their thoughts on how dominating meta-narratives in global history can be overcome by integrating a broader and more diverse range of voices and perspectives. In doing so, they will take stock of the thematical and theoretical expansions global history as a field has undergone in the past decades as well use the opportunity to critically self-reflect and to discuss methodological and thematic innovations.    Panels and Roundtables are organized in 11 congress themes: • Temporalities and periodizations in global history • Ethical aspects of doing global history • Expanding the global archive • Multivocality in global history • Global history and decoloniality • Transdisciplinary approaches • Indigenous perspectives and methodologies • Challenging modernity from the perspective of global history • National history, nationalist backlash, and identity politics • Global environmental history • Nordic colonialism   A series of special events throughout the congress are equally dedicated to furthering critical reflection, diversity and inclusivity in global history: First and foremost among them the two keynote lectures by Laura de Mello e Souza and Fe/derico Navarrete. Fe/derico Navarrete explores “Cosmohistories, the multiplicity of worlds and their histories“ and presents cosmohistory as a concept that overcomes unilinear, Eurocentric and teleological perspectives on world histories by investigating historical communities as coexisting and colliding entities that refuse to conform to simplistic and homogenizing narratives. In her lecture on “Provisional Forms of Existence in Portuguese America – 16th-18th Centuries“ Laure de Mello e Souza showcases how the blended knowledge of indigenous, African, and Portuguese actors shaped present-day Brazil. Both keynotes, therefore highlight the multivocality and diversity but also the interdependency of diverse communities in history.  The Plenary Session “Nordic Colonialism” convened by Janne Lahti equally seeks to overcome notions of exceptionalism and isolationist narratives by showing how the Nordic countries were involved in and connected to global colonial history.  Bringing these various strands of academic interests together the Closing Roundtable on “Publishing Global History” organized by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Daniel Laqua investigates how the publishing industry in Global History can become more inclusive both in terms of content as well as in terms of practicalities. Furthermore, we are looking forward to welcoming ten renowned international publishing houses to our publishers’ exhibition. Please visit our website to view the full program and to register: https://eniugh.org/congress/ URL https://eniugh.org/congress Read more

Date: 19/20 March 2026Venue: University of Oxford, Wadham College, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PNOrganizers: Norman Aselmeyer (Oxford), Eric Burton (Innsbruck) Main objective The aim of the workshop is to reassess the relationship between the city and the struggle for decolonization in the colonial world. It brings together scholars examining anti-colonial movements in specific urban contexts in the twentieth century. The workshop seeks to foster dialogue on the relationship between anti-colonial protests and colonial cities in Africa and Asia, exploring how these struggles were shaped by diverse social groups, the spatial organization of urban environments, and the tensions between competing visions of anti-colonial practice. Workshop description What role did cities play in shaping the dynamics of twentieth-century decolonization? This question continues to captivate scholars across disciplines. Contemporaries perceived revolutionary movements as originating from urban hubs and radiating outward into rural regions. Aristide Zolberg evocatively characterized anti-colonial movements as “creatures with a relatively large head in the capital and fairly rudimentary limbs.”[1] In contrast, postcolonial thinkers like Frantz Fanon, significantly influenced by Marxist scholarship, insisted that “the peasants alone are revolutionary.”[2] Historian Raymond Betts proposed a nuanced interpretation, suggesting anti-colonial movements were simultaneously “rooted in the countryside and grounded in the city.”[3] In recent years, research in anthropology, political science, and history has increasingly shifted focus toward the role of cities and urban populations, emphasizing the urban dimension of anti-colonial protest and the complex connections between urban centers and rural hinterlands in shaping anti-colonial resistance. As political scientist Jeffrey Herbst has argued, “nationalist politics in the 1950s and 1960s were very much urban affairs.”