Funding

Many ways to fund your ideas

You can access both internal and external sources for R&D funding with STACIE. Depending on how advanced your research is, you'll be matched with the support that’s right for you. And you’ll get help to write your proposal and advice about compliance and reporting post award.

Get in touch and find all the support you need to action your ideas.

Internal funding

At The UWISTA, researchers can access funding from their faculties, the School of Graduate Studies or two Funds managed by STACIE. Contact your Faculty Dean or read on to learn more.

The Research & Development Impact (RDI) Fund

As a fulltime academic staff member of UWISTA you benefit from The UWI Trinidad and Tobago Research and Development Impact (RDI) Fund. It supports projects that address pressing development challenges. Projects that will achieve recognisable and substantive impact within 3-5 years.

Emphasis is placed on:

multi-disciplinary research
collaboration and strategic partnerships
participation of PhD students and/or post-doctoral researchers
focus on research-directed action
impact on policy, practice, products and services
contribution to shaping the intellectual discourse on a policy issue of national or regional importance
knowledge dissemination and stakeholder engagement

Apply to the RDI Fund

The Innovation & Technology Transfer (ITT) Fund

If your idea is close to commercialisation, you can apply to the UWISTA Innovation and Technology Transfer (ITT) Fund. You’ll get grant funding to accelerate the development of intellectual property (IP). That means ideas, technologies, know-how and inventions from ALL fields of research that can be commercialised or licensed.

Leap over the ‘Valley of Death’ and get funding to bridge the gap between your initial research and when you're ready for commercial investment.

The IP that forms the basis of the application must be owned or co-owned by The UWI and is subject to the UWI’s IP disclosure process.

Apply to the ITT Fund

The Campus Research & Publication Fund

Apply for seed funding through the Campus Research and Publication (R&P) Fund so you can communicate and publish your research. The fund is managed by the School of Graduate Studies and Research (SGSR).

Find out more

External funding

Apply for external funding and get help writing your winning proposal. STACIE works closely with other university offices, like the University Office of Research and the University Office of Global Partnerships & Sustainable Futures to find and access opportunities for external funding to support the work of UWI researchers.

Funding and Consultancy Opportunities

Consultancies

Grants

CCRIF Small Grants https://www.ccrif.org/ccrif-small-grants-programme US$5,000 to US$25,000 (quarterly)

Fondation Franklinia Call for Proposals from Latin America and the Caribbean for In Situ Conservation of Trees https://fondationfranklinia.org/en/call-for-proposals-open/ (Deadline April 6 2025)

ICGEB Life Sciences, Health, Biotechnology and Bioenergy Collaborative Research Grants https://www.icgeb.org/activities/grants/ £25,000 to £75,000 (Deadline April 30 2025)

Ekhaga Foundation - promote human health by working for the development of better food, natural medicines and healing methods, as well as supporting research for a healthier way of life, which can have a disease-preventing effect  https://www.ekhagastiftelsen.se/instruktioner.shtml (Deadline May 20 2025)

UNESCO International Fund for Cultural Diversity https://www.unesco.org/creativity/en/ifcd/apply?hub=11 US$ 100,000 (Deadline May 21 2025)

Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust Grant Program https://smithht.org/grant-seekers US$20,000 (Deadline June 14 2025)

Global Innovation Fund https://www.globalinnovation.fund/apply-for-funding

FFAR Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (ROAR) https://foundationfar.org/programs/rapid-outcomes-from-agricultural-rese...$150,000