Europe
General European Sources
AXA Research Fund
Funds research in multiple areas, including research projects, postdoctoral and graduate fellowships, and long- and short-term projects, and encourages international applicants and research around the world.
Central European Initiative (CEI)
The Science and Technology Network funds seven research centers across Europe with the purpose of strengthening international collaboration. It provides funds for the organization of seminars, conferences, workshops, and training courses, and offers travel awards for young investigators to attend.
European Brain and Behavior Society
Conducts research into the relationship between brain mechanisms and behavior and offers travel fellowships for PhD students.
European Commission
- The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Program funds research in multiple areas, including providing research grants and professional development training for early career, established, and international researchers.
- Find information on EU-funded research projects and project results on the CORDIS website.
European Molecular Biology Organization
Funds research in molecular biology and offers short- and long-term fellowships for young researchers.
European Neuroscience Campus
Conducts neuroscience research, funded by the Erasmus Mundus program, and provides fellowships and grants for graduate study at seven different European university campuses.
ERA-NET Neuron
Dedicated to linking funds from European funding organizations to neuroscience research. Implements joint funding schemes between multiple national and international agencies.
European Research Council
Funds research in multiple areas, providing short- and long-term funding for early and established career researchers.
European Science Foundation
Funds research in multiple areas and is affiliated with multiple universities and institutes across Europe. Provides research project grants and travel awards.
The Volkswagen Stiftung Foundation (VWF)
Promotes research in multiple areas, including science and technology. Research project funding is open to PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, established researchers, and research institutions. Open to international applicants.
Armenia
The Armenian National Science and Education Fund
Funds research in multiple areas.
Austria
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Funds research in multiple areas, providing grants to standalone projects and special research programs. Allocates money for special programs for young investigators and international researchers.
Ministry for Science and Research (BMWF)
Funds research in multiple areas.
Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)
Funds research in multiple areas, especially sectors in which Vienna needs more expertise. Offers research grants for individuals and/or institutions.
Belgium
The Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotes and sponsors scientific research in Flanders. Funds fellowships, grants, sabbatical leave, research projects, and international programs. Offers PhD fellowships, postdoctoral programs, established career researchers.
Scientific Research Fund (FNRS)
Funds research in multiple areas. Provides funds for research training, projects, conferences, international travel, professional development, and scientific publications. Offers special funding for early and established career researchers, groups, postdoc, and PhD program grants.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Federal Ministry of Education and Science
Funds research in multiple areas. Provides a list of calls for specific projects and student scholarship applications, which is available only in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Croatia
Ministry of Science and Education
Sponsors research in six broad scientific areas. Provides money for research projects, equipment, and national science awards for junior researchers.
Czech Republic
Czech Science Foundation
Funds research in basic sciences. Funds long-term research projects by individuals or institutions.
Denmark
Ministry of Higher Education and Science - Research and Innovation
Promotes research in multiple areas. Awards PhD program scholarships for graduate students and research project grants for junior researchers and universities.
Lundbeck Foundation - The Brain Prize
Awards the Brain Prize on a yearly basis. Mission is to promote interest in brain research, encourage and reward outstanding brain research, and stimulate Danish research.
Estonia
Archimedes Foundation
Archimedes Foundation has been established by the Estonian government to coordinate and implement different international and national programs and projects in training, education and research.
Enterprise Estonia
Funds a biotechnology program on behalf of biotechnology firms, seeking to grow Estonia's biotechnology sector and make increasing use of biotechnology applications for producing and developing products.
The Estonian Research Council
One of the main activities of the Estonian Research Council (ETAg) is to finance national basic and applied research and researcher mobility. National funding can be applied for institutional research funding or personal research funding.
Finland
Academy of Finland
Funds research in multiple areas. Offers research project and program funding, fellowships, international cooperation funding, and researcher training, including special programs for young investigators, research by "centers of excellence," professors, and established researcher fellowships. Lists of centers of excellence.
France
French National Research Agency
Funds research in six areas, including biology and health, and maintains a partnership and consortia of teams from public labs and companies. Also participates in extensive partnerships with other countries. Sponsors a special program for young investigators within and outside the six major disciplines, as well as for foreign research.
Pasteur Foundation
Funds research in biological sciences, with a focus on infectious diseases. Research is completed at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, funding several visiting-scientist programs.
Georgia
Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation
Provides grants for research in a variety of areas; focus on social sciences, but opportunities in hard sciences and maintains extensive collaboration with French CNRS.
Germany
Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation
Funds research in multiple areas. Offers fellowships and grants for academic study and travel awards. Funding is open to international applicants.
Alfried Krupp Foundation
Funds research in multiple areas. Provides fellowships for young investigators; funds research projects.
