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OPPORTUNITIES FOR APRIL 2016 CHRÉTIEN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 11 ERIC REID FUND FOR METHODOLOGY ...... 11 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 12 PILOT AND FEASIBILITY AWARDS ...... 13 TAKESHI MUROFUSHI RESEARCH AWARD ...... 14 CONSTANT H JACQUET RESEARCH AWARDS ...... 14 ACUTE MEDICINE RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS ...... 15 DAVID NICHOLLS RESEARCH BURSARIES ...... 16 RESEARCH VISIT GRANTS ...... 17 VRONWY HANKEY MEMORIAL FUND FOR AEGEAN STUDIES ...... 17 SCIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING RESEARCH ...... 18 AIDS CARE NURSING GRANT ...... 19 SIGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL/HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE NURSES FOUNDATION END OF LIFE NURSING CARE RESEARCH GRANT ...... 20 SIGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL/MIDWEST NURSING RESEARCH SOCIETY RESEARCH GRANT ...... 20 PERIOPERATIVE NURSING GRANT ...... 21 SMALL EXPLORATORY GRANT ...... 22 NEW INVESTIGATOR GRANT ...... 23 STANDARD INVESTIGATOR GRANT ...... 24 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 25 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 26 KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE PROGRAMME ...... 27 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 28 STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 28 RESEARCH PROJECTS ...... 29
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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND ...... 30 ALF NACHEMSON EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE GRANT ...... 31 MSC PROJECT BURSARY FUND ...... 32 JC DAWES AWARD ...... 33 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP GRANTS FOR PROJECTS ...... 33 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 34 SMALL GRANTS ...... 35 RESEARCH SUPPORT ...... 36 HYLAND R JOHNS GRANTS ...... 37 CENTRE SUPPORT ...... 38 CALL FOR PARTNERSHIP CONCEPT PAPERS IN SUPPORT OF POWER AFRICA ...... 38 EARLY CAREER SCHOLAR GRANT PROGRAMME ...... 39 BRISBANE MARKETING DEVELOPING COUNTRY GRANT PROGRAMME ...... 40 ATLANTIC REGION RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 41 AUSTRALIA-CHINA COUNCIL GENERAL FUNDING GRANTS ...... 42 SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACHES IN HIV OR AIDS AND SUBSTANCE USE (R01) ...... 43 H2020-LCE-2016 COMPETITIVE LOW-CARBON ENERGY – TOPICS 1, 2, 3, 26, 32, 33, 34 ...... 44 H2020-SCC-2016 SMART AND SUSTAINABLE CITIES – TOPIC 1 ...... 45 PILOT RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 46 NORMAN E BORLAUG LEADERSHIP ENHANCEMENT IN AGRICULTURE PROGRAMME ...... 47 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ON LIVELIHOOD MANAGEMENT, REFORMS AND PROCESSES OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE ...... 48 H2020-INNOSUP-2016 FOR A BETTER INNOVATION SUPPORT TO SMES – TOPIC 1, TWO STAGE ...... 49 INVENTION FOR INNOVATION (I4I) PROGRAMME – OBESITY THEMED CALL ...... 50 ENERGY TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMME ...... 51 POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FOR AN OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER ...... 52 SCHOLARS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMME ...... 52 VISEGRAD SCHOLARSHIPS AT THE OPEN SOCIETY ARCHIVES ...... 53 EXTENDED DEADLINE: TUSK CONSERVATION AWARDS ...... 54
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DEADLINE BROUGHT FORWARD: COUNCIL FOR AUSTRALIAN-ARAB RELATIONS GRANTS ...... 55 TRANSNATIONAL CALL ON PHOTOVOLTAICS (PV4) ...... 56 WELFARE, WELLBEING AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE – UNDERSTANDING WELFARE MODELS ...... 57 GENERAL CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS ...... 58 SIR HENRY DALE FELLOWSHIPS ...... 59 COLLABORATION FUND ...... 60 H2020-ICT-2016 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ...... 61 H2020-SC1-PM-2016 PERSONALISED MEDICINE – TOPIC 14 ...... 63 H2020-IOT-2016 INTERNET OF THINGS ...... 64 H2020-FETPROACT-2016 PROACTIVE – BOOSTING EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES ...... 65 VIRUS GENOMICS AND EVOLUTION CONFERENCE BURSARIES ...... 66 RESEARCH GRANT ...... 67 H2020-SC1-PM-HCO-2016 PERSONALISED MEDICINE AND HEALTH COORDINATION – TOPICS HCO1, HCO2, HCO4-HCO6, PM1, PM4 TO PM6, PM9, PM11, PM21 ...... 67 INTERNATIONAL PROJECT GRANT ...... 69 H2020-ENG-GLOBALLY-2016-2017 ENGAGING TOGETHER GLOBALLY – TOPICS 8, 9 ...... 70 INVESTIGATOR-INITIATED RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 71 SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS ...... 71 FELLOWSHIPS FOR NON-DUTCH SCHOLARS ...... 72 TAGE ERLANDER FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ...... 73 JOHN F PERKINS JR MEMORIAL AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL PHYSIOLOGISTS ...... 74 PREMATURITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE GRANTS ...... 75 PUBLICATION GRANTS ...... 76 TRANSLATION FUND ...... 76 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 77 URBAN YOUTH FUND ...... 78 HECKMAN STIPENDS ...... 79 FACULTY RESEARCH AWARDS ...... 80 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 81 INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY ...... 82
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STRATEGIC GRANT ...... 83 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 84 COMPARATIVE RESEARCH NETWORKS ...... 84 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 86 DOCTORAL INTERNSHIPS ...... 86 IMPACTAFRICA ...... 87 RESEARCH CAREER ENHANCEMENT AWARDS ...... 88 COMING SOON: AUSTRALIA-ASEAN COUNCIL GRANTS ...... 89 COMING SOON: TRANSNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS ...... 90 DEADLINE BROUGHT FORWARD: EQUIPMENT GRANTS ...... 91 WOMEN PEACEMAKERS PROGRAMME ...... 92 DEADLINE BROUGHT FORWARD: SABBATICALS AND SECONDMENTS GRANTS ...... 93 RESEARCH FELLOW AWARD ...... 93 MARY R DAWSON GRANT ...... 94 RICHARD ESTES MEMORIAL GRANT ...... 95 CAREER ENHANCEMENT AWARDS ...... 96 MARVIN AND BETH HIX PREPARATOR’S GRANT ...... 96 PATTERSON MEMORIAL GRANT ...... 97 ALBERT E WOOD AWARD ...... 98 EVANS FUND ...... 99 POSTPONED: MOBILEX MOBILITY GRANTS ...... 99 RESEARCH AWARD ...... 100 CALL FOR PARTNERSHIP CONCEPT PAPERS FOR SENEGAL ...... 101 CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD ...... 102 POSTPONED: MOBILEX MOBILITY GRANTS ...... 103 FACULTY GRANT PROGRAMME ...... 104 POSTPONED: MOBILEX MOBILITY GRANTS ...... 105 H2020-INNOSUP-2016 FOR A BETTER INNOVATION SUPPORT TO SMES – TOPIC 4 ...... 106 PROJECT GRANTS ...... 106 POSTPONED: MOBILEX MOBILITY GRANTS ...... 107 POSTPONED: MOBILEX MOBILITY GRANTS ...... 108
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ENHANCING REGULATORY SCIENCE FOR THE RISK-BASED ASSESSMENT OF EMERGING MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES (U01) ...... 109 RESEARCH PROGRAMME GRANTS ...... 110 ALTERNATIVES RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 111 TC WHITE DENTAL AWARDS ...... 112 ANNUAL DIVERSITY RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAMME ...... 113 ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS ESSAY PRIZE ...... 114 CONTRIBUTION OF MULTISENSORY COMPONENTS TO STRUCTURED-LANGUAGE READING INSTRUCTION ...... 114 ANNELIESE MAIER RESEARCH AWARDS ...... 115 ENHANCING POST-MARKET SURVEILLANCE THROUGH DEVELOPING REGISTRIES FOR MEDICAL DEVICE EPIDEMIOLOGY (U01) ...... 116 ADVANCING MEDICAL DEVICE POST-MARKET SURVEILLANCE INFRASTRUCTURE AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODOLOGIES THROUGH MULTI-STAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIP (U01)...... 117 ABEL VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAMME ...... 118 STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS ...... 119 COMMITTEE FOR AID AND EDUCATION IN NEUROCHEMISTRY FUNDING ...... 120 SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 122 SENIOR RESEARCH AWARDS ...... 122 JOSEPH H FICHTER RESEARCH GRANT ...... 123 STELLA BLUM RESEARCH GRANT ...... 124
OPPORTUNITIES FOR MAY 2016 SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 125 SENIOR RESEARCH AWARDS ...... 125 JOSEPH H FICHTER RESEARCH GRANT ...... 126 STELLA BLUM RESEARCH GRANT ...... 127 DISSERTATION FIELDWORK GRANTS ...... 128 POST-PHD RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 128 WYN WHEELER RESEARCH GRANT ...... 129 PAEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 130
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DR ERIC GUILER TASMANIAN DEVIL RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 131 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 132 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 132 COLLECTION STUDY GRANTS ...... 133 CENTENARY AWARDS ...... 134 MINI GRANTS ...... 135 CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME ...... 136 EMERGING INTERNATIONAL, MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH TEAM GRANTS ...... 136 INTERNATIONAL, MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS ...... 137 GLOBAL NURSING RESEARCH GRANT ...... 138 GC GRINDLEY FUND ...... 139 PROJECT GRANTS ...... 140 INTER-ARTS OFFICE – GRANTS TO ARTISTS ...... 140 H2020-JTI-FCH-2016-1 FCH2 JU CALL ...... 141 SEEDING DRUG DISCOVERY ...... 143 INNOVATIONS PARTNERSHIP SCHEME ...... 144 INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH CENTRES ...... 145 BRITISH ACADEMY/LEVERHULME SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS...... 146 ANCIENT PERSIA FUND ...... 147 INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIP AWARDS ...... 147 H2020-FETOPEN-2016 NOVEL IDEAS FOR RADICALLY NEW TECHNOLOGIES – TOPIC 2 ...... 148 H2020-FETOPEN-2016-2017 NOVEL IDEAS FOR RADICALLY NEW TECHNOLOGIES – TOPIC 1 ...... 149 STAND-ALONE LINK ...... 150 HONOR FROST FOUNDATION SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 151 COMING SOON: COMPARATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 152 ORIGINAL, ISN’T IT? ...... 153 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 154 BRITISH ACADEMY/LEVERHULME SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS...... 154 ANCIENT PERSIA FUND ...... 155 INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIP AWARDS ...... 156
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H2020-FETOPEN-2016 NOVEL IDEAS FOR RADICALLY NEW TECHNOLOGIES – TOPIC 2 ...... 157 H2020-FETOPEN-2016-2017 NOVEL IDEAS FOR RADICALLY NEW TECHNOLOGIES – TOPIC 1 ...... 158 STAND-ALONE LINK ...... 159 HONOR FROST FOUNDATION SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 160 COMING SOON: COMPARATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 160 ORIGINAL, ISN’T IT? ...... 161 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 162 SPECIAL PROGRAMME ON ISLAM, THE MODERN NATION STATE AND TRANSNATIONAL MOVEMENTS – RESEARCH PROJECTS ...... 163 EARLY-CAREER GRANT ...... 164 SPECIAL PROGRAMME ON ISLAM, THE MODERN NATION STATE AND TRANSNATIONAL MOVEMENTS – RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 165 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 166 GRANT FOR RESEARCH IN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, MINERAL PHYSICS, OR CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY ...... 166 GRANTS FOR STUDENT RESEARCH IN MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY ...... 167 VISITING SCHOLARS AND CONSULTANTS GRANTS FOR INSTITUTES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ...... 168 ISHRS RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 168 EARLY-CAREER GRANTS ...... 169 RESEARCH AND INNOVATIONS AWARDS ...... 170 MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES STUDENT AWARDS ...... 171 NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH STUDENT AWARDS ...... 171 MOBILITY GRANTS ...... 172 SHAC AWARDS SCHEME – NEW SCHOLARS AWARD ...... 173 SHAC AWARDS SCHEME – SUBJECT DEVELOPMENT AWARDS ...... 174 ESB MOBILITY AWARD FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS ...... 174 MATHILDE TAGGER PRIZE FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH ...... 175 GRANT FOR A RETURNING RESEARCHER ...... 176 HIGHLIGHT NOTICE FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT – RESEARCH NETWORKING SCHEME ...... 177
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FOLLOW-ON FUND FOR IMPACT AND ENGAGEMENT – HIGHLIGHT NOTICE FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ...... 178
OPPORTUNITIES FOR JUNE 2016 CLINICAL RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 180 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 181 EXTENDED DEADLINE: LICHTENBERG PROFESSORSHIPS ...... 182 RESEARCH GRANTS PROGRAMME IN BASIC SCIENCES...... 183 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 184 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 185 SURVIVAL RESEARCH FUND – OVER £1,000 ...... 185 RESEARCH ACTION AWARD ...... 186 COMING SOON: SINERGIA PROGRAMME ...... 187 DIABETES PROJECT GRANTS ...... 188 SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE AWARD ...... 189 SIGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL/OMICRON DELTA RESEARCH GRANT ...... 190 GRANTS FOR RESEARCH, TRANSLATION AND PUBLICATION OF KOREAN LITERARY WORKS ...... 190 RESEARCH GRANT ...... 191 VACCINOLOGY IN AFRICA MASTER’S LEVEL COURSE ...... 192 BLACKMORES RESEARCH GRANT ...... 193 GREEN TALENTS COMPETITION ...... 194 RESEARCH GRANTS PROGRAM ...... 195 CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE ...... 196 GENERAL SMALL GRANT ...... 197 SMALL RESEARCH PUMP PRIMING GRANTS ...... 197 PHD GRANTS ...... 198 OSTEOLOGY RESEARCHER GRANTS ...... 199 RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS ...... 200 PHYSICIAN AND PUBLIC AWARENESS PROPOSALS ...... 200 GREAT GRANT FOR THROMBOSIS RESEARCHERS ...... 201
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GRANT FOR THE BEST INITIATIVE RELATING TO AN OPTIMAL NUTRITIONAL CARE APPROACH ...... 202 CAREER CATALYST RESEARCH GRANTS FOR BASIC AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH ...... 203 GRADUATE TRAINING IN DISPARITIES RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 204 H2020-INFRADEV-2016 DEVELOPMENT AND LONG TERM SUSTAINABILITY OF NEW PAN-EUROPEAN RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE – TOPIC 2, 4 ...... 205 DISTINGUISHED INNOVATOR AWARDS ...... 206 INNOVATOR GRANTS ...... 206 COMING SOON: RAAK-PUBLIC ...... 208 TINNITUS RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 208 COMING SOON: CLINICAL RESEARCH POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 209 COMING SOON: PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 210 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 211 TINNITUS RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 212 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 213 HARDSHIP GRANT ...... 214 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 215 INTER MOBILITY PROGRAMME ...... 215 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 216 OPERATING GRANTS ...... 217 EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT FUND ...... 218 YOUNG SCIENTIST RESEARCH AWARD ...... 218 INBEV-BAILLET LATOUR GRANT FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ...... 219 H2020-INNOSUP-2016 FOR A BETTER INNOVATION SUPPORT TO SMES – TOPIC 2 ...... 220 HIGHLIGHT NOTICE FOR THE UN INTERNATIONAL DECADE FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT – RESEARCH NETWORKING SCHEME ...... 221
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TAB APRIL 2016 LE OF
HRÉTIEN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GRANTS American Astronomical Society C
Description: Deadline information: !! Call has not yet The American Astronomical Society invites been announced by funder, but this is the applications for the Chrétien international approximate deadline we expect. This call is research grants. These grants are intended to repeated once a year. further international collaborative projects in Posted date: 01 Mar 12 observational astronomy. The emphasis is on Award type: Directed grants for individual long-term international visits and the investigators, Access to laboratories, development of close working relationships telescopes etc., Travel for research purposes with astronomers in other countries. Award amount max: $20,000 Preference will be given to individuals of high Website: http://aas.org/grants/chretien.php promise who are otherwise unfunded. Innovative technical approaches including the Eligibility profile development and use of new optics, new ------devices and new techniques will count Country of applicant institution: Any heavily in the applicant's favour. Disciplines Astronomers with a PhD or equivalent may ------apply; graduate students are not eligible. Up Universe Sciences; Physics to US$20,000 will be awarded to one or more Contact Details individuals or groups to be used for the ------support of international observational AAS astronomy. The awards are open to 2000 Florida Ave NW astronomers throughout the world. Suite 400
Washington, DC 20009
Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Tel: +1 202 328 2010 Email: [email protected]
RIC REID FUND FOR METHODOLOGY Biochemical Society E
Description: The Biochemical Society invites applications cellular or bioanalytical work. Examples of for the Eric Reid fund for methodology. supported activities include: Funding supports benchwork, with an emphasis on methodology and preferably feasibility studies by new staff prior to application to a major funding body;
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developing a new technique; Award budget total: - checking the application of a known Website: technique in new circumstances. http://www.biochemistry.org/TabID/396/def ault.aspx Applicants must be either early-career, full or emeritus members of the society. Where a Application form: short-term stipend is sought, applicants must https://bsgrants.myreviewroom.com/ be engaged in benchwork and not just writing-up. Eligibility profile ------Grants are worth up to £1,250 each, or up to Country of applicant institution: Any £2,000 if vacation help is required. Disciplines Closing date: 01 Apr 16 ------Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Cell & 2016, 1 November 2016, and repeated Developmental Biology annually. Posted date: 20 Nov 15 Contact Detail Award type: Innovation grants, Directed ------grants for individual investigators Email: [email protected] Award amount max: £2,000
