Funding Opportunity for Pursuing Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Big Questions

The Metanexus Institute announces grants in support of transdisciplinary exploration of fundamental questions of life, the cosmos, and humanity. Metanexus invites proposals from networked teams of five or more investigators who:

• Intend to examine questions that range beyond those normally studied within established academic disciplines;
• Span an adventurous diversity of such disciplines;
• May engage religious and spiritual points of view;
• Seek to forge new and enduring links among different fields of study; and
• Aspire to have a transformational impact upon human knowledge and education.

To foster this transformation, MGNI will support open and dynamic transdisciplinary exploration and research with the aim of discovering new scientific, philosophical, and spiritual insights. The grants are intended to provide seed money for the formation and maintenance of networked groups of investigators from diverse academic backgrounds with the aim of building intellectual community.

Awards of $30,000 (£18,000) will be made through the Metanexus Global Network Initiative (MGNI) Basic Grant. Winning proposals will demonstrate academic rigor in program content, imagination and creativity in program planning, and cost-effectiveness in program execution.

For Further information visit: http://www.blogger.com/www.metanexus.net/globalnetwork

JISC Funding call for transatlantic humanities digitising projects

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) invites institutions to submit funding proposals for digitisation projects in the humanities. These grants provide funding for 18 months of development from August 2009. All projects must be completed by the end of March 2011.

Funding of up to £600,000 (approximately $900,000) will be available to support digitisation projects in the humanities that will support international collaboration. Awards for each project will range from £135,000-£200,000 (approximately $200,000 to $300,000) for a period of eighteen months to share between the two project partners.

The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12 noon on Thursday 26 March 2009.

Further information can be found on the JISC website at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2008/12/grant1308.aspx.