1. Halton Foundation (Deadlines: 1 Sep 2025)
2. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships (Deadlines: 10 Sep 2025)
3. VELUX STIFTUNG. (Deadlines: 22 Sep 2025)

1.Halton Foundation Grant Program 2025
The Halton Foundation provides funding opportunities to non-profit organizations researching how to improve human wellbeing in indoor environments. Grants have been awarded in several areas including helping children with asthma, funding for the Himalayas Stove project, and providing grants to universities that research indoor environmental quality.

Funding Organization: Halton Foundation

Scope: Solutions for enhanced indoor environmental quality

Eligibility: Open to non-profit organizations—regardless of geographical location—that conduct research on improving human well-being in indoor environments or develop solutions to enhance indoor environmental quality.

Awards
Selected proposals may receive:
– One-time grants which are single-year grants for a specific purpose
– Multi-year grants for no longer than three years; and,
– Start-up program grants
Depending on the scope and nature of the project or program, the amount of the grant may vary between thousands of dollars and tens of thousands of dollars. Grants shall not exceed 30,000 USD per year.

Application Process:
– Complete the pre-qualification process available on the Foundation’s website
– Submit the full grant application form with all required attachment through the Foundation’s grant application portal.

Application Deadline: 1 September 2025

Further information: https://foundation.halton.com/
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2. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to researchers of any nationality to work on research and innovation projects in the academic or non-academic sector in Europe. Applications must be made jointly by the researcher and a host (beneficiary) in the academic or non-academic sector.

Funding Organization: Horizon Europe

Eligibility
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to postdoctoral researchers from all over the world that
– hold a PhD degree on the closing date for applications. Applicants who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but who have not yet formally been awarded the doctoral degree are also eligible to apply
– have a maximum of eight years of experience in research from the date of the award of the PhD degree, years of experience outside research and career breaks will not count towards the above maximum, nor will years of experience in research in third countries, for nationals or long-term residents of EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries who wish to reintegrate to Europe
– comply with mobility rules: they must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the beneficiary (for European Postdoctoral Fellowships), or the host organisation for the outgoing phase (for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships) for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline

Two types of fellowships:
– European Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to researchers of any nationality who wish to engage in R&I projects by either coming to Europe (i.e. in an EU Member State or a Horizon Europe Associated Country) from any country in the world or moving within Europe. The standard duration of these fellowships must be between 12 and 24 months.
– Global Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to nationals or long-term residents of the EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries who wish to engage in R&I projects with organisations in a non-associated Third Country. These fellowships require an outgoing phase of minimum 12 and maximum 24 months in a non-associated Third Country, and a mandatory 12-month return phase to a host organisation based in an EU Member State or a Horizon Europe Associated Country.

Funding Coverage
– a living allowance
– a mobility allowance
– if applicable, family, long-term leave and special needs allowances
– research, training and networking activities
– management and indirect costs

Application Process: Applications must be submitted online via the Funding & tenders portal (https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/how-to-participate/participant-register).

Application Deadline: 10 September 2025

Further Information: https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdoctoral-fellowships

Resources: https://msca-net.eu/scientific-community/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships-pf/

List of Countries
EU Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
Associated countries to Horizon Europe: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Türkiye, Tunisia, United Kingdom, and Ukraine.

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3.Call for Proposals: Challenges in Forest Management 2025
The forestry program of Velux Stiftung aims to improve sustainable forest management that addresses the pressing problems of climate change and biodiversity loss as well as society’s need for forest products.

Funding Organization: VELUX STIFTUNG Foundation, Switzerland

Scope: Climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem services & forest products

Eligibility:
– An application requires at least two project partners (PI and co-PI) who need to be from different institutions. One partner needs to be from an academic research institution. Other partners or collaborators can be non-academic stakeholders, e.g., forest owners or practitioner associations, (non-)governmental organizations, or consulting agencies.
– The principal investigator (PI) must be a permanent employee (e.g. professor, group leader) and act in a legally binding way on behalf of his/her organisational unit.
– An organisation or institution (e.g., a university) can only submit a maximum of two applications per call (in the role as institution of the PI or co-PI), otherwise all applications will be excluded.

The foundation seeks to support two types of projects:
– Research projects: Innovative, novel, outside-of-the-box research which can show a high potential for change in forestry practice. Projects need to be participatory (= including stakeholders) and can have an interdisciplinary approach to define the research questions or to conduct the research. 10 % of the budget needs to spend for knowledge transfer and the proposed approach should be of general interest. Local scale projects have a lower priority.
– Science-practice projects: Science-practice projects aim to facilitate collaboration between researchers and practitioners to improve accessibility and comprehensibility of specified forest management findings relevant to stakeholders. Dialogue, knowledge exchange and co-production should lead to deliverables such as tools and resources or communication products. Applications must demonstrate the commitment of the collaborating parties and the continuity of the approach.

Maximum Award: Up to CHF 100’000 per year for one to four years

Application Process: Applications must be submitted online via the foundation’s web portal https://portal.veluxstiftung.deskone.ch/login.

Application Deadline: 22 September 2025

Further information: https://veluxstiftung.ch/funding-areas/forestry/

For more information, please contact
Ms. Panida Suwannatheerak and Ms. Mananchaya Pissaparn
📞 Tel: 02 470 9654
📧 Email: researchfollowup@kmutt.ac.th