ESEARCH GRANTS Cystic Fibrosis Foundation R
Description: The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation invites letters available for two years, after which a grant of intent for its research grants. These aim to may be renewed for another year. encourage the development of new information that contributes to the understanding of the basic aetiology and Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis. Priority will be Deadline information: !! Call has not yet placed on those projects proposing to better been announced by funder, but this is the understand the mechanisms behind disease approximate deadline we expect. This call is pathophysiology and to develop strategies to repeated once a year. prevent or treat it. All proposals must be Posted date: 03 Oct 12 hypothesis-driven and sufficient preliminary Award type: Directed grants to institutions, data must be provided to justify foundation research groups etc, Directed grants for support. Information derived from such study individual investigators will hopefully lead to submission to other Award amount max: $270,000 funding agencies. Studies may be carried out Website: at the sub-cellular, cellular, animal or patient http://www.cff.org/research/ForResearchers/ levels. Funding of US$90,000 per year is FundingOpportunities/ResearchGrants/
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Application form: Diseases; Diagnostic Sciences; Respiratory https://proposalcentral.altum.com/ Medicine; Pathogenesis
Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any CF Foundation Grants and Contracts Office Disciplines 6931 Arlington Road ------Bethesda MD 20814 Clinical Medicine; Public Health, Health Tel: +1 301 951 4422 Services & Primary Care; General Practice & Email: [email protected] Family Health; Primary Care; Genetic
ILOT AND FEASIBILITY AWARDS Cystic Fibrosis Foundation P
Description: The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation invites letters Application form: of intent for its pilot and feasibility awards. https://proposalcentral.altum.com/ These grants are for developing and testing new hypotheses or new methods and to Eligibility profile support promising new investigators as they ------establish themselves in research areas relevant Country of applicant institution: Any to cystic fibrosis. Proposed work must be hypothesis-driven and must reflect innovative Disciplines approaches to critical questions in cystic ------fibrosis research. Up to US$40,000 per year for Diagnostic Sciences; Clinical Medicine; two years may be requested. Respiratory Medicine; Primary Care; Public Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Genetic Diseases; Pathophysiology 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. CF Foundation Posted date: 03 Oct 12 Grants and Contracts Office Award type: Directed grants for individual 6931 Arlington Road investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Bethesda, MD 20814 research groups etc Tel: +1 301 951 4422 Award amount max: $80,000 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: - Website: http://www.cff.org/research/ForResearchers/ FundingOpportunities/ResearchGrants/
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AKESHI MUROFUSHI RESEARCH AWARD International Association of School Librarianship
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Description The board of the International Association of Eligibility profile School Librarianship invites applications for ------the Takeshi Murofushi research award. This Country of applicant institution: Any award of US$500 is intended to go towards funding a research project into school Disciplines librarianship. Preference will be given to ------proposals involving researchers from more Instructional Materials & Practices; Libraries than one country who are members of the & Information Science; Business Big Data & association and to members of the association. Informatics; Information Society; Projects should be of international interest. Administrative Big Data & Informatics; Research Libraries & Special Collections; Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Education; Information Systems; Digitising & Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Digital Archives been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 02 May 13 IASL Award type: Grants - undirected 65 E. Wacker Place Award amount max: $500 Suite 1900 Award budget total: - Chicago, IL 60601 Website: http://www.iasl- Tel: +1 312 419 8950 online.org/awards/research.html Email: [email protected]
ONSTANT H JACQUET RESEARCH AWARDS Religious Research Association C
Description: The Religious Research Association invites their careers, as well as proposals from applications for the Constant H Jacquet students. research awards. These small research grants primarily support applied, client-centred Applicants are required to be members of projects, but basic research is also regularly RRA. Full-time students may join the funded. The association's committee association at the time of their application. All especially encourages proposal submissions others must hold membership in RRA for at from scholars who are in the early stages of least one full year prior to the application deadline.
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The total funding amount in 2013 is Website: http://rra.hartsem.edu/constant.htm US$18,000, with individual grants usually not Application form: exceeding US$4,000. Funds may be used for http://rra.hartsem.edu/award.pdf research expenses and release time, but not for supplemental income or capital Eligibility profile equipment. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Theology & Religious Studies; Religious repeated once a year. Studies; Theology; Mysticism & Spirituality; Posted date: 11 Mar 09 Comparative Religion Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators Contact Detail Award amount max: $4,000 ------Award amount min: - Email: [email protected] Award budget total: $18,000
CUTE MEDICINE RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS Laerdal Foundation A
Description: The Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine invites applications for its acute medicine Closing date: 01 Apr 16 research project grants. Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April 2016, 1 October 2016, and repeated annually. These support projects within acute medicine. Posted date: 11 Dec 14 Projects should comprise one or several of the Award type: Directed grants for individual following elements: investigators, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc experimental or clinical research; Award budget total: - diagnosis; Website: http://www.laerdalfoundation.org/soknadss treatment and transport of patients kjema.html with acute life threatening disease or Application form: trauma; 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.
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Disciplines Postbox 556 ------Sentrum Emergency Medicine; Preventive Medicine; 4003 Stavanger Traumatology, Accidents & Injury; Medical Tel: +47 9028 2855 Education Email: [email protected]
Contact Details ------Laerdal Foundation
AVID NICHOLLS RESEARCH BURSARIES Society for Caribbean Studies D
Description: The Society for Caribbean Studies invites Deadline information: This call is repeated applications for the David Nicholls research once a year. bursaries. These support research and field Posted date: 07 Apr 15 work on the Caribbean. Two types of Award type: Travel for research purposes, bursaries are available: Access to libraries, Thesis/Dissertation funding, Directed grants for individual a bursary, worth up to £1,500, for investigators, Equipment and materials postgraduate students in the UK or Award amount max: £1,500 overseas, who are preparing a Award budget total: - dissertation or thesis on the Caribbean Website: http://www.dnmt.org.uk/awards and who can benefit from access to the David Nicholls memorial library in Eligibility profile Oxford; ------Country of applicant institution: Any a bursary, worth up to £1,500, for
postgraduate students from UK Disciplines institutions to pursue field work in the ------Caribbean, spending at least two Latin American & Caribbean Studies; Latin weeks abroad. American & Caribbean History; Latin
American & Caribbean Literature; Politics & Applications for the first bursary are Economics of Latin America & the Caribbean particularly welcome from students in the
Caribbean. Contact Details
------Bursaries cover travel and subsistence in David Nicholls Memorial Trust Oxford or the Caribbean. Kellogg College
Oxford OX2 6PN Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Email: [email protected]
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ESEARCH VISIT GRANTS Society for General Microbiology
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Description: The Society for General Microbiology invites Closing date: 01 Apr 16 applications for its research visit grants. These Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April enable researchers from the UK or Republic of 2016, 1 October 2016, and repeated annually. Ireland to visit another laboratory worldwide, Posted date: 05 Jan 16 or international researchers to visit a Award type: Networking/collaboration, laboratory in the UK or ROI, to carry out a Directed grants for individual investigators, defined piece of microbiology research, Travel for research purposes, Personal whether within an established or new development, Innovation grants collaboration initiative. Award amount max: £3,000 Award budget total: - Applications are open to members of the Website: http://www.sgm.ac.uk/en/grants- society who fall into one of the following prizes/travel-research-funds.cfm/research- categories: visit-grants Application form:
http://www.microbiologysociety.org/downlo registered for a PhD or are PhD ad.cfm/docid/4AE845DD-A74B-4EE3- qualified and employed in a 8E4BA6FC36CC6401 postdoctoral research position in a
university, hospital or research Eligibility profile institute worldwide; ------ a university lecturer within three Country of applicant institution: Any years of appointment to their first post in the UK or Republic of Ireland. Disciplines ------Grants are worth up to £3,000 each for visits Microbiology lasting four weeks to three months. Funds may be used to contribute to travel, Contact Details accommodation and subsistence costs in ------making the visit, or towards the costs of Tel: +44 20 7685 2698 project consumables. Email: [email protected]
RONWY HANKEY MEMORIAL FUND FOR AEGEAN STUDIES British School at Athens V
Description: The British School at Athens invites memorial fund for Aegean studies. This helps applications for the Vronwy Hankey with expenses relating to research in the
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CIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING RESEARCH Integrated Ocean Drilling Program S
Description: The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program through drilling, logging, or other announces the availability of funds for down-hole measurements; scientific ocean drilling research. Individual describe the proposed drill sites, scientists or groups of scientists with a new penetration depths, expected idea for scientific ocean drilling may submit lithologies, and available site-survey preliminary proposals. Preliminary proposals data; should: describe briefly any relationships to other international geoscience state the scientific objectives and programs. explain how those objectives relate to, or advance beyond, the IODP initial Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) science plan; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet justify the need for drilling to been announced by funder, but this is the accomplish the scientific objectives; approximate deadline we expect. Deadline: present a well-defined strategy for 23:59pm GMT April 1 and October 1 addressing the scientific objectives annually
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Posted date: 27 Nov 09 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Disciplines research groups etc, Directed grants for ------individual investigators Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; Award budget total: - Marine Engineering; Aerospace Engineering Website: http://www.iodp.org/drilling- & Avionics; Earth Sciences; Mechanical proposals/ Engineering; Offshore Resource Extraction Application form: http://proposals.iodp.org/cur/iodp_psp/ Contact Details ------Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------Country of applicant institution: Any
IDS CARE NURSING GRANT Sigma Theta Tau International
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Description: Sigma Theta Tau International and the Deadline information: This call is repeated Association of Nurses in Aids Care invite once a year. applications for their Aids care nursing grant. Posted date: 09 Dec 15 This aims to encourage research career Award type: Directed grants for individual development of nurses through support of investigators clinically oriented HIV/Aids research, and to Award amount max: $2,500 increase the number of HIV studies done by Award budget total: $2,500 nurses. This includes studies focused on HIV Website: prevention, symptom management, http://www.nursingsociety.org/advance- promotion of self-care and adherence. elevate/research/research-grants/sigma-theta- Proposals for pilot or developmental research tau-international-association-of-nurses-in- may also be submitted. aids-care-grant
Eligibility profile Applicants must be registered nurses with a ------current license and they must hold a master’s Country of applicant institution: Any degree or be enrolled in a doctoral programme. Membership of one organisation Disciplines is required, and preference will be given to ------members of both STTI and ANAC. HIV/Aids; Nursing
One award, worth up to US$2,500, is available Contact Details for one year. ------
Tel: +1 317 634 8171 Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Fax: +1 317 634 8188
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IGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL/HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE NURSES FOUNDATION END OF LIFE NURSING CARE RESEARCH GRANT S Sigma Theta Tau International
Description: Sigma Theta Tau International and the Award type: Directed grants for individual Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation investigators invite applications for their end of life nursing Award amount max: $10,000 care research grant. This encourages qualified Award amount min: - nurses to contribute to the advancement of Award budget total: $10,000 nursing through research. Proposals for pilot Website: or developmental research may be submitted. http://www.nursingsociety.org/advance- elevate/research/research-grants/hospice- Applicants must be registered nurses with a and-palliative-nurses-foundation-end-of- current license and hold a master's degree or life-nursing-care-research-(hpna)-grant be enrolled in a doctoral programme. Preference will be given to STTI and Hospice Eligibility profile and Palliative Nurses Foundation End of Life ------Nursing Care members. Country of applicant institution: Any
One award, worth up to US$10,000, is Disciplines available. Projects must be completed within ------one year. Palliative Nursing; Geriatric Nursing
Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Tel: +1 317 634 8171 Posted date: 09 Dec 15 Fax: +1 317 634 8188
IGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL/MIDWEST NURSING RESEARCH SOCIETY RESEARCH GRANT S Sigma Theta Tau International
Description: Sigma Theta Tau International and the Proposals for pilot or developmental research Midwest Nursing Research Society invite may be submitted, and all research topics and applications for their research grant. This designs are eligible for support. encourages qualified nurses to contribute to Multidisciplinary, historical and international the advancement of nursing through research. research is encouraged.
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Applicants must be registered nurses with a Award budget total: $2,500 current license and hold a master's degree or Website: be enrolled in a doctoral programme. http://www.nursingsociety.org/advance- Preference will be given to STTI and Hospice elevate/research/research-grants/midwest- and Palliative Nurses Foundation End of Life nursing-research-society-research-(mnrsr)- Nursing Care members. grant
One grant, worth up to US$2,500, is available. Eligibility profile The project must be completed within one ------year. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Disciplines Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Nursing Posted date: 09 Dec 15 Award type: Directed grants for individual Contact Details investigators ------Award amount max: $2,500 Tel: +1 317 634 8171 Award amount min: - Fax: +1 317 634 8188
ERIOPERATIVE NURSING GRANT Sigma Theta Tau International
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Description: Sigma Theta Tau International and the validation, testing and refinement of Association of periOperative Registered the perioperative nursing data set; Nurses invite applications for their evidence-based practice; perioperative nursing grant. This enables perioperative nursing leadership or qualified nurses to conduct research related to management; perioperative nursing practice and to health and safety issues affecting contribute to the development of perioperative nurses and patients; perioperative nursing science. All relevant recommended practices. research topics will be considered although priority will be given to research that relates The principal investigator must be a to the following topics: registered nurse, have at minimum a master’s degree in nursing, and either work or have perioperative nursing care that interest in the perioperative nursing practice. contributes to quality, cost-effective Membership in either organisation is patient outcomes related to safety, acceptable but not required. physiological integrity and behavioural responses; One award of up to US$5,000 is available.
