Universities in Russia and Nigeria

Recent Grants

Higher Education in Nigeria
Scholarly Infrastructure in Russia

Higher Education in Nigeria

Number of Grants: 27

Africa Operators Network Group (Accra, Ghana)
$182,158 to improve the technical capacity of the universities involved in the African Virtual University (over three years). (2008)

Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria, Nigeria)
$100,000 to support fundraising from alumni (over two years). (2008)

Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria, Nigeria)
$2,500,000 in support of information technology, library development and related university strengthening activities (over three years). (2007)

Bayero University, Kano (Kano, Nigeria)
$100,000 to improve teaching and learning facilities (over two years). (2008)

Bayero University, Kano (Kano, Nigeria)
$3,100,000 in support of staff development and the refurbishing and upgrading of University facilities (over three years). (2007)

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington, D.C.)
$197,000 to improve educational fundraising at the four universities supported by the Foundation in Nigeria (over two years). (2008)

Federal Ministry of Education (Garki, Nigeria)
$75,000 to use information and communication technology to improve education. (2008)

Institute for Policy and Economic Research (Abuja, Nigeria)
$150,000 in support of a planning grant to launch a new Institute for Economic and Policy. (2007)

Institute of International Education (New York, New York)
$82,500 in support of an evaluation to improve the impact of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa on strengthening African universities (over three years). (2007)

International Foundation for Science (Stockholm, Sweden)
$160,000 in support of an audit of the science infrastructure base of 15 African universities. (2007)

Machina Emirate Development Association (Yobe State, Nigeria)
$30,000 in support of instructional technology and computing at Mai Bukar Memorial Science Boarding School. (2007)

New School (New York, New York)
$300,000 in support of a project to strengthen university research libraries in Nigeria through journal subscriptions (over two years). (2006)

New School for Social Research (New York, New York)
$280,000 in support of strengthening academic libraries in Nigeria (over three years). (2008)

New York University, Steinhardt School of Education (New York, New York)
$214,000 in renewed support of Partnership Projects (over two years). (2006)

Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions (Abuja, Nigeria)
$350,000 to supply affordable and sustainable bandwidth to universities supported by the Partnership for Higher Education and other African research and education institutions. (2008)

Pamoja (Chester, Vermont)
$150,000 in support of a project to build the fundraising capacity of four Nigerian universities. (2006)

Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Foundation (Abuja, Nigeria)
$50,000 to strengthen the Olusegun Obasanjo Research Library (over 18 months). (2008)

South African Institute for Distance Education (Johannesburg, South Africa)
$1,200,000 to improve the use and development of educational technologies within universities supported by the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (over four years). (2008)

Tides Center, Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (San Francisco, California)
$75,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2006)

United States Embassy (Abuja, Nigeria)
$29,000 in support of shipping of books to Nigeria. (2006)

University of Antananarivo Faculty of Sciences (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$857,000 to build an information and communication technology infrastructure that will support biodiversity conservation and higher education in Madagascar (over three years). (2008)

University of Antananarivo, Faculty of Sciences (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$820,000 in support of the advancement of conservation biology within the Faculty of Science (over three years). (2006)

University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa)
$100,000 in support of two forums in Africa for university leaders (over two years). (2006)

University of Ibadan - Nigeria (Ibadan, Nigeria)
$4,000,000 in support of strengthening the human capital, institutional facilities, and governance system of the University (over three years). (2007)

University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
$201,000 to improve access to research materials at university libraries in Nigeria (over three years). (2008)

University of Port Harcourt (Port Harcourt, Nigeria)
$100,000 to support fundraising from alumni (over two years). (2008)

University of Port Harcourt (Port Harcourt, Nigeria)
$2,500,000 in support of institutional strengthening (over three years). (2006)

Scholarly Infrastructure in Russia

Number of Grants: 35

Academic Educational Forum on International Relations (Moscow, Russia)
$500,000 to strengthen the scholarly field of international relations in Russia (over three years). (2008)

American Councils for International Education (Washington, D.C.)
$150,000 in support of upgrading information and communications security at the European Humanities University (over three years). (2007)

American Councils for International Education (Washington, D.C.)
$1,000,000 in support of doctoral and postdoctoral programs and the Center for Gender Studies at the European Humanities University (over three years). (2006)

American Friends of the New Economic School (University Park, Pennsylvania)
$600,000 to establish two new professorships at the New Economic School (over three years). (2009)

Analytical Center of Juri Levada (Saratov, Russia)
$150,000 in support of the project, Monitoring of Social and Economic Transformations in Russia. (2009)