[4] The most recent literature on cities as centers of anti-imperial activism has shown how colonial metropoles like London (M. Matera), Paris (J. Boitin; M. Goebel) or Brussels (M. Louro; D. Laqua) emerged as nodal points for activists in the interwar period and after World War II. Non-colonial or semi-colonial cities in Asia could also be hubs of anti-colonial networking in the interwar or postwar period, including Beijing (R. Leow), Hanoi/Saigon, or Bangkok (C. Goscha). From the late 1950s, governments of newly independent states in Asia and Africa became sponsors of anti-colonial organizations, turning cities into “hubs of decolonization” (E. Burton). Across postcolonial Africa, cities such as Accra (M. Grilli), Cairo (R. Abou-el-Fadl; J. R. Brennan), Dar es Salaam (A. Ivaska; G. Roberts), Algiers (J. Byrne), Léopoldville (L. Passemiers), Lusaka (C. Chongo, H. Macmillan) and Maputo (N. Manghezi) harbored liberation movements and provided infrastructures to mobilize followers, engage with international actors and get access to transnational audiences and support. Afro-Asian connections with cities such as Bombay, Rangoon, and Delhi also played a role here (C. Stolte; G. McCann), as did links to Havana and growing Tricontinentalism (A.G. Mahler; R. J. Parrott). This recent scholarship emphasized significant variation across regions and contexts. The dynamics of resistance differed between trade and settler colonies, as Jean Allman has pointed out, and were further shaped by the specific character of colonial rule, the diversity of local cultures of resistance, and the distinct temporalities of decolonization.[5] Some regions, such as the so-called “hinterland countries” (J. Herbst), that is, countries lacking densely populated urban centers, followed markedly different trajectories. Moreover, decolonization was not solely an elite-driven or urban-centered process. Elizabeth Schmidt’s work on Guinea compellingly demonstrates that nationalist narratives were often imagined and propelled “from below,” shaped by a wide range of actors (including urban workers, women, peasants, and military veterans) rather than imposed by political leadership from above.[6] Similarly, John Lonsdale’s concept of “moral ethnicity” underscores the significance of local political languages and ethnic frameworks in shaping nationalist politics in Kenya.[7] The complexities of twentieth-century decolonization demand a nuanced understanding of the urban-rural interface in anti-colonial movements. Drawing on the various strands of recent scholarship, the workshop aims to reassess the distinctive role cities played in shaping the trajectory of decolonization. Focus areas: actors, venues, and tensions The workshop advances current approaches to anti-colonialism by rethinking the urban histories of the struggle against empire through a focused examination of actors, venues, and tensions. By grounding discussions in the lived experiences of historically overlooked groups (across lines of class, gender, religion, and age) the workshop foregrounds the diverse actors who shaped anti-colonial protest on the ground, moving beyond purely elite narratives. Special attention is given to the spatial strategies employed by urban crowds, exploring how both major cities and smaller towns, as well as their hinterlands, became venues of unrest, organization, and resistance, and how the relationships between these spaces influenced the broader anti-colonial struggle. The workshop also seeks to complicate conventional understandings by investigating the role of labor and neighborhood movements, the significance of liminal spaces, and the moments when activism was blocked or constrained. This line of enquiry will also pay attention to everyday practices of anti-colonialism, asking for the quotidian dimensions and prerequisites of political and ideological work. By probing the tensions between competing visions and practices of anti-colonialism, the workshop aims to produce a nuanced analysis of how anti-colonial efforts, including their failures, contributed to reconfiguring strategies and solidarities across Africa and Asia. Ultimately, this approach moves beyond comparative frameworks to reveal the complex entanglements and ongoing legacies of urban anti-colonial protest, connecting historical struggles with contemporary debates over urban space and colonial heritage. Application and funding To express your interest in the workshop, please submit a title and abstract (max. 300 words) matching one of the aforementioned areas and a brief CV to the organizers Norman Aselmeyer (norman.aselmeyer@history.ox.ac.uk) and Eric Burton (eric.burton@uibk.ac.at). The deadline for submission is 30 September 2025. Applicants will be notified of the outcome by mid-October 2025. The workshop is jointly organized by Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford) and Eric Burton (University of Innsbruck), in collaboration with Wadham College, Oxford. Meals and accommodation for all accepted participants will be provided by the college. We are currently seeking funding to support travel costs; please indicate in your application whether you would require financial assistance for transportation. The workshop will be held in person at Oxford. A publication of the proceedings is intended.https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20120547/cfp-cities-and-decolonization-anti-colonial-struggles-urban-protest  Read more