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Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 09 Dec 15 Award type: Directed grants for individual Disciplines investigators, Directed grants to institutions, ------research groups etc Surgery & Intensive Care; Nursing Award amount max: $5,000 Award amount min: - Contact Details Award budget total: $5,000 ------Website: AORN http://www.nursingsociety.org/advance- 2170 South Parker Road, Suite 400 elevate/research/research-grants/association- Denver, CO 80231-5711 of-perioperative-registered-nurses-(aorn)- Tel: + 1 303 755 6304 ext 207 grant Email: [email protected]
MALL EXPLORATORY GRANT Scoliosis Research Society S
Description: The Scoliosis Research Society invites early onset scoliosis treatment; applications for a small exploratory grant. sagittal imbalance; This grant is designed specifically for new congenital scoliosis; investigators who have a preliminary concept neuromuscular spinal deformity; they would like to develop into a research deformity and reconstruction arising project. Applicants do not need to be from spine and sacral tumour members of the society to apply. The society treatment; has identified the following areas as thoracic insufficiency associated with important research topics: spinal deformity in children; pulmonary outcome sequeallae evidence based medicine; following common natural history of idiopathic scoliosis; spine deformity and treatment aetiology; history. non-op and operative treatment; 3D deformity of the spine and thorax; The maximum grant award for this category adult deformity; is US$10,000. The maximum duration of treatment and outcomes; research is one year. osteoporosis, in particular osteoporotic spine fractures, its impact Closing date: 01 Apr 16 on scoliosis kyphosis management, Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April and how it relates to spinal deformity 2016, 1 October 2016, and repeated annually. and instrumentation; Posted date: 09 Nov 12
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Award type: Young investigator awards, Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Directed grants for individual investigators Diagnostic Sciences; Clinical Medicine; Award amount max: $10,000 Physiology; Osteoporosis & Other Bone Award amount min: - Diseases; Primary Care; Orthopaedic Surgery; Award budget total: - Musculoskeletal System; Muscle Diseases; Website: http://www.srs.org/research/ Counselling & Talking Therapies; Allied Application form: Health Professions https://srs.execinc.com/edibo/Grants Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Scoliosis Research Society Country of applicant institution: Any 555 East Wells Street, suite 1100 Milwaukee, WI 53202-3823 Disciplines Tel: +1 414 289 9107 ------Fax: +1 414 276 3349 Chiropractic; General Surgery; Pathogenesis; Email: [email protected] General Practice & Family Health; Public
EW INVESTIGATOR GRANT Scoliosis Research Society N
Description: The Scoliosis Research Society invites and how it relates to spinal deformity applications for a new investigator grant. This and instrumentation; grant is specifically targeted to new early onset scoliosis treatment; investigators. It will not be awarded to those sagittal imbalance; who have received prior funding from congenital scoliosis; national granting organisations. Applicants neuromuscular spinal deformity; do not need to be members of the society to deformity and reconstruction arising apply. The society has identified the following from spine and sacral tumour areas as important research topics: treatment; thoracic insufficiency associated with evidence based medicine; spinal deformity in children; idiopathic scoliosis; pulmonary outcome sequeallae aetiology; following common natural history of non-op and operative treatment; spine deformity and treatment 3D deformity of the spine and thorax; history. adult deformity; treatment and outcomes; The maximum award is US$25,000, and the osteoporosis, in particular duration of research may extend up to two osteoporotic spine fractures, its impact years. on scoliosis kyphosis management,
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Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Osteoporosis & Other Bone Diseases; Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April Musculoskeletal System; General Practice & 2016, 1 October 2016, and repeated annually. Family Health; Pathogenesis; Counselling & Posted date: 09 Nov 12 Talking Therapies; Public Health, Health Award type: Directed grants for individual Services & Primary Care; Chiropractic; investigators, Young investigator awards Orthopaedic Surgery; Clinical Medicine; Award amount max: $25,000 Diagnostic Sciences; Physiology; Allied Award budget total: - Health Professions; General Surgery; Primary Website: http://www.srs.org/research/ Care; Muscle Diseases Application form: https://srs.execinc.com/edibo/Grants Contact Details ------Eligibility profile Scoliosis Research Society ------555 East Wells Street, suite 1100 Country of applicant institution: Any Milwaukee, WI 53202-3823 Tel: +1 414 289 9107 Disciplines Fax: +1 414 276 3349 ------Email: [email protected]
TANDARD INVESTIGATOR GRANT Scoliosis Research Society
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Description: The Scoliosis Research Society invites treatment and outcomes; applications for a standard investigator grant. osteoporosis, in particular These grant applications may be in any area of osteoporotic spine fractures, its impact spinal deformity research, although an on scoliosis kyphosis management, additional funding source for grants focusing and how it relates to spinal deformity on the aetiology of scoliosis is available in and instrumentation; conjunction with the Cotrel Foundation. early onset scoliosis treatment; Applicants do not need to be members of the sagittal imbalance; society to apply. These applications require congenital scoliosis; evidence that the investigator has the neuromuscular spinal deformity; appropriate experience and resources. deformity and reconstruction arising from spine and sacral tumour The society has identified the following areas treatment; as important research topics: thoracic insufficiency associated with spinal deformity in children; evidence based medicine; pulmonary outcome sequeallae idiopathic scoliosis; following common natural history of aetiology; spine deformity and treatment non-op and operative treatment; history. 3D deformity of the spine and thorax; adult deformity;
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This grant is awarded a maximum of Disciplines US$25,000 per year for up to two years, the ------maximum total award being US$50,000. Physiology; Public Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Clinical Medicine; Primary Care; Pathogenesis; Chiropractic; General Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Practice & Family Health; Muscle Diseases; Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April General Surgery; Allied Health Professions; 2016, 1 October 2016, and repeated annually. Orthopaedic Surgery; Osteoporosis & Other Posted date: 09 Nov 12 Bone Diseases; Musculoskeletal System; Award type: Directed grants for individual Counselling & Talking Therapies; Diagnostic investigators Sciences Award amount max: $50,000 Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: http://www.srs.org/research/ ------Application form: Scoliosis Research Society https://srs.execinc.com/edibo/Grants 555 East Wells Street, suite 1100 Milwaukee, WI 53202-3823 Eligibility profile Tel: +1 414 289 9107 ------Fax: +1 414 276 3349 Country of applicant institution: Any Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH GRANTS International Society for Infectious Diseases
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Description: The International Society for Infectious Up to eight grants of US$7,000 each are Diseases invites applications for its research awarded annually. grants. These support pilot research projects by young investigators in developing Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) countries. Areas of interest include: Deadline information: !! Call has not yet investigations of the epidemiology, been announced by funder, but this is the pathophysiology, diagnosis or treatment of approximate deadline we expect. This call is infectious diseases, the epidemiology and repeated once a year. control of hospital-acquired infections, and Posted date: 17 Apr 14 modelling of cost effective interventions. Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Young investigator awards, Applications are open to young investigators, Personal development under the age of 40 years, from developing Award amount max: $7,000 countries. Applicants must not have received Award budget total: - grants from ISID in the past. Website: http://www.isid.org/grants/grants_research.s html
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Application form: Diagnostic Tests; Human Biological Sciences; http://www.isid.org/downloads/programs/res Clinical Medicine; Public Health, Health earch_grant_app.doc Services & Primary Care; Diagnostic Sciences; Infection Agents & Pathogens; Public Health; Eligibility profile International Health; Preventive Medicine; ------Standards of Care; Immunisation Country of applicant institution: Lower- Programmes & Vaccination; Pathophysiology; Middle-Income countries, Low Income HIV/Aids; Epidemiology; Infectious Diseases countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries Contact Details Disciplines ------Tel: +1 617 277 0551 Primary Care; General Practice & Family Fax: +1 617 278 9113 Health; Health Economics; Allied Health Email: [email protected] Professions; Physiology; Medical &
ESEARCH GRANTS International Lactation Consultant Association R
Description: The International Lactation Consultant Website: Association invites applications for its http://www.ilca.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pag research grants. The grants support research eid=3355 related to breastfeeding, lactation, or infant Application form: feeding. Qualitative and quantitative research http://www.ilca.org/files/education_and_rese approaches are considered equally. arch/research/2012AnnualResearchGrantApp lication.pdf Applicants must be members in good standing of ILCA. Membership must remain Eligibility profile current during the funding period. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The funding amount is $7,000. Disciplines Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Allied Health Professions; Clinical Medicine; been announced by funder, but this is the Pregnancy & Birth; Maternal Health approximate deadline we expect. Posted date: 13 Jan 12 Contact Details Award type: Directed grants for individual ------investigators ILCA Office Award amount max: $7,000 2501 Aerial Center Parkway, Suite 103 Award budget total: - Morrisville, NC, 27560 Tel: +1 919 861 5577
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Fax: +1 919 459 2075 Email: [email protected]
NOWLEDGE EXCHANGE PROGRAMME Scottish Universities Insight Institute
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Description: The Scottish Universities Insight Institute Programmes typically comprise seminars and invites registrations for its knowledge workshops held over a period of up to six exchange programme. Funding programmes months. Funding is awarded to cover the cost that address substantial issues facing Scotland of hosting these events and enabling and the wider world, which have the capacity participation of key individuals. to extend knowledge and inform policy and practice. Proposals should: Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Deadline information: Registrations due by marshal the existing knowledge of 1 April; full proposals due by 13 May 2016. participants and deploy their Posted date: 11 Jan 16 experience in fresh ways; Award type: Directed grants to institutions, be multi-disciplinary and incorporate research groups etc, policy-maker and practitioner Networking/collaboration, Travel to knowledge; conferences, meetings etc., Hosting foster ongoing collaboration through a conferences, Academic-Industry links Award budget total: - schedule of activities over a number of Website: months; http://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/AbouttheIn demonstrate the capacity to extend stitute/Callforproposals.aspx knowledge and inform policy and
practice. Eligibility profile
------Organising teams must include members Country of applicant institution: Any from at least two of the institute’s partner Country of applicant institution: United universities. The institutions participating in Kingdom this call are: Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow Country of applicant institution: United School of Art, Heriot Watt, St Andrews, Kingdom Stirling, Strathclyde. Programme leadership must also include relevant individuals from Disciplines non-academic sectors, such as industry, third ------sector, public sector, government and policy Cultural Studies makers. Academic leaders should have at least five years’ postdoctoral standing and Contact Details non-academic leaders should have at least five ------years’ professional experience in their domain Tel: +44 141 548 5930 of expertise. Email: [email protected]
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ESEARCH GRANTS Cactus and Succulent Society of America R
Description: The Cactus and Succulent Society of America Posted date: 29 Apr 09 invites applications for its research grants. Award type: Directed grants for individual The grants support research on succulent investigators plants. General research topics include: Award amount max: $1,500 Website: discover new species or forms; http://www.cssainc.org/index.php?option=co ecological associations; m_content&task=blogsection&id=7&Itemid increase knowledge of taxonomy, =206 nomenclature, and biogeography; Application form: http://www.cssainc.org/images/research/App relating to all aspects of cultivation, licationCoverPageform.doc artificial propagation and mass
production; Eligibility profile relating to conservation of threatened ------or endangered species; Country of applicant institution: Any basic biology, such as morphology and physiology, especially as these Disciplines relate to the needs and interests of ------hobbyists. Taxonomy; Biological Sciences; Environmental Science; Botany; Plant The grants are open to to all applicants Physiology; Endangered Species; without regard to gender, age, nationality, or Environmental Conservation & Biodiversity affiliation. Contact Details Typical awards range up to $1,200-$1,500. ------CSSA Research Committee Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) 4881 Alvin Road Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Sun Prairie, WI 53590 been announced by funder, but this is the Tel: +1 608 837 9340 approximate deadline we expect. Deadlines Fax: +1 608 825 2629 on: 1 April 2013, 1 November 2013, and Email: [email protected] repeated annually.
TUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS American Hemerocallis Society S
Description: The American Hemerocallis Society invites The grants support graduate or applications for its student research grants. undergraduate students or faculty/staff using
Issue 25: Volume 1a: Grants from External Donors (April – June, 2016) daylilies (plant genus Hemerocallis) as Closing date: 01 Apr 16 experimental organisms in original research Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April projects. Fundamental areas of investigation 2016, 1 September 2016, and repeated are encouraged, such as: annually. Posted date: 11 Feb 11 banded chromosome preparations; Award type: Directed grants for individual gene mapping; investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate fine structural studies of vegetative or students reproductive parts; Award amount max: $9,000 Award budget total: - microscopic analysis of the ontogeny Website: of flower scapes in the crown; http://www.daylilies.org/AHSgrants.html effect of various hormones on plant
growth and formation of Eligibility profile proliferations on scapes. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Practical areas of study are encouraged, such as: Disciplines ------ hardiness of various cultivars in Botany; Plant Diseases & Pathology; different climatic zones; Horticultural Crop Growth; Biological use of microtubule degradants (eg, Sciences; Plant Development & Reproduction; trifluralin, oryzalin, Forest Health, Pests & Diseases; Agriculture; amiprophosmethyl) to produce Plant Genome & Genetics polyploids; seed dormancy factors; Contact Details pests and diseases (eg, crown rot, ------spring sickness, bulb mites, gall American Hemerocallis Society midge, daylily rust). 7665 NW McDonald Circle Corvallis, OR 97330 The grants are up to $3,000 per year. Grants Tel: +1 541 745 5496 are renewable for a total of three years. Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH PROJECTS Dutch Duchenne Parent Project NL
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Description: The Dutch Duchenne Parent Project NL policy: the widest possible range of research invites applications for its research projects. should be covered as it is not possible to say These support research into finding a cure for which research will lead to the ultimate Duchenne muscular dystrophy. DPP NL solution. sponsors promising research and fellowships, faster exchange of data and international Researchers from all countries are eligible to collaboration. DPP NL operates a multi-track apply.
