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Last updated on September 29, 2025

2025 Release Notes

On-Demand Funder Suggestions and In-Product User Guidance

We’ve released two new features in Funding Institutional to help you discover more opportunities and understand filters more easily: On-Demand Funder Suggestions and In-Product User Guidance.

On-Demand Funder Suggestions

The On-Demand Funder Suggestions feature helps you broaden your search by identifying additional funders with their open funding opportunities, based on awarded grants data. This makes it easier to discover complementary opportunities and consider organizations you may not have initially included.

Where to find it

Run a funding search in Funding Institutional.
Scroll to the “Funders” filter in the left-hand filter panel.
Click “See all related and suggested funders.”

What you’ll see

Filter by funders: Displays all funders included in your opportunity search results.
Funder suggestions: Shows additional funders including their open funding opportunities, with a proven track record of awarding grants that match your search criteria but were not part of your original results.

Why this helps

Expands your funding landscape beyond the initial search.
Helps you identify new, relevant funders with awarding history aligned to your criteria.
Supports informed decisions when planning funding applications.

In-Product User Guidance

We’ve also introduced in-product guidance to make it easier to understand and apply filters. This supports faster onboarding and gives all users more confidence when refining searches.

What’s new

Info buttons: Found next to key filters such as funder and applicant geography filters. Clicking an info icon reveals a definition and explanation of the category.
Hover-over tooltips: Short descriptions appear when you hover over filters, such as the funding, funder and applicant types, giving you quick context without leaving your search.

Why this helps

Provides clear definitions of categories and filters directly in the interface.
Helps new users learn the tool quickly.
Ensures all users can apply filters effectively to find the most relevant opportunities.

Expanded Currency Filters, Accessibility Improvements, and iFrame Integration

We’re thrilled to announce the latest enhancements to Funding Institutional in 2025! Below are the key updates included in this release:

Expanded Currency Filters
In our ongoing effort to support a global audience, we have expanded our currency filters to include several new international currencies. Users can now search for funding opportunities and awarded grants using:
- US Dollar (USD)
- Euro (EUR)
- British Pound (GBP)
- Australian Dollar (AUD)
- Brazilian Real (BRL)
- Canadian Dollar (CAD)
- Swiss Franc (CHF)
- Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
- Danish Krone (DKK)
- Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
- Indian Rupee (INR)
- Yen (JPY)
- Won (KRW)
- Sri Lanka Rupee (LKR)
- Mexican Peso (MXN)
- Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
- Norwegian Krone (NOK)
- New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
- Swedish Krona (SEK)
- Singapore Dollar (SGD)
- Baht (THB)
- New Taiwan Dollar (TWD)
- Rand (ZAR)
This enhancement allows researchers and institutions to perform more tailored searches that reflect their local currencies, making it easier to find relevant funding opportunities across different regions. By providing these options, we aim to foster greater inclusivity and accessibility in funding searches for international users. Please note that we update currency exchange rates on a yearly basis, not dynamically.
Improved Accessibility Standards
We believe that access to funding resources should be available to everyone. To that end, our start page and search pages have undergone significant improvements to meet the latest global accessibility standards. Key enhancements include:
- Updated design features that comply with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
- Improved navigation and usability for users with disabilities, ensuring that all users can easily find and access funding opportunities.
- Enhanced screen reader compatibility and keyboard navigation options.
These updates are part of our commitment to creating an inclusive platform that accommodates the diverse needs of our user base.
iFrame Embedding Capability
To further enhance user engagement, we have introduced an iFrame embedding feature that allows institutions to integrate our website into their internal pages. This functionality enables:
- Seamless access to funding resources directly from institutional platforms, making it easier for users to explore opportunities without navigating away from their home institutions.
- Customization options for institutions to tailor the embedded content to their specific needs, ensuring that users have immediate access to the most relevant information.
By facilitating this integration, we aim to strengthen the connection between institutions and their users, promoting a more efficient and effective funding discovery process. If your institution is interested in implementing the iFrame embedding, please reach out to us via [email protected]

2024 Release Notes

We are excited to announce a new capability in our keyword search feature: the introduction of field codes. You can now search for a term in a specific field of a funding opportunity or awarded grant by entering the field code in the search bar, providing precise control over your searches. In addition to the field codes, we have fine-tuned our search rules to allow for more precise searches, ensuring the most relevant results for our users.

