Apply for a 2025 Funding Opportunity for Faculty and Researchers

Have an innovative idea or research project in mind?

Columbia Global is accepting applications for a suite of funding opportunities for Columbia faculty and researchers.

These opportunities provide faculty and researchers with resources and funding — more than $2 million in 2025 — to advance catalytic research, deepen partnerships around the world, implement social impact projects, create new learning opportunities for students, and more. All opportunities seek evidence of collaboration and partnerships across disciplines, schools and borders.

Which opportunity is best for you?

Columbia Global encourages applications from all disciplines and schools, institutes, and centers at Columbia. Please refer to the list below to determine which opportunity best meets your needs. To learn more and apply, click on one of the following opportunities: 

Columbia World Projects Social Impact Awards (application period for concept notes and expressions of interest: Oct. 15 – Jan. 20, 2025)

• Focus: Advancing inclusive cities through addressing pressing societal challenges in cities around the world.
• Eligibility: Full-time Columbia faculty or researchers
• Funding/Timeframe: Seed Awards, $10,000 - $20,000 (1 year); Impact Awards (Category A), $150,000 - $250,000 (2-3 years); Impact Awards (Category B), up to $500,000 (2-3 years)

President’s Global Innovation Fund (PGIF) (application period: Oct. 15 - Jan. 20, 2025)

• Focus: Projects that advance progress towards just and collaborative societies
• Eligibility: Full-time Columbia faculty or researchers
• Funding/Timeframe: Early Concept Awards, up to $25,000 (1-2 years); Innovation Awards, up to $100,000 (2-3 years) 

Columbia Global Resilience Fund (application period: Oct. 15 - Jan. 31, 2025)

• Focus: Projects to advance recovery and resilience following the 2023 earthquakes in Turkey (in collaboration with the Global Center in Istanbul)
• Eligibility: Full-time Columbia faculty or researchers
• Funding/Timeframe: Seed Awards, up to $50,000 (18 months); Vision Awards, up to $150,000 (2-3 years) 

Center for Political Economy Faculty Grants (application period: Dec. 2 - March 3, 2025)

• Focus: Projects that generate new knowledge and networks, facilitate knowledge exchange, and expand the methods scholars use in any of the following themes (Work and labor, Firms and industrial policy, Money and finance, Political economy of climate, International political economy, Political economy and democracy)
• Eligibility: Full-time Columbia faculty or researchers
• Funding/Timeframe: Up to $60,000 (1 year)
  

Early Career Impact Fellowship (application period: Oct. 15 - Jan. 31, 2025)

• Focus: Supporting faculty to deepen their expertise in advancing their research to policy or impact
• Eligibility: Full-time Columbia assistant and associate professors who have received their highest academic degree within the last 10 years
• Funding/Timeframe: Up to $25,000 (1 year)

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