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GRANTS FROM EXTERNAL DONORS (Quarter: October - December, 2016)
A Compilation by the Research Grants
RESEARCH SERVICES UNIT Innovation Grants OFFICE OF RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT (ORID) UNIVERSITY OF GHANA Academic-Industry Grants
Collaborative Opportunities OCTOBER 2016 Technology Development Grants
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR OCTOBER 2016 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 15 PILOT RESEARCH GRANTS...... 15 JOHN Z DULING GRANT PROGRAMME ...... 16 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 17 INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP GRANTS ...... 18 FRANKLIN RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 18 ACUTE MEDICINE RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS ...... 19 RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND ...... 20 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 20 TREATMENT TRIALS FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER ...... 21 GRANTS FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION ...... 22 RESEARCH GRANT AWARDS ...... 23 RESEARCH VISIT GRANTS ...... 24 SMALL EXPLORATORY GRANT ...... 25 NEW INVESTIGATOR GRANT ...... 26 STANDARD INVESTIGATOR GRANT ...... 27 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ...... 28 DEBORAH GERNER GRANT FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ...... 29 BEAM TIME – STANDARD AND PROGRAMME ACCESS ...... 29 EQUINE RESEARCH GRANTS...... 30 SMALL GRANTS PROGRAMME ...... 31 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND ...... 32 CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME ...... 33 INGA-BRITT LINDSTRÖM GRANT AWARD ...... 34 INDIVIDUAL POSTDOC GRANTS ...... 35 HUBERT H HUMPHREY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 36
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ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND...... 37 ALF NACHEMSON EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE GRANT ...... 38 RESEARCH GROUP PROJECT PROPOSALS ...... 39 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE AWARD ...... 39 PROGRAMME GRANTS ...... 40 RESEARCH AND CREATION GRANTS TO FILM AND VIDEO ARTISTS ...... 41 GRANTS TO NEW MEDIA AND AUDIO ARTISTS – RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION ...... 42 NEW MEDIA RESIDENCIES ...... 43 PROJECT GRANTS TO VISUAL ARTISTS ...... 44 POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH FUNDING ...... 44 JACK KIMMEL INTERNATIONAL GRANT PROGRAMME ...... 45 SIGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL/AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF DIABETES EDUCATORS GRANT ...... 46 SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESEARCH INITIATIVE GRANTS ...... 47 RESEARCH TRAINING GRANTS ...... 48 MENTORING AWARDS ...... 49 EDUCATIONAL AMBASSADORS PROGRAMME...... 49 DANIDA MARKET DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS ...... 50 GRANTS FOR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES ...... 51 SISTER RENAL CENTRES PROGRAMME ...... 52 SISTER TRANSPLANT CENTRES ...... 53 ENGAGEMENT GRANTS ...... 54 PROJECT GRANTS ...... 54 NAS AWARD IN CHEMICAL SCIENCES ...... 55 NAS AWARD FOR THE INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF SCIENCE ...... 56 SEED AWARDS IN SCIENCE ...... 56 ENDMS MASTER’S STUDENTSHIP AWARDS ...... 57 ENDMS DOCTORAL STUDENTSHIP AWARDS ...... 58 YUKON HISTORIC RESOURCES FUND ...... 59 HENRY DRAPER MEDAL ...... 60 PRADEL RESEARCH AWARD ...... 61
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HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION INSTRUMENT PROGRAMME FUNDING ...... 62 DOCTORAL RESEARCH AWARD ...... 63 ARTS PROJECT GRANTS FOR ORGANISATIONS ...... 64 H2020-SC1-PM-2017 PERSONALISED MEDICINE – TOPICS 2, 7, 8, 10, TWO STAGE ...... 65 DRUG DISCOVERY FOR CRYPTOSPORIDIUM AND SHIGELLA ...... 66 GRANTS TO CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS FOR PEACE, SECURITY AND STABILITY ACTIONS ...... 67 ADDRESSING UNMET NEED IN HIV TESTING SERVICES THROUGH EFFECTIVE DELIVERY MODELS IN MALAWI UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY FUND FOR AIDS RELIEF ...... 68 DELIVERING COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES TO ACHIEVE HIV EPIDEMIC CONTROL IN SUBNATIONAL UNITS IN NIGERIA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF ...... 69 SUPPORT FOR QUALITY FACILITY AND COMMUNITY-BASED ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN IN CAMEROON UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF ...... 70 STRENGTHENING CARE AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR HIGHLY VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES, PLUS HIV PREVENTION FOR YOUTH IN THE REPUBLIC OF COTE D'IVOIRE...... 71 PILOT RESEARCH GRANTS...... 72 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH RESEARCH (R01) ...... 73 NETWORK COOPERATION GRANT ...... 74 PILOT PROJECT GRANTS ...... 74 GRANTS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ...... 75 PREPARATORY CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP ...... 76 EXTENSION GRANT ...... 77 NORDIC REGISTER-BASED RESEARCH PROJECTS ...... 77 FOLLOW-ON FUNDING FOR IMPACT AND ENGAGEMENT SCHEME: CONNECTED COMMUNITIES HIGHLIGHT NOTICE ON CREATING LIVING KNOWLEDGE ...... 79 PROVISION OF COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY BASED CARE AND SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV IN THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF ...... 80 INNOVATIONAL RESEARCH INCENTIVES SCHEME VIDI AWARDS ...... 80
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RAAK-MKB ...... 81 INTEGRATED DELIVERY OF HIV SERVICES IN SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CLINICS TARGETING KEY AND PRIORITY POPULATIONS AND IN CONFIDENTIAL STI CLINICS FOR COMMERCIAL SEX WORKERS IN ETHIOPIA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF (PEPFAR) ...... 82 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO NATIONAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HEALTH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF (PEPFAR) .. 83 COLGATE-PALMOLIVE AWARDS FOR STUDENT RESEARCH TRAINING IN ALTERNATIVE METHODS ...... 84 COLGATE-PALMOLIVE GRANTS FOR ALTERNATIVE RESEARCH ...... 85 INTERNATIONAL TOXSCHOLAR OUTREACH GRANTS ...... 86 FIELD VEGETABLES CROP SECTOR PANEL FUNDING...... 87 IMPLEMENTING AN ELECTRONIC MONITORING AND REPORTING SYSTEM IN THE REPUBLIC OF RWANDA UNDER THE PRESIDENT’S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF (PEPFAR) ...... 88 INNOVATION FUND CHEMISTRY – CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 89 INNOVATION FUND CHEMISTRY – TECHNOLOGY AREA ...... 90 INNOVATION FUND CHEMISTRY – LAUNCHPAD FOR INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY ... 91 GRAND CHALLENGE AWARD ...... 92 BRITISH ACADEMY/LEVERHULME SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS...... 93 COMING SOON: ANCIENT PERSIA FUND ...... 93 LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOR HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM PROGRAMME ...... 94 MUSHROOMS CROP SECTOR PANEL FUNDING ...... 96 PROTECTED EDIBLES CROP SECTOR PANEL FUNDING ...... 97 COMING SOON: HONOR FROST FOUNDATION SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 98 STRATEGIC ACTIONS SUPPORTING LARGE-SCALE CLINICAL TRIALS ...... 98 H2020-SMEINST-2016-2017 DEDICATED SME INSTRUMENT – PHASE TWO ...... 100 LARGE GRANTS COMPETITION ...... 101 SEXUAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS – JORDAN ...... 102 SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF VACCINES FOR POVERTY-RELATED DISEASES ...... 103 INVESTIGATOR-LED PROJECT GRANTS ...... 104
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JOINT PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 1 – MEDICAL SIMULATION AND INFORMATION SCIENCES RESEARCH PROGRAMME: TRANSLATIONAL SIMULATION RESEARCH AWARD...... 105 STANDARD AWARDS IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH ...... 106 RESEARCH AWARDS ...... 107 SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 108 CALL FOR PROPOSALS ...... 109 CELTIC-PLUS CALL FOR PROPOSALS ...... 109 EUROPEAN INSTRUMENT FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS GLOBAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS ...... 110 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 112 CHARLES T AND JUDITH A TART STUDENT INCENTIVE AWARD FOR PARAPSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH ...... 113 NEW ZEALAND HISTORY RESEARCH TRUST FUND ...... 113 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 114 JOHN F PERKINS JR MEMORIAL AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL PHYSIOLOGISTS ...... 115 PUBLICATION GRANTS ...... 116 INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE PROGRAMME – YOUNG SCIENTIST PROJECTS ...... 116 TRANSLATION FUND ...... 117 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 118 SUPPORT FOR SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS ...... 119 ABORIGINAL AND INUIT TRADITIONAL VISUAL ART FORMS PROGRAMME FOR INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS ...... 120 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 121 H2020-CO-CREATION-2016-2017 CO-CREATION FOR GROWTH AND INCLUSION – TOPICS 2 AND 3 ...... 122 CLINICAL RESEARCH COLLABORATION ...... 122 CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD ...... 124 POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING GRANTS FOR APPLICANTS LIVING OUTSIDE OF QUÉBEC ...... 124 INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES SCHEME – STANDARD PROGRAMME ...... 125 SECOND JOINT CALL – SOCIETY AND RESPONSE TO DRUG USE ...... 126 H2020-INNOSUP-2016-2017 FOR A BETTER INNOVATION SUPPORT TO SMES – TOPIC 5127
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SUPPORTING INITIATIVES IN THE FIELD OF DRUGS POLICY ...... 128 FRAMEWORK GRANTS FOR RESEARCH ON SYSTEMS BIOLOGY ...... 129 H2020 ERC-2017-STG ERC STARTING GRANTS ...... 130 ACCELERATING EPIDEMIC CONTROL IN MUBENDE REGION IN THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF ...... 131 ACCELERATING EPIDEMIC CONTROL IN MASAKA REGION IN THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF ...... 132 ACCELERATING EPIDEMIC CONTROL IN SOROTI REGION IN THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF ...... 133 STRENGTHENING THE CAPACITY OF ACCELERATING A COMPREHENSIVE AND INTEGRATED APPROACH OF HIV COMBINATION PREVENTION TARGETED DEMAND CREATION IN ZAMBIA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF ...... 134 STRENGTHENING THE CAPACITY OF FAITH BASED ORGANISATIONS IN ACCELERATING A COMPREHENSIVE AND INTEGRATED APPROACH TO PROVIDING HIV/AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS CARE, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION SERVICES IN ZAMBIA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF ...... 135 IMPROVING THE CAPACITY OF UNIVERSITY BASED MEDICAL EDUCATION AND SUPERIOR TRAINING INSTITUTIONS TO PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOZAMBIQUE UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF ...... 136 BEHAVIOURAL AND BIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE OF HIV IN ZAMBIA GRANT ...... 137 DATA WAREHOUSE FOR HIV/AIDS POLICY AND PROGRAMME DECISION-MAKING IN ZAMBIA GRANT ...... 138 THERAPEUTIC PIPELINE PROGRAMME ...... 138 MOVEMBER TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH GRANTS IN BIOMARKERS ...... 139 IMPROVED BIOMARKERS AND CLINICAL OUTCOME MEASURES PROGRAMME ...... 140 THERAPEUTIC PIPELINE PROGRAMME ...... 141 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 142 GENERAL SEEDING GRANTS ...... 143 KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE PROGRAMME ...... 144 DOSEWISE RADIOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION ...... 145 ESTABLISHED INVESTIGATOR ACADEMIC-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP AWARDS ...... 146 ESTABLISHED INVESTIGATOR AWARDS ...... 147
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SUPPORT FOR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS ...... 148 ERNEST SOLVAY FUND FOR PROJECTS FOR INDIVIDUALS ...... 149 ERNEST SOLVAY FUND FOR PROJECTS FOR ORGANISATIONS ...... 150 INNOVATION GROWTH LAB GRANTS ...... 151 BEAMTIME AT HIGH POWER RADIATION SOURCES ...... 152 GROWING RESEARCH CAPABILITY TO MEET THE CHALLENGES FACED BY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ...... 152 AGRI-TECH CATALYST – INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AWARDS ...... 154 H2020-NMBP/BIOTEC-2017 NANOTECHNOLOGIES, ADVANCED MATERIALS BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION, TWO STAGE – TOPICS NMBP 4-7, 12, 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 25, 28, 29, 35; BIOTEC 5-7 ...... 155 H2020-PILOTS-2017 INDUSTRY 2020 IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY ...... 157 PROJECT GRANTS ...... 158 BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS ...... 158 NATIONAL TAXONOMY RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 159 LORNE CANCER CONFERENCE-BOOMERANG TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP ...... 160 COMING SOON: CULTURAL PROTECTION FUND – LARGE GRANTS ...... 161 CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ...... 162 SUBMILLIMETER ARRAY POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ...... 163 DR ERIC GUILER TASMANIAN DEVIL RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 164 IMPLANT RESEARCH GRANTS FOR MEMBERS ...... 164 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 165 COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH NETWORK FUNDING ...... 166 FARMING BY SATELLITE PRIZE ...... 167 KEEPERS OF THE EARTH GRANTS ...... 168 REAGAN-FASCELL DEMOCRACY FELLOWS PROGRAM ...... 169 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 170 RESEARCH AND EDUCATION GRANTS ...... 170 MAN AND BIOSPHERE YOUNG SCIENTISTS AWARDS ...... 171 RESEARCH GRANTS SCHEME ...... 172
OPPORTUNITIES FOR NOVEMBER 2016
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SMALL PROJECTS FUND ...... 173 GRANTS ...... 174 MOBILITY GRANTS ...... 175 WILEY BLACKWELL/JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL LECTURESHIPS ...... 175 STUDY SCHOLARSHIPS IN FINE ART, DESIGN AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION, FILM, MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS – FOR SELECTED COUNTRIES ...... 176 RESEARCH GRANTS – BI-NATIONALLY SUPERVISED DOCTORAL DEGREES ...... 177 ONE-YEAR GRANTS FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDATES, YOUNG ACADEMICS AND SCIENTISTS FROM SELECTED AFRICAN COUNTRIES ...... 178 SHORT-TERM RESEARCH GRANTS FOR PHD STUDENTS, POSTDOCS AND YOUNG ACADEMICS ...... 179 RESEARCH GRANTS – DOCTORAL PROGRAMMES IN GERMANY ...... 180 PHD FIELDWORK GRANTS ...... 181 INNOVATIVE GRANTS ...... 182 ERIC REID FUND FOR METHODOLOGY ...... 183 SMALL GRANTS SCHEME ...... 183 SENIOR RESEARCH AWARDS ...... 184 AWARD FOR ENCOURAGING WOMEN INTO CAREERS IN THE CHEMICAL SCIENCES ...... 185 DISSERTATION FIELDWORK GRANTS ...... 186 POST-PHD RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 187 SPECIALISED CENTRE OF RESEARCH PROGRAMME ...... 187 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 188 AWARD FOR RESEARCH AT AN UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTION ...... 189 EFFICACY AND MECHANISM EVALUATION PROGRAMME – RESEARCHER-LED WORKSTREAM: 16/68 ...... 190 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 191 PROJECT GRANTS ...... 192 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 193 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 193 COLLECTION STUDY GRANTS ...... 194 PROJECT SUPPORT GRANT ...... 195
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HISTORY VISITING MEMBERSHIPS ...... 196 PETROGRAPHY INTERNSHIP AT THE INSTAP STUDY CENTER FOR EAST CRETE ...... 197 GRANTS ...... 197 CONNECTION GRANTS FOR OTHER OUTREACH ACTIVITIES ...... 198 COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMME FOR RENEWABLE FUELS AND SYSTEMS...... 199 GRANTS TO ABORIGINAL DANCE PROFESSIONALS ...... 200 SMALL GRANTS ...... 201 PROJECT GRANTS ...... 202 GROUP STUDY VISITS...... 203 PROJECT GRANTS FOR THE UN RESOLUTION 1325 ...... 204 TAILOR-MADE TRAINING PROGRAMME ...... 205 EDUCATION GRANTS ...... 205 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS SCHEME ...... 206 INVESTIGATOR-INITIATED RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 207 PILOT RESEARCH GRANTS...... 208 FRANK M CHAPMAN GRANTS ...... 209 DISTINGUISHED INVESTIGATOR AWARDS ...... 210 COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS FOR DEVELOPING COMMONWEALTH COUNTRY CITIZENS ...... 211 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 212 ANNUAL RESEARCH GRANT ...... 212 STANDARD RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 213 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR GRANTS ...... 214 HECKMAN STIPENDS ...... 215 GERSTNER SCHOLARS PROGRAMME ...... 216 LENNART AKTIESTINSEN ISRAELSSON’S FOUNDATION FOR THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY...... 216 CONSTANCE MCCULLOUGH AWARD ...... 217 STUDY BURSARY ...... 219 OPERATING GRANT – POPULATION HEALTH INTERVENTION RESEARCH ...... 219 MARINELL ASH FUND AWARD ...... 221 STRATEGIC RESEARCH GRANT ...... 221
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H2020-WIDESPREAD-04-2017 TEAMING PHASE 1 ...... 222 COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS – SINGAPORE ...... 223 TACKLING GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES THROUGH ENGINEERING AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ...... 224 SMALL RESEARCH PUMP PRIMING GRANTS ...... 225 EQUIPMENT GRANTS ...... 226 SABBATICALS AND SECONDMENTS GRANTS ...... 227 ABORIGINAL PEOPLES COLLABORATIVE EXCHANGE – NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROJECT GRANTS ...... 228 TARGET VALIDATION PATHFINDER GRANT ...... 229 COMING SOON: PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT GRANTS FOR APPLIED RESEARCH .... 230 COLLABORATIVE AWARDS IN SCIENCE ...... 231 EXTENDED DEADLINE: ORIGINAL, ISN’T IT? – NEW OPTIONS FOR THE HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL STUDIES ...... 231 NETWORKS FOR VACCINE R&D ...... 233 DRAPER HILLS SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS ...... 234 BIOMEDICAL CATALYST – REGENERATIVE MEDICINE RESEARCH COMMITTEE ...... 235 SCIENCE-BASED REFINEMENT AWARDS ...... 236 INVESTIGATOR AWARDS IN SCIENCE ...... 237 RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS ...... 238 RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 238 ETHICS AND REGULATORY CAPACITIES ...... 239 RALPH BROWN EXPEDITION AWARD ...... 240 RESEARCH FOR PATIENT BENEFIT PROGRAMME ...... 241 RECONSTRUCTIVE TRANSPLANT CONCEPT AWARD ...... 242 ENERGY TRANSITION PRIZE ...... 243 ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS PRIZE ...... 244 YOUNG TALENTS FROM AFRICA PRIZE ...... 244 EARLY-CAREER GRANT ...... 245 EQUIPMENT GRANTS ...... 246 H2020-LCE-2017 COMPETITIVE LOW-CARBON ENERGY – TOPICS 7 AND 31 ...... 247 H2020-LCE-2017 COMPETITIVE LOW-CARBON ENERGY CALL – TOPIC 6 ...... 249
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SENIOR VISITING SCIENTIST AWARD ...... 250 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 251 GUNNING JUBILEE GIFT ...... 251 SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 252
OPPORTUNITIES FOR DECEMBER 2016 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 253 RESEARCH PAPERS ...... 254 HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME: RESEARCHER-LED WORKSTREAM – 16/110, 16/111...... 254 SPECIAL PROJECT AWARD ...... 255 EARLY-CAREER INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 256 FELLOWSHIP PROJECT AWARD ...... 257 INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT BURSARIES ...... 257 GRANTS FOR FOREIGN SCIENTISTS ...... 258 RESEARCH AWARDS ...... 259 CATHERINE POUGET AWARD ...... 260 GLYCOSCIENCE MEETING GRANTS ...... 260 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 261 PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT GRANTS ...... 262 FIELD CENTRE GRANTS ...... 263 ANGUS GRAHAM GRANT ...... 264 SIR GEORGE MACDONALD GRANT ...... 265 CAREER DEVELOPMENT BURSARIES ...... 265 OUTCOMES RESEARCH ...... 266 CLINICAL RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 268 GRANT AWARDS ...... 269 SIGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL/COUNCIL FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NURSING SCIENCE RESEARCH GRANT ...... 270 ALPHA ETA COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH GRANT ...... 270 TWAS-UNESCO ASSOCIATESHIP SCHEME ...... 271 SINERGIA PROGRAMME ...... 272
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ADVANCED TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR TEACHERS OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE ...... 273 GRANT PROGRAMME FOR JAPANESE-LANGUAGE EDUCATION ACTIVITIES ...... 274 OSTEOLOGY RESEARCHER GRANTS ...... 275 POPULATION RESEARCH CATALYST AWARD ...... 276 PHD STUDENTSHIPS ...... 277 BURSARIES – OVER £5,000 ...... 277 SPECIAL PROGRAMME ON SECURITY, SOCIETY AND THE STATE – RESEARCH PROJECTS ...... 278 CENTENARY AWARDS ...... 279 WELFARE GRANTS...... 280 NEW AND FUTURE BIOTECHNOLOGY TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS IN RELATION TO SAFETY ...... 280 SUBSIDIES FOR CONSORTIA ...... 282 GLOBAL CLINICAL TRIALS FUND ...... 282 SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 283 IADR GLAXOSMITHKLINE INNOVATION IN ORAL CARE AWARDS ...... 284 HUMANE SLAUGHTER AWARD ...... 285 MENEGHETTI AWARD...... 286 ANNUAL SEMINAR COMPETITION ...... 287 GERMAN-AFRICAN COOPERATION PROJECTS IN INFECTIOLOGY ...... 288 INVENTION FOR INNOVATION (I4I) PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AWARDS ...... 289 IMAGING AND BIOMARKERS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF AGGRESSIVE CANCER (U01) ...... 290 EMERGING GLOBAL LEADER AWARD (K43) ...... 291 EXPLORATORY STUDIES OF SMOKING CESSATION INTERVENTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA (R21/R33) ...... 292 EXPLORATORY STUDIES OF SMOKING CESSATION INTERVENTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA (R33) ...... 293 CUTTING-EDGE BASIC RESEARCH AWARDS (R21) ...... 294 UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE MULTI-LEVEL INFLUENCES ON UPTAKE AND ADHERENCE TO HIV PREVENTION STRATEGIES AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (R34) ...... 295
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UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE MULTI-LEVEL INFLUENCES ON UPTAKE AND ADHERENCE TO HIV PREVENTION STRATEGIES AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (R21) ...... 296 UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE MULTI-LEVEL INFLUENCES ON UPTAKE AND ADHERENCE TO HIV PREVENTION STRATEGIES AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (R01) ...... 297 HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS ...... 298 PARTNER YOUR ANTIBODIES ...... 299 PRESIDENT’S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF – GHANA ...... 300
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OCTOBER 2016
R ESEARCH GRANTS Children Living with Inherited Metabolic Diseases
Description: Children Living with Inherited Metabolic Award amount max: £15,000 Diseases invites outline summaries for its Award amount min: - research grants. These support research Award budget total: - projects related to metabolic diseases, Website: http://www.climb.org.uk/ specifically those on GM1 gangliosidosis and Alexander’s disease. Grants may pump-prime Eligibility profile an important, innovative project or fund one ------more fully. European researchers may apply. Country of applicant institution: Any Grants are usually worth up to £15,000. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Genetic Diseases; Human Metabolism Deadline information: Outline summaries Contact Details due by 1 October; invited full applications ------due by 1 December 2016. This call is Climb repeated once a year. Climb Building Posted date: 15 Oct 15 176 Nantwich Road Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Crewe CW2 6BG research groups etc, Directed grants for Email: [email protected] individual investigators, Innovation grants
ILOT RESEARCH GRANTS Interstitial Cystitis Association P
Description: The Interstitial Cystitis Association invites epidemiology of interstitial cystitis- applications for its pilot research grants. special interest in studies on the These grants seek to provide novel IC burden of disease; research proposals with initial grant funding etiology of interstitial cystitis; to gather preliminary data. This data may serum or urine markers; then enable researchers to obtain further potential IC treatment modalities; grants to continue the research. Priority areas neurophysiology; of interest include: pain management;
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pregnancy and IC. Country of applicant institution: Any Suitable applicants will be specialists with a particular interest in IC in the areas of Disciplines urology, urogynecology, or pain ------management. Epidemiology; Medicine & Health; Pain Management; Pathogenesis; Chronic Pain; Closing date: 01 Oct 16 (Forecast) Diagnostic Sciences; Urology; Pharmacy & Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Pharmacology; Obstetrics & Gynaecology; been announced by funder, but this is the Primary Care; Clinical Medicine; Public approximate deadline we expect. This call is Health, Health Services & Primary Care; repeated once a year. Electrophysiology; Pregnancy & Birth Posted date: 14 Apr 11 Award type: Directed grants for individual Contact Details investigators ------Award amount max: - Interstitial Cystitis Association Award amount min: - 100 Park Avenue, Suite 108-A Award budget total: - Rockville, MD 20850 Website: Fax: +1 800 435 7422 http://www.ichelp.org/Page.aspx?pid=457 Tel: +1 301 610 5308 Email: [email protected] Eligibility profile ------
OHN Z DULING GRANT PROGRAMME TREE Fund J
Description: The TREE Fund invites applications for the submit to only one of these programmes per John Z Duling grant programme. This aims to unique project and funding cycle. provide start up or seed funding for Grant award amounts are limited to a innovative research and technology transfer maximum of US$10,000. Projects have to be projects that have the potential of benefiting completed within one to three years. No the everyday work of arborists. Proposals in project may receive more than one award the following areas are given priority: from this programme. root and soil management; propagation, planting and Closing date: 01 Oct 16 establishment; Deadline information: This call is repeated plant health care; once a year. risk assessment and worker safety; Posted date: 11 Nov 15 urban forestry. Award type: Directed grants for individual Investigators worldwide are eligible to investigators, Innovation grants apply.Due to the similarity of the Jack Kimmel Award amount max: USD 10,000 Award amount min: - international grant and the John Z Duling Award budget total: - grant, TREE Fund requests that applicants
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Website: Forestry Science (Silvology); Plant http://www.treefund.org/grants/research- Development & Reproduction; Forest grants/duling Engineering; Safety & Accident Investigation; Application form: Plant Selection & Breeding https://app.wizehive.com/appform/login/tfd Contact Details uling2016 ------TREE Fund Eligibility profile 552 S. Washington St., Suite 109 ------Naperville, IL 60540 Country of applicant institution: Any Fax: +1 630 369 8300 Tel: +1 630 369 8382 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------
ESEARCH GRANTS Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour R
Description: The Association for the Study of Animal Posted date: 20 Jan 16 Behaviour invites applications for its research Award type: Travel for research purposes, grants. These support small-scale projects in Equipment and materials, Directed grants all areas of animal behaviour that are unlikely for individual investigators, Directed grants to attract funding from alternative sources. to institutions, research groups etc Grants may be made to allow the applicant to Award amount max: £7,500 travel to conduct collaborative research, or to Website: http://www.asab.org/research- bring a collaborator to the applicant's grants/ institution. Research projects in all areas of Application form: animal behaviour are considered. http://www.asab.org/s/grants_RG.docx Applicants must have a PhD and should have been ASAB members for a minimum of one Eligibility profile year. Preference may be given to applicants ------early in their career and first-time applicants. Country of applicant institution: Any Disciplines Grants are worth up to £7,500 and may cover ------equipment, research expenses, salaries, travel Ethology & Comparative Psychology; and subsistence. Zoology; Veterinary Medicine; Biological Sciences Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 Contact Details October 2016, 1 February 2017, 1 June 2017, ------and repeated annually. Email: [email protected]
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NTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP GRANTS Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour I
Description: The Association for the Study of Animal Award amount min: - Behaviour invites applications for its Award budget total: - interdisciplinary workshop grants. These Website: http://www.asab.org/workshop- support interdisciplinary discussions on grants/ current topics at the interface between animal Application form: behaviour and other disciplines, for example http://www.asab.org/s/grants_IWG.docx physics, genetics, engineering or psychology. Any ASAB member may apply. Eligibility profile ------Grants are worth up to £5,000 each. Country of applicant institution: Any Disciplines Closing date: 01 Oct 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Genetics & Systems Biology; Physics; once a year. Engineering; Psychology; Ethology & Posted date: 20 Jan 16 Comparative Psychology Award type: Networking/collaboration, Hosting conferences, Directed grants for Contact Details individual investigators ------Award amount max: £5,000 Email: [email protected]
F RANKLIN RESEARCH GRANTS American Philosophical Society
Description: The American Philosophical Society invites character and quality. PhD candidates are not applications for the Franklin research grants. eligible, but the society is especially interested These are awarded to scholars in order to in supporting the work of young scholars who support the cost of research leading to have recently received a doctorate. US citizens publication in all areas of knowledge. The and residents may use their awards at home programme is particularly designed to help or abroad. Foreign nationals must use their meet the cost of travel to libraries and awards for research in the US. Each award is archives for research purposes; the purchase worth up to US$6,000. of microfilm, photocopies or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with Closing date: 01 Oct 16 fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses. Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 October 2016, 1 December 2016, and repeated Applicants are expected to have a doctoral annually. degree or published work of doctoral Posted date: 10 Jul 15
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Award type: Travel for research purposes, Eligibility profile Equipment and materials, Grants ------undirected, Publish, edit, translate, Country of applicant institution: Any disseminate Disciplines Award amount max: USD 6,000 ------Award amount min: - Any Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/franklin Tel: +1 215 440 3429 Application form: Email: [email protected] https://aps.onlineapplicationportal.com/
CUTE MEDICINE RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS Laerdal Foundation A
Description: The Laerdal Foundation invites applications Award type: Directed grants for individual for its acute medicine research project grants. investigators, Directed grants to institutions, These support projects related to acute research groups etc medicine. Projects should comprise one or Award amount max: NOK 150,000 several of the following elements: Award amount min: - experimental or clinical research; Award budget total: - diagnosis; Website: treatment and transport of patients http://www.laerdalfoundation.org/soknadss with acute life threatening disease or kjema.html trauma; Application form: http://www.laerdalfoundation.org/dok/appli development or accomplishment of cation_form.doc education.
Eligibility profile Preference will be given to projects connected ------with out-of-hospital acute medicine or with Country of applicant institution: Any special practical significance.
Grants are worth up to NOK150,000 each to Disciplines cover research costs for a duration of 12 ------months. Project grants may be extended for an Diagnostic Sciences; Emergency Medicine; additional year upon renewed application. Traumatology, Accidents & Injury; Medical Grants may not be used to cover travel, Education equipment and secretarial services. Contact Details Closing date: 01 Oct 16 ------Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 Laerdal Foundation October 2016, 1 April 2017, and repeated Postbox 556 annually. Sentrum Posted date: 18 May 16
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4003 Stavanger Email: [email protected] Tel: +47 9028 2855
ESEARCH SUPPORT FUND Viking Society for Northern Research R
Description: The Viking Society for Northern Research Award amount max: £400 invites applications for its research support Award amount min: - fund. The purpose of the fund is to assist in Award budget total: - the development of the study of the literature, Website: http://www.vsnr.org/support-fund/ history, language and archaeology of early Application form: and medieval Scandinavia. http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/viking/researchfundf orm.htm Applicants should normally be members of the Viking Society. Non-members may be Eligibility profile considered in special circumstances. Grants ------are a maximum of £400 each. Country of applicant institution: Any Disciplines Closing date: 01 Oct 16 ------Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 Scandinavian Literature; Nordic Studies; October 2016, 1 February 2017, 1 May 2017, Scandinavian Languages; Medieval History; and repeated annually. Archaeology; Medieval Literature Posted date: 22 Feb 16 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Contact Details research groups etc, Directed grants for ------individual investigators Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH GRANTS Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation R
Description: The Grayson-Jockey Club Research the dollar amount that may be awarded, Foundation invites applications for its applicants are advised that the foundation research grants. The foundation supports awards approximately US$900,000 annually. research relevant to equine health and Average funding during the past five years performance. Although there are no limits on has been US$71,000 per grant.
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The investigator should have some Application form: http://www.grayson- professorial rank and salary from the jockeyclub.org/resources/Grant_Application institution involved, or hold some grade of _Form.doc research professorship with salary from the institution. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 01 Oct 16 (Forecast) Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. Mammalogy; Veterinary Medicine Applications due by 12 midnight. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 19 May 11 Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation Award type: Directed grants for individual 821 Corporate Drive investigators Lexington, KY 40503 Award amount max: - Fax: +1 859 224 2850 Award amount min: - Tel: +1 859 224 2853 Award budget total: USD 900,000 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.grayson- jockeyclub.org/default.asp?section=2&area= APPLY&menu=2
REATMENT TRIALS FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER Stanley Medical Research Institute T
Description: The Stanley Medical Research Institute invites be considered, but no particular academic proposals for treatment trials for degree is required. At any one time, SMRI is schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Regular supporting 40 to 50 treatment trials, with five treatment trials, funded at up to US$300,000 to 10 additional trials this year. per year for up to three years, support the testing of medications to assess their efficacy Closing date: 01 Oct 16 (Forecast) for treating schizophrenia and bipolar Deadline information: !! Call has not yet disorder. SMRI is especially interested in been announced by funder, but this is the supporting the testing of medications that are approximate deadline we expect. unlikely to be tested by pharmaceutical Applications due by 11.59pm EST, 1 October companies because they are not commercially annually. This call is repeated once a year. profitable. Posted date: 04 Apr 13 Award type: Clinical trials, Directed grants Applications will be accepted from for individual investigators researchers in any country except where Award amount max: USD 900,000 prohibited by United States law. The skills Award amount min: - and academic experience of the applicant will Award budget total: -
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Website: Health Services & Primary Care; Bipolar http://www.stanleyresearch.org/treatment- Disorder; Mental Health; Allied Health trials/ Professions; Mental Illness; Primary Care; Application form: Schizophrenia & Other Psychotic Disorders; http://www.stanleyresearch.org/treatmenttria Folk, Complementary & Alternative Medicine l/LogIn.aspx Contact Details Eligibility profile ------SMRI Country of applicant institution: Any 8401 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 200 Disciplines Chevy Chase, MD 20815 ------Fax: +1 240 482 3018 Psychology; General Practice & Family Tel: +1 301 571 0768 Health; Drug Design; Neuropharmacology; Email: [email protected] Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Public Health,
RANTS FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION Nuffield Foundation G
Description: The Nuffield Foundation invites applications economics, and transfers related to for its grants for research and innovation. individual and population ageing; These support research, practical experiments law in society – promotes access to or development work in the following areas: and understanding of the civil and family justice system; open door – for projects that improve children and families – helps to ensure social wellbeing and meet trustees’ that the legal and institutional wider interests but lie outside other framework is best adapted to meet the programme areas. needs of children and families; early years education and childcare – The foundation does not usually fund funds projects on educational organisations outside the UK or projects that attainment and child development take place outside the UK. Collaboration with outcomes; partners in European or Commonwealth economic advantages and countries is permitted. Grants normally range disadvantages – funds projects on the from £10,000 to £350,000, although the distribution of individual and majority are worth between £50,000 and household economic well-being; £200,000. Funding usually supports projects education – supports projects in the for a duration of under four years. priority areas of primary education, secondary education transitions, Closing date: 01 Oct 16 science and mathematics. Deadline information: Outline applications finances of ageing – funds projects due by 18 April and 1 October; full related to all aspects of finance,
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applications are due by 14 July 2016 and 1 Eligibility profile February 2017. ------Posted date: 22 Feb 16 Country of applicant institution: United Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Kingdom research groups etc, Innovation grants, Country of applicant institution: Travel for research purposes, Equipment and Commonwealth member states, All European materials, Networking/collaboration Nations Award amount max: £350,000 Disciplines Award amount min: £10,000 ------Award budget total: - Home & Household Studies; Psychology of Website: Ageing; Family Law; Child Protection & http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/apply- Welfare; Education; Social Work & Social for-funding Policy Application form: http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/sites/def Contact Details: ault/files/files/Front%20page%20summary% ------20sheet%20-%20July%202015(1).docx Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH GRANT AWARDS Association for Library and Information Science Education R
Description: The Association for Library and Information Award type: Directed grants for individual Science Education invites proposals for its investigators, Directed grants to institutions, research grant competition. This supports research groups etc research broadly related to education for Award amount max: USD 5,000 library and information science. The research Award amount min: - grant award cannot be used to support a Award budget total: USD 5,000 doctoral dissertation. Website: At least one applicant in a group submitting a http://www.alise.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId proposal must be a personal member of the =55548 association as of the deadline date. Application form: One or more grants totalling $5,000 may be https://www.conftool.pro/alise2017/index.ph awarded. Staff training, general operating or p?page=login overhead expenses and other indirect costs Eligibility profile are not funded. ------
Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: This call is repeated Disciplines once a year. ------Posted date: 21 Jun 16 Computer Science & Informatics; Libraries & Information Science; Education Programmes & Curriculum; Information Science
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ESEARCH VISIT GRANTS Society for General Microbiology R
Description: The Society for General Microbiology invites Posted date: 05 Jan 16 applications for its research visit grants. These Award type: Networking/collaboration, enable researchers from the UK or Republic of Directed grants for individual investigators, Ireland to visit another laboratory worldwide, Travel for research purposes, Personal or international researchers to visit a development, Innovation grants laboratory in the UK or ROI, to carry out a Award amount max: £3,000 defined piece of microbiology research, Award amount min: - whether within an established or new Award budget total: - collaboration initiative. Applications are open Website: http://www.sgm.ac.uk/en/grants- to members of the society who fall into one of prizes/travel-research-funds.cfm/research- the following categories: visit-grants registered for a PhD or are PhD Application form: http://www.microbiologysociety.org/downlo qualified and employed in a ad.cfm/docid/4AE845DD-A74B-4EE3- postdoctoral research position in a 8E4BA6FC36CC6401 university, hospital or research
institute worldwide; Eligibility profile a university lecturer within three ------years of appointment to their first post Country of applicant institution: Any in the UK or Republic of Ireland. Grants are worth up to £3,000 each for visits Disciplines lasting four weeks to three months. Funds ------may be used to contribute to travel, Microbiology accommodation and subsistence costs in making the visit, or towards the costs of Contact Details project consumables. ------Tel: +44 20 7685 2698 Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Email: [email protected] Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 October 2016, 1 April 2017, and repeated annually.
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MALL EXPLORATORY GRANT Scoliosis Research Society S
Description: The Scoliosis Research Society invites Closing date: 01 Oct 16 applications for a small exploratory grant. Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 This grant is designed specifically for new October 2016, 1 April 2017, and repeated investigators who have a preliminary concept annually. they would like to develop into a research Posted date: 09 Nov 12 project. Applicants do not need to be Award type: Young investigator awards, members of the society to apply. The society Directed grants for individual investigators has identified the following areas as Award amount max: USD 10,000 important research topics: Award amount min: - evidence based medicine; Award budget total: - idiopathic scoliosis; Website: http://www.srs.org/research/ Application form: aetiology; https://srs.execinc.com/edibo/Grants non-op and operative treatment;
3D deformity of the spine and thorax; Eligibility profile adult deformity; ------ treatment and outcomes; Country of applicant institution: Any osteoporosis, in particular osteoporotic spine fractures, its impact Disciplines on scoliosis kyphosis management, ------and how it relates to spinal deformity Chiropractic; General Surgery; Pathogenesis; and instrumentation; General Practice & Family Health; Public early onset scoliosis treatment; Health, Health Services & Primary Care; sagittal imbalance; Diagnostic Sciences; Clinical Medicine; congenital scoliosis; Physiology; Osteoporosis & Other Bone deformity and reconstruction arising Diseases; Primary Care; Orthopaedic Surgery; from spine and sacral tumour Musculoskeletal System; Muscle Diseases; treatment; Counselling & Talking Therapies; Allied thoracic insufficiency associated with Health Professions spinal deformity in children; pulmonary outcome sequeallae Contact Details following common natural history of ------spine deformity and treatment Scoliosis Research Society history. 555 East Wells Street, suite 1100 Milwaukee, WI 53202-3823 The maximum grant award for this category Fax: +1 414 289 9107 is US$10,000. The maximum duration of Tel: +1 414 276 3349 research is one year. Email: [email protected]
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EW INVESTIGATOR GRANT Scoliosis Research Society N
Description: The Scoliosis Research Society invites applications for a new investigator grant. This Closing date: 01 Oct 16 grant is specifically targeted to new Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 investigators. It will not be awarded to those October 2016, 1 April 2017, and repeated who have received prior funding from annually. national granting organisations. Applicants Posted date: 09 Nov 12 do not need to be members of the society to Award type: Directed grants for individual apply. The society has identified the following investigators, Young investigator awards areas as important research topics: Award amount max: USD 25,000 Award amount min: - evidence based medicine; Award budget total: - Website: http://www.srs.org/research/ idiopathic scoliosis; Application form: aetiology; https://srs.execinc.com/edibo/Grants non-op and operative treatment;
3D deformity of the spine and thorax; Eligibility profile adult deformity; ------ treatment and outcomes; Country of applicant institution: Any osteoporosis, in particular osteoporotic spine fractures, its impact Disciplines on scoliosis kyphosis management, ------and how it relates to spinal deformity Osteoporosis & Other Bone Diseases; and instrumentation; Musculoskeletal System; General Practice & early onset scoliosis treatment; Family Health; Pathogenesis; Counselling & sagittal imbalance; Talking Therapies; Public Health, Health congenital scoliosis; Services & Primary Care; Chiropractic; neuromuscular spinal deformity; Orthopaedic Surgery; Clinical Medicine; deformity and reconstruction arising Diagnostic Sciences; Physiology; Allied from spine and sacral tumour Health Professions; General Surgery; Primary treatment; Care; Muscle Diseases thoracic insufficiency associated with spinal deformity in children; Contact Details pulmonary outcome sequeallae ------following common natural history of Scoliosis Research Society spine deformity and treatment 555 East Wells Street, suite 1100 history. Milwaukee, WI 53202-3823 Fax: +1 414 289 9107 The maximum award is US$25,000, and the Tel: +1 414 276 3349 duration of research may extend up to two Email: [email protected] years.
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TANDARD INVESTIGATOR GRANT Scoliosis Research Society S
Description: The Scoliosis Research Society invites This grant is awarded a maximum of applications for a standard investigator grant. US$25,000 per year for up to two years, the These grant applications may be in any area of maximum total award being US$50,000. spinal deformity research, although an additional funding source for grants focusing on the aetiology of scoliosis is available in Closing date: 01 Oct 16 conjunction with the Cotrel Foundation. Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 Applicants do not need to be members of the October 2016, 1 April 2017, and repeated society to apply. These applications require annually. evidence that the investigator has the Posted date: 09 Nov 12 appropriate experience and resources. Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators The society has identified the following areas Award amount max: USD 50,000 as important research topics: Website: http://www.srs.org/research/ evidence based medicine; Application form: idiopathic scoliosis; https://srs.execinc.com/edibo/Grants
aetiology; Eligibility profile non-op and operative treatment; ------ 3D deformity of the spine and thorax; Country of applicant institution: Any adult deformity; treatment and outcomes; Disciplines osteoporosis, in particular ------osteoporotic spine fractures, its impact Physiology; Public Health, Health Services & on scoliosis kyphosis management, Primary Care; Clinical Medicine; Primary and how it relates to spinal deformity Care; Pathogenesis; Chiropractic; General and instrumentation; Practice & Family Health; Muscle Diseases; early onset scoliosis treatment; General Surgery; Allied Health Professions; sagittal imbalance; Orthopaedic Surgery; Osteoporosis & Other congenital scoliosis; Bone Diseases; Musculoskeletal System; neuromuscular spinal deformity; Counselling & Talking Therapies; Diagnostic deformity and reconstruction arising Sciences from spine and sacral tumour treatment; Contact Details thoracic insufficiency associated with ------spinal deformity in children; Scoliosis Research Society pulmonary outcome sequeallae 555 East Wells Street, suite 1100 following common natural history of Milwaukee, WI 53202-3823 spine deformity and treatment Fax: +1 414 289 9107 history. Tel: +1 414 276 3349 Email: [email protected]
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EGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME International Association for Dental Research R
Description: The International Association for Dental Joint proposals by divisions or regions are Research invites letters of intent for its encouraged where appropriate. The total regional development programme. Funding budget is worth USD 60,000. aims to encourage the development of a sustainable infrastructure in as many Closing date: 01 Oct 16 developing regions as possible, and Deadline information: Letters of intent due encourage research and development in oral by 1 October 2016; invited full proposals due health worldwide. Priority is given to by 1 February 2017. This call is repeated once proposals that: a year. Posted date: 22 Jul 16 develop research capacity of local Award type: Networking/collaboration, researchers; Directed grants for individual investigators, develop sustainability of local Directed grants to institutions, research researchers; groups etc Award amount max: - have an impact on regional oral Award amount min: - health; Award budget total: USD 60,000 involve collaboration with expert Website: partners; http://www.dentalresearch.org/i4a/pages/ind involve current IADR members at the ex.cfm?pageid=3428 local level; have potential for recruitment and Eligibility profile promotion of new members at the ------local level; Country of applicant institution: Any have a strategy to report results at any IADR meeting; Disciplines have measurable or operative research ------outcomes; Dentistry; Health Systems in Developing have matching funds committed by Countries coalition partners. Contact Details The highest priority is placed on projects that ------are sustainable beyond the funds requested, Email: [email protected] and which target support for mentoring of developing scientists.
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EBORAH GERNER GRANT FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT International Studies Association D
Description: The International Studies Association invites conferences, meetings etc., Travel for applications for the Deborah Gerner grant for research purposes, Directed grants for professional development. The aim of this individual investigators grant is to support professional development Award amount max: USD 2,000 projects in the field of international studies. Award amount min: - The grant may support travel to meetings or Award budget total: - for research purposes, working with a Website: colleague on a collaborative project, the http://www.isanet.org/Programs/Awards/De purchase of research materials or borah-Gerner-Grant-For-Professional- participation in an appropriate pedagogy Development workshop or institute. There are no restrictions on the topic of research, however Eligibility profile preference will be given to applicants whose ------research or pedagogical goals focus on conflict Country of applicant institution: Any resolution, achieving peace in the Middle East or the role of women in international Disciplines relations. The winner will receive US$2,000. ------Civil Conflicts & Revolutions; Peace & Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Disarmament; Women's Rights; Gender & Deadline information: This call is repeated Sexuality in Culture; Any once a year. Posted date: 09 Jun 16 Contact Details Award type: Equipment and materials, ------Personal development, Travel to Email: [email protected]
EAM TIME – STANDARD AND PROGRAMME ACCESS Diamond Light Source B
Description: The Diamond Light Source invites proposals standard access – provides regular for beam time – standard and programme access for individuals or groups for a access. This provides beam time for duration of six months, October 2016 individuals and groups conducting non- to March 2017 for the April 2016 call proprietary research. Three access routes are and April 2017 to September 2017 for available: the October 2016 call;
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programme access for block allocation Award type: Travel for research purposes, groups – provides more efficient use Access to laboratories, telescopes etc. of the MX, I11, B18 and I19 beamlines Award amount max: - for large groups or groups from Award amount min: - different establishments over a period Award budget total: - of two years; Website: programme access for long term http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Users/UserGuide research – provides access to the MX, /Proposals/Access-Routes.html I05, I06, I08, I09, I10, I11, I12, I13-1, Application form: http://uas.diamond.ac.uk/ I13-2, I15, I16, I18, I22, B16, B18, I19, B21, B22, B23 and I07 beamlines for Eligibility profile groups conducting research that ------requires sustained and guaranteed Country of applicant institution: EU access to beam time and has been (European Union) funded as a result of peer review. Country of applicant institution: Any
Disciplines Scientists and engineers from academia, ------research councils, charitable institutions and Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics; commercial organisations, both UK and Magnetism & Electromagnetism; international, may apply. European proposals Crystallography; Spectrometry; Microscopy; must have a European principal investigator Radiology & Medical Imaging; Materials with a majority of European co-investigators. Sciences; Environmental Technology; In addition, international users may apply but Structural Chemistry & Spectroscopy; will not be reimbursed for travel and Infrared & Ultraviolet Light; Nanotechnology subsistence costs.
Contact Details Funding is available for travel and subsistence ------costs. Access will be free at the point of use for Diamond Light Source Ltd all non-proprietary research. User Office
Diamond House
Harwell Science and Innovation Campus Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Didcot Deadline information: Applications due by Oxfordshire OX11 0DE 5pm. Deadlines on: 1 October 2016, 1 April 2017, and repeated annually. Fax: +44 1235 778 571 Posted date: 18 Mar 16 Tel: +44 1235 778 719 Email: [email protected]
QUINE RESEARCH GRANTS Stiftelsen Hästforskning – Swedish-Norwegian Foundation for Equine Research E
Description: The Swedish-Norwegian Foundation for equine research grants. These aim to stimulate Equine Research invites applications for its research concerning the horses’ role in society
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and the environment, as well as encourage Award type: Directed grants for individual collaborations between Norwegian and investigators, Networking/collaboration, Swedish research groups. Applications should Directed grants to institutions, research address the following areas of interest: groups etc well-being and welfare of horses; Award amount max: - equine reproduction, breeding and Award amount min: - feeding; Award budget total: - role of horses in the society, Website: http://hastforskning.se/soka- environment and their relationship to anslag/#.UWvoM4LgL9A humans, which for this funding round Application form: https://login.lantbruksforskning.se/sbs/SHF is prioritised as an area of interest.
Eligibility profile Priority is also given to applications that ------demonstrate collaboration between Country of applicant institution: Any Norwegian and Swedish researchers. Country of applicant institution: Norway, Swedish and Norwegian researchers may Sweden apply. Collaboration with international research groups is encouraged. Disciplines
------Closing date: 01 Oct 16 (Forecast) Ethology & Comparative Psychology; Animal Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Care; Animal Feeds & Nutrition; Animal been announced by funder, but this is the Breeding; Mammalogy; Companion Animals approximate deadline we expect. Applications due by 3pm. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 10 Sep 15 ------Tel: +46 8 627 2011 Email: [email protected]
MALL GRANTS PROGRAMME United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues S
Description: The United Nations Permanent Forum on organisations, women’s indigenous Indigenous Issues invites applications to its organisations and indigenous youth small grants programme. Priority will be organisations are eligible to apply. given to projects focusing on the programme Applications may be submitted in English, of action of the second decade under the French, Spanish or Russian. Grants are worth broad mandated areas of the forum, namely: up to US$10,000 over a one-year period. culture, education, health, human rights, the environment, and social and economic development. All projects should be of direct Closing date: 01 Oct 16 (Forecast) benefit to indigenous peoples. Local, national Deadline information: !! Call has not yet and regional indigenous people’s been announced by funder, but this is the
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approximate deadline we expect. This call is Politics & International Studies; Economics & repeated once a year. Econometrics; Civil & Human Rights; Posted date: 20 Aug 12 Disadvantaged & Minority Groups; Health of Award type: Development Minority Groups; Economic Development; (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to Education; Public Health, Health Services & institutions, research groups etc Primary Care; Development Studies; Award amount max: USD 10,000 Indigenous Peoples of the Americas; Award amount min: - International Relations & Diplomacy; Social Award budget total: - Work & Social Policy Website: http://social.un.org/index/IndigenousPeoples Contact Details: /TrustFund/2013.aspx ------Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Eligibility profile Division for Social Policy and Development ------Department of Economic and Social Affairs Country of applicant institution: Any Room DC2-1454 2 UN Plaza Disciplines New York ------NY 10017 Law; Health Systems; Population Studies; Email: [email protected] Environmental Science; Cultural Studies;
NTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND Society for General Microbiology I
Description: The Society for General Microbiology invites subscriptions years and who are resident in a applications for its international development low- or lower-middle-income country may fund. This supports microbiologists in low- also apply. Awards are worth up to £4,000 and lower-middle-income economies to travel each. to laboratories in countries where microbiology is inadequately developed but where further development may assist Closing date: 01 Oct 16 education or the economy of these countries, Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 or to purchase consumables or small pieces of October 2016, 1 April 2017, and repeated equipment which are essential for such annually. training purposes. Posted date: 11 Apr 16 Award type: Travel for research purposes, Applications are open to full or full Networking/collaboration, Institutional concessionary members who have made at development, Directed grants for individual least two consecutive membership investigators, Equipment and materials subscription payments. International associate Award amount max: £4,000 members who have been members for two Award amount min: -
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Award budget total: - Microbiology Website: http://www.sgm.ac.uk/en/grants- prizes/all-grants.cfm/international- Contact Details development-fund ------Grants Office Eligibility profile Microbiology Society ------Charles Darwin House Country of applicant institution: United 12 Roger Street Kingdom, Ireland London Country of applicant institution: Lower- WC1N 2JU Middle-Income countries, Low Income Tel: +44 20 7685 2698 countries Email: [email protected]
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LINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME International Society of Nephrology C
Description: The International Society of Nephrology The top three projects in each round will invites applications for its clinical research receive between US$10,000 and US$20,000. programme. This supports research and intervention studies related to chronic kidney disease and its risk factors. Closing date: 01 Oct 16 The following activities may receive support: Deadline information: Application form screening and intervention studies – opens in January, with proposals due by identifying the individuals at high risk 10pm CET, 1 May and 1 October annually. for chronic kidney disease by Posted date: 26 Nov 15 screening programmes; Award type: Clinical trials, Directed grants clinical research studies addressing to institutions, research groups etc specific local needs – small clinical Award amount max: USD 20,000 research projects aimed at addressing Award amount min: USD 10,000 specific needs at regional or country Website: level. http://www.theisn.org/programs/clinical- research-program
Application form: http://cr.theisn.org/ Each project leader must be a member of ISN based at a nationally recognised institution, Eligibility profile and the project must be conducted in a low------or middle-income country, with preference Country of applicant institution: Lower- given to projects in least-developed countries. Middle-Income countries, Low Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries
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Disciplines Global Operations Center ------Rue des Fabriques 1 Nephrology & Kidneys 1000 Brussels Fax: +32 2 808 0420 Contact Details Tel: +32 2 808 4454 ------Email: [email protected] ISN
NGA-BRITT LINDSTRÖM GRANT AWARD Sveriges Arbetsterapeuter – Swedish Association of Occupational Therapists I
Description: The Swedish Association of Occupational Award type: Directed grants for individual Therapists invites applications for the Inga- investigators, Travel to conferences, Britt Lindström grant award. This supports meetings etc., Travel for research purposes, the development of occupational therapy in Directed grants to institutions, research the applicant’s native country. The grant groups etc should supplement in part the costs Award amount max: SEK 10,000 associated with activities such as: Award amount min: - participation in occupational therapy Award budget total: - workshops, seminars, conferences or Website: congresses in Sweden; http://www.fsa.akademikerhuset.se/Om- study visits or auscultation in Sweden forbundet/Other-languages/English/Inga- Britt-Lindstrom-grant-award/ aimed at gathering extensive Application form: knowledge of occupational therapy http://www.arbetsterapeuterna.se/Global/O practice; m_forbundet/Kalenderium/Lindström%20Gr studies in Sweden at the doctorate or ant%20Award%20Aplication%20Form.docx masters level related to research and education in occupational therapy; Eligibility profile presenting an abstract at Council of ------Occupational Therapists for European Country of applicant institution: Any Countries or World Federation of Occupational Therapists congresses. Disciplines ------The grant is worth SEK 10,000 per year. Occupational Therapy
Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 02 Aug 16
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NDIVIDUAL POSTDOC GRANTS Velux Foundations I
Description: Villum Foundation, under Velux encouraged. The grant is accompanied by a 5 Foundations, together with the University of per cent contribution to overhead. Southern Denmark, invite applications for their individual postdoc grants. These support researchers in conducting postdoctoral Closing date: 01 Oct 16 research in technology and science at Danish Deadline information: This call is repeated or international universities. once a year. Posted date: 19 Aug 16 Applicants with Danish citizenship, who at Award type: Directed grants for individual the time of application are employed at an investigators, Travel for research purposes, international institution must use the grant at Financial aid for postgraduate students a Danish institution. Danish citizens Award amount max: - employed at a Danish institution must use the Award amount min: - grants at an international institution or Award budget total: DKK 20,000,000 another Danish institution. International Website: applicants must reside at a Danish research https://ssl1.peoplexs.com/Peoplexs22/Candid institution during the funding period and atesPortalNoLogin/Vacancy.cfm?PortalID=3 795&VacatureID=849171 must not have been employed or studied in Application form: Denmark for the past two years. Research https://ssl1.peoplexs.com/Peoplexs22/Candid should be carried out at a different institution atesPortalNoLogin/ApplicationForm.cfm?Po from where the PhD was completed. rtalID=3795&VacatureID=849171
Applicants must have received their PhD at Eligibility profile the latest by the time they wish to begin the ------project and no more than three years may Country of applicant institution: Any have passed since they were awarded their PhD. Disciplines ------Funding for stays at Danish research Soil Sciences; Food Science; Physical Sciences institutions is worth DKK 50,000 annually for and Engineering; Biological Sciences between one and three years. Funding for stays at international institutions is worth up Contact Details to DKK 75,000 annually for one to three years. ------Co-financing from the host institution is Tel: +45 6550 2081 Email: [email protected]
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UBERT H HUMPHREY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME Embassy of the US H
Description: The Embassy of the United States in South Applicants must have five years of substantial Africa invites applications for the Hubert H professional experience. They must be Sub- Humphrey fellowship programme. Saharan African citizens. Fellowships enable young and mid-level Fellowships include air travel, tuition and professionals interested in strengthening their university fees, English language training, leadership skills through a mutual exchange living allowance, and accident and sickness of knowledge and understanding about issues coverage. of common concern in the US and Sub- Saharan Africa. Fellowship offers valuable Closing date: 01 Oct 16 opportunities for professional development Deadline information: Application through selected university courses, attending deadlines vary by country; the nominating conferences, networking, and practical work US embassy or binational Fulbright experiences. Fellowships are available in the Commission will advise candidates of their following fields: internal deadlines for receiving applications. agricultural and rural development; Embassies and Commissions must submit communications and journalism; nominations by 1 October 2016. economic development; Posted date: 27 Jul 16 Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings educational administration, planning etc., Personal development, Directed grants and policy; for individual investigators, Mid-Career finance and banking; fellowships, Travel for research purposes, higher education administration; Networking/collaboration teaching English as a foreign language Award amount max: - HIV/Aids policy and prevention; Award amount min: - human resource management; Award budget total: - law and human rights; Website: natural resources, environmental https://www.humphreyfellowship.org/how- policy and climate change; apply-humphrey-fellowship-program public health policy and management; Application form: public policy analysis and public https://apply.embark.com/student/humphrey administration; /fellowship/ substance abuse education, treatment and prevention; Eligibility profile teaching English as a foreign ------language; Country of applicant institution: Sub-Saharan technology policy and management; Africa trafficking in persons policy and Disciplines prevention; ------ urban and regional planning; Accounting & Finance; Economic trafficking in persons policy and Development; Use & Management of Natural prevention; Resources; Drug & Substance Abuse; Public technology policy and management. Administration; English as a Second
Language; Civil & Human Rights; Health
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Systems, Administration; Health Promotion; Development; Human Trafficking; Health Health Education; Law; Schools Policy & Systems Policy; Foreign Languages Politics; Urban Planning & Policy; Innovation Education; Higher Education Management & Technology Management; Human Resource Management; Communication & Media Contact Details Studies; Agriculture in Developing Countries; ------Higher Education Policy & Politics; Embassy of the US HIV/Aids; Regional Planning & Policy; Rural Email: [email protected]
CADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND Society for Reproduction and Fertility A
Description: The Society for Reproduction and Fertility Award amount min: - invites applications for its academic Award budget total: - scholarship fund. This aims to support society Website: http://srf-reproduction.org/grants- members in developing and maintaining their awards/grants/academic-scholarship-fund/ research programmes. Types of activities Application form: http://www.srf- supported include small pump-priming reproduction.org/Grants/SRFAcademicSchol grants to generate preliminary data for full arship/AccademicScholarshipApplicationFor grant proposals, travel and subsistence for a m.aspx period of sabbatical leave and bridging funds to help retain staff. Eligibility profile ------The applicant must be a current, active, fully Country of applicant institution: Any paid member of the society and have been a member for at least five continuous years. Disciplines They must have an academic post for the ------duration of the award. Reproduction & Fertility; Reproductive The maximum amount awarded will be Medicine £10,000. Awards will be paid to the applicant’s institution. Contact Details ------Closing date: 01 Oct 16 SRF Secretariat Deadline information: This call is repeated c/o The Conference Collective Ltd once a year. 8 Waldegrave Road Posted date: 05 Feb 16 Teddington Award type: Directed grants for individual Middlesex TW11 8GT investigators, Travel for research purposes Tel: +44 20 8977 7997 Award amount max: £10,000 Email: [email protected]
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LF NACHEMSON EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE GRANT Scoliosis Research Society A
Description: The Scoliosis Research Society invites This grant is awarded a maximum of applications for its Alf Nachemson evidence US$25,000 per year for up to two years, the based medicine grant grant. These awards are maximum total award being US$50,000. given to studies that aim to provide the best available evidence by which to improve our Closing date: 01 Oct 16 knowledge and practice in the care of patients Deadline information: with spinal deformities. Applicants do not Posted date: 09 Nov 12 need to be members of the society to apply. Award type: Directed grants for individual These applications require evidence that the investigators, Directed grants to institutions, investigator has the appropriate experience research groups etc and resources. Award amount max: USD 50,000 Award amount min: - The society has identified the following areas Award budget total: - as important research topics: Website: http://www.srs.org/research/ evidence based medicine; Application form: https://srs.execinc.com/edibo/Grants idiopathic scoliosis;
aetiology; Eligibility profile non-op and operative treatment; ------ 3D deformity of the spine and thorax; Country of applicant institution: Any adult deformity; treatment and outcomes; Disciplines osteoporosis, in particular ------osteoporotic spine fractures, its impact Pathogenesis; General Practice & Family on scoliosis kyphosis management, Health; Clinical Medicine; Muscle Diseases; and how it relates to spinal deformity General Surgery; Physiology; Chiropractic; and instrumentation; Allied Health Professions; Orthopaedic early onset scoliosis treatment; Surgery; Primary Care; Counselling & Talking sagittal imbalance; Therapies; Diagnostic Sciences; congenital scoliosis; Musculoskeletal System; Public Health, neuromuscular spinal deformity; Health Services & Primary Care; Osteoporosis deformity and reconstruction arising & Other Bone Diseases from spine and sacral tumour treatment; Contact Details thoracic insufficiency associated with ------spinal deformity in children; Scoliosis Research Society pulmonary outcome sequeallae 555 East Wells Street, suite 1100 following common natural history of Milwaukee, WI 53202-3823 spine deformity and treatment Fax: +1 414 289 9107 history. Tel: +1 414 276 3349 Email: [email protected]
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ESEARCH GROUP PROJECT PROPOSALS Bielefeld University R
Description: Bielefeld University’s Center for Award amount max: €500,000 Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) invites Award amount min: - proposals for its research groups funding. Award budget total: - This supports the establishment of Website: http://www.uni- interdisciplinary research groups in the bielefeld.de/ZIF/Foerderung/fg.html natural sciences, humanities or social sciences. Fellows reside at the ZiF and work together Eligibility profile on a broader research theme. Scholars from ------any country are eligible to apply. Country of applicant institution: Any
Projects with a five-month duration may Disciplines receive up to €250,000 and projects with a 10------month duration may receive up to €500,000. Biological Sciences; Physical Sciences; Social ZiF also provides a research assistant, Sciences; Humanities accommodation and conference facilities. Contact Details Closing date: 01 Oct 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Bielefeld University once a year. ZiF Posted date: 29 Jan 16 Methoden 1 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, 33615 Bielefeld research groups etc, Tel: +49 521 106 2795 Networking/collaboration, Hosting Email: [email protected] conferences
NTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE AWARD Pathological Society of Great Britain & Ireland I
Description: The Pathological Society of Great Britain & Kong, together with members of the society. Ireland invites applications for its Funds may be used to develop a new international collaborative award. This collaborative partnership or further promotes collaboration in any area of tissue- strengthen an existing one. based pathological research between members of pathology institutions from any country, Each application must include two applicants excluding the UK, Ireland, China and Hong who must be from two separate institutions,
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such as one from the UK or Ireland and the Country of applicant institution: United Arab other from another country. The lead Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, applicant of the UK or Irish partner must be a Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, member of the society in good sanding for at Bhutan, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas least one year. Each candidate must be Island, Cyprus, Georgia, Indonesia, Israel, committed to tissue-based research. India, British Indian Ocean Territory, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Jordan, Japan, The award is worth up to £10,000, normally Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Korea, Democratic over a one-year period. It supports travel People's Republic of, Korea, Republic of, costs for individuals, laboratory running costs Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lao People's Democratic for project work and transport costs related to Republic, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, research samples. Mongolia, Macao, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Qatar, Russian Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syrian Deadline information: This call is repeated Arab Republic, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor- once a year. Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Posted date: 19 Jan 16 Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, All African Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Nations, All European Nations, All South research groups etc, American nations, All Oceanian nations, All Networking/collaboration, Travel for North American nations research purposes Award amount max: £10,000 Disciplines Award amount min: ------Award budget total: £10,000 Pathology Website: http://www.pathsoc.org/index.php/grants- Contact Details lectures-awards/research------grants/international-collaborative-grant- 1 Northumberland Avenue scheme London WC2N 5BW
Tel: +44 20 7872 5750 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------
ROGRAMME GRANTS Fragile X Research Foundation of Canada P
Description: The Fragile X Research Foundation of Canada The aim is to promote research that seeks to invites applications for its programme grants. find a specific treatment for the syndrome. These support advanced translational, Preference is given to projects that have a preclinical and clinical research in fragile X clear practical application and the results of syndrome.