Field codes for Opportunity searches:

Category	Name	Field Code	Field Description	Example
Textual content	Title	TITLE	Title of the funding opportunity	TITLE(dementia) will return funding opportunities where ‘dementia’ is in the opportunity title
Textual content	Description	DESCR	Description of the funding opportunity	DESCR(AMR OR “antimicrobial resistance”) will return funding opportunities where either the keyword AMR or the term ‘antimicrobial resistance’ is in the opportunity description
Textual content	Eligibility	ELIG	Eligibility section of the funding opportunity	ELIG(soci*) will return opportunities where the keywords society, or social etc. appear in the eligibility section of the opportunity

Field codes for Awarded Grant searches:

Category	Name	Field Code	Field Description	Example
Textual content	Title	TITLE	Title of the awarded grant	TITLE(gut AND microbiome) will return awarded grants where both keyword ‘gut’ and ‘microbiome’ are in the title of the awarded grant
Textual content	Description	DESCR	Description section of the awarded grant	DESCR(neoplasm OR tumor) will return awarded grants where either ‘neoplasm’ or ‘tumor’ appears in the description section of the awarded grant
Awardee Information	Surname	SURNAME	Surname of the awardee	SURNAME(smith) will return awarded grant where the awardee surname includes ‘smith’
Awardee Information	Given Name	GIVEN	Given name of the awardee	GIVEN(john) will return awarded grants where the awardee’s given name includes John

Important to note:

You need to use field codes all in capitals and with (round brackets) around the keyword
Boolean operators also need to be used all in capitals
When no Boolean operator is used in a search with multiple keywords, an OR operator will be used in the search logic, for example brain cancer is equivalent to brain OR cancer. Same applies to field code searches TITLE(brain cancer) is equivalent to TITLE(brain OR cancer), which will return results with either brain or cancer in the title.
The symbol logical operators !, && and || are the equivalent of NOT, AND and OR respectively
Field codes cannot be used in Advanced Search
Field codes can be combined using the Boolean operators, for example SURNAME(smith) AND GIVEN(john)
Using no field codes mean that you search in all data fields of opportunities and awarded grants
Searching for loose/approximate terms you may use “double quotation marks”, between the (round brackets) following the field code, for example TITLE(“brain injury”), which will return results having ‘brain injury’ or ‘brain injuries’ or ‘brain injured’ etc. in the title.
To find opportunities or awarded grants that contain an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in {curly brackets}. For example TITLE({brain injury}) will return results having ‘brain injury’ in the title.
Only prefix wildcards are supported with the minimum prefix length being 3 characters, for example cat* is supported, *cat is not supported.
Wildcards may be used for the keyword between the round brackets following the field code

2023 Release Notes

Sorting Funding Data by Curated Research Areas

We continue to expand our Trending Research Areas section of the homepage. Building on the success of sorting funding data by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we are now introducing a list of Curated Research Areas. These Areas further empower researchers, and institutions effortlessly discover funding and collaborators related to AI, Coronavirus Research, Quantum Technologies and more!

Just like for the SDGs, our sorting method for Curated Research Areas is built upon Elsevier's keyword queries, initially developed, and widely acclaimed in SciVal and Scopus. These queries have been adapted and refined to seamlessly integrate with Funding Institutional's search rules, ensuring accuracy and relevance in the context of funding.

How It Works:

Select your area of Interest: Navigate the Curated Research Areas that resonate with your research or institutional mission directly from our homepage.

Instant Access to Results: Click on the link to Funding Opportunities or Awarded Grants below the selected Curated Research Area to access the search pages with preloaded results.

Refine Results with Precision: On the Funding Opportunity or Awarded Grants Search Pages, you can also use the filters in the left-hand panel to narrow down your results by funder, geography, or other eligibility criteria.

Sorting Methodology:

Below are some general rules and considerations that were taken into account when translating Scopus queries to Funding Institutional (FI). These considerations account for differences between the search engines of the two tools, as well as differences in the context of datasets (publication vs. funding data):

FI considers plurals; therefore, plural versions of keywords have been removed.
FI does not consider curly brackets {}; hence, they were replaced by double quotation marks "".
FI's stemming works differently from Scopus; hence, some keywords were not necessary to include.

