The University of Michigan provides generous support to faculty who wish to explore activities and research that relate to global issues or make a contribution to internationalizing the educational environment for students through international programs and teaching abroad. Below is a list of globally related funding that is open to faculty.
Deadline: mid-October or early March
Each year the Office of Global Activities (OGA) awards funds to support faculty global initiatives in research and teaching/professional collaborations.
OGA Travel Grant for Faculty Global Research and Collaborations
Deadline: mid-October and mid-February
The Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia (WCEE) seeks proposals for research projects from faculty affiliates of WCEE and its centers: the Center for Russia, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES); Center for European Studies (CES); and Copernicus Center for Polish Studies (CCPS).
Deadline: mid-February
CGIS works closely with U-M faculty members to conceptualize, design, and implement study abroad programs. We offer a range of opportunities to teach abroad on short-term programs during the spring & summer.
Deadline: mid-February
GCC programs are 3-4 week-long extensions of courses taught on campus during winter term. If your proposal is accepted, the Center for Global and Intercultural Study provides support on various fronts such as making logistical arrangements (housing, classroom rental, excursions), helping coordinate responses to medical situations, and more.
Deadline: mid-October and mid-February
The Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia (WCEE) seeks proposals for research projects from faculty affiliates of WCEE and its centers: the Center for Russia, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES); Center for European Studies (CES); and Copernicus Center for Polish Studies (CCPS).
Deadline: mid-March
The African Heritage and Humanities Initiative is making funds available to support collaborative research projects being undertaken by co-PIs at the University of Michigan and an African institution of higher learning and/or knowledge production. These grants are intended to support scholarship produced by U-M’s faculty in the arts, humanities and interpretive social sciences whose work illuminates the dynamic, contested process by which African cultures and histories are made.
Deadline: mid-October and mid-March
CGHE Impact Accelerator Grants support projects that mobilize novel ideas and collaborations to help people live healthier and longer lives. This grant program supports co-designed projects that have been developed with a global partner. Preference will be given to proposals that pursue action-oriented projects focused on designing, piloting, or testing solutions that improve health outcomes for people in low- and middle-income countries contexts (that is, moving beyond conceptualizing problems or defining/studying research questions).
Deadline: mid-October and mid-March
CGHE Seed Grants support exploratory projects that catalyze novel ideas and collaborations and build a case for larger-scale or more expansive projects that will help people live healthier and longer lives. This grant program supports co-designed projects that will be implemented with a global partner. Preference will be given to projects that build an evidence base for impact, design and test solutions, or pilot interventions. Other examples of funded projects may include - but are not limited to - exploring local needs, defining scope of work, validating feasibility of activities, and testing initial ideas.
Deadline: mid-October or early March
Each year the Office of Global Activities (OGA) awards funds to support faculty global initiatives in research and teaching/professional collaborations.
OGA Travel Grant for Faculty Global Research and Collaborations
Deadline: early March
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies offers modest funding opportunities to faculty who work on Thailand. Faculty funding programs include research grants, course development grants, conference travel grants, and research collaboration grants.
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