Scholarships and Contests

Moremi Initiative for Women’s Leadership in Africa (Moremi Initiative) announces its annual call for applications for the 2017 MILEAD (Moremi Initiative Leadership Empowerment and Development) Fellows Program to identify Africa’s most outstanding emerging women leaders. 

The Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the 2017 funding cycle. There are two funding rounds during which applications are accepted annually in January and June. Click here to apply.

The Dag Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists is currently accepting applications for its 2017 fellowship programme. The fellowships are available to radio, TV, print and web journalists, age 25 to 35, who are native to one of the developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America/ the Caribbean, and are actively working for media organizations. The application deadline is 20 March 2017.

The search for Momentum for Change’s 2017 Lighthouse Activities is on! Applications are being accepted until 9 April 2017.

Organized by the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, Momentum for Change shines a light on innovative, scalable and replicable examples of what people around the world are doing to address climate change, in the hope of inspiring others to act. The winning activities will be recognized and celebrated during a series of special events in November 2017 at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany (COP 23).

The Feminist Review Trust is currently accepting applications from eligible entities for its grants program, which awards up to £15,000 (or its equivalent) toward core funding, dissemination, one off events, training and development projects, interventionist projects, pump priming activities, hard to fund projects, and a variety of other projects.

The European Scientific Institute (ESI) invites you to submit papers for the Pan-American Forum on Business and Economics in the areas of Business Management, Marketing, Tourism, Statistics, Econometrics, Economic Financial Management, Business Law, Contract Law and Strategic Management for their upcoming conference 17 to 18 February 2017 in Buenos Aires.   The conference will gather academic experts and practitioners who will discuss contemporary challenges in the vast area of business and economics.

Global Bioethics Initiative (GBI) and Pace University College of Health Professors invite students and professionals worldwide to attend their International Bioethics Summer School in NYC from 19 June – 30 June 2017. The program will include a series of lectures and seminars by notable faculty, field trips, film screenings, evening events with guest speakers open to the public and a mini conference prior to the graduation ceremony. Last year, participants were able to attend the One World Observatory, the American Museum of Natural History, and tour the United Nations.