The U.S. Embassy Moscow’s Public Affairs Section (PAS) is pleased to announce “One Planet: Environment, Health, and Science” grant, which supports the promotion of environmental, health, and scientific issues in Russia of strategic importance to U.S. and global priorities.

PAS Moscow invites proposals for projects that promote innovation, advancement, and collaboration between Russia and the United States in the areas of community and regional health, science, technology, the environment, and energy.  The program promotes a broader understanding of American and Russian shared health, scientific, environmental, and technological goals to maximize the benefits to both societies and protect our planet. Also, of interest are university-to-university partnerships for Russian and American students to approach and solve environmental, health, and science problems of mutual interest, project based learning, and long-term student-to-student interaction. Competitive proposals should include a connection with American expert(s), organization(s), or institution(s) that will promote increased cooperation between the people of the United States and Russia even after the program has ended. Proposals that promote an understanding of American higher education in the fields of the environment, science, health, and technology could be considered under this category.

COVID-19 disclaimer: Out of an abundance of caution, due to the ongoing pandemic, PAS Moscow cannot fund projects that involve travel or in-person interaction at this time. Any proposal that includes an in-person element must also explain how the program would take place virtually in the likely event that in-person activities remain impossible. Proposals that do not include such a plan may not be given further consideration by the grants committee.

Themes

Proposals can include, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• Health:
  • Improvement of health outcomes for targeted communities such as Russian youth, Russian women, minorities, low-income, disabled, at-risk, or rural Russians;
  • Promoting joint understanding of health issues;
  • COVID-19 and pandemic awareness and prevention programs.
• Space:
  • Concrete demonstrations of cooperation between American and Russian people in the area of space exploration, science, and technology;
  • Promotion of the historic and current Russian and American cooperation in the field of space exploration and studies.
• Arctic:
  • Promotion of the study of the Arctic and Arctic conservation;
  • Increased sustainable incomes and prosperity for indigenous groups that live in Arctic regions;
• Environment:
  • Improvements in the access of clean water, management of waterways and the conservation of marine areas and improvements in the lives of animals in those habitats;
  • Promotion of joint research on climate issues, including limiting and mitigating the results of the changing climate;
  • Collaboration in sustainable development, energy issues, eco-tourism, and other related fields

Funding Information

• Length of performance period: 2 to 12 months
• Number of awards anticipated: 20 awards (dependent on amounts)
• Award amounts: awards may range from a minimum of $500 to a maximum of $200,000

Participants and Audiences

U.S. and Russian nonprofits, institutions of higher education, NGOs and civil society, museums, parks, reserves, and community organizations.  Corporate entries and individuals may only receive grant funding in limited circumstances. 

Eligible Applicants

The Public Affairs Section encourages applications from U.S. and Russia (edit, or include all that apply):

• Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experience
• Individuals
• Non-profit or governmental educational institutions
• Governmental institutions
• For-profit or commercial entities are not eligible to apply.

For more information, visit Grants.gov.