Apply for a 2025 Funding Opportunity for Faculty and Researchers
Columbia Global is now accepting applications for a suite of funding opportunities for faculty and researchers.
Have an innovative idea or research project in mind?
Columbia Global is now accepting applications for a suite of funding opportunities for Columbia faculty and researchers, including an exciting new Scholars-in-Residence Program at our Global Centers.
These opportunities provide Columbia faculty and researchers with funding — more than $2 million in 2025 — and other resources 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. Please refer to the table below to determine which opportunity best meets your needs. Click on an opportunity to learn more and apply.
- Opportunity
- NEW!
Scholars-in-Residence Program at Columbia Global Centers
Application period: Oct. 15 - Dec. 2
- What is the focus?
- Hosting faculty and researchers at a Columbia Global Center to advance research, build partnerships, and develop educational experiences for students
- Who is this for?
- Full-time Columbia faculty or researchers
- What is the funding available (timeframe)?
- Up to $5,000 (2-8 weeks)
- Opportunity
- Columbia World Projects Social Impact Awards
Application period (Concept notes and expressions of interest): Oct. 15 - Jan. 20
- What is the focus?
- Advancing inclusive cities through addressing challenges in cities around the world
- Who is this for?
- Full-time Columbia faculty or researchers
- What is the funding available (timeframe)?
- Seed Awards (1 year) $10,000 - $20,000
Impact Awards (2-3 years) Category A, $150,000 - $250,000 Category B, up to $500,000
- Opportunity
- President’s Global Innovation Fund (PGIF)
Application period: Oct. 15 - Jan. 20, 2025
- What is the focus?
- Projects that advance progress towards just and collaborative societies
- Who is this for?
- Full-time Columbia faculty or researchers
- What is the funding available (timeframe)?
- Early Concept Awards (1-2 years)
Up to $25,000
Innovation Awards (2-3 years) Up to $100,000
- Opportunity
- Columbia Global Resilience Fund
Application period: Oct. 15 - Jan. 31, 2025
- What is the focus?
- Projects to advance recovery and resilience following the 2023 earthquakes in Turkey (in collaboration with the Global Center in Istanbul)
- Who is this for?
- Full-time Columbia faculty or researchers
- What is the funding available (timeframe)?
- Seed Awards (18 months)
Up to $50,000
Vision Awards (2-3 years) Up to $150,000
- Opportunity
- Center for Political Economy Faculty Grants
Application period: Dec. 2 - March 3, 2025
- What is the 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
- Who is this for?
- Full-time Columbia faculty or researchers
- What is the funding available (timeframe)?
- Up to $60,000 (1 year)
- Opportunity
- Early Career Faculty Impact Fellowship
Application period: Oct 15 - Jan. 31, 2025
- What is the focus?
- Support faculty to deepen their expertise in advancing their research to policy or impact
- Who is this for?
- Full-time Columbia assistant and associate professors who have received their highest academic degree within the last 10 years
- What is the funding available (timeframe)?
- Up to $25,000 (1 year)