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Funds research in multiple areas. Provides grants for individual researchers and fellowships for young investigators, coordinated programs, and international programs.
The Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience (NNCN)
Conducts and supports computational neuroscience research. Funded by the German Ministry for Education & Research (BMBF) and the American National Science Foundation (NSF). Offers research project grants along a variety of themes, teaching and training programs, with funding available for PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and established researchers.
Greece
General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Funds research in multiple areas of science that are deemed important to the national economy and quality of life. Supervises 12 research centers and provides grants for research and technology dissemination.
Hungary
Hungary Scientific Research Fund
Funds research in basic sciences, providing research project grants and postdoctoral fellowships. Funding is open to international researchers.
Ireland
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
Promotes research in multiple areas of science; majority of funding is given in three specific fields, but smaller allocations are given for a broader range of scientific researcher.
Italy
Ministry of Instruction, Universities, and Research (MIUR)
Focuses on basic research programs for research of “national importance.”
Lithuania
The State Studies Foundation
Funds research in multiple areas of science and provides loans and grants for students of sciences.
Luxembourg
National Research Fund
Funds research in multiple areas. Annual calls and specific grant schemes are outlined.
Moldova
Academy of Sciences Moldova
Funds research in multiple areas. Holds competitions for research fellowships and offers grants for equipment.
Netherlands
Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research
Promotes scientific research at Dutch universities with more than 120 research programs and grants. Provides special FTE programs for PhD students, research trainees, assistants, and postdoctoral fellows.
Norway
International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility, Norwegian Node (INCF)
Focuses on neuroinformatics and neuroscience. Funded by Norwegian Research Council. Funds small research projects, conference participation, and international workshop participation.
National Research Council
Focuses on research in multiple areas, including neuroscience. Funds NeuroNor, The National Initiative on Neuroscience Research and INCF. Provides small- and large-scale research projects by established researchers and international researchers.
Poland
Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Funds research in multiple areas, including an upcoming pilot program in "Health and Life Sciences."
National Center for Research and Development (NCBR)
Promotes scientific research that translates directly into innovation and development. Open to international applicants.
Portugal
Foundation for Science and Technology
Funds research in multiple areas. Offers PhD scholarships, postdoctoral grants, and research project grants. Falls under the aegis of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
Romania
Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding
Grants for the education of future researchers.
National Authority for Scientific Research (ANCS)
Focuses on research and development in natural sciences, technological science, and high-tech innovation. Has partnerships with universities and public institutes in Romania.
Russia
Ministry of Education and Science (MON)
Funds research in multiple areas. Funded research projects can only be completed at a Russian institute of higher education. Holds a competition for research projects in which both Russian and international applicants are eligible.
Russian Science Foundation
Russian Science Foundation was established on the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation to support basic research and development of leading research teams in different fields of science.
Spain
Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN)
Funds research in multiple areas. Sponsors an International researcher program, postdoctoral training, and research project grants. Provides links to partners and other collaborators on website.
Superior State Council of Scientific Investigations (CSIC)
Funds research in multiple areas. Offers 30 Master's research degree scholarships in collaboration with Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo master's program.
Sweden
Swedish Research Council
Funds research in multiple areas. Provides postdoctoral fellowships, equipment grants, and international collaboration grants. Lists calls for proposals online.
Switzerland
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Funds research in multiple areas and participates in bilateral funding programs with international collaborators. Funds special bilateral projects, exchange programs, and internship grants. Eligible applicants are early and established career established researchers from Switzerland and partner countries.
Swiss National Science Foundation
Funds research in multiple areas, offering research project grants, conference grants, equipment grants, publication grants, and international travel grants. Open to international researchers, so long as they are working in Switzerland.
United Kingdom
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Provides research funding for biosciences within four broad areas and has extensive partnerships with international institutions. Offers grants for long- and short-term research and travel awards and provides for special programs for young investigators.
Economic and Social Research Council
Funds research in multiple areas and offers large scale grants and fellowships.
Medical Research Council
Funds research in multiple areas, including neurosciences. The Neuroscience and Mental Health Board oversees neuroscience research.
Parkinson's UK
Funds research into all aspects of Parkinson's and offers project grants, career development awards, PhD studentships, and innovation grants. International applicants are eligible.
The Gatsby Foundation
Funds research in multiple areas, including neuroscience. Offers research project grants and grants for research centers. Open to international applicants.
The Wellcome Trust
Funds research in multiple areas, including an initiative in neurodegenerative diseases. Provides strategic awards, funds for UK and international researchers, project awards, and training grants. Eligible applicants are senior, international, and young researchers, including postdoctoral fellows.
