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OppsLink is a platform that connects academic experts, PhD students, (early career) researchers and alumni with funded consulting opportunities. These range from UK and local government to the European Commission and international organisations. It offers a searchable database of current tenders that are open for applications.

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Evaluation of Creative Ireland's Shared Island initiative, 2026-2028
Department of Culture Communications Sport
In 2022 the Creative Ireland Programme was allocated €6 million over three years (2023-25) to invest in creative initiatives under the Government’s Shared Island initiative. 2023 marked the first year of Creative Ireland’s participation in the initiative, which aims to harness the full potential of the Good Friday Agreement to enhance cooperation, connection and mutual understanding on the island and engage with all communities and traditions to build consensus around a shared future. The Shared Island dimension to the Creative Ireland Programme seeks to deploy creativity on a shared island basis to: 1. Increase opportunities for cross-community cultural and creative initiatives between children and young people; 2. Support local authorities to enhance networks of creativity in support of vibrant and inclusive people-to-people and community-to-community partnerships; 3. Position Ireland as a global leader in demonstrating the value of creativity and mental health including in...
Media, Communications and Creative Other
Capacity Building and Engagement Programmes - Thriving and Peaceful Communities
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (NMD)
Newry Mourne & Down District Council's PEACEPLUS Action Plan includes the delivery of Capacity Building and Engagement Programmes under Strand 2 - Thriving and Peaceful Communities. Strand 2 focuses on eight identified priority projects encompassing a broad range of initiatives focused on capacity building, leadership development, cross community relationship building interaction and engagement, social and emotional support, events and festivals and community justice interventions.Competent consultancy companies are hereby invited to tender to design, develop and deliver a Capacity Building Programme. This programme will build the capacity of local organisations/ communities through cross community collaboration and support sustainable service provision within the district. This project will deliver 2 events management training programmes for community groups and volunteers, one will be held within the Newry DEA and one will be held within the Crotlieve DEA. To access this...
Equality, Inclusion and Social Policy
GHG Mitigation Technical Advisory and Assessment Services
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Euroclima plays a central role in advancing the EU-LAC strategic partnership by concretely contributing to the EU-LAC GGIA. As the flagship regional programme of the EU for climate and environmental action in LAC, Euroclima provides a critical platform to support the implementation of shared commitments to jointly address climate change and biodiversity loss. It seeks to contribute to a sustainable, resilient and inclusive transition through climate mitigation and adaptation efforts, including the protection, restoration, conservation of biodiversity as well as the promotion of a circular economy. To this end it focuses on contributing to the enabling conditions needed towards a green and just transition. It provides crucial expertise, technical assistance, and policy dialogue to partner countries, facilitating the integration of sustainability measures and advancing the GGIA's mission. Euroclima helps bridge capacity and funding gaps, playing a vital role in achieving GGIA's...
Environment and Energy EU Institutions and Programmes
EU-Nepal Cooperation Facility (EU-NCF)
EU-INTPA
This service will support the European Union Delegation to Nepal via technical assistance, capacity building support and logistical support to achieve a more effective, efficient and sustainable implementation of the EU’s strategic priorities in Nepal supporting the roll-out of the Global Gateway strategy in the country along with the 360 Degree approach and promoting EU interest and investments, in an strengthened EU-Nepal partnership.
Government, Regulation and Public Administration Development and International Programmes Research, Evaluation and Surveys Trade, Export and Investment Support Other
Systems and Behaviour Framework
Zero Waste Scotland Ltd
Zero Waste Scotland (the ‘Client’) requires the provision of integrated systems analysis and behavioural science expertise to identify leverage points within complex systems and to design, prioritise, test, and scale interventions that address clearly defined target behaviours
Education and Skills Research, Evaluation and Surveys Organisations and Management Consulting
Research Services on School Governance
Ireland Department of Education and Youth
The Review of School Leadership and System Governance Project Unit, in the Department of Education and Youth, is seeking research services in the policy planning area of School Governance. The core research services required are in the form of desk-based research and qualitative research. This research has four overarching aims: Describe the current school governance system in Ireland; identify and analyse key challenges in Ireland’s school governance system; compare and contextualise Ireland’s school governance system using international models for comparison; engage stakeholders to explore potential solutions to key identified challenges.
