ACU Higher Education & the SDGs Network Grants 2025 (up to £2,500) – Opportunity Desk – YOA

Deadline: June 3, 2025

Applications are open for the ACU Higher Education & the SDGs Network Grants 2025. Higher Education and the SDGs Network Grants fund collaborative work round the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Open to skilled and educational workers at ACU member universities, the grants concentrate on the precedence themes of the ACU Higher Education and the SDGs Network:

• Engagement and affect
• Estates and stewardship
• Partnerships
• Research
• Teaching and studying

From sourcing vitality-saving and clear vitality choices for Fijian faculties, to supporting girls’s financial empowerment by addressing the monetary literacy and gender-primarily based disparities in entry to finance – the grants have been used to fund a various vary of actions, tasks, workshops, and occasions.

Award

• Four grants of up to GBP 2,500

Eligibility

• Open to skilled and educational workers at ACU member universities.
• Applicants can’t be from a college that has beforehand obtained an ACU Higher Education and the SDGs Network grant.
• Applicants are inspired to:
  • Collaborate with different ACU member universities or different organisations resembling native governments, to promote additional Commonwealth partnerships. This can be appeared on favourably.
  • Consider matching or further funding from their very own college as part of the application. This can be appeared on favourably, however just isn’t important. 
• Applications may embody concepts for:
  • Virtual alternate or collaboration, educating or skilled apply collaboration. Sharing and co-growth of studying supplies, instruments, coaching and approaches to assist contingency and continuity of operations planning at increased schooling establishments (HEIs).
  • Virtual fellowships, comparative analyses, analysis administration and uptake capability-constructing.
  • Integrating sustainable growth into operations.
  • Sharing SDG studying content material and supplies. 
  • Developing SDG-targeted analysis methods.
  • Co-creating analysis for affect, group engagement, and partnerships for the objectives

Evaluation Criteria

Applications can be assessed on the following standards: 

• Project objectives and feasibility
• Impact and outputs
• Experience and expertise of the mission lead and establishment assist
• Alignment with the themes of the ACU Higher Education and the SDGs Network
• Collaboration

Application

Applicants can be required to present the following info in the application kind:

• Outline of the mission and an in depth time plan, together with:
  • What the mission will contain.
  • How the mission will deal with the Higher Education and the SDGs Network’s themes.  
  • The mission time plan must be for at least 6 months and a most of 12 months.  
• Letter of assist from the Executive Head or equal, or different senior member of the applicant’s establishment, demonstrating:
  • Support for the programme of labor proposed.  
  • The methods they are going to present assist on your mission.  
  • This letter of assist may also act as a reference for the mission lead.  
• CV of mission lead.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to ACU Grants.