Dear @Michael, thanks for sharing the question. Research fundings are always the problem. This issue is very stressful for researchers.

Here are some related question. I share opinion of dear @Leonardo:

"Get funding to do research or do research to get funding?"

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Get_funding_to_do_research_or_do_research_to_get_funding

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_the_major_sources_of_funding_for_researchers2

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_private_money_contribute_to_scientific_research

There are different ways to fund own research...for little national project we generally use funds of our ministry of education, and usually we apply to call for proposals to different programes - LLP, Horizon, FPs, ... It depend on the partnership and project topics and objectives.

Thank you Dana for your answer. We do have similar programs in here.

Dear Colleagues

Usually financial funding has been done either by university or by research centers. by the there are many website that offering financial funding.

Regards, Emad

At the moment all my work is completely unfunded... that is really horrible. But I hope it will become better soon...

Best Regards

Andreas

Dear Dr. Andreas Mämpel

I am so sorry about your critical case, but there are many websites that offer funding, and I am ready to send you some of these sites.

Regards, Emad

Dear Michael,

There are usually two pathways to funding research for experienced researchers (usually meant as associate professors) in Poland. The first is a grant from the Ministry of Science for a given Faculty at the University. The better the scientific results, the bigger funds are available for this grant. At the faculty is similar distribution according to results. Second grant sources are external grants "available" from National Science Center (NCN   https://www.ncn.gov.pl/?language=en ) in Poland, where one can apply for grants and various research variants (Polish, international teams, etc.) and by qualification of researchers. PhD students, young Doctors can also apply for NCN grants. These possibilities of local - national external funding are a few more  but NCN is the pillar of the academics' application. 

We can found our research by taking research projects of funding agencies.

good greeting

Dear researchers

In my country not all researchers are lucky to find a funded project and rarely get it done, except through the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, especially in regards to MSc and PhD only. However, the student bears most of the costs.

As for the personal research, the researcher is funding himself and this is an exhausting thing for most researchers

See answer in ongoing conference at my home-page / ANS question.

I fund my research from my personal saving

Dear Michel,

There are many paths for getting fund for research. One of them is local one which is funded by public or private institutions. Sometime there will be partnerships between different economic sectors such as industry and academic institutions for funding a research of mutual interest for both parties. Sometime the fund can be regional where different countries from different continents which share common interests agree to create a consortium to fund a common research for solving a common problem such as the case of countries in the Mediterranean Basin "environmental problem as an example". Sometime the research is funded by international organizations such as UN FAO or WB for solving a worldwide critical issue such as food security or water scarcity.

Best regards

Dear Dr.Azhar Abdulameer Sosa 

I partially agree with you!! There are many international societies that offer different ways of funding including financial one. I get huge support and funding previously.

Regards, Emad

There are government agencies, research companies & international companies that want to engage researchers anywhere on earth. Need to look at their websites to find if funds are available. There are agencies who specialize in finding such funds.

There is no need to spend one's own funds to pay for research!

Dear @Michael, thanks for sharing the question. Research fundings are always the problem. This issue is very stressful for researchers.

Here are some related question. I share opinion of dear @Leonardo:

"Get funding to do research or do research to get funding?"

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Get_funding_to_do_research_or_do_research_to_get_funding

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_the_major_sources_of_funding_for_researchers2

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_private_money_contribute_to_scientific_research

"He who pays the piper plays the tune"

Dear Scientists,

I would like to thank Michel Owayjan for his hard question. I agree totally with Eraldo Banovac who transferred the invaluable sentence of Isaac Asimov" "Every hour a scientist spends trying to raise funds is an hour lost from important thought and research."  

Every minute there is a sufferer not from food but from financial support for his/her research, most sufferers are distributed in developing countries, this deficiency of fund is killing the scientific research please help.

Best regsrds

Aly R Abdel-Moemin

This is unfair my colleague Oluwafemi Samson Balogun you should save that money for you and your family. I understand what you say.

In my opinion there are two best ways to do that are not even implemented in practice.  First way is that what ever researcher is doing at this moment, if it is patentable then patent it.  Agencies and companies if they are interested they will pay for the ownership of that patent with better money than by donating for research.  Then use that money for other research.  Of course some percentage will have to go to university/institution as a part of partnership and access to facilities/student's brain work.  Those money can fund other start ups.  This is a smart and business like way to do that.