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which can be shared with other qualified research groups etc, Equipment and researchers in a timely fashion. materials, Innovation grants Applying institutions must be exempt from Award amount max: CAD 65,000 federal income taxes. Preference given to Website: institutions within Canada. http://www.fragilexcanada.ca/index.php?id= 123,0,0,1,0,0 Grants are worth up to CA$65,000 over a one- year period, but they may be renewed for a Eligibility profile second year based on satisfactory process. ------Funds may be used to cover the payment of Country of applicant institution: Any the principal investigator, research assistants, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, Disciplines technicians and supplies. ------Intellectual Disabilities; Genetic Diseases; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Learning Closing date: 01 Oct 16 (Forecast) Difficulties Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Fax: +1 905 453 9366 Posted date: 22 Jun 15 Tel: +1 905 453 0095 Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH AND CREATION GRANTS TO FILM AND VIDEO ARTISTS Canada Council for the Arts – Conseil des Arts du Canada R
Description: The Canada Council for the Arts invites Grants are worth between CA$3,000 and applications for its research and creation CA$60,000 each for established and mid- grants to film and video artists. These support career artists and between CA$3,000 and creative renewal, experimentation, CA$20,000 each for emerging artists. professional development and research in the field of cinematographic or videographic Closing date: 01 Oct 16 practice. The grants enable artists to Deadline information: If a deadline falls on concentrate full-time on a programme of work a weekend or statutory holiday, applications for a specific period of time. are due the next business day. Posted date: 01 Apr 16 Established, mid-career and emerging artists Award type: Equipment and materials, are welcome to apply. Applicants must be Travel for research purposes, Personal Canadian citizens or persons with permanent development, Directed grants for individual resident status, but do not have to be living in investigators, Publish, edit, translate, Canada when applying. disseminate
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Award amount max: CAD 60,000 Eligibility profile Award amount min: CAD 3,000 ------Award budget total: - Country of applicant institution: Any Website: http://canadacouncil.ca/en/council/grants/fin Disciplines d-a-grant/grants/grants-to-film-and-video------artists-scriptwriting-grants-production- Film grants-research-creation-grants Contact Details Application form: ------https://go.canadacouncil.ca/index.aspx?l=e Tel: +1 613 566 4414 ext 5254
RANTS TO NEW MEDIA AND AUDIO ARTISTS – RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION Canada Council for the Arts – Conseil des Arts du Canada G
Description: The Canada Council for the Arts invites applicants, up to CA$60,000 each for applications for its research and production mid-career and established applicants grants for new media and audio artists. These in new media, and up to CA$35,000 assist Canadian artists with the costs of each for mid-career and established research, creative development and applicants in audio. production of artworks created with new media or audio technologies. Eligible projects Closing date: 01 Oct 16 may be in the form of works integrating Deadline information: If a deadline falls on technology or robotics, audio artworks, a weekend or statutory holiday, applications installations, performances, immersive are due the next business day. environments, web art, VJing, sound Posted date: 01 Apr 16 sculptures or soundscapes, radiophonic or Award type: Equipment and materials, electronic art and interactive works. Directed grants for individual investigators, Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Travel Established, mid-career and emerging artists for research purposes, Innovation grants, are welcome to apply. Applicants must be Technology innovation/development Canadian citizens or persons with permanent Award amount max: CAD 60,000 resident status, but do not have to be living in Award amount min: CAD 3,000 Canada when applying. Grants are available Award budget total: - Website: in the following two streams: http://canadacouncil.ca/en/council/grants/fin research grants for mid-career or d-a-grant/grants/grants-to-new-media-and- established applicants, worth between audio-artists-research-and-production-grants CA$3,000 and CA$20,000 each; Application form: production grants, worth up to https://go.canadacouncil.ca/index.aspx?l=e CA$20,000 each for emerging
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Sound Processing & Recording; Visual Arts; Eligibility profile Digital & Interaction Design; Installation Art; ------Design Innovation; Digital & Computer Art Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Disciplines ------Tel: +1 613 566 4414 ext 5254 Email: [email protected]
EW MEDIA RESIDENCIES Canada Council for the Arts – Conseil des Arts du Canada N
Description: The Canada Council for the Arts invites Deadline information: If a deadline falls on applications under its new media residencies a weekend or statutory holiday, applications programme. This enables organisations to are due the next business day. host an artist or a group of up to three artists Posted date: 04 Apr 16 working on projects related to new media. Award type: Innovation grants, Directed The programme has two components: grants to institutions, research groups etc, research residencies and production Networking/collaboration, Directed grants residencies. for individual investigators, Hosting visits Award amount max: CAD 60,000 Host organisations may include research Website: facilities, technology centres, media http://canadacouncil.ca/en/council/grants/fin laboratories, postsecondary educational d-a-grant/grants/new-media-residencies institutions, private companies or science Eligibility profile museums. They may be located in Canada or ------elsewhere. Guest artists must be Canadian Country of applicant institution: Any citizens or have permanent resident status at the time of the application deadline, but do Disciplines not have to be living in Canada when the host ------organisation submits the application. Media Studies; Interactive Media;
Photography & other Lens-based Art; Digital Grants are worth up to CA$30,000 each for & Computer Art; Installation Art; research residencies and up to CA$60,000 Interdisciplinary Art each for production residencies. There is no minimum duration for the proposed Contact Details residency but residencies of three months or ------more are encouraged. Tel: +1 613 566 4414 ext 5254
Email: [email protected] Closing date: 01 Oct 16
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ROJECT GRANTS TO VISUAL ARTISTS Canada Council for the Arts – Conseil des Arts du Canada P
Description: The Canada Council for the Arts invites are due on the next business day. This call is applications for its project grants to visual repeated once a year. artists. These support professional visual Posted date: 07 Jun 16 artists who are pursuing independent Award type: Directed grants for individual research periods or the creation and investigators, Networking/collaboration, production of artworks for public exhibitions Equipment and materials, Publish, edit, in Canada and abroad. translate, disseminate, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. Applicants must be Canadian citizens or Award amount max: CAD 20,000 permanent residents, but do not need to be Website: living in Canada at the time of application. http://canadacouncil.ca/en/council/grants/fin They must be professional visual artists who d-a-grant/grants/project-grants-to-visual- have produced an independent body of work, artists Application form: had at least three public exhibitions of work https://go.canadacouncil.ca/index.aspx?l=e over a three-year period, and have maintained an independent professional practice for at Eligibility profile least three years after specialised training. ------Artists may submit collaborative applications Country of applicant institution: Any as two or three visual artists working together on a long-term basis. Disciplines
------Grants are worth up to CA$20,000 each to Visual Arts cover artists’ subsistence costs and direct project expenses. Contact Details
------Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Tel: +1 613 566 4414 ext 5094 Deadline information: If a deadline falls on Email: [email protected] a weekend or statutory holiday, applications
OSTGRADUATE RESEARCH FUNDING Douglas Bomford Trust P
Description: The Douglas Bomford Trust invites understanding, practice, competence and applications for its postgraduate research capability in the application of engineering funding. This aims to advance knowledge, and physical science to agriculture,
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horticulture, forestry, amenity and land based Country of applicant institution: United and biological activities for the benefit of the Kingdom environment and mankind. Country of applicant institution: Any Applicants should have a connection to the UK either through residency, nationality or Disciplines place of education. Applications requesting ------over £1,500 will be considered. Civil Engineering; Horticultural & Crop Production; Agricultural Engineering; Environmental Manufacturing; Forestry Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Science (Silvology); Manufacturing & Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 Industrial Engineering; Plant Physiology; October 2016, 1 March 2017, and repeated Evolutionary Adaptation & Variation; annually. Agriculture; Environmental Impact Posted date: 05 Jun 14 Assessment; Forest Engineering; Award type: Directed grants for individual Environmental Engineering; Materials investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate Sciences; Metallurgy; Sanitary Engineering & students Sewage Systems; Food Engineering & Award amount max: - Technology; Agroforestry; Environmental Award amount min: £1,500 Technology; Environmental Science; Award budget total: - Hazardous Materials & Waste; Transportation Website: Engineering; Food Science; Mechanical http://www.dbt.org.uk/postgraduatefunding Engineering; Chemical Engineering; Forest Application form: Ecology; Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; http://www.dbt.org.uk/sites/dbt.org.uk/files/ Aquaculture Engineering docs/Application%20form.doc
Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Email: [email protected]
ACK KIMMEL INTERNATIONAL GRANT PROGRAMME TREE Fund J
Description: The Canadian TREE Fund, in collaboration risk assessment and worker safety; with TREE Fund, invites applications for the urban forestry. Jack Kimmel international grant programme. This supports research into arboriculture and Investigators worldwide are eligible to apply. urban forestry. Proposals in the following Grants are worth up to CA$10,000 each over areas are given priority: one to three years. TREE Fund requires a root and soil management; match of at least 10% cash or in-kind. A propagation, planting and maximum of one award may be granted per establishment; project. plant health care;
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Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 11 Nov 15 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Disciplines research groups etc, Directed grants for ------individual investigators Forestry Science (Silvology); Urban Design Award amount max: CAD 10,000 Award amount min: - Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: TREE Fund http://www.treefund.org/grants/research- 552 S. Washington St., Suite 109 grants/kimmel Naperville, IL 60540 Application form: Tel: +1 630 369 8300 https://app.wizehive.com/appform/login/tfki Email: [email protected] mmel2016
IGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL/AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF DIABETES EDUCATORS GRANT S Sigma Theta Tau International
Description: Sigma Theta Tau International and the Posted date: 16 Mar 15 American Association of Diabetes Educators Award type: Directed grants for individual invite applications for their research grant. investigators This aims to encourage qualified nurses to Award amount max: USD 6,000 contribute to the enhancement and Award amount min: - availability of quality diabetes education and Award budget total: - care through nursing research. Website: http://www.nursingsociety.org/advance- The principal investigator must be a elevate/research/research-grants/american- registered nurse and hold a master’s degree. association-of-diabetes-educators-(aade)- Team members may be from other disciplines. grant Preference will be given to Sigma Theta Tau International members, other qualifications Eligibility profile being equal. The grant is worth up to ------US$6,000. Country of applicant institution: Any
Disciplines Closing date: 01 Oct 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Nursing; Diabetes approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year.
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Contact Details Chicago, IL 60606 ------Tel: +1 312 424 2427 AADE Foundation Grants Email: [email protected]. 100 West Monroe Street, Suite 800
EXUAL VIOLENCE RESEARCH INITIATIVE GRANTS South African Medical Research Council S
Description The South African Medical Research Council, Award budget total: USD 1,050,000 in collaboration with the World Bank Group, Website: http://www.svri.org/news/world- invites applications for grants under the bank-sexual-violence-research-initiative- sexual violence research initiative. These aim make-new-awards-innovation-preventing- to support research and activities that will gender contribute to the prevention and response of Application form: gender-based violence in low and middle https://proposalcentral.altum.com/ income countries. Eligibility profile Awards will only be made to institutions and ------not to individuals. All non-profit Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, organisations, including academic, research, Albania, Armenia, Angola, American Samoa, NGOs may apply. All organisations based in Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, LMICs, as classified by the World Bank, and Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Burundi, organisations not based in LMICs but Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Bhutan, Botswana, working in such countries with local partners Belarus, Belize, Congo, the Democratic may apply. Republic of the, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, China, The total budget is USD 1.05 million. Grants Colombia, Costa Rica, Serbia, Cuba, Cape are worth between USD 100,000 and USD Verde, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican 150,000 each over two years. Each Republic, Algeria, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, organisation may submit a maximum of two Ethiopia, Fiji, Micronesia, Federated States of, applications but no organisation will receive Gabon, Grenada, Georgia, Ghana, Gambia, more than one award. Guinea, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Iran, Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Islamic Republic of, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Deadline information: Applications due by Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, 12 midnight South African time. Korea, Democratic People's Republic of, Posted date: 22 Jul 16 Kazakhstan, Lao People's Democratic Award type: Development Republic, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Moldova, institutions, research groups etc Republic of, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, Award amount max: USD 150,000 Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, Award amount min: USD 100,000 Mali, Myanmar, Mongolia, Mauritania,
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Mauritius, Maldives, Malawi, Mexico, and the Grenadines, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Samoa, Yemen, Mayotte, South Africa, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Nepal, Panama, Peru, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kosovo, South Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pakistan, Montenegro Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Palau, Paraguay, Romania, Rwanda, Solomon Disciplines Islands, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, ------Somalia, Suriname, Sao Tome and Principe, El Violence & Violent Crime; Rape, Sex Crimes Salvador, Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, & Sexual Abuse Chad, Togo, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor- Leste, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, Contact Details Tuvalu, Tanzania, United Republic of, ------Ukraine, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Saint Vincent Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH TRAINING GRANTS Socio-Legal Studies Association R
Description: The Socio-Legal Studies Association invites Award type: Directed grants for individual applications for its research training grants. investigators, Personal development These support training in social science Award budget total: - research methods and the use of data analysis Website: software, such as SPSS or NVivo. http://www.slsa.ac.uk/index.php/prizes- grants-and-seminars/research-methods- Members of the association may apply. They training-bursaries should be early or mid-career researchers, who do not possess but wish to acquire these Eligibility profile methodological skills, and do not have access ------to sources of institutional support to do so. Country of applicant institution: Any
Funding covers the cost of attendance at a Disciplines relevant training course offered by an ------established provider. Research Methods in Sociology; Sociolegal Studies
Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 08 Jun 16
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ENTORING AWARDS Socio-Legal Studies Association M
Description: The Socio-Legal Studies Association invites Award amount max: - applications for its mentoring awards. These Award amount min: - enable members to visit and spend up to a Award budget total: - week working with a chosen socio-legal Website: mentor. http://www.slsa.ac.uk/index.php/prizes- grants-and-seminars/mentorship-scheme Members of the association, who do not have access to sources of institutional support for Eligibility profile the visit, may apply. Funding covers travel ------and accommodation costs. Country of applicant institution: Any
Disciplines Closing date: 01 Oct 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Sociolegal Studies once a year. Posted date: 08 Jun 16 Contact Details Award type: Travel for research purposes, ------Networking/collaboration, Personal Email: [email protected] development
DUCATIONAL AMBASSADORS PROGRAMME International Society of Nephrology E
Description: The International Society of Nephrology have active faculty appointments at invites applications for its educational accredited institutions and be ISN members. ambassador’s programme. This enables The grant will cover travel, accommodation centres in the emerging world to invite an and cost of living for the educational expert to come and train local doctors in acute ambassador, for one to four weeks. and chronic dialysis, renal pathology, chronic kidney disease management, and initiate and develop community based research and Closing date: 01 Oct 16 screening programmes. Deadline information: Deadlines on: 6 June 2016, 1 October 2016. Emerging centres, represented by an ISN Posted date: 15 Apr 16 member, may apply. Ambassadors must be Award type: Directed grants to institutions, experts in a defined area of renal medicine, research groups etc, Hosting visits,
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Development (Africa/Caribbean), Country of applicant institution: Lower- Networking/collaboration Middle-Income countries, Low Income Award amount max: - countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries Award amount min: - Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: ------http://www.theisn.org/programs/educational Nephrology & Kidneys -ambassadors-program-contact Application form: http://ea.theisn.org/ Contact Details ------Eligibility profile Fax: +32 2 808 04 20 ------Tel: +32 2 808 44 54 Email: [email protected]
ANIDA MARKET DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS Udenrigsministeriet – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark D
Description: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark The programme is available in Denmark’s invites applications for its Danida market priority countries and in countries with a GNI development partnerships. These support per capita below the World Bank limit of commercially oriented partnerships for lower income countries with a Danish sustainable market development in representation. developing countries that contribute to the achievement of the global goals with The overall budget is worth DKK41 million. participation from civil society organisations, Five to six projects will be funded with private business, academia and government between DKK5m and DKK8m each, which institutions. Activities may include training may cover up to 75 per cent of total project and capacity building, development of new costs. In total partnership projects will receive norms and standards, promotion of DKK38m, DKK1.5m will go to technical responsible business conduct, organisation of support to programme implementation, local producers and stakeholders, adaptation DKK500,000 will go to monitoring and review of innovative technologies and approaches, and DKK1m is set aside for communication provision of minor investments for enhancing on project activities and results. productivity or introduction of environmental technologies. Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Partnerships must consist of at least one Deadline information: company and one non-commercial partner Posted date: 20 Jun 16 from civil society, private business, Award type: Directed grants to institutions, government institutions, academia and other research groups etc, Academic-Industry institutions at national and international level. links, Research calls for business, Networking/collaboration, Directed grants
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for individual investigators, Development Mali, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, (Africa/Caribbean) Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Award amount max: - Somalia, Tanzania, United Republic of, Award amount min: - Ukraine, Uganda, Vietnam, South Sudan Award budget total: DKK 41,000,000 Website: http://um.dk/da/danida/danida- Disciplines business/danida-market-development------partnerships Development Studies; Sustainable Application form: Development & Resource Use http://um.dk/~/media/UM/English- site/Documents/Danida/Activities/Business/ Contact Details Danida%20Market%20Development%20Part ------nerships/DMDP%20APPLICATION%20FO Kontor for Vækst, Beskæftigelse og RM%20-%20Concept%20Note%20- Erhvervsudvikling %20final.docx?la=da Udenrigsministeriet
Asiatisk Plads 2 Eligibility profile 1448 København K ------Tel: +45 3392 0000 Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, Email: [email protected] Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, India, Kenya, Morocco,
RANTS FOR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES International Society of Blood Transfusion G
Description: The International Society of Blood Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Transfusion Academy, on behalf of the Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 International Society of Blood Transfusion October 2016, 1 April 2017. Foundation, invites applications for its Posted date: 30 Jun 16 educational activity grants. These support Award type: Directed grants to institutions, educational activities, such as workshops or research groups etc, Hosting conferences activities in association with a national Award amount max: €10,000 meeting or international symposium or Award amount min: - congress, relating to the practice of Award budget total: - transfusion medicine and allied fields all over Website: the globe. http://www.isbtweb.org/knowledge- education/ Educational activities with a special focus on Application form: http://www.isbtweb.org/fileadmin/user_uplo areas of low and medium human ad/ISBT_Academy_Application_form_for_fu development are prioritised. Events must host ll_support.pdf at least two speakers who are ISBT members.
Funding is worth up to €10,000.
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Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any Stichting van The International Society of Blood Transfusion Disciplines Marnixstraat 317 ------1016 TB Amsterdam Haematology; Blood, Blood Products & Transfusions
ISTER RENAL CENTRES PROGRAMME International Society of Nephrology S
Description: The International Society of Nephrology Closing date: 01 Oct 16 invites applications for its sister renal centres Deadline information: This call is repeated programme. This supports the establishment once a year. of partnerships between two nephrology Posted date: 11 Aug 16 centres, one in emerging countries and one in Award type: Directed grants to institutions, the developed world. The programme aims to research groups etc, Travel for research improve how nephrology is practised in purposes, Institutional development, emerging countries. There are three different Development (Africa/Caribbean), stages to the programme, each which need to Networking/collaboration be applied for separately: Award amount max: USD 57,000 level C – funding for setting up of the Award amount min: - partnership to develop and support Award budget total: - Website: training links, worth up to USD 1,500 http://www.theisn.org/programs/sister-renal- annually over two years; centers-program level B – funding to establish the Application form: partnership further, worth USD 12,000 http://www.theisn.org/images/SRC/TEMPLA annually over two years; TE_Application_form_for_new_pairs.doc level A – funding to develop the emerging sister centres into centres of Eligibility profile excellence in their region, worth USD ------15,000 annually over two years. Country of applicant institution: Any
Any two renal centres or units may form a Disciplines partnership and apply, if at least one centre is ------in the developed world and both are chaired Nephrology & Kidneys; Urology or run by an ISN member. The total funding period may be up to six Contact Details years. ------Rue des Fabriques 1
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1000 Brussels Tel: +32 2 808 4454 Fax: +32 2 808 0420 Email: [email protected]
ISTER TRANSPLANT CENTRES International Society of Nephrology S
Description: The International Society of Nephrology, Deadline information: This call is repeated together with the Transplantation Society, once a year. invite applications for their sister transplant Posted date: 11 Aug 16 centres programme. This supports the Award type: Networking/collaboration, establishment of partnerships between two Development (Africa/Caribbean), Directed kidney transplant centres, one in emerging grants to institutions, research groups etc, countries and one in the developed world. Institutional development, Travel for The programme aims to create new kidney research purposes transplant centres and develop existing Award amount max: - kidney transplant programmes in emerging Award amount min: - countries and facilitate multidisciplinary Award budget total: - training and knowledge exchange. There are Website: three different stages to the programme, each http://www.theisn.org/programs/sister- transplant-centers-program which need to be applied for separately: Application form: level C – funding for setting up of the http://www.theisn.org/images/ISN_TTS_ST partnership to develop and support C_Application_form.doc training links, worth up to USD 1,500
annually over two years; Eligibility profile level B – funding to establish the ------partnership further, worth USD 12,000 Country of applicant institution: Any annually over two years; level A – funding to develop the Disciplines emerging sister centres into centres of ------excellence in their region, worth USD Nephrology & Kidneys; Organ 15,000 annually over two years. Transplantation
Applications are invited from partnerships Contact Details between an experienced transplant centre in ------the developed world and one emerging Rue des Fabriques 1 transplant centre. 1000 Brussels The total funding period may be up to six Fax: +32 2 808 0420 years. Tel: +32 2 808 4454 Email: [email protected] Closing date: 01 Oct 16
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NGAGEMENT GRANTS Palaeontological Association E
Description: The Palaeontological Association invites Deadline information: Applications due by applications for its engagement grants. These 11.59pm. encourage educational outreach, public Posted date: 22 Aug 16 engagement and related initiatives in Award type: Innovation grants, Publish, paleontological themes. Grants may support edit, translate, disseminate, Directed grants stand-alone complete projects or ‘proof of for individual investigators, Directed grants concept’ case studies that have their own to institutions, research groups etc outcomes but form the groundwork for a Award amount max: £15,000 larger bid elsewhere. Award amount min: - Award budget total: - The principal applicant must be a member of Application form: http://palass.org/awards- the association. Preference is given to grants/grants/engagement-grant-application- applicants who have not won the award form previously. Eligibility profile
------Grants are usually worth up to £5,000 but a Country of applicant institution: Any budget worth up to £15,000 may be considered in exceptional cases. They may be Disciplines used for salaries but not for student fees, core ------funding for institutions, individual items of Palaeontology & Palynology equipment worth over £1,000 or other capital expenditure. Contact Details
------Closing date: 01 Oct 16 Email: [email protected]
ROJECT GRANTS Nordic Culture Fund – Nordisk Kulturfond P
Description: The Nordic Culture Fund invites applications Anybody is eligible to apply including for its project grants. These aim to further operators from outside the Nordic region, but cultural collaboration and networking projects must involve at least three Nordic between Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway countries or autonomous areas and have a and Sweden as well as Åland, Greenland and clear Nordic focus. the Faroe Islands.
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Grants are worth up to DKK500,000, however, projects should as a minimum be co-financed Eligibility profile by 50 per cent and the total amount applied ------for by Nordic schemes may not exceed 85 per Country of applicant institution: Any cent. Projects may run for the year in which Country of applicant institution: Denmark, the support is granted and the two Finland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, subsequent calendar years. Sweden, Greenland, Åland Islands
Closing date: 03 Oct 16 Disciplines Deadline information: Applications due by ------12 noon CET. Deadlines on: 1 February 2016, Arts 2 May 2016, 3 October 2016. Posted date: 25 Jan 16 Contact Details Award type: Networking/collaboration, ------Directed grants to institutions, research Nordic Culture Fund groups etc, Directed grants for individual Ved Stranden 18 investigators, Hosting visits 1061 København K Award amount max: DKK 500,000 Tel: +45 3396 0200 Website: http://www.nordiskkulturfond.org/ Email: [email protected] Application form: https://projekt.nordiskkulturfond.org/
AS AWARD IN CHEMICAL SCIENCES National Academies N
Description: The National Academies invites nominations Website: for its award in chemical sciences. This http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/ recognises innovative research in the chemical chemical-sciences.html sciences that contributes to a better Application form: understanding of the natural sciences and to https://awards.nasonline.org/ the benefit of humanity. The award is worth USD 15,000. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 03 Oct 16 Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: Nominations due by 11.59pm EDT. This call is repeated once a Disciplines year. ------Posted date: 21 Jul 16 Organic Chemistry; Chemistry Award type: Innovation grants, Directed grants for individual investigators, Prizes Contact Details Award amount max: USD 15,000 ------Email: [email protected]
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AS AWARD FOR THE INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF SCIENCE National Academies N
Description: The National Academies invites nominations Application form: for its award for the industrial application of https://awards.nasonline.org/ science. This recognizes original scientific work of intrinsic scientific importance which Eligibility profile has significant beneficial applications in ------industry. The prize is worth USD 25,000. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 03 Oct 16 Disciplines Deadline information: Submissions are due ------by 11.59 pm EDT. Energy Engineering; Environmental Science; Posted date: 21 Jul 16 Industrial Organization in Economics; Energy Award type: Prizes, Directed grants for Consumption individual investigators Award amount max: USD 25,000 Contact Details Website: ------http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/i Email: [email protected] ndustrial-application-of-science.html
EED AWARDS IN SCIENCE Wellcome Trust S
Description: The Wellcome Trust invites applications for expected to have completed a PhD or its seed awards in science. These enable equivalent higher degree and they and must researchers to develop a novel idea to a not be based at a core-funded research position where it may compete for a larger institute. Applicants must receive a personal award from the trust or another source. salary from their host institution. Applicants Funding supports a range of activities from low- or middle-income countries should including pilot studies, scoping studies, be carrying out research in the fields of public preliminary data gathering, proof-of-principle health and tropical medicine that is of studies, planning sessions and meetings of relevance to local, national or global health. collaborative networks. Awards are worth up to £100,000 each over a Applicants must hold an appointment at an maximum period of two years. Funding eligible institution in the UK, Republic of covers direct costs of research, including Ireland or a low or middle-income country materials and consumables, equipment, with the exception of India. Applicants are
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animals, research assistance, fieldwork and Application form: data collection, and travel. http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/c orporatesite/@sf_cross_cutting_activities/doc uments/web_document/wtp059693.pdf Closing date: 03 Oct 16 Deadline information: Applications due by Eligibility profile 4pm. Deadlines on: 8 February 2016, 20 June ------2016, 3 October 2016. Country of applicant institution: Lower- Posted date: 26 Apr 16 Middle-Income countries, Low Income Award type: Networking/collaboration, countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries Travel for research purposes, Directed grants Country of applicant institution: United to institutions, research groups etc, Travel to Kingdom, Ireland conferences, meetings etc., Directed grants for individual investigators, Equipment and materials, Innovation grants Disciplines Award amount max: £100,000 ------Award amount min: - Bio/Medical; Public Health Award budget total: - Website: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomed Contact Details ical-science/Funding-schemes/Seed------Awards/index.htm Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 Email: [email protected]
NDMS MASTER’S STUDENTSHIP AWARDS Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada – Société Canadienne de la Sclérose en Plaques E
Description: The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada that provides fundamental knowledge invites applications for the endMS master’s about the development, progression studentship awards. These enable master’s and treatment of MS disease; students to cultivate and sharpen their clinical and population health – this is scientific skills, think innovatively about for research focusing on topics such as conducting research that will translate into epidemiology, health economics, risk real world applications, and secure a future in factors, healthcare delivery or policy, MS research and healthcare. The following treatment monitoring and health two award streams are available: assessment, symptom management, rehabilitation and social aspects of biomedical – this is for research that MS. uncovers the biological, pathological and mechanistic aspects of MS, and
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Applicants must be working towards a Award type: Directed grants for individual master’s degree pertaining to research in MS. investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate Eligible host institutions include recognised students postsecondary institutions or their affiliated Award amount max: CAD 55,000 institutions, including hospitals and research Website: institutes. Applicants proposing to do their https://beta.mssociety.ca/information-for- training at a Canadian institution may be of researchers/funding-opportunities/endms- any nationality, but applicants proposing to research-and-training-network-awards-and- train abroad must be Canadian citizens or programs/endms-masters-studentship- permanent residents. awards Application form: Awards are worth CAD 20,000 per year for up https://www.mscanadagrants.ca to two years, subject to a renewal application Eligibility profile after one year. ------Applicants applying from New Brunswick Country of applicant institution: Any and Québec-based institutions may also be Country of applicant institution: Canada considered for studentships co-funded by the
New Brunswick Health Research Foundation Disciplines and the Québec Health Research Fund ------(FRQS), respectively. NBHRF partnership Multiple Sclerosis awards must be conducted in New
Brunswick. FRQS partnership awards Contact Detaails conducted outside of Québec include a ------supplement of CAD 15,000 per year. MS Society of Canada
Research Department
250 Dundas Street West Closing date: 03 Oct 16 Suite 500 Deadline information: Applications due by Toronto ON M5T 2Z5 4pm EDT. This call is repeated once a year. Posted date: 18 Aug 16 Fax: +1 416 922 6065 Tel: +1 416 922 7538 Email: [email protected]
NDMS DOCTORAL STUDENTSHIP AWARDS E Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada – Société Canadienne de la Sclérose en Plaques
Description: The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada MS research and healthcare. The following invites applications for the endMS doctoral two award streams are available: studentship awards. These enable doctoral biomedical – this is for research that students to cultivate and sharpen their uncovers the biological, pathological scientific skills, think innovatively about and mechanistic aspects of MS, and conducting research that will translate into that provides fundamental knowledge real world applications, and secure a future in about the development, progression and treatment of MS disease;
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clinical and population health – this is Deadline information: Applications due by for research focusing on topics such as 4pm EDT. This call is repeated once a year. epidemiology, health economics, risk Posted date: 18 Aug 16 factors, healthcare delivery or policy, Award type: Directed grants for individual treatment monitoring and health investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate assessment, symptom management, students rehabilitation and social aspects of Award amount max: CAD 217,000 MS. Website: https://beta.mssociety.ca/information-for- Applicants must be working towards a researchers/funding-opportunities/endms- doctoral degree pertaining to research in MS. research-and-training-network-awards-and- Eligible host institutions include recognised programs/endms-doctoral-studentship- awards postsecondary institutions or their affiliated Application form: institutions, including hospitals and research https://www.mscanadagrants.ca institutes. Applicants proposing to do their training at a Canadian institution may be of Eligibility profile any nationality, but applicants proposing to ------train abroad must be Canadian citizens or Country of applicant institution: Any permanent residents. Country of applicant institution: Canada
Awards are worth up to CAD 22,000 per year, Disciplines or CAD 50,500 for MD holders, for up to four ------years, subject to progress reports. Multiple Sclerosis
Applicants applying from New Brunswick Contact Details and Québec-based institutions may also be ------considered for studentships co-funded by the MS Society of Canada New Brunswick Health Research Foundation Research Department and the Québec Health Research Fund 250 Dundas Street West (FRQS), respectively. NBHRF partnership Suite 500 awards must be conducted in New Toronto ON M5T 2Z5 Brunswick. FRQS partnership awards Fax: +1 416 922 6065 conducted outside of Québec include a Tel: +1 416 922 7538 supplement of CAD 15,000 per year. Email: [email protected]
Closing date: 03 Oct 16
UKON HISTORIC RESOURCES FUND Government of Yukon – Gouvernement du Yukon Y
Description: The Government of Yukon’s Department of its Yukon historic resources fund. This Tourism and Culture invites applications for supports projects that promote the study and
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interpretation of Yukon’s historic resources Website: http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/yhrf.html and further the promotion, appreciation, Application form: preservation and development of Yukon’s http://www.gov.yk.ca/forms/forms/5000/yg59 heritage. Projects may be in the fields of 19_e.pdf archaeology, palaeontology, native language preservation, toponymy or historical research, Eligibility profile and may include community museums, First ------Nations heritage or cultural centres or the use Country of applicant institution: Any of historic sites. Disciplines Individuals, groups including societies and ------businesses, First Nations and municipalities Historical Geography; Indigenous Peoples of are eligible to apply. Priority will be given to the Americas; Indigenous Languages; Yukon applicants. Canadian History; Archaeology of the Funding is worth up to CA$10,000, matching Americas; Cultural Heritage; Palaeontology & funding up to 50 per cent of project costs. Palynology; Historical Linguistics; Historical Archaeology Closing date: 03 Oct 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 23 Nov 15 P.O. Box 2703 (L-2) Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Whitehorse, Yukon research groups etc, Directed grants for Y1A 2C6 individual investigators Fax: +1 867 667 3463 Award amount max: CAD 10,000 Tel: +1 867 667 8023 Award amount min: - Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
ENRY DRAPER MEDAL National Academies H
Description: The National Academies invites nominations Award type: Prizes, Directed grants for for its Henry Draper medal. This recognises a individual investigators recent, original investigation in astronomical Award amount max: USD 25,000 physics, of importance and benefit to science. Award amount min: - The award is worth USD 25,000. Award budget total: - Website: Closing date: 03 Oct 16 http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/ Deadline information: Nominations due by henry-draper-medal.html 11.59pm EDT. Application form: Posted date: 21 Jul 16 https://awards.nasonline.org/
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Eligibility profile High Energy Astrophysics & Cosmic Rays ------Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details ------Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------
RADEL RESEARCH AWARD National Academies P
Description: The National Academies invites nominations Website: for the Pradel research award. This recognises http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/ mid-career neuroscientists whose work is pradel-research-award.html making major contributions to the Application form: understanding of the nervous system. https://awards.nasonline.org/
The winner receives USD 50,000 to present to Eligibility profile an institution of their choice in order to ------support neuroscience research. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 03 Oct 16 Disciplines Deadline information: Nominations due by ------11.59pm EDT. This call is repeated once a Neuroscience; Central Nervous System year. Posted date: 21 Jul 16 Contact Details Award type: Directed grants to institutions, ------research groups etc, Prizes Email: [email protected] Award amount max: USD 50,000
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IGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION INSTRUMENT PROGRAMME FUNDING H Centre for International Mobility Finland – Kansainvälisen liikkuvuuden ja yhteistyön keskus CIMO
Description: The Centre for International Mobility in Kenya, Mozambique, Burma, Nepal Somalia, Finland (CIMO) invites applications for its Tanzania and Zambia). higher education institutions institutional cooperation instrument programme funding. Funding for one project ranges between This scheme seeks to enhance higher €300,000 and €700,000 over the maximum of education capacity in the developing world three years. The grant covers up to 80 per cent by supporting collaboration projects between of the total project budget. The total budget higher education institutions in Finland and for this call is approximately €12 million. in developing countries. Projects must fall CIMO will fund around 20 to 30 projects. under the following result areas: improving access to higher education and research information, with a Closing date: 04 Oct 16 specific focus on increasing access for Deadline information: Applications due by women, minorities and groups with 4.15pm. special needs; Posted date: 31 May 16 improving quality of higher education Award type: Networking/collaboration, and research environment, including Directed grants to institutions, research activities such as capacity building groups etc, Institutional development and modernization of learning and Award amount max: €700,000 research environments; Award amount min: €300,000 enhancing institutional capacity that Award budget total: €12,000,000 Website: supports quality of teaching and http://www.cimo.fi/programmes/hei_ici research, covering projects that focus Application form: http://heiici.e21solu.fi/ on developing management and
administration; Eligibility profile strengthening the role and relevance ------of higher education in development of Country of applicant institution: Finland society, including projects that create Country of applicant institution: Lower- partnerships, joint projects and links Middle-Income countries, Low Income to industry and other societal actors. countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries
The project must be coordinated and the Disciplines application submitted by a higher education ------institution in Finland. The project must Learning Motivation & Attitudes; involve a minimum of one Finnish higher Instructional Materials & Practices; Higher education institution and one partnering Education; Curriculum & Pedagogy Theory; higher education institution in a developing Educational Counselling; Education in country. All developing countries that qualify Developing Countries; Career Planning & for official development assistance, as defined Guidance; Comparative Education; Equal by the OECD, are eligible to apply. First Educational Opportunity; Educational priority is given to the Finnish bilateral Evaluation & Assessment; Research Libraries partner countries (Afghanistan, Ethiopia, & Special Collections
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Contact Details Fax: +358 295 338 500 ------Tel: +358 9 753 1122 CIMO / HEI ICI programme Email: [email protected] PO Box 343 00531 Helsinki
OCTORAL RESEARCH AWARD Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Instituts de Recherche en Santé du Canada D
Description: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research The award consists of a trainee stipend, worth invite applications for their doctoral research CAD 30,000 per year, and research allowance, award. This aims to provide students early in worth up to CAD 5,000 per year. The their academic research careers with an maximum duration of award funding from all opportunity to gain research experience, as federal sources is four years. well as to provide a reliable supply of highly skilled and qualified researchers. Projects in Ref: 201610MDR. all areas of health research will be considered for the following types of awards: Closing date: 04 Oct 16 the Frederick Banting and Charles Deadline information: This call is repeated Best Canada graduate scholarships once a year. doctoral awards, with a budget of Posted date: 24 Aug 16 CAD 14 million over three years to Award type: Directed grants for individual fund 133 awards, support students investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate pursuing a doctoral degree in a students health-related field in Canada; Award amount max: CAD 140,000 the doctoral foreign study award, with Award amount min: - a budget of CAD 1.05m over three Award budget total: CAD 15,050,000 years to fund 10 awards, supports Website: https://www.researchnet- students pursuing a doctoral degree in recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?p a health-related field abroad. rog=2479&view=search&terms=Doctoral+res earch+award&launchMonth=6&launchYear= Nominated principal applicants must be 2015&type=EXACT&resultCount=25 Canadian citizens or permanent residents Application form: https://www.researchnet- engaged in full-time doctoral research recherchenet.ca/rnr16/htdocs/login/splash.j training in a graduate school. Candidates sp must have completed at least 12 months of graduate study at the master’s or doctoral Eligibility profile level. Each nominated principal applicant ------must name a supervisor to oversee their work. Country of applicant institution: Any
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Medicine & Health Tel: +1 613 954 1968 Email: [email protected]
RTS PROJECT GRANTS FOR ORGANISATIONS Australia Council for the Arts A
Description: The Australia Council for the Arts invites Deadline information: Applications due by applications for its arts project grants for midnight. Deadlines on: 2 February 2016, 7 organisations. This support a range of June 2016, 4 October 2016. activities that deliver benefits to the arts sector Posted date: 21 Sep 15 and wider public, including: Award type: Publish, edit, translate, disseminate, Networking/collaboration, creation of new work; Directed grants to institutions, research arts practice based research; groups etc creative development; Award amount max: AUD 100,000 Award amount min: AUD 10,000 professional skills development; Award budget total: - experimentation; Website: collaborations; http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/funding/ touring; new-grants-model/arts-projects- festivals; organisations/ productions; Application form: exhibitions; https://online.australiacouncil.gov.au/ords/f? performances; p=103:101:0 publishing; recording; Eligibility profile promotion and marketing; ------ market development activity. Country of applicant institution: Any
Applications are invited from organisations. Disciplines International organisations can apply for ------projects that benefit practising Australian Arts artists or their work. Grants range from AU$10,000 to AU$100,000 Contact Details over a maximum period of two years. ------Australia Council for the Arts Closing date: 04 Oct 16 PO Box 788 Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 Tel: +61 2 9215 9000
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2020-SC1-PM-2017 PERSONALISED MEDICINE – TOPICS 2, 7, 8, 10, TWO STAGE Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: Deadline information: First stage proposals Societal Challenges invites proposals, under are invited between 29 July and 5pm the health, demographic change and Brussels time, 4 October 2016; second stage wellbeing work programme, for its H2020- proposals due by 5pm Brussels time, 11 SC1-PM-2017 personalised medicine call. April 2017. Proposals may address the following topics: Posted date: 14 Oct 15 understanding health, well-being and Award type: Networking/collaboration, disease, including SC1-PM-02-2017 Innovation grants, Directed grants to new concepts in patient stratification; institutions, research groups etc, Clinical preventing disease, including SC1- trials PM-07-2017 promoting mental health Award budget total: €160,000,000 Website: and well-being in the young; http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port treating and managing diseases, al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 including SC1-PM-08-2017 new 0-sc1-2016- therapies for rare diseases and SC1- 2017.html#c,topics=callIdentifier/t/H2020- PM-10-2017 comparing the SC1-2016- effectiveness of existing healthcare 2017/1/1/1&callStatus/t/Forthcoming/1/1/0&c interventions in the adult population. allStatus/t/Open/1/1/0&callStatus/t/Closed/1/ 1/0&+plannedOpeningDate/asc Proposals must take the form of research and innovation actions, which require Eligibility profile participation by at least three legal entities, ------each established in a different EU member Country of applicant institution: United States state or associated country. All legal entities Country of applicant institution: EU must be independent of each other. (European Union), EU Associated Countries, Overseas Countries and Territories, EU All All H2020 funding calls allow third country International Cooperation Partner countries partners who secure their own funding to (ICPC) participate in consortia. Any US entity is Country of applicant institution: Any eligible for funding for specific topics only. Each proposal may receive between €2 million Disciplines and €6m, although proposals for other ------amounts will also be considered. The Mental Health; Personalised & Stratified indicative budget is worth €160m. Medicine; Patient Care & Education; Health Systems Regulation; Health Systems Policy; Ref: OJ C6776. Health & Medical Informatics; Health Service Providers; Assistive Technology; Access to Closing date: 04 Oct 16 Health Care; Health Systems, Administration
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RUG DISCOVERY FOR CRYPTOSPORIDIUM AND SHIGELLA Tres Cantos Open Lab Foundation D
Description: The Tres Cantos Open Lab Foundation invites groups etc, Access to laboratories, telescopes proposals for its additional call for drug etc. discovery for cryptosporidium and shigella. Award amount max: - This supports research that advances drug Award amount min: - development for the common infectious Award budget total: - bacteria and parasites causing diarrhoea. The Website: key areas of interest are: http://www.openlabfoundation.org/collabor exploitation of high-throughput ate/tcolProposal.html screening amenable approaches to identify extra- and intracellular hits Application form: and leads; http://www.openlabfoundation.org/template s/TCOLF_proposal_template.docx target based approaches on
genetically and chemically validated Eligibility profile targets; ------ medicinal chemistry optimisation of Country of applicant institution: Andorra, hits or leads towards drug candidates; United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Antigua animal models that allow the quick and Barbuda, Anguilla, Albania, Armenia, evaluation, ranking and establishment Bonaire, Angola, Antarctica, Argentina, of American Samoa, Austria, Australia, Aruba, pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic Åland Islands, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and relationships of leads against Herzegovina, Barbados, Bangladesh, Belgium, cryptosporidium and shigella. Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Burundi,
Benin, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Any organisation working in the supported Brazil, Bahamas, Bhutan, Bouvet Island, research areas may apply. This may include Botswana, Belarus, Belize, Canada, Cocos private research institutes, higher education (Keeling) Islands, Congo, the Democratic institutions and pharmaceutical companies. Republic of the, Central African Republic, Applicant researchers may not have resided Congo, Switzerland, Côte d'Ivoire, Cook or carried out their main activity in Spain for Islands, Chile, Cameroon, China, Colombia, more than 12 months in the past three years. Costa Rica, Serbia, Cuba, Cape Verde,
Christmas Island, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Grants include financial support, access to Germany, Djibouti, Denmark, Dominica, Tres Cantos Campus facilities in Spain and a Dominican Republic, Algeria, Ecuador, possibility to collaborate with Estonia, Egypt, Western Sahara, Eritrea, GlaxoSmithKleine scientists. The projects are Ethiopia, Finland, Fiji, Micronesia, Federated expected to last from four to 24 months. States of, Faroe Islands, France, Gabon, United
Kingdom, Grenada, Georgia, French Guiana, Closing date: 04 Oct 16 Guernsey, Ghana, Greenland, Gambia, Deadline information: Guinea, Guadeloupe, Equatorial Guinea, Posted date: 11 Jul 16 Greece, South Georgia and the South Award type: Academic-Industry links, Sandwich Islands, Guatemala, Guam, Guinea- Directed grants for individual investigators, Directed grants to institutions, research Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Honduras, Croatia,
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Haiti, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Isle and Jan Mayen, Slovakia, Sierra Leone, San of Man, India, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Marino, Senegal, Somalia, Suriname, Sao Iceland, Italy, Jersey, Jamaica, Jordan, Japan, Tome and Principe, El Salvador, Syrian Arab Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Republic, Swaziland, Turks and Caicos Comoros, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Korea, Islands, Chad, French Southern Territories, Democratic People's Republic of, Korea, Togo, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tokelau, Timor- Republic of, Kuwait, Cayman Islands, Leste, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Lao People's Democratic Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Taiwan, Republic, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Liechtenstein, Tanzania, United Republic of, Ukraine, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Uganda, United States Minor Outlying Luxembourg, Latvia, Libya, Monaco, Islands, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Republic of, Madagascar, Marshall Holy See (Vatican City State), Saint Vincent Islands, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav and the Grenadines, Venezuela, Virgin Republic of, Mali, Myanmar, Macao, Northern Islands, British, Virgin Islands, US, Vietnam, Mariana Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Samoa, Yemen, Malta, Mauritius, Maldives, Malawi, Mexico, Mayotte, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, New Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Montenegro, St Caledonia, Niger, Norfolk Island, Nigeria, Eustatius, Saba Nicaragua, Netherlands, Norway, Nepal, Nauru, Niue, New Zealand, Oman, Panama, Disciplines Peru, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, ------Philippines, Pakistan, Poland, Saint Pierre and Bacterial Diseases; Methods of Drug Delivery; Miquelon, Pitcairn, Puerto Rico, Palestinian Animal Models; Parasitology; Drug Design; Territory, Occupied, Portugal, Palau, Screening of Drugs & Agents Paraguay, Qatar, Réunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Contact Details Islands, Seychelles, Sudan, Sweden, ------Singapore, Saint Helena, Slovenia, Svalbard Email: [email protected]
RANTS TO CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS FOR PEACE, SECURITY AND STABILITY ACTIONS G Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (EuropeAid)
Description: The Directorate-General for Development and initiatives, through civil society organisations Cooperation (EuropeAid) invites applications to the economic community of West African for its call for grants to civil society states peace and security agenda. The specific organisations for peace, security and stability objectives of this call are to increase the actions. This aims to support local and cross- engagement of the CSOs in peace building border community dialogue and peace initiatives that link local initiatives to building initiatives and training that links ECOWAS activities in the areas of dialogue, local initiatives, specifically women’s mediation facilitation and preventive
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diplomacy, and to support CSOs’ initiatives in Award amount min: €40,000 the fight against small arms proliferation in Award budget total: €200,000 any location with the ECOWAS space, except Website: where it would overlap with the ECOWAS- https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/onli EU small arms project in the following two ne- clusters: Northern Niger-Mali and the Mano services/index.cfm?ADSSChck=14706509579 river union. Proposals must address at least 15&do=publi.detPUB&searchtype=AS&aoet one of the following priorities: =36538&ccnt=7573876%2C7573877%2C75738 79&debpub=&orderby=pub&orderbyad=De support to community dialogue and sc&nbPubliList=15&page=1&aoref=138283 peace building initiatives; fight against small arms proliferation. Eligibility profile ------Non-profit organisations based in an Country of applicant institution: Burkina ECOWAS member state may apply. Projects Faso, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Cape Verde, must take place in at least one and maximum Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, two ECOWAS member states and may last Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, between three and 12 months. Senegal, Togo
The total budget is €200,000. Grants are worth Disciplines between €40,000 and €60,000 each and cover ------60 to 90 per cent of total eligible costs. Public Safety & Security; Community
Services; Peace & Disarmament; National Ref: EuropeAid/138283/ID/ACT/Multi. Security
Closing date: 04 Oct 16 Deadline information: Applications due by Contact Details 12 noon. ------Posted date: 08 Aug 16 ECOWAS Commission Award type: Development 101 Yakubu Gowon Crescent (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to Asokoro District institutions, research groups etc Abuja Award amount max: €60,000 Email: [email protected]
DDRESSING UNMET NEED IN HIV TESTING SERVICES THROUGH EFFECTIVE DELIVERY MODELS IN MALAWI UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY FUND A FOR AIDS RELIEF Agency for International Development (USAID)
Description: The Agency for International Development Malawi under the president's emergency fund (USAID) invites applications for its for AIDS relief grants. These aim to identify addressing unmet need in HIV testing effective service delivery models to address services through effective delivery models in unmet need for HIV testing services in centres
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for disease control supported districts to support the attainment of the 90-90-90 goals. Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1714. The implementing partner will increase utilisation of HIV testing services and Closing date: 04 Oct 16 linkages to other HIV-related support services Deadline information: Applications due by through expansion, integration, and targeted 11.59pm ET. models to be achieved through three strategic Posted date: 09 Aug 16 goals: Award type: Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Development increased access and demand for HIV (Africa/Caribbean) testing services; Award amount max: USD 2,000,000 Award amount min: - linkages to other HIV services; Award budget total: USD 10,000,000 improved quality of HIV testing Website: services. http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-
opportunity.html?oppId=284770 The implementing partner will ensure that HIV testing services is available at high HIV Eligibility profile prevalence service points and there is ------increased access at community level using Country of applicant institution: Any targeted approached, such as index client family member and active partner testing, Disciplines family testing days, moonlight, work place ------testing, social network testing, home based HIV/Aids; Diagnostic Sciences testing. Contact Details US and foreign profit and not-for-profit ------organisations may apply. Email: [email protected] Two grants worth up to USD 1 million per year for a duration of five years are available.
ELIVERING COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES TO ACHIEVE HIV EPIDEMIC CONTROL D IN SUBNATIONAL UNITS IN NIGERIA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF Agency for International Development (USAID)
Description: The Agency for International Development HIV/Aids services packages in the Federal (USAID) invites applications for its delivering Republic of Nigeria. This will be comprehensive services to achieve HIV accomplished by employing proven strategies epidemic control in subnational units in and service delivery models to achieve and Nigeria under the president's emergency plan sustain epidemic control in Nigeria. The for AIDS relief grants. These aim to sustain programme supports facility and community and enhance the delivery of comprehensive based provision of HIV/Aids prevention,
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treatment, and support services in targeted Award type: Directed grants to institutions, geographic locations and populations. The research groups etc, Development programme will ensure provision of quality (Africa/Caribbean) services in collaboration with government of Award amount max: USD 50,000,000 Nigeria, private sector and donors, and Award amount min: - expand access to services in high burden and Award budget total: USD 10,000,000,000 high prevalence communities. Successful Website: applicants will develop and implement http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- innovative strategies to provide effective and opportunity.html?oppId=284827 efficient service delivery models that will strengthen the local health systems. Eligibility profile ------US and foreign profit and not-for-profit Country of applicant institution: Any organisations may apply. Four grants worth up to USD 50 million each Disciplines per year for a duration of five years are ------available. Community Health Services; HIV/Aids; Diagnostic Sciences
Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1753. Contact Details ------Closing date: 04 Oct 16 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Deadline information: Applications due by Plot 1075 Diplomatic Drive, Central Business 11.59pm ET. District Posted date: 09 Aug 16 Tel: +1 234 461 4000 ext. 4556 Email: [email protected]
UPPORT FOR QUALITY FACILITY AND COMMUNITY-BASED ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN IN CAMEROON UNDER THE S PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF Agency for International Development (USAID)
Description: The Agency for International Development focus on innovative approaches to scale up (USAID) invites applications for its Support HIV testing support implementation of test for quality facility and community-based and start, reinforce robust approaches to antiretroviral therapy for adults and children ensure appropriate linkages and retention in in Cameroon under the president's emergency treatment and care and support scale up of plan for Aids relief grant. This aims to reduce viral load testing for monitoring patients. The HIV-related morbidity and mortality for programme will also promote a hub and infected adults including pregnant women spoke approach, which involves key services and children by strengthening adult and and establishing a standard package of paediatric treatment and providing high- antiretroviral therapy services at selected quality prevention of mother-to-child smaller satellite high yield sites. transmission. Specifically this programme will
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US and foreign profit and not-for-profit organisations may apply. Eligibility profile One grant worth up to USD 10 million per ------year for a duration of five years is available. Country of applicant institution: Any
Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1718. Disciplines ------Closing date: 04 Oct 16 Diagnostic Sciences; HIV/Aids Deadline information: Applications due by 11.59pm ET. Contact Details Posted date: 09 Aug 16 ------Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research groups etc, Development Standard Chartered Building (Africa/Caribbean) Hippodrome, Yaounde Award amount max: USD 10,000,000 Tel: +237 769 800 4456 Award amount min: - Email: [email protected] Award budget total: USD 50,000,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- opportunity.html?oppId=284840
TRENGTHENING CARE AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR HIGHLY VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES, S PLUS HIV PREVENTION FOR YOUTH IN THE REPUBLIC OF COTE D'IVOIRE Agency for International Development (USAID)
Description: The Agency for International Development their most vulnerable members and most at (USAID) invites applications for its risk groups. These grants also aim to strengthening care and support services for strengthen HIV/Aids retention and highly vulnerable populations, orphans and adherence in care and treatment among vulnerable children and their families, plus people living with HIV including children HIV prevention for youth in the Republic of using an optimum linkage between family- Cote d'Ivoire grants. These aim to build and based programmes and services and improve upon a number of HIV community community efforts through collaborating with care and service activities supported by the NGOs and relevant government entities centers for disease control and prevention, including community-based care for adult US and foreign profit and not-for-profit and orphans and vulnerable children organisations may apply. activities managed by implementing partners. Up to four grants worth average USD 4.5 The aim is to strengthen the capacity of million each per year for a duration of five communities and families in high-prevalence years are available. areas of Cote d’Ivoire to ensure well-being of Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1755.
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Closing date: 04 Oct 16 Deadline information: Applications due by Disciplines 11.59pm ET. ------Posted date: 09 Aug 16 General Practice & Family Health; Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Community Health Services; Health of research groups etc, Development Minority Groups; Paediatrics; HIV/Aids; (Africa/Caribbean) Women's Health Award amount max: - Award amount min: - Award budget total: USD 90,000,000 Contact Details Website: ------http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opportunity.html?oppId=284830 US Embassy Riviera Golf, Abidjan Eligibility profile Tel: +225 224 940 70 ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
ILOT RESEARCH GRANTS National Multiple Sclerosis Society P
Description: The National Multiple Sclerosis Society invites Award type: Directed grants for individual applications for its pilot research grants. investigators, Innovation grants These support high-risk and novel ideas that Award amount max: USD 44,000 may serve to stop multiple sclerosis Award amount min: - progression, restore function and improve Award budget total: - quality of life and prevent multiple sclerosis. Website: http://www.nationalmssociety.org/For- Applications are open to researchers who Professionals/Researchers/Society- have completed their postdoctoral training. Funding/Pilot-Research-Grants Application form: https://nmss.fluxx.io/ Grants are worth up to US$40,000 in direct costs for a period of one year. US-based Eligibility profile grantee institutions may add an additional ------amount of up to 10 per cent to the requested Country of applicant institution: Any sum for indirect costs. Disciplines
Closing date: 05 Oct 16 ------Deadline information: Multiple Sclerosis; Medical Effectiveness & Deadlines on: 6 January 2016, 6 April 2016, 6 Patient Outcomes; Life Expectancy & Quality July 2016, 5 October 2016. of Life; Patient Care & Education Posted date: 07 Dec 15
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CCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH RESEARCH (R01) O Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Description: The Centers for Disease Control and Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Prevention National Institute for research groups etc Occupational Safety and Health invites Award amount max: USD 1,600,000 applications for the occupational safety and Website: health research (R01) programme. The http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa- purpose of this R01 funding opportunity files/PAR-13-129.html announcement is to develop an Application form: understanding of the risks and conditions http://apply07.grants.gov/apply/GetGrantFro associated with occupational diseases and mFedgrants?opportunity=PAR-13-129 injuries. Research will explore methods for reducing risks and for preventing or Eligibility profile minimising exposure to hazardous conditions ------in the workplace and translate significant Country of applicant institution: Any scientific findings into prevention practices and products that will effectively reduce Disciplines work-related illnesses and injuries. ------Traumatology, Accidents & Injury; This FOA will use the R01 grant mechanism. Environmental & Occupational Health & Applicants may request a budget for direct Safety; Public Health, Health Services & costs of up to US$400,000 per year for up to Primary Care; Pharmaceutical Drugs; four years. Domestic and foreign for-profit Preventive Medicine; Industrial & and non-profit organisations and public or Occupational Psychology; Primary Care private institutions are eligible to apply. PAR- 13-329 (replaces PAR-10-188). Contact details ------Closing date: 05 Oct 16 CDC/NIOSH/OEP Deadline information: Applications due by 1600 Clifton Road NE, Mailstop E74 5pm local time of applicant organisation on Atlanta, GA 30329-4018 every 5 February, 5 June and 5 October until Fax: +1 404 498 2575 8 May 2018. Tel: +1 404 498 2571 Posted date: 04 Mar 13 Email: [email protected]
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ETWORK COOPERATION GRANT Alzheimer's Research UK N
Description: Alzheimer's Research UK invites applications Award type: Directed grants to institutions, for its network cooperation grant. This research groups etc, supports projects or schemes that further Networking/collaboration, Equipment and cooperation and collaboration between at materials least two of the organisation’s network Award amount max: £100,000 centres. Website: http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants The lead applicant and point of contact must /network-cooperation/ be a member of an ARUK network, with each Application form: https://a- application including at least two network r.org.uk/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2findex.as centre as a co-applicant. Applications may px include researchers or institutions outside the UK. If the lead applicant does not hold a Eligibility profile fixed-term or tenure appointment for the ------duration of the grant, the application must Country of applicant institution: Any include a co-applicant who does. Country of applicant institution: United Kingdom The grant is worth up to £100,000 over 2 years Disciplines and may cover staff salaries, equipment, ------animals, running costs, or any combination of Alzheimer's Disease & Senile Dementia these. Contact Details
Closing date: 05 Oct 16 ------Deadline information: Tel: +44 300 111 5555 Posted date: 18 Apr 16 Email: [email protected]
ILOT PROJECT GRANTS Alzheimer's Research UK P
Description: Alzheimer's Research UK invites applications major project or programme application to for its pilot project grants. These provide ARUK or other funding body. funding for small, innovative research projects and pilot studies that would lead to a The lead applicant and point of contact must be based in a UK academic or research
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institution; however the application may Award amount min: - include researchers or institutions outside the Award budget total: - UK. If the lead applicant does not hold a Website: fixed-term or tenure appointment for the http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants duration of the grant, the application must /pilot-projects/ include a co-applicant who does. Application form: https://a-r.org.uk/
Funding is worth up to £50,000 over two Eligibility profile years. This may be used to cover staff salaries, ------equipment, and animals, running costs or any Country of applicant institution: Any combination of these. Country of applicant institution: United Kingdom Closing date: 05 Oct 16 Deadline information: Disciplines Posted date: 18 Apr 16 ------Award type: Directed grants for individual Alzheimer's Disease & Senile Dementia investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Contact Details research groups etc, Innovation grants, ------Equipment and materials Tel: +44 300 111 5555 Award amount max: £50,000 Email: [email protected]
RANTS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS Stiftelsen Promobilia G
Description: The Promobilia Foundation invites Closing date: 05 Oct 16 applications for its research and development Deadline information: project grants. These promote the Posted date: 23 Jun 16 development of technical aids and ensure Award type: Directed grants for individual they get into production so that disabled investigators, Prototypes and people could benefit from a more active life. demonstrations, Directed grants to The foundation mainly supports the institutions, research groups etc, Innovation development of tools for mobility grants, Technology innovation/development handicapped but may also support research Award amount max: SEK 500,000 about reading and writing difficulties. Award amount min: SEK 100,000 Award budget total: - Universities, high schools, hospitals or other Website: http://www.promobilia.se/?lang=en institutions based in Sweden or abroad may Eligibility profile apply. Individual investigators who hold a ------Swedish residency may also apply for support Country of applicant institution: Any as long the overleaf conditions are fulfilled.
