Funding Opportunities for Faculty and Students
Global Cornell is committed to supporting faculty through grants that foster global learning and collaboration, leading to new international partnerships for research and teaching. Funding opportunities also help faculty implement teaching innovations to internationalize the student experience.
For students, funding can support engagement with cultures worldwide, opportunities to master foreign languages, and travel for research projects.
Opportunities for Faculty
Global Grand Challenges
Global Grand Challenges bring together Cornell's world-class strengths—vision, expertise, people, and resources—in a multiyear focus to understand humanity's most urgent challenges and create real-world solutions.
For Cornell's second Global Grand Challenge, the challenge is very literal: it is the future itself. Global Cornell has funded three multidisciplinary teams that are focused on inclusive AI, climate justice, and pandemic prevention.
Learn more about Global Grand Challenge: The Future
Research Seed Grants with Global Hubs Partners
Global Cornell annually offers competitive faculty grants to initiate or expand collaborative research with select Global Hubs partner universities. These seed grants have been established to bring faculty from partner institutions together to develop joint projects that will develop multidisciplinary cutting-edge research to create academic and societal impact.
Learn more about research seed grants
International Cornell Curriculum Grants
Global Cornell periodically offers International Cornell Curriculum grants of between $20,000 and $30,000 to create, develop, or improve curricula that provide students with international experiences, preferably with linkages to Cornell’s Global Hubs strategic partners or locations. ICC grants support the planning, development, or advancement of new or existing for-credit, tuition-bearing courses.
Faculty Funding from the Einaudi Center
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies is a place for faculty engaged in global research to connect and find partnerships on campus, in our region, or around the world. The center supports faculty-led research, conferences, and collaborations. Tenured and tenure-track faculty members from any program, center, college, or school are eligible to apply.
Learn more about Einaudi Center faculty funding opportunities
Opportunities for Students
Student Funding from the Einaudi Center
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies helps students cross borders of language, culture, nationality, and academic discipline. The center offers many funding opportunities for undergraduates and graduates with deadlines throughout the academic year. Einaudi funding enables students to engage with international cultures, understand people and places around the world, study foreign languages, travel for international research projects, or host a student-organized campus event.
Learn more about Einaudi Center student funding opportunities
Global Internships
Global Internships offer Cornell students hands-on international experience in fields such as sustainability, development, business, and governance. Students collaborate with faculty, global organizations, and partners at Global Hubs locations, gaining practical skills and cross-cultural insight while contributing to projects that address real-world challenges. Managed by the Office of Global Learning and the Einaudi Center.
Learn more about Global Internships
International Research Internship Program
The International Research Internship Program offers qualified international students—undergraduate or graduate—not enrolled at Cornell the opportunity to conduct research on campus for a limited time under the direction of a Cornell faculty member. The program requires prior approval from the faculty member in question, the department chair, and the college dean. Students may not directly apply for this program.