Grants
2025 Call for Grant Application
Sharing information and turning that information into practical steps is crucial for addressing the pressing global issues we face today. Yet, this process does not occur automatically. It demands a united effort and committed individuals to make the transition from knowledge to action.
By being part of the Danida Fellows Network, you belong to an exceptional global community of talented individuals who have either taken part in a learning program at the Danida Fellowship Centre (DFC) or contributed to a research project managed by the DFC. Through these learning experiences and projects, you have acquired abilities and insights that can drive constructive change among various groups and industries. When these changes are spurred by teamwork and partnerships, they can result in impactful actions that might significantly influence your area of expertise and even further.
The Danida Fellows Network Grants offer financial support for small initiatives that encourage discussion, collaboration, and action among stakeholders within an organization or throughout a sector.
You can seek financial assistance through a grant of up to 35,000 DKK for an activity or event that meets these goals:
Encourage sharing of knowledge, building connections, and teamwork within or between different sectors or fields.
Foster cooperation among participants focused on specific topics, such as Green Transition, Digitalization, Climate Change, or Health, or overarching themes like women in leadership, change management in organizations, or leadership in networks.
Enhance the current national fellows network by activating its members and/or establishing subnetworks based on a specific theme in partnership with existing network leaders.
Involve at least 50 participants.
Sharing knowledge and transforming knowledge into action is essential for finding sustainable solutions to the global challenges facing us today. However, this does not happen by itself. It requires a concerted effort and dedicated change makers to transform knowledge into action.
As a member of the Danida Fellows Network, you are part of a unique global network of skilled professionals who have either completed a Danida Fellowship Centre (DFC) learning programme or been part of a DFC administered research project. Through these programmes and projects, you have gained skills and knowledge that can inform positive change across different actors and sectors. Especially when catalysed through collaboration and partnerships, this change can lead to meaningful action that holds the potential for leaving a significant impact on your professional field of expertise and beyond.
The Danida Fellows Networkers Grants provide funds for small scale initiatives that foster dialogue, collaboration and action across stakeholders within an organisation or across a sector.
What can be supported?
The Danida Fellows Networkers Grants provide funding for initiatives that aim to foster dialogue and collaboration within or across sectors by bringing together relevant stakeholders from the public sector, academia, business and civil society.
The activity must have the following overall aims:
- Spread new knowledge and foster debate and change within an issue-specific area or crosscutting theme related to the applicant(s’) participation in a DFC activity*
- Contribute to the further institutionalisation within organisations and sectors of new knowledge and skills derived from a DFC activity**
- Inspire the joint formulation of concrete solutions or initiatives
* A DFC activity could be a DFC funded learning programme, a DFC administered research project or other relevant DFC activities.
** For DFC learning programme participants this could include support for implementing your action plan.
You can apply for a grant with financial support of up to 35.000 DKK for an activity or event with the following objectives:
- Promote knowledge sharing, networking, and collaboration within or across sectors/disciplines
- Promote collaboration between stakeholders within an issue-specific topic, for example Green Transition, Digitalization, Climate Change or Health, or a crosscutting theme, for example women in management, organisational change management or network leadership
- Strengthen an existing national fellows network by mobilising its membership and/or creating sub-networks within a thematic area in collaboration with the current network coordinators
- Engage a minimum of 50 people
PLEASE NOTE that all Networkers Grant applicants are required to aim for objectives 1, 2 and 4. Objective 3 is only a requirement in countries with an established national Danida Fellows Network. All proposals should clearly state the change that the initiatives or participation would contribute to achieving as well as the method planned for documenting the change. All recipients must commit to provide stories and documentation to this effect.
Who can apply?
Danida Fellowship Centre offers Networkers Grants to alumni who are members of the global Danida Fellows Network. You are automatically a member, if you have participated in a Danida Fellowship learning programme or a DFC administered research project (a DFC activity).
NOTE: DFC fellows associated with DFC administered research projects that have previously received a Science Engagement Grant from DFC, or are planning to apply for one, are not eligible for this grant. However, researchers are highly encouraged to take part in – and contribute to – activities funded by Networkers Grants, regardless of whether their project has received additional financing through a DFC Science Engagement Grant. For more information and to apply before March 16, 2025, go to: https://dfcentre.smapply.io/acc/r/?g=80679