Grants are worth between SEK100,000 and
SEK500,000 each.
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Medical Devices; Assistive Technology; Stiftelsen Promobilia Accessibility for Disabled People; Care for Nybrogatan 59 Disabled People 114 40 Stockholm Email: [email protected]
REPARATORY CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP Alzheimer's Research UK P
Description: Alzheimer's Research UK invites applications Deadline information: Deadlines on: 16 for its preparatory clinical research March 2016, 5 October 2016. fellowship. This supports clinicians at various Posted date: 18 Apr 16 stages of training who are planning a career in Award type: Directed grants for individual academic medicine. It provides fellows with investigators, Mid-Career fellowships, Early- the necessary track record and skills to Career fellowships, Travel for research compete for full clinical fellowship through purposes ARUK or elsewhere. Award amount max: - Award amount min: - The lead applicant and point of contact must Award budget total: - be based in a UK academic/research Website: institution and fellows are required to have http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants secured at least one supervisor for the /preparatory-clinical-research-fellowship/ Application form: https://a-r.org.uk/ application. The lead supervisor must have a fixed term or tenure contract with the host Eligibility profile institution covering the proposed duration of ------the fellowship, and at least one supervisor Country of applicant institution: Any must be clinically qualified with an honorary Country of applicant institution: United clinical contract. Kingdom
The funding includes salary at the speciality Disciplines registrar level or university scale equivalent, ------and a contribution of up to £20,000 over one Alzheimer's Disease & Senile Dementia year toward research, animal and travel costs.
Contact Details
------Closing date: 05 Oct 16 Tel: +44 300 111 5555 Email: [email protected]
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XTENSION GRANT Alzheimer's Research UK E
Description: Alzheimer's Research UK invites applications Award type: Directed grants for individual for its extension grant. This allows existing investigators, Directed grants to institutions, holders of the organisation’s major grants to research groups etc, Equipment and receive additional funding for advances in materials knowledge or available technology that were Award amount max: £100,000 not predicted in the initial application, but Award amount min: - that could significantly enhance the overall Award budget total: - outcome of the project. Website: http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants The lead applicant and point of contact must /extension/ be based in a UK academic or research Application form: https://a-r.org.uk/ institution, however the application may include researchers or institutions outside the Eligibility profile UK. If the lead applicant does not hold a ------tenure appointment the application must Country of applicant institution: Any include a co-applicant that does. Country of applicant institution: United Kingdom The grant is worth up to £100,000 and this Disciplines may cover staff salaries, equipment, animals, ------running costs, or any combinations of these. Alzheimer's Disease & Senile Dementia Only one extension grant will be permitted per Alzheimer’s Research UK major grant. Contact Details
------Closing date: 05 Oct 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 16 Tel: +44 300 111 5555 March 2016, 5 October 2016. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 18 Apr 16
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Description: NordForsk, in collaboration with the Danish Norway, the Swedish Research Council for Council for Independent Research, the Health, Working Life and Welfare, and the Academy of Finland, the Icelandic Centre for Swedish Research Council, invite applications Research Rannís, the Research Council of for their Nordic register-based research
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projects. This call targets research utilising the that may be sought is NOK10m for a period of Nordic research infrastructures made up by three to five years. Funding may be used for population-based registers and healthcare data collection and analysis, research data. The research should address societal positions, administrative expenses related to challenges and use register-data from project management, travel and mobility, combined data sources. Research proposals meeting costs, and communication and targeting any of the following themes are dissemination activities. invited to apply: health challenges related to working Closing date: 05 Oct 16 life including sickness absence, Deadline information: Applications due by disability pensions and retirement 1pm CET. conditions; Posted date: 29 Jun 16 prevention, quality of life and Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings underlying causes to illnesses and etc., Hosting visits, Directed grants to conditions in children and young; institutions, research groups etc research on conditions where each Award amount max: NOK 10,000,000 country does not have sufficient data, Award amount min: - including rare diseases; Award budget total: - Website: research supporting personalised https://funding.nordforsk.org/nordforsk/call/ medicine; call.jsp?cid=904 research applying a life-course Application form: perspective. https://funding.nordforsk.org/
The proposed research projects must be based Eligibility profile on register data from minimum three Nordic ------countries. Country of applicant institution: Any Country of applicant institution: Denmark, Researchers and research groups at Faroe Islands, Åland Islands, Greenland, universities and other research institutions in Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Norway the Nordic countries are eligible to apply. The project consortium must involve partner Disciplines institutions from at least three Nordic ------countries including Denmark, Finland, Environmental & Occupational Health & Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Åland Islands, Safety; Medicine & Health; Social Security & Faroe Islands and Greenland. Partner Welfare; Personalised & Stratified Medicine; institutions from non-Nordic countries must Life Expectancy & Quality of Life fund their own participation. The formal applicant must be an established senior Contact Details researcher based at a research institution in ------one of the Nordic countries. Tel: +47 9938 0264 Email: [email protected] The total budget is approximately NOK67 million, and the maximum funding amount
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OLLOW-ON FUNDING FOR IMPACT AND ENGAGEMENT SCHEME: CONNECTED COMMUNITIES HIGHLIGHT NOTICE ON CREATING LIVING KNOWLEDGE F Arts and Humanities Research Council
Description: The Arts and Humanities Research Council Closing date: 05 Oct 16 invites applications for its follow-on funding Deadline information: Applications are for impact and engagement scheme: accepted between 15 July and 4pm, 5 connected communities highlight notice on October 2016. creating living knowledge. This supports new Posted date: 24 Jun 16 and unanticipated pathways to impact which Award type: Publish, edit, translate, have emerged or evolved from the connected disseminate, Networking/collaboration, communities programme on participatory Directed grants to institutions, research research processes and practices. groups etc Award amount max: £100,000 These sustain high quality research Award amount min: - collaborations between academics and civil Award budget total: - society. Applicants need to outline the Website: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/funding/opportunitie potential to enhance the economic, social, s/current/connected-communities-highlight- cultural or policy impacts or legacies from notice-on-creating-living-knowledge/ research and lead to outcomes which will be Application form: of value for communities. http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/links/je-s/login-to-je-
s-system/ Proposals must be based on either previous or current research directly funded by the Eligibility profile AHRC, or on research that has been co------funded with another UK research council. The Country of applicant institution: United project should be led by the original principal Kingdom investigator, however, where it is more Country of applicant institution: Any appropriate to the activity, another member of the original research team may lead the Disciplines project. In such cases the PI would be ------expected to be named as a co-investigator at Community Studies; Communication & least in an advisory capacity. The AHRC is Media Studies; Community Planning; piloting a policy to allow international Community Services researchers to act as co-investigators. Contact Details Grants are worth up to £100,000 over a ------maximum period of one year. Smaller grants Tel: +44 1793 416 060 of up to £30,000 may be awarded for shorter Email: [email protected] or higher risk activities.
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ROVISION OF COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY BASED CARE AND SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV IN THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA UNDER THE P PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF Agency for International Development (USAID)
Description: The Agency for International Development Closing date: 05 Oct 16 (USAID) invites applications for its call for Deadline information: Applications due by provision of comprehensive community based 11.59pm ET. care and support for people living with HIV Posted date: 09 Aug 16 in the United Republic of Tanzania under the Award type: Development president's emergency plan for AIDS relief. (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to This aims to build upon achievements of the institutions, research groups etc current project and support the ministry of Award amount max: USD 5,000,000 health to generate system information from Award amount min: - programme data using district health Award budget total: USD 25,000,000 information system-2 and conduct priority Website: population based, key population and facility http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- based surveillance and surveys. The aim is to opportunity.html?oppId=284791 strengthen capacity in disease monitoring and Eligibility profile evaluation, monitoring the HIV/Aids cascade ------from diagnosis, linkage care and treatment Country of applicant institution: Any and viral load suppression. Funding supports the implementation of the HIV/Aids system Disciplines information and capacity strengthening plan ------and the development and updating of HIV/Aids; Health Systems in Developing national system information related Countries; Diagnostic Sciences guidelines, policies and plans.
Contact Details US and foreign for-profit and not-for-profit ------organisations may apply. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention One grant worth up to USD 5 million per year 2448 Luthuli Road, NIMR Complex for a duration up to five years is available. PO Box 9123 Dar es Salaam
Tel: +255 22 219 8400 Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1720. Email: [email protected]
NNOVATIONAL RESEARCH INCENTIVES SCHEME VIDI AWARDS Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research – Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek I
Description: The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Vidi grants under its innovational research Research (NWO) invites applications for the incentives scheme. These allow researchers
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who have already spent several years doing Award amount max: €800,000 postdoctoral research to develop their own Award amount min: - innovative lines of research, and to appoint Award budget total: €150,000,000 one or more researchers. Website: http://www.nwo.nl/en/funding/our- funding-instruments/nwo/innovational- Applicants must have carried out several research-incentives-scheme/vidi/index.html years of postdoctoral research and in doing this have demonstrated the ability to generate Eligibility profile and effect innovative ideas independently. ------Researchers must have obtained their PhD Country of applicant institution: Any within the last eight years. Grants are worth up to €800,000 each. Disciplines ------Closing date: 06 Oct 16 Any Deadline information: Applications due by 2pm. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 25 Jul 16 ------Award type: Innovation grants, Directed Tel: +31 70 344 0940 grants for individual investigators Email: [email protected]
AAK-MKB Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research – Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek R
Description: The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Only consortia of a government-funded Research (NWO), under the National university of applied sciences (HBO) and at Taskforce for Practice Based Research (SIA) least one private partner are eligible to apply. invites applications for its RAAK-mkb A total budget of €4.2 million is available for scheme. This aims to enhance the knowledge this round. exchange between universities of applied sciences (HBOs) and SMEs to increase the Grants are worth up to €300,000 each over 18 innovative capacity of SMEs. The scheme to 24 months. Co-funding of the applicant of promotes cooperation between SME’s and at least 50 per cent, in cash or in kind, is HBOs, whereby the focus of the collaboration required. is on knowledge development and application. The result of the research is Closing date: 06 Oct 16 practical knowledge for the professional Deadline information: practice. The research must also provide a Posted date: 15 Jul 16 demonstrable contribution to the renewal of Award type: Directed grants to institutions, higher vocational education. research groups etc, Equipment and materials, Academic-Industry links, Networking/collaboration Award amount max: €300,000
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Award amount min: - Award budget total: €4,200,000 Disciplines Website: http://www.regieorgaan------sia.nl/content/RAAK-regeling/raak-mkb Any
Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Netherlands Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
NTEGRATED DELIVERY OF HIV SERVICES IN SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CLINICS TARGETING KEY AND PRIORITY POPULATIONS AND IN CONFIDENTIAL STI CLINICS FOR COMMERCIAL SEX WORKERS IN ETHIOPIA I UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF (PEPFAR) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Description: The Centers for Disease Control and PLHIV, increase the provision of ART services Prevention (CDC), under the Agency for to key populations, decrease new HIV Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, invites infections among the target population, and applications for its integrated delivery of HIV enhance institutional capacity to implement services in sexual and reproductive health quality comprehensive HIV/Aids services. clinics targeting key and priority populations and in confidential STI clinics for commercial Organisations worldwide may apply. sex workers in Ethiopia under the president's One five-year award worth USD 2.25 million emergency plan for Aids relief (PEPFAR). per year is available. This aims to ensure the provision of quality comprehensive HIV and Aids services to key, Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1743. priority and most-at-risk populations for HIV in Ethiopia. Services to be provided include Closing date: 08 Oct 16 HIV testing and counselling, sexually Deadline information: Applications due by transmitted infections screening and 11.59pm US Eastern Standard Time. treatment, prevention of mother to child Posted date: 09 Aug 16 transmission of HIV, provision of Award type: Development antiretroviral therapy, care and support or (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to persons living with HIV (PLHIV), institutions, research groups etc tuberculosis and HIV services as well as Award amount max: - laboratory and health system strengthening. Award amount min: - The funding is also expected to improve Award budget total: USD 11,250,000 identification of new HIV infections, improve linkages to care and treatment programme for
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Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- Contact Details opportunity.html?oppId=284776 ------Department of Health and Human Services Eligibility profile CDC Procurement and Grants Office ------2920 Brandywine Road, MS K75 Country of applicant institution: Any Atlanta, GA 30341 Tel: +1 770 488 2082 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------Health of Minority Groups; Access to Health Care; HIV/Aids; Medical & Diagnostic Tests
ECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO NATIONAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HEALTH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC T REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF (PEPFAR) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Description: The Centers for Disease Control and increase the knowledge and skills for use of Preventions, under the Office of the Director strategic information. and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, invites applications for its call on Funding aims to contribute to HIV/Aids technical assistance to national health related health service and human resource for information systems and health workforce health data capturing, analysis, utilisation and development of the Federal Democratic reporting from facility level, including Republic of Ethiopia under the president's selected sites of National Defense Forces of emergency plan for Aids relief (PEPFAR). Ethiopia, Federal Police and Family Guidance This funding opportunity maintains Association of Ethiopia. The awardee ensures continuity of the PEPFAR-supported health that HIV, tuberculosis and sexually information systems for meeting Federal transmitted infection patient-level service Ministry of Health and PEPFAR data capturing electronic health record requirements. systems are installed and maintained in accordance with country and PEPFAR This supports maintenance of the current directions, and will maintain and update health information systems landscape, aggregate data reporting from these and other collaborating on new technologies and information technology systems. information systems chosen by the FMOH, ensuring maintenance of the human resource Organisations worldwide may apply, information system, and supporting strategic including government and non-government information focused pre-service education to organisations, HEIs and colleges, community-
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based and for-profit organisations and Website: hospitals. http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- One grant, worth USD 2.75 million per year, is opportunity.html?oppId=284775 available over five years. Eligibility profile Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1749. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 08 Oct 16 Deadline information: Applications due by Disciplines 11.59pm US Eastern Standard Time. ------Posted date: 09 Aug 16 Health & Medical Informatics Award type: Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Development Contact Details (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants for ------individual investigators, Research calls for Department of Health and Human Services business CDC Procurement and Grants Office Award amount max: USD 13,750,000 2920 Brandywine Road MS K75 Award amount min: - Atlanta, GA 30341 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 770 488 2082 Email: [email protected]
OLGATE-PALMOLIVE AWARDS FOR STUDENT RESEARCH TRAINING IN ALTERNATIVE METHODS C Society of Toxicology
Description: The Society of Toxicology invites applications would not be available to them otherwise; or for the Colgate-Palmolive awards for student at approved workshops, symposia or research training in alternative methods. continuing education programmes where These enhance graduate student research hands-on training will be received. The training by using in vitro methods or training should help toxicology graduate alternative techniques to reduce, replace or students enhance their thesis or dissertation refine use of animals in toxicological research. research. The training may include use of in vitro and ex vivo procedures, non-mammalian animal Applicants must be enrolled in PhD or MS models, computer modelling and structure- study in the discipline of toxicology and be activity relationships. student members or pending student members of the SOT at the application Graduate students may propose to develop deadline. expertise in relevant methodologies at a Each award includes up to US$3,750 to defray laboratory away from their home institution; travel, per diem, training expenses and at a laboratory at their home institution that research costs.
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Disciplines Closing date: 09 Oct 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Clinical Medicine; Pharmacy & been announced by funder, but this is the Pharmacology; Pharmaceutical Drugs; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Performance Testing & Reliability; repeated once a year. Pharmacogenomics; Screening of Drugs & Posted date: 12 Aug 14 Agents; Drug Resistance; Animal Models; Award type: Thesis/Dissertation funding, Laboratory Animals; Drug & Substance Personal development, Directed grants for Abuse; Chemistry; Medicinal Chemistry; individual investigators, Financial aid for Toxicology; Animal Parasites & Pathogens; postgraduate students, Travel for research Diagnostic Sciences; Methods of Drug purposes Delivery; Computer Simulation & Modelling; Award amount max: - Pharmacokinetics; Drug Design; Materials Award amount min: - Properties & Analysis; In Vitro Biology; Award budget total: - Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology Website: http://www.toxicology.org/application/af/aw Contact Details ards_details.aspx?id=4 ------Application form: SOT http://www.toxicology.org/ai/af/awards_cp_s 1821 Michael Faraday Drive rtam.aspx Suite 300
Reston, VA 20190 Eligibility profile ------Fax: +1 703 438 3115 Country of applicant institution: Any Tel: +1 703 438 3113 Email: [email protected]
OLGATE-PALMOLIVE GRANTS FOR ALTERNATIVE RESEARCH Society of Toxicology C
Description: The Society of Toxicology invites applications reproductive and developmental for the Colgate-Palmolive grants for toxicology; alternative research. These support efforts neurotoxicology; that promote, develop, refine or validate systemic toxicology; scientifically acceptable animal alternative sensitisation; methods to facilitate the safety assessment of acute toxicity. new chemicals and formulations. High priority is given to projects that use in vitro or Applicants must work in an established non-animal models or fall within the laboratory and have an access to a laboratory following subject areas: to perform the proposed research.
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Each grant includes a plaque and a cash prize Disciplines of up to US$40,000. ------Toxicology; Pharmacokinetics; Drug Design; Medicinal Chemistry; Clinical Pharmacy & Closing date: 09 Oct 16 (Forecast) Pharmacology; Materials Properties & Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Analysis; Screening of Drugs & Agents; been announced by funder, but this is the Clinical Medicine; Animal Models; Computer approximate deadline we expect. This call is Simulation & Modelling; Laboratory Animals; repeated once a year. Animal Parasites & Pathogens; Drug Posted date: 13 Aug 14 Resistance; Pharmaceutical Drugs; In Vitro Award type: Directed grants for individual Biology; Performance Testing & Reliability; investigators Methods of Drug Delivery; Chemistry; Award amount max: USD 40,000 Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Drug & Award amount min: - Substance Abuse; Diagnostic Sciences; Award budget total: - Pharmacogenomics Website: http://www.toxicology.org/application/af/aw Contact Details ards_details.aspx?id=79 ------Application form: SOT http://www.toxicology.org/ai/af/awards_cp_g 1821 Michael Faraday Drive ar.aspx Suite 300
Reston, VA 20190 Eligibility profile Fax: +1 703 438 3115 ------Tel: +1 703 438 3113 Country of applicant institution: Any Email: [email protected]
NTERNATIONAL TOXSCHOLAR OUTREACH GRANTS Society of Toxicology
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Description: The Society of Toxicology invites applications interest groups, employers or host for its International ToxScholar outreach institutions. grants. These enable members of the society to visit developing nations to expand the Closing date: 09 Oct 16 awareness of toxicology and to promote Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 toxicology careers through interaction of times a year. toxicologists with undergraduate and Posted date: 13 Jun 16 graduate students. Award type: Travel for research purposes, Directed grants for individual investigators, Grants are worth up to US$1,250 each. Directed grants to institutions, research Applicants are encouraged to seek matching groups etc funding from partners, including SOT special Award amount max: USD 1,250 Award amount min: -
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Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: ------http://www.toxicology.org/awards/gf/toxscho Toxicology lar.asp Application form: Contact Details http://www.toxicology.org/application/af/aw ------ardDocuments/InternationalToxScholar_Gra SOT ntApplication.docx 1821 Michael Faraday Drive Suite 300 Eligibility profile Reston, VA 20190 ------Tel: +1 703 438 3115 Country of applicant institution: Any Email: [email protected]
IELD VEGETABLES CROP SECTOR PANEL FUNDING Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board F
Description: The Agriculture and Horticulture provide information, which can be Development Board invites applications for used to promote consumption of its panel funding in the field vegetables crop home grown vegetables. sector. This scheme aims to enable British growers of field vegetables to increase their Applicants in the UK or overseas with a efficiency, competitiveness, resilience and proven record in R&D, knowledge transfer or sustainability through funding of applied communications work may apply. Projects research and knowledge exchange. The must have clearly stated objectives and following five key objectives have been measurable milestones to assess progress, and identified for R&D in the field vegetable applicants should indicate how the results sector: will be exploited by the industry after ensuring that adequate and completion of the project. sustainable crop protection measures are available for the main crop Closing date: 10 Oct 16 protection risks; Deadline information: increasing returns on investment Posted date: 03 Jun 16 through the efficient use of resources; Award type: Academic-Industry links, supply consistent quality product and Directed grants to institutions, research continuity of supply to achieve groups etc customer satisfaction; Award budget total: - ensure a co-ordinated approach to Website: http://www.hdc.org.uk/key- R&D and technology transfer to farm objectives/field-vegetables level; Application form: http://horticulture.ahdb.org.uk/sites/default/ files/RKPF- Application%20Form%20Standard.doc
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Eligibility profile Horticultural & Crop Production; Botany; ------Fruits & Vegetables Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Disciplines ------Email: [email protected]
MPLEMENTING AN ELECTRONIC MONITORING AND REPORTING SYSTEM IN THE REPUBLIC OF RWANDA UNDER THE PRESIDENT’S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS I RELIEF (PEPFAR) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Description: The Centers for Disease Control and Award budget total: - Prevention (CDC) invite applications for Website: implementing an electronic monitoring and http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- reporting system in the Republic of Rwanda opportunity.html?oppId=263189 under the President’s emergency plan for Aids relief (PEPFAR). This initiative aims to Eligibility profile develop a new system or upgrade and ------maintain the existing web-based reporting Country of applicant institution: All African system that has been in place since 2008 and Nations build local capacity to maintain the system. This system will be used to generate PEPFAR Disciplines periodic reports, including the semi-annual ------and annual progress reports and additional Clinical Decision-making & Analysis; Access ad hoc requests. to Health Care; Computer Science & Informatics; Primary Care; Public Health, Any African organisation may apply. Funding Health Services & Primary Care; Quality of is worth up to US$310,000. Care; Data Analysis; HIV/Aids; Health Systems, Administration; Social Work & Ref: CDC-RFA-GH15-1569. Social Policy; Digitising & Digital Archives; Clinical Medicine; Preventive Medicine; Closing date: 10 Oct 16 Libraries & Information Science; Database Deadline information: Applications due by Management; Disease Control; Diagnostic 11.59pm EST. Sciences; Blood Tests; Venereology & Sexually Posted date: 27 Aug 14 Transmitted Diseases Award type: Development (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to Contact Details institutions, research groups etc ------Award amount max: USD 310,000 Department of Health and Human Services Award amount min: - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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US Embassy Kigali Tel: +250 404 533 8505 2657 Avenue de la Gendarmerie Email: [email protected] Kigali
NNOVATION FUND CHEMISTRY – CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME I Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research – Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Description: The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Deadline information: Applications due by Research’s Division of Chemical Sciences 2pm CET. The round will be closed when (NWO CW) invites applications for its the fund’s financial means have been innovation fund chemistry – chemical exhausted. industrial partnership programme. This Posted date: 04 Jan 16 supports initiatives of at least one company Award type: Research calls for business, and at least two knowledge institutes focused Networking/collaboration, Travel for strongly on research questions of the research purposes, Equipment and materials, company. Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Academic-Industry links The main applicant must be a researcher Award amount max: €1,000,000 employed by a Dutch university or by a Website: http://www.nwo.nl/en/funding/our- research institute recognised by NWO who funding-instruments/cw/new-chemical- innovations-fund/new-chemical- represents a public-private consortium of at innovations-fund---chemical-industrial- least two knowledge institutes and at least partnership-programme-chipp/fund-new- one company. Participating companies chemical-innovations---chemical-industrial- contribute in cash to the research. partnership-programme-chipp.html Commitment of participating companies must be evident when the application is submitted. Application form: http://www.nwo.nl/binaries/content/docume NWO and the company each pay half of the nts/nwo- project expenses. For SMEs the minimum en/common/documentation/application/cw/i project size is €160,000: €80,000 company nnovation-fund-chemistry-%E2%94%82- contribution plus €80,000 NWO contribution. application-form- For all other companies the minimum project chipp/Application+form+2016- size is €1.5 million, €750,000 company 17_CHIPP_def.docx contribution plus €750,000 NWO contribution. The maximum project size is €2m. The total Eligibility profile budget for the fund is worth €11m. ------Applications must be submitted in English. Country of applicant institution: Netherlands Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 11 Oct 16
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NNOVATION FUND CHEMISTRY – TECHNOLOGY AREA Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research – Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek I
Description: The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Closing date: 11 Oct 16 Research’s Division of Chemical Sciences Deadline information: Applications due by (NWO CW) invites applications for its 2pm CET. The round will be closed when innovation fund chemistry – technology area. the fund’s financial means have been This supports initiatives of consortia of at exhausted. least two companies and at least two Posted date: 04 Jan 16 knowledge institutions in which the research Award type: Research calls for business, questions of the participating companies are Networking/collaboration, Travel for addressed coherently. research purposes, Equipment and materials, Directed grants to institutions, research The main applicant must be a researcher groups etc, Academic-Industry links employed by a Dutch university or by a Award amount max: €1,000,000 research institute recognised by NWO who Award amount min: - Award budget total: - represents a public-private consortium of at Website: http://www.nwo.nl/en/funding/our- least two knowledge institutes and at least funding-instruments/cw/new-chemical- two companies. Participating companies innovations-fund/new-chemical- contribute in cash and potentially partly in innovations-fund---technology-area-ta/new- kind to the research. Commitment of chemical-innovations-fund---technology- participating companies must be evident area-ta.html when the application is submitted. Application form: http://www.nwo.nl/binaries/content/docume NWO pays two-thirds of the project expenses nts/nwo- and the participating companies jointly pay en/common/documentation/application/cw/i one-third. The minimum project size is nnovation-fund-chemistry-%E2%94%82- €750,000: €250,000 joint company contribution application-form-ta/Application+form+2016- plus €500,000 NWO contribution. The 17_TA_def.docx maximum project size is €1.5 million. Companies can partly contribute in kind to Eligibility profile the project expenses. The total budget for the ------fund is worth €11m. Country of applicant institution: Netherlands Country of applicant institution: Any Applications must be submitted in English. Disciplines
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NNOVATION FUND CHEMISTRY – LAUNCHPAD FOR INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research – Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek I
Description: The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Closing date: 11 Oct 16 Research’s Division of Chemical Sciences Deadline information: Applications due by (NWO CW) invites applications for its 2pm CET. The round will be closed when innovation fund chemistry – launchpad for the fund’s financial means have been innovative technology. This supports exhausted. initiatives of at least one company and at least Posted date: 04 Jan 16 one knowledge institute in which the research Award type: Directed grants to institutions, question of the company is conducted and research groups etc, Travel for research financed in two phases. The main applicant is purposes, Research calls for business, a researcher employed by a Dutch university Academic-Industry links, or by a research institute recognised by NWO Networking/collaboration, Equipment and who represents a public-private consortium of materials at least one knowledge institute and at least Award amount max: €225,000 Award amount min: - one company. Award budget total: -
Website: http://www.nwo.nl/en/funding/our-
funding-instruments/cw/new-chemical- The entire project size is between €150,000 innovations-fund/fund-new-chemical- and €300,000. NWO pays three-quarters of the innovations---launchpad-for-innovative- project expenses and the participating future-technology-lift/fund-new-chemical- companies jointly pay one quarter. In phase 1 innovations---launchpad-for-innovative- the minimum project size is €35,000 and the future-technology-lift.html maximum project size is €70,000: 16 per cent Application form: joint company contribution plus 84 per cent http://www.nwo.nl/binaries/content/docume NWO contribution. In phase 2 the minimum nts/nwo- project size is €115,000 and the maximum en/common/documentation/application/cw/i project size is €230,000: 28 per cent joint nnovation-fund-chemistry-%E2%94%82- company contribution plus 72 per cent NWO application-form- contribution. Participating companies lift/Application+form+2016- contribute in cash to the research. The total 17_LIFT_def.docx budget for the fund is worth €11 million. Eligibility profile Applications must be submitted in English. ------
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RAND CHALLENGE AWARD Pancreatic Cancer UK G
Description: Pancreatic Cancer UK invites applications for Award type: Networking/collaboration, its grand challenge award. This supports a Travel for research purposes, Directed grants project that tackles one or more of the major to institutions, research groups etc, issues in pancreatic cancer, which when Equipment and materials solved would significantly improve the lives Award amount max: £1,000,000 of those affected by the disease. Projects may Award amount min: - address any priority area of pancreatic cancer Award budget total: £1,000,000 research; however, they should include a clear Website: vision of the programme of work and http://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/research demonstrate a pathway to impact and benefit /apply-for-a-research-grant/grand-challenge- for people living with the disease. award/ Application form: UK-based teams, led by a non-profit research http://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/media/8 28052/pancreatic-cancer-uk-2016-grand- institution such as a university, hospital or challenge-application-form.docx similar organisation, may apply.
Collaborators may include commercial and Eligibility profile international partners; however, the lead ------applicant must be a UK non-profit research Country of applicant institution: United organisation. Consortia may involve Kingdom multidisciplinary collaboration. Country of applicant institution: Any
The award is worth £1 million over a period Disciplines of three to five years. Funding covers student ------fees and stipend, salaries, consumables, Colorectal, Pancreatic & Stomach Cancers animal costs, equipment and travel costs.
Contact Details Closing date: 11 Oct 16 ------Deadline information: Applications due by Tel: +44 20 7820 6705 1pm, 11 October; hard copies due by 5pm, 18 Email: [email protected] October 2016. Posted date: 07 Jul 16
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RITISH ACADEMY/LEVERHULME SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS British Academy B
Description: The British Academy, in association with the Award type: Travel for research purposes, Leverhulme Trust, invites applications for its Directed grants for individual investigators, small research grants. These support primary Networking/collaboration, Hosting visits, research in the humanities and social sciences. Travel to conferences, meetings etc. Grants may be used to facilitate initial project Award amount max: £10,000 planning and development, to support the Award amount min: £500 direct costs of research and to enable the Award budget total: - advancement of research through workshops Website: or conferences, or visits by or to partner http://www.britac.ac.uk/baleverhulme-small- scholars. research-grants-0 Application form: https://egap.britac.ac.uk/ Applications for individual and collaborative projects are equally welcome. International Eligibility profile groups of scholars may apply, provided the ------lead applicant is a UK-based scholar. Country of applicant institution: United Grants are tenable for up to two years and are Kingdom worth between £500 and £10,000. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 12 Oct 16 Disciplines Deadline information: Applications are ------invited between 1 September and 12 October Social Sciences; Humanities 2016 for the Autumn call; and between 12 April and 24 May 2017 for the Spring call. Contact Details Deadlines on: 12 October 2016, 24 May 2017. ------Posted date: 19 Jul 16 Tel: +44 20 7969 5217 Email: [email protected]
OMING SOON: ANCIENT PERSIA FUND British Academy C
Description: *** The British Academy will shortly be 2017 for the Spring call. The following inviting applications to its ancient Persia fund. information is subject to change. *** Applications will open on 1 September and close on 12 October 2016 for the Autumn call, The aim of this fund is to encourage and and open on 12 April and close on 24 May support the study of ancient Persia and related areas, including central Asia, in the
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period before the coming of Islam. Activities Award type: Directed grants for individual supported by the fund include research grants investigators, Travel for research purposes for the study of ancient Iran and neighbouring Award amount max: - areas, covering the travel costs of students Award amount min: - and scholars. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.britac.ac.uk/british- For UK residents, an application to this fund academy-special-funds for travel costs may be combined with an Application form: https://egap.britac.ac.uk/ application for a small research grant for other costs, up to a total of £7,500. Applicants based Eligibility profile outside the UK are not eligible to apply for ------additional support, but are welcome to apply Country of applicant institution: Any for a travel grant up to the normal limit of £500. Grants are tenable for 12 months. Disciplines ------Closing date: 12 Oct 16 Middle Eastern Studies Deadline information: Deadlines on: 12 October 2016, 24 May 2017. Contact Details Posted date: 19 Jul 16 ------Tel: +44 20 7969 5217 Email: [email protected]
EADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOR HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM PROGRAMME International Association of Universities L
Description: The International Association of Universities research training, in particular invites applications for its leadership innovative doctoral programmes; development for higher education reform innovative approaches to research programme. This aims to increase and capacity building via cooperation; improve South-South as well as North-South policies and programmes for funding cooperation among higher education of research and revenue generation, institutions in order to strengthen research diversification of funding sources; capacity and research management in alternative modes for research developing country universities. Institutions production; interested in participating are invited to building linkages between the submit joint project proposals focused on one university research system and or two of the following areas: national or regional research systems; developing research mission, research university contribution to the policy and research development development of strong national strategy; research agendas; research planning, organisation and management;
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research capacity building through United Kingdom, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, internationalisation. Hong Kong, Croatia, Haiti, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Each applicant must be an IAU member in Islamic Republic of, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, good standing. Projects must be international Japan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, in scope and they should preferably involve Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Lithuania, South-South or North-South cooperation. At Luxembourg, Latvia, Libya, Morocco, least one of the partner institutions should be Moldova, Republic of, Macedonia, the former located in a low-income or lower-middle- Yugoslav Republic of, Mongolia, Macao, income country. Six grants will be awarded, Malawi, Mexico, Malaysia, Mozambique, worth up to €10,000 each. Projects and all Nigeria, Nicaragua, Netherlands, Norway, related reporting must be completed by 15 Nepal, New Zealand, Oman, Peru, Papua June 2015. New Guinea, Philippines, Pakistan, Poland, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Portugal, Closing date: 12 Oct 16 (Forecast) Paraguay, Qatar, Romania, Russian Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Federation, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Sweden, been announced by funder, but this is the Singapore, Slovenia, Slovakia, Senegal, approximate deadline we expect. This call is Somalia, Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, repeated once a year. Togo, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Taiwan, Posted date: 09 Sep 14 Tanzania, United Republic of, Ukraine, Award type: Development Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, (Africa/Caribbean), Institutional South Africa, Zimbabwe development, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Hosting visits, Disciplines Networking/collaboration, Travel for ------research purposes Schools Policy & Politics; Health Education; Award amount max: €10,000 Financial Economics; Government & Award amount min: - Governance Studies; Education; Social Award budget total: - Programmes; Financial Planning; Bilingual & Website: http://www.iau-aiu.net/node/132 Intercultural Education; Social Work & Social Application form: http://www.iau- Policy; Computer Science & Informatics; aiu.net/sites/all/files/LEADHER_Application Innovation & Technology Management; %20Form_2015_1.doc Teacher Quality & Evaluation; Research
Methods in Education; Higher Education; Eligibility profile Education in Developing Countries; Research ------Management Country of applicant institution: Andorra,
United Arab Emirates, Albania, Armenia, Contact Details Argentina, Austria, Australia, Azerbaijan, ------Bangladesh, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, IAU Bahrain, Benin, Brazil, Bahamas, Botswana, UNESCO House Belarus, Canada, Congo, Switzerland, 1 rue Miollis Cameroon, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cape 75732 Paris Cedex 15 Verde, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Email: [email protected] Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Egypt, Spain, Finland, Fiji, France,
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USHROOMS CROP SECTOR PANEL FUNDING Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board M
Description: The Agriculture and Horticulture will be exploited by the industry after Development Board invites applications for completion of the project. its panel funding in the mushrooms crop sector. This scheme aims to solve key issues Closing date: 12 Oct 16 related to the production and impacts of Deadline information: mushrooms. The sector primarily comprises Posted date: 03 Jun 16 the range of Agaricus bisporus products but Award type: Academic-Industry links, also includes the much smaller level of Directed grants to institutions, research production of various exotic species. groups etc Proposals should address the following key Award amount max: - priorities: Award amount min: - Award budget total: - optimising energy use and minimising Website: http://www.hdc.org.uk/key- costs; objectives/mushrooms Application form: reducing labour costs per unit of http://horticulture.ahdb.org.uk/sites/default/ production; files/RKPF- environmental impacts of production, Application%20Form%20Standard.doc including strategic and applied R&D addressing the issue of odours from Eligibility profile mushroom compost production, and ------the introduction of the revised waste Country of applicant institution: Any regulations. Disciplines Applicants in the UK or overseas with a ------proven record in R&D, knowledge transfer or Botany; Fruits & Vegetables; Horticultural & communications work may apply. Projects Crop Production must have clearly stated objectives and measurable milestones to asses progress, and Contact Details applicants should indicate how the results ------Email: [email protected]
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ROTECTED EDIBLES CROP SECTOR PANEL FUNDING Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board P
Description: The Agriculture and Horticulture applicants should indicate how the results Development Board invites applications for will be exploited by the industry after its panel funding in the protected edibles crop completion of the project. sector. This scheme aims to enable British growers of protected edibles to increase their efficiency, productivity, profitability, Closing date: 12 Oct 16 competitiveness, resilience, output and value Deadline information: through funding of applied research and Posted date: 03 Jun 16 knowledge exchange. Protected edibles Award type: Directed grants to institutions, include salad crops such as tomatoes, research groups etc, Academic-Industry cucumbers, lettuce, peppers, herbs, celery, links aubergines and mushrooms. Proposals should Award amount max: - address the following four objectives: Award amount min: - crop protection, including R&D of Award budget total: - robust, sustainable, integrated pest Website: http://www.hdc.org.uk/key- and disease management objectives/protected-edibles programmes; Application form: http://horticulture.ahdb.org.uk/sites/default/ increasing productivity through files/RKPF- resource efficiency, including Application%20Form%20Standard.doc reducing labour costs per unit of
production; Eligibility profile achieving quality, including support ------to risk assessment procedures and Country of applicant institution: Any residue monitoring and research into nutritional benefits of crops; Disciplines improving environmental ------performance, including energy and Horticultural & Crop Production; Fruits & emissions reduction. Vegetables; Botany
Applicants in the UK or overseas with a Contact Details proven record in R&D, knowledge transfer or ------communications work may apply. Projects Email: [email protected] must have clearly stated objectives and measurable milestones to asses progress, and
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OMING SOON: HONOR FROST FOUNDATION SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS British Academy C
Description: *** The British Academy, in collaboration with Posted date: 19 Jul 16 the Honor Frost Foundation, will soon be Award type: Directed grants for individual inviting applications for its small research investigators, Directed grants to institutions, grants. Applications will open on 1 September research groups etc and close on 12 October 2016 for the Autumn Award amount max: £10,000 call, and open on 12 April and close on 24 Award amount min: - May 2017 for the Spring call. The following Award budget total: - information is subject to change. *** Website: http://www.britac.ac.uk/british- academy-special-funds These grants support research in maritime Application form: https://egap.britac.ac.uk/ archaeology and maritime cultural heritage. The grants are mainly intended to provide Eligibility profile new funding opportunities within the UK for ------high quality research projects in maritime Country of applicant institution: United archaeology, and applicants do not need to Kingdom adhere to the Honor Frost Foundation’s Country of applicant institution: Any regional focus. Disciplines Applications from international groups of ------scholars are welcome, provided there is a UK- Maritime Archaeology based scholar as lead applicant. Grants are worth up to £10,000 each. Contact Details
Closing date: 12 Oct 16 ------Deadline information: Applications are Tel: +44 20 7969 5217 invited between 1 September and 12 October Email: [email protected] 2016; and between 12 April and 24 May 2017.
TRATEGIC ACTIONS SUPPORTING LARGE-SCALE CLINICAL TRIALS European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership S
Description: The European and Developing Countries projects with major cofunding. This call Clinical Trials Partnership invites letters of supports strategically important, large-scale intent for its strategic actions supporting clinical trials with the potential to achieve large-scale clinical trials, previously strategic rapid advances in the field of poverty-related
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diseases. Proposals should focus on clinical institutions, research groups etc, Clinical trials on poverty-related diseases in sub- trials, Networking/collaboration Saharan Africa. They may address any area of Award amount max: €15,000,000 research within the scope of the partnership, Award amount min: €3,000,000 namely HIV/Aids, malaria, tuberculosis and Award budget total: €28,000,000 the following neglected infectious diseases: Website: http://www.edctp.org/call/strategic- dengue; rabies; human African actions-supporting-large-scale-clinical-trials- trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness; 2/ Leishmaniases; cysticercosis or taeniasis; Application form: dracunculiasis or guinea-worm disease; https://www.edctpgrants.org/ echinococcosis; foodborne trematodiases; lymphatic filariasis; onchocerciasis or river Eligibility profile blindness; schistosomiasis; soil-transmitted ------helminthiases; Buruli ulcer; leprosy; Country of applicant institution: Angola, trachoma; yaws; diarrhoeal infections; lower Austria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, respiratory infections; as well as emerging Botswana, Congo, the Democratic Republic of infectious diseases of particular relevance for the, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte Africa, such as yellow fever. Ebola is d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Germany, specifically excluded from this call. Djibouti, Denmark, Eritrea, Spain, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, United Kingdom, Consortia comprising a minimum of three Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, different legal entities are eligible to apply. Guinea-Bissau, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Two of the legal entities must be established Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Luxembourg, in two different European participating states Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, and one legal entity must be established in a Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, sub-Saharan African country. Applicants able Nigeria, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, to demonstrate financial commitment from Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, other funders are given priority. Senegal, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Tanzania, United The total budget is worth €28 million. The Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, total project costs should be between €3m and Zimbabwe, South Sudan €15m with projects lasting between 36 and 60 months. Disciplines ------Closing date: 13 Oct 16 Health Systems in Developing Countries; Deadline information: Letters of intent Infectious Diseases invited between 5pm, 14 July and 5pm, 13 October; full proposals invited between Contact Details 4pm, 22 December 2016 and 5pm, 16 March ------2017. Posted date: 07 Jul 16 Tel: +31 70 344 08 80 Award type: Development Email: [email protected] (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to
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2020-SMEINST-2016-2017 DEDICATED SME INSTRUMENT – PHASE TWO Horizon 2020: Industrial Leadership H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: SMEInst-11-2016-2017 boosting the Industrial Leadership, under the Innovation potential of small businesses in the in SMEs work programme, invites proposals areas of climate action, environment, for its H2020-SMEInst-2016-2017 dedicated resource efficiency and raw materials; SME instrument call – phase two. This call SMEInst-12-2016-2017 new business supports projects with a European dimension models for inclusive, innovative and that lead to major changes in how business is reflective societies; done and will assist innovative SMEs to shape SMEInst-13-2016-2017 engaging SMEs new markets, create growth, and achieve high in security research and development. return on investment. Proposals may address the following topics: Proposals must take the form of SME SMEInst-01-2016-2017 open disruptive instrument actions. These require at least one innovation scheme; SME. Only applications from for-profit SMEs SMEInst-02-2016-2017 accelerating the established in EU member states or associated uptake of nanotechnologies advanced countries are eligible. All H2020 funding calls materials or advanced manufacturing allow third country partners who secure their and processing technologies by SMEs; own funding to participate in consortia. SMEInst-03-2016-2017 dedicated support to biotechnology SMEs Each successful proposal is expected to closing the gap from lab to market; receive between €500,000 and €2.5 million SMEInst-04-2016-2017 engaging SMEs over 12 to 24 months, although proposals for in space research and development; other amounts will also be considered. SMEInst-05-2016-2017 supporting innovative SMEs in the healthcare biotechnology sector; Ref: OJ C6776. SMEInst-06-2016-2017 accelerating market introduction of ICT solutions Closing date: 13 Oct 16 for health, wellbeing and ageing well; Deadline information: Call opens 26 SMEInst-07-2016-2017 stimulating the November 2015. Proposals due by 5pm innovation potential of SMEs for Brussels time, 3 February, 14 April, 15 June, sustainable and competitive and 13 October 2016, and 18 January, 6 April, agriculture, forestry, agri-food and 1 June and 18 October 2017. bio-based sectors; Posted date: 15 Oct 15 Award type: Technology SMEInst-08-2016-2017 supporting innovation/development, Innovation grants, SMEs efforts for the development to Research calls for business, deployment and market replication of Networking/collaboration innovative solutions for blue growth; Award amount max: - SMEInst-09-2016-2017 stimulating the Award amount min: - innovation potential of SMEs for a low Award budget total: - carbon and efficient energy system; Website: SMEInst-10-2016-2017 small business http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port innovation research for transport and al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 smart cities mobility; 0-smeinst-2016-
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2017.html#c,topics=callIdentifier/t/H2020- SMEInst-2016- Disciplines 2017/1/1/1&callStatus/t/Forthcoming/1/1/0&c ------allStatus/t/Open/1/1/0&callStatus/t/Closed/1/ Demography; Nanotechnology; Small & 1/0&+identifier/desc Medium-Sized Enterprises; Materials Sciences; Food Security; Social Work & Social Eligibility profile Policy; Forestry Science (Silvology); Earth ------Systems & Environmental Sciences; Energy Country of applicant institution: Any Engineering; Sustainable Agriculture; Country of applicant institution: EU Computer Science & Informatics; Associated Countries, Overseas Countries and Aquacultural Biotechnology; Advanced Territories, EU (European Union), EU All Manufacturing; Medicine & Health; International Cooperation Partner countries International Security (ICPC)
ARGE GRANTS COMPETITION Economic and Social Research Council L
Description: The Economic and Social Research Council years. The budget for this round will be invites proposals for its large grants approximately £6m to cover three or four competition. This supports research that has awards. Grants may cover research, the potential to effect significant economic or postgraduate training and associated societal impact. Proposals may be standard activities. research projects, large-scale surveys, infrastructure projects or methodological Closing date: 13 Oct 16 developments in any area of the social Deadline information: Registration of sciences. Interdisciplinarity, both within and interest due by 8 July; proposals are invited beyond the social sciences is encouraged. between July and 4pm, 13 October 2016. Posted date: 31 May 16 Eligible organisations may be higher Award type: Directed grants to institutions, education institutions, research institutes research groups etc, Directed grants for funded by a research council or independent individual investigators research organisations. Proposals may be Award amount max: £2,000,000 submitted by more than one applicant but Award amount min: £800,000 must be led by a principal investigator. Award budget total: - Collaborations with researchers in other Website: countries and with business, third sector or http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding/funding- opportunities/large-grants-competition-2016- government body co-investigators based in 17/ the UK are supported.
Application form: https://je- Proposals worth between £1 million and s.rcuk.ac.uk/JeS2WebLoginSite/Login.aspx £2.5m each will be supported at 80 per cent full economic cost for a period of three to five
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Eligibility profile Disciplines ------Country of applicant institution: United Social Sciences Kingdom Country of applicant institution: United Contact Details Kingdom ------Country of applicant institution: Any Tel: +44 1793 442 824 Email: [email protected]
EXUAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS – JORDAN Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research – Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk S Onderzoek
Description: The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific behaviour amidst constraints are especially Research’s (NWO) division Science for Global welcomed. Development (WOTRO) invites pre-proposals for its call on sexual and reproductive health International consortia consisting of at least and rights. This aims to generate new two partner organisations of whom at least knowledge and insights, and contribute to one partner from Jordan may apply. Consortia improving and innovating SRHR policies and may consist of a research institution from practices. Potential fields of interest are: Jordan, a research institution from across the improved understanding of young globe and preferably a practitioner people’s realities, enabling factors and organisation from Jordan; or consist of a barriers to SRHR information and research institution that is not Jordanian but services; preferably from the Middle East, and a improved access to information, practitioner organisation from Jordan. The including awareness campaigns and main applicant and the co-applicant should sexual education, and quality health have a senior position at the consortium and social services, especially for member organisations. Extending the women across the different age consortium with other practitioner groups and vulnerable groups such as organisations, including international communities in remote areas, refugees organisations or private parties is welcomed. and people with disabilities; informed choices and decision-making The total budget is €1.6 million. Grants are processes related to SRHR. worth up to €170,000 over 12 months, €250,000 over 18 months or €340,000 over 24 Project should preferably focus on young months. Funding covers personnel costs, people and women. Approaches that are bench fees, material costs, travel costs, multidisciplinary, and that advance both knowledge sharing, capacity strengthening theoretical and practical understandings of and evaluation costs, and audit costs. An people’s sexual and reproductive health
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additional €10,000 is available for organising Application form: proposal elaboration workshops. http://www.nwo.nl/binaries/content/docume nts/nwo- en/common/documentation/application/wotr Closing date: 13 Oct 16 o/srhr---form-preproposals/SRHR+Research- Deadline information: Preliminary Jordan_preproposal+form+DEF.docx proposals due by 2pm, 13 October 2016; full proposals due by 2 February 2017. Eligibility profile Posted date: 19 Jul 16 ------Award type: Publish, edit, translate, Country of applicant institution: Any disseminate, Networking/collaboration, Travel for research purposes, Innovation Disciplines grants, Hosting conferences, Equipment and ------materials, Directed grants to institutions, Psychology of Sex & Gender; Women's research groups etc Health; Reproductive Medicine; Women's Award amount max: €340,000 Rights Award amount min: - Award budget total: €1,600,000 Contact Details Website: http://www.nwo.nl/en/funding/our------funding-instruments/wotro/sexual-and- PO Box 93120 reproductive-health-and-rights-srhr--- NL-2509 AC The Hague bangladesh-and-burundi/sexual-and- Tel: +31 70 344 0963 reproductive-health-and-rights-srhr--- Email: [email protected] jordan.html
UPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF VACCINES FOR POVERTY-RELATED DISEASES S European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership
Description: The European and Developing Countries Leishmaniases; cysticercosis or taeniasis; Clinical Trials Partnership invites applications dracunculiasis or guinea-worm disease; for its support for the development of echinococcosis; foodborne trematodiases; vaccines for poverty-related diseases call. This lymphatic filariasis; onchocerciasis or river supports large-scale collaborative projects blindness; schistosomiasis; soil-transmitted which include one or more clinical trials helminthiases; Buruli ulcer; leprosy; aiming to accelerate the clinical development trachoma; yaws; diarrhoeal infections; lower of new vaccines, preventive or therapeutic, respiratory infections; as well as emerging against one of the PRDs. They may address infectious diseases of particular relevance for any area of research within the scope of the Africa, such as yellow fever. Ebola is partnership, namely HIV/Aids, malaria, specifically excluded from this call. At least tuberculosis and the following neglected one clinical trial should be carried out in sub- infectious diseases: dengue; rabies; human Saharan Africa to test the safety, African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness; immunogenicity and efficacy of the vaccine.
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Eligibility profile Consortia comprising a minimum of three ------independent legal entities may apply. Two of Country of applicant institution: Angola, the legal entities must be established in two Austria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, different European participating states and Botswana, Congo, the Democratic Republic of one of the legal entities must be established in the, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte a sub-Saharan African country. d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Germany, Djibouti, Denmark, Eritrea, Spain, Ethiopia, The total budget is €70 million. Grants are Finland, France, Gabon, United Kingdom, worth up to €15m each. Projects should last Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, between 36 and 60 months but they may have Guinea-Bissau, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, another duration. Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Closing date: 13 Oct 16 Nigeria, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Deadline information: Pre-applications due Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, by 5pm, 13 October; full applications invited Senegal, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, between 5pm, 22 December 2016 and 5pm, 16 Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Tanzania, United March 2017. Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Posted date: 07 Jul 16 Zimbabwe, South Sudan Award type: Development (Africa/Caribbean), Clinical trials, Directed Disciplines grants to institutions, research groups etc ------Award amount max: €15,000,000 Tropical & Neglected Diseases; Immunisation Award amount min: - Programmes & Vaccination Award budget total: €70,000,000 Website: http://www.edctp.org/call/vaccines- Contact Details poverty-related-diseases/ ------Application form: Tel: +31 70 344 08 80 https://www.edctpgrants.org/Login.aspx?Ret Email: [email protected] urnUrl=%2f
NVESTIGATOR-LED PROJECT GRANTS Health Research Board I
Description: The Health Research Board invites be cutting-edge, add to the knowledge base applications for its investigator-led project internationally, and focus on important timely grants. These support the creation of new research questions where the answers are of knowledge that will help to address major interest to an international audience. health challenges in society and have an Applications should be submitted under one impact on future health care. Projects should of the following remits:
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Award type: Directed grants to institutions, patient-oriented research; research groups etc, Publish, edit, translate, population health research; disseminate, Directed grants for individual health services research. investigators Award amount max: €370,000 Lead applicants must hold a post at an HRB Award amount min: - recognised host institution in the Republic of Award budget total: - Ireland as an independent investigator, or be Website: http://www.hrb.ie/research- a contract researcher recognised as an strategy-funding/open-grants-and- independent researcher, or be an individual fellowships/future-calls-schedule/ who will be recognised by the host institution Eligibility profile as a contract employee for the duration of the ------award. The host institution must be an Country of applicant institution: Ireland approved institution in the Republic of Country of applicant institution: Any Ireland. Co-applicants may be from outside of the Republic of Ireland. Disciplines
------Grants are worth up to €370,000, with a Health Systems; Public Health; Community duration of between 24 and 48 months. Health Services; Health & Society
Contact Details Closing date: 13 Oct 16 ------Deadline information: Applications are Tel: +353 1 2345 139 invited between 25 August and 1pm, 13 Email: [email protected] October 2016. Posted date: 28 Jul 16
OINT PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 1 – MEDICAL SIMULATION AND INFORMATION SCIENCES RESEARCH PROGRAMME: TRANSLATIONAL SIMULATION RESEARCH J AWARD US Department of Defense
Description: The US Department of Defense, under the that simulation-based medical training has a joint programme committee 1 – medical measurable outcome on patient care is also simulation and information sciences research sought. Applications should propose work to programme, invites pre-applications for its develop a model that can measure translational simulation research award. This translational outcomes as a result of a supports research to determine whether the simulation-based programme in the following medical skill learned on a simulation system areas: has a downstream beneficial effect to patients adverse outcomes, for example, near- and the medical and health sciences in the real misses, harms, morbidity and clinical world. Research that demonstrates mortality;
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return-to-duty rates; Award type: Networking/collaboration, task and cognitive workload as it Travel for research purposes, Directed grants affects clinical performance; to institutions, research groups etc, improved supervisor satisfaction as Equipment and materials, Travel to reflected in subordinate performance; conferences, meetings etc., Directed grants improved team environment as for individual investigators reflected in improved team task Award amount max: USD 1,800,000 performance; Award amount min: - Award budget total: USD 1,800,000 time to completion of time-sensitive Website: clinical tasks. http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-
opportunity.html?oppId=287162 Eligible to apply are independent Application form: investigators at all academic levels or https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/index.htm equivalent, applying through federal agencies, for-profit, non-profit, public and Eligibility profile private organisations worldwide. ------The award is worth USD 1.8 million for a Country of applicant institution: Any maximum period of two years. Disciplines Ref: W81XWH-16-DMRDP-MSIS-TRA. ------Medical Education; Medical Effectiveness & Patient Outcomes; Patient Care & Education Closing date: 13 Oct 16
Deadline information: Pre-application due by 5pm ET, 13 October 2016; full Contact Details applications due by 5pm ET, 2 February ------2017. Tel: +1 301 682 5507 Posted date: 09 Aug 16 Email: [email protected]
TANDARD AWARDS IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BrightFocus Foundation S
Description: The BrightFocus Foundation invites Principal investigators should have held an applications for its standard awards in academic rank equivalent or higher than Alzheimer’s disease research. These support assistant professor. However, non-tenure researchers who have already generated track positions are welcome to apply given preliminary data, but still require significant that they are appropriately trained to lead a progress before they can apply to study and have permission to do so from their governmental or industrial funding agencies. organisation. Investigators at for-profit institutions are ineligible to apply.
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Each award is worth US$250,000 over a Eligibility profile maximum period of three years. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 14 Oct 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Primary Care; Pathology; Pathogenesis; repeated once a year. Clinical Medicine; Neurology; Public Health, Posted date: 15 Jul 14 Health Services & Primary Care; Alzheimer's Award type: Directed grants for individual Disease & Senile Dementia; Diagnostic investigators Sciences Award amount max: USD 250,000 Award amount min: - Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: Research Grants Department http://www.ahaf.org/research/apply/openaw BrightFocus Foundation ards.html 22512 Gateway Center Drive Application form: Clarksburg, MD 20871 http://brightfocus.smartsimple.us/ Tel: +1 800 437 2423
ESEARCH AWARDS Transcultural Nursing Society R
Description: The Transcultural Nursing Society invites The award is worth $3,000. Awardees must applications for its research awards. The present their completed research at the purpose is to support research by doctoral society's annual conference within three years students or doctorally prepared nurses of of completing the research. Awardees will be phenomena related to transcultural nursing provided with all travel expenses and the by providing start-up support for trajectory of conference fee. research. Closing date: 14 Oct 16 (Forecast) Doctoral students in partial fulfillment of a Deadline information: !! Call has not yet doctoral degree or doctorally prepared nurses been announced by funder, but this is the who have received a doctoral degree within approximate deadline we expect. This call is the past three years are eligible to apply. repeated once a year. Research investigations must focus on Posted date: 12 May 11 transcultural nursing phenomena. Applicants Award type: Directed grants for individual must have been members of TCN society for investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate two out of the last five years at the time of students application. Award amount max: USD 3,000
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Award amount min: - Nurse Practitioners; Anthropology; Award budget total: - Ethnography & Ethnology; Nursing; Social & Website: Cultural Anthropology http://www.tcns.org/Foundationawards.html Contact details Eligibility profile ------Transcultural Nursing Society Country of applicant institution: Any Madonna University 36600 Schoolcraft Road Disciplines Livonia, MI 48150 ------Email: [email protected]
MALL RESEARCH GRANTS BioSocial Society S
Description: The Biosocial Society invites applications for Award budget total: - its small research grants. These enable Website: http://www.biosocsoc.org/bursaries postgraduate students to conduct research Application form: related to biosocial topics. http://www.biosocsoc.org/images/Biosoc%20 Small%20research%20bursary%20applicatio Applicants must be members of the society, n%20form%202014.doc and must be currently enrolled for a doctoral or research master’s degree at a recognised Eligibility profile university. There is no restriction on ------nationality or residential status. Country of applicant institution: Any
Grants are worth up to £750 each, and may Disciplines cover costs associated with fieldwork or other ------research expenses. History of Science; Demography; Biological & Medical Anthropology; Sociobiology; Closing date: 14 Oct 16 Bioethics & Neuroethics; Social & Cultural Deadline information: Anthropology; Medical Sociology; Population Posted date: 09 May 16 Studies, Medical; Health & Society Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Travel for research purposes, Contact Details Financial aid for postgraduate students ------Award amount max: £750 Email: [email protected] Award amount min: -
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ALL FOR PROPOSALS World Health Organization C
Description: The World Health Organization invites Award type: Directed grants for individual proposals through its global polio eradication investigators, Travel for research purposes, initiative for research projects that will Directed grants to institutions, research significantly contribute to polio eradication. groups etc, Equipment and materials Priority is given to projects targeting the Award amount max: - following objectives: Award amount min: - detection and interruption of all Award budget total: - poliovirus transmission; Website: strengthening of immunisation http://www.polioeradication.org/Research/G systems and withdrawal of oral polio rantsandcollaboration.aspx vaccine. Application form: http://www.polioeradication.org/Portals/0/D
ocument/Research/GrantsCollaboration/GPE Research institutions and private companies I_Researchprojectapplication_revised.doc from anywhere in the world are eligible to apply. The principal investigator and, if Eligibility profile applicable, the collaborators should have ------experience and demonstrated ability to Country of applicant institution: Any successfully conduct relevant research projects. Preference will be given to proposals Disciplines developed by GPEI partner agencies and their ------research collaborators. Virology; Infectious Diseases; Immunisation
Programmes & Vaccination; Muscle Diseases Projects should last between 12 and 24 months. Contact Details ------Closing date: 14 Oct 16 Email: [email protected] Deadline information: Posted date: 12 Jul 16
ELTIC-PLUS CALL FOR PROPOSALS EUREKA C
Description: EUREKA invites applications for its Celtic- focus on research related to a smart connected Plus call. This supports information and world. communications technology projects that
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Each project must involve at least two Application form: partners from two different EUREKA https://bscw.celticplus.eu/pub/bscw.cgi/d334/ countries of which one must be a EUREKA CPP2015-Proposal-Template.doc Member Country and one a EUREKA Member Country or a EUREKA Associated Eligibility profile Country. Applications are open to any type of ------company covering the Celtic-Plus research Country of applicant institution: Any areas, large industry as well as small Country of applicant institution: Switzerland, companies or universities and research Serbia, United Kingdom, Croatia, Israel, organisations. Companies outside the Iceland, Monaco, Macedonia, the former EUREKA countries may participate as well. Yugoslav Republic of, Norway, Russian Applicants must comply with national Federation, San Marino, Turkey, EU funding regulations. (European Union), Korea, Republic of, Ukraine, Latvia, Hungary, Romania, Finland, The average budget for a Celtic-Plus Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Spain, Bulgaria, consortium is between €1 million and €70m Montenegro, Czech Republic, Belgium, over two to three years. Poland, Ireland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Sweden, Canada, Lithuania, Germany, France, Estonia, Slovakia, Netherlands, Slovenia, Closing date: 14 Oct 16 Austria, Portugal Deadline information: Deadlines on: 25 May 2016, 14 October 2016. Disciplines Posted date: 01 Mar 16 ------Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Communication Studies; Computer research groups etc, Academic-Industry Networks; Internet & Mobile Technology; links, Networking/collaboration, Research Informatics & Big Data; Ubiquitous calls for business, Innovation grants Computing; Internet Standards & Governance Award amount max: €70,000,000 Award amount min: €1,000,000 Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: https://www.celticplus.eu/call- Email: [email protected] information/
UROPEAN INSTRUMENT FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS GLOBAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS E Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (EuropeAid)
Description: The Directorate-General for Development and rights and fundamental freedoms worldwide. Cooperation (EuropeAid) invites applications The specific objectives of this call are to for its European instrument for democracy support civil society and human rights and human rights global call. This aims to defenders working outside the EU in five key support civil society in its actions to support areas of human rights. This call is divided into the protection and the promotion of human five lots:
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lot 1 – support to women human Grants are worth between €250,000 and €1m rights defenders or human rights for lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 and between €1m and defenders working for women's and €1.55m for lot 5. Funding covers between 51 girls' rights where they are the most at and 95 per cent of total eligible costs. Projects risk; may last from 24 to 36 months. lot 2 – support to civil society actions fighting against torture and other Ref: EuropeAid/152550/DH/ACT/Multi. cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; Closing date: 14 Oct 16 lot 3 – support to the implementation Deadline information: Concept notes due by of the United Nations guiding 4pm Brussels time, 14 October 2016; invited principles on business and human full applications due in mid-February 2017. rights; Posted date: 22 Aug 16 lot 4 – support to the rights of persons Award type: Networking/collaboration, Directed grants to institutions, research belonging to minorities and persons groups etc, Development (Africa/Caribbean) affected by caste-based Award amount max: €1,550,000 discriminations; Award amount min: €250,000 lot 5 – support to addressing impunity Award budget total: €31,034,000 and to transitional justice. Website: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/onli Each applicant must be a natural person or an ne- entity without legal personality and be a non- services/index.cfm?ADSSChck=14718598841 profit making civil society organisation, 94&do=publi.detPUB&searchtype=AS&aoet including civil society organisations, =36538&ccnt=7573876%2C7573877%2C75738 including non-governmental non-profit 79&debpub=&orderby=pub&orderbyad=De organisations and independent political sc&nbPubliList=15&page=1&aoref=152550 foundations, community-based organisations Application form: and private-sector non-profit agencies, https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/pros institutions and organisations and networks pect thereof at local, national, regional and international level. For-profit organisations Eligibility profile may also be eligible in exceptional cases. The ------lead applicant may act individually or with Country of applicant institution: Any co-applicants. However, an action must include at least one local organisation Disciplines established in the country or one of the ------countries outside EU where the action is Disadvantaged & Minority Groups; Criminal taking place, as lead applicant or co-applicant. & Antisocial Behaviour; Crimes Against No nationality restriction applies to applicants Humanity; Women's Rights; Violence & and, if any, to co-applicants and affiliated Violent Crime; Civil & Human Rights; entities. Criminal Law; International Law
The budget for this call is approximately €31 Contact Details million. ------Email: [email protected]
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ESEARCH GRANTS Gay and Lesbian Medical Association R
Description: The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Posted date: 13 Mar 15 invites applications for the Lesbian Health Award type: Directed grants for individual Fund research grants. investigators, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Travel to conferences, These support research on improving the meetings etc. health of lesbians, other sexual minority Award amount max: USD 10,000 women and their families in the following Award amount min: USD 500 fields: Award budget total: - understanding social, family, and Website: interpersonal influences as sources of http://www.glma.org/index.cfm?fuseaction= stress or support; Page.viewPage&pageId=959&grandparentI D=594&parentID=922 eliminating inequalities in health care, Application form: including barriers to care, and http://www.glma.org/document/docWindow. improving quality of care and cfm?fuseaction=document.viewDocument& utilisation rates; documentid=249&documentFormatId=385 development and testing of interventions to address mental and Eligibility profile physical health needs of lesbians and ------other SMW, including depression, Country of applicant institution: Any identity related issues, eating disorders, substance abuse, obesity, Disciplines cancer risks, cardiovascular disease ------and sexually transmitted infections; Health of Minority Groups; Lesbian, Gay, Sexual and reproductive health, Bisexual & Transgender Studies including family and parenting issues. Contact Details Applicants may come from any country. ------Grants range from US$500 to US$10,000. GLMA 1326 18th Street NW, Suite 22 Closing date: 15 Oct 16 Washington DC 20036 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Tel: +1 202 600 8037 October 2016, 15 May 2017, and repeated Email: [email protected] annually.
