The 2026 call for applications for the GYA Sasha Kagansky Interdisciplinary Grant is now open!
Applications from GYA Members should be submitted by 26 July 2026.
This long-standing GYA grant scheme, introduced in 2014, seeks to support the development of small-scale, innovative, curiosity-driven, blue-sky, exploratory research pilots or prototypes that unite researchers in low/middle-income and high-income countries and cross disciplinary boundaries. Each year, the GYA can grant up to 10,000 EUR to the selected project.
The GYA Activities Funding Review Committee is looking forward to receiving your applications. Project ideas should innovatively combine research questions from different disciplines. There is no limit to your imagination and creativity. With this grant, we aim to provide start-up financing for daring yet promising research projects that demonstrate out-of-the-box thinking and therefore may have difficulties receiving funding under conventional grant schemes.
Previous applicants are welcome to resubmit their research proposals if they have been updated and improved based on the recommendations of the review committee following the application.
Please note that the timeframe for carrying out an Interdisciplinary Grant project should be approx. 18 months (September 2026-February 2028). Applicants must be GYA members at the time of application; GYA alumni may no longer apply. Alumni-plus may be part of a project team, but not in the majority of applicants.
We invite you to read the guidelines in the online application form and submit your full application by 26 July 2026 using this online form: Sasha Kagansky Interdisciplinary Grant – Global Young Academy.
You can find out more about current and past projects here:
Interdisciplinary Grant Projects
2025-26: Global Science Talent Index (GSTI)
2024-25: Scientific Thinking in Pre-Schoolers: A Regional Challenge
2023-24: An interdisciplinary database of ethics dumping cases
2022-23: Tracking Technology and Mealtime Conversations in Families
2021-22: Young Researchers and the COVID-19 pandemic
2020-21: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Art
2019-20: Citizen Science for Reducing Exposure to Urban Air Pollution
2018-19: Digital Storytelling to Counter Language Endangerment
2017-18: Bio-Char for Food Security and Sustainable Ecosystem Services
2016-17: Ethics in environmental decision-making: From individual acts to global outcomes?
2015-16: Connecting Epigenetics and Natural Resources
2014-15: One-dimensional molecular current wires using tailored to‐the‐purpose chemistry