Funding Institutional Curated Research Area queries:

Artificial Intelligence
"Artificial Intelligence" OR "Convolutional Neural Network" OR "Deep Learning" OR "Deep Neural Network" OR "Reinforcement Learning" OR "Artificial Neural Network" OR "Recurrent Neural Network" OR "Convolution" OR "Neural Networks" OR "Natural Language Processing" OR "Image Classification" OR "Support Vector Machine" OR "Computer Vision" OR "Long Short-term Memory" OR "Cellular Neural Networks" OR "Object Detection" OR "Facial Recognition" OR "Supervised Learning" OR "Feature Selection" OR ("Learning Systems" AND NOT Residency) OR "Learning Algorithm" OR "Multilayer Neural Network" OR "Genetic Algorithm" OR "Supervised Machine Learning" OR "Computational Linguistics" OR Autoencoders OR "Natural Language Processing" OR "Machine Learning Algorithm" OR "Learning Method" OR "Sentiment Analysis" OR "Image Segmentation" OR "Extreme Learning Machine" OR "Generative Adversarial Networks" OR "Computer-aided Diagnosis" OR "Deep Learning Model" OR "Predictive Analytics" OR "Learning Approach" OR "Image Recognition" OR "Learning Model" OR "Internet of Things" OR "Recommender Systems" OR "Random Forest" OR "Ensemble Learning" OR "Semantic Segmentation" OR "Back Propagation"

COVID-19 Research
"coronavirus disease 2019" OR covid19 OR covid OR ncov OR "sars-cov-2" OR "novel coronavirus"

General Coronavirus Research
coronavirus OR "Middle East respiratory syndrome" OR "Severe acute respiratory syndrome" OR "Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus" OR "Feline infectious peritonitis virus" OR "Murine hepatitis virus" OR "Avian infectious bronchitis virus"

mpox (monkeypox)
monkeypox OR "monkey pox" OR chimpanzeepox OR "Monkeypox virus infection" OR MPXV

Quantum Communications
"quantum communication" OR "quantum cryptography" OR "quantum teleportation" OR "entanglement swapping" OR "quantum secret sharing" OR "quantum key distribution" OR "distributed quantum computing" OR "quantum network" OR "quantum cloning" OR "quantum internet" OR "quantum memory" OR ("quantum entanglement" AND communication)

Quantum Computing
"quantum computer" OR ("quantum computing" AND ("quantum superposition" OR "quantum entanglement" OR "qubit" OR "quantum bit" OR "grover's algorithm" OR "phase estimation algorithm" OR "shor's algorithm" OR "learning parity with noise" OR "deutsch-jozsa algorithm" OR "quantum parallelism" OR "quantum computational complexity" OR "quantum search algorithms" OR "quantum fourier transform" OR "harmonic oscillator quantum computer" OR "optical photon quantum computer" OR "optical cavity quantum electrodynamics" OR "ion traps" OR "quantum error-correction" OR "hamiltonians" OR "josephson junction devices" OR "quantum dots" OR "particle swarm optimization" OR "quantum cryptography" OR "divincenzo criteria" OR "quantum logic gates" OR "superconducting quantum computing" OR "quantum turing machine" OR "quantum topological computing" OR (spin AND NOT off) OR "silicon quantum computing" OR "majorana quantum computing" OR "quantum annealing" OR "d-wave quantum computer" OR "adiabatic quantum computation"))

Quantum Metrology
"quantum metrology" OR ("quantum metrology" AND ("frequentist quantum phase estimation" OR "bayesian quantum phase estimation" OR "frequency estimation" OR "quantum optics" OR ("fisher information" AND matrix) OR "quantum computers" OR "quantum entanglement" OR "fisher information" OR "quantum communication" OR "quantum theory" OR "particle beams" OR "shot noise" OR "interferometers" OR "quantum electronics" OR "quantum chemistry" OR "quantum hall effect" OR interferometry OR "quantum cryptography" OR "quantum cascade lasers" OR "frequency standards" OR "four wave mixing" OR "parameter estimation" OR "josephson junction devices" OR "quantum noise" OR "atomic clocks" OR "spin dynamics" OR hamiltonians OR ("quantum metrology" AND estimation) OR "coherent light" OR "bose-einstein condensation" OR "uncertainty analysis" OR "hall effect devices" OR "optical metrology" OR "optical frequency metrology" OR "optical frequency conversion" OR "heisenberg limit" OR (squids AND NOT game)))

