Funding opportunities

The following are some funding opportunities relevant to social and behavioral sciences. If you are a PI or co-PI at NYUSH considering applying for a grant, please reach out to the Research Grants Team at shanghai.researchgrants@nyu.edu for instructions and support.

Selected funding opportunities
Cyrus Tang Foundation

Zhongying Young Scholars Program

The program targets talents with a "doctoral" degree, under the age of 38, who have potential, ideas, and are enthusiastic about public welfare, and who the school believes need to be focused on cultivating. Each "Zhongying Young Scholar" will be funded for three years. During the funding period, the young scholar must promise to use his or her own strengths to engage in public welfare activities and assist the foundation in promoting the development of public welfare.

Volkswagen Foundation

Volkswagen Foundation is a private research funding organization. They provide opportunities that may be of particular interest to those who have a collaborator based in Germany.

Open to application: Pioneering Research – Exploring the Unknown Unknown

Eligibility: investigators with a collaborator at German universities and research institutes

Deadline: September 03, 2024, 02:00 PM CET

Russell Sage Foundation

Russell Sage Foundation core program on Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context

RSF is open to a range of questions consistent with its mission to “improve social and living conditions in the United States” and the funding priorities of its other core programs on Social, Political and Economic Inequality, Race, Ethnicity and Immigration, and Future of Work. The kinds of topics and questions that are of interest to this program include, but are not limited to, the following: Biases and Misperceptions; Institutions, Policies, Social Structures and Networks; Motivations, Incentives and Choice Architecture; Habits, Time Preferences, Mental Bandwidth and Behavior Change; Affect and Emotions.

Government Sponsors in China

Please check out the details on the Research Grants Resources page.