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Funding is available for a maximum of two Application form: years, and proposals should be submitted in http://www.duchenne.nl/assets/Application- English. DPP NL does not fund overhead form-Grant-proposal-Duchenne-2015.doc expenses. Eligibility profile Closing date: 01 Apr 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: 24 Feb 15 Muscle Diseases Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Contact Details research groups etc, ------Networking/collaboration DPP Award budget total: - Landjuweel 16-8 Website: http://www.duchenne.nl/research- 3906 PG Veenendaal application/ Email: [email protected]
NTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND Society for General Microbiology I
Description: The Society for General Microbiology invites travel, accommodation, consumables applications for its international development and equipment costs for short lecture fund. This enables members to travel to or laboratory training visits in low- or countries where microbiology is inadequately lower-middle income countries; developed but where its further development to support national microbiological may assist education or the economy of these facilities with culture collections or countries. similar needs when they run into temporary difficulties; Applications are open to full or full any other small project to assist in concessionary members who have made at technology transfer from developed least two consecutive membership countries to developing countries. subscription payments. International associate members who have been members for two Awards are worth up to £5,000 each. subscriptions years and who are resident in a low- or lower-middle-income country may Closing date: 01 Apr 16 also apply. Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April 2016, 1 October 2016, and repeated annually. Funding may be used for the following Posted date: 09 Apr 15 purposes:
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Award type: Travel for research purposes, Country of applicant institution: Any Networking/collaboration, Institutional development, Directed grants for individual Disciplines investigators, Equipment and materials ------Award amount max: £5,000 Microbiology Award budget total: - Website: http://www.sgm.ac.uk/en/grants- Contact Details prizes/all-grants.cfm/international------development-fund Tel: +44 20 7685 2698 Email: [email protected] Eligibility profile ------
LF NACHEMSON EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE GRANT Scoliosis Research Society A
Description: The Scoliosis Research Society invites and how it relates to spinal deformity applications for its Alf Nachemson evidence and instrumentation; based medicine grant grant. These awards are early onset scoliosis treatment; given to studies that aim to provide the best sagittal imbalance; available evidence by which to improve our congenital scoliosis; knowledge and practice in the care of patients neuromuscular spinal deformity; with spinal deformities. Applicants do not deformity and reconstruction arising need to be members of the society to apply. from spine and sacral tumour These applications require evidence that the treatment; investigator has the appropriate experience thoracic insufficiency associated with and resources. spinal deformity in children; pulmonary outcome sequeallae The society has identified the following areas following common natural history of as important research topics: spine deformity and treatment history. evidence based medicine; idiopathic scoliosis; This grant is awarded a maximum of aetiology; US$25,000 per year for up to two years, the non-op and operative treatment; maximum total award being US$50,000. 3D deformity of the spine and thorax; adult deformity; Closing date: 01 Apr 16 treatment and outcomes; Deadline information: osteoporosis, in particular Posted date: 09 Nov 12 osteoporotic spine fractures, its impact on scoliosis kyphosis management,
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Award type: Directed grants for individual Allied Health Professions; Orthopaedic investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Surgery; Primary Care; Counselling & Talking research groups etc Therapies; Diagnostic Sciences; Award amount max: $50,000 Musculoskeletal System; Public Health, Website: http://www.srs.org/research/ Health Services & Primary Care; Osteoporosis Application form: & Other Bone Diseases https://srs.execinc.com/edibo/Grants Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Scoliosis Research Society Country of applicant institution: Any 555 East Wells Street, suite 1100 Milwaukee, WI 53202-3823 Disciplines Tel: +1 414 289 9107 ------Fax: +1 414 276 3349 Pathogenesis; General Practice & Family Email: [email protected] Health; Clinical Medicine; Muscle Diseases; General Surgery; Physiology; Chiropractic;
SC PROJECT BURSARY FUND British Society for Plant Pathology M
Description: The British Society for Plant Pathology invites Award type: Directed grants for individual applications for its MSc project bursary fund. investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate This enables MSc students who are unable to students find other sources of funding to complete the Award amount max: £3,900 research element of their course. Website: http://www.bspp.org.uk/funds/msc.php The scheme is open to all members of the Application form: society and applications are invited from http://www.bspp.org.uk/funds/docs/bsppms supervisors on behalf of their MSc student. c.doc Each supervisor may submit one application each year. Eligibility profile ------Bursaries are worth £200 per week for up to Country of applicant institution: Any 17 weeks and £500 in total for consumables. Disciplines Closing date: 01 Apr 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Plant Diseases & Pathology once a year. Posted date: 14 Jul 15 Contact Details ------BSPP c/o Biological Sciences
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Syngenta Tel: +44 1344 413 715 Jealott’s Hill International Research Centre Email: [email protected] Bracknell RG42 6EY
C DAWES AWARD Chartered Institution of Wastes Management J
Description: The Chartered Institution of Wastes Award type: Travel for research purposes, Management invites applications for the JC Personal development, Directed grants for Dawes award. This enables members to individual investigators undertake research or study in waste Award amount max: £2,000 management or a closely related topic in a Website: http://www.ciwmawards.com/jc- country other than the one in which they dawes-award.php reside or work. Application form: http://www.ciwmawards.com/Application- Applicants must be full chartered members or Forms/J-C-Dawes-2015.docx fellows of the institution. Eligibility profile The award is worth up to £2,000 over one ------year. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Waste Management & Disposal approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 20 Feb 15 ------Email: [email protected]
TRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP GRANTS FOR PROJECTS Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada – Conseil de Recherches en Sciences S Naturelles et en Génie du Canada
Description: The Natural Sciences and Engineering grants for projects. These support early-stage Research Council of Canada invites project research in targeted areas in order to applications for its strategic partnership enhance Canada’s economy, society and
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Disciplines The total budget is expected to be ------approximately CA$12 million for the first year Advanced Manufacturing; Computer Science of the projects, which could fund about 15 to & Informatics; Environmental Science; 18 new awards in each target area. The Ecological Impacts of Climate Change; duration of each project may be from one to Agriculture; Climate Change & Global three years. Warming; Energy Engineering
Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 22 Dec 15 Tel: +1 613 995 1111 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Email: [email protected] research groups etc, Research calls for
ESEARCH GRANTS European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology R
Description: The European Society of Human on the theme of endometrial receptivity. Reproduction and Embryology invites Funding supports pilot and feasibility studies, proposals for its research grants. These enable preliminary data collection, analysis of scientists and clinicians to undertake basic existing data, small research projects and the and clinical research in the field of in development of new research technology. reproductive medicine, with a special focus
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Proposals that are interdisciplinary, institutions, research groups etc, Innovation pioneering, address new and emerging fields grants of research, or those that introduce Award amount max: €150,000 unconventional, innovative approaches and Award amount min: €50,000 scientific inventions, are encouraged. Award budget total: €200,000 Website: http://www.eshre.eu/grant Applicants must be members of the society Application form: working in the field of reproductive medicine https://www.eshre.eu/~/media/Files/Researc and biology, and may be of any nationality. h-Grant/Guide-for- Projects must be carried out by a coordinator Applicants_2016_final_23112015.pdf?la=en and at least one associated investigator. A maximum of six associated investigators may Eligibility profile be included in each application. Collaboration ------between research groups is encouraged. Country of applicant institution: Any
Two grants are available; one worth €50,000, Disciplines and the other worth €150,000 over three years. ------Reproduction & Fertility Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Deadline information: Proposals due by Contact Details 11.59pm CET. This call is repeated every 2 ------years. ESHRE Posted date: 21 Dec 15 Meerstraat 60 Award type: Travel for research purposes, 1852 Grimbergen Publish, edit, translate, disseminate, Tel: +32 2 269 0969 Equipment and materials, Fax: +32 2 269 5600 Networking/collaboration, Directed grants to Email: [email protected]
MALL GRANTS Estuarine Coastal Sciences Association S
Description: The Estuarine Coastal Sciences Association world. Preference is given to research invites applications for its small grants. These students. enable students to attend academic conferences, travel for research purposes, visit Grants are worth up to £500 each. libraries or other collections of research materials, visit laboratories or conduct Closing date: 01 Apr 16 fieldwork. Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April 2016, 1 November 2016, and repeated Applicants must be current members of the annually. association but may be from anywhere in the Posted date: 14 May 15
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Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Directed grants for individual Eligibility profile investigators, Equipment and materials, ------Travel for research purposes, Financial aid Country of applicant institution: Any for postgraduate students Disciplines Award amount max: £500 ------Award budget total: - Marine Geology; Coastal Geography & Website: Processes; Marine & Estuarine Ecology http://www2.hull.ac.uk/administration/ecsa_ home/small_grants.aspx Contact Details Application form: ------http://www2.hull.ac.uk/administration/docs/ Email: [email protected] 3.%20SMALL%20GRANTS~APPLICATION %20FORM.doc
ESEARCH SUPPORT Society for French Studies R
Description: The Society for French Studies invites by the proposed project’s contribution to the applications for its research support. Funding UK or Ireland. supports advanced research in the field of French studies, including activities such as Grants normally range between £100 and £300 presentation of papers at conferences, each, although grants of up to £500 each may expenses incurred through travel to libraries be awarded. The total budget is worth up to and archives necessary for research, and other £6,000 per year for three years. costs incurred in the completion of the research. Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April Postgraduates, early-career researchers 2016, 1 September 2016, 1 January 2017, and without permanent positions or who are repeated annually. within five years of obtaining their PhDs, and Posted date: 04 Jan 16 active scholars who have retired from Award type: Directed grants for individual permanent posts may apply. Applicants must investigators, Publish, edit, translate, also be members of the society. Priority may disseminate, Travel to conferences, meetings be given to early-career scholars and etc., Travel for research purposes postgraduates. Award amount max: £500 Award amount min: £100 Applicants should demonstrate some Award budget total: £18,000 connection with the UK or Ireland, either Website: http://www.sfs.ac.uk/funding- research-support/ through the applicant’s affiliation to a UK or
Irish HEI, or in the case of overseas members,
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Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any SFS Department of French Disciplines King’s College London ------Virginia Woolf Building French Literature; French Language; French 22 Kingsway History London WC2B 6NR Email: [email protected]
YLAND R JOHNS GRANTS TREE Fund H
Description: The TREE Fund invites applications for the Award type: Directed grants for individual Hyland R Johns grant programme. This investigators, Directed grants to institutions, supports longer term research and technology research groups etc transfer projects that have the potential of Award amount max: $50,000 benefiting the everyday work of arborists. Award budget total: - Proposals in the following areas are given Website: priority: http://www.treefund.org/grants/research- grants/johns root and soil management; Application form: propagation, planting and https://app.wizehive.com/appform/login/tfjo hns2015 establishment;
plant health care; Eligibility profile risk assessment and worker safety; ------ urban forestry. Country of applicant institution: Any
Investigators worldwide are eligible to apply. Disciplines ------Grant awards are worth up to US$50,000 and Forestry Science (Silvology) cannot be used to pay for overhead expenses or student tuition and fees. TREE Fund Contact Details requires a match of at least 10% cash or in------kind. Projects must be completed within three TREE Fund to five years. No project may receive more 552 S Washington St, Suite 109 than one award from this programme. Naperville IL 60540 Tel: +1 630 369 8300 Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Fax: +1 630 369 8382 Deadline information: This call is repeated Email: [email protected] once a year. Posted date: 11 Nov 15
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ENTRE SUPPORT Laerdal Foundation C
Description: The Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine Award budget total: - invites applications for its centre support. This Website: aims to support practically oriented research http://www.laerdalfoundation.org/senterstot and development in acute medicine. Research te.html proposals should be of particular value for strengthening at least one of the factors in Eligibility profile Utsteins formula of survival. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The grant is worth NOK1 million per year over three years. One to two research centres Disciplines are awarded each year. ------Emergency Medicine Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Deadline information: Applications for Contact Details letter of intent due by 1 April 2016. This call ------is repeated once a year. Laerdal Foundation Norway Posted date: 17 Nov 15 Postbox 556 Sentrum Award type: Research centres, Directed 4003 Stavanger grants to institutions, research groups etc Tel: +47 9028 2855 Award amount max: kr3,000,000 Email: [email protected]
ALL FOR PARTNERSHIP CONCEPT PAPERS IN SUPPORT OF POWER AFRICA Agency for International Development (USAID) C
Description: The Agency for International Development financing strategies for power (USAID) invites partnership concept papers in production; support of Power Africa. This aims to develop late stage power sector transaction activities or projects that can pool funds, support; talent, and resources from USAID, other small-scale power projects and rural government agencies, and private sector electrification/mini-grids support; partners to support Power Africa. Alliances power sector regulatory and formed will focus primarily on the following institutional strengthening and policy programmatic areas: reform; power sector training, mentoring, networking and internships;
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power sector risk mitigation strategies; Eligibility profile development or piloting of innovative ------energy technologies. Country of applicant institution: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Businesses, universities, NGOs, government Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, institutions and foundations who are working Central African Republic, Congo, Côte within sub-Saharan Africa may apply. d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, One to three partnerships per year are Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, available. Funding per partnership is worth Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, between US$250,000 and US$5 million over Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, two to five years. Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Ref: RFA-674-16-000002. Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Tanzania, Closing date: 01 Apr 16 United Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, Deadline information: Applications due by Zambia, Zimbabwe 5pm Pretoria, South Africa time. Posted date: 19 Nov 15 Disciplines Award type: Directed grants to institutions, ------research groups etc, Rural Development; Energy Engineering Networking/collaboration, Development (Africa/Caribbean) Contact Details Award amount max: $5,000,000 ------Award amount min: $250,000 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- opportunity.html?oppId=280133
ARLY CAREER SCHOLAR GRANT PROGRAMME Australian Society for Parasitology
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Description: The Australian Society for Parasitology, the Applicants must be PhD or MD graduates Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases, who graduated within the last seven years and the International Federation for Tropical and reside outside Australia. Medicine invite applications for their early career scholar grant programme. This allows Grants are worth AU$1,000 each, and up to 25 scholars to attend and present at the scholars are expected to be awarded. International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria, taking place in Brisbane, Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Australia, between 18 and 22 September 2016.
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Deadline information: Abstract submissions Nauru, Niue, New Zealand, French Polynesia, due by 1 April 2016. Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn, Palau, Solomon Posted date: 12 Jan 16 Islands, Tokelau, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Award type: Directed grants for individual United States Minor Outlying Islands, investigators, Travel to conferences, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Samoa, All meetings etc. African Nations, All European Nations, All Award amount max: $1,000 Asian nations, All South American nations, Award budget total: - All North American nations Website: http://tropicalmedicine2016.com/call-for- Disciplines abstracts/ ------Tropical & Neglected Diseases; Malaria; Eligibility profile Parasitology ------Country of applicant institution: American Contact Details Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Micronesia, ------Federated States of, Guam, Indonesia, Email: [email protected] Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island,
RISBANE MARKETING DEVELOPING COUNTRY GRANT PROGRAMME Australian Society for Parasitology
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Description: The Australian Society for Parasitology, the Deadline information: Abstract submissions Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases, due by 1 April 2016. and the International Federation for Tropical Posted date: 12 Jan 16 Medicine, on behalf of Brisbane Marketing, Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings invite applications for the developing country etc., Directed grants for individual grant programme. This allows delegates form investigators developing countries to attend and present at Award budget total: - the International Congress for Tropical Website: Medicine and Malaria, taking place in http://tropicalmedicine2016.com/grants/ Brisbane, Australia, between 18 and 22 September 2016. Eligibility profile ------Applicants from developing countries as Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, described by the Australian Government, Antigua and Barbuda, Albania, Armenia, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and may apply. Herzegovina, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Bhutan, Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Botswana, Belarus, Belize, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cook Islands,
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Chile, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Costa Territory, Occupied, Palau, Paraguay, Rica, Serbia, Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Sudan, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Saint Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Suriname, Sao Tome and Principe, El Micronesia, Federated States of, Gabon, Salvador, Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Grenada, Georgia, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Chad, Togo, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tokelau, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Guinea- Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Indonesia, Turkey, Tuvalu, Tanzania, United Republic of, India, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Jamaica, Ukraine, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Saint Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela, Kiribati, Comoros, Korea, Democratic People's Vietnam, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Samoa, Republic of, Kazakhstan, Lao People's Yemen, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Kosovo, South Sudan, Montenegro Sri Lanka, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Madagascar, Marshall Disciplines Islands, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav ------Republic of, Mali, Myanmar, Mongolia, Tropical & Neglected Diseases; Parasitology; Mauritania, Montserrat, Mauritius, Maldives, Malaria Malawi, Mexico, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Nepal, Contact Detail Nauru, Niue, Panama, Peru, Papua New ------Guinea, Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Email: [email protected]
TLANTIC REGION RESEARCH GRANTS Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation – Fondation Canadienne du Cancer du Sein A
Description: The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, assistants or associates may contribute as co- under its Atlantic regional programme, applicants. In addition, collaborators from invites applications for its research grants. within or outside the Atlantic region as well These support Atlantic-based breast cancer as technicials or research associates may be research that advances the foundation’s vision included in applications. of a future without breast cancer. Grants are worth up to CA$50,000 per year for Principal applicants must be Canadian up to three years. Funding may be used to citizens or permanent residents who are cover supplies, consumables, services, affiliated with an Atlantic Canadian salaries, training stipends and knowledge postsecondary organisation, a hospital or translation. Up to CA$3,000 per year is research institute in Atlantic Canada, or a available for conferences and related travel to non-governmental or non-profit organisation present research findings and up to CA$2,500 with a defined research or knowledge is awarded for publication costs. translation mandate in the Atlantic region. Trainees, postdoctoral fellows and research Closing date: 02 Apr 16 (Forecast)
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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Application form: been announced by funder, but this is the https://webgrants.cbcf.org/index.do approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Eligibility profile Posted date: 20 Feb 15 ------Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Country of applicant institution: Any research groups etc, Publish, edit, translate, Country of applicant institution: Canada disseminate, Equipment and materials, Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Disciplines Directed grants for individual investigators ------Award amount max: $150,000 Breast Cancer Award budget total: - Website: Contact Details http://www.cbcf.org/atlantic/ApplyForGrant ------s/Pages/Research-Grants.aspx Tel: +1 902 423 8274 Email: [email protected]
USTRALIA-CHINA COUNCIL GENERAL FUNDING GRANTS Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade A
Description: The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs innovation of Australia’s trade and Trade invites applications for the investment relationship with China; Australia-China Council general funding arts and culture projects that grants. These support projects across China, showcase Australian arts and creative Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau and Australia industries to Chinese audiences and that broaden and strengthen Australia-China build closer and broader cultural and relations in education, business, culture and artistic partnerships. arts. Priority will be given to projects under the following themes: The activities in the above areas should focus on mobility, capabilities and new areas of education projects that support engagement. practical and effective solutions to enhance China literacy, business and Individuals and organisations may apply. cultural capabilities of Australian Individual applicants must be an Australian institutions and people to effectively citizens or permanent residents. Joint engage with China and promote applications may be accepted from non- education and knowledge Australian individuals or organisations who connectivity between the two are working in partnership with Australian countries; individuals, groups or organisations. economic diplomacy projects that Australian individuals or organisations promote diversity, growth and should be the main applicant.
