Innovations are new or significantly improved goods, services, processes and methods which are social when they aim at gains for society rather than for the individual, i.e. when they are good for society and enhance society’s capacity to act. Very often social challenges cannot be met with traditional recipes and approaches.
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship, named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, was created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to support one scholar for four full-time months to enable him or her to conduct a research project on the 19th-century British periodical and newspaper press.
The Independent Social Research Foundation wishes to support independent-minded researchers to explore and present original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems.
Comme chaque année, Eusko Ikaskuntza – Société d'Études Basques – en partenariat avec la Ville de Biarritz, lance un appel à candidatures pour attribuer des bourses visant à encourager les travaux de recherche consacrés au Pays basque et à la culture basque dans son acception la plus large, toutes disciplines confondues.
Ces bourses sont ouvertes aux étudiants de master et de doctorat, ainsi qu'aux chercheurs indépendants et aux vidéastes. Pour déposer une candidature, il convient de remplir le formulaire ci-joint et de fournir les pièces demandées.
The Foundation fiat panis supports young scientists whose work focuses on helping to reduce hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. From 1986 to 2009, the Eiselen Foundation awarded the science prize every two years, since 2010 the Foundation fiat panis succeeded with awarding the prize.
Practitioners and policymakers in the peacebuilding field often focus on studying the causes and consequences of conflict at the expense of examining the causes of peace. To help societies to become more peaceful, it is necessary to have a better understanding of why some regions, countries, states or communities are able to prevent, mitigate and resolve violent conflict, while others are not.
