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Global Programs of Distinction
Addressing challenges of global scale, scope, concern, perspective, and impact.
Calling for 2025 Proposals
The Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation is calling for proposals for the Spring 2025 grant cycles.
DEADLINES IN MARCH AND APRIL 2025
CGII To Provide Stopgap/Bridge Funds for Humanitarian Projects Interrupted by Government Cuts
CGII will be offering stopgap/bridge funds for projects on humanitarian crises, migration, refugees, asylum-seekers, and related topics that have been interrupted by the government’s withholding of previously awarded funds or contracts. Amounts up to $10,000 will be considered. The source will be the Ruth-Young-Forbes Fund for the study of humanitarianism in global context. If you have been affected, please email CGII director Brian Owensby (bpo3a@virginia.edu) to discuss possible funding.
Featured Projects
Deeply engaged in emerging global research
We support and fund research in all fields, expanding possibilities and promoting collaboration within and outside UVA.
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2024 • Global Programs of Distinction
Institution Building to Support Equitable Research between Communities and Universities
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2022 • Center Grants
Lithium Territories
By The Numbers
Collaborating across boundaries
By looking beyond traditional disciplinary divides, CGII encourages uncommon research partnerships around UVA, the nation, and the world.
$3M+
awarded in grants since 2014
449
research projects funded
100+
Countries represented in research
Podcasts
The latest from the Center
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The Economics of Justice: Property Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Economist Jessica Montgomery's CGII-funded research focused on the economic impact of property rights in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Artivism for Afghanistan
Afghan artivist Omaid Sharifi and UVA student Samman Akbarzada discuss how they use art to advocate for and with the people of Afghanistan, in the U.S. and abroad.
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Bitcoin: Borderless Money that Cannot Be Stopped by Oppressive Regimes
Anna Chekhovich of Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation discusses the use of cryptocurrency as a tool to fund global activist movements with Professor Ian Appel of the Darden School of Business. Chekhovich came to the University of Virginia as a visiting guest through UVA's Democratic Futures Project.
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2024-25 CGII Research Responds to Global Flux
The Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation closes out the 2024-2025 academic year during what can only be described as a season of consequence and challenge. In the most important ways, this grant cycle has been enormously successful.
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CGII Retrospective
The Center for Global Inquiry + Innovation (CGII) was founded in the fall of 2013 to support global, interdisciplinary, and collaborative research. The center awarded its first grants that winter. Now, over a decade later, UVA Global reflects on CGII’s impact.
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Faculty Receive Awards for Global Program Excellence
Elizabeth Wittner (CAELC), Bonnie Gordon (Music), Fern Hauck (Family Medicine) have received an award for Collaborative Excellence in Public Service for work with local refugee communities.