The second way is to fund it from your own wallet if you are really passionate about your work.  Most people without Phd's and institutions do that at home.  They call it hobby.

Just a remark...H2020 at the moment is awful, as it gives lots of money, but in social sciences, it does not seen to be reseach anymore... Do we have to continue ? or not ?

I mostly fund the PhD students that I have through governmental grants. I also have some grant money that has been collected through umbrella organisations that support collaborations between university and industry; through them I also have a PhD student.

The Most Important Things to Do to Maximize Your Chances of Securing Funding

Research funding is growing increasingly competitive, so researchers must work hard to maximize their competitiveness when applying for grants. From choosing grants to apply for to writing applications to using secured grants to build your credibility for future funding, every step of the research process should be done with an eye to securing funding.

Here are 10 of the most important things you can do to maximize your chances of securing funding...

https://clarivate.com/blog/important-things-maximize-chances-securing-funding/?utm_campaign=15277-August-Web%20of%20Science%20Newsletter%20Europe-34590&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elqTrackId=28c4e9ac33a6416a86b28a5fcffbc180&elq=8acefe52cacb4927a0b7df170428baa0&elqaid=34590&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=15277

Crowd funding can be an effective source of funding for an important project or research.

There are formal ways to apply for research funding. Many people above already mentioned--such as governmental grants, university grants, organization grants or private company grants....etc.

There is another way to raise your own research funding--through the public. There is a website called 'GoFundme' (https://www.gofundme.com/). it is a #1 for Crowdfunding & Fundraising Websites. I have seen scientists and researchers raise funding from this website. For example, a group of researchers try to raise money to conduct their project of using firefly's 'light' to light the street lights.

Dear Michel Owayjan 

University usually fund my MSc. And PhD students but with collaboration with most organizations, and programs such TEMPUS and JICA,ERASMUS...even for my research. In several cases, I seek support for some material that I cannot obtain, by researchers from other countries, as well as helping other fellow students with material I have or produce.

 Regards

Houda

Also

To cover the costs of different laboratory equipment, we usually conclude agreements that are also in accordance with different international projects

The only way I have is to piggyback it on other research that is related to what I have to work on.

I will like organizations, universities, or funding agencies to fund my research projects titled, '' Promotion of National Unity; A Panacea to Peace and National Development, A Case Study of Enugu, Abia and Anambra States in Nigeria," and " Elements of Interdependence in The World Political Economy and the Positive Resultant Effects of Globalization in the 21st Century."

I find it hard nowadays to get your projects funded regionally or internationally especially with the current economic situation. Most of the funds for local/national projects are not sufficient to cover a good research idea (specifically in poor countries). It ends up either incomplete project or unsatisfactory results. The only solution is to create groups of researchers from developed and developing countries where they have mutual research interest and they can in this case cooperate in conducting researches under a specific call related to the topic of interest (of course the call is created by the group). These groups can contribute with money and efforts for the success of this cooperation with no need to wait for the international community approval which may not take place.

"The university existed before capitalism, and has sometimes resisted obedience to the dictates of the capitalist market, pursuing not profit but truth and knowledge. But capitalism devours what it can, and as it extends its domination, it comes as little surprise that the modern university becomes increasingly subservient to what Ellen Meiksins Woodcalls “the dictates of the capitalist market — its imperatives of competition, accumulation, profit-maximization, and increasing labour-productivity.”

In academia, that imperative manifests itself in visible ways: publish or perish, funding or famine.

Without public investment, universities are compelled to play by private sector rules, i.e., to operate like businesses. Businesses, of course, are all about the bottom line — and the health of the bottom line depends on profit maximization, which in turn depends on careful and constant evaluation of inputs and outputs. The result for academic science, according to researchers Marc A. Edwards and Siddhartha Roy in their paper “Academic Research in the 21st Century: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and Hypercompetition,” has been the introduction of a new regime of quantitative performance metrics, which governs almost everything scientific researchers do and has observable impacts on their work practices..."

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/07/capitalism-science-research-academia-funding-publishing