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HARLES T AND JUDITH A TART STUDENT INCENTIVE AWARD FOR PARAPSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH C Parapsychology Foundation
Description: The Parapsychology Foundation invites Award budget total: - applications for the Charles T and Judith A Website: Tart student incentive award. This award is http://www.parapsychology.org/dynamic/040 for a student who demonstrates a strong 500.html commitment to work within parapsychology. Application form: Acceptable projects may be experimental, http://www.parapsychology.org/dynamic/inf experiential, clinical, historical, survey- or o/Tart%20Application.pd questionnaire-based, archival, bibliographic, literary, or any other type of investigation. Eligibility profile Undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate ------students with specific research proposals are Country of applicant institution: Any eligible to apply. The award is worth $500. Disciplines Closing date: 15 Oct 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Psychology; Mysticism & Spirituality been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 23 May 11 Parapsychology Foundation Award type: Directed grants for individual PO Box 1562 investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate New York, NY, 10021-0043 students Fax: +1 212 628 1550 Award amount max: USD 500 Tel: +1 212 628 1559 Award amount min: - Email: [email protected]
EW ZEALAND HISTORY RESEARCH TRUST FUND New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage N
Description: The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and New Zealand's past. Funding can be used for Heritage invites applications for its awards the following purposes: from the New Zealand History Research Trust to enable historians to work full-time Fund. These support projects that will on a project; significantly enhance the understanding of to pay for research and writing costs;
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to pay for travel costs associated with Award amount min: - research. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.mch.govt.nz/funding- Any individual or group may apply, but nz-culture/ministry-grants-awards/new- tertiary students and staff are not eligible for zealand-history-research-trust assistance for projects undertaken as part of Application form: their university work. Applicants may reside http://www.mch.govt.nz/files/nz-history- outside New Zealand. research-award-form.doc
The fund may grant one major award of Eligibility profile NZ$60,000, as well as a number of smaller ------awards of up to NZ$12,000. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 15 Oct 16 Disciplines Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. New Zealand History Posted date: 20 May 16 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Contact Details research groups etc, Directed grants for ------individual investigators, Travel for research Fax: +64 4 499 4229 purposes Tel: +64 4 499 4490 Award amount max: NZD 60,000 Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH GRANTS Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation R
Description: The Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation Deadline information: !! Call has not yet invites applications for its research grants. been announced by funder, but this is the These support new and established approximate deadline we expect. investigators with projects that increase the Applications are due by midnight. This call understanding of primary hyperoxaluria and is repeated once a year. oxalosis, improve the clinical management of Posted date: 01 Oct 14 the genetic diseases, or focus on Award type: Directed grants for individual hyperoxaluria and oxalosis associated with investigators, Equipment and materials, other conditions and diseases. Travel for research purposes Award amount max: USD 160,000 Each grant is worth up to US$160,000 over a Award amount min: - maximum period of two years. Indirect costs Award budget total: - of up to 10 per cent of the direct costs may be Website: http://www.ohf.org/grants.html Application form: requested. http://www.ohf.org/docs/OHF-Grant-e-
Application.doc Closing date: 15 Oct 16 (Forecast)
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Eligibility profile Diagnostic Sciences; Biocatalysis & Enzyme ------Technology; Physiology Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Disciplines ------OHF General Practice & Family Health; 201 East 19th Street, Suite12E Hepatology; Medical Genetics; Enzymology; New York, NY 10003 Orphan & Rare Diseases; Clinical Medicine; Email: [email protected] Nephrology & Kidneys; Cancer Genetics; Urology; Chronic Care; Gastroenterology;
OHN F PERKINS JR MEMORIAL AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL PHYSIOLOGISTS American Physiological Society J
Description: The American Physiological Society invites Closing date: 15 Oct 16 applications for the John F Perkins Jr Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 memorial award for international October 2016, 15 April 2017, and repeated physiologists. The award promotes cultural annually. exchange and scientific collaborations by Posted date: 13 Mar 12 providing supplementary aid to families of Award type: Travel for research purposes, foreign scientists working for a minimum of Directed grants to institutions, research three months in the US. In this way, young groups etc, Hosting visits scientists are able to bring their families and Award amount max: USD 5,000 thus make full use of the cultural exchange as Award amount min: - well as the scientific benefits associated with Award budget total: - an international collaboration. The award will Website: http://www.the- support family visits to the US for aps.org/mm/awards/Other-APS- Awards/Early-Career-Professional postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty from Application form: https://www.the- overseas. aps.org/awardapps/login/index.cfm
The programme presupposes that the visiting Eligibility profile scientist and their host already have made ------arrangements for scientific collaboration and Country of applicant institution: Any have sufficient funds to cover the needs of the visiting scientist. The application must be Disciplines made jointly by the host and the visiting ------scientist. The host must be an APS member. Growth & Growth Factors; Physiology;
Human Physiology The recipient receives funds generally not exceeding US$5,000. Contact Details
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------Bethesda, MD 20814-3991 APS Tel: +1 301 634 7118 9650 Rockville Pike Email: [email protected]
UBLICATION GRANTS Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain P
Description: The Society of Architectural Historians of Award amount max: £1,000 Great Britain invites applications for its Award amount min: - publication grants. These contribute to Award budget total: - publication costs. Priority is given to Website: applicants resident in the UK, or working on http://www.sahgb.org.uk/publication- the history of the architecture of the UK or grants.html any part of it. Eligibility profile Bursaries do not normally exceed £500, but in ------exceptional circumstances a grant of up to Country of applicant institution: Any £1,000 may be awarded. Disciplines Closing date: 15 Oct 16 ------Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 British & Irish History; History of October 2016, 15 April 2017, and repeated Architecture annually. Posted date: 21 Apr 16 Contact Details Award type: Publish, edit, translate, ------disseminate, Directed grants for individual Email: [email protected] investigators
NTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE PROGRAMME – YOUNG SCIENTIST PROJECTS UNESCO I
Description: UNESCO, in collaboration with the programme. Funding aims to foster International Union of Geological Sciences, international cooperation between young invites applications for its young scientists geology researchers from developing and projects under the international geoscience developed countries early in their careers.
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Applicants should have completed their PhD Award budget total: - within the last 10 years and must demonstrate Website: an affiliation to a research institute, http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural- university, geological survey or equivalent sciences/environment/earth- organisation for the duration of the project. sciences/international-geoscience- Projects should involve at least three young programme/proposal-submission/ scientists from a minimum of two countries. Application form: The principal applicant must be from a http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MUL developing country. TIMEDIA/HQ/SC/pdf/2016_IGCP- applicationform.docx Funding is worth between US$5,000 and US$10,000 per year over five years. Grants Eligibility profile support field meetings, travel to international ------conferences, participation in training courses Country of applicant institution: Any and the purchase of research equipment. Disciplines Closing date: 15 Oct 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Earth Sciences once a year. Posted date: 31 May 16 Contact Details Award type: Networking/collaboration, ------Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences Directed grants for individual investigators, 7 place de Fontenoy Young investigator awards, Equipment and 75352 Paris materials Tel: +33 1 4568 4117 Award amount max: USD 10,000 Email: [email protected] Award amount min: USD 5,000
RANSLATION FUND Wellcome Trust T
Description: The Wellcome Trust invites concept notes for of technology development from a range of its translation fund. Awards support the disciplines, including physical, computational development of innovative and ground and life sciences. breaking technologies that address an unmet healthcare need in the biomedical area. Proposals are welcome from academic and Projects must have demonstrated proof-of- commercial organisations based in the UK principle supported by experimental data, and overseas, including non-profit research and must plan to take the product, technology institutions and those funded by the Medical or intervention to a stage at which it is Research Council, Cancer Research UK and sufficiently developed to be attractive to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences another party. Projects may cover any aspect Research Council. Single institutions or
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consortia thereof may apply. Commercial Website: companies may apply either as principal https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/translation- applicants or as collaborators. fund Application form: Awards may cover staff salaries, equipment, http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/c materials, travel and other direct costs of the orporatesite/@technology_transfer/document project, including equipment purchase and s/web_document/wtp040722.doc maintenance costs. Eligibility profile Closing date: 15 Oct 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Country of applicant institution: Any been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Concept Disciplines notes due by 5pm GMT, 15 April; invited ------preliminary applications due by 5pm GMT, Biotechnology; Biomedical Engineering 13 June 2016. This call is repeated 2 times a year. Contact Details Posted date: 09 Dec 15 ------Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Innovations research groups etc, Technology Wellcome Trust innovation/development, Innovation grants, Gibbs Building Networking/collaboration, Publish, edit, 215 Euston Road translate, disseminate, Travel for research London NW1 2BE purposes, Equipment and materials, Fax: +44 20 7611 5757 Academic-Industry links Tel: +44 20 7611 8857 Award amount max: - Email: [email protected] Award amount min: - Award budget total: -
ESEARCH GRANTS Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education R
Description: The Thoracic Surgery Foundation for generate data that will in turn facilitate Research and Education invites applications subsequent funding support for the applicant. for its research grants. These are intended to support original research efforts by Any cardiothoracic surgeons who have cardiothoracic surgeons who have completed completed a programme leading to their formal training, and who are seeking certification by the American Board of initial support and recognition for their Thoracic Surgery, or its equivalent in a research program. Preference will be given to country outside of the US, are welcome to either clinical or laboratory based apply. Grants are worth up to US$40,000 investigations that are judged likely to annually for up to two years.
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Closing date: 15 Oct 16 (Forecast) Eligibility profile Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Country of applicant institution: Any approximate deadline we expect. Applications due by 11.59pm CT. This call is Disciplines repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 20 May 11 Cardiology Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators Contact Details Award amount max: USD 80,000 ------Award amount min: - Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research Award budget total: - and Education Website: http://tsfre.org/awards/tsfre- 633 N ST Clair street 23rd Floor research-grant/ Chicago, IL 60611 Application form: http://tsfre.org/wp- Fax: +1 312 202 5868 content/uploads/2015/07/TSFRE-Research- Email: [email protected] Grant-Application-FY16-FINAL-NP.docx
UPPORT FOR SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics S
Description: The International Union of Geodesy and Closing date: 15 Oct 16 Geophysics invites applications for support Deadline information: This call is repeated for scientific meetings. This supports the once a year. organisation of scientific meetings such as Posted date: 06 Jul 16 workshops, advanced schools or symposia in Award type: Directed grants to institutions, the fields of geophysics and geodesy. research groups etc, Hosting conferences Meetings should: Award amount max: USD 2,000 have a well-defined and scientifically Website: relevant theme, be scheduled at a http://www.iugg.org/meetings/guidelines.ph propitious time for significant p progress in the field, and should be of interest to young researchers as well Eligibility profile as senior experts; ------Country of applicant institution: Any maintain a balanced scope relevant to
IUGG associations; Disciplines and have a well-balanced ------geographical and gender distribution. Geophysics; Geodesy
Qualified scientists from all parts of the world Contact Details may apply. 10 to 15 meetings each year may ------receive up to US$2,000 each.
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IUGG Secretariat 14473 Potsdam Helmholtz Centre Potsdam Tel: +49 331 288 1759 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Email: [email protected] Telegrafenberg, A17
BORIGINAL AND INUIT TRADITIONAL VISUAL ART FORMS PROGRAMME FOR INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS A Canada Council for the Arts – Conseil des Arts du Canada
Description: The Canada Council for the Arts invites Art supplies grants are worth up to CA$1,500 applications for its Aboriginal and Inuit each for artists resident in Labrador, Nunavik, traditional visual art forms programme for Nunavut, the Northwest Territories or Yukon individual artists. Funding supports Territory. Research, creation and production Aboriginal artists in conducting activities that grants are worth up to CA$20,000 each to contribute to the knowledge, sharing, cover the costs of travel, subsistence, understanding and development of equipment rental, transcription and Aboriginal traditional art forms, such as translation costs. Teaching grants are worth research, preservation, creation, production between CA$4,000 and CA$8,000 each to and teaching. Grants are available via the cover honoraria, travel, materials, teaching following programmes: aids and equipment rental. Applicants located art supplies and tools; north of the 60th parallel or in fly-in research grants, which support communities may receive up to CA$5,000 for research on techniques and materials additional travel and accommodation costs. used traditionally by Aboriginal or Inuit peoples in the making and use of Closing date: 15 Oct 16 artwork; Deadline information: If the deadline falls creation or production grants, which on a weekend or statutory holiday, supports the creation and production applications are due on the next business of new and innovative works of day. This call is repeated once a year. Aboriginal or Inuit traditional visual Posted date: 15 Apr 16 arts; Award type: Travel for research purposes, teaching grants, which enable artists Equipment and materials, Directed grants for individual investigators, Innovation to teach their art form within their grants, Travel to conferences, meetings etc., immediate community or region. Hosting conferences
Award amount max: CAD 25,000 The programme is open to Aboriginal peoples Award amount min: - from Canada, which the council defines as Award budget total: - First Nations, Inuit and Métis Applicants Website: must be Aboriginal or Inuit artists, working http://canadacouncil.ca/en/council/grants/fin individually or together, who are Canadian d-a-grant/grants/aboriginal-inuit-traditional- citizens or have permanent resident status. art-forms-program-for-individual-artists
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Application form: Visual Arts; Indigenous Peoples of the https://go.canadacouncil.ca/ Americas; Folk Art
Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any Tel: +1 613 566 4414 ext 5266 Email: [email protected] Disciplines ------
ESEARCH GRANTS R Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
Description: The Society of Architectural Historians of Award type: Directed grants for individual Great Britain invites applications for its investigators, Travel to conferences, research grants. These support the cost of meetings etc. travel, building surveys, photography and Award amount max: £1,000 conference attendance. Award amount min: - Priority is given to applicants resident in the Award budget total: - United Kingdom, or working on the history of Website: http://www.sahgb.org.uk/research- the architecture of the United Kingdom, as grants.html well as postgraduate students and those within five years of completing a Eligibility profile postgraduate degree, and first time ------applicants. Country of applicant institution: Any
Bursaries do not normally exceed £500, but in Disciplines exceptional circumstances a grant of up to ------£1,000 may be awarded. British & Irish History; History of Architecture Closing date: 15 Oct 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Contact details October 2016, 15 April 2017, and repeated ------annually. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 21 Apr 16
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2020-CO-CREATION-2016-2017 CO-CREATION FOR GROWTH AND INCLUSION – TOPICS 2 AND 3 H Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: Ref: H2020-SC6-CO-CREATION-2016-2017. Societal Challenges invites proposals, under the Europe in a changing world – inclusive, Closing date: 15 Oct 16 innovative and reflective societies work Deadline information: Proposals invited programme, for its H2020-CO-CREATION- between 29 July and 5pm Brussels time, 15 2016-2017 co-creation for growth and November 2016. inclusion call. Proposals may address the Posted date: 27 Jul 16 following topics: Award type: Innovation grants, Directed CO-CREATION-02-2016 user-driven grants to institutions, research groups etc, innovation – value creation through Networking/collaboration design-enabled innovation; Award budget total: €9,000,000 Website: CO-CREATION-03-2016 piloting http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port demand-side measures fostering al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 optimal knowledge circulation in 0-sc6-co-creation-2016-2017.html Europe.
Eligibility profile Proposals must take the form of coordination ------and support actions for topic 2 or innovation Country of applicant institution: EU actions for topic 3. Innovation actions require (European Union), EU Associated Countries, participation by at least three legal entities, Overseas Countries and Territories, EU All each established in a different EU member International Cooperation Partner countries state or associated country and independent (ICPC) of each other. Coordination and support Country of applicant institution: Any actions require at least one legal entity established in a member state or associated Disciplines country. All H2020 funding calls allow third ------country partners who secure their own Research & Innovation Economics & Policy; funding to participate in consortia. The Innovation & Technology Management; Spin- budget for topic 2 is worth up to €4 million Offs & Academic Innovation and up to €5m for topic 3.
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LINICAL RESEARCH COLLABORATION European Respiratory Society C
Description: The European Respiratory Society invites Closing date: 15 Oct 16 proposals for its clinical research Deadline information: This call is repeated collaboration. This supports the work of a once a year. clinical research collaboration in areas of Posted date: 27 May 16 respiratory medicine where a pan-European Award type: Clinical trials, Directed grants multi-centre network of principal to institutions, research groups etc, Research investigators aim to advance science and centres, Institutional development, clinical research within a specific disease area. Networking/collaboration, Publish, edit, The collaboration may aim to: translate, disseminate Award amount max: €45,000 promote the exchange of research Award amount min: - ideas among clinicians and affiliated Award budget total: - Website: scientists in Europe or globally; http://www.ersnet.org/index.php/ers- plan, conduct, evaluate and publish funding-programmes.html/item/4730- clinical trials; crc.html gain eligibility for network funding; Application form: build an infrastructure for prospective http://www.ersnet.org/images/stories/scientif clinical trials. ic/ERS_CRC_Rules_and_application_form_2 016_for_website.doc Outputs from a collaboration will typically be scientific products, such as articles for Eligibility profile publication in scientific journals, or abstract ------submission for presentation at scientific Country of applicant institution: Any congresses. Clinical trials presentations and scientific session proposals for the ERS Disciplines international congress are encouraged. ------Respiratory Medicine Proposals may be made by a group of members from one ERS assembly or a group Contact Details of ERS members from several assemblies. ------They may also integrate non-ERS members. ERS Headquarters Grants are worth up to €15,000 per year for up 4 Av Sainte Luce to three years. Additional funding may be 1003 Lausanne available. It may not be used to cover meeting Fax: +41 21 213 0180 expenses in relation to the ERS international Tel: +41 21 213 0100 congress. Email: [email protected]
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AREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education C
Description: The Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Award amount max: USD 100,000 Research and Education invites applicants for Award amount min: - its career development award. This aims to Award budget total: - diminish the financial impact of reduced Website: clinical activity, in order for an individual to http://www.tsfre.org/Awards/CareerDevelop cultivate skills that will enhance credibility ment.html and expertise in an investigative career in cardiothoracic surgery. Eligibility profile ------Applicants must have completed thoracic Country of applicant institution: Any surgical training and be able to demonstrate that they hold a position in an investigation- Disciplines oriented environment. Recently trained ------surgeons and established investigators are Clinical Medicine; Human Biological Sciences; welcome to apply under this program. The Cardiology; Physiology; Diagnostic Sciences; award offers $50,000 per year for up to two General Surgery years. Contact details Closing date: 17 Oct 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research been announced by funder, but this is the and Education approximate deadline we expect. Deadline 900 Cummings Center time: 11:59pm EST. This call is repeated once Suite 221-U a year. Beverly, MA 01915 Posted date: 20 May 11 Fax: +1 978 927 8330 Award type: Directed grants for individual Tel: +1 978 524 8890 investigators
OSTDOCTORAL TRAINING GRANTS FOR APPLICANTS LIVING OUTSIDE OF QUÉBEC P Québec Health Research Fund – Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec
Description: The Québec Health Research Fund (FRQS) Canadian citizens who are not resident in invites applications for its postdoctoral Québec, to pursue their postdoctoral training training grants for applicants living outside of in the province. The programme aims to help Québec. These enable non-Canadian and PhD holders to enhance their training and
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broaden their fields of interest in human Award amount min: - health sciences research. It is also intended to Award budget total: - encourage these researchers to experience Website: new scientific environments, to acquire new http://www.frqs.gouv.qc.ca/en/bourses-et- research methodologies and management and subventions/consulter-les-programmes- communication skills, and to supervise remplir-une-demande/bourse/postdoctoral- students. training-for-applicants-living-outside-of- quebec-porhmct91453999780248 Applicants must have obtained their PhD no Application form: more than two years before 15 October 2016, http://www2.frsq.gouv.qc.ca//eAwards_appli and must choose a host university different cantPortal/faces/jsp/login/login.jsp?lang=FR from the one which awarded the PhD. Projects must be supervised by an Eligibility profile independent researcher. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Grants are worth CA$30,000 per year for two Disciplines to three years. Additional funding may be ------available in collaboration with FRQS partners Medicine & Health up to CA$41,500 per year.
Contact Details
------Closing date: 17 Oct 16 Deadline information: Applications due by FRQS 4.30pm. This call is repeated once a year. 500 Sherbrooke Street West Posted date: 12 Jul 16 Suite 800 Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Montréal H3A 3C6 students, Personal development, Directed Tel: +1 514 873 2114 ext 1224 grants for individual investigators Email: [email protected] Award amount max: -
NTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES SCHEME – STANDARD PROGRAMME Royal Society I
Description: The Royal Society invites applications for the psychology but not social science or clinical or standard programme of its international patient-oriented research. exchanges scheme. This stimulates new collaborations within the natural sciences Both the UK and partner country project between scientists in the UK and overseas. leader must have completed a PhD or have The natural sciences include physics, extensive experience at an equivalent level, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, and hold a permanent or fixed-term contract engineering, agricultural, biological and for the duration of the award at an eligible medical research, the scientific aspects of university or research institute in their archaeology, geography and experimental country.
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Award amount min: - The following types of grants are available: Award budget total: - up to £3,000 for one-off travel lasting Website: up to three months; http://royalsociety.org/grants/schemes/intern up to £6,000 for multiple visits to be ational-exchanges/ completed within one year, including Application form: http://e- a maximum of £1,000 for research gap.royalsociety.org/ expenses; up to £12,000 for multiple visits to be Eligibility profile completed within two years, including ------a maximum up £2,000 for research Country of applicant institution: Any expenses. Disciplines In addition to the exchange grants, candidates ------may apply for the Colin Pillinger international Biological Sciences; Agriculture, Veterinary & exchanges award, which is worth £1,000. This Food Science; Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing & Pharmacy; Public enables the scientists to communicate their research to the general public. Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Physical Sciences and Engineering; Closing date: 18 Oct 16 Geography, Environmental Studies & Deadline information: Applications must be Archaeology; Psychology, Psychiatry & submitted to the UK host organisation for Neuroscience approval at least five days before the official deadline. Contact Details Posted date: 22 Dec 15 ------Award type: Directed grants for individual Royal Society investigators, Travel for research purposes, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace Travel to conferences, meetings etc., London SW1Y 5AG Networking/collaboration, Equipment and Tel: +44 20 7451 2557 materials, Publish, edit, translate, Email: disseminate [email protected] Award amount max: £13,000
ECOND JOINT CALL – SOCIETY AND RESPONSE TO DRUG USE ERA-NET ERANID
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Description: ERA-Net ERANID invites applications for its synergies between national and regional second joint call on society and response to funding programmes. Proposals may address drug use. This aims to enhance EU research the following topics: capability and capacity in drug research by policy and society; improving coordination, cooperation and
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the social environment, pathways to Award amount max: €850,000 recovery and reintegration. Award amount min: €750,000 Award budget total: €3,000,000 Joint research proposals must involve at least Website: http://www.eranid.eu/2nd-call/ three, and preferably four or more, eligible Application form: applicants from three different participating http://www.eranid.eu/fileadmin/www.eranid countries, which are Belgium, France, Italy, .eu/2nd_call/Application_Form_second_ERA Portugal, the Netherlands and the United NID_call_v5.docx Kingdom. Eligible partners may include public and private research institutions, Eligibility profile universities, NGOs, private companies and ------public institutions. Country of applicant institution: Any Country of applicant institution: France, The total budget is approximately €3 million. Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium, United Grants are worth between €750,000 and Kingdom, Italy €850,000 each over three years. Disciplines ------Closing date: 18 Oct 16 Social Policy; Social Rehabilitation; Drug & Deadline information: Applications due by Substance Abuse; European Union, Policy & 12 noon CET. Politics Posted date: 29 Jun 16 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Contact Details research groups etc, ------Networking/collaboration Email: [email protected]
2020-INNOSUP-2016-2017 FOR A BETTER INNOVATION SUPPORT TO SMES – TOPIC 5 H Horizon 2020: Industrial Leadership
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: agencies for engaging in peer learning on all Industrial Leadership, under the Innovation topics relevant for design and delivery of in SMEs work programme, invites proposals innovation support programmes for SMEs. for its H2020-INNOSUP-2016-2017 for a better innovation support to SMEs call. Proposals Proposals must take the form of coordination must address the topic INNOSUP-05-2016- and support actions. These require 2017 peer learning of innovation agencies. participation by at least one legal entity established in a member state or associated The proposed activities will provide country. Only entities entrusted by national or incentives in the form of small lump sum regional governments to develop or grants to national and regional innovation implement innovation support programmes
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for SMEs are eligible to apply. All H2020 grants, Directed grants to institutions, funding calls allow third country partners research groups etc who secure their own funding to participate Award budget total: €1,000,000 in consortia. Website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port Each successful proposal is expected to al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 receive between €15,000 and €50,000 although 0-innosup-2016-2017.html proposals for other amounts will also be considered. The total indicative budget for Eligibility profile this call is €1 million. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Ref: OJ C6776. Country of applicant institution: EU Associated Countries, Overseas Countries and Closing date: 18 Oct 16 Territories, EU (European Union), EU All Deadline information: Call opens 10 International Cooperation Partner countries November 2015. Proposals due by 5pm (ICPC) Brussels time, 17 March and 18 October 2016, and 8 March and 18 October 2017. Disciplines Posted date: 15 Oct 15 ------Award type: Research calls for business, Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises; Research Networking/collaboration, Innovation & Innovation Economics & Policy
UPPORTING INITIATIVES IN THE FIELD OF DRUGS POLICY S Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs
Description: The Directorate-General for Migration and to address the phenomenon of new Home Affairs invites proposals for supporting psychoactive substances. initiatives in the field of drugs policy. This call supports transnational projects that address Each applicant and co-applicant must be a one of the following priorities: public or non-profit legal person established promoting the practical application of in an EU state other than the UK or Denmark. drug-related research, particularly International organisations based outside addiction research addressing current these countries and for-profit entities may challenges and new threats; apply as participating co-applicants only. supporting civil society organisations Each application must involve at least two by reinforcing their advocacy entities established in different participating function, capacity to make a difference EU states, and the proposed project must not at the local level and best practice have begun prior to the submission date for sharing methods; grant applications. further expanding the knowledge base and developing innovative methods The budget is estimated at €2.01 million, to fund four to five proposals. Proposals must
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request a minimum of €250,000 and a Eligibility profile maximum of 80 per cent of eligible costs. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Ref: JUST-2016-AG-DRUGS. Country of applicant institution: Portugal, Bulgaria, Germany, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Closing date: 18 Oct 16 Slovenia, Spain, Malta, Sweden, Austria, Deadline information: Proposals due by 5pm Greece, France, Ireland, Cyprus, Italy, CET. Slovakia, Estonia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Posted date: 29 Jun 16 Czech Republic, Romania, Belgium, Finland, Award type: Networking/collaboration, Poland, Lithuania Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc Disciplines Award amount max: ------Award amount min: €250,000 European Union, Policy & Politics; Drug & Award budget total: €2,012,000 Substance Abuse; Public Health Website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port Contact Details al/desktop/en/opportunities/just/topics/just------2016-ag-drug.html Email: [email protected]
RAMEWORK GRANTS FOR RESEARCH ON SYSTEMS BIOLOGY Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning – Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research F
Description: The Swedish Foundation for Strategic understanding and application of systems Research invites applications for its biology to actual problems in following framework grants for research on systems strategic areas: biology. These support problem- or human and veterinary medicine for application-driven research projects that meet understanding of disease mechanisms the highest international scientific standards. and for therapeutic strategies, The aim is to stimulate collaborative diagnostic strategies and personalised interdisciplinary research within the area of medicine approaches in simple and systems biology, of relevance to present or complex disease, infection and cancer, future Swedish-based industry and to society. as well as ageing research; The focus is to develop a quantitative industrial microbiology and other integrated understanding of how interactions biotechnology applications; within and between the components of plant, forestry and agricultural biological systems and their environment lead applications for materials production to structure, function, dynamic response and or improved properties of crops. regulation. Proposed projects should aim to provide measurable improvements in the
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The main applicant must be a prominent Deadline information: Applications due by researcher employed by a Swedish university, 2pm CET. college, university hospital or by a public or Posted date: 01 Jul 16 private non-profit research institute. All Award type: Directed grants to institutions, projects should be a collaboration between research groups etc, two to four applicants with different kinds of Networking/collaboration scientific expertise, from one or different Award amount max: SEK 35,000,000 research groups and may be from different Award amount min: - departments or universities worldwide, for Award budget total: SEK 300,000,000 added interdisciplinary value. Participation Website: http://stratresearch.se/utlysning/ny- from industry, public authorities or other utlysning-systembiologi/ relevant organisations will be considered a merit, however, they will not be funded by Eligibility profile the SSF but may participate on their own ------budget. Country of applicant institution: Sweden Country of applicant institution: Any The total budgets is worth SEK300 million. Disciplines Application budgets are worth between ------SEK4m and SEK7m per year for a period of Computer Simulation & Modelling; Biological five years. Grants cover salaries for up to 25 Sciences; Medicine & Health; Veterinary per cent for main- and co-applicants; 100 per Medicine; Medical Models, Mathematical; cent for PhD students, postdocs or other Agriculture junior researchers, research tools and running costs. Contact Details
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Tel: +1 850 581 674 Closing date: 18 Oct 16 Email: [email protected]
2020 ERC-2017-STG ERC STARTING GRANTS H Horizon 2020: Excellent Science – European Research Council (ERC)
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: in an EU member state or associated country. ERC invites proposals for its ERC-2017-STG They must be able to demonstrate the call for starting grants.These support principal potential for research independence and investigators in starting their own evidence of maturity, and show a promising independent research team or programme, track record including significant publications with scientific proposals that are in major international peer-reviewed scientific groundbreaking and ambitious. journals. Principal investigators should have been awarded their first PhD between two Applicants may be researchers of any and seven years before 1 January 2017, and nationality who intend to carry out research may be of any age, residing in any country at
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the time of application. They must be engaged Deadline information: Applications due by at the host institution for the duration of the 5pm Brussels time. project. Host institutions must be established Posted date: 26 Jul 16 in members states or associated countries as a Award type: Equipment and materials, legal entity under national law, or may be an Access to laboratories, telescopes etc., Travel international European interest organisation, for research purposes, Directed grants for the European commission's joint research individual investigators centre, or any other entity under EU law, Award amount max: €1,500,000 including public and private entities, Award amount min: - universities, research organisation and Award budget total: €605,000,000 undertakings. Website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port The budget for this call is €605 million. Grants al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/erc -2017-stg.html are worth up to €1.5m each over five years, or pro rata for projects of shorter duration. An Eligibility profile additional €500,000 can be requested for ------eligible start up costs of moving to the EU or Country of applicant institution: Any an associated country, the purchase of major equipment and access to large facilities. Disciplines
------Closing date: 18 Oct 16 Social Sciences; Physical Sciences and Engineering; Bio/Medical
CCELERATING EPIDEMIC CONTROL IN MUBENDE REGION IN THE REPUBLIC A OF UGANDA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF Agency for International Development (USAID)
Description: The Agency for International Development prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, mother (USAID) invites applications for its to child transmission, voluntary medical male accelerating epidemic control in Mubende circumcision, services for orphans and region in the Republic of Uganda under the vulnerable children, and associated laboratory president's emergency plan for AIDS relief and strategic information services through a grant. This supports implementation and health systems strengthening approach. The acceleration of comprehensive HIV successful applicant will work closely prevention, care, and treatments programme together with the ministry of health. for HIV/Aids epidemic control in Mubende region. Projects must support implementation US and foreign profit and not-for-profit of targeted combination prevention HIV organisations may apply. One grant worth up services including HIV testing especially to USD 14.9 million per year for up to five among key and priority populations, HIV care years will be available. and treatment, tuberculosis and HIV
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Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1709. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 18 Oct 16 Disciplines Deadline information: Applications due by ------11.59pm. Paediatrics; Health Systems in Developing Posted date: 19 Aug 16 Countries; HIV/Aids; Tuberculosis; Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Diagnostic Sciences; Preventive Medicine research groups etc, Development (Africa/Caribbean) Contact Details Award amount max: USD 70,430,096 ------Award amount min: - Department of Health and Human Services Award budget total: USD 70,430,096 Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Website: US Embassy, Centers for Disease Control http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- Kampala opportunity.html?oppId=284832 Tel: +256 772 139 017
Email: [email protected] Eligibility profile ------
CCELERATING EPIDEMIC CONTROL IN MASAKA REGION IN THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF A Agency for International Development (USAID)
Description: The Agency for International Development successful applicant will work closely (USAID) invites applications for its call on together with the ministry of health. accelerating epidemic control in Masaka region in the Republic of Uganda under the US and foreign profit and not-for-profit president's emergency plan for Aids relief. organisations may apply. One grant worth up This supports implementation and to USD 19,923,656 per year for up to five years acceleration of comprehensive HIV will be available. prevention, care, and treatments programme for HIV/Aids epidemic control in Masaka Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1708. region. Projects must support implementation of targeted combination prevention HIV Closing date: 18 Oct 16 services including HIV testing especially Deadline information: Applications due by among key and priority populations, HIV care 11.59pm ET. and treatment, tuberculosis and HIV Posted date: 19 Aug 16 prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, mother Award type: Development to child transmission, voluntary medical male (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to circumcision, services for orphans and institutions, research groups etc vulnerable children, and associated laboratory Award amount max: USD 99,618,304 and strategic information services through a Award amount min: - health systems strengthening approach. The Award budget total: USD 99,618,304
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Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- Contact Details opportunity.html?oppId=284786 ------Department of Health and Human Services Eligibility profile Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ------US Embassy, Centers of Disease Control Country of applicant institution: Any Kampala Tel: +256 772 139 017 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------Health Systems in Developing Countries; Preventive Medicine; HIV/Aids; Tuberculosis; Paediatrics; Diagnostic Sciences
CCELERATING EPIDEMIC CONTROL IN SOROTI REGION IN THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF A Agency for International Development (USAID)
Description: The Agency for International Development US and foreign profit and not-for-profit (USAID) invites applications for its call on organisations may apply. accelerating epidemic control in Soroti region One grant worth up to USD 9,775,898 per year in the Republic of Uganda under the for up to five years will be available. president's emergency plan for Aids relief. This supports implementation and Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1710. acceleration of comprehensive HIV prevention, care, and treatments programme Closing date: 18 Oct 16 for HIV/Aids epidemic control in Soroti Deadline information: Applications due by region. Projects must support implementation 11.59pm ET. of targeted combination prevention HIV Posted date: 19 Aug 16 services including HIV testing especially Award type: Development among key and priority populations, HIV care (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants for and treatment, tuberculosis and HIV individual investigators prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, mother Award amount max: USD 48,879,500 to child transmission, voluntary medical male Award amount min: - circumcision, services for orphans and Award budget total: USD 48,879,500 vulnerable children, and associated laboratory Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- and strategic information services through a opportunity.html?oppId=284823 health systems strengthening approach. The successful applicant will work closely Eligibility profile together with the Ministry of Health. ------
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Disciplines Department of Health and Human Services ------Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Systems in Developing Countries; US Embassy, Centers of Disease Control Preventive Medicine; HIV/Aids; Diagnostic Kampala Sciences; Paediatrics; Tuberculosis Tel: +256 772 139 011 Email: [email protected] Contact Details ------
TRENGTHENING THE CAPACITY OF ACCELERATING A COMPREHENSIVE AND INTEGRATED APPROACH OF HIV COMBINATION PREVENTION S TARGETED DEMAND CREATION IN ZAMBIA UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF Agency for International Development (USAID)
Description: The Agency for International Development (USAID) invites applications for its US and foreign profit and not-for-profit strengthening the capacity of accelerating a organisations may apply. comprehensive and integrated approach of One grant worth up to USD 2 million per year HIV combination prevention targeted for up to five years will be available. demand creation in Zambia under the president's emergency plan for Aids relief Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1739 grant. This aims to progress towards sustainable control of the HIV epidemic Closing date: 18 Oct 16 though prevention services, part of the larger Deadline information: Applications due by PEPFAR portfolio which is embarking on bold 11.59pm ET. steps to pivot towards a data-driven approach Posted date: 19 Aug 16 to strategically target populations where Award type: Development HIV/Aids is most prevalent. Targeted (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to demand creation activities at various levels institutions, research groups etc focused on late and slow adopters amongst Award amount max: USD 10,000,000 eligible populations will encourage uptake of Award amount min: - HIV prevention services to achieve the Award budget total: USD 10,000,000 greatest impact. This will encourage the Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- expanded implementation of effective and opportunity.html?oppId=284777 efficient HIV prevention services to prevent new infections and to save lives. Continued Eligibility profile interventions are voluntary medical male ------circumcision, HIV testing services, condoms, Country of applicant institution: Any and targeted interventions for key and priority populations.
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Disciplines Department of Health and Human Services ------Centers for Disease Control and Prevention HIV/Aids; Men's Health; Preventive US Embassy Medicine; Reproductive Medicine; Health PO Box 31617, Lusaka Systems in Developing Countries Tel: +260 211 257 515 Email: [email protected] Contact Details ------
TRENGTHENING THE CAPACITY OF FAITH BASED ORGANISATIONS IN ACCELERATING A COMPREHENSIVE AND INTEGRATED APPROACH TO PROVIDING HIV/AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS CARE, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION SERVICES IN ZAMBIA S UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF Agency for International Development (USAID)
Description: The Agency for International Development Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1735 (USAID) invites applications for its strengthening the capacity of faith based Closing date: 18 Oct 16 organisations in accelerating a comprehensive Deadline information: Applications due by and integrated approach to providing 11.59pm ET. HIV/Aids, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted Posted date: 19 Aug 16 infections care, treatment and prevention Award type: Development services in Zambia under the president's (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to emergency plan for Aids relief grant. This institutions, research groups etc aims to support Faith Based Organisations in Award amount max: USD 60,000,000 Zambia to provide support for HIV/Aids Award amount min: - service delivery in facilities that serve the Award budget total: USD 60,000,000 religious communities. This aims to support Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- the Government of Zambia’s response opportunity.html?oppId=284819 towards sustainable HIV epidemic control by reducing new HIV infections, reducing Eligibility profile morbidity and mortality among adults and ------children living with HIV, and strengthening Country of applicant institution: Any health support systems. The awardee will be required to implement a core package of Disciplines prevention, care, treatment, and laboratory ------services. Health Systems in Developing Countries;
Maternal Health; Preventive Medicine; US and foreign profit and not-for profit HIV/Aids; Reproductive Medicine; organisations may apply. Community Health Services One grant worth up to USD 12 million per year for up to five years will be available.
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Contact Details Lusaka ------Tel: +260 211 257 525 Ext 2013 Department of Health and Human Services Email: [email protected] Centres for Disease Control and Prevention 351/4740 Independence Avenue, Woodlands
MPROVING THE CAPACITY OF UNIVERSITY BASED MEDICAL EDUCATION AND SUPERIOR TRAINING INSTITUTIONS TO PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOZAMBIQUE UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN I FOR AIDS RELIEF Agency for International Development (USAID)
Description: The Agency for International Development Two grants worth up to USD 500,000 each per (USAID) invites applications for its improving year for up to five years will be available. the capacity of university based medical education and superior training institutions to Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1724 provide high quality education in the Republic of Mozambique under the Closing date: 18 Oct 16 president's emergency plan for Aids relief Deadline information: Applications due by grant. This aims to support public and private 11.59pm ET. superior level health training institutions, Posted date: 19 Aug 16 including medical universities, to produce Award type: Networking/collaboration, high quality graduates to strengthen the Development (Africa/Caribbean), Directed health care workforce in Mozambique. The grants to institutions, research groups etc programme will focus on developing the Award amount max: USD 2,500,000 capacity of the health systems to serve the Award amount min: - population of Mozambique. Special emphasis Award budget total: USD 5,000,000 will be placed on strengthening the workforce Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- capacity to ensure adequate supply and opportunity.html?oppId=284767 quality of human resources for heath to facilitate the scale up of HIV/Aids services in Eligibility profile PEPFAR-supported, moderate and high------volume sites and high HIV-burden areas. The Country of applicant institution: Any awardee will collaborate with universities and superior level institutions to support the Disciplines improvement of health care provider ------education, focusing on cadres that have been HIV/Aids; Health Education; Medical neglected such as nurses, laboratory and Education; Health Professions & Workforce; pharmacy technicians, among others. Health Systems in Developing Countries;
Education in Developing Countries US and foreign profit and not-for-profit organisations may apply.
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Contact Details Zedeuias Manganhelas Avenue 267 ------7th floor, Maputo Department of Health and Human Services Tel: +258 21 314 747/8 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Email: [email protected] JAT Complex 4
EHAVIOURAL AND BIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE OF HIV IN ZAMBIA GRANT Agency for International Development (USAID) B
Description: The Agency for International Development Award type: Directed grants to institutions, (USAID) invites applications for its research groups etc, Development behavioural and biological surveillance of (Africa/Caribbean) HIV among key populations in Zambia grant. Award amount max: USD 10,000,000 This supports a project aiming to provide a Award amount min: - mechanism that will tailor a surveillance Award budget total: - system complimentary to population-based Website: surveys for vulnerable groups. Projects http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- should give special attention to sensitive opportunity.html?oppId=284794 sampling of key populations and measurement of risk behaviours illegal under Eligibility profile Zambian law is needed in order to provide a ------better profile and understanding of HIV Country of applicant institution: Any transmission in Zambia. This information will be used by HIV programmers to target these Disciplines populations more effectively with prevention, ------care and treatment, and, given that their HIV/Aids; Disease Control; Biological & sexual networks extend to the general Medical Anthropology population, mitigate HIV among all Zambians. One grant, worth up to USD 2 Contact Details million per year for a maximum duration of ------five years, is available. Department of Health and Human Services Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1736. American Embassy PO Box 320065 Closing date: 18 Oct 16 Lusaka Deadline information: Applications due by Tel: +260 211 257 515 11.59pm ET. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 19 Aug 16
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ATA WAREHOUSE FOR HIV/AIDS POLICY AND PROGRAMME DECISION- MAKING IN ZAMBIA GRANT D Agency for International Development (USAID)
Description: The Agency for International Development Award type: Directed grants for individual (USAID) invites applications for its data investigators, Development warehouse for HIV/Aids policy and (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to programme decision-making in Zambia grant. institutions, research groups etc This supports progress made towards Award amount max: USD 7,500,000 sustainable control of the HIV/Aids epidemic Award amount min: - in Zambia through planning and Award budget total: - development of a national health information Website: system that will integrate health data from all http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- existing, diverse data sources into a central opportunity.html?oppId=284817 data warehouse. This contributes to developing effective HIV/Aids policy and Eligibility profile programmes to address gaps in viral loads ------test, result tracking, retention, community Country of applicant institution: Any adherence and linkage to care. The health information from the data warehouse should Disciplines be displayed in a format that meets various ------user needs. HIV/Aids; Health Systems Policy; Health One grant, worth up to USD 1.5 million per Systems in Developing Countries; Health & year with a maximum duration of five years, Medical Informatics is available. Contact Details
Ref: CDC-RFA-GH17-1740. ------Department of Health and Human Services Closing date: 18 Oct 16 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Deadline information: Applications due by 351/4740 Independence Avenue 11.59pm ET. Lusaka Posted date: 19 Aug 16 Tel: +260 211 257 515 Email: [email protected]
HERAPEUTIC PIPELINE PROGRAMME Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research T
Description: The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Parkinson’s disease along the entire Research requests proposals for its preclinical and clinical path. Ideal applications therapeutic pipeline programme. This should focus on efforts to address one of the supports therapeutic development in following treatment challenges:
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disease modifying strategies that Award type: Academic-Industry links, protect or restore degenerating and Networking/collaboration, Directed grants to dysfunctional neurons affected in institutions, research groups etc Parkinson’s disease; Award amount max: - strategies to alleviate disabling motor Award amount min: - and non-motor symptoms of Award budget total: - Parkinson’s disease; Website: strategies to alleviate complications of https://www.michaeljfox.org/research/therap Parkinson’s disease treatment. eutic-development.html Application form: https://www.michaeljfox.org/research/grant- Proposals must have a well-defined plan for detail.php?id=28#formContainer moving toward clinical utility for patients.
Applications may be submitted by industry Eligibility profile and academic investigators proposing novel ------approaches or repositioning approved or Country of applicant institution: Any clinically safe therapies from non-Parkisons’s disease indicators. Disciplines
------Grants for the pre-clinical projects are Parkinson's Disease between USD 200,000 and USD 400,000.
Grants for clinical projects are commensurable Contact Details with the stage and the goal. ------MJFF Closing date: 19 Oct 16 Grand Central Station Deadline information: Pre-proposals due by PO Box 4777 5pm ET, 19 October 2016; invited full New York, NY 10163-4777 proposals due by 5pm ET, 25 January 2017. Posted date: 22 Aug 16
OVEMBER TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH GRANTS IN BIOMARKERS Prostate Cancer UK M
Description: Prostate Cancer UK and the Movember clinical institution. Primary applicants must Foundation invite applications for their have a strong track record in their field, and translational research grants. These support will normally hold tenured academic research projects that translate promising appointments or honorary academic results in prognostic and predictive contracts. Projects which involve an industry biomarkers a stage closer to implementation. partner or collaborator are eligible. Projects may include a period of research outside the Applications are open to researchers working UK. within the UK in a recognised academic or
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The total available budget is £2.3 million. No Website: upper budget limit is set for individual http://prostatecanceruk.org/research/for- projects, though projects should not exceed researchers/grand-challenge-awards-themed- five years in duration. Applications intended calls primarily for the purchase of equipment is be Application form: considered. https://grants.prostatecanceruk.org/
Closing date: 19 Oct 16 (Forecast) Eligibility profile Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Country of applicant institution: United approximate deadline we expect. Kingdom Applications due by 12 noon. This call is Country of applicant institution: Any repeated once a year. Posted date: 20 Aug 15 Disciplines Award type: Directed grants to institutions, ------research groups etc, Directed grants for Biochemical Markers; Prostate & Testicular individual investigators, Cancers Networking/collaboration, Equipment and materials Contact Details Award amount max: ------Award amount min: - Tel: +44 20 3310 7037 Award budget total: £2,300,000 Email: [email protected]
MPROVED BIOMARKERS AND CLINICAL OUTCOME MEASURES PROGRAMME Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research I
Description: The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s biochemical assays or outcome Research invites pre-applications for its measures; improved biomarkers and clinical outcome data science. measures programme. This supports the development of biomarker and outcome Eligible to apply are biotechnology or measures to garner knowledge that is pharmaceutical companies or other for for- critically important to the Parkinson’s disease profit entities either publicly or privately held field, from a drug’s mechanism of action and and non-profit entities such as universities, its relevance to disease biology to colleges, hospitals, laboratories, units of state understanding the biological basis underlying and local governments and eligible agencies patient heterogeneity in drug response. The of the federal government. There are no following types of biomarker and outcome restrictions on nationality or citizenship. measures and assays are encouraged: imaging studies; The total budget for this programme is worth clinical or physiological studies; up to USD 4 million. There is no set budget
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limit for proposals, however, requested Website: support should reflect the stage development https://www.michaeljfox.org/research/apply- and work proposed. The maximum period of for-grant.html support is three years. No more than 25 per cent of the direct costs may go to indirect costs Eligibility profile for academic institutions; 10 per cent for for------profit organisations. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 19 Oct 16 Disciplines Deadline information: Pre-proposals due by ------5pm ET, 19 October 2016; full applications Parkinson's Disease; Biochemical Markers; due by 5pm ET, 25 January 2017. This call is Methods of Drug Delivery; Drug Design; repeated once a year. Medical Effectiveness & Patient Outcomes Posted date: 04 Aug 16 Award type: Academic-Industry links, Contact Details Directed grants to institutions, research ------groups etc, Research calls for business MJFF Award amount max: - Grand Central Station Award amount min: - PO Box 4777 Award budget total: USD 4,000,000 New York, NY 10163-4777 Tel: +1 800 708 7644
HERAPEUTIC PIPELINE PROGRAMME Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research T
Description: The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s symptom expression. Applicants may apply Research invites pre-applications for its to one of the following tracks: therapeutic pipeline programme. This supports Parkinson’s disease therapeutic TTP-preclinical track focusing on development along the entire preclinical and initial drug screening or therapeutic clinical path. Applicants should address at development and therapeutic least one of the following strategies: strategies optimisation; to protect or restore degenerating and TTP-clinical track focusing on phase dysfunctional neurons affected in Parkinson’s one trials including first in human, disease, strategies to alleviate disabling motor pharmacokinetic or and non-motor symptoms of PD and pharmacodynamic and early safety or strategies to alleviate complications and side tolerability studies, phase two trials effects of current PD treatment. Preference is seeking early proof of concept efficacy given to approaches built on strong biological data, phase three trials where the rationale for targeting fundamental processes foundation’s support can leverage underlying PD cause, progression and other funding sources to provide.
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Eligible to apply are US and foreign due by 5pm ET, 25 January 2017. This call is biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies repeated once a year. or other for for-profit entities either publicly Posted date: 04 Aug 16 or privately held and non-profit entities such Award type: Directed grants to institutions, as universities, colleges, hospitals, research groups etc, Clinical trials, laboratories, units of state and local Networking/collaboration, Academic- governments and eligible agencies of the Industry links federal government. The foundation Award amount max: - encourages investigators new to PD research Award amount min: - to collaborate with experienced PD scientists Award budget total: - or companies. Industry and academic Website: collaborations are also encouraged when https://www.michaeljfox.org/research/apply- appropriate. There are no restrictions on for-grant.html nationality or citizenship. Eligibility profile
------Funding is worth between USD 250,000 to Country of applicant institution: Any USD 400,000 to support one to year programmes within the TPP pre-clinical track. Disciplines For the TPP clinical track the proposed ------budgets need to reflect the stage and goals of Central Nervous System; Screening of Drugs the clinical development plan. & Agents; Parkinson's Disease
Closing date: 19 Oct 16 Contact Details Deadline information: Pre-proposals due by 5pm ET, 19 October 2016; full applications ------Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH GRANTS Fyssen Foundation R
Description: The Fyssen Foundation invites applications Grants are worth between €15,000 to €35,000 for its research grants. These are given to each for a period of one year and are not French or foreign postdoctoral researchers for renewable. They may be used to cover the purpose of establishing research teams at equipment purchase, participation in host laboratories in France in the biological or colloquiums, publications expenses, and for human sciences. expenses related to expert involvement.
Applicants active in the biological sciences Closing date: 20 Oct 16 must not be older than 35 years, whereas Deadline information: Applications invited applicants in the human sciences must not be between 12 September and 12 noon GMT+1, older than 40 years. 20 October 2016. This call is repeated once a year.
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Posted date: 13 Jul 16 Eligibility profile Award type: Directed grants for individual ------investigators, Young investigator awards, Country of applicant institution: Any Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Publish, edit, translate, disseminate, Equipment and Disciplines materials ------Award amount max: €35,000 Biological Sciences; Social Sciences; Award amount min: €15,000 Humanities Award budget total: - Website: Contact Details http://www.fondationfyssen.fr/en/research------grants/ Secretariat Fondation Fyssen 194 Rue de Rivoli 75001 Paris
ENERAL SEEDING GRANTS Royal Society of New Zealand G
Description: The Royal Society of New Zealand, on behalf partners from any country. All fields of of the New Zealand Ministry of Business, research, science and technology, including Innovation and Employment, invites social sciences and humanities, are eligible. applications for its catalyst fund general seeding grants. These facilitate new small and Grants are worth up to NZ$80,000 each for medium pre-research strategic partnerships projects lasting up to two years. Funding can that cannot be supported through other be used for research exchanges, symposiums, means and with a view to develop full seminars and meetings and other research collaborations. The objectives are to: activities. enhance knowledge creation by linking world-class international Closing date: 20 Oct 16 research groups, infrastructure and Deadline information: Applications due by initiatives; 5pm NZST. create enduring international science Posted date: 28 Jul 16 partnerships by providing multiple Award type: Networking/collaboration, scale pre-research collaboration and a Travel for research purposes, Directed grants line of sight through to the catalyst to institutions, research groups etc, fund strategic grants. Innovation grants, Hosting conferences, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. Applicants must be New Zealand-based Award amount max: NZD 80,000 Award amount min: - research organisations or New Zealand-based Award budget total: - legal entities representing a research Website: organisation. Proposals may be submitted for http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/programmes/ research collaborations with international
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funds/international/catalyst-fund/catalyst- Physical Sciences and Engineering; seeding/current-funding-opportunities/ Bio/Medical; Social Sciences; Humanities
Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: New RSNZ Zealand PO Box 598 Country of applicant institution: Any Wellington 6011 Tel: +64 4 470 5756 Disciplines Email: [email protected]
NOWLEDGE EXCHANGE PROGRAMME Scottish Universities Insight Institute K
Description: The Scottish Universities Insight Institute Stirling, and Strathclyde. The programme invites registrations for its knowledge leadership must also include relevant exchange programme. This supports projects individuals from non-academic sectors, such that address substantial issues facing Scotland as industry, third sector, public sector, and the wider world, which have the capacity government and policy makers. Members of to extend knowledge and inform policy and the programme leadership must be in practice. Proposals should: employment at the time of submission and marshal the existing knowledge of during the programme, be well established in participants and deploy their their own field, and the majority of the experience in fresh ways; leadership must reside in Scotland. be multidisciplinary and incorporate policy-maker and practitioner Academic leaders should have at least five knowledge; years’ postdoctoral standing and non- foster ongoing collaboration through a academic leaders should have at least five schedule of activities over a number of years’ professional experience in their domain months; of expertise. Staff of Scottish universities demonstrate the capacity to extend which are not SUII members and other knowledge and inform policy and universities outside Scotland can be a part of practice. the leadership.
Organising teams must include members Programmes typically comprise seminars and from at least two of the institute’s partner workshops held over a period of up to six universities. The institutions participating in months. Funding is awarded to cover the cost this call are: Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow of hosting these events and enabling School of Art, Heriot Watt, St Andrews, participation of key individuals.
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Closing date: 21 Oct 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: Registrations due by ------21 October; full applications due by 18 Country of applicant institution: Any November 2016. Country of applicant institution: United Posted date: 14 Jul 16 Kingdom Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Country of applicant institution: United research groups etc, Kingdom Networking/collaboration, Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Hosting Disciplines conferences, Academic-Industry links ------Award amount max: - Cultural Studies Award amount min: - Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/AbouttheIn Tel: +44 141 548 5930 stitute/Callforproposals.aspx Email: [email protected]
OSEWISE RADIOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION Irish Institute of Radiography and Radiation Therapy D
Description: The Irish Institute of Radiography and Posted date: 17 Aug 16 Radiation Therapy, on behalf of International Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Society of Radiographers and Radiological meetings etc., Directed grants for individual Technologists and Philips, invites applications investigators for the DoseWise radiographer of the year Award amount max: €5,000 competition. This recognises dose Award amount min: - management practice in radiography. Award budget total: - Website: Practising radiographers from an http://www.usa.philips.com/healthcare/resou International Society of Radiographers and rces/landing/radiographer-of-the-year- Radiological Technologists member country contest.html?cqwergvrt or who are associate members of the society. Application form: The award is worth €5,000 and covers http://www.2.forms.healthcare.philips.com/L P=690 accommodation, airfare and entry to the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of Eligibility profile North America to be held in Chicago from 27 ------November to 2 December 2016. Country of applicant institution: Argentina,
Australia, Barbados, Bangladesh, Belgium, Closing date: 21 Oct 16 Burkina Faso, Benin, Brazil, Botswana, Deadline information: Applications due by 5pm. This call is repeated once a year. Canada, Congo, the Democratic Republic of
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the, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Serbia, Cyprus, Slovenia, Senegal, El Salvador, Togo, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Trinidad and Spain, Ethiopia, Finland, Fiji, France, Gabon, Tobago, Taiwan, Tanzania, United Republic United Kingdom, Ghana, Gambia, Greece, of, Ukraine, Uganda, United States, Vietnam, Guyana, Hong Kong, Croatia, Hungary, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe Indonesia, Ireland, India, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Republic of, Disciplines Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Latvia, Morocco, ------Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, Radiology & Medical Imaging; Radiography Macao, Malta, Mexico, Malaysia, Namibia, Nigeria, Netherlands, Norway, Nepal, New Contact details Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Pakistan, Poland, ------Portugal, Seychelles, Sweden, Singapore, Email: isrrt.yule.btinternet.com
STABLISHED INVESTIGATOR ACADEMIC-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP AWARDS Melanoma Research Alliance E
Description: The Melanoma Research Alliance invites developing markers of response, proposals for its established investigator resistance, or risk of recurrence or academic-industry partnership awards. These death in early stage disease to aim to enhance translational melanoma improve clinical decision-making and research by extending academic capabilities to speed the development of new clinical investigations and to facilitate melanoma therapies in the interactions between the academic and neoadjuvant, adjuvant, or advanced industrial research sectors. Projects must be setting; supported by preliminary data. The special identifying new targets, treatments, or emphasis areas are: biomarkers via the study of addressing treatment failures or exceptional responders and non- difficult-to-treat disease, which may responders and leveraging data from include rare melanoma subtypes or within and outside melanoma. metastatic brain disease, by undertaking studies leading to new PIs must hold a full-time faculty appointment targets and rational treatment at the level of assistant professor or equivalent approaches; or above at an academic or other non-profit informing logical and optimal research institution within or outside the combination therapies, therapeutic United States. Industry scientists may serve as sequences, or treatment regimens, co-investigators or collaborators, but may not including defining dose or duration of be PIs. targeted an immunotherapies;
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Awards are worth up to USD 100,000 per year for two to three years. This must be matched Eligibility profile or exceeded by industry funds or in-kind ------support. Country of applicant institution: Any Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 21 Oct 16 Deadline information: Proposals due by 5pm Disciplines Eastern Time. ------Posted date: 11 Aug 16 Melanoma & Other Skin Cancers; Award type: Networking/collaboration, Translational Medicine Directed grants for individual investigators, Academic-Industry links Contact Details Award amount max: USD 300,000 ------Website: Email: [email protected] http://www.curemelanoma.org/research/requ est-for-proposals/
STABLISHED INVESTIGATOR AWARDS Melanoma Research Alliance E
Description: The Melanoma Research Alliance invites developing markers of response, proposals for its established investigator resistance, or risk of recurrence or awards. These fund projects that have the death in early stage disease to potential to lead to near-term clinical improve clinical decision-making and application in melanoma prevention, speed the development of new detection, diagnosis, staging, and treatment melanoma therapies in the that are supported by preliminary data. neoadjuvant, adjuvant, or advanced The special emphasis areas are: setting; addressing treatment failures or identifying new targets, treatments, or difficult-to-treat disease, which may biomarkers via the study of include rare melanoma subtypes or exceptional responders and non- metastatic brain disease, by responders and leveraging data from undertaking studies leading to new within and outside melanoma. targets and rational treatment approaches; Investigators with an established record of informing logical and optimal scientific productivity may apply. PIs must combination therapies, therapeutic hold a full-time faculty appointment at the sequences, or treatment regimens, level of assistant professor or equivalent or including defining dose or duration of above at an academic or other non-profit targeted an immunotherapies; research institution within or outside the United States. Awards are worth up to USD 125,000 per year for two to three years.
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Closing date: 21 Oct 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: Proposals due by 5pm ------Eastern time. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 11 Aug 16 Award type: Directed grants for individual Disciplines investigators ------Award amount max: USD 375,000 Melanoma & Other Skin Cancers Award amount min: - Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.curemelanoma.org/research/requ Email: [email protected] est-for-proposals/
UPPORT FOR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS Québec Social and Cultural Research Fund – Fonds de Recherche du Québec, Société et Culture S
Description: The Québec Social and Cultural Research Closing date: 22 Oct 16 (Forecast) Fund invites applications for its support for scientific journals. This supports French language journals dedicated to disseminating Deadline information: !! Call has not yet research results and knowledge transfer in the been announced by funder, but this is the social sciences and cultural studies. The aims approximate deadline we expect. of the programme are to: Applications due by 4pm. This call is promote French-language repeated every 2 years. publications; Posted date: 16 Jul 14 increase circulation and access to Award type: Equipment and materials, scientific journals; Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Travel for research purposes, adapt financial support to address the Publish, edit, translate, disseminate diverse needs of scientific journals; Award amount max: CAD 112,000 prioritise digital dissemination and Award amount min: - free access to articles. Award budget total: - Website: Eligible journals must publish at least 12 peer- http://www.frqsc.gouv.qc.ca/fr/bourses-et- reviewed articles per year, of which a subventions/concours- minimum of 50 per cent are written in French. anterieurs/bourse/soutien-aux-revues- Journals published in collaboration with a scientifiques-concours-automne-2014- partner outside of Québec are admissible. 0lcekjoc1401896973058 Funding is worth a maximum of CA$28,000 per year for two or four years, depending on the journal’s stage of development.
