1. Sustainable Tourism Development Grants (Deadlines: 15 Aug or 24 Oct 2025)
2. Global Call: Digital Solutions for an Inclusive Economy (Deadlines: 18 Aug 2025)
3. SAMSUNG Global Research Outreach Program (Deadlines: 29 Aug 2025)
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🇨🇭 1. The Swiss Foundation for Solidarity in Tourism (SST) supports projects and organisations worldwide that
– are suited to improve the economic, cultural and social conditions of the population in tourist destinations,
– contribute to sustainable tourism development in the destinations,
– contribute to improving intercultural understanding between people in tourist sending and receiving countries.
🔸Funding Organization: Swiss Foundation for Solidarity in Tourism (SST)
🔸Scope: Sustainable tourism
🔸Eligibility: Open to projects and organisations worldwide.
🏆Maximum Award: Grants for individual projects range between CHF 5,000 and CHF 25,000.
📝Application Process: Submit the completed application form, available at https://www.sstfoundation.org/ , to info@sstfoundation.org
📌Application Deadline: The submission deadlines for project proposals are 15 August 2025, and 24 October 2025.
🗂Further information: https://www.sstfoundation.org/
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🌏2. Global Call: Digital Solutions for an Inclusive Economy
The goal of the Open call for solution is to identify and elevate innovative, high-impact digital solutions, both proven and emerging, that empower underserved communities and build more inclusive, secure, and sustainable digital economies worldwide, beneficial for all.
🔸Funding Organization: UNIDO, UNCTAD, UNDCO, ODET
🔸Thematic tracks:
1.Inclusive Digital Innovation Skills & Entrepreneurial Talent Development: Solutions and community-level initiatives building foundational skills among women, youth, and marginalized groups in digital learning.
2.MSME Empowerment & Local Digital Innovation: Solutions enabling MSMEs to access digital markets, finance, and tools—e.g., e-commerce, smart manufacturing, and startup ecosystems.
3.Enabling Policies & Regulatory Innovation: Solutions that support predictable, transparent, and inclusive digital policy and regulatory environments to foster innovation and fair competition.
4.Innovation Acceleration & Knowledge Sharing: Solutions that promote innovation acceleration, knowledge sharing and technology transfer to support local digital solutions in developing countries and ensure the secure, safe, and resilient functioning of digital systems during digital transformation.
5.Stable and Resilient Digital Supply Chains: Solutions that support stable and resilient digital supply chains by promoting inclusive access to digital products and services.
🔸Eligibility: Open to innovators, entrepreneurs, private sector organizations across industries, NGOs and international organizations (including, but not limited to, UN organizations), that are building technologies, business models, or advancing initiatives that promote digital inclusion, resilience, and empowerment—particularly for women, youth, MSMEs, and marginalized communities.
🔸Benefits: Selected entries will receive:
– Global visibility and recognition through high-level UN platforms, including side events at the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA.80) in New York (September 2025), and the UNIDO General Conference in Riyadh (November 2025)
– Strategic matchmaking opportunities with UN-led initiatives and partners, with the potential for inclusion in the Global Digital Compact (Objective 2) implementation roadmap and through the UNIDO AIM Global Community Platform
– Access to technical support and funding opportunities via the UN system and partner networks
– Featuring the most innovative solutions on the UNIDO Solutions Platform
📝Application Process: Applications must be submitted online at https://forms.office.com/e/HgGXTEneBu
📌Application Deadline: 18 August 2025
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🔍3. SAMSUNG Global Research Outreach Program
The Global Research Outreach (GRO) is an annual call for proposals that invites the world’s leading universities to propose innovative research ideas that will be evaluated for their novelty and alignment with Samsung’s various research fields.
🔸Funding Organization: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
🔸Scope: The 2025 GRO Program is seeking proposals in six(6) research themes.
• System Architecture
o System Semiconductor Design with Agentic AI
o Chiplet-Based Designs for Next Generation AI
• New Computing
o Quantum Computing
o Semiconductor Bio-Interface and System
o Memory-Centric Autonomous Agent Computing
• Semiconductor Materials
o Multi-Agent AI System for Self-Improving Materials Discovery
o New Heterogeneous Integration Materials
o New Functional Electronic Materials
• Semiconductor Metrology
o ML Based Semiconductor Process Signal Analysis
o Next Generation 3D Integration Imaging Analysis
o Computational Chemistry
• Next Generation Catalyst
o Adaptive Catalysts for Environmental Applications
o Green Catalysis and Synthesis
• Environment Tech. for Sustainability
o Industrial Gas Treatment (De-NOx System)
o Sustainable Energy Management System
🔸Eligibility:
• Applicants must be university professors or researchers.
• The applicant’s university must accept the GRO Research Agreement (RA) as part of the proposal submission process.
🏆Maximum Award: Up to 150,000 USD per year.
📝Application Process: Applicants shall submit a abstract proposal, 3 pages or less, via the GRO submission website. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal.
📌Application Deadline: 29 August 2025
🗂Further information: https://www.sait.samsung.co.kr/saithome/about/collabo_overview.do
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For more information, please contact
Ms. Panida Suwannatheerak and Ms. Mananchaya Pissaparn
📞 Tel: 02 470 9654
📧 Email: researchfollowup@kmutt.ac.th
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