Grants for Economists

This page has information on grant opportunities for economists (with a focus on transition countries, in particular Ukraine) and information about (PHD, MA) scholarships for economists. 

Ukrainian (Re)Sources

The EERC grant competition 
www.eerc.ru

The very useful Key to Funding of the CCC (is updated every month!)
http://ccc.kiev.ua/index.html?q=0

The site of the Ministry of Education has announcements of grant opportunities
www.mon.gov.ua

The UN in Ukraine sometimes has calls for research projects
http://www.un.kiev.ua/bc/tenders/index.php

The Poland America Ukraine Cooperation Initiative has funds for supporting, mainly, awareness increasing initiatives
http://www.pauci.org/ 
 

International (Re)Sources 

The global development network has a research competition

www.gdnet.org 

 

The Soros foundation has several funding opportunities

http://www.soros.org/grants 
 

The EURASIA foundation has an open-door policy for proposals

http://www.eurasia.org/programs/grantcriteria.aspx
 

The IDRC (International Development Research Center) has regular calls for proposals 

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-54473-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
 

You can also use DGmarket (just use your country of interest as seach term)

www.dgmarket.com

the Social Science Research Network regularly announces grant calls (click on 'professional announcements'

http://www.ssrn.com/ern/index.html

EU related grants (Re)Sources

you can use this aggregator of EU funding calls

http://www.welcomeurope.com/default.asp?id=1200&page=2

For info on EU calls related to Ukraine

http://www.fp6-nip.kiev.ua/ 

 

The European Delegation to Ukraine also announces EU related grants

http://www.delukr.ec.europa.eu/home.html 
 

For information on TEMPUS grants

http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/tempus/index_en.html 
 

For Info on Erasmus Mundus (mainly mobility grants)

http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/mundus/index_en.html 

 

Other (Re)Sources 

The Central European University Initiative has limited funding opportunities

http://www.ceinet.org/main.php?pageID=81 
 

Calls for projects related to ICT

http://www.infodev.org/section/programs/rfps 
 

Poverty research can be funded by

http://www.pep-net.org/

Research Mobility with France

http://www.egide.asso.fr/jahia/Jahia/site/egide/lang/fr/dnipro
 

Scholarships for students

For those interested in going for PHD, I recommend to regularly check the following sites

Inomics (international)

http://www.inomics.com/

PHD scholarships in the UK
 

www.jobs.ac.uk

the Social Science Research Network regularly announces PHD scholarships (click on 'professional announcements'

http://www.ssrn.com/ern/index.html 

The Visby Program supports exchanges with Sweden

http://www.sweden.se/templates/cs/Article____5001.aspx
 

Central European University in Hungary and CERGE-EI in Prague offer Scholarships to study for a PHD in economics

 www.ceu.hu and http://www.cerge.cuni.cz/default.asp