Biodiversity Conservation Center (Moscow, Russia)
$300,000 in support of research, analysis and practical activities on new approaches to conservation and land use policy in Russia (over three years). (2006)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, D.C.)
$375,000 in support of the journal Pro et Contra (over three years). (2007)

Center for Anthropological Research (Krasnodar, Russia)
$225,000 in renewed support of research on rural communities of southern Russia, with a focus on the impact of globalization (over three years). (2006)

Center for Independent Social Research and Education (Irkutsk, Russia)
$300,000 in support of a project on improving social science research and education in universities of Siberia and the Russian far East (over three years). (2007)

Center for Russian Environmental Policy (Moscow, Russia)
$450,000 to develop regional mechanisms for developing and implementing Russia's environmental policy (over three years). (2007)

Center for Social Policy and Gender Studies (Saratov, Russia)
$300,000 in support of research and analysis on social policy reforms in contemporary Russia and publication of the "Journal of Social Policy Studies" (over three years). (2008)

Center for Social Policy and Gender Studies (Saratov, Russia)
$175,000 in support of research and analysis on social policy reforms in contemporary Russia and publication of the "Journal of Social Policy Studies"(over two years). (2006)

Center for the Study of Nationalism and Empire (Kazan, Russia)
$240,000 in support of the journal, Ab Imperio (over three years). (2008)

Center for the Study of Nationalism and Empire (Kazan, Russia)
$150,000 in support of the "Ab Imperio" multidisciplinary academic journal in the social sciences and humanities (over three years). (2006)

Centre for Independent Social Research (St. Petersburg, Russia)
$600,000 in support of activities aiming to improve policy-relevant social science research and education in Russia (over five years). (2007)

European University at St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, Russia)
$100,000 in support of maintenance expenses for the European University at St. Petersburg. (2008)

European University at St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, Russia)
$500,000 in support of development activities (over two years). (2007)

Higher School of Economics Centre for Labour Market Studies (Moscow, Russia)
$350,000 to support the Labor Market Informality in Russia: An Economic-Sociological Perspective project (over two years). (2009)

Independent Institute for Social Policy (Moscow, Russia)
$330,000 in support of a sociological data archive and related training program, and the SPERO journal of social policy research (over three years). (2007)

Institute of Law and Public Policy (Moscow, Russia)
$375,000 in support of activities to promote legal consciousness and legal reform in Russia (over three years). (2006)

Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
$600,000 in support of an educational program in the social sciences and humanities for young Russian regional university faculty and researchers (over three years). (2007)

JSTOR (New York, New York)
$174,000 in support of electronic access to archived journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities for selected universities in Russia (over six years). (2007)

Kharkov Center for Gender Studies (Kharkov, Ukraine)
$330,000 in support of the Russia/NIS university network in gender studies and activities aimed at consolidating gender studies as a social science field in the region (over three years). (2007)

NGO School Foundation (Moscow, Russia)
$100,000 in support of a project to promote university-based third sector research and boost cooperation between CASE centers and the non-profit sector in Russia (over two years). (2006)

Nordic Council of Ministers (Copenhagen, Denmark)
$41,000 in support of a project to review and strengthen the governance and administration of the European Humanities University (over six months). (2006)

Perm State University, Department of Political Science (Perm, Russia)
$90,000 in support of the project entitled, Political Communities in Civic and Political Science Perspectives (over two years). (2006)

Regional Public Organization Network for Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning (Moscow, Russia)
$40,000 to support an international meeting of scholars and analysts of interethnic conflict (over one year). (2008)

Research Center "REGION" (Ulianovsk, Russia)
$250,000 in support of research, networking, and policy studies on youth issues in contemporary Russia (over three years). (2007)

Russian Political Science Association (Moscow, Russia)
$300,000 to facilitate the development of political science in Russia (over three years). (2008)

Salzburg Seminar (Middlebury, Vermont)
$100,000 in support of strengthening research management capacity in Russian universities through the Russian Higher Education Program. (2006)

St. Petersburg State University Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (St Petersburg, Russia)
$450,000 to develop new undergraduate courses in the social sciences and humanities (over three years). (2008)

St. Petersburg State University, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (St Petersburg, Russia)
$200,000 in support of a project entitled, The Bologna Process and Modernization of History Education in Russia (over two years). (2006)

Transnational Family Research Institute (Moscow, Russia)
$180,000 in support of the "Demoscope" electronic weekly journal on social and demographic issues (over three years). (2006)

U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (Arlington, Virginia)
$750,000 in support of the expansion of the Program on Basic Research and Higher Education in Russia (over three years). (2006)

World Security Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$50,000 in support of an internet-based newsletter of daily news, analysis, and opinion about Russia (over two years). (2008)