Finding your funder, is
quite a challenging task which will require a lot of time, effort, and assistance.
First of all, you need to understand how global your ideas is.
Is it relevant for your university and local area only,
or some narrow scientific field in your country,
or has no particular limits?
The moment you realize it, you can proceed.
Surprise, but no matter what your answer is,
you should first consult the Supported Projects Officer
at your organization where you might meet a wizard officer,
who is in the know about your particular field.
He or she is aware of all the potential funders,
their requirements, and preferences.
Wow. But life is not a bed of roses and you are highly unlikely to have some thoughts.
Anyway, Project Officer is the first person to consult.
There might be funds which are well aware of your institution,
and regularly give grants to its researchers.
It is also possible that some funders have local habits,
and you are in the area of interest.
Try to find such ones first.
Another direction to immediately looking is your colleagues.
You can always approach your academic supervisor and mates.
However, external links can be much more eye opening.
It's a great idea to participate in conferences, forums,
and seminaries, where you can come across the right person to ask.
How can you spot them?
Before a scientific event,
read information about the participants,
look through their publications,
and conducts its research.
What if they work on a grant program?
You don't need to delve into details of the project,
as researchers might be very sensitive about their work.
However, they can be very enthusiastic about sharing their crunch research experience.
Besides, plenaries speakers are likely to know what is going on in your science.
They might have a negative grant,
or some grand history.
And experience to share.
Another opportunity is governmental support at different levels.
There national scientific funds,
which are willing to support these researchers on scientific development in general.
COTU municipalities were other local authorities.
Just the level in accordance with the answer to that question,
how global my idea is?
However, mind the trends carries in the first video,
and consider other resources.
You shouldn't stop at this stage,
if you really want your project funded.
Unlike governmental agencies, foundations are gaining more and more potential.
You can find hundreds of private funds in the foundation directory online.
Though, some of them are mostly humanitarian,
you could consult all foundations such as Ford, Carnegie,
Rockefeller, Pew, and MacArthur,
or knew or trusts such as Maut,
Johnson, Parked, worm ammos Burke.
And learn whether as they can offer anything to you.
Most of these foundations are located in the United States
but the variety and geographical coverage is quite impressing.
You can easily find them on
the Internet toppings that's your full name of the organization.
All of them provide contact information on the Website,
so you can subscribe to most of them,
and receive the most updated information.
If you decide to email,
be ready to wait for the answer because sometimes it can take about a week.
One more growing opportunity is business and industry.
Think if your research can be relevant to some corporation.
Or altricity, plastic, food production, word sustainable development.
Such businesses can be interested in
research activities which can bring them some benefits.
They'd emerge, or new technology.
This direction is quite attractive as in case of success,
it can get long term support.
You can consult such foundations as General Electric,
Intel, Caterpillar or others.
More information can be found on the foundation directory online.
If you choose the company sponsored foundation type of the company current.
Online Databases search is also a very good option to begin with.
There are such giants as grants.gov,
or foundation directory online databases of
grants programs with rich archives mainly for the USA.
work, pivot, which is at Global Source of
funding opportunities which connects research development professionals.
You might be also interested in the European Foundations Centre,
or grant connect, or the form it imagine Canada.
Or you can just search for the keywords on the internet either word grant,
and find the fund you need.
This might be quite time consuming, and sometimes misleading.
So you should experiment with your inquiry.
Elena BazanovaDirector of the Language Training and Testing Center
Varvara SosedovaPhD in Philology
