Call for projects
INQUA financial support is provided to stimulate the development of research networks, and is divided into two categories:
INQUA funding for International Research Network (IRN): Multi-year IRN (1 workshop/year); Single-year IRN (1 stand-alone meeting/conference)
INQUA funding for International Skill Activity (ISA): Single-year ISA (1 workshop)
Definitions
For the purposes of all funding schemes, the Executive uses the following definitions:
Early Career Researchers (ECRs)
For the purposes of funding, INQUA defines early-career researchers as graduate students and postgraduates within 8 years of receiving their final degree. This period of 8 years does not take into account periods of time taken not working as an academic or because of taking time off because of family responsibilities. Scientists who have been working for less than 8 years and who have permanent (tenured) positions, may still be considered as early-career researchers.
Developing-country scientists
For the purposes of funding, INQUA defines Developing-Country Researchers (DCR) – as those who are working in low income or lower middle income economies (see here for list of these economies). DCRs may, but do not necessarily have to, come from countries that are Members or affiliates of INQUA. In applying this guideline, INQUA will take into account that inclusion or exclusion from the OCSE list may not be an adequate reflection of the levels of science funding or funding to individual scientists. In particular, more senior scientists from low/lower middle income economies may still have sufficient levels of funding to enable them to participate in INQUA projects – applicants are asked to be sensitive to this issue when applying for funding, in order to ensure that funding goes to people who would most benefit from support. Please contact the President of the relevant Commission with any queries in relation to this.
Current Call for Applications
30 September 2025: Deadline submission for finalized INQUA 2024 Funding proposals. Applicants will be notified whether their application has been successful and any conditions attached to the funding by the INQUA Secretariat by 1 December 2025.
Funding is provided on an annual basis. If you are applying to continue your activity (e.g., a multi-year project), you must complete and submit the application form again each year to guarantee continued funding from INQUA.
31 December: Deadline for project reports for ongoing projects (for reporting on activities from the ongoing year).
2025 IRN/ISA Project Call Results
CMP
WHoRLS – Workshop on Holocene relative sea-level change in the Southern Hemisphere, P.I. Ed Garrett, Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK
HABCOM
PyPEN-REP – The Paraguay Past Ecology Network – Red de la Ecología del Pasado de Paraguay, P.I. Oliver Wilson, Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, UK
PALCOM
TRAC-XSA – Training Researchers in Core Analysis with Scanner XRF for South America, P.I. Denisse Álvarez, Universidad Santo Tomás, Columbia
S4 – Summer School on Speleothem Science, P.I. Yassine Ait Brahim, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, Marroco
TERPRO
DatOI – Earthquake, Quaternary dating, Seismic Hazard, Paleoseismology, Morphotectonic, P.I. Lea Pousse Beltran, ISTerre laboratory in Université Grenoble
Alpes, Grenoble, France
PAST – Palaeosoil Analysis in Late Glacial Sandy Terrains Across Europe, P.I. Lidija Galović, Croatian Geological Survey, Zagreb, Croatia