Quantum Sensing
"quantum sensor" OR ("quantum sensing" AND ("position navigation" OR cryogenics OR "superconducting x-ray" OR "josephson junctions" OR "quanta-sensor" OR "superconducting quantum interference devices" OR vacancies OR "crystal defects" OR spectrometer OR entanglement OR qubit OR "magnetic resonance" OR relaxometry OR magnetometry OR thermometry OR electrometry OR nanomagnetics OR diamond OR "lead compounds" OR "vacancies" OR "radio waves" OR artifacts OR "heavy ions" OR "quantum interference phenomena" OR "cryogenic temperature" OR microbolometers OR "quantum entanglement" OR nanodiamonds OR "quantum sensors" OR decoherence OR "quantum metrology" OR "nuclear spin" OR "noise spectroscopy" OR "nitrogen-vacancy centre in diamond" OR "magnetostrictive devices" OR "atomic beams" OR "scanning probe microscopy" OR fullerenes OR "quantum optics" OR "electric field measurement" OR "yttrium barium copper oxides" OR "lanthanum compounds" OR "thermal noise" OR "superconducting films" OR "rydberg states" OR "quantum dots"))

Quantum Simulation
"quantum simulator" OR "quantum annealing" OR "hubbard model" OR "field effect transistors" ("quantum simulator" AND ("quantum chemistry" OR "quantum optics" OR "quantum computers" OR hamiltonians OR "quantum theory" OR "quantum electronics" OR "quantum entanglement" OR bosons OR "spin dynamics" OR "ground state" OR lattices OR "quantum computation" OR "optical materials" OR "ising model" OR fermions OR "statistical mechanics" OR "rydberg states" OR "condensed matter physics" OR "bose-einstein condensation" OR "gauge theory" OR "degrees of freedom" OR "atomic beams" OR "timing circuits" OR "wave functions" OR "phase space methods" OR "quantum communication" OR traps OR algorithms OR "poisson equation" OR photons OR "laser cooling" OR "logic gates" OR "particle beams" OR ballistics))

Quantum Technologies
("SDG 10" OR "SDG10" OR ((equality AND (economic OR financial OR “socio-economic”)) AND NOT health) OR ((inequality AND (economic OR financial OR socio-economic)) AND NOT health) OR "economic reform policy" OR "political inclusion" OR "social protection policy" OR (immigration AND NOT (clinic OR services OR chemistry OR disease OR biodiversity)) OR (emigration AND NOT (chemistry OR disease OR biodiversity)) OR "foreign direct investment" OR "development gap" OR "migrant remittance" OR "responsible migration" OR "migration policy" OR "north-south divide" OR (developing AND (tariff OR "zero-tariff" OR "duty-free access")) OR "social exclusion" OR "economic marginalization" OR "economic marginalisation" OR "income inequality" OR "discriminatory law" OR "discriminatory policy" OR "economic empowerment" OR "economic transformation" OR ("global market" AND empowerment)) AND NOT (artist OR health)

Sorting Funding Data by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

We are thrilled to introduce a significant enhancement to our platform, empowering researchers, and institutions to effortlessly discover funding data related to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With this new functionality, finding financial support for your research and discovering potential collaborators through awarded grants has never been more efficient.

Key Features:

Intuitive Homepage Navigation: Our intuitive homepage allows you to navigate funding data with precision. Easily locate funding opportunities and awarded grants that correspond to specific SDGs, including but not limited to Climate Change, Gender Equality, Quality Education, and more.

Built on Elsevier's Expertise: Our sorting method is built upon Elsevier's original keyword queries, initially developed, and widely acclaimed in SciVal and Scopus. These queries have been adapted and refined to seamlessly integrate with Funding Institutional's search rules, ensuring accuracy and relevance in the context of funding.

How It Works:

Select the SDG of Interest: Navigate the Sustainable Development Goals that resonate with your research or institutional mission directly from our homepage.

Instant Access to Results: Click on the link to Funding Opportunities or Awarded Grants below the selected SDG to access the search pages with preloaded results.

Sorting Methodology:

Elsevier's Data Science teams have generated three sets of SDG mappings, one for each of THE Impact Rankings (2019-2021). Our methodology relies on the 2020 Scopus queries. You can find the documentation here: "Identifying research supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals."

FI considers plurals; therefore, plural versions of keywords have been removed.
FI does not consider curly brackets {}; hence, they were replaced by double quotation marks "".
FI's stemming works differently from Scopus; hence, some keywords were not necessary to include.
Generic terms like "financial aid" have been removed due to the context of funding information.
This revised version provides better clarity and organization for the information presented.