Two international research grants for 2025 are now open:
1. TUI Forests Programme (Deadline: 1 Nov 2025)
2. Amazon Research Awards Call for Proposals (Deadline: 5 Nov 2025)

1. TUI Forests Programme

The programme supports large-scale and small-scale tree planting projects in prioritised tourism destinations.

Funding Organization: TUI Care Foundation

Scope: Tree planting

Eligibility:
• Organisations must be legally registered organisations.
• Projects should take place in tourism destinations.
• Eligible destinations span across continents and include countries where tourism and forest conservation need coincide.

Maximum Award: Grants range from €10,000 to €150,000 per year and support projects that run for at least 24 months.

Application Process: Applications must be submitted online at https://www.tuicarefoundation.com/en/take-action/tui-forests-programme-call-for-proposals

Application Deadline: 1 November 2025

Further information: https://www.tuicarefoundation.com/en/take-action/tui-forests-programme-call-for-proposals

2. Amazon Research Awards Call for Proposals

Amazon Research Awards program offers unrestricted funds and Amazon Web Services Promotional Credits to support research at academic institutions and non-profit organizations in areas that align with Amazon’s mission to advance customer-obsessed science.

Awards are structured as unrestricted gifts to the principal investigator’s academic institution or organization and as such, Amazon retains no intellectual property rights to the resulting work. Recipients are encouraged to publish outcomes and commit related code to open-source repositories. Recipients are assigned an Amazon research contact who offers consultation and advice along with opportunities to participate in Amazon events and training sessions.

Funding Organization: Amazon

Research Scope: The following calls are open in Fall 2025:
• AI for Information Security: Advancing possible solutions for some of the most challenging problems in information security. https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/ai-for-information-security-call-for-proposals-fall-2025
• Agentic AI: Advancing the frontiers of AI agents https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/aws-agentic-ai-call-for-proposals-fall-2025
• Automated Reasoning: Systems assurance by mathematical proof. https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/automated-reasoning-call-for-proposals-fall-2025
• Build on Trainium: Building the future of AI with AWS Trainium. https://www.amazon.science/build-on-trainium-responsible-ai-call-for-proposals-fall-2025
• AWS Cryptography: Setting the standard for cryptography at Amazon. https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/aws-cryptography-call-for-proposals-fall-2025
• Cybersecurity and Anti-Abuse Technologies: Advancing solutions to protect the Web from sophisticated cybercrime, abuse and fraud at scale. https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/cybersecurity-research-and-anti-abuse-technologies-call-for-proposals-fall-2025
• Data-driven solutions for Devices Sustainability: Optimizing manufacturing and use phase impact https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/sustainability-call-for-proposals-fall-2025
• Think Big: Advancing the frontiers of science through transformative ideas. https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/think-big-call-for-proposals-fall-2025

Eligibility: Applicants must be (1) either a full-time faculty member at an accredited academic institution or a permanent researcher at a non-governmental organization with recognized legal status in their respective country and (2) at or above the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence at the time of application. Each Principal Investigator is permitted to submit only one proposal to the ARA Program per call for proposal period.

Maximum Award: Selected Principal Investigators (PIs) may receive the following:
• Unrestricted funds: varies from $70,000 to $100,000 USD (check each call for specific upper limit)
• AWS Promotional Credits: check each call for specific upper limit
• Some calls provide training resources, including AWS tutorials and hands-on sessions with Amazon scientists and engineers

Amazon Research Awards (ARA) are structured as one-year unrestricted gifts. The budget should include a list of expected costs specified in USD, and should not include

Application Process: Proposals should be prepared according to the proposal template available on the call announcement webpage. Applications must be submittted online at: https://submissions.mirasmart.com/ARA/login.aspx

Application Deadline: 5 November 2025

Further information: https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals

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