Apply for a 2025 Funding Opportunity for Faculty and Researchers
Columbia Global is now accepting applications for a suite of funding opportunities for faculty and researchers, including an exciting new Scholars-in-Residence Program at our Global Centers.
Columbia World Projects Opens Application for 2025-2026 Obama Foundation Scholars Program
Applications to join the next cohort of Obama Foundation Scholars will be accepted until Dec. 16. Scholars from around the world will participate in a nine-month immersive program of academic, skill-based and experiential learning.
Faculty Grant Opportunity Available
The Columbia Center for Political Economy is seeking applications through March 3, 2025, for grant funding from eligible Columbia University faculty. The Center will provide faculty with financial support to conduct research within the field of political economy, understood broadly.
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From Pilot to Policy: SHINE Project Transforms Early Childhood Development in Sierra Leone
A story on Project SHINE! in one of Sierra Leone's leading media outlets highlights the project’s partnership with the nation's government, which has resulted in the development of new national policy guidelines on integrating health and nutrition into early childhood development centers.
Center for Political Economy Names 13 Recipients of 2025 Faculty Grants
This year’s grant recipients will lead projects that align with three of the Center’s Idea Labs, which mobilize intellectual resources around the following themes: Firms and Industrial Policy; Work and Labor; and Money and Finance.
Two field laborers pour harvested rice grains into a specially labeled packet for seed collection and storage at CIAT in Cali, Colombia. (Jacquelyn Turner, IRI)
A Word from Our Director: Columbia World Projects in 2024
Climate change, misinformation, extreme inequality, threats to democracy, conflict –the world seems to be facing multiple existential crises at once. As 2024 gets underway, we are both humbled by the challenges and more convinced that the mission of Columbia World Projects – to spark and amplify social impact work at the University – is as important as ever. With that in mind, this year, we are committed to bold action and difficult conversations, including around the following areas of work.
Columbia World Projects and Columbia Global
Columbia World Projects is one of the four major initiatives that make up Columbia Global whose mission is to address complex global challenges through groundbreaking scholarly pursuits, leadership development, cutting-edge research, and projects that aim for social impact. Columbia Global's long-term goal is to reimagine the university’s role in society as not only a nexus for learning and intellectual exploration but also as a catalyst for creativity and impact locally, regionally and globally.