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Eligibility profile Language; Middle Eastern Studies; ------Philosophy; Arts and Humanities; Country of applicant institution: Canada Archaeology; German Language; Law; Country of applicant institution: Any European Studies; Eastern European Languages; Sociology; Psychology; Disciplines Geography; Modern Languages & Linguistics; ------African Studies; Business & Management Art & Design: History, Practice & Theory; Studies; Libraries & Information Science; Built Social Sciences; Classics; Creole Languages; Environment & Spatial Planning; Central Portuguese Language; Music; Theology & European Languages Religious Studies; Spanish Language; Anthropology; British & Irish Studies; Contact details Performing Arts; Asian Studies; Linguistics; ------Economics & Econometrics; Sports & Exercise FRQSC Studies; Scandinavian Languages; History; 140 Grande Allée Est Politics & International Studies; Russian Suite 470 Language; North American Studies; Social Québec G1R 5M8 Work & Social Policy; Accounting & Finance; Tel: +1 418 643 7582 ext 3135 Education; English Language & Literature; Email: [email protected] Italian Language; Dutch Language; French
RNEST SOLVAY FUND FOR PROJECTS FOR INDIVIDUALS King Baudouin Foundation E
Description: The King Baudouin Foundation invites project Projects realised outside the European borders proposals for the Ernest Solvay fund for have to be supported by a European projects for individuals. This supports organisation or have to be implemented in initiatives in research and entrepreneurship in partnership with a European organisation. the areas of science and technology, such as Grants are worth up to €7,500 each. chemistry, physics, biology mathematics and Earth sciences to promote scientific development both in Belgium and abroad. Closing date: 24 Oct 16 Projects should be non-commercial and must Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 promote and encourage: times a year. scientific training or study as a choice Posted date: 22 Jun 16 for young people; Award type: Directed grants for individual interest in scientific research; investigators scientific and technological Award amount max: €7,500 entrepreneurship. Award amount min: - Award budget total: -
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Website: http://www.kingbaudouinfoundation.org/en Disciplines /Activities/Calls/2016/304870 ------Application form: Physical Sciences and Engineering; Biological http://www.kingbaudouinfoundation.org/M Sciences yKbs/Login?returnUrl=/en/Activities/Calls/2 016/304870 Contact Detail ------Eligibility profile Tel: +32 2 549 6155 ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
RNEST SOLVAY FUND FOR PROJECTS FOR ORGANISATIONS King Baudouin Foundation E
Description: The King Baudouin Foundation invites project Award type: Directed grants to institutions, proposals for the Ernest Solvay fund for research groups etc projects for organisations. This supports Award amount max: €7,500 initiatives in research and entrepreneurship in Award amount min: - the areas of science and technology, such as Award budget total: - chemistry, physics, biology mathematics and Website: Earth sciences to promote scientific http://www.kingbaudouinfoundation.org/en development both in Belgium and abroad. /Activities/Calls/2016/304410 Projects should be non-commercial and must Application form: promote and encourage: http://www.kingbaudouinfoundation.org/M scientific training or study as a choice yKbs/Login?returnUrl=/en/Activities/Calls/2 for young people; 016/304410
interest in scientific research; Eligibility profile scientific and technological ------entrepreneurship. Country of applicant institution: Any
Projects realised outside the European borders Disciplines have to be supported by a European ------organisation or have to be implemented in Physical Sciences and Engineering; Biological partnership with a European organisation. Sciences Grants are worth up to €7,500 each.
Contact Details Closing date: 24 Oct 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 Tel: +32 2 549 6155 times a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 17 Jun 16
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NNOVATION GROWTH LAB GRANTS Nesta I
Description: Nesta, together with the Ewing Marion Projects with a mix of senior and junior Kauffman Foundation and Argidius, invites researchers, including PhD students, in applications for its grants under the economic and social science departments, Innovation Growth Lab programme. These business schools or other research support randomised controlled trials that organisations are particularly encouraged. provide evidence on the best approaches to Most awards range between USD 10,000 and increase innovation, accelerate high-growth USD 100,000. entrepreneurship and support business growth. Closing date: 24 Oct 16 Deadline information: First-stage Research may examine different models to applications due by 5pm EST, 24 October manage innovation processes, encourage 2016; second-stage applications due by 5pm technology transfer from universities, create EDT, 4 January 2017. networks and collaboration , and ways to Posted date: 12 Aug 16 support social or organisational innovation or Award type: Innovation grants, Directed accelerate scientific development. grants to institutions, research groups etc, Networking/collaboration Proposals that look into areas such as Award amount max: - intellectual property, development of Award amount min: - innovation skills, and talent development Award budget total: - specifically for innovative companies, Website: http://www.innovationgrowthlab.org//fundi infrastructure support for innovative ng-opportunities companies and innovative procurement are encouraged. Research that looks at SME Eligibility profile capacity building, stimulation of inclusiveness ------and diversity in entrepreneurship, access to Country of applicant institution: Any skills and talent, and access to finance schemes would fit well within the scope of Disciplines this call. ------
Innovation & Technology Management; Organisations and operators who are Business & Management Studies; Self- involved in entrepreneurship training and Employment & Entrepreneurship education programmes, innovation management and commercialisation, Contact details entrepreneurship and business growth, and ------researchers interested in designing and Email: [email protected] conducting randomised controlled trials related to innovation are welcome to apply.
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EAMTIME AT HIGH POWER RADIATION SOURCES Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf B
Description: The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf Award type: Access to laboratories, invites proposals for beamtime at their centre telescopes etc., Directed grants for for high-power radiation sources ELBE. The individual investigators, Directed grants to centre hosts different radiation sources which institutions, research groups etc enable user groups to carry out experiments Award amount max: - in a variety of fields from material sciences to Award amount min: - medicine. The following radiation sources are Award budget total: - available: Website: free-electron laser – FELBE; http://www.hzdr.de/pls/rois/Cms?pNid=1732 bremsstrahlung – γELBE; Application form: https://gate.hzdr.de/cgi- bin/gate direct electron beam – ELBE;
neutron time-of-flight system – Eligibility profile nELBE; ------ positron source – pELBE; Country of applicant institution: Any superradiant THz source – TELBE. Disciplines Researchers from all over the world may ------apply for beamtime. It is strongly recommend Radiation, Health Effects; Radiation Sources & to discuss the feasibility of planned Isotopes; Magnetism & Electromagnetism; experiments with the local experts prior to the Lasers & Quantum Optics; Radiation & submission of a proposal. Matter Access is free of charge for all non-proprietary research. Contact Details ------Closing date: 25 Oct 16 Fax: +49 351 260 2684 Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 Tel: +49 351 260 12684 times a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 15 Jun 16
ROWING RESEARCH CAPABILITY TO MEET THE CHALLENGES FACED BY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES G Research Councils UK
Description: Research Councils UK invites applications for challenges faced by developing call, under the its growing research capability to meet the Global Challenges Research Fund. This aims
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to grow research capacity in the UK and Closing date: 25 Oct 16 strengthen capacity overseas to address Deadline information: Intentions to submit research challenges informed by the due by 4pm, 25 October; full proposals due expressed needs of developing countries. The by 4pm, 6 December 2016. key objectives are to: Posted date: 23 Aug 16 grow people-based research capacity Award type: Hosting visits, Hosting and capability, building skills across conferences, Equipment and materials, career stages in both the UK and Travel to conferences, meetings etc., developing countries, to enable Development (Africa/Caribbean), Academic- research to address challenges faced Industry links, Innovation grants, Access to by developing countries; laboratories, telescopes etc., Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, build stronger and lasting Prototypes and demonstrations, Travel for relationships between UK research research purposes, organisations and research Networking/collaboration, Hosting access to organisations and other partners in facilities developing countries; Award amount max: £6,000,000 deliver research outcomes with the Award amount min: £2,000,000 potential for significant impact on the Award budget total: - welfare and economic development of Website: developing countries in line with http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/funding/gcrf/growing official development assistance capability/ criteria; Application form: increase the engagement of the UK http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/EFKSP/ research community with international development challenges, Eligibility profile nurturing environments in which UK ------research can better address global Country of applicant institution: Lower- development challenges and produce Middle-Income countries, Low Income real-world outcomes in developing countries countries. Country of applicant institution: United Kingdom Applications should encompass a range of activities including capacity and capability Disciplines strengthening, partnership building and ------research. This activity should be framed Development Studies; Wind Energy; Poverty; around up to three development challenges as Hydro, Ocean, Tidal & Wave Energy; informed by the UK aid strategy or the UN Economic Development, Technological sustainable development goals. Partnership Change & Growth; Research & Innovation building is essential although co-funding from Economics & Policy; Renewable Energy partners is not mandatory. Applications are Engineering; International Security; Refugees; considered from single organisations or small Community Ecology; Sustainable consortia. Individual organisations are Development & Resource Use; Environmental permitted to lead on a maximum of two Management; Public Health, Health Services applications and the principal investigator & Primary Care; Sustainable Agriculture; must be employed at the lead organisation. Gender & Sexuality in Culture; Food Systems; Grants are worth between £2 million and £8m Social & Income Inequality; Gender & over four years. Small equipment and Sexuality in Education consumables up to £10,000 may be requested.
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Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------Tel: +44 1793 414 350
GRI-TECH CATALYST – INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AWARDS Innovate UK A
Description: Innovate UK and the Department for Any UK business or research base partner International Development invite registrations undertaking research and development may for their agri-tech catalyst industrial research apply. Projects must be business-led. All awards. These support business-led projects must include both a UK and eligible collaborative projects that develop any developing country partner. Projects are relevant innovative solutions from across all expected to last for up to three years and be sectors of agri-tech or other industrial sectors, worth up to £1.5 million each. Funding covers and that advance the sustainable up to 70 per cent of total eligible costs for intensification of global agriculture, including micro and small companies; 60 per cent for aquaculture, by developing and adopting medium companies and 50 per cent for larger novel, innovative solutions. This may include companies. Research-base partners funded at technology development, lab-based 100 per cent. prototyping, product development planning, extending proof-of-concept using plot or field trials, exploring production mechanisms, and Closing date: 26 Oct 16 market testing. Projects must relate to the Deadline information: Registrations due by following areas: 12 noon, 26 October; expressions of interest development of work undertaken in due by 12 noon, 2 November 2016; full early stage feasibility studies; applications due by 12 noon, 1 February all aspects of plant agronomy, animal 2017. husbandry including aquaculture; Posted date: 14 Jul 16 related engineering, IT, electronics Award type: Technology and other non-biological solutions. innovation/development, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc,
Development (Africa/Caribbean), The main objective of the project proposal Networking/collaboration, Innovation should be to benefit developing country grants, Research calls for business agriculture. Research can be conducted within Award amount max: - the UK or outside the UK. Award amount min: - Applications from the aquaculture and Award budget total: £4,000,000 livestock sectors are particularly encouraged, Website: as are crop sector projects targeting weed https://www.gov.uk/government/publication control and on-farm storage and s/agri-tech-catalyst-innovation-funding-in- management. developing-countries/competition-guidance-
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agri-tech-catalyst-round-6-industrial- Kenya, Rwanda, Benin, Niger, Myanmar, research-awards Madagascar, Tanzania, United Republic of, Burundi Eligibility profile ------Disciplines Country of applicant institution: United ------Kingdom Agricultural Engineering; Agriculture in Country of applicant institution: United Developing Countries; Food Systems; Food Kingdom Manufacturing & Processing; Farm Country of applicant institution: Ethiopia, Management; Agricultural Production Pakistan, Guinea-Bissau, Afghanistan, Systems; Agricultural Land Planning; Uganda, Central African Republic, Agricultural Economics; Food Engineering & Bangladesh, South Sudan, Liberia, Nepal, Technology; Agribusiness Gambia, Eritrea, Malawi, Mozambique, Ghana, Togo, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Guinea, Contact Details Cambodia, Congo, the Democratic Republic of ------the, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Haiti, South Africa, Tel: +44 300 321 4357 Tajikistan, Comoros, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Email: [email protected] Sudan, Yemen, Nigeria, Chad, Burkina Faso,
2020-NMBP/BIOTEC-2017 NANOTECHNOLOGIES, ADVANCED MATERIALS BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION, TWO STAGE – TOPICS NMBP 4-7, 12, 14, H 15, 19, 20, 22, 25, 28, 29, 35; BIOTEC 5-7 Horizon 2020: Industrial Leadership
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: improved functionality and aesthetics industrial leadership invites proposals, under in high added value consumer goods, the leadership in enabling and industrial NMBP-06-2017 improved material technologies – nanotechnologies, advanced durability in buildings and materials, advanced manufacturing and infrastructures, including offshore, processing, and biotechnology work and NMBP-07-2017 systems of programme, for its H2020-NMBP/BIOTEC- materials characterisation for model, 2017 nanotechnologies, advanced materials product and process optimisation; biotechnology and production call, two stage. advanced materials and Proposals may address the following topics: nanotechnologies for healthcare, advanced materials and including NMBP-12-2017 nanotechnologies for high added development of a reliable value products and process industries, methodology for better risk including NMBP-04-2017 management of engineered architectured or advanced material biomaterials in advanced therapy concepts for intelligent bulk material medicinal products or medical structures, NMBP-05-2017 advanced devices, NMBP-14-2017 regulatory materials and innovative design for science framework for assessment of
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risk-benefit ratio of nanomedicines innovative and responsible and biomaterials, and NMBP-15-2017 governance of new and converging nanotechnologies for imaging cellular enabling technologies, including transplants and regenerative processes NBMP-35-2017 innovative solutions in vivo; for the conservation of 20th century advanced materials and cultural heritage. nanotechnologies for energy applications, including NMBP-19-2017 Proposals must take the form of research and cost-effective materials for ‘power-to- innovation actions or innovation actions, chemical’ technologies and NMBP-20- depending on the topic addressed. Research 2017 high-performance materials for and innovation actions and innovation actions optimising CO2 capture; require participation by at least three legal eco-design and new sustainable entities, each established in a different EU business models, including NMBP-22- member state or associated country and 2017 business models and industrial independent of each other. All H2020 funding strategies supporting novel supply calls allow third country partners who secure chains for innovative product- their own funding to participate in consortia. services; The indicative budget is worth €253.87 biotechnology, including BIOTEC-05- million. Each proposal may receive between 2017 microbial platforms for CO2- €2m and €13m, although proposals for other reuse processes in the low-carbon amounts may be considered. economy, BIOTEC-06-2017 optimization of biocatalysis and downstream processing for the Ref: OJ C6776. sustainable production of high-value added platform chemicals, and Closing date: 27 Oct 16 BIOTEC-07-2017 new plant breeding Deadline information: First stage proposals techniques in molecular farming: invited between 11 May and 5pm Brussels multipurpose crops for industrial time, 27 October 2016; second stage bioproducts; proposals due by 5pm Brussels time, 4 May modelling for the development of 2017. nanotechnologies and advanced Posted date: 14 Oct 15 materials, including NMBP-25-2017 Award type: Networking/collaboration, Technology innovation/development, next generation system integrating Directed grants to institutions, research tangible and intangible materials groups etc, Innovation grants model components to support Award amount max: - innovation in industry; Award amount min: - science-based risk assessment and Award budget total: €253,870,000 management of nanotechnologies, Website: advanced materials and http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port biotechnologies including NMBP-28- al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 2017 framework and strategies for 0-nmbp-2016-2017.html nanomaterial characterization, classification, grouping and read- Eligibility profile across for risk analysis, and NBMP-29------2017 advanced and realistic models Country of applicant institution: EU and assays for nanomaterial hazard (European Union), EU Associated Countries, assessment; Overseas Countries and Territories, EU All
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International Cooperation Partner countries Disciplines (ICPC) ------Country of applicant institution: Any Nanotechnology; Biotechnology; Materials Sciences; Advanced Manufacturing
2020-PILOTS-2017 INDUSTRY 2020 IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: Deadline information: First stage proposals Societal Challenges under the cross-cutting invited between 11 May and 5pm Brussels activities programme invites proposals for its time, 27 October 2016; second stage H2020-PILOTS-2017 industry 2020 in the proposals due by 5pm Brussels time, 4 May circular economy call. Proposals may address 2017. the following topics: Posted date: 15 Oct 15 PILOTS-03-2017 pilot lines for Award type: Directed grants to institutions, manufacturing of nanotextured research groups etc, Technology surfaces with mechanically enhanced innovation/development properties; Award amount max: - PILOTS-04-2017 pilot lines for 3D Award amount min: - Award budget total: €48,660,000 printed or injection moulded Website: polymeric or ceramic microfluidic http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port MEMS; al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 PILOTS-05-2017 paper-based 0-ind-ce-2016-17.html electronics. Eligibility profile Proposals must take the form of innovation ------actions or research and innovation actions, Country of applicant institution: EU depending on the topic. Research and (European Union), EU Associated Countries, innovation actions and innovation actions Overseas Countries and Territories, EU All require participation by at least three legal International Cooperation Partner countries entities, each established in a different EU (ICPC) member state or associated country. Country of applicant institution: Any Each successful proposal is expected to receive between €5 million and €8m although Disciplines proposals for other amounts will also be ------considered. The total indicative budget for 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing; this call is €48.66 million. Antibody Engineering; Materials Sciences; Thermodynamics; Physical Chemistry; Ref: OJ C6776. Nanotechnology
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ROJECT GRANTS Worldwide Cancer Research P
Description: Worldwide Cancer Research invites Award type: Directed grants to institutions, applications for its project grants. These research groups etc, Directed grants for support fundamental and translational individual investigators research into the causes, mechanisms, Award amount max: £250,000 diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer. Website: Principal investigators may be based at any http://www.aicr.org.uk/applyingforagrant.st non-profit research institute worldwide. They m should have at least three years’ post-PhD Application form: research experience, or equivalent https://grants.worldwidecancerresearch.org/ qualification. Eligibility profile Grants are worth up to £250,000 each over 12 ------to 36 months, although most projects receive Country of applicant institution: Any up to £200,000. Disciplines ------Closing date: 28 Oct 16 Cancer Studies & Oncology Deadline information: Submissions invited between between 1 April and 29 April and Contact Details between 1 October and 28 October 2016. ------Posted date: 27 Apr 15 Email: [email protected]
IOMEDICAL RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS Motor Neurone Disease Association B
Description: The Motor Neurone Disease Association work designed to answer a single question or invites outline applications for its biomedical a small group of related questions. research project grants. These support research aimed at understanding the causes of Applicants can be based outside the UK and motor neurone disease, elucidating disease Ireland provided the project is unique in mechanisms and facilitating the translation of concept or design, namely no similar research therapeutic strategies from the laboratory to is being performed in the UK, and involves an the clinic. Grants support single pieces of aspect of collaboration with a UK institute.
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Proposals should not exceed £85,000 per year Website: and £255,000 in total over three years. http://www.mndassociation.org/research/for- Applications for less than two years should researchers/research-grants/ include a named researcher with the relevant expertise. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 28 Oct 16 Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: Outline applications are accepted between 09 September and 28 Disciplines October 2016. This call is repeated once a ------year. Muscle Diseases; Motor Neurone Disease Posted date: 03 Nov 15 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Contact Details research groups etc, Directed grants for ------individual investigators, MND Association Networking/collaboration PO Box 246 Award amount max: £255,000 Northampton NN1 2PR Award amount min: - Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
ATIONAL TAXONOMY RESEARCH GRANTS Australian Department of the Environment N
Description: The Australian Department of the prior to submitting their application, and Environment invites applications for its preferably have worked full-time in a related research grants under the Australian area of research. Biological Resources Study national taxonomy research grant programme. These enable Grants are worth between AUS$10,000 to postdoctoral fellows and established career AU$90,000 per year for a period of three researchers to carry out research relevant to years. All ABRS research grants have a co- the taxonomy and systematics of the funding requirement. Australian biota. Closing date: 28 Oct 16 (Forecast) Overseas institutions may be collaborators, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet but the main applicant must be based at an been announced by funder, but this is the Australian institution. The principal approximate deadline we expect. This call is investigator must be an Australian researcher repeated once a year. and be employed at least part-time by Posted date: 03 Aug 15 museums, herbaria, universities or other Award type: Directed grants for individual government agencies. Researchers applying investigators for a postdoctoral fellowship grant must have Award amount max: AUD 270,000 completed their PhD no more than ten years Award amount min: AUD 30,000
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Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: ------http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity Environmental Conservation & Biodiversity; /abrs/funding-and-research/research- Taxonomy grants/index.html Application form: Contact details https://forms.business.gov.au/smartforms/ser ------vlet/SmartForm.pdf?formCode=NTRGP ABRS Department of the Environment Eligibility profile GPO Box 787 ------Canberra ACT 2601 Country of applicant institution: Australia Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
ORNE CANCER CONFERENCE-BOOMERANG TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP Lorne Cancer Conference Committee L
Description: The Lorne Cancer Conference Committee Cancer Conference registration, invites applications for the Lorne Cancer accommodation and meal package will be Conference-Boomerang travel fellowship. covered. This supports Australian cancer researchers working overseas with returning to Australia Closing date: 28 Oct 16 (Forecast) to continue their career development. Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Applicants must be Australian citizens or approximate deadline we expect. This call is permanent residents who are seeking a repeated once a year. research position in Australia. Applicants Posted date: 09 Jun 15 must be early to mid career researchers with a Award type: Mid-Career fellowships, Travel maximum of 10 years since their PhD who to conferences, meetings etc., Early-Career currently conduct cancer research overseas. fellowships, Directed grants for individual Applicants must visit at least two Australian investigators cities and research institutions and present Award amount max: - their research before or after the Lorne Cancer Award amount min: - Conference. Award budget total: - Website:
http://www.lornecancer.org/awards/boomera Successful candidates will have to present ng-fellowship/ their research at the Lorne Cancer Conference Application form: in February 2016. http://www.lornecancer.org/assets/Lorne- The fellowship is worth up to AU$6,000 to be Cancer/Lorne-Cancer-Boomerang-Travel- used for airfares and accommodation for up Fellowship-Application-Form-2016.docx to two nights per city. Additionally, Lorne
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Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------Lorne Cancer Conference Committee Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------Cancer Studies & Oncology
OMING SOON: CULTURAL PROTECTION FUND – LARGE GRANTS British Council C
Description: *** The British Council and the Department and 28 October; full applications due by 19 for Culture, Media and Sport will soon be December 2016. This call is repeated 2 times inviting expressions of interest for their large a year. grants via the cultural protection fund. The Posted date: 05 Jul 16 call is due to open 1 September and close 28 Award type: Development October 2016. The following information is (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to subject to change. *** institutions, research groups etc, Directed grants for individual investigators These grants support projects that will help Award amount max: £3,000,000 create opportunities for economic and social Award amount min: £100,000 development through fostering, safeguarding Award budget total: £30,000,000 and promotion of cultural heritage in conflict Website: affected regions overseas. https://www.britishcouncil.org/arts/about/cu ltural-protection-fund-2016-2020 Any organisation may apply, but they must be working with a local partner organisation Eligibility profile in one or more of the fund’s current target ------countries within the Middle East and North Country of applicant institution: Any Africa region, specifically: Afghanistan,
Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Disciplines Palestinian Territories, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, ------Turkey and Yemen. Materials Conservation & Preservation;
Economic & Social Environment; Economic The total budget is £30 million. Grants are Development; Cultural Heritage; worth a minimum of £100,000 and up to £3m Development Studies for multi–year proposals.
Contact Details Closing date: 28 Oct 16 ------Deadline information: Expressions of Email: culturalprotection@britishcouncil@org interest are invited between 1 September
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ENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS Smithsonian Institution C
Description: The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Applications due by 5pm GMT. This call is Astrophysicists invites applications for its repeated once a year. postdoctoral fellowships. These support Posted date: 09 Sep 14 researchers who have recently received their Award type: Travel for research purposes, PhD and display significant promise in Early-Career fellowships, Directed grants for theory, observation, instrumentation or individual investigators laboratory experiments in the field of Award amount max: - astrophysics. Research is supported under the Award amount min: - following six divisions: Award budget total: - atomic and molecular physics; Website: high energy astrophysics; https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/opportunities/f ellowships/cfapost/ optical and infrared astronomy; Application form: radio and geoastronomy; https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/pcgi/opportunit solar, stellar and planetary sciences; ies/fellowships.pdf?fid=1 theoretical astrophysics. Eligibility profile Applications are only considered from ------candidates who have received their PhD Country of applicant institution: Any between 1 January 2014 and 1 September 2015. Candidates must have at least one first- Disciplines author refereed journal paper, or a submitted ------paper, at the time of application. Particle Physics; Earth Sciences; Universe Sciences; Planetary Systems Sciences; Solar Fellowships last for a period of three years but Physics & Space Plasma; High Energy may be renewed for a fourth year, contingent Astrophysics & Cosmic Rays; Galaxies & upon satisfactory progress. They include a Stellar Systems; Atomic Physics; Physics; stipend of approximately US$66,500 per year, Infrared & Ultraviolet Light; Electrical & a research budget of US$16,000 and funds for Electronic Engineering; Molecular Physics; health benefits and relocation expenses, up to Radiation Sources & Isotopes a maximum of US$7,500. Contact details Closing date: 30 Oct 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Email: [email protected] been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect.
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UBMILLIMETER ARRAY POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS Smithsonian Institution S
Description: The Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical approximate deadline we expect. This call is Observatory, in collaboration with the repeated once a year. Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Posted date: 30 Jun 15 Astrophysics in Taiwan, invites applications Award type: Networking/collaboration, Mid- for its submillimetre array postdoctoral Career fellowships, Early-Career fellowships. These enable researchers to fellowships, Directed grants for individual propose and participate in scientific research investigators, Access to laboratories, programmes that make use of the capabilities telescopes etc., Senior fellowships of the submillimetre array in high angular Award amount max: - resolution submillimetre astrophysics. The Award amount min: - SMA is used primarily for imaging molecular Award budget total: - lines and dust continuum in cold interstellar Website: clouds, but has also found application in https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/opportunities/f ellowships/sma/ observations of high energy phenomena, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae Eligibility profile and blazars. ------
Country of applicant institution: Any Applicants must have a recent PhD in astronomy or a related field. Experience in Disciplines millimetre or submillimetre astronomy, radio ------interferometry, radio frequency Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics; High instrumentation, or research in processes in Energy Astrophysics & Cosmic Rays; the interstellar medium is desirable. Telescopes & Space Instrumentation; Universe Fellowships include a stipend of US$59,000, Sciences full health insurance coverage and up to
US$4,000 for relocation expenses. Each Contact Details fellowship is awarded for two years with ------renewal for third year likely. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street Closing date: 30 Oct 16 (Forecast) Cambridge MA 02138 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Email: [email protected] been announced by funder, but this is the
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R ERIC GUILER TASMANIAN DEVIL RESEARCH GRANTS University of Tasmania D
Description: The University of Tasmania, in partnership Award type: Directed grants to institutions, with the Tasmanian Government, Australian research groups etc, Directed grants for Commonwealth Government and Australian individual investigators zoos and wildlife parks, invites applications Award amount max: AUD 35,000 for the Dr Eric Guiler Tasmanian devil Award amount min: - research grants. These support research Award budget total: - projects that focus on research to better Website: understand the devil facial tumour disease http://www.tassiedevil.com.au/tasdevil.nsf/ and its impacts on wild devil population, the Grants-&- investigation of strategies to augment the wild scholarships/F3F98304778C800ECA2576CB00 devil populations, and the development of 7D1E6B potential treatments for, and responses to, the disease. Priority is given to projects that: Eligibility profile ------ optimise the insurance population; Country of applicant institution: Any develop a vaccine or treatment to
devil facial tumour disease; Disciplines improve genetic outcomes. ------
Veterinary Medicine; Animal Parasites & Applications are invited from national and Pathogens; Endangered Species international individuals and organisations.
Collaborative research projects that involve Contact Details: UTAS are given priority. Grants are worth up ------to AU$35,000 each. Save the Tasmanian Devil Appeal
Locked Bag 1350 Closing date: 30 Oct 16 Launceston Tasmania 7250 Deadline information: This call is repeated Tel: +61 3 6324 3314 once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 26 Feb 16
MPLANT RESEARCH GRANTS FOR MEMBERS Academy of Osseointegration I
Description: The Academy of Osseointegration invites One research grant award of up to US$15,000 applications for its implant research grants. is available to support research in the
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behavioural, biological, biomechanical or Award amount max: USD 15,000 biomaterial aspects of dental implants. Award amount min: - Applications that address areas of research to Award budget total: USD 15,000 enhance the public acceptance of implants are Website: particularly welcomed. http://www.osseo.org/NEWfoundation.html Application form: Applicants must be members of the Academy http://www.osseo.org/downloads/2010/AO% of Osseointegration and be able to 20Research%20Grant%20Application%20200 demonstrate their ability to conduct research. 9.pdf There are no age or citizenship requirements. The award is for a period of 12 months. The Eligibility profile grant funds are to be used only for direct ------support of the proposed research, such as: Country of applicant institution: Any technical assistance; supplies; purchasing and/or maintaining laboratory animals; Disciplines purchase of relevant equipment and ------instruments; data analysis; preparation of Restorative Dentistry; Dentistry; Medical manuscripts; and travel to professional Implants meetings related to the project. Contact Details
Closing date: 30 Oct 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Academy of Osseointegration been announced by funder, but this is the 85 West Algonquin Road- Suite 550 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Arlington Heights, IL 60005 repeated once a year. Fax: +1 847 439 1919 Posted date: 07 Jun 10 Tel: +1 847 439 1569 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Directed grants for individual investigators
ESEARCH GRANTS European Brief Therapy Association R
Description: The European Brief Therapy Association approximate deadline we expect. This call is invites proposals for its research grants. These repeated once a year. support projects on solution-focused brief Posted date: 14 May 15 therapy and its applications. Grants are worth Award type: Directed grants to institutions, up to €3,500. research groups etc, Directed grants for individual investigators Closing date: 30 Oct 16 (Forecast) Award amount max: €3,500 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Award amount min: - been announced by funder, but this is the Award budget total: -
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Website: http://blog.ebta.nu/research- Disciplines grant/application ------Cognitive & Behavioural Therapies; Eligibility profile Counselling & Talking Therapies ------Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details ------Email: [email protected]
OLLABORATIVE RESEARCH NETWORK FUNDING Academic Association for Contemporary European Studies C
Description: The University Association for Contemporary Deadline information: This call is repeated European Studies invites applications for its once a year. collaborative research network funding. This Posted date: 30 Jan 15 enables researchers to develop networks Award type: Publish, edit, translate, across a range of institutions, which may lead disseminate, Networking/collaboration, to bigger projects and funding from other Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Hosting sources in the future. Eligible activities visits, Academic-Industry links, Directed include: grants to institutions, research groups etc dedicated research meetings and Award amount max: £5,000 workshops; Award amount min: - participation in larger conferences Award budget total: - Website: such as the UACES annual conference http://www.uaces.org/funding/CRN/ or other relevant events;
contributing to the UACES newsletter Eligibility profile and to pursuing other publishing and ------dissemination opportunities, such as Country of applicant institution: Any journals, books, podcasting, and Country of applicant institution: Any blogging.
Disciplines Proposals for networks are open to individual ------members of UACES. The proposer must work European Studies at a recognised university or higher education institute, and will act as the coordinator. Contact Details Networks must be multinational and ------interdisciplinary. Successful networks will UACES receive up to £5,000 over a three-year period. School of Public Policy University College London Closing date: 30 Oct 16 29-30 Tavistock Square London WC1H 9QU
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ARMING BY SATELLITE PRIZE European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency
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Description: The European Global Navigation Satellite Each shortlisted team will receive an expenses System Supervisory Agency invites paid trip to Berlin to compete in the final stage applications for its farming by satellite prize. of the competition. This promotes Europe’s global navigation satellite system and earth observation services in agriculture, by recognising innovation, Closing date: 30 Oct 16 particularly innovation relying on European Deadline information: Registration closes 10 geostationary navigation overlay service, the October 2016; applications due by 15 Galileo system, or Copernicus. December 2016. There will be an additional prize for Posted date: 26 Apr 16 applicants from African nations who address Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, the use of satellite technology relating to meetings etc., Innovation grants farming in African regions. Award amount max: €5,000 Award amount min: €1,000 Applicants must be below 32 years of age and Award budget total: €13,000 be residents or citizens of any of the following Website: http://www.farmingbysatellite.eu/ countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Application form: and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, http://www.farmingbysatellite.eu/take- part/registration-form/ Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Eligibility profile Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, ------Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Country of applicant institution: Albania, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Portugal, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Serbia, Cyprus, Czech Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Kingdom. Applicants from African countries Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Iceland, may apply for the Africa prize. Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg,
Latvia, Moldova, Republic of, Macedonia, the The winning European team or individual former Yugoslav Republic of, Malta, receives €5,000. Second and third prizes are Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, worth €3,000 and €1,000 respectively. The Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, Turkey, successful African team receives €4,000. All African Nations, Montenegro
Disciplines
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EEPERS OF THE EARTH GRANTS First Peoples Worldwide K
Description: First Peoples Worldwide invites applications Award budget total: - for its keepers of the earth grants. These Website: support projects that empower indigenous http://www.firstpeoples.org/grants/applicati communities. on-guidelines
Applicants must be indigenous-led or Eligibility profile represent an indigenous-led project, be a ------grassroots or local organisation or group, and Country of applicant institution: All African have an organisational bank account or access Nations, All Asian nations, All South to a fiscal sponsor. American nations, All Oceanian nations, All The largest possible grant award is US$20,000, North American nations however first-time applicants will receive between US$500 and US$5,000. Disciplines ------Indigenous Peoples of the Americas; Closing date: 31 Oct 16 (Forecast) Anthropology; Aboriginal & Torres Strait Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Islander People been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Contact Details Applications accepted between 1 January ------and October 31. First Peoples Worldwide Posted date: 03 Mar 15 857 Leeland Road Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Fredericksburg, VA 22405 research groups etc, Development Fax: +1 540 899 6545 (Africa/Caribbean) Tel: +1 540 899 6501 Award amount max: USD 20,000 Email: [email protected] Award amount min: USD 500
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EAGAN-FASCELL DEMOCRACY FELLOWS PROGRAM National Endowment for Democracy R
Description: The National Endowment for Democracy Award amount max: - invites applications for the scholarly track of Award amount min: - the Reagan-Fascell democracy fellows Award budget total: - program. This enables democracy activists, Website: practitioners, scholars and journalists from http://www.ned.org/fellowships/reagan- around the world to deepen their fascell-democracy-fellows-program understanding of democracy and enhance their ability to promote democratic change. Eligibility profile Fellows maintain full-time residence at the ------International Forum for Democratic Studies, Country of applicant institution: Any the research arm of NED, for two five-month sessions per year. The fall session will be held Disciplines October 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011; the ------spring session will be held March 1 through Legal & Social Change; Political Economics & July 31, 2011. Scholars should have a PhD or Economy; Politics & International Studies; academic equivalent, and should make at Political Science; Social Policy & least one presentation and complete a Administration; Marxian Economics; substantial piece of writing during their stay. Democracy & Participation; Sociology; Successful applicants will receive a monthly Government & Governance Studies; Law; stipend for living expenses, plus health Constitutional Law; Civil & Human Rights; insurance, travel assistance and research Political Parties & Institutions; Economics & support. Econometrics
Closing date: 31 Oct 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the NED approximate deadline we expect. This call is 1025 F Street NW repeated once a year. Suite 800 Posted date: 12 Aug 10 Washington DC, 20004 Award type: Directed grants for individual Fax: +1 202 378 9700 investigators, Travel for research purposes, Tel: +1 202 378 9407 Early-Career fellowships, Senior fellowships Email: [email protected]
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ESEARCH GRANTS International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia R
Description: The International Institute for Research in Award amount max: CHF 150,000 Paraplegia invites applications for its research Award amount min: CHF 75,000 grants. These aim to promote basic and Award budget total: - clinical research related to spinal cord injury. Website: Research projects may address all aspects of http://www.irp.ch/en/research/grants.php central nervous system and spinal cord Application form: lesions, nerve regeneration, trophic support of http://www.irp.ch/web/form/research/ lesioned neurons, and functional changes induced by lesions, preferentially in Eligibility profile mammals. Clinical research projects may be ------situated in the fields of diagnosis, acute lesion Country of applicant institution: Any management including surgery, neurology, urology, rehabilitation, and other areas Disciplines related to paraplegia. ------Grants are worth up to CHF75,000 each per Rehabilitation Engineering; Urology; Bioethics year for a period of one or two years. & Neuroethics; Central Nervous System; Neuroscience; Neurosurgery; Muscle Closing date: 31 Oct 16 Diseases; Animal Neurobiology Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 15 Jun 16 ------Award type: Directed grants for individual Email: [email protected] investigators, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc
ESEARCH AND EDUCATION GRANTS American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine R
Description: The American Institute of Ultrasound in clinical ultrasound research - Medicine invites applications for its research obstetric/gynecologic; and education grants. Researchers may apply clinical ultrasound research - non- for a grant in the following four ultrasound- obstetric/gynecologic; related areas: basic science ultrasound research. teaching;
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Any area of ultrasound research and Award amount max: USD 10,000 education will be considered for funding but Award amount min: - preference will be given to projects satisfying Award budget total: USD 40,000 the following criteria: Website: related to teaching ultrasound or http://www.aium.org/grants/grants.aspx establishing guidelines for minimal Application form: physician education; http://www.aium.org/grants/eerApplication. well-designed clinical ultrasound doc projects, which can be completed within a year, which investigate Eligibility profile clinical outcomes, efficacy, role of new ------ultrasound applications and in general Country of applicant institution: Any advance the science of ultrasound; Disciplines studying an area of basic ultrasound ------research; Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Radiology studying the economics of ultrasound & Medical Imaging; Education; Medical practice. Education; Economics & Econometrics;
Ultrasonic Technology; Clinical Medicine; Grants will fund up to $10,000 for any one Health Economics; Medical & Diagnostic project. Only AIUM members from tax Tests; Counselling & Talking Therapies; exempt organizations are eligible to apply for Obstetrics & Gynaecology research grants.
Contact Details Closing date: 31 Oct 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet EER Grant Application been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is 14750 Sweitzer Lane repeated once a year. Suite 100, Laurel Posted date: 20 May 11 MD 20707-5906 Award type: Directed grants for individual Fax: +1 301 498 4100 investigators Tel: +1 301 498 4450
AN AND BIOSPHERE YOUNG SCIENTISTS AWARDS UNESCO M
Description: UNESCO, under its man and biosphere research on ecosystems, natural resources and programme, invites applications for its young biodiversity. scientists awards. These support young scientists conducting interdisciplinary Applicants must be under 40 years of age at the closing date for applications. Applicants
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from developed countries are eligible only in TIMEDIA/HQ/SC/pdf/Form_MAB-YSA- exceptional cases. Priority is given to projects 2017_en.pdf carried out in biosphere reserves. 10 awards, worth up to USD 5,000 each, are available. Eligibility profile International travel expenses are generally not ------covered by the award. Projects must be Country of applicant institution: Lower- completed within two years. Middle-Income countries, Low Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries Closing date: 31 Oct 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Disciplines once a year. ------Posted date: 02 Aug 16 Ecosystem Function; Environmental Award type: Young investigator awards, Conservation & Biodiversity; Ecology; Use & Directed grants for individual investigators Management of Natural Resources Award amount max: USD 5,000 Award amount min: - Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural- UNESCO sciences/environment/ecological- 7 Place de Fontenoy sciences/man-and-biosphere- 75752 Paris SP 07 programme/awards-and-prizes/mab-young- Email: [email protected] scientists-awards/ Application form: http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MUL
ESEARCH GRANTS SCHEME Socio-Legal Studies Association
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Description: The Socio-Legal Studies Association invites Posted date: 22 Jun 16 applications for its research grants scheme. Award type: Directed grants for individual Grants support research projects by SLSA investigators, Networking/collaboration members. Each applicant must be a fully paid- Award amount max: £3,000 up SLSA member, or a registered free student Award amount min: - member. Joint applications will be considered. Award budget total: - There are no geographical restrictions for this Website: award. Each grant is worth up to £3,000. http://www.slsa.ac.uk/index.php/prizes- grants-and-seminars/small-grants Closing date: 31 Oct 16 Application form: Deadline information: This call is repeated http://www.slsa.ac.uk/images/slsadownloads once a year.
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/prizesandgrants/Research_Grant_Applicatio Disciplines n_Package_20162017.doc ------Sociolegal Studies Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------Email: [email protected]
MALL PROJECTS FUND S Castle Studies Group
Description: The Castle Studies Group invites proposals Website: for grants under its small projects fund. This http://www.castlestudiesgroup.org.uk/page1 supports castle-related research and 1.html excavation. Applicants must be members of http://www.castlestudiesgroup.org.uk/CSG the group. %20research%20grant%20application%20for Grants are worth up to £500 each. Funding is mRev1.docx granted on a one-off basis. Eligibility profile Closing date: 31 Oct 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Country of applicant institution: Any been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Disciplines repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 03 Mar 15 Archaeological Sites & Field Work; Historical Award type: Directed grants for individual Archaeology; Medieval History investigators, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc Contact Details Award amount max: £500 ------Award amount min: - Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
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RANTS Sasakawa Peace Foundation G
Description: The Sasakawa Peace Foundation invites Award type: Directed grants to institutions, applications for its grants. These support research groups etc, projects addressing problems in the fields of Networking/collaboration international understanding, exchange, and Award amount max: - cooperation. Priority areas are: Award amount min: - efforts to ensure peace and security in Award budget total: - the international community, Website: including peace building and security http://www.spf.org/e/grants/point.html issues, and non-traditional security Application form: issues; http://www.spf.org/e/pdf/grants/2012_format addressing positive and negative _en.xls
aspects of globalisation, including Eligibility profile market and disparities issues, issues ------involving demographic changes and Country of applicant institution: Any population movement, and issues at
the interface between science and Disciplines technology and society; ------ promotion of mutual understanding Market Structure & Pricing; Demography; between priority regions and Japan, Sociology; Immigrants & Migrants; National including an exchange programme Security; Peace & Disarmament; Poverty; between Japan and US. International Security; Sociology of Science &
Technology; International Economics; Politics Non-profit organisations and voluntary & International Studies; Litigation & organisations are eligible to apply. Grants will Mediation; Social Work & Social Policy; not be awarded for purely theoretical Economics & Econometrics; Globalisation & research, to businesses, or to individuals. Transnationalism; International Relations & There is no upper limit for grants, but most Diplomacy; Disadvantaged & Minority have previously fallen between US$20,000 Groups; Social Behaviour & Attitudes; Asian and US$100,000 over one to three years. Studies
Closing date: 31 Oct 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the General Affairs Department approximate deadline we expect. This call is Sasakawa Peace Foundation repeated once a year. Nippon Foundation Bldg, 4th floor Posted date: 05 Nov 14 1-2-2 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8523
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OBILITY GRANTS European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology M
Description: The European Society for Radiotherapy and Award budget total: €50,000 Oncology invites applications for its mobility Website: http://www.estro.org/careers- grants. These enable clinicians and scientists grants/grants--fellowship/estro-mobility- working or studying in the field of radiation grants oncology to visit another institute to learn Application form: about or gain experience with different http://www.estro.org/binaries/content/assets/ techniques and equipment. Visits should last estro/school/2015-general-docs/ttg- between one and three weeks. Applicants application-form-2015.doc must be ESTRO members. The total annual budget is €50,000. Funding is Eligibility profile worth up to €2500 per visit. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 31 Oct 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 Disciplines times a year. ------Posted date: 17 Jun 16 Cancer Studies & Oncology; Radiology & Award type: Personal development, Travel Medical Imaging for research purposes, Directed grants for individual investigators, Directed grants to Contact Details institutions, research groups etc ------Award amount max: €2,500 Email: [email protected] Award amount min: -
ILEY BLACKWELL/JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL LECTURESHIPS W International Society for Neurochemistry
Description: The International Society for Neurochemistry, and cellular neurobiology. The scheme Wiley Blackwell, and the Journal of promotes neurochemistry in those countries Neurochemistry, invite applications for their where the science is developing from a low international lectureships. These support a base. plenary lecture at the annual meetings of societies of neurochemistry, neuroscience or Applications should be made in the name of neurobiology by an eminent, international societies or conferences in such countries, neuroscientist on a topic related to molecular seeking to host a speaker. Applicants must
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hold an official function in the society or Application form: conference, and must be active members of http://www.neurochemistry.org/images/ISN- the ISN. There are three lectureships available JNC_Lectureship/updated_16.11.2015__APPL per year, each worth US$5,000. ICATION__ISN_Wiley_Blackwell_JNC_Inte rnational_Lectureships.doc Closing date: 31 Oct 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 30 Eligibility profile April 2016, 31 October 2016. ------Posted date: 12 Feb 16 Country of applicant institution: Lower- Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Middle-Income countries, Low Income research groups etc, Hosting conferences, countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries Hosting visits Award amount max: USD 5,000 Disciplines Award amount min: ------Award budget total: - Neuroscience Website: http://www.neurochemistry.org/funding/isn- Contact Details wiley-blackwell-jnc-international------lectureships.html Email: [email protected]
TUDY SCHOLARSHIPS IN FINE ART, DESIGN AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION, FILM, MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS – FOR SELECTED COUNTRIES S Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – German Academic Exchange Service
Description: The German Academic Exchange Service Applicants must have taken their final (DAAD) invites applications for its study examinations no longer than six years before scholarships in fine art, design and visual the time of application. They should not have communication, film, music and performing lived in Germany for more than 15 months at arts. These enable non-German graduates in the time of application. For music courses the fields of fine art, design and visual there tends to be an age limit of 30 years. communication, film, music and performing Projects must be in the artistic fields. arts to continue their education in Germany Scholarships include a monthly stipend of with a postgraduate or continuing course of €750 for between 10 and 24 months, plus study. Scholarships may be used for a travel and study allowances, insurance, and if master’s or postgraduate degree leading to a necessary tuition fees, rent subsidy, family final qualification or a complementary course allowance and language course. that does not lead to a final qualification, undertaken at a state or state-recognised Closing date: 31 Oct 16 German university of the applicant’s choice. Deadline information: Applications are invited six weeks before the deadline and are due by 12 midnight CET, 31 October 2016. This call is repeated once a year.
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Posted date: 21 Jul 16 Country of applicant institution: Angola, Award type: Directed grants for individual Australia, Botswana, Canada, Denmark, investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate Ethiopia, Finland, United Kingdom, Ghana, students, Networking/collaboration, Travel Ireland, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, for research purposes Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Senegal, Award amount max: - Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, United Website: States, South Africa, Zambia http://www.daad.org.uk/en/12900/index.html Application form: Disciplines https://portal.daad.de/irj/portal ------Music, Drama, Dance & Performing Arts; Eligibility profile Design; Visual Arts ------
ESEARCH GRANTS – BI-NATIONALLY SUPERVISED DOCTORAL DEGREES Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – German Academic Exchange Service R
Description: The German Academic Exchange Service language courses. Grant holders may also (DAAD) invites applications for its bi- receive a monthly rent subsidy and a monthly nationally supervised doctoral degrees allowance for accompanying members of research grants. These support doctoral family. During stays at the home university, candidates from selected African countries the grant is interrupted. who wish to carry out research and continue their education in Germany. Grant holders Closing date: 31 Oct 16 start the degree at their home university and Deadline information: Applications are spend subsequent research periods in invited six weeks before the deadline and Germany. The doctoral degrees are are due by 12 midnight CET. This call is supervised both by a university teacher at the repeated once a year. home university and an academic adviser at Posted date: 04 Apr 16 the host institute in Germany. Award type: Networking/collaboration, Directed grants for individual investigators, Doctoral candidates, young academics and Travel for research purposes, scientists from selected developing countries, Thesis/Dissertation funding who Award amount max: - have completed a master's degree, or in Award amount min: - exceptional cases a bachelor's degree, may Award budget total: - Website: apply. https://www.daad.de/deutschland/stipendiu Grants are awarded no more than two years m/datenbank/en/21148-scholarship- and include monthly payments of €1,000 database/?status=&origin=&subjectGrps=& during the stay in Germany, insurance, travel daad=1&q=research%20grants%20%E2%80% allowance, on-off research allowance, and
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93%20bi- Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, United nationally%20supervised&page=1&detail=5 Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia 7135740 Disciplines Eligibility profile ------Any Country of applicant institution: Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,
NE-YEAR GRANTS FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDATES, YOUNG ACADEMICS AND SCIENTISTS FROM SELECTED AFRICAN COUNTRIES O Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – German Academic Exchange Service
Description: The German Academic Exchange Service together with an appropriate flat-rate travel (DAAD) invites applications for its research allowance, unless this is provided by another grants for doctoral candidates, young funder, insurance cover and a one-off research academics and scientists from selected African allowance. Applicants may also receive a rent countries. These enable young academics to subsidy, a family allowance and payment of carry out research and continue their German language courses. education in Germany, with the main aim to promote research projects within the context Closing date: 31 Oct 16 of doctoral programmes. Deadline information: Applications are invited six weeks before the deadline and Applicants should hold a master’s degree by are due by 12 midnight CET. This call is the time they commence the grant-supported repeated once a year. research; in exceptional cases, graduates Posted date: 04 Apr 16 holding a bachelor’s degree or already a Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate doctorate may also be considered. As a rule, students, Travel for research purposes, applicants should not have graduated any Young investigator awards, Grants - longer than six years before the application undirected deadline. Doctoral candidates should not have Award amount max: - started their doctoral degree any longer than Award amount min: - three years previously. For postdoctoral Award budget total: - Website: researchers, no more than two years may have https://www.daad.de/deutschland/stipendiu passed since gaining their PhD. Applicants m/datenbank/en/21148-scholarship- who have been resident in Germany for more database/?status=&origin=&subjectGrps=& than 15 months at the time of application are daad=&q=one- not eligible. year%20grants&page=1&detail=57140602
Grants are worth €750 per month for Application form: graduates, or €1,000 for PhD candidates and https://portal.daad.de/irj/portal postdocs for a duration of seven to 10 months,
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Eligibility profile ------Disciplines Country of applicant institution: Angola, ------Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Any Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia
HORT-TERM RESEARCH GRANTS FOR PHD STUDENTS, POSTDOCS AND YOUNG ACADEMICS S Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – German Academic Exchange Service
Description: The German Academic Exchange Service Grants are worth €1,000 per month for a (DAAD) invites applications for its research duration of one to six months. Moreover, the grants for doctoral candidates, young award includes a travel allowance, and academics and scientists. These enable young payment towards health, accident and scholars to carry out research or continue their personal liability insurance cover. education in Germany, with the primary aim being to promote research projects within the context of doctoral programmes. Closing date: 31 Oct 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 31 Applicants should hold a master’s degree by October 2016, 1 April 2017. the time they commence the grant-supported Posted date: 03 May 16 research; in exceptional cases, graduates Award type: Thesis/Dissertation funding, holding a bachelor’s degree of 2nd class upper Young investigator awards, Financial aid for division or already holding a doctorate may postgraduate students, Travel for research also be considered. In the latter case, no more purposes, Grants - undirected than four years may have passed since Award amount max: - gaining the PhD or doctorate. As a rule, Award amount min: €1,000 applicants should not have graduated any Award budget total: - longer than six years before the time of Website: application. Doctoral candidates should not https://www.daad.de/deutschland/stipendiu m/datenbank/en/21148-scholarship- have started their doctoral degree any longer database/?status=4&origin=&subjectGrps=& than three years previously. Applicants who daad=1&q=short- have been resident in Germany for more than term%20grants&page=1&detail=50015434 15 months at the time of application are not Application form: eligible. A good knowledge of German is https://portal.daad.de/irj/portal expected in the arts, social sciences and in law. For the natural sciences and engineering, Eligibility profile proof of good English skills may be accepted ------if English is spoken at the host institution. Country of applicant institution: Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,
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ESEARCH GRANTS – DOCTORAL PROGRAMMES IN GERMANY R Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – German Academic Exchange Service
Description: The German Academic Exchange Service Funding includes monthly payments of €750 invites applications for it research grants – for graduates and €1,000 for doctoral doctoral programmes in Germany. These candidates, insurance cover, a one-off enable young academics and scientists from research allowance, a travel allowance – Africa to undertake doctoral programmes at a unless paid by another source of funding, fees state or state-recognised institution of higher for German language courses and the education or a non-university research reimbursement of the fees for the German institute in Germany. Candidates may either language exam TestDaF. Monthly rent carry out individual projects under the subsidies and monthly allowances for supervision of a university teacher or an accompanying family members may also be academic advisor or participate in a available. Research phases outside Germany structured doctoral study programme. Any can be supported, if these are critical for the area of research is supported, except human successful completion of the doctoral degree medicine, veterinary medicine and dentistry. and do not exceed a quarter of the anticipated total funding period. Grants are usually Applicants must have completed a bachelor of available for a maximum period of three arts or a bachelor of science degree of second years, in exceptional cases up to four years. class upper division level or a master of arts or master of science degree. For francophone Closing date: 31 Oct 16 countries a licence or maitrise degree of assez Deadline information: The portal opens bien level and a master of advanced studies or about six weeks before the application a master corresponding to the LMD system. deadline and closes at 12 midnight CET on As a rule, applicants should not have the last application day. graduated any longer than six years before the Posted date: 04 Apr 16 application deadline. Candidates who are Award type: Young investigator awards, already working on a doctoral degree should Financial aid for postgraduate students, not have started their degree any longer than Directed grants for individual investigators, three years previously. Applicants who have Travel for research purposes, been resident in Germany for longer than 15 Thesis/Dissertation funding months at the application deadline cannot be Award amount max: - considered. Award amount min: - Award budget total: -
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database/?status=3&origin=&subjectGrps=& Country of applicant institution: Angola, daad=1&q=research%20grants%20- Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, %20doctoral%20programmes%20&page=1& Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, United detail=57135739 Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia Application form: https://portal.daad.de/irj/portal Disciplines ------Eligibility profile Social Sciences; Arts and Humanities; Physical ------Sciences and Engineering
HD FIELDWORK GRANTS Socio-Legal Studies Association P
Description: The Socio-Legal Studies Association invites Award amount min: - applications for its research grants scheme Award budget total: - PhD fieldwork grants. The scheme supports Website: work for which other funding sources are not http://www.slsa.ac.uk/index.php/prizes- available, and encourages socio-legal research grants-and-seminars/small-grants initiatives. Application form: http://www.slsa.ac.uk/images/slsadownloads Each applicant must be a fully paid-up SLSA /prizesandgrants/PhD_Fieldwork_Grant_Ap member, or a registered free student member, plication_Package_20162017.doc and must have completed their first year of PhD study. There are no geographical Eligibility profile restrictions for this award. Each grant is worth ------up to £3,000. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 31 Oct 16 Disciplines Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Sociolegal Studies Posted date: 16 Dec 15 Award type: Directed grants for individual Contact Details investigators ------Award amount max: £3,000 Email: [email protected]
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NNOVATIVE GRANTS Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International I
Description: The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation facility. There are no citizenship requirements International invites applications for its for this programme. innovative grants. These provide seed Grants are worth up to USD 110,000 each for funding for highly innovative research with one year, including up to 10 per cent for significant potential to accelerate the mission indirect costs. of JDRF. Proposals should address key outstanding questions, and have the potential Closing date: 31 Oct 16 to lead to a change in the current paradigm or Deadline information: Applications are conventional wisdom or lead to a invited between 31 August and 5pm Eastern groundbreaking discovery. Preliminary data time, 31 October 2016. is not required in the proposal but the Posted date: 17 Aug 16 underlying premise, goal or hypothesis must Award type: Innovation grants, Directed be plausible and testable, and the proposal grants to institutions, research groups etc, must be focused with a well-defined goal that Directed grants for individual investigators is achievable within the timeframe of the Award amount max: USD 110,000 award. Award amount min: - Award budget total: - Grants are not intended to support proposals Website: aiming to incrementally advance existing http://grantcenter.jdrf.org/rfa/innovative- grants/ hypotheses, ongoing areas of research or Application form: proposals with the sole goal of generating http://jdrf.smartstimple.us/ novel reagents or resources. Projects in complications are not eligible. Eligibility profile
------US and non-US non-profit organisations, Country of applicant institution: Any public and private institutions, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, Disciplines units of state and local governments, and ------eligible agencies of the federal government, Diabetes may apply. Applicants must hold an MD,
DMD, DVM, PhD or equivalent, and have a Contact Details faculty position or equivalent at a college, ------university, medical school or other research Email: [email protected]
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RIC REID FUND FOR METHODOLOGY Biochemical Society E
Description: The Biochemical Society invites applications Posted date: 20 Nov 15 for the Eric Reid fund for methodology. Award type: Innovation grants, Directed Funding supports benchwork, with an grants for individual investigators emphasis on methodology and preferably Award amount max: £2,000 cellular or bioanalytical work. Examples of Award amount min: - supported activities include: Award budget total: - feasibility studies by new staff prior to Website: application to a major funding body; http://www.biochemistry.org/TabID/396/def developing a new technique; ault.aspx checking the application of a known Application form: https://bsgrants.myreviewroom.com/ technique in new circumstances.
Eligibility profile Applicants must be either early-career, full or ------emeritus members of the society. Where a Country of applicant institution: Any short-term stipend is sought, applicants must be engaged in benchwork and not just Disciplines writing-up. ------Grants are worth up to £1,250 each, or up to Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Cell & £2,000 if vacation help is required. Developmental Biology
Closing date: 01 Nov 16 Contact Details Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 ------November 2016, 1 April 2017, and repeated Email: [email protected] annually.
MALL GRANTS SCHEME Palaeontological Association S
Description: The Palaeontological Association invites supports individual members in conducting applications for its small grants scheme. This palaeontological research, travel and
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fieldwork. The following awards are Award type: Directed grants for individual available: investigators, Travel for research purposes multiple Sylvester Bradley awards for Award amount max: £1,500 palaeontological research; Award amount min: - one Callomon award, normally for a Award budget total: - field-based project; Website: http://www.palass.org/awards- one Whittington award for a project grants/grants/small-grants-scheme based on museum collections; Application form: http://www.palass.org/awards- one Stan Wood award for projects in grants/grants/small-grants-scheme-form vertebrate palaeontology, and ideally
involving fieldwork and fossil Eligibility profile collecting. ------
Country of applicant institution: Any All members of the association are eligible to apply. Applicants need to specify which Disciplines award they are applying for as this will be ------decided by the association. Awards are worth Palaeontology & Palynology; Archaeology £1,500 each.