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The grants are worth up to AU$40,000, but in Award budget total: - exceptional circumstances the level of funding Website: may be increased. The grants are intended to http://www.dfat.gov.au/acc/grants/index.htm be seed funding to encourage partnerships l with other areas of government, corporate sponsors and private donors, and applicants Eligibility profile will normally be expected to demonstrate that ------they are seeking assistance from other Country of applicant institution: Australia sources. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 04 Apr 16 Disciplines Deadline information: Applications are ------invited between 9am, 1 February and 12 Arts; Asian Studies; Education; Economics & noon Canberra time, 4 April 2016. This call is Econometrics; International Relations & repeated once a year. Diplomacy; Cultural Studies Posted date: 18 Dec 15 Award type: Directed grants for individual Contact Details investigators, Directed grants to institutions, ------research groups etc, Tel: +61 2 6261 3818 Networking/collaboration Email: [email protected] Award amount max: $40,000 Award amount min: -
YSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACHES IN HIV OR AIDS AND SUBSTANCE USE (R01) NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse S
Description: The National Institute on Drug Abuse invite applicants must use a systems biology applications for its systems biology approach; approaches in HIV or Aids and substance use at least one aim or sub-aim must (R01) funding opportunity announcement. involve exposure to substances of This announcement supports systems biology abuse or analysis of samples from research projects that address critical patients exposed to a drug of abuse. questions in HIV or Aids research in the context of drugs of abuse. Understanding the Substances of abuse of interest include complex biological intersection of HIV or Aids nicotine, alcohol, cocaine, stimulants, opioids, and substance use and abuse is the central abused prescription drugs, cannabinoids or theme of this call. Applications must address combinations of these drugs. the following key points: Eligible applicants include US and foreign for- investigate high priority research profit or non-profit organisations and public areas in HIV biology relevant to either or private institutions. US or international populations;
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The NIDA intends to commit US$3 million in Award budget total: $3,000,000 fiscal year 2016 to fund five to eight awards. Website: Application budgets are not limited but need http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa- to reflect the actual needs of the proposed files/RFA-DA-16-013.html project. The maximum project period is five years. Eligibility profile ------Ref: RFA-DA-16-013 (replaces RFA-DA-12- Country of applicant institution: Any 009). Disciplines Closing date: 04 Apr 16 ------Deadline information: Applications open on Drug & Substance Abuse; Systems Biology; 4 March and are due by 5pm local time of HIV/Aids applicant organisation, 4 April 2016. Posted date: 11 Dec 15 Contact Details Award type: Directed grants to institutions, ------research groups etc Tel: +1 301 435 1020 Award amount max: - Email: [email protected]
2020-LCE-2016 COMPETITIVE LOW-CARBON ENERGY – TOPICS 1, 2, 3, 26, 32, 33, 34 Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: support to R&I strategy for smart grid Societal Challenges, under the secure, clean and storage; and efficient energy work programme, invites enabling the decarbonisation of the proposals for its H2020-LCE-2016 competitive use of fossil fuels during the transition low-carbon energy call. Proposals may to a low-carbon economy, including address the following topics: LCE-26-2016 cross-thematic ERA-NET on applied geosciences; towards an integrated EU energy social, economic and human aspects of system, including LCE-1-2016 next the energy system, including LCE-32- generation innovative technologies 2016 European platform for energy- enabling smart grids, storage and related social sciences and humanities energy system integration with research; increasing share of renewables – supporting the development of a distribution network, LCE-2-2016 European research area in the field of demonstration of smart grid, storage energy, including LCE-33-2016 and system integration technologies European common research and with increasing share of renewables – innovation agendas in support of the distribution system, LCE-3-2016 implementation of the SET action plan, and LCE-34-2016 joint actions
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towards the demonstration and Deadline information: Proposals are invited validation of innovative energy between 8 December 2015 and 5pm Brussels solutions. time, 5 April 2016. Posted date: 15 Oct 15 Proposals must take the form of research and Award type: Directed grants to institutions, innovation actions, innovation actions, research groups etc, coordination and support actions or ERA- Networking/collaboration NET cofund actions, depending on the topic. Award amount max: - Research and innovation actions, innovation Award budget total: €149,960,000 actions and ERA-NET cofund actions require Website: participation by at least three independent http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port legal entities, each established in a different al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 EU member state or associated country. 0-lce-2016-2017.html
Coordination and support actions require Eligibility profile participation by at least one legal entity ------established in a member state or associated Country of applicant institution: EU country. All H2020 funding calls allow third (European Union), EU Associated Countries, country partners who secure their own EU All International Cooperation Partner funding to participate in consortia. countries (ICPC), Overseas Countries and
Territories Each successful proposal is expected to Country of applicant institution: Any receive between €1 million and €15m Disciplines although proposals for other amounts will ------also be considered. The total indicative Geoscience Instrumentation & Imaging; budget for this call is €149.96m. Energy Planning & Policy; Energy, Legal &
Social Aspects; Carbon Dioxide Reduction & Ref: OJ C6776. Mitigation
Closing date: 05 Apr 16
2020-SCC-2016 SMART AND SUSTAINABLE CITIES – TOPIC 1 Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: Proposals must take the form of innovation Societal Challenges invites proposals, under actions. Innovation actions require the cross-cutting activities programme, for its participation by at least three legal entities, H2020-SCC-1-2016 smart and sustainable each established in a different EU member cities. Proposals may address the topic of state or associated country. Each project must SCC-1-2016 smart cities and communities also involve at least three follower cities from lighthouse projects. different EU member states or associated countries, that are also different from the
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ILOT RESEARCH GRANTS National Multiple Sclerosis Society P
Description: The National Multiple Sclerosis Society invites Deadlines on: 6 January 2016, 6 April 2016, 6 applications for its pilot research grants. July 2016, 5 October 2016. These support high-risk and novel ideas that Posted date: 07 Dec 15 may serve to stop multiple sclerosis Award type: Directed grants for individual progression, restore function and improve investigators, Innovation grants quality of life and prevent multiple sclerosis. Award amount max: $44,000 Website: Applications are open to researchers who http://www.nationalmssociety.org/For- have completed their postdoctoral training. Professionals/Researchers/Society- Funding/Pilot-Research-Grants Grants are worth up to US$40,000 in direct Application form: https://nmss.fluxx.io/ costs for a period of one year. US-based grantee institutions may add an additional Eligibility profile amount of up to 10 per cent to the requested ------sum for indirect costs. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 06 Apr 16 Disciplines Deadline information: ------
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Multiple Sclerosis; Medical Effectiveness & Contact Details Patient Outcomes; Life Expectancy & Quality ------of Life; Patient Care & Education Email: [email protected]
ORMAN E BORLAUG LEADERSHIP ENHANCEMENT IN AGRICULTURE PROGRAMME N Agency for International Development (USAID)
Description: The University of California at Davis and the for tuition fees or salaries. Grants are worth US Agency for International Development up to US$20,000 each. invite applications for the Norman E Borlaug leadership enhancement in agriculture Closing date: 06 Apr 16 programme. This aims to enhance the quality Deadline information: Applications due by of thesis research of graduate students from 11.59pm PST. Deadlines on: 2 December sub-Saharan Africa who show strong promise 2015, 6 April 2016. as leaders in the field of agriculture and Posted date: 30 Oct 15 related disciplines. The programme supports Award type: Personal development, Directed research on all topics related to the US grants for individual investigators, government’s global hunger and food security Thesis/Dissertation funding, Travel for initiative, Feed the Future, although emphasis research purposes, is placed on work of relevance to the national Networking/collaboration, Studentship development of the student’s home country. allocations Internships are tenable for up to 12 months Award amount max: $20,000 and may be held at a US graduate-level Award budget total: - Website: http://borlaugleap.org/program- university, a Consultative Group on description International Agricultural Research centre, or a combination of appropriate institutions. Eligibility profile
------Citizens of USAID-assisted countries in sub- Country of applicant institution: Angola, Saharan Africa, who are currently enrolled as Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, a master’s or PhD student at a US or sub- Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Saharan university, may apply. Applicants Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, must have completed at least one year of Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Eritrea, graduate-level coursework in the programme Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial in which they are enrolled and be fluent in Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, reading, writing and speaking English. Mali, Mauritania, Malawi, Mozambique,
Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Funding supports a variety of research needs, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Sao Tome and such as travel to the research site, research Principe, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Tanzania, support at the host institute and US faculty United Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, member travel to the research site for Zambia, Zimbabwe mentoring purposes. Funds may not be used
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Disciplines Borlaug LEAP (2754) ------CA&ES International Programs Agriculture, Veterinary & Food Science; Environmental Horticulture Building #1103 Agricultural & Natural Resource Economics; University of California, Davis Environmental & Ecological Economics; Davis, CA 95616 Environmental Science Tel: +1 530 752 8977 Fax: +1 530 754 7160 Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------
OSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ON LIVELIHOOD MANAGEMENT, REFORMS AND PROCESSES OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE P VolkswagenStiftung – Volkswagen Foundation
Description: The Volkswagen Foundation invites project must be carried out in co-operation applications for its postdoctoral fellowships with a German academic partner institute. on livelihood management, reforms and processes of structural change as part of the Up to €110,000 is available for junior knowledge for tomorrow – cooperative fellowships and up to €145,000 is available for research projects in Sub-Saharan Africa senior fellowships. initiative. This aims to provide promising postdoctoral researchers based in Africa and Closing date: 06 Apr 16 those wishing to return to Africa with Deadline information: opportunities to enhance both their skills and Posted date: 26 Jan 16 academic qualifications and enable them to Award type: Networking/collaboration, establish professional perspectives in Senior fellowships, Early-Career academia. Research projects should focus on fellowships, Postdoctoral training how individual or collective social actors can fellowships, Mid-Career fellowships manage and protect resources efficiently and Award amount max: €145,000 develop sustainable livelihood strategies Award amount min: - under the present social and environmental Award budget total: - conditions and in view of locally and globally Website: changing circumstances. http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/funding/ international-focus/knowledge-for- tomorrow-cooperative-research-projects-in- Postdoctoral researchers starting academic sub-saharan-africa.html?L=1 careers in Africa may apply. Applicants must have less than three years of postdoctoral Application form: experience to apply for the junior postdoctoral https://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/vwsant fellowship and more than three but less than rag/login.do?siteLanguage=en six years of postdoctoral experience to apply for the senior postdoctoral fellowship. The
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Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Germany ------Country of applicant institution: Sub-Saharan VolkswagenStiftung Africa Kastanienallee 35 30519 Hanover Disciplines Tel: +49 511 8381 276 ------Email: [email protected] Any
2020-INNOSUP-2016 FOR A BETTER INNOVATION SUPPORT TO SMES – TOPIC 1, TWO STAGE H Horizon 2020: Industrial Leadership
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: Closing date: 06 Apr 16 Industrial Leadership, under the Innovation Deadline information: First stage proposals in SMEs work programme, invites proposals invited between 10 November 2015 and 5pm for its H2020-INNOSUP-2016 for a better Brussels time, 6 April 2016; second stage innovation support to SMEs call. proposals due by 5pm Brussels time, 8 September 2016. Proposals must address the topic INNOSUP- Posted date: 15 Oct 15 01-2016 cluster facilitated projects for new Award type: Research calls for business, industrial value chains. Proposals shall Networking/collaboration, Innovation outline a strategic version for building new grants, Directed grants to institutions, industrial value chains across the EU member research groups etc states and associated countries. Award amount max: - Award amount min: - Award budget total: €15,000,000 Proposals must take the form of innovation Website: actions. These require participation by at least http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port three legal entities, each established in a al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 different EU member state or associated 0-innosup-2016-2017.html country. All H2020 funding calls allow third country partners who secure their own Eligibility profile funding to participate in consortia. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Each successful proposal is expected to Country of applicant institution: EU receive between €2.5 million and €5m (European Union), EU Associated Countries, although proposals for other amounts will EU All International Cooperation Partner also be considered. The total indicative countries (ICPC), Overseas Countries and budget for this call is €15m. Territories
Ref: OJ C6776.
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Disciplines Research & Innovation Economics & Policy; ------Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises
NVENTION FOR INNOVATION (I4I) PROGRAMME – OBESITY THEMED CALL Department of Health including NIHR I
Description: The National Institute for Health Research Posted date: 19 Jan 16 invites applications for its themed call on the Award type: Directed grants to institutions, prevention and treatment of obesity, under research groups etc, Innovation grants, the invention for innovation (i4i) programme. Networking/collaboration, Directed grants Funding supports research-based evidence to for individual investigators underpin the prevention and management of Award budget total: - overweight and obesity in adults and Website: http://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/i4i- children. Issues of particular importance for calls-and-competitions.htm this call include the prevention of type 2 diabetes and increasing levels of physical Application form: activity. https://ccfrms.nihr.ac.uk/Login.aspx
The i4i programme supports collaborative Eligibility profile R&D projects that have demonstrated proof------of-principle and have a clear pathway Country of applicant institution: Any towards adoption and commercialisation. It Country of applicant institution: United also aims to advance healthcare technologies Kingdom and interventions for increased patient benefit Disciplines in areas of existing or emerging clinical need. ------
Obesity Lead, co- and collaborative applicants must be based in England or Wales only. Non-English Contact Details or Welsh organisations may act as non-grant ------receiving collaborators. NIHR
Closing date: 06 Apr 16 Grange House Deadline information: Stage one 15 Church Street applications due by 1pm, 6 April; stage two Twickenham TW1 3NL applications are invited between 20 July and Tel: +44 20 8843 8015 1pm, 14 September 2016. Email: [email protected]
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NERGY TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMME Energistyrelsen – Danish Energy Authority
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Description: The Danish Energy Authority invites There is no fixed amount limit on support applications for its energy technology within the programme, however, for development and demonstration programme. development- and demonstration projects a This programme supports the development minimum of 50 per cent self-financing is and demonstration of energy technologies, as encouraged. well as collaboration between public and private actors and involvement in Closing date: 07 Apr 16 international activities within the area. Deadline information: Applications due by Projects must support the Danish energy 3pm CET. policy objectives, with respect to climate and Posted date: 27 Jan 16 energy policy, and have clear commercial Award type: Directed grants to institutions, potential. Eligible technology areas include research groups etc, Academic-Industry the following: links, Networking/collaboration, Technology innovation/development, biomass technologies, including for Innovation grants, Equipment and materials, transport; Publish, edit, translate, disseminate wind energy and other renewable Award budget total: - Website: http://www.ens.dk/ny- energy technology; teknologi/energiteknologisk-udvikling- hydrogen and fuel cell technologies; demonstration/sog-tilskud-eudp low energy buildings;
energy efficient solutions, including Eligibility profile final consumption and flexible energy ------consumption; Country of applicant institution: Denmark combined energy systems, including Country of applicant institution: Any transport of energy; more efficient methods for production Disciplines of oil and gas; ------ other more efficient and Bioenergy & Biomass Conversion; Renewable environmentally-friendly production, Energy Engineering; Use & Management of including CO2 storage. Natural Resources; Energy Transmission & Smart Grids; Solar Power & Photovoltaics; Public and private enterprises or knowledge Wind Energy; Energy Generation; Hydro, institutions are eligible to apply, including Ocean, Tidal & Wave Energy; Energy universities and approved technological Conservation & Efficiency service institutes. Foreign participants may be co-funded by the programme, provided they Contact Details contribute to the advancement of ------technological development in Denmark, and Tel: +45 33 927 594 provided that the commitment holding Email: [email protected] company is registered in Denmark.
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OSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FOR AN OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER Institution of Engineering and Technology P
Description: The Institution of Engineering and Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, Technology invites applications for its Directed grants for individual investigators postgraduate scholarship for an outstanding Award amount max: £10,000 researcher. This aims to help researchers share Website: knowledge throughout the global science, http://conferences.theiet.org/achievement/sc engineering and technology community by holarships/postgraduate/outstanding- assisting students undertaking a doctorate for researcher.cfm research in engineering or technology Application form: internationally. https://ietawards.conference- services.net/authorlogin.asp?conferenceID=3 The scholarship is open to members who are 999&language=en-uk postgraduate students in any year of study undertaking research in any country. Eligibility profile Candidates must have achieved a 2:1 or ------higher in their first degree. Country of applicant institution: Any
Disciplines The scholarship is worth £10,000 and is ------tenable for one year. Engineering Closing date: 07 Apr 16 Deadline information: Applications are due Contact Details by 5pm BST. This call is repeated once a ------year. Tel: +44 1438 765 535 Posted date: 18 Jan 16 Email: [email protected]
CHOLARS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMME Goethe Institute S
Description: The Goethe Institute and Institute for focus on the links between culture and Advanced Study in Humanities (KWI) invite climate, economics and conflict. International applications for their scholars in residence scholars will travel to Germany from 15 programme. This programme will provide October 2013 for six to eight weeks. The scholars with opportunities to pursue joint German scholar will travel to their partner’s projects with German academics working on country from 1 January 2014. Applicants must similar issues. This year’s programme will be fluent in English and be either PhD
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9360100.htm Contact Details
------Eligibility profile Goethe-Institut e.V. ------Section 31 – Science and Current Affairs Country of applicant institution: Any Dachauer Strasse 122
Disciplines 80637 Munich Email: [email protected] ------
ISEGRAD SCHOLARSHIPS AT THE OPEN SOCIETY ARCHIVES International Visegrad Fund V
Description: The International Visegrad Fund invites holdings, such as information science during applications for the Visegrad scholarships at the Cold War and the nature of propaganda. the open society archives. These enable investigators to conduct research at the Open 12 fellowships are awarded annually to Society Archivum in Budapest. Projects applicants from V4 countries, which are should address fields relevant to the archive’s Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Three fellowships are available
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Closing date: 10 Apr 16 Disciplines Deadline information: Deadlines on: 10 ------April 2016, 15 October 2016, 10 January 2017, Politics & Economics of Eastern Europe; and repeated annually. Digitising & Digital Archives; Information Posted date: 12 Aug 15 Society; Social Reform & Social Movements; Award type: Directed grants for individual Archiving investigators, Travel for research purposes, Access to libraries Contact Detail Award amount max: €2,000 ------Award budget total: €24,000 Email: [email protected] Website: http://visegradfund.org/scholarships/visegra d-scholarships-at-osa/
XTENDED DEADLINE: TUSK CONSERVATION AWARDS Tusk Trust E
Description: The Tusk Trust has extended the deadline for dedication and contribution to nominations for its Tusk conservation awards. conservation in Africa; The deadline has been extended from 6 the Tusk conservation award, February to 10 April 2015. All other call recognises an up-and-coming details remain unchanged. conservationist whose work has already demonstrated an exceptional These recognise inspirational conservation commitment to conservation and has work in Africa, ranging from the protection of made a significant impact to date. endangered species and threatened habitat to the promotion of environmental education Winners receive a grant to further their work. and the development of community driven conservation. Two awards are available: Closing date: 10 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet the Prince William award for been announced by funder, but this is the conservation in Africa, awarded to a approximate deadline we expect. This call is distinguished individual for their repeated once a year.