Education and Skills Research, Evaluation and Surveys
What Works Centre for Children and Families
DfE
Description This is a Competition Notice for 10 years of Grant Funding for a What Works Centre for Children and Families to start in April 2027. This funding will be provided under Section 14 Grant of the Education Act 2003 Terms and Conditions. This competition is not in scope of the Procurement Act 2023. The Department for Education (the Department) are looking for an organisation to act as a What Works Centre for Children and Families (WWCCF) from April 2027. This grant funding will be issued for a maximum of 10 years, with a maximum available funding of £8.5m per year. Reforming children’s social care to keep children safe and give them the best start in life is an important part of the Governments opportunity mission. Improving the evidence base on interventions that work is vital to the success of the reform programme. The Department anticipate this grant to be used to generate and champion robust actionable evidence (i.e. deliver research, programmes and...
Government, Regulation and Public Administration Equality, Inclusion and Social Policy Education and Skills
Call for Expression of Interest to establish a list of scientific/academic/operational experts to assist the European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Security and Safety (DG SAFE)
parlement européen, SAFE - Directorate-General for Security and Safety
The European Parliament is seeking to establish a list of experts to provide independent external expertise to its Directorate-General for Security and Safety (DG SAFE). This expertise would relate to issues within DG SAFE’s scope of interests and responsibilities. The list of experts will be set up under Article 242 of the EU Financial Regulation. This list will be valid for five years from the date of its publication and may be used throughout this period, whenever Parliament deems it appropriate. This call is exclusively addressed to experts with scientific, academic, operational and research experience in security and safety issues, as specified in paragraph 3.2. Furthermore, the call is exclusively addressed to natural persons, that is to say, to individuals with official residence in the EU, or who have official residence in a non-EU country that has concluded a specific public procurement agreement with the EU, giving official residents of that country access to this type of...
Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment (SESA) of the oil and gas sector to be carried out in the DRC
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
The "Strengthening environmental and social governance in the extractive sector" component, co-financed by FONAREDD from CAFI (Central Africa Forest Initiative) resources and BMZ, will be implemented by GIZ for the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development (MEDD) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The project is being carried out by the Integrated Economic Development of the Mining Sector Project (DISM II), in partnership with the Congolese Environment Agency (ACE), which is responsible for environmental and social assessments and for monitoring and controlling the implementation of ESMPs at national level. Following a 1st Strategic Environmental and Social Study of the mining sector in the DRC in 2010, and in view of the changing international context, it is planned, in agreement with the donor and partners, to launch Strategic Environmental and Social Studies (SESES) for the key sector of mining and hydrocarbons, in order to analyse the expected positive and...
Establishment of a multi-party framework agreement for the provision of Arts and Cultural Policy Development, and Community and Cultural Infrastructure Planning and Consultancy
Dublin City Council
*** Supply of Arts and Cultural Policy Development, and Community and Cultural Infrastructure Planning and Consultancy as required to Dublin City Council throughout the lifetime of the framework. The tenderers must have a multidisciplinary approach, to include but not limited to cultural and community policy development and planning, research, feasibility studies, communications and stakeholder engagement, governance and management, design, to support Cultural Policy and Implementation, including area based community and/or cultural planning, as outlined in the Dublin City Development Plan The successful tenderers will be expected to concurrently provide: • professional policy advice and support to the Dublin City Arts Office, Community Culture Leisure Area Services Department and North Fringe Project Office, Area Offices and Planning Department as well as the • development of related implementation strategies or initiatives which support the discharge of Dublin City Council’s...
Media, Communications and Creative Other