Innovation & Smart Cities: April 2025 Funding Opportunities
Includes multi sector innovation and research opportunities, R&D Centers, AI and Digital Technology, and smart cities.
The grants are organized into three categories:
Open Calls: Current grant and opportunities with a deadline. Grants are listed by closing date.
Rolling Applications: current grant and opportunities with rolling applications (but it’s still best to submit as early as possible).
Long term planning: Grants that have closed their current rounds, but are expected to open new windows.
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Open Calls:
J.M.K. Innovation Prize, J.M. Kaplan Fund. *Closing this month!*
The J.M.K. Innovation Prize seeks to identify and support bold problem-solvers leading transformative, early-stage projects in the fields of heritage conservation, the environment, and social justice. The Prize will be awarded to projects or ideas that: 1. Represent a game-changing answer to a clearly identified need; 2. Innovate within one or more of the Fund’s three program areas; 3. Demonstrate the potential to develop an actionable pilot or prototype with Prize funding; and 4. Hold out the promise to benefit multiple individuals, communities, or sectors through a clearly articulated theory of change. Most Prize awardees are organizations or fiscally sponsored projects that have been active for less than five years and operate with annual budgets of less than $500,000. While the Prize welcomes bold ideas of all kinds, we encourage applicants to carefully consider whether their work aligns with the Prize’s focus on early-stage, impactful innovation.
Geographies: USA.
Who can apply: Non-profits and mission driven for profits.
Funding amount: Grant of $150,000 over three years and $25,000 in technical assistance funds to up to 10 winners.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Heritage conservation, the environment, and social justice.
Deadline: April 25, 2025.
Research-Industry Grants for International Collaboration, The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). *New!*
Seeking applications from Australian organizations collaborating on key areas of science and technology with priority partner countries across the Asia-Pacific region. Applicants must focus on one of five priority themes and include at least one priority partner country. Priority themes: advanced manufacturing; quantum computing; artificial intelligence; hydrogen production; RNA (including mRNA) vaccines and therapies. Priority countries: Brazil; Indonesia; Japan; Republic of Korea; Malaysia; New Zealand; Singapore; Thailand; Vietnam
Geographies: Australia and Priority countries: Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.
Who can apply: Project must be led by Australian organization, including for-profit or non-profit, Publicly Funded Research Organisation (PFRO), and Cooperative Research Centre.
Funding amount: AUD $100,000 - AUD $1M. Total of $6.3M available.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Innovation, research
Deadline: May 4, 2025 for Expressions of Interest.
2025 THRIVE Global Impact Challenge, SVG Ventures.
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