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Posted date: 19 Feb 15 Disciplines Award type: Prizes, Directed grants for ------individual investigators Animal Ecology & Habitats; Environmental Award budget total: - Education; Environmental Conservation & Website: Biodiversity; Endangered Species http://www.tuskawards.com/nominations/ Contact Details Application form: ------http://www.tuskawards.com/userfiles/file/do Tusk Trust wnloads/TCA-2015-Nomination-Form.docx 4 Cheapside House High Street Eligibility profile Gillingham ------Dorset SP8 4AA Country of applicant institution: Any Tel: +44 1747 831 005 Email: [email protected]
EADLINE BROUGHT FORWARD: COUNCIL FOR AUSTRALIAN-ARAB RELATIONS GRANTS D Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Description: The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs on contemporary issues of shared and Trade, through its Council for Australian- interest, particularly in the fields of Arab Relations, has brought forward the science, technology, the environment applications for its grants. The previous and social development initiatives deadline of 26 April has been brought such as health and sport; forward to 11 April 2016. All other details to raise public and corporate remain unchanged. *** awareness of the importance of the Australian-Arab relationship; These grants support projects that enhance to support increased business and Australia's economic, cultural and social trade between Australia and Arab relations with the Arab world. Proposals countries. should address the following strategic objectives of the council: Applications must also serve a CAAR flagship programme or address a CAAR priority to support robust professional, sector, which includes education, food community and institutional linkages security, resources and energy, transport and between Australia and the Arab world infrastructure, health and financial services. that will promote mutual understanding and project positive, Both individuals and organisations may apply accurate and contemporary images of for grants. Individual applicants must be each other’s societies; Australian citizens or permanent residents. to promote productive partnerships Joint applications may be accepted from non- between Australia and the Arab world Australian citizen and resident individuals or
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RANSNATIONAL CALL ON PHOTOVOLTAICS (PV4) ERA-NET SOLAR-ERA.NET T
Description: SOLAR-ERA.NET invites proposals for its grid integration and large-scale fourth transnational call on photovoltaics deployment of photovoltaics; (PV4). This aims to fund industrially relevant high efficiency PV modules based on transnational research technology next generation crystalline silicon development and innovation projects in the solar cells; field of solar electricity technologies. Projects solar glass and encapsulation may address: materials; concentrator PV technology; innovation processes for inorganic silicon feedstock, crystallisation and thin-film cells and modules; wafering; dedicated modules for building- organic solar cells, perovskites and integrated photovoltaics design and other emerging concepts. manufacturing;
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Projects must demonstrate a clear industrial partners must contact their funding contact benefit. Not all national and regional point prior to submitting a pre-proposal. programmes will accept applications in all Posted date: 08 Dec 15 topics. Award type: Innovation grants, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Partners from Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Academic-Industry links, Technology Finland, France, Germany, Israel, the innovation/development, Research calls for Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and business, Networking/collaboration Turkey may apply. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.solar-era.net/joint-calls/ Consortia must consist of a minimum of two Application form: https://www.submission- partners from two different countries or solar-era.net/4th-call regions, and at least one of the partners must Eligibility profile be from the industry. Small and medium------sized companies, large companies, academic Country of applicant institution: Any research groups, universities, public research Country of applicant institution: Austria, organisations or other research organisations Belgium, Switzerland, Cyprus, Germany, may participate according to their national or Spain, Finland, France, Israel, Netherlands, regional financing regulations. The proposals Poland, Turkey must be recommended by at least two funding organisations from at least two Disciplines different countries. ------
Crystallography; Thin Film Technology; Solar The project duration is limited to a maximum Power & Photovoltaics; Renewable Energy of 36 months. Engineering.
Closing date: 11 Apr 16 Deadline information: Pre-proposals due by Contact Details 5pm CET, 11 April; full proposals due by ------5pm CET, 5 September 2016. All project Email: [email protected]
ELFARE, WELLBEING AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE – UNDERSTANDING WELFARE MODELS W JPI Demographic
Description: The Joint Programme Initiative Demographic Proposals may address one or more of the invites proposals for its welfare, wellbeing following topics: and demographic change – understanding welfare models call. This supports research understanding wellbeing – whether which will improve understanding of how current measures of wellbeing across different approaches to welfare secure the the changing life-course are quality of life, especially of older people. appropriate;
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intergenerational relationships – how Posted date: 19 Jan 16 welfare models can distribute Award type: Academic-Industry links, resources, rights and responsibilities Networking/collaboration, Directed grants to in fair and sustainable ways; institutions, research groups etc welfare models – how welfare models Award budget total: - can secure the health and wellbeing of Website: http://www.jp- older people confronted with caring demographic.eu/activities/calls/ needs, subject to frailty and nearing the end of life. Eligibility profile ------Any institution, as long as they are eligible for Country of applicant institution: Any funding through national eligibility criteria, Country of applicant institution: Austria, may apply. Each proposal must involve Belgium, Canada, Spain, Finland, France, between three and seven applicants from at Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal least three different countries that are participating in this call. Not more than two Disciplines eligible applicants per country are allowed. ------Participants not eligible to be funded may Measurement & Indicators in Sociology; Life participate if they are able to secure their own Expectancy & Quality of Life; Welfare funding. Economics; Demography
Contact Details Projects may last up to three years. Funding and eligible costs may vary according to ------National Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII) national funding regulations. Av. Monforte de Lemos, 5 Closing date: 11 Apr 16 28029 Madrid Deadline information: Applications are Email: [email protected] invited between 22 February and 12 noon CET, 11 April 2016.
ENERAL CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS Angelman Syndrome Foundation G
Description: The Angelman Syndrome Foundation invites proposals for reasearch on Angelman One- or two-year grants will be awarded for syndrome. A total of US$1 million is available amounts of up to US$100,000 per year. to support preclinical, translational and clinical research areas that investigate all Closing date: 12 Apr 16 (Forecast) aspects of Angelman syndrome. Priority will Deadline information: !! Call has not yet be given to pilot projects to test new ideas been announced by funder, but this is the about the pathogenesis and therapeutics of approximate deadline we expect. This call is the syndrome. repeated once a year.
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Posted date: 25 Mar 13 Eligibility profile Award type: Directed grants for individual ------investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Country of applicant institution: Any research groups etc Award amount max: $200,000 Disciplines Award amount min: $20,000 ------Award budget total: $1,000,000 Neurology; Child Development; Paediatrics; Website: Clinical Medicine; Diagnostic Sciences; http://www.angelman.org/research/2013-call- Pathogenesis; Genetics & Systems Biology; for-research-proposals/ Physiology; Medical Genetics; Psychology; Central Nervous System Application form: http://www.angelman.org/_angelman/assets/ Contact Details File/ASF2013_Gen_Grant_Submission_Form ------_Name.doc Email: [email protected]
IR HENRY DALE FELLOWSHIPS Wellcome Trust S
Description: The Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society or has worked in the UK for at least a invite applications for the Sir Henry Dale continuous three-year period; fellowships. These enable postdoctoral an exceptional biomedical scientist scientists who wish to build their own UK- who does not fall within the categories based independent research career to address above and whose recruitment to the an important biomedical question. Research host organisation would be may range from the molecules and cells vital advantageous to both the applicant to life and their role in the global spread of and the organisation. disease, to clinical and public-health research seeking to improve the quality of healthcare. Applicants must also have an eligible It can be based in the laboratory, clinic or sponsoring host organisation in the UK that field, and may involve experimental or can guarantee support and adequate space theoretical approaches. and resources for the duration of the award.
Applicants are expected to have relevant Fellowships are tenable for five years in the scientific or mathematical qualifications and first instance, with the potential to apply for be no more than seven years from the date of competitive renewal for an additional three receiving their PhD. They must be: years. Funding covers a basic salary plus an enhancement of £7,500 per year, research a UK or EEA national; expenses, travel and subsistence, and overseas a non-EEA national who either has a allowances. In addition, the funders provide relevant degree from a UK university, an inflation and flexible funding allowance, as
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OLLABORATION FUND Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes C
Description: The Programme for Endorsement of Forest provide co-funding that leverages Certification (PEFC) invites applications for additional financial sources. its collaboration fund. This aims to support locally relevant advancements in the PEFC members and other non-profit sustainable management of forests. Proposals organisations are encouraged to submit will be considered for new and independent proposals. Project partners may include projects which: private and public sector organisations.
stimulate new innovative approaches Funding is worth up to CHF40,000 over a which contribute to PEFC strategic maximum of two years. Grantees must priorities; provide evidence of at least 35 per cent act as catalysts for locally relevant additional co-funding from other sources projects which embody PEFC’s vision within the overall project budget. of a world in which people manage forests sustainably; Closing date: 12 Apr 16 (Forecast) encourage the establishment of new Deadline information: !! Call has not yet partnerships amongst organisations or been announced by funder, but this is the strengthen existing partnerships; approximate deadline we expect.
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Applications due by 5pm CET. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 20 Dec 13 ------Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Forest Ecology; European Union Law; research groups etc, Environmental Conservation & Biodiversity; Networking/collaboration Biological Sciences; Forest Management; Award amount max: SFr.40,000 Agroforestry; Sustainable Development & Award amount min: - Resource Use; Forestry Science (Silvology); Award budget total: - Agriculture Website: http://www.pefc.org/projects/collaboration- Contact Details fund/2014-competition ------Application form: PEFC International http://www.pefc.org/images/Projects/2014_P 10 Route de l'Aéroport EFC_Collaboration_Fund_Application.doc Case Postale 636
1215 Geneva Eligibility profile Tel: +41 22 799 4540 ------Fax: +41 22 799 4550 Country of applicant institution: Any Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
2020-ICT-2016 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES Horizon 2020: Industrial Leadership H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: future internet, including ICT10-2016 Industrial Leadership invites proposals, under software technologies, ICT12-2016 net the leadership in enabling and industrial innovation initiative and ICT13-2016 technologies work programme, for its H2020- future internet experimentation - ICT-2016 information and communication building a European experimental technologies call. Proposals may address the infrastructure; following topics: content, including ICT14-2016 big data PPP: cross-sectorial and cross-lingual a new generation of components and data integration and experimentation, systems, including ICT1-2016 smart ICT15-2016 big data PPP: large scale cyber-physical systems, ICT2-2016 pilot projects in sectors best benefiting thin, organic and large area electronics from data driven innovation, ICT17- and ICT3-2016 smart system 2016 big data PPP: support, industrial integration; skills, benchmarking and evaluation, advanced computing and cloud ICT18-2016 big data PPP: privacy computing, including ICT6-2016 cloud preserving big data technologies, computing; ICT21-2016 support technology transfer to the creative industries,
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ICT22-2016 technology for learning although proposals for other amounts will and skills and ICT24-2016 gaming and also be considered. gamification; robotics and autonomous systems, Ref: OJ C6776. including ICT25-2016 advanced robot capabilities research and take-up and Closing date: 12 Apr 16 ICT26-2016 system abilities, Deadline information: Proposals invited development and pilot installations; between 20 October 2015 and 5pm Brussels ICT key enabling technologies, time, 12 April 2016. including ICT29-2016 photonics key Posted date: 14 Oct 15 enabling technologies 2016; Award type: Innovation grants, innovation and entrepreneurship Networking/collaboration, Academic- support, including ICT34-2016 pre- Industry links, Research calls for business, commercial procurement open; Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc responsibility and creativity, Award amount max: - including ICT35-2016 enabling Award budget total: €460,500,000 responsible ICT-related research and Website: innovation and ICT36-2016 boost http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port synergies between artists, creative al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 people and technologists; 0-ict-2016-2017.html international cooperation activities, including ICT38 Mexico: collaboration Eligibility profile on ICT and ICT39 international ------partnership building in low and Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, middle income countries. Albania, Armenia, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Proposals must take the form of research and Barbados, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, innovation actions, coordination and support Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Bhutan, Botswana, actions, innovation actions or pre-commercial Belarus, Belize, Congo, the Democratic procurement actions, depending on the topic Republic of the, Central African Republic, addressed. Research and innovation actions, Congo, Switzerland, Côte d'Ivoire, Cook pre-commercial procurement actions and Islands, Chile, Cameroon, China, Colombia, innovation actions require participation by at Costa Rica, Serbia, Cuba, Cape Verde, least three legal entities, each established in a Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, different EU member state or associated Algeria, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, country. Furthermore, for PCP actions, there Micronesia, Federated States of, Faroe Islands, must be a minimum of two independent legal Gabon, Grenada, Georgia, Ghana, Gambia, entities which are public procurers from two Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, different member states or associated Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Croatia, countries. Coordination and support actions Haiti, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, require at least one legal entity established in Islamic Republic of, Iceland, Jamaica, Jordan, a member state or associated country. All Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, H2020 funding calls allow third country Comoros, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Korea, partners who secure their own funding to Democratic People's Republic of, Kazakhstan, participate in consortia. Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Liberia, The indicative budget for this call is €460.5 Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Moldova, Republic million. Each successful proposal is expected of, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, Macedonia, to receive between €500,000 and €10m,
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2020-SC1-PM-2016 PERSONALISED MEDICINE – TOPIC 14 Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: receive funding. Proposals under this call Societal Challenges invites proposals, under must include coordination with a Japanese the health, demographic change and entity. wellbeing work programme, for its H2020- SC1-PM-2016 personalised medicine call. Each proposal is expected to receive between Proposals may address the following topic: €1 million and €2m, although proposals for other amounts may be considered. The SC1-PM-14-2016 EU-Japan indicative budget is €5 million. The project cooperation on novel ICT robotics duration is a maximum of 36 months. based solutions for active and healthy ageing at home or in care facilities. Ref: OJ C6776.
Closing date: 12 Apr 16 Proposals must take the form of research and Deadline information: Proposals due by 5pm innovation actions, which require Brussels time. participation by at least three legal entities, Posted date: 14 Oct 15 each established in a different EU member Award type: Clinical trials, state or associated country and independent Networking/collaboration, Directed grants to of each other. All H2020 funding calls allow institutions, research groups etc third country partners who secure their own Award budget total: €5,000,000 funding to participate in consortia. Any legal Website: entity established in the US is eligible to http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port
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Eligibility profile Disciplines ------Country of applicant institution: United States Assistive Technology; Geriatrics & Country of applicant institution: EU Gerontology; Medical Devices; Medical (European Union), EU Associated Countries, Instrumentation; Personalised & Stratified EU All International Cooperation Partner Medicine; Rehabilitation Engineering countries (ICPC), Overseas Countries and Territories
2020-IOT-2016 INTERNET OF THINGS Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: established in a member state or associated Societal Challenges invites proposals, under country. All H2020 funding calls allow third the cross-cutting activities work programme, country partners who secure their own for its H2020-IoT-2016 internet of things call. funding to participate in consortia. Proposals may address the following topics: Each proposal may receive up to €30 million, IoT-01-2016 large scale pilots, although other requested amounts may be including pilot 1 – smart living considered. The indicative budget for this call environments for ageing well, pilot 2 – is €104 million. smart farming and food security, pilot 3 – wearables for smart ecosystems, Ref: OJ C6776. pilot 4 – reference zones in EU cities, and pilot 5 – autonomous vehicles in a Closing date: 12 Apr 16 connected environment; Deadline information: Proposals invited IoT-02-2016 IoT horizontal activities. between 20 October 2015 and 5pm Brussels time, 12 April 2016. Proposals must take the form of innovation Posted date: 15 Oct 15 actions or coordination and support actions, Award type: Directed grants to institutions, depending on the topic. research groups etc, Networking/collaboration, Innovation grants Innovation actions require participation by at Award amount max: - least three legal entities, each established in a Award amount min: - Award budget total: €104,000,000 different EU member state or associated Website: country. http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port
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Eligibility profile ------Disciplines Country of applicant institution: EU ------(European Union), EU Associated Countries, Ubiquitous Computing; Agroecosystems; EU All International Cooperation Partner Autonomous Systems & Vehicles; Food countries (ICPC), Overseas Countries and Security; Food Engineering & Technology; Territories Food Systems; Food Safety Country of applicant institution: Any
2020-FETPROACT-2016 PROACTIVE – BOOSTING EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Horizon 2020: Excellent Science H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: Excellent Science, under the future and Each successful proposal is expected to emerging technologies programme, invites receive up to €10 million. The total indicative proposals for its H2020-FETPROACT-2016 budget for this call is €90m. proactive – boosting emerging technologies call. Proposals may address multiple topics Ref: OJ C6776. related to boosting emerging technologies. Closing date: 12 Apr 16 Proposals must address the following topics: Deadline information: Proposals invited between 8 December 2015 and 5pm Brussels FETPROACT-01-2016 FET proactive: time, 12 April 2016. emerging themes and communities; Posted date: 16 Oct 15 FETPROACT-03-2016 ERANET Award type: Innovation grants, Directed cofund in quantum technologies. grants to institutions, research groups etc, Networking/collaboration Projects must take the form of research and Award amount max: - innovation actions or ERANET cofund Award amount min: - Award budget total: €90,000,000 actions, depending on the topic addressed. Website: Research and innovation actions and ERA- http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port NET cofund actions require participation by al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 at least three legal entities, each established in 0-fetproact-2016-2017.html a different EU member state or associated country, including Switzerland. In addition, Eligibility profile participants in ERA-NET cofund actions must ------be research funders, legal entities owning or Country of applicant institution: EU managing public research and innovation (European Union), EU Associated Countries, programmes. All H2020 funding calls allow EU All International Cooperation Partner third country partners who secure their own funding to participate in consortia.