Contact Details Closing date: 01 Nov 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Email: [email protected] once a year. Posted date: 22 Feb 16
ENIOR RESEARCH AWARDS Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America S
Description: The Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of healthcare or health-related research. America invites applications for its senior Eligibility is not restricted by citizenship or research awards. The objective of these geography. awards is to provide established researchers Awards are for one to three years. The with funds to generate sufficient preliminary maximum award per year is US$115,830. data to become competitive for funds from Total direct costs may not exceed US$105,300 other sources. All research must be relevant to per year and indirect costs may not exceed 10 inflammatory bowel disease, specifically percent of direct costs or US$10,530. Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis. Closing date: 01 Nov 16 Applicants must hold an MD, PhD, or Deadline information: Letters of intent due equivalent degree and be employed by an 5pm EST, 1 May and 1 November; full either public or private non-profit or applications due 5pm EST, 1 July and 14 governmental institution that is engaged in
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January. Deadlines on: 1 November 2016, 1 May 2017, and repeated annually. Disciplines Posted date: 12 Dec 12 ------Award type: Directed grants for individual Diagnostic Sciences; Gastroenterology; investigators, Senior fellowships Clinical Medicine; Bowel Diseases Award amount max: USD 347,490 Award amount min: - Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: http://www.ccfa.org/science-and- CCFA professionals/research/grants- 386 Park Avenue South fellowships/senior-research-awards.html 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------Country of applicant institution: Any
WARD FOR ENCOURAGING WOMEN INTO CAREERS IN THE CHEMICAL A SCIENCES American Chemical Society
Description: The American Chemical Society, supported by approximate deadline we expect. This call is the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation repeated once a year. Incorporated, invites nominations for its Posted date: 10 Dec 13 award for encouraging women into careers in Award type: Institutional development, the chemical sciences. This recognises Prizes, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. individuals from any professional setting who Award amount max: - have stimulated or fostered the interest of Award amount min: - women in chemistry, promoting their Award budget total: - professional development as chemists or Website: chemical engineers. http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding- and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/acs- The award includes a cash prize of US$5,000 award-for-encouraging-women-into-careers- and travel expenses of up to US$1,500 to the in-the-chemical-sciences.html meeting where the award is presented. In Application form: addition, US$10,000 will be granted to an http://www.nominate.acs.org/ academic institution, designated by the recipient, to strengthen its activities in Eligibility profile meeting the award’s objectives. ------
Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 01 Nov 16 (Forecast)
Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the
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Disciplines ACS ------1155 16th St, NW Women in Science; Chemical Engineering; Washington, DC 20036-4801 Chemistry Fax: +1 202 872 4575 Tel: +1 202 776 8008 Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------Awards Office
ISSERTATION FIELDWORK GRANTS Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research D
Description: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Award budget total: - Anthropological Research invites applications Website: for its dissertation fieldwork grants. These http://www.wennergren.org/programs/disser assist students of any nationality with tation-fieldwork-grants doctoral or thesis research in anthropology. Application form: The research should demonstrate a clear link http://www.wennergren.org/programs/access to anthropological theory and debates, and -online-application/download-dissertation- promise to make a solid contribution to fieldwork-grant-application advance these ideas. Eligibility profile Applicants must be currently enrolled for a ------doctoral degree and complete the application Country of applicant institution: Any jointly with a dissertation supervisor or other scholar acting as the project’s supervisor. Disciplines There are no time limits on the duration of the ------grants, which may be worth up to US$20,000 Anthropology each. Contact Details: Closing date: 01 Nov 16 ------Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological November 2016, 1 May 2017, and repeated Research annually. 470 Park Avenue South, Posted date: 16 Jan 15 8th Floor Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate New York, NY 10016 students, Thesis/Dissertation funding, Fax: +1 212 683 5000 Directed grants for individual investigators Tel: +1 212 532 1492 Award amount max: USD 20,000 Email: [email protected] Award amount min: -
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OST-PHD RESEARCH GRANTS Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research P
Description: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Award amount min: - Anthropological Research invites applications Award budget total: - for its post-PhD research grants. These Website: support individual research projects that http://www.wennergren.org/programs/post- demonstrate a clear link to anthropological phd-research-grants theory and debates, and promise to make a Application form: solid contribution to advancing these ideas. https://www.grantrequest.com/SID_577/Defa ult.asp?SA=SNA&FID=35019&SESID=8150 Proposals that employ a comparative &RL= perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, or integrate two or more Eligibility profile subfields are particularly welcomed. ------Researchers worldwide with a PhD degree or Country of applicant institution: Any equivalent may apply. Scholars close to completing their doctorate may apply, Disciplines provided that they complete the degree before ------the grant award date. Anthropology Grants are worth up to US$20,000 each, to be Contact Details used for research expenses. ------Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Closing date: 01 Nov 16 Research Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 470 Park Avenue South, November 2016, 1 May 2017, and repeated 8th Floor annually. New York, NY 10016 Posted date: 23 Mar 15 Fax: +1 212 683 5000 Award type: Directed grants for individual Tel: +1 212 532 1492 investigators Email: [email protected] Award amount max: USD 20,000
PECIALISED CENTRE OF RESEARCH PROGRAMME Leukemia and Lymphoma Society S
Description: The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society invites supports interdisciplinary research, applications under its specialised centre of collaboration and teamwork in an effort to research programme. The programme cure and better treat blood cancers. The
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programme supports interdisciplinary Application form: research across at least three independent http://proposalcentral.altum.com/ research projects that are integrated and supported by scientific core laboratories. Eligibility profile ------The centre's maximal annual total cost, direct Country of applicant institution: Any and indirect, cannot exceed US$1.25 million. The aggregate costs over five years cannot Disciplines exceed US$6.25m. Applications may be ------submitted by individuals holding an MD, Leukaemia & Other Blood Cancers; General PhD, or equivalent, working in domestic or Practice & Family Health; Humoural foreign non-profit organisations. Applications Immunity & Immunochemistry; Primary may be multi-institutional in nature. Care; Physiology; Cancer Immunology; Applicants need not be US citizens. Human Biological Sciences; Preventive Medicine; Nuclear Medicine; Diagnostic Sciences; Nucleus & Organelles; Closing date: 01 Nov 16 (Forecast) Carcinogenesis; Cancer Studies & Oncology; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Biomedical Engineering; Lymphatic System; been announced by funder, but this is the Medicine & Health; Cancer Cell Biology; approximate deadline we expect. Public Health, Health Services & Primary Posted date: 07 Aug 12 Care Award type: Research centres, Networking/collaboration, Innovation grants Contact Details Award amount max: USD 6,250,000 ------Award amount min: - Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Award budget total: - 1311 Mamaroneck Ave Website: White Plains, NY 10605 http://www.lls.org/#/researchershealthcarepr Fax: +1 914 821 8301 ofessionals/academicgrants/specializedcente Tel: +1 914 821 8290 rresearch/ Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH GRANTS Institute for Aegean Prehistory R
Description: The Institute for Aegean Prehistory invites new research grants, which are only applications for its research grants. These awarded if the projects are deemed promote knowledge of the Aegean region, extremely important by the institute; and support archaeological fieldwork and renewals for research grants, which research in the area in the chronological span are available to scholars who received of the Paleolithic through to the eighth a new research grant the previous century BC. Two types of grants are available:
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year and request funding for Award budget total: - continuation of the same project. Website: http://www.aegeanprehistory.net/grant- Grants are worth up to USD 60,000 for program/ fieldwork or USD 30,000 for research in any year. All applicants, and particularly those Eligibility profile requesting support of USD 10,000 or more, are ------strongly encouraged to explore additional Country of applicant institution: Any sources of funding. Grants of USD 7,500 are provided for direct publishing subventions Disciplines for printing costs. ------Archaeology; Ancient History; Prehistory; Closing date: 01 Nov 16 Latin & Classical Greek History; Classics Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 11 Aug 16 ------Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Institute for Aegean Prehistory research groups etc, Directed grants for 2133 Arch Street, Suite 300 individual investigators Philadelphia, PA 19103 Award amount max: USD 60,000 Email: [email protected] Award amount min: -
WARD FOR RESEARCH AT AN UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTION American Chemical Society A
Description: The American Chemical Society invites The nominee's department may offer work nominations for its award for research at an leading to the master's degree but cannot have undergraduate institution. This award a doctoral programme. The award will be honours a chemistry faculty member whose given for significant work over a long period research in an undergraduate setting has of time rather than for a specific, limited achieved wide recognition and contributed project. A nominee must be a tenured faculty significantly to chemistry and to the member of a predominantly undergraduate professional development of undergraduate institution. The award will be granted students. This award recognises fundamental regardless of race, gender, age, religion, research that constitutes advances in science ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, as evidenced by refereed publications with gender expression, gender identity, presence undergraduate coauthors in leading scientific of disabilities or educational background. research journals, external research grant support and the subsequent professional The award includes a cash prize of US$5,000. development of students who have Up to US$2,500 for travel expenses will be participated in the research programme.
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reimbursed. A grant of US$5,000 is also Application form: provided directly to the recipient’s institution. http://www.nominate.acs.org/
Eligibility profile Closing date: 01 Nov 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Country of applicant institution: Any been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Disciplines repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 23 Nov 12 Higher Education; Education; Chemistry Award type: Institutional development, Prizes, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. Contact Details Award amount max: USD 12,500 ------Award amount min: - Awards Office Award budget total: - ACS Website: 1155 16th Street NW http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_ Washington, DC 20036-4801 nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN Fax: +1 202 872 4575 &node_id=1319&content_id=CTP_004549&u Tel: +1 202 776 8008 se_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid= Email: [email protected]
FFICACY AND MECHANISM EVALUATION PROGRAMME – RESEARCHER-LED WORKSTREAM: 16/68 E Department of Health including NIHR
Description: The National Institute for Health Research applications may investigate novel or invites proposals for its researcher-led repurposed interventions and tests. workstream under the efficacy and mechanism evaluation programme. Funding Proposals may address stages such as limited supports research into interventions based in steps needed to progress the development of or used by the NHS and its partners. an intervention; prospective clinical work or Applicants should note: retrospective research; and pilot or feasibility applications should focus on studies. Research into interventions includes establishing efficacy of an any method used to promote health, prevent intervention; and treat disease and improve rehabilitation proof-of-concept in humans for the or long-term care. intervention must be already established; Researchers in England, Northern Ireland, applications may include embedded Scotland and Wales may apply. Proposals mechanistic evaluations, excluding should demonstrate a multidisciplinary team stand-alone mechanistic studies; with appropriate skills and experience, including an appropriately experienced
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statistician on the study team. The Award amount max: - involvement of an accredited clinical Award amount min: - trials unit is strongly encouraged in the design Award budget total: - of clinical trials. International studies may be Website: considered, provided the chief investigator http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/funding/eme- and lead institution are based in the UK, and researcher-led the study is relevant to the UK population. Application form: https://netscc- Joint proposals and collaborations are mis.nihr.ac.uk/mis/apply.aspx?16000774 welcomed. Eligibility profile There is no fixed limit on project duration. All ------funding should be clearly justified, but there Country of applicant institution: United is no upper limit. Kingdom Country of applicant institution: Any Ref: 16/68. Disciplines Closing date: 01 Nov 16 ------Deadline information: Proposals due by Quality of Care; Health Promotion; Drug 1pm. This call is repeated 3 times a year. Design; Health Economics; Biomedical Posted date: 13 Jul 16 Engineering; Preventive Medicine Award type: Technology innovation/development, Directed grants for Contact Details individual investigators, Clinical trials, ------Directed grants to institutions, research Tel: +44 2380 594 303 groups etc, Networking/collaboration Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH GRANTS British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy R
Description: The British Society for Antimicrobial antibiotic therapy; Chemotherapy invites applications for its antiparisitics; research grants. These support research in the evidence-based medicine and following areas: systematic reviews. mechanisms of antibacterial action; mechanisms of antibacterial Researchers worldwide may apply. Grants are resistance; worth up to £50,000 for projects of up to one antiviral resistance; year duration. antivirals; antifungals; Closing date: 01 Nov 16 antibiotic methods; Deadline information: Submissions due by antibiotic prescribing; 12 midnight GMT. This call is repeated once a year.
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Posted date: 19 Feb 16 Bacterial Diseases; Antibiotics; Fungal Award type: Directed grants for individual Diseases; Chemotherapy; Bacteriology; investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Parasitology; Antivirals; Drug Resistance research groups etc Award amount max: £50,000 Contact Details Website: http://bsac.org.uk/funding/project------research-grants/ BSAC Griffin House Eligibility profile 53 Regent Place ------Birmingham B1 3NJ Country of applicant institution: Any Tel: +44 121 236 1988 Email: [email protected] Disciplines ------
ROJECT GRANTS British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy P
Description: The British Society for Antimicrobial Award type: Directed grants for individual Chemotherapy invites applications for its investigators, Directed grants to institutions, project grants. These may be used for the research groups etc following purposes: Award amount max: £15,000 pump-priming projects; Website: http://bsac.org.uk/funding/project- supporting the completion of an research-grants/ existing project; introducing a novel technique for Eligibility profile existing work; ------ funding for trainees for projects or Country of applicant institution: Any training for a maximum value of Disciplines £5,000. ------
Researchers worldwide may apply. Up to Clinical Microbiology; Chemotherapy
£15,000 is available for projects of one year's Contact Details duration. ------
BSAC Closing date: 01 Nov 16 Griffin House Deadline information: Submissions due by 12 midnight GMT. This call is repeated once 53 Regent Place a year. Birmingham B1 3NJ Posted date: 19 Feb 16 Tel: +44 121 236 1988 Email: [email protected]
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ESEARCH GRANTS Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland R
Description: The Conchological Society of Great Britain Award amount max: £1,000 and Ireland invites applications for its Award amount min: - research grants. These support projects Award budget total: £3,000 furthering the objectives of the society, with Website: preference given to projects that focus on http://www.conchsoc.org/pages/grants.php molluscan biogeography, ecology, taxonomy, conservation or palaeontology. Eligibility profile ------Applications are invited from both members Country of applicant institution: Any and non-members. Grants are intended to cover only costs of equipment and reasonable Disciplines expenses up to £1,000 per year. ------Invertebrate Biology; Taxonomy; Zoology; Closing date: 01 Nov 16 (Forecast) Biogeography Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Conchological Society of Great Britain and Posted date: 29 Jan 15 Ireland Award type: Directed grants for individual c/o 447B Wokingham Rd investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Earley research groups etc, Equipment and Reading RG6 7EL materials Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH GRANTS JR Smallwood Foundation for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies R
Description: The JR Smallwood Foundation for Grants are worth up to CA$5,000 each and Newfoundland and Labrador Studies invites help defray the costs of travel, subsistence, applications for its research grants. These research assistance, and materials and support research on Newfoundland and supplies. Labrador in the areas of social science and humanities. Applications are open to students, faculty members and non-affiliated Closing date: 01 Nov 16 (Forecast) scholars from any institution. Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the
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approximate deadline we expect. This call is Psychology; American Literature; Law; repeated once a year. Geography; Economics & Econometrics; Posted date: 03 Nov 14 Social Work & Social Policy; Business & Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Management Studies; History; North research groups etc, Directed grants for American Studies; American History; individual investigators, Travel for research Indigenous Peoples of the Americas; Social purposes, Equipment and materials Sciences; Education; Sociology; Built Award amount max: CAD 5,000 Environment & Spatial Planning; Politics & Website: International Studies; Accounting & Finance; http://www.mun.ca/smallwood/grants/ Canadian Literature; Canadian History; Application form: Anthropology; Sports & Exercise Studies http://www.mun.ca/smallwood/grants/Smllw d_Res_Grant_Appl_Jun_2014.pdf Contact Details ------Eligibility profile JR Smallwood Foundation ------Memorial University of Newfoundland Country of applicant institution: Any St John's NL A1C 5S7
Fax: +1 709 864 8156 Disciplines Tel: +1 709 864 2041 ------
OLLECTION STUDY GRANTS American Museum of Natural History C
Description: The American Museum of Natural History ET, 1 November annually; applications for invites applications for its collection study all divisions due by 11.59pm ET, 1 grants. These enable pre-doctoral and recent November and 1 May annually. postdoctoral investigators to study the Posted date: 09 Oct 13 scientific collections at the AMNH. These Award type: Directed grants for individual collections represent the fields of investigators, Access to libraries, Travel for anthropology, invertebrate zoology, physical research purposes sciences, palaeontology, and vertebrate Award amount max: USD 1,500 zoology. Projects of at least four days’ Award amount min: USD 500 duration are encouraged. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.amnh.org/our- Grants are worth between US$500 and research/richard-gilder-graduate- US$1,500 and they cover partial travel school/academics-and-research/fellowship- and-grant-opportunities/research-grants- expenses and subsistence. and-student-exchange-fellowships
Application form: Closing date: 01 Nov 16 https://myrggs.amnh.org/Applicant/ApplyO Deadline information: Applications for the nline_Login.aspx vertebrate zoology division due by 11.59pm
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Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any Richard Gilder Graduate School Central Park West at 79th Street Disciplines American Museum of Natural History ------New York, NY 10024-5192 Physics; Zoology; Chemistry; Invertebrate Email: [email protected] Biology; Earth Sciences; Animal Physiology; Palaeontology & Palynology; Vertebrate Biology; Biological Sciences; Anthropology
ROJECT SUPPORT GRANT British Society for Neuroendocrinology P
Description: The British Society for Neuroendocrinology Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 invites applications for its project support November 2016, 1 February 2017, 1 May 2017, grants. These provide support for 1 August 2017, and repeated annually. consumables and other research costs to Posted date: 05 Feb 15 enable postdoctoral scientists or students to Award type: Directed grants for individual carry out neuroendocrine research projects. investigators, Equipment and materials, Studentship allocations Award amount max: £5,000 The scheme is primarily intended to support Website: PhD studentships, although it will also http://www.neuroendo.org.uk/Members/Gra provide resources for MRes. Applicants must nts.aspx be postdoctoral researchers within 10 years of Application form: their doctoral award, or academic or faculty http://www.neuroendo.org.uk/LinkClick.asp x?fileticket=gonp3L1_uwE%3d&tabid=86&p staff applying on behalf of a student. ortalid=0&mid=603
Each applicant must have been a full member Eligibility profile of the society for at least six months. Previous ------recipients of funding are eligible to apply. Country of applicant institution: Any Non-UK based members are also eligible to apply. Students must also be members of the Disciplines society. A total of 12 awards, worth a ------maximum of £5,000 each, are available every Neuroendocrinology year.
Contact details Closing date: 01 Nov 16 ------Email: [email protected]
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ISTORY VISITING MEMBERSHIPS Institute for Advanced Study H
Description: The School of Historical Studies at the Award amount max: USD 75,000 Institute for Advanced Study invites Award amount min: - applications for its visiting memberships. Award budget total: - These support scholarships in all fields of Website: http://www.hs.ias.edu/application historical research, however, the history of Application form: western, near eastern and Asian civilisations https://applications.ias.edu/login1.php is prioritised, with particular emphasis upon: Eligibility profile Greek and Roman civilisation; ------ the medieval, early modern and Country of applicant institution: Any modern history of Europe; the Islamic world; Disciplines ------ east Asian studies; Japanese History; Latin & Classical Greek the history of art; Languages; Art & Design: History, Practice & the history of science and philosophy; Theory; Korean History; History of Science; modern international relations. Philosophy; Politics & Economics of Asia;
Classics; South-East Asian History; Central Applicants of any nationality must hold a European History; Asian Studies; History of PhD or equivalent qualification at the time of Art; Latin & Classical Greek History; Politics application, but do not need to have a current & International Studies; International institutional affiliation. Candidates should Relations & Diplomacy; Islamic Studies; have several articles already published in History of Engineering & Technology; scholarly publications in order to be Chinese History considered eligible.
Stipends are worth up to a maximum of USD Contact Details 37,500 for one term and USD 75,000 for the ------full academic year. School of Historical Studies
Institute for Advanced Study Closing date: 01 Nov 16 1 Einstein Drive Deadline information: This call is repeated Princeton NJ 08540 once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 28 Jul 16 Award type: Access to libraries, Directed grants for individual investigators, Early- Career fellowships, Senior fellowships
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ETROGRAPHY INTERNSHIP AT THE INSTAP STUDY CENTER FOR EAST CRETE Institute for Aegean Prehistory P
Description: The Institute for Aegean Prehistory invites Award amount max: - applications for its petrography internship at Award amount min: - the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete. This Award budget total: - enables students of archaeology, pottery, Website: geology and related fields to undertake a one http://www.aegeanprehistory.net/grant- month supervised internships in petrology in program/ Crete. Eligible projects include those Application form: involving the use of the petrographic http://www.aegeanprehistory.net/grant- microscope. The internship must be applications/2017%20Petrography%20Intern undertaken between 15 January to 30 April %20Application.docx 2017 or 1 September to 15 December 2017. Eligibility profile It is not necessary to have completed the PhD ------to be eligible. Country of applicant institution: Any The award is worth USD 2,000 plus reasonable round-trip travel expenses to the Disciplines INSTAP Study Center for East Crete. ------Ancient History; Latin & Classical Greek Closing date: 01 Nov 16 History; Geology; Archaeology; Classics Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 11 Aug 16 ------Award type: Access to laboratories, Institute for Aegean Prehistory telescopes etc., Directed grants for 2133 Arch Street, Suite 300 individual investigators, Access to libraries, Philadelphia, PA 19103 Travel for research purposes Email: [email protected]
RANTS International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering G
Description: The Foundation of the International Society through conferences, symposia and for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical workshops. Applicants must be members of Engineering invites applications for its grants. the society. Grants are worth up to US$2,000. These are for geotechnical engineers to enhance their knowledge and practice Closing date: 01 Nov 16
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Deadline information: Applications must be received at least three months before the Eligibility profile date of intended travel or conference. ------Deadlines on: 1 November 2016, 1 February Country of applicant institution: Any 2017, 1 May 2017, 1 August 2017, and repeated annually. Disciplines Posted date: 03 Feb 15 ------Award type: Directed grants for individual Geotechnical Engineering; Soil & Rock investigators, Travel to conferences, Mechanics meetings etc. Award amount max: USD 2,000 Contact Details Award amount min: ------Award budget total: - ISSMGE Website: http://www.issmge.org/en/issmge- City University London foundation Northampton Square Application form: London EC1V 0HB http://www.issmge.org/files/The_ISSMGE_F Tel: +44 20 7040 8154 oundation- Email: [email protected] Application_Form_new_letterhead.docx
ONNECTION GRANTS FOR OTHER OUTREACH ACTIVITIES Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada – Conseil de Recherches en Sciences C Humaines
Description: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research networking; Council of Canada invites applications for its knowledge co-creation. connection grants for other outreach activities. These support outreach activities geared Applicants may be individuals, teams or toward short-term, targeted knowledge institutions. All applicants should be affiliated mobilisation initiatives in the field of social with an eligible Canadian postsecondary sciences and humanities. institution while applying or, in the case of postdoctoral fellows and researchers, should Activities must engage the broader public in establish an affiliation within three months of humanities and social sciences knowledge the grant start date. through one or a combination of the Co-applicants may be included from following: international or from Canadian postsecondary knowledge dissemination; institutions, non-profit organisations, knowledge transfer; philanthropic foundations, think tanks, as knowledge brokering; well as municipal, territorial or provincial knowledge translation; governments. Grants are generally worth up knowledge synthesis; to CA$50,000 over one year; however, higher knowledge exchange; amounts may be considered. Funding does
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not cover more than 50 per cent of the eligible programmes/connection_grants- costs. subventions_connexion-eng.aspx Application form: Closing date: 01 Nov 16 https://webapps.nserc.ca/SSHRC/faces/logon Deadline information: Applications due by .jsp?lang=en_CA 12 midnight ET on deadline dates. Deadlines on: 1 November 2016, 1 February 2017, 1 May Eligibility profile 2017, 1 August 2017, and repeated annually. ------Posted date: 15 May 15 Country of applicant institution: Canada Award type: Publish, edit, translate, Country of applicant institution: Any disseminate, Networking/collaboration, Country of applicant institution: Canada Directed grants for individual investigators, Directed grants to institutions, research Disciplines groups etc ------Award amount max: - Humanities; Social Sciences Award amount min: - Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: http://www.sshrc------crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs- Tel: +1 613 943 1007 Email: [email protected]
OLLABORATIVE PROGRAMME FOR RENEWABLE FUELS AND SYSTEMS Energimyndigheten – Swedish Energy Agency C
Description: The Swedish Energy Agency and the f3 sustainable use biomass for a range of Swedish Knowledge Centre for Renewable purposes, and address the use of fossil Fuels invite applications for their fuels and renewables for transport collaborative programme for renewable fuels systems; and systems. This aims to provide analyses operators, instruments and strategies that can form the basis for scientifically based – projects should analyse various decision-making and increased understanding strategies for implementation of among politicians, government agencies, biofuels on national, regional, industry and other organisations in the field corporate and local levels, including of renewable fuels. Applications in the investigations of the economical, following areas, with emphasis on project area political and societal effects; number five, or number five in connection comparative system analysis – projects with project areas two and three are should compare different perspectives welcomed: of production or use of different overall technical, economical and renewables, such as energy, environmental system studies – sustainability and cost; projects should highlight the
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process integration and efficiency – groups etc, Networking/collaboration, projects should focus on the Research calls for business configuration and comparison Award amount max: SEK 500,000 between different concepts of Award amount min: - systematic and efficient biofuel Award budget total: SEK 2,000,000 productions; Website: knowledge synthesis for value chain http://www.energimyndigheten.se/forskning links and environmental -och- circumstances – projects should innovation/forskning/transporter/biodrivme include knowledge synthesis for del/program/fornybara-drivmedel-och- current developments of the different system-2014-2017/ Application form: links in the value chain, including raw https://www1.stem.se/etjanster/default.aspx materials, production, distribution
and international use. Eligibility profile
------Researchers and experts from universities, Country of applicant institution: Any institutions and relevant industries may Country of applicant institution: Sweden apply. Participation from small- and medium- sized enterprises, as well as co-operation with Disciplines international operators is encouraged. At least ------two organisations are required to participate Nuclear Fuels, Enrichment & Waste as project implementers. Processing; Energy Conversion; Bioenergy &
Biomass Conversion; Fossil Energy; Energy Grants are worth SEK 500,000 each. The total Transmission & Smart Grids; Renewable budget is SEK 2 million. Energy Engineering; Energy Conservation &
Efficiency; Energy Consumption Closing date: 01 Nov 16
Deadline information: Applications due by Contact Details 12 noon. ------Posted date: 16 Aug 16 Tel: +46 16 544 2465 Award type: Academic-Industry links, Email: Directed grants to institutions, research [email protected]
RANTS TO ABORIGINAL DANCE PROFESSIONALS Canada Council for the Arts – Conseil des Arts du Canada G
Description: The Canada Council for the Arts invites projects involving professional development, applications for its grants to Aboriginal dance research, and apprenticeship or mentorship. professionals. These enable Canadian Aboriginal dance professionals to pursue
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Aboriginal, Inuit or Métis dance professionals Website: are welcome to apply. Applicants must be http://canadacouncil.ca/en/council/grants/fin Canadian citizens or persons with permanent d-a-grant/grants/grants-to-aboriginal-dance- resident status, but do not have to be living in professionals Canada when applying. Grants are worth up Application form: to CA$10,000 each for apprenticeship and https://go.canadacouncil.ca/index.aspx mentorship projects, and up to CA$20,000 each for professional development and Eligibility profile research projects. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 01 Nov 16 Deadline information: If this deadline falls on a weekend or statutory holiday Disciplines applications are due on the next business ------day. This call is repeated once a year. Dance Posted date: 03 May 16 Award type: Directed grants for individual Contact Details investigators, Personal development ------Award amount max: CAD 20,000 Tel: +1 613 566 4414 ext 5501 Award amount min: - Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
MALL GRANTS Estuarine Coastal Sciences Association S
Description: The Estuarine Coastal Sciences Association Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 invites applications for its small grants. These November 2016, 1 April 2017, and repeated enable students to attend academic annually. conferences, travel for research purposes, visit Posted date: 14 May 15 libraries or other collections of research Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings materials, visit laboratories or conduct etc., Directed grants for individual fieldwork. Applicants must be current investigators, Equipment and materials, members of the association but may be from Travel for research purposes, Financial aid anywhere in the world. Preference is given to for postgraduate students research students. Award amount max: £500 Award amount min: - Grants are worth up to £500 each. Award budget total: - Website: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/administration/ecsa_
home/small_grants.aspx Closing date: 01 Nov 16
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ROJECT GRANTS Van Eeden Foundation – Stichting het Van Eeden-fonds P
Description: The Van Eeden Foundation invites students, Publish, edit, translate, applications for its project grants. These disseminate, Travel for research purposes support research and conservation projects on Award amount max: - a botanical, ecological or ethnobotanical topic, Award amount min: - relevant to one of the target areas: Guyana, Award budget total: - Suriname, French Guiana, Aruba, Bonaire, Website: http://www.vaneeden- Curaçao, Saba, St Eustatius, and St Maarten. fonds.nl/UK/Grantapplication.html Application form: http://vaneeden- Applications are open to students and fonds.nl/UK/grant_application researchers worldwide. The research must be conducted under the supervision of a Eligibility profile scientific institute in one of the target areas, or ------at an university or research institute Country of applicant institution: Any elsewhere. Grants are generally worth up to €1,250, though larger projects may also Disciplines receive support. Funding can be used towards ------fieldwork, internships, visits to herbaria or Biological Sciences; Ecology; Botany; conferences, publications, laboratory analyses, Taxonomy; Environmental Science; Latin travel or other research expenses. Salaries and American & Caribbean Studies; Terrestrial overhead costs will not be covered. Ecology; Agriculture; Evolutionary Adaptation & Variation; Plant Physiology Closing date: 01 Nov 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 Contact Details November 2016, 1 May 2017, and repeated ------annually. Van Eeden-fonds Posted date: 30 May 14 Ooststeeg 24 Award type: Directed grants for individual 6708 AV Wageningen investigators, Travel to conferences, Email: [email protected] meetings etc., Financial aid for postgraduate
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ROUP STUDY VISITS Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – German Academic Exchange Service G
Description: The German Academic Exchange Service Award type: Directed grants to institutions, (DAAD) invites applications for its group research groups etc, Travel for research study visits to Germany. These aim to provide purposes students with subject related knowledge, Award amount max: - facilitate meetings with German students, Award amount min: - academics and researchers and give the Award budget total: - students a greater understanding of and Website: insight into economic, political and cultural https://www.daad.de/deutschland/stipendiu life in Germany. Groups visit at least two m/datenbank/en/21148-scholarship- German universities where they participate in database/?status=&origin=&subjectGrps=& the academic programme. daad=&q=group&page=2&detail=10000016 Application form: https://portal.daad.de/ University teachers from a foreign university Eligibility profile are eligible to apply for study trips for groups ------of a maximum of 15 students. Individual Country of applicant institution: Andorra, doctoral candidates may also be funded. Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia Students must be registered at a foreign and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, university and have completed at least one Switzerland, Serbia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, semester. Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, Faroe The grant is worth €50 per student per day Islands, France, United Kingdom, Georgia, towards travel and accommodation for Gibraltar, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, groups from the EU member states, Albania, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Australia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hong Kong, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Monaco, Iceland, Japan, Canada, Croatia, Moldova, Republic of, Macedonia, the former Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Norway, the Yugoslav Republic of, Malta, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Serbia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine and Federation, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, San the US. For groups from the remaining Marino, Turkey, Ukraine, Holy See (Vatican countries the grant covers travel within City State), All African Nations, All Asian Germany and a meals allowance of €18 per nations, All South American nations, All day. For groups from Colombia both flat rate Oceanian nations, Kosovo, All North and organised travel are possible. Study visits American nations may last between seven and 12 days.
Disciplines
------Closing date: 01 Nov 16 Deadline information: Applicants are Any advised to check for special conditions applicable to their home country. Deadlines Contact Details on: 1 November 2016, 1 February 2017, 1 May ------2017, and repeated annually. DAAD Posted date: 03 May 16 Section Mobility Programmes and Student Support Services P-14 Kennedyallee 50
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ROJECT GRANTS FOR THE UN RESOLUTION 1325 Folke Bernadotteakademien – Folke Bernadotte Academy P
Description: The Folke Bernadotte Academy invites Award type: Directed grants to institutions, applications for its project grants for the UN research groups etc resolution 1325. These support projects that Award amount max: SEK 3,000,000 promote and maintain UN resolutions in Award amount min: SEK 30,000 which women have greater participation and Award budget total: - receive better protection in conflict and post- Website: https://fba.se/sok-pengar/1325- conflict zones. Preference is given to projects bidrag/ that promote women’s equal participation in Application form: issues related to peace and safety, and those https://www.fba.se/Documents/Kunskapsom that support capacity building in women råden/Gender/Projekthantering/Ansöknings organisations based in conflict and post- blankett%20Svenska_140704_FINAL.docx?e conflict zones. pslanguage=sv
Eligibility profile Projects must comply with the Organisation ------for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Country of applicant institution: Any Development Assistance Committee guidelines on aid funds in conflict zones. Disciplines Swedish and international organisations may ------apply. Projects that have already begun or Feminist, Women's & Gender Studies; Crimes have been completed are not supported. Against Humanity; Litigation & Mediation Grants are worth between SEK30,000 and
SEK3 million each for projects lasting up to 15 Contact Details months. ------
FBA Closing date: 01 Nov 16 872 64 Sandöverken Deadline information: This call is repeated Email: [email protected] once a year. Posted date: 27 Mar 15
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AILOR-MADE TRAINING PROGRAMME Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education (Nuffic) T
Description: The Netherlands Organisation for building/nfp-and-msp/nfp-tmt-tailor-made- International Cooperation (Nuffic) under its training-programme Netherlands Fellowship Programme, invites application for its tailor-made training Eligibility profile programme. This aims to enhance the overall ------functioning of an organisation by offering Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, training to a selected group of its staff Albania, Armenia, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, members, organised by a Dutch partner. The Burundi, Benin, Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, the total duration of the training is usually two to Democratic Republic of the, Colombia, Cuba, three weeks. Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Indonesia, India, Jordan, Applications are open to a broad range of Kenya, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Macedonia, the organisations in the selected countries, from former Yugoslav Republic of, Mali, Myanmar, education institutions, research institutes and Mozambique, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Nepal, ministries to NGO’s and small and medium Peru, Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian enterprises. Applications should be joint Territory, Occupied, Rwanda, Sudan, Senegal, proposals between a Dutch provider and Somalia, Suriname, Thailand, Tanzania, another organisation. United Republic of, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, The maximum available funding for a joint South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabw proposal with a Dutch partner is €75,000. Disciplines Closing date: 01 Nov 16 ------Deadline information: Applicants are Any encouraged to check with the appropriate embassy for the specific deadline. Contact Details Posted date: 04 Mar 16 ------Award type: Institutional development, PO Box 29777 Personal development, Grants - undirected 2502 LT The Hague Award amount max: €75,000 Tel: +31 70 426 0260 Website: https://www.epnuffic.nl/en/capacity-
DUCATION GRANTS British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy E
Description: The British Society for Antimicrobial education grants. These support research Chemotherapy invites applications for its projects and initiatives of benefit to the field
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of antimicrobial chemotherapy. These may Posted date: 28 Apr 16 include: Award type: Directed grants to institutions, innovative developments aimed at research groups etc, Directed grants for improving any aspect of individual investigators undergraduate and postgraduate Award amount max: £50,000 teaching in the UK; Award amount min: - the development and delivery of Award budget total: - initiatives that promote awareness Website: and increase public understanding http://bsac.org.uk/funding/education-grants/ about antibiotics and antibiotic usage; Application form: http://bsac.org.uk/wp- content/uploads/2012/02/ApplicationEducati the development and assessment of on_Aug-12.doc educational interventions that aim to
reduce inappropriate and increase Eligibility profile appropriate prescribing of ------antimicrobial agents; Country of applicant institution: Any create, stimulate and improve
multidisciplinary learning Disciplines opportunities for those responsible for ------management and use of antimicrobial Clinical Microbiology; Chemotherapy agents; improve understanding and attitudes Contact Details amongst health professionals or public ------toward antibiotic usage. BSAC Griffin House Applicants may come from anywhere in the 53 Regent Place world. Grants are worth up to £50,000 each Birmingham B1 3NJ over one year. Tel: +44 121 236 1988 Email: [email protected] Closing date: 01 Nov 16 Deadline information: Submissions are invited between September and 11.59pm GMT, 1 November 2016.
NTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS SCHEME Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council I
Description: The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences scientists from the UK with other countries to Research Council invites applications for its identify areas of commonality and explore the international workshops scheme. This aims to potential for international collaboration. The stimulate joint working in topics important to council seeks applications involving BBSRC’s strategy and to match numbers of collaborations with any other country,
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although the US, Canada, Brazil, EU member Country of applicant institution: United states, Japan, China, India, Australia and New Kingdom Zealand are particularly encouraged. Country of applicant institution: Germany, Workshops can be held overseas or in the UK. All Oceanian nations, All North American nations, Russian Federation, Netherlands, The scheme is open to current BBSRC research Italy, Slovakia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, grant holders and researchers employed at Montenegro, Portugal, All African Nations, BBSRC-sponsored institutes who are in Slovenia, Denmark, Belgium, All South receipt of BBSRC funding. Consortia of American nations, Iceland, Croatia, Latvia, academics may also apply, with one person Hungary, Armenia, Cyprus, Greece, acting as the lead. Around eight awards are Azerbaijan, Turkey, Andorra, Finland, available, worth approximately £10,000 each. Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Republic of, Belarus, Spain, Malta, Holy See (Vatican City Closing date: 12 Nov 16 (Forecast) State), Albania, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Poland, Czech Republic, Serbia, Macedonia, been announced by funder, but this is the the former Yugoslav Republic of, Switzerland, approximate deadline we expect. All Asian nations, Lithuania, Sweden, Applications due by 4pm. This call is Ukraine, France, Georgia, Monaco, Austria, repeated once a year. Luxembourg, Ireland, Bosnia and Posted date: 16 Sep 15 Herzegovina, Norway Award type: Hosting conferences, Networking/collaboration Disciplines Award amount max: ------Website: Biological Sciences; Agriculture, Veterinary & http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding/internationa Food Science; Environmental Engineering lfunding/international-workshops/ Application form: https://je- Contact Details s.rcuk.ac.uk/JeS2WebLoginSite/Login.aspx ------
Tel: +44 1793 413 364 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------
NVESTIGATOR-INITIATED RESEARCH GRANTS CurePSP Foundation I
Description: The CurePSP Foundation invites proposals for degeneration, and other atypical Parkinsonian its investigator-initiated research grants. disorders through research toward treatment, These support research that helps generate an cure and prevention, educate healthcare integrated picture of progressive supranuclear professionals and provide support, palsy at the molecular, cellular and clinical information, and hope for affected persons levels. The aim is to increase awareness of and their families. progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal
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Applicants from all countries and from Application form: industry are eligible to apply. Each grant is http://www.psp.org/file_download/b1f0c25c- worth up to US$100,000 for up to three years. f55c-4c07-8249-c6b64591cc02
Closing date: 15 Nov 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 ------March 2016, 15 July 2016, 15 November 2016. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 18 Mar 16 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Disciplines research groups etc, Directed grants for ------individual investigators Cerebral Palsy; Neurosurgery; Central Award amount max: USD 100,000 Nervous System; Parkinson's Disease Award amount min: - Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.psp.org/research/researchers/ Email: [email protected]
ILOT RESEARCH GRANTS American Foundation for Suicide Prevention P
Description: The American Foundation for Suicide Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Prevention invites applications for its pilot been announced by funder, but this is the research grants. The purpose of this grant is to approximate deadline we expect. This call is provide seed money for projects that show repeated once a year. promise in opening up new areas of suicide Posted date: 10 Sep 14 research. Grants must support research on Award type: Directed grants for individual suicide from a variety of disciplines including investigators, Travel for research purposes psychiatry, medicine, psychology, genetics, Award amount max: USD 30,000 epidemiology, neurobiology, sociology, Award amount min: - nursing and health services administration. Award budget total: - Website: Individuals affiliated with non-profit http://www.afsp.org/research/research-grant- institutions and organisations anywhere in information/research-grant-categories Application form: the world may apply. Each grant is worth up http://www.afsp.org/research/research-grant- to US$30,000 over a period of one to two information/apply-2014-research-grant- years. The grantee institution should provide applications the required physical facilities and administrative services. Eligibility profile
------Closing date: 15 Nov 16 (Forecast) Country of applicant institution: Any
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RANK M CHAPMAN GRANTS American Museum of Natural History F
Description: The American Museum of Natural History Award amount min: - invites applications for the Frank M Chapman Award budget total: - grants. These short-term awards for research Website: in ornithology are available to advanced http://research.amnh.org/vz/ornithology/gran graduate students and occasionally to ts-and-funding postgraduate researchers for expenses Application form: associated with their research. Priority is http://research.amnh.org/vz/ornithology/f/Ne given to investigations of fundamental wChapApp2009.pdf questions in ornithological science. Wildlife management and other applied proposals are Eligibility profile rarely funded. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Awards average approximately US$1,000, but are occasionally as large as US$2,000 to Disciplines US$3,000. Salaries and stipends are not ------funded. Migratory Animals & Birds; Ornithology; Biological Sciences; Zoology; Ethology & Closing date: 15 Nov 16 (Forecast) Comparative Psychology; Evolutionary Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Biology been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 31 Jul 12 American Museum of Natural History Award type: Directed grants for individual Office of Grants and Fellowships investigators, Student awards Central Park West at 79th Street Award amount max: USD 3,000 New York, NY 10024-5192
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ISTINGUISHED INVESTIGATOR AWARDS American Foundation for Suicide Prevention D
Description: The American Foundation for Suicide Award amount min: - Prevention invites applications for its Award budget total: - distinguished investigator grants. These Website: support research on suicide from a variety of http://www.afsp.org/research/research-grant- disciplines including psychiatry, medicine, information/research-grant-categories psychology, genetics, epidemiology, Application form: neurobiology, sociology, nursing and health http://www.afsp.org/research/research-grant- services administration. information/apply-2014-research-grant- applications Applicants should have an academic rank of associate or full professor and an established Eligibility profile record of research and publication in the area ------of suicide. Non-profit institutions and Country of applicant institution: Any organisations throughout the world are eligible. Each award is worth up to US$50,000 Disciplines per year for a maximum period of two years. ------The grantee institution should provide the Clinical Psychology; Preventive Medicine; required physical facilities and administrative Social Problems; Psychiatry; Mental Illness; services. Depression & Other Mood Disorders; Mental Health; Suicide; Primary Care; Public Health, Closing date: 15 Nov 16 (Forecast) Health Services & Primary Care; Medical Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Sociology; Psychology of Selected Fields; been announced by funder, but this is the Diagnostic Sciences; Psychology approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 10 Sep 14 ------Award type: Early-Career fellowships, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Senior fellowships, Directed grants for 120 Wall Street individual investigators, Mid-Career 22nd Floor fellowships, Travel for research purposes New York, NY 10005 Award amount max: USD 100,000 Email: [email protected]
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OMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS FOR DEVELOPING COMMONWEALTH COUNTRY CITIZENS C Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
Description: The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission Award type: Travel for research purposes, in the UK invites applications for its Directed grants for individual investigators, scholarships for developing Commonwealth Financial aid for postgraduate students, country citizens. These enable students from Personal development, Thesis/Dissertation developing Commonwealth countries to funding pursue master’s and PhD study in the UK. Award amount max: - Scholarships support study in all subject Award amount min: - areas, although priority will be given to Award budget total: - applications that demonstrate strong Website: relevance to development. Master’s courses http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/apply/scholarships- will be funded for up to one year, while PhD developing-cw/ studies may be funded for up to 48 months. Application form: http://csc.do-it- All applicants must be permanently resident online.org.uk/csc/ElectronicApplicationSyste in a developing Commonwealth country. m.htm
Applications must be made through the Eligibility profile applicant’s home country nominating agency ------or university. Applicants may not apply Country of applicant institution: Antigua and directly to the commission. Barbuda, Anguilla, Barbados, Bangladesh,
Bermuda, Botswana, Belize, Cameroon, Scholarships provide return airfare to the UK, Dominica, Fiji, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), tuition and examination fees, a maintenance Grenada, Ghana, Gibraltar, Guyana, India, allowance of £1,043 per month, or £1,279 per Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Saint Kitts and month for scholars in the London area, a grant Nevis, Cayman Islands, Saint Lucia, Sri towards the preparation of a thesis or Lanka, Lesotho, Montserrat, Mauritius, dissertation, a warm clothing allowance, and Maldives, Malawi, Malaysia, Mozambique, a grant for approved travel within the UK or Namibia, Nigeria, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, overseas. For PhD scholars, a fieldwork grant Pakistan, Pitcairn, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, and a paid mid-term visit to your home Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Turks country may also be provided. In some and Caicos Islands, Tonga, Trinidad and circumstances a spouse or child allowance Tobago, Tuvalu, Tanzania, United Republic may also be available. of, Uganda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
Virgin Islands, British, Vanuatu, Samoa, South Closing date: 15 Nov 16 Deadline information: Applications must be Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe submitted to the nominating body in the candidate’s home country by 11.59pm GMT. Disciplines This call is repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 19 Aug 16 Any; Development Studies
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ESEARCH GRANTS RP Fighting Blindness R
Description: The British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society Award amount max: - invites applications for its research grants. Award amount min: - These support high-quality research projects Award budget total: - looking at the causes, potential treatments and Website: potential cure for retinitis pigmentosa. Only http://www.brps.org.uk/index.php?tln=resea projects that are clearly focused on the rch&pageid=16 charity’s objectives are considered. Funding Application form: will mainly be given to UK based research. http://www.rpfightingblindness.org.uk/dow Applications from other countries may be nloadlibrary/Grant%20Prelim%20Form%200 considered, but are only likely to be financed 7.14.doc if a project is deemed exceptional and demonstrates meaningful collaboration with Eligibility profile UK scientists and institutions. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 15 Nov 16 Deadline information: Preliminary Disciplines proposals due by 15 November; invited full ------applications due by 10 January every year. Ophthalmology; Blindness; Eye Diseases This call is repeated once a year. Posted date: 07 Jan 16 Contact Details Award type: Directed grants to institutions, ------research groups etc, Directed grants for Email: [email protected] individual investigators
NNUAL RESEARCH GRANT Society for Church Archaeology A
Description: The Society for Church Archaeology invites Members of the society who are academics, applications for its annual research grant. This professionals, amateurs and in particular supports field work and research in any area early-career scholars and postgraduates may of church archaeology or related topics. apply. Grants are worth up to £1,000 and Applications for pilot project funding to help cover research expenses, travel for research attract larger grants, or for a discrete project purposes, fieldwork or the sundries of within the framework of a larger project are fieldwork. welcomed. Closing date: 15 Nov 16
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Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Eligibility profile Posted date: 14 Apr 16 ------Award type: Directed grants for individual Country of applicant institution: Any investigators, Travel for research purposes, Student awards Disciplines Award amount max: £1,000 ------Award amount min: - History of the Built Environment; Award budget total: - Archaeological Sites & Field Work; History of Website: Religions http://www.britarch.ac.uk/socchurcharchaeol /research.html Contact Details Application form: ------http://churcharchaeology.org/docs/SCAgrant Email: [email protected] _appform.rtf
TANDARD RESEARCH GRANTS American Foundation for Suicide Prevention S
Description: The American Foundation for Suicide approximate deadline we expect. This call is Prevention invites applications for its repeated once a year. standard research grants. These support Posted date: 15 Aug 14 research on suicide from a variety of Award type: Directed grants for individual disciplines including psychiatry, medicine, investigators, Travel for research purposes psychology, genetics, epidemiology, Award amount max: USD 90,000 neurobiology, sociology, nursing and health Award amount min: - services administration. Award budget total: - Website: Applicants should have undertaken prior http://www.afsp.org/research/research-grant- research or research training in a field related information/research-grant-categories to suicide. Non-profit institutions and Application form: organisations worldwide are eligible. Each http://www.afsp.org/research/research-grant- information/apply-2014-research-grant- award is worth up to US$45,000 per year for applications up to two years. The grantee institution should provide the required physical facilities Eligibility profile and administrative services. ------
Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 15 Nov 16 (Forecast)
Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------
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Psychology; Anxiety Disorders; Neurology; Preventive Medicine; Diagnostic Sciences; Mental Illness; Mental Health; Suicide; Injury Primary Care Prevention; Allied Health Professions; Depression & Other Mood Disorders; Public Contact Details Health, Health Services & Primary Care; ------Email: [email protected]
OUNG INVESTIGATOR GRANTS American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Y
Description: The American Foundation for Suicide approximate deadline we expect. This call is Prevention invites applications for its young repeated once a year. investigator grants. These support research on Posted date: 15 Aug 14 suicide from a variety of disciplines including Award type: Directed grants for individual psychiatry, medicine, psychology, genetics, investigators, Travel for research purposes, epidemiology, neurobiology, sociology, Networking/collaboration, Young nursing and health services administration. investigator awards Award amount max: USD 85,000 Individuals affiliated with non-profit Award amount min: - institutions and organisations worldwide may Award budget total: - apply. Young investigators should have Website: completed their doctoral studies, although http://www.afsp.org/research/research-grant- some predoctoral candidates may be information/research-grant-categories Application form: considered. Applicants must hold an http://www.afsp.org/research/research-grant- academic rank no higher than assistant information/apply-2014-research-grant- professor. Mentors must have an academic applications rank of associate or full professor and an established record of suicide research and Eligibility profile publication relevant to the study. Each grant ------is worth up to US$37,500 per year for up to Country of applicant institution: Any two years. The award also provides an additional $5,000 per year to the mentor. Disciplines ------The grantee institution should provide the Psychology; Diagnostic Sciences; Anxiety required physical facilities and administrative Disorders; Neurology; Injury Prevention; services. Allied Health Professions; Mental Health; Mental Illness; Suicide; Primary Care; Closing date: 15 Nov 16 (Forecast) Depression & Other Mood Disorders; Public Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Health, Health Services & Primary Care; been announced by funder, but this is the Preventive Medicine
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ECKMAN STIPENDS Saint John's University H
Description: The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at Award amount max: USD 2,000 Saint John's University invites applications for Award amount min: - the Heckman stipends. The program is Award budget total: - specifically intended to help scholars who Website: have not yet established themselves http://www.hmml.org/research2010/heckman professionally and whose research cannot 10.htm progress satisfactorily without consulting materials to be found in the collections of Eligibility profile HMML. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral scholars (those who are within three years of Disciplines completing a terminal master’s or doctoral ------degree) are eligible. Stipends up to $2,000 may Art & Design: History, Practice & Theory; be used to defray the cost of travel, room and Materials Conservation & Preservation; board, microfilm reproduction, photo- Manuscripts & Books; European Studies; duplication and other expenses associated History; African Studies; Middle Eastern with research at HMML. Length of residency Studies may range from two weeks to six months. Contact details Closing date: 15 Nov 16 ------Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Committee on Research November 2016, 15 April 2017, and repeated Hill Museum and Manuscript Library annually. Bush Center Posted date: 01 Mar 11 Box 7300 Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Saint John’s University students, Access to libraries, Directed grants Collegeville, MN 56321-7300 for individual investigators, Travel for Tel: +1 320 363 3514 research purposes
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ERSTNER SCHOLARS PROGRAMME American Museum of Natural History G
Description: The American Museum of Natural History Website: http://www.amnh.org/our- invites applications for the Gerstner scholars research/richard-gilder-graduate- programme. This will support research in school/academics-and-research/fellowship- biology, with an emphasis on genomics, and-grant-opportunities/gerstner-scholars- including such topics as microbes, mammals, program invertebrates, marine life and computational biology. Gerstner scholars will be biological Eligibility profile scientists early in their careers who have ------demonstrated outstanding performance. This Country of applicant institution: Any programme is not a stand-alone programme but an additional support for postdoctoral Disciplines fellowship applicants. ------Biological Sciences; Mammalogy; Animal Closing date: 15 Nov 16 (Forecast) Physiology; Bioinformatics; Microbiology; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Marine Biology; Invertebrate Biology; been announced by funder, but this is the Genomics approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 12 Mar 13 ------Award type: Directed grants for individual Richard Gilder Graduate School investigators, Early-Career fellowships, AMNH Postdoctoral training fellowships Central Park West at 79th Street Award amount max: - New York, NY 10024-5192 Award amount min: - Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
ENNART AKTIESTINSEN ISRAELSSON’S FOUNDATION FOR THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY L Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien – Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Description: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences research that furthers the higher education invites proposals for grants from the Lennart system. Projects should address the following: Aktiestinsen Israelsson’s Foundation for the contribute to the development of the Individual and Society. These support individual based on scientific knowledge;
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approach the research based on the Award type: Directed grants for individual idea that the individual is an investigators, Directed grants to institutions, integrated being that functions and research groups etc, Hosting visits, develops psychologically, biologically Equipment and materials, Travel to and socially in a variable world; conferences, meetings etc., Publish, edit, include this definition of the translate, disseminate, Travel for research individual when developing a higher purposes education system that benefits Award amount max: - society’s cultural, social, economical Award amount min: - and technical progress, while taking Award budget total: - into account the individual’s Website: http://www.kva.se/sv/utlysningar/stipendier- capabilities and needs. och-anslag/Samhallsvetenskaper/
Application form: There is no restriction on the nationality of the http://ansokan.3ddata.se/default.asp applicant. Preference is given to research projects that are based at Swedish research Eligibility profile institutes.Grants may cover the costs of salary, ------equipment, travel to conferences and Country of applicant institution: Any workshops, research, hosting researchers, and publishing costs. Disciplines ------Closing date: 15 Nov 16 (Forecast) Higher Education Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. Proposals ------due by 15 November 2015; invited full KVA applications due in February 2016. This call Box 50005 is repeated once a year. 104 05 Stockholm Posted date: 01 Sep 15 Tel: +46 8 673 9500 Email: [email protected]
ONSTANCE MCCULLOUGH AWARD International Reading Association C
Description: The International Reading Association invites toward three recently articulated goals of the applications for its Constance McCullough association, which are: award. This encourages international advocacy, which the association seeks professional development activities that are to promote through universal access carried out by association members in to literacy and to provide leadership countries outside North America. The award in support of adequate funding for represents a specific means for working
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literacy programmes on an operating support, Equipment and materials, international basis; Travel for research purposes professional development, which is Award amount max: USD 4,000 promoted through the enhancement Award amount min: - and improvement of professional Award budget total: USD 4,000 development of literacy educators on Website: an international basis, or through http://www.literacyworldwide.org/about- professional development that us/awards-grants/constance-mccullough- supports programmes and processes award in response to expressed needs and Application form: that responds quickly to identify http://www.reading.org/Libraries/awards/201 personal needs; 1_Constance_McCullough_Application.pdf
emerging global issues, which the Eligibility profile association seeks to identify and ------provide leadership on such emerging Country of applicant institution: Any globally significant literacy issues as
access to primary education for all, Disciplines access to current materials, and ------assessment of literacy levels. Politics & International Studies; Cognitive
Processes; Poverty; First Language Education; One award, worth US$4,000, will be awarded Education; Equal Educational Opportunity; to a project of up to two years duration. Modern Languages & Linguistics; Funding may be used to cover items needed Psychology; Literacy; Social Work & Social for the project, materials and supplies, Policy; Curriculum & Pedagogy Theory; directly related travel, books for student and Learning Difficulties; Development Studies; teacher use or library reference, and Psychology of Language Acquisition; Teacher administrative expenses. Education & Professional Development
Closing date: 15 Nov 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the IRA approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Global Operations Posted date: 06 Sep 12 444 North Capitol Street, NW Award type: Development Suite 640 (Africa/Caribbean), Personal development, Washington, DC 20001 Institutional development, General Email: [email protected]
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TUDY BURSARY Symposium Mammographicum S
Description: Symposium Mammographicum invites Website: applications for its study bursary. This http://www.sympmamm.org.uk/bursaries facilitates study on the prevention, diagnosis Application form: and treatment of breast disease through an http://www.sympmamm.org.uk/bursaries/sy observational or clinical attachment in a mposium-mammographicum-bursary-form- specialist training centre in the UK. The visit july-2016-3/ should last one or two weeks. Eligibility profile Applicants must be members of the diagnostic ------team, and reside and work outside the UK. Country of applicant institution: Worldwide The bursary contributes towards travelling except UK expenses, accommodation, subsistence and training fees. Disciplines ------Closing date: 15 Nov 16 Radiology & Medical Imaging; Preventive Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Medicine; Cancer Diagnosis; Breast Cancer November 2016, 15 February 2017, 1 May 2017, 15 August 2017, and repeated annually. Contact Details Posted date: 06 Jul 16 ------Award type: Travel for research purposes, Symposium Mammographicum Directed grants for individual investigators 20 Heene Road Award amount max: - Enfield EN2 0QG Award amount min: - Tel: +44 20 8363 9001 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
PERATING GRANT – POPULATION HEALTH INTERVENTION RESEARCH Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Instituts de Recherche en Santé du Canada O
Description: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Health Branch, invites applications for its under the scientific leadership of the Institute operating grant for population health of Aboriginal Peoples' Health, Institute of intervention research within the roadmap Population and Public Health, Institute of accelerator fund. This supports research on Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis, timely population health interventions that Institute of Gender and Health in partnership have been initiated by others and have the with Public Health Agency of Canada and potential to impact health and health equity at Health Canada’s First Nations and Inuit the population level and that address suicide
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prevention, obesity, diabetes, tuberculosis or The total budget of CAD 675,000 may fund oral health. The objectives are to: approximately three grants, each of which is support new investigators to generate worth up to CAD 225,000 over a maximum evidence about interventions in health period of two years. and other sectors that have the potential to promote health and health Ref: 201611GIR. equity for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples at a population level; Closing date: 15 Nov 16 catalyse new and existing Deadline information: This call is repeated collaborations involving new once a year. investigators, First Nations, Inuit and Posted date: 25 Aug 16 Métis communities, not-for-profit, Award type: Directed grants for individual private and/or public sectors within investigators, Directed grants to institutions, and outside of health; research groups etc, facilitate consideration and Networking/collaboration, Academic- Industry links application of new evidence about Award amount max: CAD 225,000 population health interventions in Award amount min: - decision-making. Award budget total: CAD 675,000
Website: https://www.researchnet- Nominated principal applicants must have recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?pr been independent researchers for a maximum og=2532&view=currentOpps&org=CIHR&ty period of 5 years and must be appointed at an pe=EXACT&resultCount=25&sort=program eligible institution while having obtained a &all=1&masterList=true full time professional degree or PhD within the last ten years. Principal applicants, or any Eligibility profile team of applicants, must not be the ------implementer of the population health Country of applicant institution: Canada intervention. Collaboration between team Country of applicant institution: Any members and implementers is encouraged, but team members cannot have direct Disciplines influence over the creation and ------implementation of the intervention. The team Health of Minority Groups; Health Systems; member and the implementer may not be Public Health from the same institution and funding may not cover the cost of implementation of the Contact Details intervention. ------Tel: +1 613 954 1968 Email: [email protected]
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ARINELL ASH FUND AWARD Strathmartine Trust M
Description: The Strathmartine Trust invites applications Website: for the Marinell Ash Fund award. This http://www.strathmartinetrust.org/grants.ht supports travel and research related to studies m on any aspect of Scottish or North American Application form: history. Interdisciplinary projects are also http://www.strathmartinetrust.org/Documen welcome. ts/Strathmartine_Application_Form_2017.do c Postgraduate students and independent scholars based at any university or college Eligibility profile may apply. The funder is willing to ------collaborate with other institutions. The grant Country of applicant institution: Any is worth £500. Projects that may lead to publication are favoured, but a publication Disciplines commitment is not required. ------American History; British & Irish History Closing date: 15 Nov 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details every 2 years. ------Posted date: 07 Jun 16 The Strathmartine Centre Award type: Travel for research purposes, 2 Kinburn Place Student awards, Directed grants for St. Andrews, Fife individual investigators, Travel to KY16 9DT conferences, meetings etc. Fax: +44 13 3447 8644 Award amount max: £500 Tel: +44 13 3447 8644 Award amount min: - Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
TRATEGIC RESEARCH GRANT Design History Society S
Description: The Design History Society invites underrepresented in the field but are applications for its strategic research grant. important to its future development. This supports original research in the non- Western, post-colonial and other areas, Applicants must be engaged in research themes and methods related to design history leading to a conference paper or published that have either been overlooked or outcome, such as a peer-reviewed journal or
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other academic publication. All scholars, Deadline information: This call is repeated including students, working individually or once a year. collaboratively anywhere in the world, Posted date: 19 Jan 16 whether independently or in the employ of an Award type: Travel for research purposes, institution, may apply. Applicants do not Directed grants for individual investigators, need to be members of the society. Publish, edit, translate, disseminate, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. The total budget is worth up to £1,000. Grants Award amount max: £500 are worth up to £500 each. Funding covers the Award amount min: - following: Award budget total: £1,000 costs incurred during research trips, Website: including travel and accommodation http://www.designhistorysociety.org/awards/ research-grants/strategic-travel-award to conduct vital primary or secondary Application form: research, photocopying and scanning http://www.designhistorysociety.org/upload costs at archives or libraries, or library s/documents/DHS-Strategic-Research-Grant- memberships; Form-and-Guidelines-FINAL.docx cost of reproduction and permission clearance to use copyrighted images in Eligibility profile publications authored by the ------applicant; Country of applicant institution: Any production subvention costs issued by the publisher of a publication Disciplines authored by the applicant; ------ registration fees, travel and Design; History of Art accommodation costs to present a paper, poster or convene a session at Contact Details an academic conference. ------Email: [email protected] Closing date: 15 Nov 16
2020-WIDESPREAD-04-2017 TEAMING PHASE 1 Horizon 2020: Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: institutions and partner institutions in low Spreading Excellence and Widening R&I performing countries, that display the Participation invites proposals for its H2020- willingness to engage together on this WIDESPREAD-04-2017 call. This supports the purpose. creation of new centres of excellence or upgrading the existing ones in low R&I Proposals may address the topic performing countries, building on WIDESPREAD-04-2017 teaming phase 1. partnerships between leading scientific Teaming will involve two parties:
