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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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Consultancy services to Develop a National Interoperability Framework for Health Information Exchange in Two Member States
Africa Union Commission
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (CONSULTING SERVICES– INDIVIDUAL SELECTION) COUNTRY: Ethiopia NAME OF PROJECT: Africa Centres for Disease Control Support Program to Combat Current and Future Public Health Threats Project (P178633) Grant No.: IDA-E1110 ASSIGNMENT TITLE: HIRING OF INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANTS TO DEVELOP A NATIONAL INTEROPERABILITY FRAMEWORK FOR HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE IN TWO MEMBER STATES ( Tunisia and Seychelles) REFERENCE NO.: ET-AUC-568094-CS-INDV ISSUE DATE: 3 SEPTEMBER 2026 The African Union has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Africa Centres for Disease Control Support Program to Combat Current and Future Public Health Threats Project. The Project Development Objective is to enhance the capacity of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to support AU Member States in preventing, detecting, and responding to current and...
Organisations and Management Consulting Technology and Innovation Health
Raising awareness of and building capacity for the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
EU Commission
The Charter strategy underlines the importance of strengthening the application of the Charter through awareness raising and capacity building initiatives. Accordingly, projects under this priority are intended to raise the fundamental rights knowledge of relevant actors. While building on the central role of civil society organisations and human rights defenders, funded projects could involve national, regional and local authorities as partners (co-applicants), with the aim of supporting joint capacity building and awareness raising efforts. The projects funded under this priority should address the capacity building and awareness raising needs on the Charter. In particular, relevant projects should focus on raising awareness and building capacity on at least one of the following topics: the Charter in general and/or the contents of an individual Charter right or several of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter; the Charter’s scope of application; the remedies available...
Innovation Marketplace (FWC)
Government Commercial Agency
Description The Commercial Innovation Hub (CIH) is a cross-government centre of excellence that is pioneering new approaches to service design and procurement, established to drive procurement of innovation across government and the wider public sector. The CIH was created in the context of the Procurement Act 2023 coming into force and is framed as a joint DSIT-GCA initiative announced as part of the National Procurement Policy Statement. The CIH will tackle a persistent set of barriers that limit procurement-led innovation Traditional procurement approaches are not suited for acquiring novel technologies and not always accessible for SMEs and Start Ups" and there is a perceived risk culture that limits "psychological safety to 'fail fast'". The CIH rationale highlights the need to improve awareness and practical use of "commercial innovation opportunities" through briefs, tools and templates, and to help departments pilot innovations and contract with new supply chains. This...
Government, Regulation and Public Administration Technology and Innovation
Research relating to the impacts of the minimum wage, 2-year projects (open call)
Low Pay Commission
The Low Pay Commission (LPC) invites tenders for new or innovative research in relation to the National Living Wage (NLW) and the National Minimum Wage (NMW). This invitation to tender is aimed at larger pieces of research which will add substantial, new insight on the impacts or workings of the minimum wage. We will commission up to three projects under this call. Projects will deliver final results in Autumn 2028. We have also published a call for smaller-scale projects (LPC 2026/01), which would final deliver results by September 2027. The deadline for bids under 2026/01 is 1 September 2026. Please carefully consider which is most suitable for your project. The Low Pay Commission is a non-departmental public body that advises the government about the National Minimum Wage (NMW), including the National Living Wage (NLW) and the minimum wage rates for young workers and apprentices. We are responsible for evaluating the effects of the NMW and NLW and making recommendations on future...
Research, Evaluation and Surveys
Research on Children’s Real-Life Experiences with Relational and Companionship AI in China
UNICEF
The UNICEF China office, working with UNICEF Office of Strategy and Evidence – Innocenti (Italy), will drive research to generate urgently needed evidence in China on how different children engage with generative AI, with a focus on relational and companionship AI, and its impact on children’s development, well-being and learning. This evidence will be used to create actionable recommendations to the government and companies to ensure AI policies and practices actively support children’s well-being. A two-and-a-half-year project will be undertaken involving a mixed methods study that captures children’s real-life experiences with relational and companionship AI in China, delivered in two iterative phases: qualitative consultative workshops with children to establish children’s interactions and perceptions of relational AI systems, followed by a quantitative survey with children to dig deeper into the key findings and enable targeted recommendations. UNICEF China will be the overall...