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IRUS GENOMICS AND EVOLUTION CONFERENCE BURSARIES Wellcome Trust V
Description: The Wellcome Trust, through the Wellcome Award type: Directed grants for individual Genome Campus, invites applications for investigators, Travel to conferences, bursaries to attend its conference on virus meetings etc. genomics and evolution. The conference, to be Award budget total: - held from 8 to 10 June 2016 at the campus, Website: will provide a multidisciplinary forum for https://registration.hinxton.wellcome.ac.uk/e scientists interested in the genomics and vents/item.aspx?e=587 evolutionary analysis of viruses and will address the fundamental questions of viral Eligibility profile origins, transmission and pathogenesis. ------Country of applicant institution: Any
Disciplines Each bursary, funded by Action on Hearing ------Loss, covers up to 50 per cent of registration Genomics; Evolutionary Microbiology; costs for a PhD student or junior postdoctoral Medical Genetics; Virology; Pathogenesis researcher. Contact Details Closing date: 12 Apr 16 ------Deadline information: Email: Posted date: 14 Dec 15 [email protected]
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ESEARCH GRANT Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund R
Description: The Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund invites individual investigators, Financial aid for applications for its research grant. This postgraduate students supports translational research in the field of Award amount max: £180,000 pancreatic cancer, with a particular focus on Award amount min: - early detection and successful treatment. Award budget total: - Website: Applicants must hold a PhD, or equivalent http://www.pcrf.org.uk/pages/applying-for- qualification or research experience. Principal a-research-grant.html applicants must be based in a UK or Ireland research group or institution, however Eligibility profile projects that involve collaboration with a ------researcher or researchers outside these Country of applicant institution: United countries are welcomed. PhD studentships Kingdom, Ireland may be included within the project Country of applicant institution: Any description, but the application must be made by the potential supervisor. Disciplines ------The grant is worth up to £180,000 over three Medical Effectiveness & Patient Outcomes; years, and covers salary, research costs or Colorectal, Pancreatic & Stomach Cancers; both. Cancer Diagnosis
Closing date: 13 Apr 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the PCRF approximate deadline we expect. This call is P.O Box 47432 repeated once a year. London N21 1XP Posted date: 12 Feb 15 Tel: +44 20 8360 1119 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Email: [email protected] research groups etc, Directed grants for
2020-SC1-PM-HCO-2016 PERSONALISED MEDICINE AND HEALTH COORDINATION – TOPICS HCO1, HCO2, HCO4-HCO6, PM1, PM4 TO PM6, PM9, H PM11, PM21 Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: the health, demographic change and Societal Challenges invites proposals under wellbeing work programme, for its H2020-
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SC1-PM-HCO-2016 personalised medicine associated country. Research and innovation and health coordination activities call. actions require participation by at least three Proposals may address the following topics: legal entities, each established in a different EU member state or associated country. The coordination activities, including SC1- minimum number of participants in EJPs is HCO-01-2016 valorisation of five independent legal entities from different framework programme 7 health and member states or associated countries owning H2020 SC1 research results, SC1- or managing national research and innovation HCO-02-2016 standardisation of pre- programmes. All H2020 funding calls allow analytical and analytical procedures third country partners who secure their own for in vitro diagnostics in personalised funding to participate in consortia. In medicine, SC1-HCO-04-2016 towards addition, any legal entity established in the globalisation of the joint programming US is eligible to receive funding for specific initiative on antimicrobial resistance, topics only. SC1-HCO-05-2016 coordinating personalised medicine research and Each proposal is expected to receive between SC1-HCO-06-2016 towards an ERA- €1 million and €50m, although proposals for NET for building sustainable and other amounts will be considered. The resilient health system models; indicative budget is €290m. understanding health, well-being and disease, including SC1-PM-01-2016 Ref: OJ C6776. multi-omics for personalised therapies and SC1-PM-04-2016 networking and Closing date: 13 Apr 16 optimising the use of population and Deadline information: Proposals due by 5pm patient cohorts at EU level; Brussels time. preventing disease, including SC1- Posted date: 14 Oct 15 PM-05-2016 the European Human Award type: Clinical trials, Biomonitoring initiative and SC1-PM- Networking/collaboration, Directed grants to 06-2016 vaccine development for institutions, research groups etc, Innovation malaria and neglected infectious grants diseases; Award amount max: - Award amount min: - treating and managing diseases, Award budget total: €290,000,000 including SC1-PM-09-2016 new Website: therapies for chronic diseases and http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port SC1-PM-11-2016 clinical research on al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 regenerative medicine; 0-sc1-2016- healthcare provision and integrated 2017.html#c,topics=callIdentifier/t/H2020- care, including SC1-PM-21-2016 SC1-2016- implementation research for scaling- 2017/1/1/1&callStatus/t/Forthcoming/1/1/0&c up of evidence based innovations and allStatus/t/Open/1/1/0&callStatus/t/Closed/1/ good practice in Europe and low- and 1/0&+identifier/desc middle-income countries. Eligibility profile Proposals must take the form of coordination ------and support actions, research and innovation Country of applicant institution: United States actions or co-fund European Joint Programme Country of applicant institution: EU actions. Coordination and support actions (European Union), EU Associated Countries, require participation by at least one legal EU All International Cooperation Partner entity established in a member state or
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NTERNATIONAL PROJECT GRANT Action on Hearing Loss
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Description: Action on Hearing Loss invites applications Award type: Directed grants to institutions, for its international project grant. This aims to research groups etc, Directed grants for generate scientific discoveries that will lead to individual investigators, Innovation grants, new treatments to protect, improve or restore Networking/collaboration hearing, or to silence tinnitus. Research Award amount max: £160,000 projects should focus on the following areas: Award budget total: - Website: improving diagnosis of hearing loss or http://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/your tinnitus; -hearing/biomedical-research/apply-for- improving medical devices for research-grants/international-project- grant.aspx hearing;
understanding and prevention of Eligibility profile hearing disorders; ------ restoration of hearing; Country of applicant institution: Any silencing tinnitus. Country of applicant institution: United
Kingdom Applicants from universities or research institutes in the UK may apply. Co-applicants Disciplines and collaborators may be from research ------institutions outside the UK. Preventive Medicine; Medical Implants; Medical & Diagnostic Tests; Sensory Systems; The grant is worth up to £55,000 per year and Medical Devices; Deafness; Hearing & is tenable for up to three years, although the Otology total funding cannot exceed £160,000.
Contact Details Closing date: 14 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 19-23 Featherstone St been announced by funder, but this is the London EC1Y 8SL approximate deadline we expect. Tel: +44 20 7296 8013 Applications due by 5pm. This call is Email: [email protected] repeated once a year. Posted date: 09 Feb 15
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2020-ENG-GLOBALLY-2016-2017 ENGAGING TOGETHER GLOBALLY – TOPICS 8, 9 Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges
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Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges invites proposals, under Each proposal may receive between €1.5 the Europe in a changing world – inclusive, million and €3m, although larger proposals innovative and reflective societies work may be considered. The indicative budget for programme, for its H2020-ENG-GLOBALLY- this call is €11.5m. 2016/2017 engaging together globally call. Proposals may address the following topics: Ref: OJ C6776.
ENG-GLOBALLY-08-2016-2017 EU- China cooperation on sustainable Closing date: 14 Apr 16 urbanisation; Deadline information: Proposals invited ENG-GLOBALLY-09-2016 centres and between 8 December 2015 and 5pm Brussels networks of European research and time, 14 April 2016. innovation. Posted date: 15 Oct 15 Award type: Innovation grants, Proposals must take the form of coordination Networking/collaboration, Directed grants to and support actions. These require at least one institutions, research groups etc legal entity established in a EU member state Award budget total: €11,500,000 or associated country. All H2020 funding calls Website: allow third country partners who secure their http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 own funding to participate in consortia. 0-sc6-eng-globally-2016-2017.html
Proposals must also include at least one legal Eligibility profile entity based in China. Topic 9 proposals ------should target one country or region that is an Country of applicant institution: Any established or emerging science, technology or innovation leader; proposals addressing all Disciplines or part of Brazil, China and the US are ------strongly encouraged without excluding any Research & Innovation Economics & Policy; other countries with similar characteristics. Spin-Offs & Academic Innovation; Innovation Under this topic, legal entities established in & Technology Management; International the target country or region are eligible for Relations & Diplomacy funding from the Union.
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NVESTIGATOR-INITIATED RESEARCH GRANTS CurePSP Foundation
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Description: Application form: The CurePSP Foundation invites proposals for http://www.psp.org/file_download/2dc7494e- its investigator-initiated research grants. 8670-46bf-9bfc-ce91d214d348 These support research that helps generate an integrated picture of progressive supranuclear Eligibility profile palsy at the molecular, cellular and clinical ------levels. Country of applicant institution: Any
Each grant is worth up to US$100,000 over Disciplines one to two years. ------Cerebral Palsy; Neurosurgery; Central Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Nervous System Deadline information: Posted date: 16 Dec 14 Contact Details Award type: Directed grants to institutions, ------research groups etc, Directed grants for CurePSP Foundation individual investigators 30 East Padonia Road, Suite 201 Award amount max: $100,000 Timonium, MD 21093 Website: Email: [email protected] http://www.psp.org/research/researchers/
HORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS Smithsonian Institution S
Description: The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Eligible candidates are graduate students. invites applications for its short-term Occasionally awards are made to fellowships. These enable graduate students undergraduate students. to carry out short-term research projects in the topic areas of the STRI research under the Fellowships provide a stipend to cover living supervision of staff scientists. Smaller projects expenses, worth US$800 per month, a research that are part of a larger thesis or dissertation allowance worth up to US$2,000 and round- are encouraged and exceptional exploratory trip coach airfare. Projects have a maximum projects or pilot studies with well-defined duration of three months. goals and methods may also be considered. Closing date: 15 Apr 16
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Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Eligibility profile April 2016, 15 July 2016, 15 October 2016, 15 ------January 2017, and repeated annually. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 06 Jan 16 Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Disciplines students, Travel for research purposes, ------Directed grants for individual investigators, Tropical Zones; Botany; Ecology; Zoology; Predoctoral fellowships, Thesis/Dissertation Forestry Science (Silvology); Atmospheric funding Sciences Award budget total: - Website: Contact Details http://www.stri.org/english/education_fello ------wships/fellowships/index.php Tel: +1 507 212 8031 Application form: Email: [email protected] https://solaa.si.edu/solaa/solaahome.html
ELLOWSHIPS FOR NON-DUTCH SCHOLARS Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences F
Description: The Netherlands Institute for Advanced cannot cover the fellow’s salary for the Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences duration of the stay at NIAS. (NIAS) invites applications for its fellowships Stipends range from €2,600 to €3,800 per for non-Dutch scholars. These enable month over a period of up to one academic prominent researchers and senior scholars in year. the humanities and social sciences to undertake research at the institute. Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Applicants should have at least three years of once a year. postdoctoral academic experience and they Posted date: 22 Jan 16 should already have made a contribution to Award type: Senior fellowships, Travel for their field. The applicants’ achievements and research purposes, Mid-Career fellowships, the added value of the proposed project for Retreats, Directed grants for individual the Dutch scientific community are given investigators special consideration in the evaluation Award amount max: - process. Applications by former NIAS fellows Award amount min: - and scholars at the end of their career are Award budget total: - given low priority. Website: Fellows receive an office at the institute and a http://www.nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/indivi dual-fellowships studio or family apartment at a subsidised Application form: rate. Travel costs for relocating to the NIAS http://www.nias.knaw.nl/documents/applica may be reimbursed, and a stipend may be tion-form-nias-fellowship-non-dutch-2017- available if the fellow’s home institution 18
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Eligibility profile See (Vatican City State), All African Nations, ------All Asian nations, All South American Country of applicant institution: Andorra, nations, All Oceanian nations, Kosovo, Anguilla, Albania, Armenia, Austria, Caribbean, Central America, All North Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, American nations Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, Canada, Switzerland, Serbia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Disciplines Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, ------Faroe Islands, France, United Kingdom, Social Sciences; Humanities Georgia, Gibraltar, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Contact Details Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, ------Monaco, Moldova, Republic of, Macedonia, NIAS the former Yugoslav Republic of, Malta, Meijboomlaan 1 Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian 2242 PR Wassenaar Federation, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, San Tel: +31 70 512 2700 Marino, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Holy Email: [email protected]
AGE ERLANDER FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION Socialdemokraterna – Social Democratic Party in Sweden T
Description: The Social Democratic Party in Sweden approximate deadline we expect. This call is invites applications for its international repeated 2 times a year. cooperation grants, under the Tage Erlander Posted date: 17 Mar 15 Foundation. These enable international Award type: Travel for research purposes, scholars to study Swedish social state of Directed grants for individual investigators, affairs in Sweden, and Swedish scholars to Young investigator awards, Personal study social state of affairs in a developing development, Networking/collaboration, country. Studies should preferably be Financial aid for postgraduate students conducted in the areas of solidarity, equality, Award budget total: - peace and freedom. Website: http://www.socialdemokraterna.se/Vart- Applications from young scholars are parti/Partistyrelse/Ekonomi-och- especially encouraged. Preference is given to stadgar/Stiftelser-fonder-och-medaljer/Tage- Erlanders-stiftelse-for-internationellt- applicants from a developing country. samarbete/ Swedish applicants must conduct their studies in a developing country. Eligibility profile
------Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the
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Disciplines ------Contact Details Political Ideologies; Political Parties & ------Institutions; International Communication; Tage Erlander Foundation for international Peace & Disarmament; International Relations cooperation & Diplomacy; International Security; c/o Socialdemokraterna Democracy & Participation; Civil & Human 105 60 Stockholm Rights; Economic Development; International Tel: +46 8 700 2600 Economics; Equal Educational Opportunity; Fax: +46 8 21 3018 Social Reform & Social Movements; International Aid & Relief
OHN F PERKINS JR MEMORIAL AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL PHYSIOLOGISTS American Physiological Society J
Description: The American Physiological Society invites Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 applications for the John F Perkins Jr April 2016, 15 October 2016, and repeated memorial award for international annually. physiologists. The award promotes cultural Posted date: 13 Mar 12 exchange and scientific collaborations by Award type: Travel for research purposes, providing supplementary aid to families of Directed grants to institutions, research foreign scientists working for a minimum of groups etc, Hosting visits three months in the US. In this way, young Award amount max: $5,000 scientists are able to bring their families and Award budget total: - thus make full use of the cultural exchange as Website: http://www.the- well as the scientific benefits associated with aps.org/mm/awards/Other-APS- an international collaboration. The award will Awards/Early-Career-Professional support family visits to the US for Application form: https://www.the- aps.org/awardapps/login/index.cfm postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty from overseas. Eligibility profile
------The programme presupposes that the visiting Country of applicant institution: Any scientist and their host already have made arrangements for scientific collaboration and Disciplines have sufficient funds to cover the needs of the ------visiting scientist. The application must be Growth & Growth Factors; Physiology; made jointly by the host and the visiting Human Physiology scientist. The host must be an APS member.
