Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges provides millions of dollars in grants to early incubators or project ideas that can help solve global health and development-related problems. It has awarded more than sixteen hundred grants to such ideas in eighty countries.
The Grand Challenges Explorations is open to anyone from any discipline, from student to tenured professor, and from any organization – colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.
Awards of USD 100,000 are made in Phase I. Phase I awardees have one opportunity to apply for a follow-on Phase II award of up to USD 1,000,000. The foundation only funds projects responsive to the topics included in each round as it has a number of other avenues of funding for the equally important research that is otherwise within currently accepted program paradigms.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants can be non-profit organizations, for-profit companies, international organizations, government agencies and academic institutions.
- Applicants must include a clear set of key experiments or activities that test their idea in a way that could provide sufficient evidence to warrant funding.
- Proposal must demonstrate an innovative approach that complies with all restrictions and guidelines for
- the topic to which application is being made.
- Proposals that include personal or organizational information in the body of the proposal are at risk of being automatically removed from consideration.
There will be individual eligibility criteria for each call rounds.
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