EuropeAid is a Directorate–General (DG) responsible for designing EU development policies and delivering aid through programmes and projects across the world. EuropeAid offers many funding oportunities and some of them are also interesting from a research perspective. Several calls of EuropeAid fund also research activities as long as most of the activities are carried out inside the target area and as long as the target area will sustainably benefit from the project.
In most of the cases the funding rate is rather high (95%) including a 7% funding of overheads.
Organisations must hold a EuropeAid ID in order to apply as a EuropeAid project partner.
EuropeAid ID of the WU: AT-2011-BHS-2402963105
For more information see: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/index_en.htm where you can also search for calls.