Education and Skills Media, Communications and Creative
Review of the Business Finance Landscape in Wales
Development Bank of Wales
The Development Bank of Wales is seeking to appoint an appropriately qualified economic consultancy or research provider to undertake an independent review of the business finance landscape in Wales. The Development Bank of Wales will act as the contracting authority and will enter into the contract with the successful supplier. Economic Intelligence Wales, the independent research arm of the Development Bank of Wales, is the project sponsor and commissioning body for the requirement. Economic Intelligence Wales will be responsible for shaping the research scope, providing subject matter input and supporting the delivery of the contract. The review will assess how effectively current public, private and alternative finance provision meets the present and anticipated future needs of businesses in Wales. It will identify key gaps, frictions, affordability constraints, market failures, risks and opportunities within the Welsh business finance market. The work is expected to provide the...
Research, Evaluation and Surveys Organisations and Management Consulting Government, Regulation and Public Administration
Pipeline - Development Advisory Framework (DAF)
FCDO
Publication date: 28 sept The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) intends to procure a Development Advisory Framework (DAF) to succeed the existing Evaluation and Advisory Consultancy and Delivery Services 2 (EACDS2) Framework. The DAF is expected to provide access to a range of suitably qualified advisory, analytical and professional services to support the design and development of FCDO’s international development portfolio, including but not limited to, scoping studies, business case development and input into new and innovative thinking across the range of FCDO priorities. The framework is expected to be accessible across FCDO and potentially other UK Government departments using ODA and Non-ODA funds.
Development and International Programmes
ESPON ARISE - Adaptive Resilience and Inclusive Strategies for Europe’s Structurally Declining Territories
ESPON EGTC
The project will develop a coherent framework for understanding how territorial cohesion and resilience operate under conditions of persistent low growth, demographic contraction and structural decline. Based on European-wide territorial mapping, it will elaborate typologies of territories facing persistent low growth and demographic contraction, and produce territorial maps of vulnerability, adaptive capacity and resilience. Through comparative qualitative case studies across different territorial contexts, it will document adaptive territorial practices and governance innovations. Finally, the project will offer practical policy guidance suggesting how cohesion policy, territorial governance and resilience planning frameworks may need to evolve in response to persistent low growth and structural territorial contraction.
Urban Planning, Infrastructure and Transport Housing and Built Environment
Strengthening Organisational Capacity, Accountability and Sustainability of UNICEF supported Women-Led Organisations Implementing GBV Programmes in South Sudan
UNICEF
UNICEF has now issued a Request for Proposals for the provision of Strengthening Organizational Capacity, Accountability and Sustainability of UNICEF supported Women-Led Organizations Implementing GBV Programmes in South Sudan. This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system. By clicking on the blue ‘Express Interest’ button in the UNGM tender notice, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document (including instructions on how to access the tender documents and submit an Offer) will be automatically emailed to the ‘contact persons’ included in your UNGM registration. Alternatively, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document is publicly available on the UNICEF supply internet pages here: https://www.unicef.org/supply/index_procurement_policies.html . In the tender management site, if you navigate to the documents tab and opt in to confirm your intention to submit a Bid – you will then see the mandatory placeholders for...
Environment and Energy Finance
Promoting an enabling civic space
EU Commission
Promoting an enabling civic space (CERV-2026-CHAR-LITI-CIVIC) A thriving civic space requires an enabling legal, administrative and regulatory environment in which civil society organisations (CSOs) are supported and empowered, protected from threats, and able to operate freely. This call therefore aims to reinforce the conditions for such an environment by supporting actions that strengthen both the monitoring of civic space and the protection and resilience of CSOs and human rights defenders working to uphold EU values. Monitoring of civic space Projects should establish or enhance systematic and comprehensive monitoring systems to regularly assess the environment in which CSOs operate at national level. These should build on and align as closely as possible with existing frameworks—such as the indicators developed by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and data from international organisations—as well as national monitoring systems, to ensure comparability and...