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the main applicant organisation Deadline information: Proposals are invited established in a widening country that between 11 May and 5pm Brussels time, 15 must be either a national or regional November 2016. authority or a research funding Posted date: 14 Oct 15 agency or a university or a research Award type: Networking/collaboration, organisation; Research centres, Directed grants to a university or research organisation institutions, research groups etc with an international reputation in Award amount max: €400,000 research and innovation excellence. Award amount min: - Award budget total: €12,000,000 Teaming proposals must involve a minimum Website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port of two participants. Proposals must take the al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 form of coordination and support actions. The 0-widespread-2016- applicant institution where the centre of 2017.html#c,topics=callIdentifier/t/H2020- excellence will be established must be in an WIDESPREAD-2016- EU member state or associated country that is 2017/1/1/1&callStatus/t/Forthcoming/1/1/0&c ranked below 70 per cent of the EU27 average allStatus/t/Open/1/1/0&callStatus/t/Closed/1/ of the composite indicator on research 1/0&+plannedOpeningDate/asc excellence. All H2020 funding calls allow third country partners who secure their own Eligibility profile funding to participate in consortia. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The requested EU contribution will not Country of applicant institution: EU exceed a maximum of €400,000. The total (European Union), EU Associated Countries indicative budget for this call is €135m. The duration of a teaming phase 1 project will be Disciplines up to 12 months. ------Innovation & Technology Management; Ref: OJ C6776. Intellectual Property Law & Policy; Research Management; Spin-Offs & Academic Closing date: 15 Nov 16 Innovation
OMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS – SINGAPORE Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK C
Description: The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission School of Integrative Sciences and in the UK, in partnership with the National Engineering. Citizens of any Commonwealth University of Singapore, invites applications country other than Singapore who have at for its Commonwealth scholarships – least an upper second class honours degree or Singapore. These support PhD study at the equivalent are eligible to apply. National University of Singapore’s Graduate
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Each award covers full tuition fees, a monthly Belize, Canada, Cameroon, Cyprus, Dominica, stipend and a computer, book or conference Fiji, United Kingdom, Grenada, Ghana, allowance. Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, Closing date: 15 Nov 16 Lesotho, Malta, Mauritius, Maldives, Malawi, Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, November 2016, 15 May 2017. Nauru, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Posted date: 16 Aug 16 Pakistan, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Sierra Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Leone, Swaziland, Tonga, Trinidad and students, Travel to conferences, meetings Tobago, Tuvalu, Tanzania, United Republic etc., Directed grants for individual of, Uganda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, investigators Vanuatu, Samoa, South Africa, Zambia, Award amount max: - Developing Commonwealth countries Award amount min: - Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/apply/scholarships- Email: [email protected] uk-citizens/singapore/ Disciplines Eligibility profile ------Universe Sciences; Physical Sciences and Country of applicant institution: Antigua and Engineering; Biological Sciences Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Bahamas, Botswana,
ACKLING GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES THROUGH ENGINEERING T AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Description: The Engineering and Physical Sciences engineering for disaster resilience or Research Council, via the Global Challenges engineering for humanitarian aid; Research Fund, invites applications for its call digital technology research – access to on tackling global development challenges digital services, use of data for vital through engineering and digital technology services or secure and trusted digital research. This supports an internationally infrastructures. leading programme of research centred around engineering and digital technologies Projects must be predominantly in EPSRC to tackle the challenges faced by the remit, although interdisciplinary or developing world. Proposals must fall under multidisciplinary proposals are welcomed. one or both of the following headings: Proposals must also be compliant with engineering research – sustainable Official Development Assistance guidelines. infrastructure development, The principal investigator must be resident in
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the UK and an academic employee at the purposes, Networking/collaboration, lecturer or equivalent level at an eligible Equipment and materials, Technology organisation, which may be a higher innovation/development education institution, a research institute Award amount max: - funded by a research council or an Award amount min: - independent research organisation. Overseas Award budget total: £25,000,000 co-investigators from research organisations Application form: https://je-s.rcuk.ac.uk/ in low- or middle-income countries, which are on the Development Assistance Committee Eligibility profile list of the OECD, may be included on ------proposals through this call. Collaboration Country of applicant institution: United with academic partners, government agencies Kingdom and non-governmental organisations based in Country of applicant institution: United one or more developing countries is strongly Kingdom encouraged. Industrial collaborators are also Country of applicant institution: Upper- welcome. Middle-Income countries, Lower-Middle- Income countries, Low Income countries The total budget is £25 million, enough to fund approximately 20 projects for a duration Disciplines of 36 months. Items of equipment worth up to ------£10,000 may be requested. Costs associated Network Infrastructure; Natural Hazards & with research overseas such as consumables Disasters; Public Infrastructure & Asset and fieldwork are eligible. Management; Sustainable Development & Resource Use; Informatics & Big Data; Physical Sciences and Engineering Closing date: 15 Nov 16 Deadline information: Applications due by Contact Details 4pm. ------Posted date: 23 Aug 16 Tel: +44 1793 444 032 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Email: [email protected] research groups etc, Travel for research
MALL RESEARCH PUMP PRIMING GRANTS Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh S
Description: The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh surgical and dental translational invites proposals for its small research pump research; priming grants. These support pump priming surgical and dental health services research projects in one of the following research; priority areas:
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research into surgical and dental Award amount max: £10,000 aspects of patient safety, simulation Award amount min: - and non-operative technical skills; Award budget total: - cancer research of demonstrable direct Website: clinical relevance to the management https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/professional- of solid tumours. support-development-resources/grants-jobs- and-placements/research-travel-and-award- Research may be undertaken in the UK or opportunities/grants overseas. Applicants should be surgical Application form: trainees or recently appointed consultants. https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/media/414490/small- The principal applicant must be a member or research-pump-priming-support-grants.doc a fellow of the college in good standing. Eligibility profile Grants are worth up to £10,000 each for a ------period of one year. They may not be used for Country of applicant institution: Any personal salary costs, travel or the acquisition of computing facilities. Disciplines
------Closing date: 16 Nov 16 Surgery & Intensive Care; Dentistry Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Posted date: 04 Aug 16 Contact Details Award type: Directed grants to institutions, ------research groups etc, Directed grants for icolson Street individual investigators Edinburgh EH8 9DW
QUIPMENT GRANTS Alzheimer's Research UK E
Description: Alzheimer’s Research UK invites applications include researchers or institutions outside the for its equipment grants. These provide funds UK. Lead applicants or co-applicants must for scientific equipment, flexibly defined. hold tenure or fixed term contracts to cover Applications for joint funding for even larger the proposed duration of the grant. pieces are accepted. Grants are worth between £10,000 and ARUK would prefer to place equipment £100,000 each. Requests for grants over within centres of excellence, such as £100,000 need to be discussed with the institutions within the ARUK network, where research team. it would enhance a strong dementia research environment. The lead applicant and point of Closing date: 16 Nov 16 contact must be based in a UK academic or Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 research institution, but the application may times a year. Posted date: 22 Apr 16
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Award type: Equipment and materials Country of applicant institution: United Award amount max: £100,000 Kingdom Award amount min: £10,000 Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: ------http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants Alzheimer's Disease & Senile Dementia /equipment/ Application form: https://a-r.org.uk/ Contact Details ------Eligibility profile Tel: +44 300 111 5555 ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
ABBATICALS AND SECONDMENTS GRANTS Alzheimer's Research UK S
Description: Alzheimer’s Research UK invites applications Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 for its sabbaticals and secondments grants. times a year. These support tenure or tenure-track Posted date: 22 Apr 16 researchers who wish to enrich their research Award type: Directed grants for individual programmes and establish collaborations. The investigators, Networking/collaboration, scheme enables researchers to experience new Equipment and materials and interdisciplinary areas, which would not Award amount max: £50,000 be possible through existing funds. Award amount min: - Award budget total: - The lead applicant and point of contact must Website: be based in a UK academic or research http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants institution. Applications may include /sabbaticalsecondment/ researchers or institutions outside the UK. Application form: https://a-r.org.uk/
Lead applicants or co-applicants must hold Eligibility profile tenure or fixed term contracts to cover the ------proposed duration of the grant. Country of applicant institution: Any
Country of applicant institution: United Grants are worth up to £50,000 each for a Kingdom duration of six to 12 months and may be used towards staff salaries, equipment, animals, Disciplines running costs, or any combination of these. ------
Alzheimer's Disease & Senile Dementia
Closing date: 16 Nov 16
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BORIGINAL PEOPLES COLLABORATIVE EXCHANGE – NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROJECT GRANTS A Canada Council for the Arts – Conseil des Arts du Canada
Description: The Canada Council for the Arts invites to CA$20,000 for travel within Canada and applications for its national and international CA$30,000 for travel outside of Canada. project grants, under its Aboriginal peoples collaborative exchange programme. These Closing date: 16 Nov 16 enable Aboriginal artists to travel to other Deadline information: If the deadline falls Aboriginal communities to collaborate in a on a weekend or statutory holiday, traditional or contemporary artistic practice. applications are due on the next business Projects should aim to be: day. creative – with two artists or groups of Posted date: 16 Nov 15 artists creating a work together; Award type: Networking/collaboration, developmental – developing artistic Travel for research purposes, Directed grants skills and techniques among to institutions, research groups etc, Directed participants, advancing traditional or grants for individual investigators contemporary artistic knowledge, and Award amount max: CAD 30,000 Award amount min: - exploring artistic themes; Award budget total: - exploratory and research-based – Website: artistic research with Aboriginal http://canadacouncil.ca/council/grants/find- communities to recover, examine, and a-grant/grants/aboriginal-peoples- authenticate traditional histories and collaborative-exchange-national-and- artistic practices. international-project-grants Application form: Applications are open to Canadian Aboriginal http://canadacouncil.ca/~/media/files/grants individual artists, arts groups, artists’ %20prizes%20- collectives and arts organisations. Foreign %20en/aboriginal%20office/aboriginal%20pe indigenous artists must apply through a oples%20collaborative%20exchange%20nati Canadian Aboriginal arts group, collective or onal%20and%20international%20project%20 organisation. Applications may be made in grants/abg1e%2003-14.pdf?force=1 any chosen Aboriginal language. Eligibility profile Grants for individuals are worth up to ------CA$5,000 for travel within Canada and Country of applicant institution: Any CA$10,000 for travel outside of Canada. Country of applicant institution: Canada Grants for groups or collectives are worth up
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Arts; Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Tel: +1 613 566 4414 ext 4178 Email: [email protected]
ARGET VALIDATION PATHFINDER GRANT Alzheimer's Research UK T
Description: Alzheimer's Research UK invites applications Award type: Directed grants to institutions, for its target validation pathfinder grant. This research groups etc, Directed grants for provides funds for small, translational individual investigators, research projects that show potential for an Networking/collaboration, Research calls for application to the Dementia Consortium or business collaboration with the Drug Discovery Award amount max: £50,000 Alliance. Researchers who have promising Award amount min: - data or projects which are too preliminary to Award budget total: - progress with either schemes, would benefit Website: from funding for preliminary validation work http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants or feasibility studies to establish the viability /target-validation-pathfinder-grant/ of an approach. Application form: https://a-r.org.uk/
Eligibility profile The lead applicant and point of contact must ------be based in an academic or research Country of applicant institution: Any institution, either in the UK or abroad. Co- Country of applicant institution: Any applicants from SMEs may apply. If the lead applicant does not hold a tenure appointment, Disciplines the application must include a co-applicant ------that does. The grant is worth up to £50,000 Alzheimer's Disease & Senile Dementia; Drug over a period of one year and may cover staff Design; Pharmaceutical Drugs salaries, equipment, animals, running costs or any combination thereof. Contact Details
------Closing date: 16 Nov 16 Tel: +44 300 111 5555 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 6 July 2016, 16 November 2016, 25 January 2017. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 09 May 16
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OMING SOON: PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT GRANTS FOR APPLIED RESEARCH Department of Health including NIHR C
Description: *** The National Institute for Health Research Each grant is worth up to £100,000 over six to will shortly be inviting proposals for its 18 months. programme development grants for applied research. The next competition is expected to Closing date: 17 Nov 16 open on 22 September and close 11 November Deadline information: Competition 17 2016. The following information is from the applications due between 22 September and previous round, and is subject to change. *** 1pm, 17 November 2016. Posted date: 25 Jul 16 The grants support the completion of Award type: Directed grants to institutions, necessary preparatory work to submit a research groups etc, competitive stage two full programme grant Networking/collaboration application. Proposals may include the Award amount max: £100,000 following: Award amount min: - selection or development of Award budget total: - interventions or measures of outcome; Website: http://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/pdg-calls- pilot or feasibility studies to determine and-competitions.htm recruitment and participant retention
rates, inform sample sizes calculations Eligibility profile or optimise delivery of the ------intervention; Country of applicant institution: Any strengthening of existing Country of applicant institution: United collaborations with methodological Kingdom experts necessary to deliver the
proposed research programme. Disciplines ------This scheme is not designed for basic science Health Systems work underpinning a future programme or exploratory research, stand-alone projects of Contact Details any kind, work at a highly formative stage or ------the formulation of teams form initial NIHR Central Commissioning Facility conception. All NHS bodies and other Grange House providers of NHS services in England may 15 Church Street apply, including social enterprises, and may Twickenham TW1 3NL collaborate with other organisations to deliver Tel: +44 20 8843 8056 the project. Email: [email protected]
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OLLABORATIVE AWARDS IN SCIENCE Wellcome Trust C
Description: The Wellcome Trust invites applications for Award type: Networking/collaboration, its collaborative awards in science. These Directed grants to institutions, research support groups of independent researchers groups etc, Equipment and materials, Travel pursuing problems across the areas of science, for research purposes, Innovation grants humanities and social science and innovation. Award amount max: £4,000,000 Proposals must address important scientific Award amount min: - problems that can only be achieved through a Award budget total: - collaborative team effort. Website: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomed Teams should normally consist of no more ical-science/Funding-schemes/Science- than seven applicants. Each applicant must collaborative-awards/index.htm have proven research expertise and Application form: experience in their field, an academic or https://wtgrants.wellcome.ac.uk/ research post or equivalent, and a salary for Eligibility profile the duration of the award period. Awards are ------normally worth up to £4 million over a period Country of applicant institution: United of up to five years. Funding may be used to Kingdom, Ireland cover research expenses, travel and Country of applicant institution: Lower- subsistence, overseas allowances, research Middle-Income countries, Low Income management and support costs. countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries
Disciplines Closing date: 17 Nov 16 ------Deadline information: Preliminary applications due by 5pm, 17 November 2016. Any Full applications due by 5pm, 21 February 2017. Deadlines on: 22 August 2016, 17 Contact Details November 2016. ------Posted date: 29 Apr 16 Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 Email: [email protected]
XTENDED DEADLINE: ORIGINAL, ISN’T IT? – NEW OPTIONS FOR THE HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL STUDIES E VolkswagenStiftung – Volkswagen Foundation
Description: *** The Volkswagen Foundation has extended options for the humanities and cultural the closing date for its original, isn’t it? – new studies call. The previous deadline of 27
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This programme encourages scholars in the Closing date: 17 Nov 16 humanities and cultural studies to embark on Deadline information: This call is repeated projects of groundbreaking originality, once a year. encompassing anything that contradicts the Posted date: 10 May 16 established knowledge or generally accepted Award type: Directed grants to institutions, intuition, or the development of a new research groups etc, Travel for research approach to research, a new hypothesis, a purposes, Directed grants for individual new theory, observation of a new investigators, Publish, edit, translate, phenomenon, and discovery of knowledge disseminate, Travel to conferences, meetings gaps. The initiative comprises two funding etc., Innovation grants lines: Award amount max: €150,000 line one addresses individual Award amount min: - Award budget total: - researchers, offering them the Website: opportunity to initially explore their http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/fundi idea and subsequently describe it in ng/challenges-for-academia-and- an essay; society/original-isnt- line two addresses project teams it.html?tx_itaofundinginitiative_itaofunding comprising up to four applicants who initiativekeydates[controller]=FundingInitia wish to work together on a new tive&cHash=16f8133d244d06a981e3fe74623a2 research idea and test its feasibility in daf an initial exploratory phase, and subsequently co-author a publication Eligibility profile on the results. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Applications are open to all postdoctoral Country of applicant institution: Germany researchers employed at scientific institutions in Germany. Researchers from foreign Disciplines institutions may apply as co-applicants in ------funding line two. Partners may be drawn Humanities; Cultural Studies from the social sciences, life sciences, natural sciences, or engineering. Contact details ------Funding under line one is worth up to €80,000 VolkswagenStiftung over maximum one year. Funding under line Kastanienallee 35 two is worth up to €150,000 over a maximum 30519 Hannover period of 18 months. A total of approximately Fax: +49 511 8381 373 20 projects will be funded per call. Funding Tel: +49 511 8381 4373 may be used to cover the costs of resources Email: [email protected] and staffing, research stays at outside institutions, workshops, the salary of a deputy
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ETWORKS FOR VACCINE R&D Medical Research Council N
Description: The Medical Research Council, via the Global stakeholders, end-users and policymakers. Challenges Research Fund, invites The total budget is £5 million. Projects may be expressions of interest for its networks for funded for up to three years. vaccine R&D programme. This supports multidisciplinary networks which foster Closing date: 17 Nov 16 collaboration, facilitate wider cross- Deadline information: Expressions of disciplinary integrative participation, interest are invited between 1 November and including biological, medical, engineering and 4pm GMT, 17 November 2016; full physical sciences, and environmental and applications will be invited from February social science research, and build capability 2017. which will contribute to development of novel Posted date: 11 Aug 16 approaches in vaccine R&D primarily in Award type: Clinical trials, Directed grants LMICs. to institutions, research groups etc, Innovation grants, Technology Projects should address vaccines for diseases innovation/development, of importance to LMICs, including Networking/collaboration prophylactic or therapeutic vaccines for Award amount max: - Award amount min: - diseases with outbreak potential and endemic Award budget total: £5,000,000 diseases. In addition, the call aims to: Website: provide resources to support pump- http://www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/browse/gcrf- priming funding for a range of call-in-networks-for-vaccine-r-d/ innovative projects; support collaboration between Eligibility profile researchers in the UK and LMICs, and ------engagement with end-users, Country of applicant institution: United stakeholders and policymakers. Kingdom Country of applicant institution: United Networks addressing bottlenecks in Kingdom preclinical discovery R&D are encouraged, Country of applicant institution: Low Income and may include areas of one health and countries, Lower-Middle-Income countries, animal models; comparative immunology and Upper-Middle-Income countries vaccinology; human challenge models; adjuvants; bacterial vaccinology. Disciplines ------The principal investigator must be based at a Immunisation Programmes & Vaccination; UK HEI, independent research organisation, Bio/Medical; Physical Sciences and government-funded organisation, MRC unit Engineering; Health Systems in Developing or other university units. Applications must Countries; Social Sciences include collaborators from countries on the OECD DAC list and include researchers from Contact details a range of relevant academic disciplines. ------Networks are also expected to involve Email: [email protected] industrial members, and should engage with
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RAPER HILLS SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS Stanford University D
Description: The Stanford University’s Center on Website: Democracy, Development and the Rule of http://draperhills.stanford.edu/docs/about_d Law invites applications for the Draper Hills hsfp summer fellowships. These grants enable mid-career practitioners from transitioning Eligibility profile countries to connect, exchange experiences, ------and receive academic training to enrich their Country of applicant institution: Lower- knowledge and advance their work in the Middle-Income countries, Low Income field of democracy and development. countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries
Applicants must be at least 27 years of age Disciplines and posses at least six years of experience ------actively working in the fields of democracy, Social Stratification & Mobility; Economic development or the rule of law. They should Development; Public Policy; Corruption; reside and be currently working in a country Social Policy & Administration; Poverty; where democracy is not entrenched. A Sociolegal Studies; Legal & Social Change; working knowledge of English is essential. Prejudice & Discrimination; Sociology; International Relations & Diplomacy; Legal Stanford provides travel, accommodation, Reform; Built Environment & Spatial living expenses and visa costs to support a Planning; Litigation & Mediation; Social three-week fellowship period. Reform & Social Movements; Social Work & Social Policy; Politics & International Studies; Closing date: 18 Nov 16 (Forecast) Law; Democracy & Participation; Civil & Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Human Rights; Development Studies; been announced by funder, but this is the Political Science; Government & Governance approximate deadline we expect. This call is Studies; Economics & Econometrics repeated once a year. Posted date: 12 Sep 14 Contact Details Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings ------etc., Travel for research purposes, CDDRL Development (Africa/Caribbean), Stanford University Networking/collaboration, Mid-Career 616 Serra Street fellowships Stanford, CA 94305-6055 Award amount max: - Fax: +1 650 723 4610 Award amount min: - Tel: +1 650 725 2592 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
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IOMEDICAL CATALYST – REGENERATIVE MEDICINE RESEARCH COMMITTEE Medical Research Council B
Description: The Medical Research Council under the cent. MRC aims to meet the academic costs of biomedical catalyst programme invites a project only. proposals for its call on regenerative medicine research committee. This supports the Closing date: 18 Nov 16 translation of fundamental discoveries that Deadline information: Proposals due by 4pm aim to develop regenerative medicine GMT. Deadlines on: 17 March 2016, 7 July therapies in order to improve human health. 2016, 18 November 2016. Proposals should advance the preclinical or Posted date: 05 Feb 16 early clinical development of regenerative Award type: Networking/collaboration, medicine therapies, which may include the Directed grants to institutions, research following: groups etc, Clinical trials, Innovation grants cellular regenerative therapies Award amount max: - spanning stem, progenitor and Award amount min: - differentiated cells; Award budget total: - Website: tissue repair strategies, including http://www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/browse/biom small molecule and biologics for the edical-catalyst-regenerative-medicine- enhancement of endogenous repair; research-committee/ biomaterial interventions which actively engage repair and Eligibility profile regeneration processes. ------Country of applicant institution: United Each principal investigator should be based at Kingdom a higher education institute, independent Country of applicant institution: Any research organisation, government-funded research organisation or MRC unit in the UK. Disciplines Investigators from international institutions ------can apply as co-applicants, but research Translational Medicine; Biomaterials; Tissue should primarily be carried out in the UK and Engineering; Stem Cell Therapy; Regenerative be led by a UK institution. Medicine
Proposals are funded on the basis of 80 per Contact Details cent of full economic costs, except for ------exceptional costs which are funded at 100 per Email: [email protected]
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CIENCE -BASED REFINEMENT AWARDS Johns Hopkins University S
Description: The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Applicants should be veterinarians, Animal Testing invites applications for its laboratory technicians, animal technicians, or science-based refinement awards. These focus those working with laboratory animals. Each on eliciting scientific evidence to support the award is worth US$6,000. enhancement of the housing, handling or experimental situations for laboratory Closing date: 18 Nov 16 animals. Studies may examine, for example, Deadline information: the following: Posted date: 13 Jul 16 how physiological and behavioural Award type: Directed grants for individual stress responses to common investigators, Directed grants to institutions, husbandry and traditional treatment research groups etc procedures can be reduced or Award amount max: USD 6,000 eliminated; Award amount min: - whether animals caged at different tier Award budget total: - levels show different physiological Website: http://caat.jhsph.edu/programs/awards/AWE/ and behavioural stress responses 2017/index.html when being approached by personnel,
and how these responses can be Eligibility profile minimised or avoided; ------ whether the presence of a compatible Country of applicant institution: Any companion buffers physiological and
behavioural stress responses to Disciplines experimental situations; ------ whether animals kept in legally Animal Models; Veterinary Immunology; minimum-sized cages benefit from Animal Care; Animal Development; Ethology moderate increase in space that is & Comparative Psychology; Livestock & empty versus structured in species- Animal Science; Animal Breeding; Laboratory appropriate ways. Animals
All studies must be non-invasive with the Contact Details possible exception of obtaining blood for ------biochemical measurements. Objective Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to measurements might include behaviour, coat Animal Testing appearance, body weight, or analysis of 615 North Wolfe Street faeces, urine or blood. Preference will be W7032 given to studies that have broad applicability. Baltimore, MD 21205 Email: [email protected]
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NVESTIGATOR AWARDS IN SCIENCE Wellcome Trust I
Description: The Wellcome Trust invites applications for its investigator awards in science. These Closing date: 21 Nov 16 enable researchers at any career stage to Deadline information: Applications due by address important questions relevant the 5pm. Deadlines on: 27 July 2016, 21 trust’s remit. November 2016. Posted date: 28 Jul 16 Applicants based in the UK, Republic of Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Ireland or a low or middle-income country, research groups etc, Equipment and with the exception of India, must have a materials, Networking/collaboration, permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling Directed grants for individual investigators, contract in an eligible host organisation, or a Travel for research purposes written guarantee of an established academic Award amount max: £3,000,000 post which the candidate will take up by the Award amount min: - Award budget total: - start of the award. A statement of Website: commitment from a senior member of the https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/investigator- organisation and a research project within the awards-science trust’s scientific remit are also necessary. Application form: Researchers at any stage of their careers are https://wtgrants.wellcome.ac.uk/ welcome to apply. Early-stage researchers need to prove that they can innovate and Eligibility profile drive advances in the relevant field of study ------and demonstrate considerable promise for the Country of applicant institution: United future. Mid-career or senior researchers Kingdom, Ireland should have achieved more in terms of Country of applicant institution: Lower- originality and impact of their research, have Middle-Income countries, Low Income a track record of gaining research grant countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries support and have success in training and mentoring others. Senior researchers should Disciplines be internationally recognised as leaders in ------their fields. Joint applications from two Bio/Medical researchers are also welcomed. Contact details Awards are worth a maximum of £3 million ------for up to seven years. They may cover Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 research expenses, materials and Email: [email protected] consumables, animals, equipment, travel and subsistence, and overseas allowances.
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ESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS Gerda Henkel Foundation R
Description: The Gerda Henkel Foundation invites Award amount min: €15,000 proposals for its research project grants. These Award budget total: - support research projects in the historical Website: http://www.gerda-henkel- humanities, particularly within the fields of stiftung.de/application_research-projects archaeology, art history, historical Islamic Application form: https://forms.gerda- studies, history, history of law, history of henkel-stiftung.de/ghs?kind=forp&lang=en science, prehistory and early history. Eligibility profile Applications are open to universities and ------other research institutes or comparable Country of applicant institution: Any institutions, as well as to one or several PhDs or scholars with postdoctoral lecture Disciplines qualification. Project staff must conduct their ------own research, published under their name. History of the Humanities; History of Law & Grants are worth a minimum of €15,000 and Justice; Archaeology; History of Art; Ancient may be used to cover personnel, travel, History; History of Science; History; Islamic materials and other costs for research. Studies
Closing date: 22 Nov 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 ------times a year. Gerda Henkel Stiftung Posted date: 16 Jun 16 Malkastenstrasse 15 Award type: Travel for research purposes, 40211 Düsseldorf Equipment and materials, Directed grants to Fax: +49 211 936 5240 institutions, research groups etc Tel: +49 211 9365 2444 Award amount max: - Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Gerda Henkel Foundation R
Description: The Gerda Henkel Foundation invites art history, historical Islamic studies, history, proposals for its research scholarships. These history of law, history of science, prehistory support research on the historical humanities, and early history. particularly within the fields of archaeology,
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Applications may be made by postdoctoral Website: http://www.gerda-henkel- candidates or scholars with postdoctoral stiftung.de/application_research- lecture qualification. Scholarships are worth scholarships €2,000 per month for postdoctoral candidates Application form: https://forms.gerda- and €2,700 per month for scholars after henkel-stiftung.de/ghs?kind=fors&lang=en postdoctoral lecture qualification, plus travel and material aid as required. Endowments for Eligibility profile scholarships abroad are worth €500 per month ------for postdoctoral candidates and €675 per Country of applicant institution: Any month for scholars after postdoctoral lecture qualification. An additional monthly family Disciplines grant is available, worth €300 for one child, ------€400 for two children and €500 for three or History of the Humanities; Archaeology; more children. Scholarships generally last History of Law & Justice; History of Art; between one and 24 months. Ancient History; History of Science; Islamic Studies; History Closing date: 22 Nov 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 Contact Details times a year. ------Posted date: 16 Jun 16 Gerda Henkel Stiftung Award type: Directed grants for individual Malkastenstrasse 15 investigators, Travel for research purposes, 40211 Düsseldorf Equipment and materials Fax: +49 211 936 5240 Award amount max: - Tel: +49 211 9365 2444 Award amount min: €15,000 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
THICS AND REGULATORY CAPACITIES European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership E
Description: The European and Developing Countries national regulatory authorities in sub-Saharan Clinical Trials Partnership invites applications African countries. The total budget is worth for its ethics and regulatory capacities call. €2 million, and grants are worth up to This aims to support sub-Saharan African €300,000 each for a duration of 24 to 36 countries to establish and develop robust months. national medicines regulatory systems and capacities for ethical review of clinical Closing date: 22 Nov 16 research and use of medicinal products and Deadline information: Applications due by technologies for use in humans. 5pm. Posted date: 07 Jul 16 Applications must include at least one legal entity hosting national ethics committees or
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Award type: Networking/collaboration, Eligibility profile Development (Africa/Caribbean), Directed ------grants to institutions, research groups etc Country of applicant institution: Sub-Saharan Award amount max: €300,000 Africa Award amount min: - Award budget total: €2,000,000 Disciplines Website: http://www.edctp.org/call/ethics------regulatory-capacities-2/ Medical & Health Ethics; Medical Research Regulation Application form: https://www.edctpgrants.org/Login.aspx?Ret Contact Details urnUrl=%2f ------Email: [email protected]
ALPH BROWN EXPEDITION AWARD Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) R
Description: The Royal Geographical Society with the Deadline information: This call is repeated Institute of British Geographers invite once a year. applications for the Ralph Brown expedition Posted date: 22 Jun 16 award. This is offered to the leader of an Award type: Directed grants for individual expedition involving the study of inland or investigators, Travel for research purposes, coastal wetlands, rivers or shallow marine Equipment and materials environments. Award amount max: £14,500 Award amount min: - Applications are accepted from members of Award budget total: - the society who may be from any nation. Website: Teams should include host country nationals, http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Grants/Researc and the project should be of value to the host h/Ralph+Brown+Expedition+Award.htm country and, where possible, to the local Eligibility profile community. The award is worth £12,500 for ------fieldwork lasting from four to six weeks. Country of applicant institution: Any Applicants are encouraged to seek other sources of funding. Additional funding of Disciplines £2,000 may be given if the applicant is able to ------take along a first-year geography Coastal Geography & Processes; Freshwater undergraduate into the field, to enable them Ecology & Limnology; Marine Biology; to gain experience as a fieldwork apprentice. Marine Geology; Marine & Estuarine Ecology
Closing date: 23 Nov 16
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Contact Details Fax: +44 20 7591 3073 ------Tel: +44 20 7591 3031 RGS-IBG Email: [email protected] 1 Kensington Gore London SW7 2AR
ESEARCH FOR PATIENT BENEFIT PROGRAMME R Department of Health including NIHR
Description: The National Institute for Health Research academic partner organisations outside invites proposals for its research for patient England and other NHS providers. Proposals benefit programme. This supports regional from new investigators supported by more research projects related to health services and experienced researchers are welcome. Grants social care, and that directly benefit users of are worth up to £350,000 each over a NHS in England. Proposals may cover a wide maximum period of three years. range of health service issues or challenges in public health, such as: Closing date: 23 Nov 16 investigator-led research that is Deadline information: Stage one relevant to the NHS in England; applications due by 23 November 2016; full research related to day-to-day practice applications will be invited between late in areas identified and developed by February and early April 2017. This call is health service staff; repeated 3 times a year. high quality research that is likely to Posted date: 11 Aug 16 transition to patient benefit locally Award type: Directed grants to institutions, and for the wider NHS; research groups etc, Directed grants for individual investigators, feasibility studies that help reach the Networking/collaboration next step of a definitive trial; Award amount max: £350,000 research that generates results that Award amount min: - may be useful for downstream Award budget total: - investigations or might carry higher Website: risk of not carrying through into http://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/research-for- patient benefit. patient-benefit.htm Application form: Proposals that have benefited from interaction https://ccfrms.nihr.ac.uk/Login.aspx?Return with patients and the public, which relate to Url=%2f patient and service user experience, and have been drawn up in association with relevant Eligibility profile groups or service users are of particular ------interest. Country of applicant institution: Any Country of applicant institution: United Researchers based in England may apply Kingdom through NHS bodies and other providers of Disciplines NHS services. Applications may include ------
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Medical Effectiveness & Patient Outcomes; Grange House Medicine & Health; Public Health 15 Church Street Contact Details Twickenham TW1 3NL ------Tel: +44 20 8843 8057 RfPB Email: [email protected] NIHR Central Commissioning Facility
ECONSTRUCTIVE TRANSPLANT CONCEPT AWARD US Department of Defense R
Description: The US Department of Defense invites applications for its reconstructive transplant The total budget is USD 1 million for five concept award. This funds innovative awards. Grants are worth up to USD 200,000 research that will foster new directions for, each for a maximum of 18 months. and address neglected issues in, the field of reconstructive transplantation, specifically Ref: W81XWH-16-RTRP-CA. vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA)-focused research, also known as Closing date: 23 Nov 16 composite tissue allotransplantation. Deadline information: Pre-applications due by Applicants must address one or more of the 5pm Eastern Time, 23 November; full focus areas: applications due by 11.59pm ET, 14 December immune system regulation as 2016. specifically applied to VCA; Posted date: 15 Aug 16 improve ex vivo VCA tissue Award type: Directed grants to institutions, preservation techniques or research groups etc, Innovation grants, Travel technologies to extend the time for research purposes, Equipment and between procurement and materials, Directed grants for individual transplantation, with a goal of 24 investigators hours; Award amount max: USD 200,000 reconstructive transplant Award amount min: - rehabilitation; Award budget total: USD 1,000,000 graft clinical monitoring – acute and chronic, as applied to VCA. Eligibility profile ------Independent investigators at all academic Country of applicant institution: Any levels are eligible to submit applications. Eligible investigators must apply through an organisation such as a federal agency, a Disciplines national, international, for-profit, nonprofit, ------public, or private organisations.
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Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery; Organ ------Transplantation; Transplantation Immunology Tel: +1 301 682 5507 Email: [email protected] Contact Details
NERGY TRANSITION PRIZE Eni E
Description: Eni invites applications for its energy Website: transition prize. This recognises a researcher https://www.eni.com/enipedia/en_IT/busine or group of scientists who obtained ss-model/awards-recognition/eni-award- internationally significant research and announcement-2017.page development results in the field of innovative use of hydrocarbons and energy efficiency. Application form: This may include: https://www.eni.com/docs/en_IT/enipedia/b carbon capture, storage and utilisation usiness-model/eni- technologies; awards/2017/Candidature-Proposal-Form.pdf gas to hydrate conversion, gas to liquids and chemicals; Eligibility profile ------ compressed natural gas and liquefied Country of applicant institution: Any natural gas technologies;
fuel cell and hydrogen; Disciplines intelligent energy management; ------ advanced fossil fuel power Fossil Energy; Fuel Cells; Carbon generation; Sequestration; Carbon Dioxide Reduction & hybrid power generating systems; Mitigation; Energy Conservation & Efficiency;
green refinery processes and systems. Environmental Technology; Hydrogen & Synthetic Fuels The results have been been obtained within the five-year prior prior to the award Contact Details announcement. The prize comprises €200,000 ------and a specially struck gold medal of the Foundazione Eni Enrico Mattei Italian State Mint. Corso Magenta, 63 I - 20123 Milano Closing date: 25 Nov 16 Fax: +39 02 4819 7724 Deadline information: Applications due by Tel: +39 02 5203 6934 switchboard 5pm CET. Posted date: 10 Aug 16
Award type: Prizes, Technology innovation/development Award amount max: €200,000
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DVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS PRIZE Eni A
Description: Eni invites applications for its advanced Application form: environmental solutions prize. This https://www.eni.com/docs/en_IT/enipedia/b recognises a researchers or a group of usiness-model/eni- scientists who obtained significant research awards/2017/Candidature-Proposal-Form.pdf and development results in the field of environmental protection and recovery. Eligibility profile ------The results must have been obtained within Country of applicant institution: Any the five-year period prior to the date of the award announcement. The award comprises Disciplines €200,000 and a specially struck gold medal of ------the Italian State Mint. Pollution Prevention; Energy Conservation & Efficiency; Environmental Engineering; Air Closing date: 25 Nov 16 Pollution, Regulation & Control; Water Deadline information: Applications due by Pollution, Regulation & Control; Land 5pm CET. Pollution, Regulation & Control; Sustainable Posted date: 11 Aug 16 Development & Resource Use Award type: Technology innovation/development, Prizes Contact Details Award amount max: €200,000 ------Award amount min: - Foundazione Eni Enrico Mattei Award budget total: - Corso Magenta, 63 Website: I - 20123 Milano https://www.eni.com/enipedia/en_IT/busine +39 02 5203 6934 switchboard ss-model/awards-recognition/eni-award- Tel: +39 02 4819 7724 announcement-2017.page Email: [email protected]
OUNG TALENTS FROM AFRICA PRIZE Eni Y
Description: Eni invites applications for its young talents prestigious Italian universities and research from Africa prize. This offers young African institutes and supports their research and researchers the opportunity to attend a innovation on various topics relating to postgraduate course in co-operation with energy.
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Students graduated from an African Website: university or who hold African citizenship https://www.eni.com/enipedia/en_IT/busine may apply. Candidates must hold a master’s ss-model/awards-recognition/eni-award- degree, a postgraduate diploma or any announcement-2017.page equivalent academic qualification that grants Application form: access to a doctoral course in an Italian https://www.eni.com/docs/en_IT/enipedia/b university. Theses must have been defended usiness-model/eni-awards/2017/Young- at an African university in 2015 or 2016. Talents-from-Africa-Proposal.pdf Research proposals must include the following aspects: Eligibility profile expected energy and environmental ------benefits; Country of applicant institution: All African project tangible prospects and Nations applicability; Disciplines potential socio-economic impact ------resulting from the project. Energy Engineering; Environmental Policy;
Environmental Economics & Natural Capital; Two awards are granted. Energy Planning & Policy; Environmental
Sociology Closing date: 25 Nov 16 Deadline information: Applications due by Contact Details 5pm CET. Posted date: 11 Aug 16 ------Award type: Prizes, Directed grants for Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei individual investigators, Young investigator Corso Magenta, 63 awards I 20123 Milano Award amount max: - +39 02 5203 6934 switchboard Award amount min: - Tel: +39 02 481 97724 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
ARLY-CAREER GRANT Society for Endocrinology E
Description: The Society for Endocrinology invites endowment fund for research into diseases of applications for its early career grant. This the adrenal or pituitary glands. provides financial support to endocrinologists for resources to gain preliminary data before Members of the society who are within 10 applying for other external funding, for years of completion of a postgraduate degree resources to finalise a project or for short-term may apply. Applicants should normally be salary funding. The grant also incorporates postdoctoral or, in exceptional cases, within funding from the Marjorie Robinson the final year of a PhD in which the project
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must be distinct from that done during their Posted date: 17 Apr 15 PhD. Full, associate and nurse members who Award type: Equipment and materials, hold a minimum of one year’s membership, Directed grants for individual investigators and scientist-in-training and clinician-in Award amount max: £10,000 training members who hold a minimum of six Award amount min: - month’s membership, may also apply. Award budget total: - Applicants should normally be an academic Website: or academic-related staff member based at a http://www.endocrinology.org/grants/grant_ recognised higher education or medical earlycareer.html institution. If not, a letter of support is Application form: required from the principal investigator or https://www.bioscientifica.info/sfe/grantsSw clinical team leader. The grant is ideally itch/index.aspx?gc=4&gType=3 suited to trainee members. Eligibility profile
------The grant is worth up to £10,000. Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 27 Nov 16 Deadline information: Required signed Disciplines copies due within a week of each deadline. ------Deadlines on: 27 May 2016, 27 November Hormones & Endocrinology 2016.
QUIPMENT GRANTS Society for Endocrinology E
Description: The Society for Endocrinology invites research group. Up to two grants, worth up to applications for its equipment grants. These £10,000 each, are offered each year. enable principal investigators wishing to establish a lab to acquire pieces of equipment, Closing date: 27 Nov 16 part pieces of larger equipment or basic lab Deadline information: Deadlines on: 27 items. Equipment service or maintenance November 2016, 27 May 2017, and repeated costs may also be covered. annually. Posted date: 14 Mar 16 Applications are open to all types of paid Award type: Equipment and materials, members who hold a minimum of one year's Directed grants to institutions, research membership. Applicants should hold a groups etc personal fellowship or be a newly appointed Award amount max: £10,000 lecturer holding a staff contract at a Award amount min: - recognised higher education research institute Award budget total: - or medical institution, establishing their
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Website: Disciplines http://www.endocrinology.org/grants/grant_ ------equipment.html Hormones & Endocrinology
Application form: Contact Details http://www.endocrinology.org/grants/grant_ ------equipment/ApplicationForm.doc Society for Endocrinology 22 Apex Court Eligibility profile Woodlands ------Bradley Stoke Country of applicant institution: Any Bristol BS32 4JT Email: [email protected]
2020-LCE-2017 COMPETITIVE LOW-CARBON ENERGY – TOPICS 7 AND 31 Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: €2 million and €6m, depending on the topic, Societal Challenges, under the secure, clean although proposals for other amounts are also and efficient energy work programme, invites considered. The total budget for these topic proposals for topics 7 and 31 of its H2020- calls is €74.5m. LCE-2017 competitive low-carbon energy call. Proposals may address the following topics: Closing date: 29 Nov 16 developing the next generation of Deadline information: Applications due by renewable energy technologies, 5pm Brussels time. including LCE-07-2017 developing the Posted date: 01 Aug 16 next generation technologies of Award type: Networking/collaboration, renewable electricity, and heating or Technology innovation/development, cooling; Directed grants to institutions, research social, economic and human aspects of groups etc the energy system, including LCE-31- Award amount max: €6,000,000 2017 social sciences and humanities Award amount min: €2,000,000 Award budget total: €74,500,000 support for the energy union. Website:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port Proposals must take the form of research and al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 innovation actions, which require 0-lce-2016- participation by at least three legal entities, 2017.html#c,topics=callIdentifier/t/H2020- each established in a different EU member LCE-2016-2017/1/1/1/default- state or associated country. All H2020 funding group&callStatus/t/Forthcoming/1/1/0/defaul calls allow third country partners who secure t-group&callStatus/t/Open/1/1/0/default- their own funding to participate in consortia. group&callStatus/t/Closed/1/1/0/default- Each proposal is expected to receive between group&+identifier/desc
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Eligibility profile Azerbaijan, Romania, Montserrat, Guernsey, ------Taiwan, Antarctica, Andorra, Finland, Saint Country of applicant institution: EU Helena, Wales, Equatorial Guinea, Bhutan, (European Union), EU Associated Countries, New Caledonia, Mongolia, Portugal, Overseas Countries and Territories, EU All American Samoa, Scotland, Gabon, French International Cooperation Partner countries Southern Territories, Kenya, Singapore, (ICPC) Slovenia, Nepal, Sao Tome and Principe, Country of applicant institution: Bahrain, Dominican Republic, Western Sahara, Vanuatu, Swaziland, Niger, Jersey, Mozambique, Denmark, Northern Mariana Micronesia, Federated States of, Maldives, Islands, Ghana, Bolivia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Greenland, Tanzania, United Republic of, Marshall Islands, Tonga, Cocos (Keeling) Madagascar, Austria, Cape Verde, Sri Lanka, Islands, Cayman Islands, French Polynesia, Mauritius, Japan, Guadeloupe, Benin, Jordan, Niue, Belgium, El Salvador, Antigua Rwanda, Venezuela, Lesotho, Qatar, Malawi, and Barbuda, Namibia, Germany, Canada, Luxembourg, Solomon Islands, Djibouti, Dominica, Aruba, Bouvet Island, United Arab Ireland, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Emirates, Mali, Grenada, Cuba, Suriname, Réunion, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Estonia, New Zealand, Italy, Turkmenistan, Norway, Mexico, Nicaragua, England, Slovakia, Kuwait, Indonesia, Netherlands, Guatemala, Faroe Islands, Switzerland, Turks and Caicos Islands, Nigeria, Chad, Tokelau, Lithuania, Saba, Mayotte, Nauru, Kazakhstan, Samoa, Costa Rica, Tuvalu, Sweden, Paraguay, Thailand, Seychelles, Oman, Comoros, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, France, St Eustatius, Brunei Darussalam, Ecuador, Norfolk Island, Trinidad and Cameroon, Monaco, Georgia, Curaçao, Palau, Tobago, South Georgia and the South Brazil, Pakistan, British Indian Ocean Sandwich Islands, Vietnam, India, Puerto Territory, Bulgaria, Northern Ireland, Isle of Rico, Bahamas, Malta, Morocco, Panama, Man, Malaysia, Guyana, Belize, San Marino, Spain, Pitcairn, French Guiana, Chile, Timor-Leste, Jamaica, Cook Islands, Togo, Ethiopia, Australia, Israel, Svalbard and Jan Wallis and Futuna, Bangladesh, Saint Lucia, Mayen, Gambia, Macao, Botswana, Albania, Angola, Czech Republic, Falkland Islands Liechtenstein, Holy See (Vatican City State), (Malvinas), Colombia, Barbados, Martinique, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Poland, Guam, Saudi Arabia, Christmas Island, Fiji, Senegal, Algeria, Kiribati, Heard Island and Congo, South Africa, Sint Maarten, Åland McDonald Islands, Peru, Uganda Islands, Bonaire, Iceland, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Uruguay, Cambodia, Mauritania, Disciplines Latvia, Hungary, Croatia, Honduras, Papua ------New Guinea, Armenia, Gibraltar, Argentina, Renewable Energy Engineering; Heating, Greece, Burkina Faso, Cyprus, Bermuda, Ventilation & Air Conditioning; Carbon Anguilla, Turkey, Tajikistan, Virgin Islands, Dioxide Reduction & Mitigation; Energy, British, Philippines, Saint Vincent and the Legal & Social Aspects; Bioenergy & Biomass Grenadines, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Conversion; Energy Planning & Policy
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2020-LCE-2017 COMPETITIVE LOW-CARBON ENERGY CALL – TOPIC 6 Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: Award type: Networking/collaboration, Societal Challenges, under the secure, clean Technology innovation/development, and efficient energy work programme, invites Directed grants to institutions, research proposals for its H2020-LCE-2017 competitive groups etc, Innovation grants low-carbon energy call. Proposals may Award amount max: - address developing the next generation of Award amount min: - renewable energy technologies, specifically Award budget total: €20,000,000 LCE-06-2017 new knowledge and Website: technologies. http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 Proposals must take the form of research and 0-lce-2016- innovation actions or coordination and 2017.html#c,topics=callIdentifier/t/H2020- support actions. Research and innovation LCE-2016-2017/1/1/1/default- group&callStatus/t/Forthcoming/1/1/0/defaul actions require participation by at least three t-group&callStatus/t/Open/1/1/0/default- legal entities, each established in a different group&callStatus/t/Closed/1/1/0/default- EU member state or associated country. group&+identifier/desc Coordination and support actions require participation by at least one legal entity Eligibility profile established in a member state or associated ------country. All H2020 funding calls allow third Country of applicant institution: EU country partners who secure their own (European Union), EU Associated Countries, funding to participate in consortia. Overseas Countries and Territories, EU All
International Cooperation Partner countries Each proposal is expected to receive between (ICPC) €1 million and €16m, although proposals for Country of applicant institution: Any other amounts are also considered. The total indicative budget for this call topic is €20m. Disciplines ------Closing date: 29 Nov 16 Power & Energy Systems Engineering; Deadline information: Applications due by Hydrogen & Synthetic Fuels; Carbon Dioxide 5pm Brussels time. Reduction & Mitigation; Carbon Posted date: 01 Aug 16 Sequestration; Renewable Energy Engineering
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ENIOR VISITING SCIENTIST AWARD International Agency for Research on Cancer S
Description: The International Agency for Research on approximate deadline we expect. This call is Cancer invites applications for its senior repeated once a year. visiting scientist award. This enables a Posted date: 07 Sep 15 qualified and experienced senior investigator Award type: Directed grants for individual with recent publications in international peer- investigators, Networking/collaboration, reviewed scientific journals to spend six to 12 Travel for research purposes months at the IARC. The awardee will work Award amount max: - on a collaborative project in one of the Award amount min: - agency’s priority research areas: Award budget total: - understanding cancer etiology, Website: http://www.iarc.fr/en/media- including infections, nutrition, centre/iarcnews/2014/vsa-2013.php lifestyle, environment, radiation, Application form: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/2309016/201 genetics; 5-09-IARC-Senior-Visiting-Scientist-Award- developing strategies for cancer Application-form prevention, including primary
prevention and screening; Eligibility profile elucidating the underlying ------mechanisms of carcinogenesis Country of applicant institution: Any through studies of molecular and cell biology, molecular genetics, Disciplines epigenetics and molecular pathology. ------Pathogenesis; Cancer Genetics; Molecular Applicants must belong to the staff of a Genetics; Epigenetics; Preventive Medicine; university or a research institution and should Cancer Diagnosis; Carcinogenesis; provide written assurance of a post to return Bioinformatics; Cancer Cell Biology; Screening to on completion of the award. Funding will for Diseases; Biostatistics include an annual remuneration of €48,000 pro-rata according to length of stay. The cost Contact Details of travel for the awardee, and in certain ------circumstances for dependants, will be met, Fellowship Programme and health insurance will be covered. The IARC award should be taken up no later than 30 150 Cours Albert-Thomas November 2016. 69372 Lyon Cedex 08 Fax: +33 4 7273 8448 Closing date: 30 Nov 16 (Forecast) Tel: +33 4 7273 8080 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Email: [email protected] been announced by funder, but this is the
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ESEARCH GRANTS Society of Antiquaries of Scotland R
Description: The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland invites Award amount min: - applications for its research grants. These Award budget total: - financially support all aspects of Website: http://www.socantscot.org/grant- archaeological and historical research projects prize/grants-2/ that relate to Scotland. For historical projects, Application form: preference may be given to those http://www.socantscot.org/wp- incorporating an aspect of material culture. content/uploads/2015/03/grant_application_f Applicants may be based anywhere in the orm_16.doc world.
Grants are worth up to £2,000 each for up to Eligibility profile three years. Larger grants may be awarded at ------the discretion of the research committee. Country of applicant institution: Any Support is not available for outreach activities, presentation exercises, subventions Disciplines for conferences or other similar activities. ------Archaeology; British & Irish History Closing date: 30 Nov 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 02 Jun 15 Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Award type: Directed grants for individual National Museums Scotland investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Chambers Street research groups etc Edinburgh EH1 1JF Award amount max: - Email: [email protected]
UNNING JUBILEE GIFT Society of Antiquaries of Scotland G
Description: The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland invites Scottish-related historical investigation and applications for the Gunning jubilee gift grant. research. This enables experts to visit museums, collections or materials of archaeological Projects related to historical research may be science at home or abroad for the purposes of prioritised if they incorporate an aspect directly related to material culture. Applicants
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may be based anywhere in the world, and do Website: http://www.socantscot.org/grant- not have to be members of the society. They prize/gunning-jubilee-gift/ must identify a referee with established Application form: expertise in the field who is not the following: http://www.socantscot.org/wp- a member of the society nor the same content/uploads/2015/03/grant_application_f institution as the applicant; orm_16.doc a participant or associate of the project to be undertaken; Eligibility profile a principal supervisor in case of ------student applicants. Country of applicant institution: Any
The grant is worth up to £2,000 over three Disciplines years, however larger grants may be ------provided. British & Irish History; Archaeology of Europe Closing date: 30 Nov 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 23 Jul 15 Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Award type: Travel for research purposes, National Museums Scotland Directed grants for individual investigators Chambers Street Award amount max: - Edinburgh EH1 1JF Award amount min: - Tel: +44 131 247 4115 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
MALL RESEARCH GRANTS British Ornithologists' Union S
Description: The British Ornithologists’ Union invites countries may apply without being members applications for its small research grants. of the union. These support small projects and part-fund medium-sized research programmes on any Grants are normally worth up to £1,000 and aspect of ornithology. The focus is particularly up to £2,000 in exceptional cases. on projects that have difficulties to get funding from national or local sources. Closing date: 30 Nov 16 Both amateurs and professionals who are Deadline information: This call is repeated members of the society may apply. Projects once a year. may begin no earlier than 1 April 2017 and Posted date: 08 Jul 16 must be completed by 31 March 2018. Award type: Directed grants for individual Researchers or students based in developing investigators Award amount max: £2,000 Award amount min: -
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Award budget total: - Country of applicant institution: Any Website: http://www.bou.org.uk/grants-and- bursaries/small-research-grants/ Disciplines Application form: ------http://www.bou.org.uk/wp- Ornithology content/uploads/2016/06/grant-application- form-2017.doc Contact Details ------Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------
ESEARCH GRANTS Mazak Foundation R
Description: The Mazak Foundation invites applications Website: http://www.mazak- for its research grants. These provide f.or.jp/eng/05.html subsidies and assistance for research and Application form: http://www.mazak- development of new technologies related to f.or.jp/eng/application_form_01_en.doc advanced production systems, including production engineering, machine tools, Eligibility profile information-network technologies, control ------technologies and other peripherals such as Country of applicant institution: Any robots. Individuals, universities and technical colleges, and research institutions in Japan Disciplines and overseas, may apply. ------Machine Learning; Control Systems; Closing date: 30 Nov 16 (Forecast) Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Robotics; Automation & Control Engineering been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Contact Details Posted date: 28 Aug 15 ------Award type: Technology Mazak Foundation innovation/development, Directed grants for 1-131 Takeda Oguchi-Chio individual investigators, Directed grants to Niwa-gun institutions, research groups etc Aichi Pref. 480-0197 Award amount max: - Tel: +81 587 956 874 Award amount min: - Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
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ESEARCH PAPERS Mazak Foundation R
Description: The Mazak Foundation invites applications Award amount max: - for its commendation programme for research Award amount min: - papers. This provides commendations for Award budget total: - research papers in new technologies related to Website: http://www.mazak- the machine tool industry and machine tools. f.or.jp/eng/05.html Each applicant must be a college or graduate school student or a person under 35 years of Eligibility profile age, who belongs to a research institute ------engaged in research activities or a job in Country of applicant institution: Any industrialisation. Disciplines Closing date: 30 Nov 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; been announced by funder, but this is the Control Systems; Machine Learning; Robotics; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Automation & Control Engineering repeated once a year. Posted date: 28 Aug 15 Contact Details Award type: Prizes, Young investigator ------awards, Academic-Industry links Email: [email protected]
EALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME: RESEARCHER-LED WORKSTREAM – 16/110, 16/111 H Department of Health including NIHR
Description: The National Institute for Health Research technology covers any method used to invites expressions of interest for its promote health, prevent and treat disease, researcher-led workstream call under the and improve rehabilitation or long-term care. health technology assessment programme. Technologies in this context are not confined This supports research that is immediately to new drugs, but include any intervention useful to patients, clinical practice, and policy used in the treatment, prevention or diagnosis and decision makers, assessing the of disease. Funding may support the effectiveness of technologies within the NHS. following: The two streams include: 16/111 – systematic reviews; expressions of interests to full proposals; economic models; 16/110 – evidence-synthesis full. Health meta-analyses;
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mixed-treatment comparisons; Award amount max: - expected value of information studies; Award amount min: - randomised controlled and non- Award budget total: - randomised trials; Website: single centre studies; http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/funding/hta- stand-alone pilot and feasibility researcher-led studies; Eligibility profile cohort studies; ------ adaptive designs; Country of applicant institution: United modelling studies; Kingdom international studies. Country of applicant institution: Any
Anyone who can deliver high-quality research Disciplines may apply. Applicants are strongly advised to ------consider establishing partnerships with other Patient Care & Education; Preventive relevant sectors or organisations. Medicine; Screening for Diseases; Biomedical Engineering; Medical Effectiveness & Patient Closing date: 30 Nov 16 Outcomes; Health & Medical Informatics; Deadline information: Expressions of Health Economics; Medical & Diagnostic interest due by 1pm. This call is repeated 3 Tests; Pharmaceutical Drugs times a year.
Posted date: 11 Aug 16 Contact Details Award type: Clinical trials, ------Networking/collaboration, Directed grants for individual investigators, Directed grants Tel: +44 23 8059 5544 to institutions, research groups etc Email: [email protected]
PECIAL PROJECT AWARD Bayer S
Description: Bayer invites letters of intent for its special assessment of quality of life and other project award. This supports research projects health economic outcomes in patients in the field of haemophilia. Projects may with bleeding disorders, and the address: effects of treatment modalities on such clinical research; outcomes. basic research; assessment and intervention in Awards encourage hypothesis-driven psychosocial issues facing patients research, where the investigator is attempting and their families; to prove or disprove a set of assumptions.
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Any individual affiliated with a facility that Award budget total: - provides care to haemophilia patients and Website: http://www.bayer-hemophilia- carries out research in inherited bleeding awards.com/awards/ disorders, including medical universities, hospitals, blood centres and other Eligibility profile laboratories, may apply. Grants are worth up ------to US$100,000 per year over a maximum of Country of applicant institution: Any two years. Up to four awards are available. Disciplines Closing date: 30 Nov 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Blood, Blood Products & Transfusions; Blood once a year. Diseases; Haematology Posted date: 08 Jun 16 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Contact Details research groups etc, Directed grants for ------individual investigators Email: programadministrator@bayer- Award amount max: USD 200,000 hemophilia-awards.com Award amount min: -
ARLY-CAREER INVESTIGATOR AWARD Bayer E
Description: Bayer invites letters of intent for its early- Four awards, providing up to US$100,000 per career investigator award. This enables a year over up to two years each, are available. junior faculty member to undertake a mentored basic or clinical research project in Closing date: 30 Nov 16 the field of bleeding disorders. Examples of Deadline information: This call is repeated topics include: once a year. clinical studies; Posted date: 08 Jun 16 properties and delivery of clotting Award type: Directed grants for individual factor proteins; investigators assays and models; Award amount max: USD 200,000 Award amount min: - genetics and epidemiology; Award budget total: - molecular aspects and mechanisms of Website: http://www.bayer-hemophilia- clotting factor inhibitor formation. awards.com/awards/?view=early_career_inve
stigator_award The applicant should have an entry-level academic or clinical appointment within their Eligibility profile institution. This award is open to applicants ------with a medical degree or PhD who earned Country of applicant institution: Any their terminal degree within the last 10 years.
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Blood Diseases; Blood, Blood Products & Email: programadministrator@bayer- Transfusions; Haematology hemophilia-awards.com
ELLOWSHIP PROJECT AWARD Bayer F
Description: Bayer invites letters of intent for its fellowship Award budget total: - project award. This enables physicians who Website: http://www.bayer-hemophilia- have finished medical training within the last awards.com/awards/?view=clinical_training_ eight years to be mentored as haemophilia award physicians in training. Candidates will undertake both a research project as well as Eligibility profile clinical training. ------Four awards, worth up to US$80,000 per year Country of applicant institution: Any over two years each, are available. Disciplines Closing date: 30 Nov 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Blood, Blood Products & Transfusions; Blood once a year. Diseases; Haematology Posted date: 08 Jun 16 Award type: Directed grants for individual Contact Details investigators, Personal development ------Award amount max: USD 160,000 Email: programadministrator@bayer- Award amount min: - hemophilia-awards.com
NTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT BURSARIES I Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland
Description: The Archives and Records Association UK enable archivists, records managers and and Ireland invites applications for its conservators to undertake international international engagement bursaries. These activities such as the following:
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attending international conferences; Award amount min: - training that assists members in Award budget total: - establishing international networks Website: http://www.archives.org.uk/ara-in- and enables them to take advantage of action/international-bursaries.html the global workplace; Application form: carrying out international roles; http://www.archives.org.uk/images/documen international projects. ts/ARA_International_Engagement_Bursarie s_Application_Form_copy.doc
Applications are accepted from members of Eligibility profile the association who have not received a ------bursary in the last three years. Bursaries are Country of applicant institution: Any worth up to £1,000 each.
Disciplines Closing date: 30 Nov 16 ------Deadline information: Applications should be made at least six months prior to the Archiving; Libraries & Information Science proposed activity. Deadlines on: 30 November 2016, 31 March 2017, 31 May 2017, Contact Details and repeated annually. ------Posted date: 02 Feb 15 ARA Award type: Personal development, Travel Prioryfield House to conferences, meetings etc., Directed grants 20 Canon Street for individual investigators, Financial aid for Taunton TA1 1SW postgraduate students Email: [email protected] Award amount max: £1,000
RANTS FOR FOREIGN SCIENTISTS Sigrid Jusélius Foundation G
Description: The Sigrid Jusélius Foundation invites Grants cover the visitor’s personal allowance applications for its grants for foreign and travel costs over a period of three to 12 scientists. These enable Finnish researchers to months. Previously, the grants have ranged host and work with foreign senior medical between €10,000 and €30,000. investigators on research projects. Applications must be made by the Finnish host scientist together with the proposed Closing date: 30 Nov 16 visitor. The visitor must currently work Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 outside Finland. Grants may only be awarded times a year. to visiting professors, not to postdoctoral Posted date: 04 Aug 16 fellows. Award type: Networking/collaboration, Hosting visits, Travel for research purposes
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Award amount max: - Disciplines Award amount min: ------Award budget total: - Medicine & Health Website: http://www.sigridjuselius.fi/foundation Contact Details ------Eligibility profile Sigrid Jusélius Foundation ------Aleksanterinkatu 48 B Country of applicant institution: Finland 00100 Helsinki Country of applicant institution: Any Fax: +358 20 710 9082 Tel: +358 20 710 9089
ESEARCH AWARDS Handel Institute R
Description: The Handel Institute invites applications for Website: its research awards. These support research http://gfhandel.org/handelinstitute/hi- into the music or life of George Frideric grants.html Handel or his associates or contemporaries. Awards will not be made for the payment of Eligibility profile university or college fees. One or more ------awards may be offered, up to a total of £1,000. Country of applicant institution: Any
Disciplines Closing date: 30 Nov 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Biography; History of Music once a year. Posted date: 26 Jul 16 Contact Details Award type: Directed grants for individual ------investigators Department of Music Award amount max: £1,000 Open University Award amount min: - Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Award budget total: £1,000 Email: [email protected]
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ATHERINE POUGET AWARD MAPI Research Trust C
Description: The MAPI Research Trust invites applications Award type: Young investigator awards, for the Catherine Pouget award. This supports Directed grants for individual investigators projects that improve the quality of care Award amount max: USD 10,000 received by patients with terminal illness, Award amount min: - including those who care for them. Proposals Award budget total: - may focus upon patients, their families, Website: http://www.mapi-trust.org/about- medical and other carers, or patients the-trust/catherine-pouget-award?start=1 themselves. Eligibility profile The award is not limited to projects with a ------scientific basis in order to encourage those Country of applicant institution: Any with no formal scientific training to apply. Young investigators are encouraged to apply. Disciplines The award is worth up to US$10,000 over a ------maximum period of two years. Palliative Nursing; Patient Care & Education
Contact Details Closing date: 30 Nov 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet MAPI Research Trust been announced by funder, but this is the 27 Rue de la Villette approximate deadline we expect. This call is 69003 Lyon repeated once a year. Fax: +33 4 7213 6575 Posted date: 14 May 15 Tel: +33 4 7213 6682 Email: [email protected]
LYCOSCIENCE MEETING GRANTS Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience G
Description: The Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience The annual budget is ¥3 million. invites applications for its glycoscience Approximately 10 conferences will be meeting grants. These fund international supported each year. conferences in glycoscience. The grants aim to contribute to the welfare of mankind through Closing date: 30 Nov 16 promotion of scientific exchange between Deadline information: Deadlines on: 30 Japanese and foreign glycoscientists. November 2016, 31 March 2017, and repeated annually.
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Posted date: 03 Dec 14 Country of applicant institution: Any Award type: Networking/collaboration, Hosting conferences Disciplines Award amount max: ------Award amount min: - Glycomics; Carbohydrates Award budget total: JPY 3,000,000 Website: Contact Details http://www.mizutanifdn.or.jp/grant/conf_ap ------ply.html Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience Application form: Marunouchi Center Building 9F 1-6-1 http://www.mizutanifdn.or.jp/dlfiles/2010/co Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, nf_apform_e.doc Tokyo 100-0005 Tel: +81 3 3555 1862 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------
ESEARCH GRANTS Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena R
Description: The Association for the Scientific Study of approximate deadline we expect. This call is Anomalous Phenomena invites applications repeated once a year. for its research grants. These support small Posted date: 19 Aug 15 projects that study anomalous phenomena. Award type: Directed grants for individual The grants are available to individuals or investigators, Directed grants to institutions, groups. There are no membership research groups etc, Travel for research requirements for applicants from the UK, but purposes, Equipment and materials, Hosting applicants from outside the UK must be full conferences, Publish, edit, translate, members of ASSAP. disseminate Award amount max: - Grants may be used for purposes such as Award amount min: - literature research costs, equipment hire, Award budget total: - expenses, overnight investigations, expert Website: http://www.assap.ac.uk/newsite/htmlfiles/Re consultation, magnetic anomaly detector search.html system hire and expenses, data analysis or Application form: conferences, workshops, educational or http://www.assap.ac.uk/newsite/Docs/Grant training events. Grants are typically in the Application.pdf order of £100.
