Applications are now open for the ACU Higher Education and the SDGs Network Grants 2024. This international grant funds collaborative work on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The international grant is open to different regions. The higher education and SGDs grant is open to academic staff and professionals at ACU member universities. The grants primarily focus on the priority themes of 2024 the Higher Education and the SDGs Network Grants Program. The themes of this SDGs Network Grants include Research, Teaching and learning, Estates and stewardship, Partnerships and Engagement, and impact.
The research grants have been used to fund different activities, workshops, projects, and events, including energy saving and clean energy for Fijian schools, and to support women’s economic empowerment by conveying financial literacy and gender-based inequality related to finance. Applicants of these grants are encouraged to collaborate with each other. Applicants should collaborate with the member universities. This will promote Commonwealth partnerships or other organizations, such as local governments. This will be good for the applicant but is optional.
The applicant’s institute can also offer additional funds for the applicant. This is also a plus point for selection but isn’t mandatory. The selection process depends on the applicant’s Project goals and feasibility, experience and skills of the project lead and institution support, Impact and outputs, Collaboration and Alignment with the themes of the ACU Higher Education and the SDGs Network. The applicants selected for the paid grants will be required to submit a short update halfway through their project and a final report within one month of completing their project.
The Higher Education and the SDGs Network is a place for all university staff and students at the Association of Commonwealth Universities who engage and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) project. The forum aims to provide peer learning through knowledge and good practice, avenues for partnerships and collaboration, and sharing different approaches to how universities engage with the SDGs.
Higher Education and the SDGs Network Grants Priority Themes:
- Teaching and learning
- Engagement and impact
- Partnerships
- Estates and stewardship
- Research
No. of HE and the SDGs Network Grants 2024:
Four
SDGs Network Grants Applications ideas:
- Integrating sustainable development into operations.
- Virtual exchange or collaboration, professional practice collaboration. Sharing and co-developing learning materials, training, tools, and approaches to support continuity of operations planning at higher education institutions (HEIs).
- Sharing SDG learning content and materials.
- Virtual fellowships, research management, comparative analyses, and uptake capacity-building.
- Co-creating research for impact, partnerships for the goals, and community engagement.
- Developing SDG-focused research strategies.
