Deadline: 19th October 2026, at 18:00 UTC.
G20 CORDAP is committed to making an impact in filling the gap between current and required capabilities when it comes to saving tropical coral reefs and cold-water corals.
Through its funding awards, CORDAP encourages the best minds worldwide, in a transdisciplinary approach, to propose ideas and concepts that will accelerate international research and development to supply the technologies and innovations required to secure a future for corals.
The Coral Accelerator Program (CAP) will fund international collaborative teams with impactful ideas in coral conservation and restoration. Awards will span across the full range of novel early-phase projects through to final proof-of-concept development and testing.
After going through the review process, selected projects will receive funding based on the expectation that their proposal will quickly lead to significant discoveries, innovations and improvements in current tropical coral reefs and cold-water corals protection and restoration.
They encourage teams with ideas and concepts that transcend different disciplines and fields to participate. This includes end users in the research, design, and development of projects.
Benefits
Successful applicants will be awarded funding up to USD$ 1 million per project, which can last from one to three years.
Eligibility
With CAP, they seek proposals that focus on advancing the next generation of science and technology to help save corals and reefs. They are looking for projects with the potential to create a significant global impact. They strongly encourage the engagement and inclusion of users of the proposed project outputs in the proposals. An additional and important aspect is that the proposed technologies can be scalable and affordable to those needing them most.
The awarded projects can span across the full range of novel early-phase projects through to final proof-of-concept development and testing.
CAP funds International teams, each application must consist of:
- A minimum of 3 Applicants: one Lead Applicant and a minimum of two Co-Applicants, and
- Organizations from at least 2 different countries, one of which must be a low or middle-income country. The OECD List of low and middle-income countries should be used to determine eligibility.It is also important to note that:
- An individual can only be the Lead Applicant on one proposal and participate in up to two additional proposals as a Co-Applicant.
- Organizations can only be the Lead Organization on a maximum of two proposals but can be a participating organization on multiple proposals.
- Eligible organizations include not-for-profit organizations, for-profit organizations, higher education institutions, research institutes, and government organizations in any country.
- If a for-profit organization wishes to submit as an applicant, then they must be willing to co-invest to the point that they are not making a profit.
- If the research activities are to take place in a third country (a country different from that of any of the applicants), it is strongly encouraged to have that country represented in the application.
For more information and application.