Eligibility profile Closing date: 30 Nov 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Country of applicant institution: Any been announced by funder, but this is the
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Cosmology & Extragalactic Astronomy; ASSAP Magnetism & Electromagnetism; Mysticism & P. O. Box 371 Spirituality Stroud GL6 1EL Email: [email protected]
ARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT GRANTS Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada – Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Humaines P
Description: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research municipal, territorial or provincial Council of Canada invites applications for its governments, or international postsecondary partnership development grants. These enable institutions. Individuals from the private new or existing partnerships to either develop sector or federal government may only research in the social sciences and humanities, participate as collaborators. Each grant is or to design and test new partnership worth between CAD 75,000 and CAD 200,000 approaches for research that may result in over one to three years. practices or models that can be adapted by others or be scaled up to a regional, national Closing date: 30 Nov 16 or international level. Funding is available for Deadline information: Applications due by existing partnerships to foster new research 8pm EST. distinct from the partnerships previous Posted date: 15 Aug 16 activities, or for new partnerships to foster Award type: Directed grants to institutions, new research in its initial stages. Projects research groups etc, should respond to the objectives of the Networking/collaboration, Institutional council’s insight or connection programme, or development a combination thereof. Award amount max: CAD 200,000 Award amount min: CAD 75,000 Applications must be submitted by project Award budget total: - directors on behalf of their partners. The Website: http://www.sshrc- crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs- director must be affiliated with a Canadian programmes/partnership_development_gran postsecondary institution or non-profit ts-subventions_partenariat_developpement- organisation, while partners may be Canadian eng.aspx or international institutions or organisations Application form: of any type. At least one partner must be a https://webapps.nserc.ca/SSHRC/faces/logon Canadian postsecondary institution and at .jsp?lang=en_CA least one must be different from the grant funds administrator. Co-applicants may be Eligibility profile individuals from Canadian postsecondary ------institutions, non-profit organisations, Country of applicant institution: Any philanthropic foundations, think tanks and Country of applicant institution: Canada
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Humanities; Social Sciences Tel: +1 613 943 1007 Email: [email protected]
IELD CENTRE GRANTS Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) F
Description: The Royal Geographical Society (with the Award budget total: - Institute of British Geographers) invites Website: applications for its field centre grants. These http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Grants/Expedit support field research on an important ion+fieldwork+and+independent+travel+gr geographical topic at international field ants/Field+Centre+Grants.htm centres. Preference is given to research conducted at field centres in some of the Eligibility profile world’s poorest countries. ------Country of applicant institution: United Lead applicants must be UK nationals with a Kingdom proven research record. Projects must Country of applicant institution: Any demonstrate the involvement of in-country, early-career field scientists.Grants are worth Disciplines £5,000 each. ------Geography Closing date: 30 Nov 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 18 Contact Details January 2017, and repeated annually. ------Posted date: 20 May 15 RGS-IBG Award type: Directed grants for individual 1 Kensington Gore investigators, Directed grants to institutions, London SW7 2AR research groups etc, Fax: +44 20 7591 3073 Networking/collaboration, Travel for Tel: +44 20 7591 3031 research purposes Email: [email protected] Award amount max: £5,000 Award amount min: -
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NGUS GRAHAM GRANT Society of Antiquaries of Scotland A
Description: The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland invites Posted date: 23 Jul 15 applications for the Angus Graham grant. Award type: Directed grants for individual This supports research on all aspects of investigators, Directed grants to institutions, archaeological and historical research within research groups etc or directly related to Scotland, as well as Award amount max: - assists in exceptional circumstances with the Award amount min: - preparation of additional data and the Award budget total: - presentation of material for publication in the Website: http://www.socantscot.org/grant- society’s journal Proceedings. Projects related prize/angus-graham-grant/ to historical research may be prioritised if Application form: they incorporate an aspect directly related to http://www.socantscot.org/wp- material culture. content/uploads/2015/03/grant_application_f orm_16.doc
Applicants may be based anywhere in the Eligibility profile world, and do not have to be members of the ------society. They must identify a referee with Country of applicant institution: Any established expertise in the field who is not the following: Disciplines a member of the society nor the same ------institution as the applicant; Archaeology of Europe; British & Irish a participant or associate of the project History to be undertaken;
a principal supervisor in case of Contact Details student applicants. ------Society of Antiquaries of Scotland The grant is worth up to £2,000 over three National Museums Scotland years, however larger grants may be Chambers Street provided. Edinburgh EH1 1JF Tel: +44 131 247 4115 Closing date: 30 Nov 16 Email: [email protected] Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year.
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IR GEORGE MACDONALD GRANT Society of Antiquaries of Scotland S
Description: The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland invites Award type: Directed grants for individual applications for the Sir George MacDonald investigators, Directed grants to institutions, grant. This supports research that may throw research groups etc light on the Roman occupation of Scotland. Award budget total: - Projects related to historical research may be Website: http://www.socantscot.org/grant- prioritised if they incorporate an aspect prize/sir-george-macdonald-grant/ directly related to material culture. Application form: http://www.socantscot.org/wp- Applicants may be based anywhere in the content/uploads/2015/03/grant_application_f world, and do not have to be members of the orm_16.doc society. They must identify a referee with established expertise in the field who is not Eligibility profile the following: ------ a member of the society nor the same Country of applicant institution: Any
institution as the applicant; Disciplines a participant or associate of the project ------to be undertaken; British & Irish History; Archaeology of a principal supervisor in case of Europe student applicants.
Contact Details The grant is worth up to £2,000 over three ------years, however larger grants may be Society of Antiquaries of Scotland provided. National Museums Scotland
Chambers Street Closing date: 30 Nov 16 Edinburgh EH1 1JF Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 Tel: +44 131 247 4115 times a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 23 Jul 15
AREER DEVELOPMENT BURSARIES British Ornithologists' Union C
Description: The British Ornithologists Union invites ornithologists. The research project may focus applications for its career development on any aspect of ornithology. bursaries. These support short-term research positions for young or early career
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Members who are between a first and higher Website: http://www.bou.org.uk/grants-and- degree programme or within two years of bursaries/career-development-bursary/ completion of a higher degree may apply. Application form: Non-members based in developing countries http://www.bou.org.uk/wp- are also eligible. Projects must be carried out content/uploads/2016/06/bursary-application- in a third party institute and be developed 2017.docx with a professional research group in a university, NGO or government agency. Eligibility profile Bursaries are worth up to £2,500 each for a ------period of six to 10 weeks. Country of applicant institution: Any Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 30 Nov 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Disciplines once a year. ------Posted date: 08 Jul 16 Ornithology Award type: Personal development, Directed grants for individual investigators Contact Details Award amount max: £2,500 ------Award amount min: - Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
UTCOMES RESEARCH Bayer O
Description: Bayer invites letters of intent for its outcomes Any healthcare professional affiliated with a research. This scheme supports outcomes facility that provides care to haemophilia research in the field of haemophilia and other patients and carries out research in inherited hereditary bleeding disorders. The aim is to bleeding disorders, including medical support the further development of relevant universities, hospitals, blood centres and tools of outcome assessment or their other laboratories, may apply. The grant is validation and applications in different health worth up to US$25,000 per year over a care situations. Projects may address: maximum of two years. use of different clinimetric instruments to assess bleeding Closing date: 30 Nov 16 disorders and the outcome of Deadline information: therapeutic interventions; Posted date: 08 Jun 16 health economic outcomes research; Award type: Directed grants to institutions, patient-reported outcomes and patient research groups etc, Directed grants for preferences; individual investigators quality of life. Award amount max: €50,000 Award amount min: -
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Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: http://www.bayer-hemophilia------awards.com/about_the_program/?view=dead Haematology; Blood Diseases; Blood, Blood lines Products & Transfusions
Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any Email: programadministrator@bayer- hemophilia-awards.com
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LINICAL RESEARCH GRANTS Cystic Fibrosis Foundation C
Description: The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation invites Website: applications for its clinical research grants. http://www.cff.org/research/ForResearchers/ These support clinical research projects FundingOpportunities/ClinicalResearchAwa directly related to cystic fibrosis treatment rds/ and care. Projects may address diagnostic or Application form: therapeutic methods related to cystic fibrosis https://proposalcentral.altum.com/ or the pathophysiology of cystic fibrosis and applicants must demonstrate access to Eligibility profile appropriate controls and to a sufficient ------number of cystic fibrosis patients from Country of applicant institution: Any accredited care centres. Disciplines Single-centre clinical research grants are ------worth up to US$100,000 per year for a period Pharmacotherapy; Biological Sciences; of up to three years. Multi-centre clinical General Practice & Family Health; Genetic research grants are worth up to US$225,000 Diseases; Respiratory Medicine; Public per year for a period of up to three years. In Health, Health Services & Primary Care; addition, up to eight per cent may be awarded Pathophysiology; Chronic Care; Diagnostic for indirect costs under either grant. Sciences; Primary Care; Nursing; Medical & Diagnostic Tests; Clinical Medicine; Pharmacy Closing date: 01 Dec 16 & Pharmacology Deadline information: Letters of intent due by 5pm EDT. Deadlines on: 1 December Contact Details 2016, 1 June 2017, and repeated annually. ------Posted date: 04 Dec 12 CFFT Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Grants and Contracts Office research groups etc 6931 Arlington Road Award amount max: USD 675,000 Bethesda, MD 20814 Award amount min: - Tel: +1 301 951 4422 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
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RANT AWARDS Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Research Foundation G
Description: The Association for Professionals in Infection Award amount max: USD 10,000 Control and Epidemiology Research Award amount min: - Foundation invites applications for its grant Award budget total: - awards. These grants support research Website: projects under the following two programs: http://www.apic.org/AM/Template.cfm?Secti general research program. Grants are on=Awards_and_Scholarships&CONTENTI available to support a pilot study, a D=6736&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay. small project, or development and cfm testing of an instrument. Applications should be directed toward the area of Eligibility profile infection control and applied ------epidemiology; Country of applicant institution: Any Steris focused research program. Grants are available for studies Disciplines designed to demonstrate and quantify ------the value, and improve the practice of, Clinical Medicine; Health Systems, infection prevention and control and Administration; Infectious Diseases; Public applied epidemiology in all health Health, Health Services & Primary Care; care delivery settings. Primary Care; Allied Health Professions; Epidemiology; Hygiene; Infection Agents & Grants are normally awarded for a one year Pathogens; Quality of Care; Standards of period and range between $5,000 and $10,000. Care; Diagnostic Sciences
Closing date: 01 Dec 16 Contact Details Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 ------December 2016, 1 July 2017, and repeated APIC annually. 1275 K Street, NW, Suite 1000 Posted date: 19 May 11 Washington, DC 20005-4006 Award type: Directed grants for individual Fax: +1 202 789 1890 investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Tel: +1 202 789 1899 research groups etc Email: [email protected]
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IGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL/COUNCIL FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NURSING SCIENCE RESEARCH GRANT S Sigma Theta Tau International
Description: The Sigma Theta Tau International and the Award amount min: - Council for Advancement of Nursing Science Award budget total: USD 5,000 invite applications for their research grant. Website: This encourages qualified nurses to improve http://www.nursingsociety.org/advance- the health of the world’s people through elevate/research/research-grants/the-council- research. Proposals for clinical, educational or for-the-advancement-of-nursing-science historical research, including plans for Application form: broadly disseminating the research findings, http://stti.grant.confex.com/stti_grant/decem are welcome. ber1516/cfp.cgi
Applicants must hold at minimum a master's Eligibility profile degree or equivalent and must be a member ------in good standing of both STTI and CANS. Country of applicant institution: Any One grant of up to USD 5,000 is available. Disciplines Closing date: 01 Dec 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Nursing once a year. Posted date: 20 Jul 16 Contact Details Award type: Directed grants for individual ------investigators, Publish, edit, translate, Fax: +1 317 634 8171 disseminate Tel: +1 317 634 8188 Award amount max: USD 5,000
LPHA ETA COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH GRANT Sigma Theta Tau International A
Description: Sigma Theta Tau International and Alpha Eta Closing date: 01 Dec 16 (Forecast) invite applications for their collaborative Deadline information: !! Call has not yet research grant. This is awarded for a new been announced by funder, but this is the research project in Africa. Applicants must be approximate deadline we expect. This call is a member of Tau Lambda-at-Large chapter repeated once a year. residing in Africa. Posted date: 16 Mar 15 One grant, worth up to US$2,000, is available. Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators Award amount max: USD 2,000
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Website: Nursing http://www.nursingsociety.org/advance- elevate/research/research-grants/alpha-eta- Contact Details collaborative-research-grant ------Sigma Theta Tau International Eligibility profile 550 W North Street ------Indianapolis, IN 46202 Country of applicant institution: All African Fax: +1 317 634 8171 Nations Tel: +1 317 634 8188 Email: [email protected] Disciplines ------
WAS-UNESCO ASSOCIATESHIP SCHEME TWAS T
Description: The World Academy of Sciences and Deadline information: This call is repeated UNESCO invite applications for their once a year. associateship scheme. This enables Posted date: 10 Mar 16 researchers from developing countries to visit Award type: Directed grants for individual centres of excellence in the south for research investigators, Networking/collaboration, collaboration. Travel for research purposes Award amount max: - Applicants must hold a PhD or equivalent Award amount min: - degree. Special consideration will be given to Award budget total: - applicants from isolated institutions in Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- developing countries. Women scientists are unesco-associateship-scheme particularly encouraged to apply. Application form: http://twas.org/sites/default/files/scientist/ass ocform_2016.doc Associateships are tenable for three years, with the possibility of renewal for a further Eligibility profile three years, during which the associate may ------visit a centre twice for two to three months at Country of applicant institution: Lower- a time. The associateship covers travel Middle-Income countries, Low Income expenses and provides a monthly allowance countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries of US$300 towards local expenses. The host centre will provide accommodation and Disciplines subsistence, as well as research facilities. ------
Physical Sciences and Engineering; Closing date: 01 Dec 16 Bio/Medical
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Contact Details 34151 Trieste ------Fax: +39 40 2240 330 TWAS Associateships Tel: +39 40 224 559 ICTP Campus Email: [email protected] Strada Costiera 11
INERGIA PROGRAMME Swiss National Science Foundation S
Description: The Swiss National Science Foundation Deadline information: Applications due by invites applications for the Sinergia 5pm Swiss time. Deadlines on: 1 June 2016, 1 programme. This aims to promote December 2016. interdisciplinary collaboration of two to four Posted date: 08 Feb 16 research groups that propose breakthrough Award type: Networking/collaboration, research. Research proposals that question Grants - undirected, Innovation grants and go beyond existing models, theories, Award amount max: CHF 3,200,000 doctrines, research approaches and methods Award amount min: CHF 50,000 are encouraged. Award budget total: - Website: Applicants must have obtained a doctorate at http://www.snf.ch/en/funding/programmes/s least four years before submitting the inergia/Pages/default.aspx application or have equivalent research Application form: https://www.mysnf.ch/login.aspx?returnurl= experience. All applicants must be employed http%3a%2f%2fwww.mysnf.ch%2fdefault.as with a work-time percentage of at least 50 per px cent for the duration of the project at a research institution eligible to receive research Eligibility profile funding from the SNSF or have been given ------written assurance of such employment. If Country of applicant institution: Switzerland there are three or more applicants one Country of applicant institution: Any applicant may be based at a research institution outside Switzerland, if they can Disciplines provide unique expertise. Grants are worth ------between CHF50,000 and CHF3.2 million over Any one to four years.
Contact Details Closing date: 01 Dec 16 ------Email: [email protected]
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DVANCED TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR TEACHERS OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE A Japan Foundation
Description: The Japan Foundation invites applications for Closing date: 01 Dec 16 (Forecast) its advanced training programme for teachers Deadline information: !! Call has not yet of the Japanese language. These are available been announced by funder, but this is the to Japanese language teachers or teams of up approximate deadline we expect. This call is to three teachers who require more advanced repeated once a year. expertise and skills, and have a specific Posted date: 05 Nov 15 challenge or issue they wish to address in Award type: Travel for research purposes, teaching Japanese. Personal development, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc Educational overseas organisations that Award amount max: - provide Japanese language education may Award amount min: - apply; applications from individuals will not Award budget total: - be accepted. Both Japanese native and non- Website: http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/program/japanese.ht native speakers between 30 and 55 years of ml age as of 1 December 2015 may participate in Application form: the programme. Participants must: http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/program/japanese.ht have an employment relationship ml with the applying organisation where
it is agreed they will continue working Eligibility profile in the organisation after completing ------this programme; Country of applicant institution: Any have a proficiency in Japanese of level N1 Japanese language proficiency test, Disciplines level 1 of the old JLPT, or their ------equivalent; Japanese Language; Foreign Languages have at least five years of experience Education; Japanese Literature in teaching Japanese as of 1 December 2015; Contact Details be individuals who are Japanese ------nationals or nationals of a country that Teachers Training Section has diplomatic relations with Japan. JFJLI Urawa Funding covers the costs of accommodation, Fax: +81 4 8834 1182 meals, course materials and insurance. Tel: +81 4 8834 1170 Round-trip airfares may also be covered for Email: [email protected] applicants from nationals of specified countries.
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RANT PROGRAMME FOR JAPANESE-LANGUAGE EDUCATION ACTIVITIES Japan Foundation G
Description: The Japan Foundation invites applications for Bhutan, Botswana, Belarus, Belize, Cocos its grant programme for Japanese-language (Keeling) Islands, Congo, the Democratic education activities. Grants may be used for Republic of the, Central African Republic, the promotion of Japanese-language activities, Congo, Switzerland, Côte d'Ivoire, Cook staff expansion, purchase of teaching Islands, Chile, Cameroon, Colombia, Costa materials, conferences, publications and other Rica, Serbia, Cuba, Cape Verde, Christmas activities that may promote Japanese- Island, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Djibouti, language education. Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Ecuador, Estonia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Non-profit Japanese language institutions and Finland, Fiji, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), organisations in countries where there are no Micronesia, Federated States of, Gabon, Japan Foundation overseas offices may apply. Grenada, Georgia, French Guiana, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Closing date: 01 Dec 16 (Forecast) Kong, Honduras, Croatia, Haiti, Ireland, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Israel, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Iceland, been announced by funder, but this is the Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, approximate deadline we expect. This call is Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, Saint Kitts and repeated once a year. Nevis, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lao People's Posted date: 04 Nov 15 Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Lesotho, research groups etc, Institutional Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Morocco, development, Equipment and materials, Monaco, Moldova, Republic of, Madagascar, Publish, edit, translate, disseminate, Hosting Marshall Islands, Macedonia, the former conferences Yugoslav Republic of, Mali, Myanmar, Award amount max: - Mongolia, Mauritania, Malta, Mauritius, Award amount min: - Maldives, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Award budget total: - Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Netherlands, Website: Norway, Nepal, Nauru, New Zealand, Oman, http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/program/japanese.ht Panama, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, ml Poland, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Application form: Portugal, Palau, Paraguay, Qatar, Romania, http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/program/dl/japanese/ Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, pdf/JN-FK_e.pdf Seychelles, Sudan, Sweden, Singapore, Eligibility profile Slovenia, Slovakia, Sierra Leone, San Marino, ------Senegal, Somalia, Suriname, Sao Tome and Country of applicant institution: Andorra, Principe, El Salvador, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Antigua Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Tajikistan, Timor- and Barbuda, Albania, Armenia, Angola, Leste, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Taiwan, Herzegovina, Barbados, Bangladesh, Belgium, Tanzania, United Republic of, Ukraine, Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Burundi, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Holy See Benin, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Bahamas, (Vatican City State), Saint Vincent and the
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Grenadines, Venezuela, Vanuatu, Samoa, Planning and Coordination Section Yemen, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Japanese Language Department South Sudan, Montenegro Japan Foundation, Headquarters 4-4-1 Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku Disciplines Tokyo 160-0004 ------Fax: +81 3 5369 6066 Japanese Language; Japanese Literature Tel: +81 3 5369 6040 Email: [email protected] Contact Details ------
STEOLOGY RESEARCHER GRANTS Osteology Foundation O
Description: The Osteology Foundation invites applications for its osteology research grants. Closing date: 01 Dec 16 These support research on oral and Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 maxillofacial tissue regeneration. Topics may December 2016, 15 June 2017, and repeated include: annually. bone and soft tissue biology – clinical Posted date: 16 Jun 16 aspects; Award type: Directed grants for individual local factors affecting oral tissue investigators, Young investigator awards regeneration; Award amount max: CHF 100,000 systemic diseases with an impact on Award amount min: - oral tissue regeneration; Award budget total: - Website: novel bone and soft tissue substitute http://www.osteology.org/grants/researcher- materials; grants/ pharmacological aspects of oral tissue Application form: regeneration; http://box.osteology.org/Grants/ApplyForGr inflammatory conditions, such as ant?grantType=1 periodontitis and peri-implants. Eligibility profile Applications are open to advanced ------researchers in the field of oral tissue Country of applicant institution: Any regeneration and young researchers currently undergoing postgraduate education or within Disciplines three years thereafter. ------Grants for advanced researchers are worth up Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery; Osteoporosis & to CHF100,000 each for projects lasting up to Other Bone Diseases two years. Grants for young researchers are worth up to CHF30,000 each for projects lasting up to one year.
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Contact Details 6002 Lucerne ------Tel: +41 41 368 4444 Osteology Foundation Email: [email protected] Landenbergstrasse 35
OPULATION RESEARCH CATALYST AWARD Cancer Research UK P
Description: Cancer Research UK invites applications for Closing date: 01 Dec 16 its population research catalyst award. This Deadline information: Preliminary supports capacity building and collaboration submissions due by 1 December 2016; full in population health, enabling groups to unite submissions due by 25 May 2017. to deliver impact over and above what they Posted date: 22 Aug 16 could do alone. In particular, the award aims Award type: Innovation grants, Directed to boost progress aligned to CRUK strategic grants to institutions, research groups etc, priorities, build new collaborations within Directed grants for individual investigators, and between institutions, nationally and Networking/collaboration, General internationally, and build capacity in operating support population research. Award amount max: £5,000,000 Award amount min: - Applicants need to establish a hub across at Award budget total: - Website: least three locations creating a new http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/funding- collaboration, support a new research for-researchers/our-funding- direction for the hub within CRUK strategic schemes/population-research-catalyst-award priority areas, commit to data sharing and plan for sustainability beyond the lifetime of Eligibility profile the award. Collaborating institutions may be ------international, but the hub should consist of at Country of applicant institution: United least one UK based institution. Established Kingdom independent researchers, industry Country of applicant institution: Any researchers, clinicians, health professionals, non-clinical researcher and nurses may apply. Disciplines ------The award is worth up to £5 million over a Population Studies, Medical; Cognitive & period of five years. Funding is flexible but Behavioural Therapies; Cancer Studies & may cover central coordination, pilot or Oncology; Epidemiology; Medical & development studies for innovative and high Diagnostic Tests; Preventive Medicine risk work, recruitment of rising star or senior expert, infrastructure and multidisciplinary research projects.
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Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------Tel: +44 20 3469 5232
HD STUDENTSHIPS British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy P
Description: The British Society for Antimicrobial Award type: Directed grants for individual Chemotherapy invites applications for its PhD investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate studentships. These enable students from students across the world to undertake excellent Award amount max: £100,000 training in antimicrobial chemotherapy Website: http://bsac.org.uk/funding/phd- research. studentship/ Application form: http://bsac.org.uk/wp- Each applicant must have an awarded or content/uploads/2012/02/PhD-Studentship- expected first class or upper second class Application-form.pdf degree, or an MSc with merit or distinction. Eligibility profile Each studentship provides up to £25,000 per ------year over a maximum of four years, to cover a Country of applicant institution: Any student stipend, tuition fees and research consumables. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 Dec 16 Chemotherapy; Clinical Microbiology Deadline information: Applications are invited between September and 1 December Contact Details 2016. ------Posted date: 28 Apr 16 Email: [email protected]
URSARIES – OVER £5,000 Laboratory Animals Limited B
Description: Laboratory Animals Limited invites and enable applicants to attend training applications for its larger bursaries. These courses in laboratory animal science and support the organisation of events or projects, welfare. Bursaries may also cover travel
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expenses to enable international experts to Application form: speak at conferences.Each bursary is worth a http://www.lal.org.uk/uploads/editor/LAL_F minimum of £5,000. orm_Application-bursaries_20140224.doc
Closing date: 01 Dec 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: Applications due at ------least four months prior to proposed project Country of applicant institution: Any start date. This call is repeated once a year. Posted date: 14 Dec 15 Disciplines Award type: Personal development, Directed ------grants for individual investigators, Travel to Laboratory Animals conferences, meetings etc., Hosting conferences Contact Details Award amount max: ------Award amount min: £5,000 LAL Award budget total: - Charles Darwin House Website: http://www.lal.org.uk/funding-and- 12 Roger Street opportunities/bursaries/ London WC1 2JU Email: [email protected]
PECIAL PROGRAMME ON SECURITY, SOCIETY AND THE STATE – RESEARCH PROJECTS S Gerda Henkel Foundation
Description: The Gerda Henkel Foundation invites several PhDs or scholars with postdoctoral proposals for its special programme on lecture qualification. Applicants must be security, society and the state. This supports actively involved in the research work of the research projects in the following fields: project. challenges of new technologies; Grants may cover costs for personnel, travel, public administration and human materials or other costs. security; patterns of conflict resolution between Closing date: 02 Dec 16 the state and traditional actors; Deadline information: This call is repeated non-governmental actors as partners once a year. and contenders of the state; Posted date: 14 Jan 16 security strategies between doctrine Award type: Directed grants to institutions, formation and implementation. research groups etc, Travel for research purposes, Equipment and materials Award amount max: - Applications for research projects may be Award amount min: - made by universities, other research institutes Award budget total: - or comparable institutions as well as by one or
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Website: http://www.gerda-henkel- Disciplines stiftung.de/application-for-research------projects?page_id=74877 International Security; National Security
Application form: https://forms.gerda- Contact Details henkel------stiftung.de/ghs?kind=sesfap&lang=en Gerda Henkel Stiftung Malkastenstraße 15 Eligibility profile 40211 Düsseldorf ------Fax: +49 211 936 524 ext 0 Country of applicant institution: Any Tel: +49 211 936 524 etx 44 Email: [email protected]
ENTENARY AWARDS Egypt Exploration Society C
Description: The Egypt Exploration Society invites Award type: Directed grants for individual applications for its centenary awards. These investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate assist early-career Egyptologists with students, Travel for research purposes conducting fieldwork and museum- or Award amount max: £2,500 archive-based research. The society Award amount min: - particularly welcomes proposals that have Award budget total: £6,000 arisen from, or can be related to, present or Website: past society fieldwork. http://www.ees.ac.uk/research/centenary- awards.html Applicants must be current postgraduate Application form: students or be within five years of having http://www.ees.ac.uk/userfiles/file/EES_Cent been awarded their postgraduate degree. _Award_2015%20FINAL%20protected.doc Applicants need not be members of the Eligibility profile society. The total budget is £6,000 to be ------divided among projects, which are unlikely to Country of applicant institution: Any receive more than £2,500 each.
Disciplines Closing date: 03 Dec 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the African Studies; Archaeology of Africa; approximate deadline we expect. Middle Eastern Studies Applications due by 5pm GMT. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 07 Apr 15 ------Email: [email protected]
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ELFARE GRANTS PetPlan Charitable Trust W
Description: PetPlan Charitable Trust invites applications Award amount max: £20,000 for its welfare grants. These support charities Award amount min: - that are committed to improving animal care Award budget total: - and welfare. Website: The trust offers four categories of funding: http://www.petplantrust.org/articles.php?id= one major welfare grant of up to 41&naviId=4&subnaviId=1&page=Welfare £20,000 towards an innovative project %20Grants in animal care and welfare; Application form: up to £40,000 allocated for general https://petplan.grantapps.net/welfare/init.pl grants of between £5,000 and £7,500; Eligibility profile up to £40,000 allocated for general ------grants of up to £5,000; Country of applicant institution: Any grants to assist with vehicle purchase.
Disciplines General grants may cover neutering, kenelling ------costs and veterinary fees, but the trust will not Veterinary Medicine; Companion Animals; fund general overheads. Applicants must Animal Care have registered charity status.
Contact Details Closing date: 04 Dec 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet PetPlan Charitable Trust been announced by funder, but this is the Great West House (GW2) approximate deadline we expect. This call is Great West Road repeated once a year. Posted date: 28 Oct 15 Brentford Award type: Directed grants for individual Middlesex TW8 9EG investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Tel: +44 20 8580 8013 research groups etc Email: [email protected]
EW AND FUTURE BIOTECHNOLOGY TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS IN RELATION TO SAFETY N Technology Foundation STW – Technologiestichting STW
Description: The Technology Foundation STW invites biotechnology techniques in relation to proposals for its call on new and future environmental safety. This supports research
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projects that focus on knowledge of the effects between €250,000 and €750,000 each over five of environmental risks and uncertainties years. Funding may cover temporary when working on new or future modern personnel costs, materials, foreign travel and biotechnology techniques and applications. equipment. The knowledge should be aimed at how to minimise, assess and manage those risks to Closing date: 06 Dec 16 make sure biotechnology developments are Deadline information: Proposals due by 2pm safe. Research must address at least one of the CET. following cross-cutting safety issues: Posted date: 04 Jul 16 Award type: Travel for research purposes, creating inherent safety; Networking/collaboration, Equipment and developing new concepts and ways of materials, Directed grants to institutions, assessing and managing risks; research groups etc adapting the current risk assessment Award amount max: €750,000 methods. Award amount min: €250,000 Award budget total: €6,000,000
Website: Consortia of multiple academic institutes may http://www.stw.nl/nl/content/biotechnology- apply. These may include international and-safety academic partners as co-applicants; however, Application form: the Dutch main applicant will be responsible http://www.stw.nl/sites/stw.nl/files/Biotechn for receiving and distributing funding to their ology-and-Safety-Call-2_Full-proposal- partners. Eligible main and co-applicants are format.docx assistants, associates and full professors with a tenured position at Dutch universities or Eligibility profile medical centres, Royal Netherlands Academy ------for Arts and Sciences institutes (KNAW), Country of applicant institution: Netherlands Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Country of applicant institution: Any Research institutes (NWO), the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), the Max Planck Disciplines Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Dubble ------beamline, Naturalis Centre for Biodiversity Environmental & Occupational Health & and the Advanced Safety; Biotechnology
Research Centre for NanoLithography. Contact Details Researchers with a tenured position are also ------eligible to apply. Assistant, associate and full Tel: +31 30 600 1307 professors with a tenured position at a foreign Email: [email protected] institute may act as co-applicants. The total budget is €6 million. Grants are worth
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UBSIDIES FOR CONSORTIA Lung Foundation – Longfonds S
Description: The Lung Foundation invites applications for Award type: Directed grants to institutions, its subsidies for consortia. These support research groups etc, research on the prevention of lung diseases, Networking/collaboration treatment and care of lung diseases and lung Award amount max: €750,000 tissue repair. Consortia consisting of ideally Award amount min: - three institutions may apply. The consortium Award budget total: - must comprise a minimum of two Dutch Website: academic institutions, and must also involve http://research.longfonds.nl/subsidies/subsi at least one independent clinical department. die-voor-consortia Application form: For the themes prevention of lung diseases http://research.longfonds.nl/sites/default/file and treatment and care of lung diseases, a s/DEF%20- total budget of €1.5 million is available and %20Vooraanmeldingsformulier%20CG%202 016%20-III.docx grants are worth up to €750,000 each. Projects that focus on lung tissue repair may receive Eligibility profile up to €600,000. Research projects must have a ------maximum duration of five years. Country of applicant institution: Netherlands
Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 07 Dec 16 (Forecast)
Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Required ------pre-proposals due by 12 noon, 7 December Respiratory Medicine; Asthma 2015; invited full applications due by 12 noon, 17 March 2016. This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 28 Oct 15 Tel: +31 33 434 1253 Email: [email protected]
LOBAL CLINICAL TRIALS FUND Alzheimer's Research UK G
Description: Alzheimer’s Research UK invites expressions benefit to dementia patients. The scheme of interest for its global clinical trials fund. covers the following activities: This supports clinical trials in the UK or studies that aim to demonstrate target worldwide that have the potential to be of engagement, and phase I or phase II
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clinical trials undertaken to ascertain institutions, research groups etc, Clinical the potential safety and efficacy of trials novel or re-purposed drug-based Award amount max: £500,000 interventions in human subjects; Award amount min: - clinical trials of non-drug based, Award budget total: - complex interventions; Website: opportunities for research add-ons to http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants ongoing clinical trials, such as /global-clinical-trials-fund/ biomarker add-ons. Application form: http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/wp- Applicants may be based at established content/uploads/2015/03/Expression-of- Interest-form-19.2.16.docx research institutions worldwide. Applications are required to include at least a clinician and Eligibility profile an academic investigator or a clinical ------researcher, and may include small and Country of applicant institution: Any medium enterprises as co-applicants. Grants Country of applicant institution: Any are worth up to £500,000 per project.
Disciplines Closing date: 07 Dec 16 ------Deadline information: Alzheimer's Disease & Senile Dementia Posted date: 22 Feb 16
Award type: Academic-Industry links, Contact Details Directed grants for individual investigators, ------Networking/collaboration, Directed grants to Tel: +44 300 111 5333 Email: [email protected]
PINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY RESEARCH GRANTS French Muscular Dystrophy Association – Association Française Contre les Myopathies S
Description: The French Muscular Dystrophy Association, innovative approaches for therapy of on behalf of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Europe, SMA; invites applications for its spinal muscular projects addressing bottlenecks atrophy research grants. These support impairing rapid transition from basic projects aimed at finding a therapy for SMA research to clinical trials; or at elucidating the basic pathophysiological natural history of SMA. processes of the disease. Operating grants and postdoctoral fellowships are available. Focus Priority is given to projects concentrating on areas are: the areas above. Operating grants applicants understanding and function of the must be professionals or faculty members at survival motor neurone function an appropriate institution or small or complex; medium-sized enterprise, and fellowship
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applicants must be members of a research Website: http://www.afm- team in the laboratory of a senior investigator. telethon.com/research/calls-for- All applicants must hold a PhD, MD, DPhil or proposals/current-calls-for-proposals.html equivalent degree. Application form: https://sis.afm- telethon.fr/eAwards_applicant/faces/jsp/logi Funding is provided for up to two years. n/login.jsp?lang=EN Standard operating grants do not normally exceed €150,000, though grants for part or Eligibility profile joint funding of a clinical trial may be made at ------a higher level. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 08 Dec 16 Disciplines Deadline information: Applications are ------invited between 3 November and 8 Diagnostic Sciences; Muscle Diseases; December 2016. This call is repeated once a Biological Markers & Sensor Mechanisms; year. Gene Therapy; Pharmacy & Pharmacology Posted date: 05 Aug 16 Award type: Clinical trials, Directed grants Contact Details for individual investigators, Directed grants ------to institutions, research groups etc, Association Française contre les Myopathies Postdoctoral training fellowships 1 rue de l'Internationale Award amount max: - BP 59 Award amount min: - 91002 Evry cedex Award budget total: -
ADR GLAXOSMITHKLINE INNOVATION IN ORAL CARE AWARDS International Association for Dental Research I
Description: The International Association for Dental inhibition or removal of biofilms Research and GlaxoSmithKline invite adhering to natural or artificial applications for the innovation in oral care surfaces; awards. These enable investigators to conduct modification of those surfaces to dental research that will have a direct impact inhibit biofilms and other deposits, on the oral health of the public. Awards will stains and odours; be provided to recipients to advance oral care adhesives for removable prosthetic programmes directed toward the devices; development of innovative and novel inhibition of tooth surface loss and compounds, biomaterials or devices that can gingival recession, and amelioration be used ultimately at the public health level. of their effects; Proposals may address:
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counteracting the oral effects of dry Award type: Directed grants to institutions, mouth, systemic illness, hormonal research groups etc, disturbances or physiological ageing. Networking/collaboration Award amount max: USD 75,000 Proposals should be collaboratively Award amount min: - sponsored by at least one researcher whose Award budget total: - principal expertise is in an area of Website: biotechnology other than dental science. http://www.dentalresearch.org/i4a/pages/ind Applicants should possess advanced degrees ex.cfm?pageid=3426 and must hold an affiliation with an academic Application form: centre, non-profit institution, or for-profit http://www.iadr.fluidreview.com/ entity such as a biotechnology start-up. The Eligibility profile principal investigator should be a current ------member of, or at the time of submission have Country of applicant institution: Any made bona fide application for membership in the IADR. Awards are worth up to US$75,000 Disciplines over up to two years. ------
Dentistry Closing date: 11 Dec 16 (Forecast)
Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 11 Nov 15
UMANE SLAUGHTER AWARD Humane Slaughter Association H
Description: The Humane Slaughter Association invites important technological developments nominations for its humane slaughter award. that have led, or are leading to, This recognises individuals or organisations advances in humane slaughter; whose work has resulted in significant advances in the humane slaughter of farmed research which has led to better livestock such as cattle, sheep, pigs, other understanding of the welfare of animals mammals, poultry or fish. The Association is during transports, at markets, or when they keen to receive nominations or applications are slaughtered.Individuals or organisations relating to: from anywhere in the world may apply. The advances in science that have led or Association is also keen to receive third-party are leading to advances in humane nominations. slaughter; The award is worth £3,000.
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Closing date: 11 Dec 16 (Forecast) Eligibility profile Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Country of applicant institution: Any approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 03 Nov 15 ------Award type: Prizes, Directed grants for Farm Management; Livestock & Animal individual investigators, Directed grants to Science; Veterinary Medicine institutions, research groups etc, Technology innovation/development Contact Details Award amount max: £3,000 ------Award amount min: - HSA Award budget total: - The Old School Website: http://www.hsa.org.uk/grants-- Brewhouse Hill awards/humane-slaughter-award Wheathampstead Herts AL4 8AN Application form: Fax: +44 1582 831 919 http://www.hsa.org.uk/downloads/hsa- Tel: +44 1582 831 414 advances-award-2016.doc Email: [email protected]
ENEGHETTI AWARD Scientific and Humanistic Research Foundation Antonio Meneghetti M
Description: The Antonio Meneghetti Scientific and Award type: Directed grants for individual Humanistic Research Foundation invites investigators, Directed grants to institutions, applications for the Meneghetti award. This research groups etc supports research projects in the field of Award amount max: €15,000 economics, medicine, physics or philosophy, Award amount min: - relevant to ontopsychology. Award budget total: €60,000 Website: All authors and co-authors must hold a http://www.fondazionemeneghetti.ch/index. master’s degree. Applicants may be from any php?lang=en country, but submissions must be made in Italian or English. Four awards, worth up to Eligibility profile €15,000 each, are available. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 12 Dec 16 Deadline information: Disciplines Posted date: 13 Apr 16 ------
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Economics & Econometrics; Philosophy; Scientific and Humanistic Research Psychoanalytic Philosophy; Medicine & Foundation Antonio Meneghetti Health; Physics Via San Gottardo 10 6900 Lugano Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------
NNUAL SEMINAR COMPETITION Socio-Legal Studies Association A
Description: The Socio-Legal Studies Association invites Closing date: 12 Dec 16 applications for its annual seminar Deadline information: This call is repeated competition. This supports the delivery of once a year. either an individual seminar or short Posted date: 25 Jan 16 conference or a series of events, relevant to the Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings socio-legal community. etc., Hosting conferences, Hosting visits, Networking/collaboration, Directed grants All applicants must be fully paid-up members for individual investigators of the association at the time of application. Award amount max: - Applications from all sections of the socio- Award amount min: - legal community within and outside the UK, Award budget total: £10,000 as well as applications for partial or joint Website: funding will be considered. Where an http://www.slsa.ac.uk/index.php/prizes- grants-and-seminars/seminar-competition application is made by a number of individuals, a lead applicant must be Eligibility profile identified. ------
Country of applicant institution: Any The total annual budget is £10,000, which may be awarded to a single proposal or divided Disciplines between two or more applicants. Funding ------requests for less than £500 or events targeted Sociolegal Studies at staff or students of a single institution will not be considered. All events funded through Contact Details this year’s competition must be scheduled for ------completion by the end of July 2017. Email: [email protected]
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ERMAN-AFRICAN COOPERATION PROJECTS IN INFECTIOLOGY Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – German Research Foundation G
Description: The German Research Foundation invites Closing date: 14 Dec 16 proposals for its German-African cooperation Deadline information: projects in infectiology. These fund joint Posted date: 24 Aug 16 research projects between scientists in Award type: Networking/collaboration, Germany and Africa investigating infectious Equipment and materials, Directed grants to diseases and their social and societal institutions, research groups etc implications. The call focuses on neglected Award amount max: - tropical infectious diseases and projects Award amount min: - researching Aids, Malaria and tuberculosis Award budget total: - will only be considered, if they study Website: mechanisms of virulence or the immune http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/inter response against them. Co-infections can also national_cooperation/international_funding/ be topics of project outlines. The scope countries_regions/cooperation_africa/index.h tml includes:
investigation of neglected infectious Eligibility profile diseases in humans and animals; ------ establishment or consolidation of Country of applicant institution: Germany, mutually beneficial equal All African Nations partnerships;
support and funding for the academic Disciplines and professional careers of young ------African researchers to build research Veterinary Medicine; Tropical & Neglected capacity in Africa. Diseases; Infectious Diseases; Epidemiology
Applications can be submitted by both Contact Details universities and non-university research ------institutions. Several African partners can German Research Foundation participate in the projects, but the application Kennedyallee 40 must be submitted by the German partner, 53175 Bonn who must be integrated into the German Email: [email protected] research system. Proposals should initially be outlined for a project duration of three years.
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NVENTION FOR INNOVATION (I4I) PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AWARDS Department of Health including NIHR I
Description: The National Institute for Health Research receive any funding. Collaborations between a invites applications for its invention for university and its associated NHS Trust is innovation (i4i) product development awards. accepted. Collaborations with SMEs or early- These support R&D of medical devices, active stage companies is preferred, as well as the implantable devices and in vitro diagnostic involvement of a clinical trial unit in the devices in any area of existing or emerging design of clinical trials. Large companies may clinical need, in order to increase patient participate, but will not receive any funding. benefit and develop products or services There is no funding limit. Awards are tenable which can be used within the NHS. between one and three years.
Projects must have progressed beyond basic Closing date: 14 Dec 16 research and have demonstrated proof-of- Deadline information: Stage one concept. The expected output is an advanced submissions are invited between 2 or clinically validated prototype medical November and 1pm, 14 December 2016; full device, technology or intervention. Funding applications are invited between 15 February supports both early and late stages of R&D, and 1pm, 12 April 2017. including the clinical development of Posted date: 09 Aug 16 laboratory-validated technologies or Award type: Academic-Industry links, interventions. The following activities can be Directed grants to institutions, research funded: groups etc, Innovation grants, Technology R&D of medical, active implantable innovation/development, Networking/collaboration, Clinical trials, and in vitro diagnostic devices; Research calls for business product development required to Award amount max: - enable a technology for clinical use; Award amount min: - R&D of techniques or technologies Award budget total: - from a different industry; Website: http://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/i4i- feasibility studies for development of product-development-awards.html technology outside the health sector; Application form: studies to provide data relating to https://ccfrms.nihr.ac.uk/Login.aspx?Return safety and effectiveness of device; Url=%2f health economic analyses and clinical utility studies; Eligibility profile CE marking and other regulatory ------requirements; Country of applicant institution: Any adoption of new technologies; Country of applicant institution: United training for implementation of new Kingdom technologies. Disciplines Projects must be collaborative and include at ------least two organisations from academia, Medical Devices; Medical Instrumentation; industry or the NHS. The lead applicant must Biochemical Engineering; Prosthetic & be based in England. Collaborators may be Orthotic Devices; Medical Implants; based outside England, but are not eligible to Diagnostic Sciences
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Contact Details Twickenham TW1 3NL ------Tel: +44 20 8843 8015 NIHR Central Commissioning Facility Email: [email protected] Grange House 15 Church Street
MAGING AND BIOMARKERS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF AGGRESSIVE CANCER (U01) I NIH: National Cancer Institute
Description: The National Cancer Institute invites Eligible applicants include US and foreign for- applications for its imaging and biomarkers profit or non-profit organisations and public for early detection of aggressive cancer (U01) or private institutions. Application budgets funding opportunity announcement. This are not limited, but must reflect actual needs announcement seeks collaborative research of the project. The maximum project period is project applications to improve cancer five years. screening, early detection of aggressive cancer, assessment of cancer risk and cancer Ref: PAR-16-089 (replaces PAR-13-189). diagnosis aimed at integrating multi-modality imaging strategies and multiplexed biomarker Closing date: 14 Dec 16 methodologies into a singular Deadline information: Applications open on complementary approach. The purpose is to 11 June and are due by 5pm local time of establish a consortium for imaging and applicant organisation, 11 July and 14 biomarkers to perform collaborative studies, December 2016, 10 July and 11 December exchange information, share knowledge and 2017, 10 July and 11 December 2018. leverage common resources. The research will Posted date: 26 Jan 16 be conducted by individual multidisciplinary Award type: Networking/collaboration, research teams, hereafter called units. All Research centres, Directed grants to units are expected to participate in institutions, research groups etc collaborative activities with other units within Award amount max: - Award amount min: - the consortium. The specific objective is to Award budget total: - stimulate and support cancer imaging and Website: biomarker research to develop, optimise and http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa- clinically validate novel methods to: files/PAR-16-089.html detect aggressive cancers at the earliest stages possible; Eligibility profile reduce overdiagnosis; ------ reduce false positive tests and identify Country of applicant institution: Any lethal cancers from non-lethal disease.
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Biochemical Markers; Cancer Studies & Tel: +1 240 276 7126 Oncology; Radiology & Medical Imaging Email: [email protected]
MERGING GLOBAL LEADER AWARD (K43) NIH: Fogarty International Center E
Description: The Fogarty International Center, the National The award provides a salary worth up to Human Genome Research Institute, the US$75,000 per year and research development National Institute of Environment Health costs of up to US$30,000 per year. The Sciences and the National Institute of Mental maximum project period is five years. Health invite applications for its emerging global leader award (K43) funding Ref: PAR-15-292. opportunity announcement. This announcement provides research support and Closing date: 14 Dec 16 protected time to a research scientist from a Deadline information: Applications due by low- or middle-income country with a junior 5pm local time of applicant organisation on faculty position at an LMIC academic or deadline dates. Deadlines on: 14 December research institution. The aim is to increase the 2016, 16 December 2016, 14 December 2017, capabilities of the successful applicants in and repeated annually. advanced research methodology, analysis and Posted date: 08 Jul 15 data management, research administrative Award type: Travel for research purposes, skills, responsible conduct of research, Directed grants for individual investigators, scientific presentation, publication and grants Travel to conferences, meetings etc., writing. Equipment and materials, Personal development
Award amount max: - Applicants may be from any health-related Award amount min: - discipline. They should propose career Award budget total: - development activities and a research project Website: that is relevant to the health priorities of their http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa- country. Aids-related projects that fall within files/PAR-15- the announcement’s research remit are also 292.html#_Section_II._Award_2 welcome.Any individual with the skills, knowledge and resources necessary to carry Application form: out the proposed research as the programme http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov director or principal investigator is encouraged to apply. The research activities should take place primarily in the LMIC.
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Eligibility profile Disciplines ------Country of applicant institution: Lower- Medicine & Health Middle-Income countries, Low Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries Contact details ------Tel: +1 301 496 1653 Email: [email protected]
XPLORATORY STUDIES OF SMOKING CESSATION INTERVENTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA (R21/R33) E NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Description: A total of four institutes and offices of the costs, with no more than US$225,000 in direct NIH invite applications for their exploratory costs in any single year of the R33 phase. The studies of smoking cessation interventions for maximum period is five years. people with schizophrenia (R21/R33) grants. The purpose of this R21 and R33 funding Ref: PAR-14-230. opportunity is to provide support for grant applications to generate and conduct Closing date: 15 Dec 16 preliminary tests of targeted smoking Deadline information: Applications due by cessation treatments for individuals with 5pm local time of applicant organisation on schizophrenia. This funding opportunity 15 August, 16 December 2014, 15 April, 17 announcement provides support for grant August, December 15, 2015, 15 April, 16 applications designed to generate novel August, 15 December, 2016, 17 April treatments and improve existing treatments until 8 September 2017. and conduct preliminary tests of novel and Posted date: 20 May 14 improved behavioural, pharmacological, and Award type: Directed grants to institutions, combined smoking cessation treatments for research groups etc individuals with schizophrenia by examining Award amount max: - Award amount min: - the mechanisms of nicotine addiction in Award budget total: USD 3,500,000 individuals with schizophrenia as putative Website: intervention targets. Domestic and foreign http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa- for-profit and non-profit organisations and files/PAR-14-230.html public or private institutions are eligible to Application form: apply. The NIH intends to fund an estimate of http://www.grants.gov/applicants/apply-for- six to nine awards corresponding to a total of grants.html US$3,5 million for fiscal year 2015. The R21 phase may not exceed two years or Eligibility profile US$275,000 in direct costs, with no more than ------US$150,000 in direct costs in any single year Country of applicant institution: Any of the R21 phase. The R33 phase may not exceed three years or US$450,000 in direct
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Disciplines ------Contact Details Mental Health; Psychiatry; Addiction; ------Economic & Social Environment; Mental NIH Illness; Primary Care; Biomedical 6001 Executive Boulevard Engineering; Schizophrenia & Other Psychotic Room 5213 Disorders; Public Health, Health Services & Bethesda, MD 20892-9561 Primary Care; Psychology; Drug & Substance Fax: +1 301 443 2235 Abuse; Medical Sociology; Sociology; Tel: +1 301 443 7397 HIV/Aids; Pharmaceutical Drugs; Smoking & Email: [email protected] Tobacco; Health Disparities
XPLORATORY STUDIES OF SMOKING CESSATION INTERVENTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA (R33) E NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Description: A total of four institutes and offices of the provide services to smokers with NIH invite applications for their exploratory schizophrenia. studies of smoking cessation interventions for people with schizophrenia (R33) grants. The Domestic and foreign for-profit and non- purpose of this R33 funding opportunity is to profit organisations and public or private provide support for grant applications of two institutions are eligible to apply. The NIH major types. Type I will conduct exploratory intends to fund an estimate of six to nine testing of novel, targeted treatments for awards, corresponding to a total of US$3.5 smoking cessation for individuals with million for fiscal year 2015. The budget may schizophrenia. Type II will conduct not exceed US$450,000 in direct costs over the exploratory testing of targeted three year project period, with no more than implementation strategies of existing US$225,000 in direct costs in any single year. efficacious treatments at the service-delivery The maximum period is three years. system level. Ultimately, this R33 funding mechanism intends to speed the translation of Ref: PAR-14-231. emerging basic science findings of mechanisms and processes underlying Closing date: 15 Dec 16 treatments or implementation strategies into Deadline information: Applications due by novel intervention approaches that can be 5pm local time of applicant organisation. efficiently tested for their promise to promote Deadlines on: 15 August 2014, 16 December smoking cessation in individuals who have 2014, 15 April 2015, 17 August 2015, 15 schizophrenia or promote the adoption of December 2015, 15 April 2016, 16 August experimentally-supported smoking cessation 2016, 15 December 2016, 17 April 2017. interventions within organisations that Posted date: 20 May 14
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Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Schizophrenia & Other Psychotic Disorders; research groups etc Drug & Substance Abuse; Mental Illness; Award amount max: - Smoking & Tobacco; Primary Care; Public Award amount min: - Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Award budget total: USD 3,500,000 Sociology; Biomedical Engineering; Website: Psychiatry; Addiction; Health Disparities; http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa- Medical Sociology; HIV/Aids; Mental Health; files/PAR-14-231.html Pharmaceutical Drugs; Economic & Social Application form: Environment; Psychology http://www.grants.gov/applicants/apply-for- grants.html Contact Details ------Eligibility profile NIH ------6001 Executive Boulevard Country of applicant institution: Any Room 5213 Bethesda, MD 20892-9561 Disciplines Tel: +1 301 443 2235 ------Email: [email protected]
UTTING-EDGE BASIC RESEARCH AWARDS (R21) NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse C
Description: The National Institute on Drug Abuse invites develop or adapt innovative applications for its cutting-edge basic research techniques or methods for addiction awards (R21) funding opportunity research, or that have promising announcement. This announcement aims to future applicability to drug abuse foster highly innovative or conceptually research. creative research related to drug abuse and addiction and how to prevent and treat them. Domestic and foreign for-profit and non- Awards support research that is high-risk and profit organisations and public or private potentially high-impact that is institutions may apply. Application budgets underrepresented or not included in NIDA's are limited to US$125,000 per year in direct current portfolio. The proposed research costs over a maximum two-year project should: period. test a highly novel and significant hypothesis for which there are scant Ref: PAR-15-079 (replaces PAR-12-086). precedent or preliminary data and which, if confirmed, would have a Closing date: 20 Dec 16 substantial impact on current Deadline information: Applications are due thinking; at 5pm local time of applicant organisation on each deadline date. Deadlines on: 20
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August 2015, 18 December 2015, 19 August Eligibility profile 2016, 20 December 2016, 18 August 2017, 20 ------December 2017. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 09 Jan 15 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Disciplines research groups etc, Innovation grants ------Award amount max: USD 250,000 Drug & Substance Abuse; Addiction Award amount min: - Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa- NIDA files/PAR-15-079.html NSC Building, Room 4253 Application form: 6001 Executive Boulevard http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicant Rockville, MD 20852 s/download-application- Tel: +1 301 435 1315 package.html#download=true&oppNum=P Email: [email protected] AR-15-079
NDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE MULTI-LEVEL INFLUENCES ON UPTAKE AND ADHERENCE TO HIV PREVENTION STRATEGIES AMONG U ADOLESCENT GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (R34) NIH: National Institute of Mental Health
Description: The National Institute of Mental Health influence uptake and adherence to prevention invites applications for its understanding and strategies. addressing the multi-level influences on uptake and adherence to HIV prevention US and foreign for-profit or non-profit strategies among adolescent girls and young organisations and public or private women in Sub-Saharan Africa (R34) funding institutions may apply. opportunity announcement. This R34 funding This funding opportunity uses the NIH opportunity aims to enhance understanding planning (R34) grant mechanism and runs in of the multi-level factors that influence HIV parallel with two of identical scientific scope, prevention strategy use among adolescent RFA-MH-17-555, which solicits applications girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa under the NIH exploratory or developmental and develop and test novel interventions to research (R21) grant mechanism and RFA- address these factors and enhance the uptake MH-17-550, which solicits applications under and adherence to HIV prevention strategies the NIH research project (R01) grant among AGYW in sub-Saharan Africa. The mechanism. goal is to look at the multiple levels of influence on AGYW’s behaviour from the NIMH intends to commit approximately USD individual level, to her partners, family 2 million in fiscal year 2017 to fund four to six members and peers as well as cultural, social awards for this opportunity and its norms and structural factors that may companions. Grants are worth up to USD
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225,000 per year and up to USD 450,000 over Award budget total: - the maximum period of three years. Eligibility profile Ref: RFA-MH-17-560. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 20 Dec 16 Deadline information: Applications are Disciplines invited between 20 November and 5pm ------applicant’s local time, 20 December 2016. Health Promotion; HIV/Aids; Women's Optional letters of intent due by 20 Health; Youth & Adolescents November. Posted date: 16 Aug 16 Contact Details Award type: Development ------(Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to Tel: +1 240 627 3861 institutions, research groups etc Email: [email protected] Award amount max: USD 450,000 Award amount min: -
NDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE MULTI-LEVEL INFLUENCES ON UPTAKE AND ADHERENCE TO HIV PREVENTION STRATEGIES AMONG U ADOLESCENT GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (R21) NIH: National Institute of Mental Health
Description: The National Institute of Mental Health, the individual level, to her partners, family Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of members and peers as well as cultural, social Child Health and Human Development and norms and structural factors that may the Fogarty International Center invite influence uptake and adherence to prevention applications for their understanding and strategies. addressing the multi-level influences on uptake and adherence to HIV prevention US and foreign for-profit or non-profit strategies among adolescent girls and young organisations and public or private women in Sub-Saharan Africa R21 funding institutions may apply. opportunity announcement. This R21 funding This funding opportunity uses the NIH opportunity aims to enhance understanding exploratory or developmental research (R21) of the multi-level factors that influence HIV grant mechanism and runs in parallel with prevention strategy use among adolescent two of identical scientific scope, RFA-MH-17- girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa 550, which solicits applications under the NIH and develop and test novel interventions to research project (R01) grant mechanism and address these factors and enhance the uptake RFA-MH-17-560, which solicits applications and adherence to HIV prevention strategies under the NIH planning (R34) grant among AGYW in sub-Saharan Africa. The mechanism. goal is to look at the multiple levels of influence on AGYW’s behaviour from the
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NIMH intends to commit approximately USD Award type: Development 2 million in fiscal year 2017 to fund four to six (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to awards for this opportunity and its institutions, research groups etc companions. NICHD intends to commit Award amount max: - approximately USD 1m in fiscal year 2017 to Award amount min: - fund two to three awards for this opportunity Award budget total: - and its companion R01. FIC intends to commit approximately USD 275,000 for one award Eligibility profile over a two year period. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Ref: RFA-MH-17-555. Disciplines Closing date: 20 Dec 16 ------Deadline information: Applications are HIV/Aids; Health Promotion; Women's invited between 20 November and 5pm Health; Youth & Adolescents applicant’s local time, 20 December 2016. Optional letters of intent due by 20 Contact Details November. ------Posted date: 16 Aug 16 Tel: +1 240 627 3861 Email: [email protected]
NDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE MULTI-LEVEL INFLUENCES ON UPTAKE AND ADHERENCE TO HIV PREVENTION STRATEGIES AMONG U ADOLESCENT GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (R01) NIH: National Institute of Mental Health
Description: The National Institute of Mental Health and goal is to look at the multiple levels of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute influence on AGYW’s behaviour from the of Child Health and Human Development individual level, to her partners, family invite applications for their understanding members and peers as well as cultural, social and addressing the multi-level influences on norms and structural factors that may uptake and adherence to HIV prevention influence uptake and adherence to prevention strategies among adolescent girls and young strategies. women in Sub-Saharan Africa R01 funding opportunity announcement. This R01 funding US and foreign for-profit or non-profit opportunity aims to enhance understanding organisations and public or private of the multi-level factors that influence HIV institutions may apply. prevention strategy use among adolescent This funding opportunity uses the NIH girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa research project (R01) grant mechanism and and develop and test novel interventions to runs in parallel with two of identical scientific address these factors and enhance the uptake scope, RFA-MH-17-555, which solicits and adherence to HIV prevention strategies applications under the NIH exploratory or among AGYW in sub-Saharan Africa. The developmental research (R21) grant
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mechanism and RFA-MH-17-560, which Posted date: 16 Aug 16 solicits applications under the NIH planning Award type: Directed grants to institutions, (R34) grant mechanism. research groups etc, Development (Africa/Caribbean) NIMH intends to commit approximately USD Award amount max: - 2 million in fiscal year 2017 to fund four to six Award amount min: - awards for this opportunity and its Award budget total: - companions. NICHD intends to commit approximately USD 1m in fiscal year 2017 to Eligibility profile fund two to three awards for this opportunity ------and its companion R21. The maximum project Country of applicant institution: Any period is five years. Disciplines Ref: RFA-MH-17-550. ------Health Promotion; Youth & Adolescents; Closing date: 20 Dec 16 HIV/Aids; Women's Health Deadline information: Applications are invited between 20 November and 5pm Contact Details applicant’s local time, 20 December 2016. ------Optional letters of intent due by 20 Tel: +1 240 627 3861 November. Email: [email protected]
EALTH SERVICES RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS Myeloma UK H
Description: Myeloma UK invites applications for its healthcare professional and workforce health services research project grants. These issues; support projects that will contribute to patient organisation and delivery of services outcomes, quality of life and service and care. improvement for myeloma patients. Each project must address one or more of the Awards may be held in any country, but must following priority areas: meet UK standards of research ethics and improving myeloma diagnosis; scientific integrity, and must be relevant and quality of life, symptom management beneficial to the UK. Each award is worth up and wellbeing; to £100,000 per year for a maximum of two information and support needs of years. Smaller one-year projects may also patients and carers; receive funding. social and economic impacts of myeloma; Closing date: 31 Dec 16 (Forecast) regulatory and health technology Deadline information: !! Call has not yet assessment issues; been announced by funder, but this is the
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approximate deadline we expect. This call is Disciplines repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 16 Dec 15 Medical & Health Ethics; Health Systems Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Regulation; Health Economics; Leukaemia & research groups etc, Directed grants for Other Blood Cancers; Health Service individual investigators Providers; Quality of Care; Life Expectancy & Award amount max: £200,000 Quality of Life; Cancer Diagnosis; Health Award amount min: - Professions & Workforce Award budget total: - Website: https://www.myeloma.org.uk/what- Contact Details we-do/research/health-services-research/ ------Tel: +44 131 557 3332 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------Country of applicant institution: Any
ARTNER YOUR ANTIBODIES Bayer P
Description: Bayer invites applications for its partner your Award type: Directed grants for individual antibodies call. This supports the evaluation investigators, Directed grants to institutions, of an antibody or derivative and the research groups etc promotion of its exploration for a potential Award amount max: - new drug development. The call relates to Award amount min: - novel antibodies in the fields of oncology, Award budget total: - cardiology, kidney diseases, haematology, Website: ophthalmology as well as gynaecology and https://partneryourantibodies.bayer.com/ addressing a specific target or pathway. The central focus is bioactivity. Eligibility profile ------Researchers from universities, other academic Country of applicant institution: Any research institutes, or start-up and biotech Disciplines companies from all over the world may apply. ------Financial support for research expenses and Drug Design; Antibody Engineering collaborative drug discovery opportunities are available. Contact Details ------Closing date: 31 Dec 16 PartnerYourAntibodies Deadline information: Deadlines on: 30 June Bayer Pharma AG 2016, 31 December 2016. 13342 Berlin Posted date: 10 Jun 16 Email: [email protected]
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RESIDENT’S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF – GHANA Embassy of the US P
Description: The Embassy of the USA in Ghana invites proposals for smaller projects will be given applications for its President’s emergency equal consideration. Projects that have high plan for Aids relief programme. This supports impact may be supported for two to three projects that are developed and implemented years. by community-based groups or NGOs for the direct benefit of members. The intended beneficiaries of projects should be people Closing date: 31 Dec 16 living with HIV/Aids (PLWHA), orphans and Deadline information: This call is repeated vulnerable children (OVC) and women, who once a year. are at risk of being drawn into activities that Posted date: 02 Aug 16 expose them to a high risk of HIV infection. Award type: Development Projects must: (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to be initiated by local community or institutions, research groups etc local NGO, with an emphasis on Award amount max: USD 25,000 activities, training, equipment or Award amount min: - facilities that will support income Award budget total: - generation for PLWHAs, OVCs or Website: other at-risk populations; http://ghana.usembassy.gov/president- pepfar.html be designed to be self-sustaining and
not require continued support from Eligibility profile the PEPFAR self-help programme; ------ have a substantial contribution from Country of applicant institution: Ghana the community to the project in the
form of financial or in kind resources; Disciplines provide direct benefit to an ------identifiable group of at risk Women's Rights; Poverty in Developing individuals. Countries; Education in Developing Countries; Child Abuse Strong preference is given to grass-roots efforts and groups that have already Contact Details demonstrated a financial or in-kind ------commitment to the activity for which they US Embassy seek funding. 24 Fourth Circular Rd The maximum grant is USD 25,000 converted Cantonments, Accra to Ghana Cedis (GHC) at the prevailing Tel: +233 302 741 000 ext. 1473 exchange rate. Typical projects will be in the Fax: +233 302 741 389 range of USD 10,000 to USD 15,000 and
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