Contact Details The recipient receives funds generally not ------exceeding US$5,000. APS
9650 Rockville Pike Closing date: 15 Apr 16
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Bethesda, MD 20814-3991 Email: [email protected] Tel: +1 301 634 7118
REMATURITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE GRANTS March of Dimes Foundation P
Description: The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation Award budget total: - invites proposals for its prematurity research Website: initiative grants. These support projects http://www.marchofdimes.com/research/rese related to the aetiology of normal labour and archgrants.html preterm labour with the intent to provide new Application form: insights into preventing preterm births. http://researchgrants.marchofdimes.com/ Emphasis is upon proposals using technology of or encompassing contemporary Eligibility profile technologies of genetic, molecular biology and ------gene-environmental interactions. Country of applicant institution: Any
Proposals are especially encouraged from Disciplines established investigators heretofore not ------involved in prematurity prevention research Maternal Health; Nursing; Youth & and wishing to enter the prematurity domain. Adolescents; Physiology; Birth & Congenital Defects; Cancer Genetics; Public Health, Grants do not ordinarily cover the principal Health Services & Primary Care; Pregnancy & investigator’s or other faculty salary, but they Birth; Biological Sciences; Medical Genetics; do provide salary support for technical help. Animal Models; Genetics & Systems Biology; Funding is generally worth approximately Midwifery; Foetal Health & Prenatal US$145,000 per year over a period of up to Development; Primary Care; Diagnostic three years. Sciences; Allied Health Professions; Clinical Medicine; Population & Ecological Genetics; Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) Neonatal Disorders 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. MOD Foundation Posted date: 18 Feb 13 National Office Award type: Directed grants to institutions, 1275 Mamaroneck Avenue research groups etc White Plains, NY 10605 Award amount max: - Email: Award amount min: - [email protected]
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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 budget total: - publication grants. These contribute to Website: publication costs. http://www.sahgb.org.uk/publication- grants.html Priority is given to applicants resident in the British Isles, or working on the history of Eligibility profile British architecture. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Bursaries do not normally exceed £500, but in exceptional circumstances a grant of up to Contact Detail £1,000 may be awarded. ------Email: [email protected] Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Disciplines April 2016, 15 October 2016, and repeated ------annually. Architecture; History of Art; History of the Posted date: 27 Apr 15 Built Environment; Art & Design: History, Award type: Publish, edit, translate, Practice & Theory; Cultural History; British & disseminate, Directed grants for individual Irish History; History of Architecture investigators
RANSLATION FUND Wellcome Trust T
Description: The Wellcome Trust invites concept notes for another party. Projects may cover any aspect its translation fund. Awards support the of technology development from a range of development of innovative and ground disciplines, including physical, computational breaking technologies that address an unmet and life sciences. healthcare need in the biomedical area. Projects must have demonstrated proof-of- Proposals are welcome from academic and principle supported by experimental data, commercial organisations based in the UK and must plan to take the product, technology and overseas, including non-profit research or intervention to a stage at which it is institutions and those funded by the Medical sufficiently developed to be attractive to Research Council, Cancer Research UK and
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Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Disciplines Deadline information: Concept notes due by ------5pm GMT, 15 April; invited preliminary Biotechnology; Biomedical Engineering applications due by 5pm GMT, 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, Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 Academic-Industry links Fax: +44 20 7611 8857 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Techno
ESEARCH GRANTS Cystinosis Research Foundation R
Description: The Cystinosis Research Foundation invites proposals and the funds available at the time. applications for its research grants. These Grants are awarded for one to three years. support research to improve the immediate care of children and adults with cystinosis Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) and to develop new understanding and Deadline information: !! Call has not yet treatment of cystinosis to help these patients been announced by funder, but this is the in the future. approximate deadline we expect. Applications must be submitted by 12 The number of awards and their value will midnight PT. This call is repeated 2 times a depend on the number of outstanding year. Posted date: 04 Sep 14
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Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Diagnostic Sciences; Biological Sciences; research groups etc, Directed grants for Chronic Care; Primary Care; Clinical individual investigators Medicine; Public Health, Health Services & Award budget total: - Primary Care; Genetic Diseases Website: http://www.cystinosisresearch.org/For- Contact Details Researchers ------Cystinosis Research Foundation Eligibility profile 18802 Bardeen Avenue ------Irvine, CA 92612-1521 Country of applicant institution: Any Tel: +1 949 223 7610 Email: [email protected] Disciplines ------
RBAN YOUTH FUND United Nations Human Settlements Programme U
Description: The United Nations Human Settlements Application form: Programme invites applications for grants http://www.unhabitatyouthfund.org/Default under its urban youth fund. Grants support .aspx pilot projects on employment, governance, shelter and secure tenure. Applicant Eligibility profile organisations must be led by young people ------aged 15 to 32 years, and must be based in Country of applicant institution: Lower- cities or towns in developing countries. Middle-Income countries, Low Income Grants of up to US$25,000 are available. countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries
Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Sustainable Development & Resource Use; approximate deadline we expect. Government & Governance Studies; Poverty; Applications due by 12 noon GMT. This call Urban Sociology; Prejudice & Discrimination; is repeated once a year. Economic Development; Urban Planning & Posted date: 18 Feb 13 Policy; Social Work & Social Policy; Housing; Award type: Young investigator awards, Social Programmes; Environmental Science; Directed grants to institutions, research Built Environment & Spatial Planning groups etc, Development (Africa/Caribbean) Award amount max: $25,000 Contact Details Award amount min: ------Award budget total: - United Nations Human Settlements Website: http://unhabitat.org/urban- Programme, Partners and Youth Branch initiatives/urban-youth-fund/
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Monitoring and Research Division, UN Gigiri, 00100 GPO Nairobi N-block, 1st Floor Tel: +254 20 762 3900 P.O Box 30030 Email: [email protected]
ECKMAN STIPENDS Saint John's University H
Description: The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at for individual investigators, Travel for Saint John's University invites applications for research purposes the Heckman stipends. The program is Award amount max: $2,000 specifically intended to help scholars who Award budget total: - have not yet established themselves Website: professionally and whose research cannot http://www.hmml.org/research2010/heckman progress satisfactorily without consulting 10.htm materials to be found in the collections of HMML. Eligibility profile ------Undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral Country of applicant institution: Any scholars (those who are within three years of completing a terminal master’s or doctoral Disciplines degree) are eligible. ------Art & Design: History, Practice & Theory; Stipends up to $2,000 may be used to defray Materials Conservation & Preservation; the cost of travel, room and board, microfilm Manuscripts & Books; European Studies; reproduction, photo-duplication and other History; African Studies; Middle Eastern expenses associated with research at HMML. Studies Length of residency may range from two weeks to six months. Contact Details ------Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Committee on Research Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Hill Museum and Manuscript Library April 2016, 15 November 2016, and repeated Bush Center annually. P.O Box 7300 Posted date: 01 Mar 11 Saint John’s University Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Collegeville, MN 56321-7300 students, Access to libraries, Directed grants Tel: +1 320 363 3514
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ACULTY RESEARCH AWARDS Google F
Description: Google invites applications for its faculty Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) research awards programme. This supports Deadline information: !! Call has not yet cutting-edge academic research in computer been announced by funder, but this is the science, engineering and related fields. approximate deadline we expect. This call is Proposals must address one of the following repeated 2 times a year. research interests: Posted date: 05 Aug 14 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, computational neuroscience; research groups etc, Directed grants for economics and market algorithms; individual investigators, Innovation grants, Networking/collaboration, Equipment and geography and maps; materials human-computer interaction; Award amount max: $150,000 information retrieval, extraction and Award amount min: - organisation; Award budget total: - machine learning and data mining; Website: machine perception; http://research.google.com/university/relatio machine translation; ns/research_awards.html mobile; natural language processing; Eligibility profile networking; ------ online education at scale; Country of applicant institution: Any physical interactions with devices; policy and standards; Disciplines privacy; ------ robotics; Financial & White-Collar Crime; Multimedia security; Programming; Health Systems; Earth social networks; Sciences; Digital & Computer Art; Computer software engineering and Engineering & Hardware; Education; Social programming languages; Work & Social Policy; Classroom Technology; speech; Law; Schools Policy & Politics; Geography; structured data and database Information & Coding Theory; Information management; Science; Research Methods in Education; software and hardware systems. Business & Management Studies; Information Systems; Human-Computer Interaction & Full-time faculty members from universities Interfaces; Software Engineering; Decision worldwide may apply. Awards are worth a Science; 5G, Wireless & Mobile Networks; maximum US$150,000 but the median award Public Policy; Built Environment & Spatial amount is around US$50,000 to US$60,000. Planning; Mobile Devices, Apps & Most awards are funded at the amount Ecosystems; Administrative Big Data & needed to support basic expenses for a Informatics; Data Analysis; Algorithms; Civil graduate student for one year. Each funded & Human Rights; Mechanical Engineering; project will be assigned a Google sponsor. Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; Control Systems; Public Health; Neuroscience;
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Natural Language Processing; Cybersecurity; Communications Policy; Electrical & Machining & Machine Theory; Computer Electronic Engineering; Libraries & Science & Informatics; Industrial & Corporate Information Science; Politics & International Security; Machine Learning; Business Big Studies Data & Informatics; Economics & Econometrics; Information Retrieval; Contact Detail Innovation & Technology Management; ------Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; Media & Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH GRANTS Granulosa Cell Tumour Research Foundation R
Description: The Granulosa Cell Tumour Research research groups etc, Publish, edit, translate, Foundation invites applications for its disseminate research grants. These support research Award amount max: $10,000 targeting better therapies for granulosa cell Award amount min: - tumours and other research areas that could Award budget total: - directly benefit GCT patients. Website: http://gctf.org.nz/gctGrants.htm Application form: Applications are open to all researchers, as https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByNuLjIIp1j there is no limitation on where the research OYk5OZi05N3BZajQ/view?usp=sharing can be conducted. Eligibility profile Grants are worth up to US$10,000 each. ------Funding for equipment or travel will not be Country of applicant institution: Any considered. Disciplines Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Gynaecological Cancers; Molecularly been announced by funder, but this is the Targeted Therapy approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 17 Mar 15 ------Award type: Directed grants for individual Email: [email protected] investigators, Directed grants to institutions,
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NTERNATIONAL FUND FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY UNESCO I
Description: UNESCO invites applications for its Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, international fund for cultural diversity. This Barbados, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, aims to promote sustainable development and Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Belarus, Congo, the poverty reduction in developing countries by Democratic Republic of the, Central African supporting projects that foster the emergence Republic, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Chile, of a dynamic cultural sector. Activities should Cameroon, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, facilitate the introduction or elaboration of Serbia, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, policies and strategies that protect and Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Grenada, promote the diversity of cultural expressions Georgia, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, as well as the reinforcement of institutional Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Croatia, infrastructures supporting viable cultural Haiti, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, industries. Kenya, Cambodia, Comoros, Korea, Republic of, Kuwait, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Applications are open to state parties, public Saint Lucia, Lesotho, Morocco, Moldova, institutions and non-governmental Republic of, Madagascar, Macedonia, the organisations from developing countries; former Yugoslav Republic of, Mali, Mongolia, international NGOs from other countries are Mauritius, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, also eligible to apply provided that projects Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Oman, are carried out within developing countries. Panama, Peru, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Paraguay, Qatar, Rwanda, Grants are worth a maximum of US$100,000. Seychelles, Sudan, Senegal, El Salvador, Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) Tajikistan, Tunisia, Trinidad and Tobago, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Tanzania, United Republic of, Ukraine, been announced by funder, but this is the Uruguay, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, approximate deadline we expect. Venezuela, Vietnam, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Applications due by 12 midnight CET. This Montenegro call is repeated once a year. Posted date: 20 Feb 14 Disciplines Award type: Directed grants to institutions, ------research groups etc, Development Sociology; Cultural Heritage; Art & Design: (Africa/Caribbean) History, Practice & Theory; Social Work & Award amount max: $100,000 Social Policy; Cultural Studies; International Award budget total: - Relations & Diplomacy; Multicultural & Website: Cross-Cultural Studies; Social Policy http://en.unesco.org/creativity/ifcd/apply
Contact Details Eligibility profile ------2005 Convention Secretariat Country of applicant institution: Any UNESCO Country of applicant institution: United Arab Section for the Diversity of Cultural Emirates, Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Expressions Albania, Armenia, Angola, Argentina, 7 Place Fontenoy
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75352 Paris 07 SP Email: [email protected]
TRATEGIC GRANT International Visegrad Fund S
Description: The International Visegrad Fund invites Award type: Directed grants for individual applications for its strategic grants. These investigators, Directed grants to institutions, support long-term projects of strategic research groups etc, character that link institutions of all four Networking/collaboration Visegrad group countries. Award budget total: - Website: Any legal entity or natural person worldwide http://visegradfund.org/grants/strategic- can apply. However, priority is given to grants/ public and non-profit institutions. Application form: http://applications.visegradfund.org/Login.a All four V4 countries must be represented. spx?t=8
Funding will cover a maximum of 70 per cent Eligibility profile of project costs. The maximum budget is ------unlimited, although the average budget is Country of applicant institution: Any approximately €40,000. Up to 15 per cent of Disciplines the granted sum may be allocated for ------overhead costs, and up to seven per cent for Energy Planning & Policy; Transport tangible and intangible assets. Projects may Infrastructure Management; Energy last up to 36 months. Consumption; Public Infrastructure & Asset
Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Management; Energy Transmission & Smart Deadline information: All proposals must be Grids; Energy Conservation & Efficiency submitted both online, with the online application system approximately Contact Details one month before the deadline, and ------delivered in hardcopy form with International Visegrad fund accompanying enclosures. This call is Král’ovské údolie 8 repeated once a year. 811 02 Posted date: 12 Aug 15 Tel: +421 259 203 811 Email: [email protected]
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ESEARCH GRANTS Israel Institute R
Description: The Israel Institute invites applications for its Application form: research grants. These enable scholars, https://www.grantrequest.com/SID_1712?SA academics and independent researchers to =SNA&FID=35008 research issues related to modern Israel, including Israeli history, politics, economics Eligibility profile and law. The aim is to facilitate the ------publication of a book or a number of scholarly Country of applicant institution: Any articles that make a serious contribution to the field of Israel studies or promotes a greater Disciplines understanding of modern Israel. ------Middle Eastern History; African Studies; Applicants may involve additional scholars or Middle Eastern Studies; Political Science; researchers in their proposal. Political History; Korean History; History; South-East Asian History; Economics & Grants are worth up to US$10,000. Econometrics; Asian Studies; Politics & Economics of the Middle East; Chinese Closing date: 15 Apr 16 History; Politics & International Studies; Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Japanese History; Law; History of the Indian April 2016, 1 August 2016, and repeated Subcontinent annually. Posted date: 15 Oct 14 Contact Details Award type: Directed grants for individual ------investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Israel Institute research groups etc, Publish, edit, translate, 1250 Eye Street NW disseminate Suite 710 Award amount max: $10,000 Washington, DC 20005 Website: Tel: +1 202 289 1431 http://www.israelinstitute.org/programs/rese arch-grants
OMPARATIVE RESEARCH NETWORKS Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa C
Description: The Council for the Development of Social networks. This programme aims to encourage Science Research in Africa invites proposals intra-African comparative work that explores for the formation of comparative research and exploits the variegated nature of realities
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possibilities of Africa’s youth bulge; Disciplines the formulation, adoption, signature, ------ratification, domestication and Youth & Adolescents; Public Policy; Climate implementation of regional policies in Change & Global Warming; Labour Africa; Economics; Aesthetics; Environmental the gendered economics of domestic Management; Gender Roles & Sexuality; labour regimes in Africa. Health Systems in Developing Countries;
Public Health; African Studies; Government & Researchers based in African universities and Governance Studies; Feminist, Women's & centres of research are eligible to form Gender Studies; Ecological Impacts of Climate comparative research networks. These should Change; Use & Management of Natural have between three and five members, be Resources; Environmental Conservation & multidisciplinary in composition, be sensitive Biodiversity; Labour & Demographic to gender issues and accommodative of Economics younger scholars.
Contact Details Grants vary from group to group and ------generally range between US$20,000 and CODESRIA US$35,000. Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop X Canal IV
BP 3304, CP 18524 Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Dakar Deadline information: Tel: +221 33 825 9821 Posted date: 26 Jan 16 Fax: +221 33 824 1289 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Email: [email protected]
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ESEARCH GRANTS Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain R
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 costs of meetings etc., Travel for research purposes, travel, building surveys, photography and Student awards conference attendance. Award amount max: £1,000 Award budget total: - Priority is given to applicants resident in the Website: http://www.sahgb.org.uk/research- British Isles, or working on the history of grants.html British architecture, as well as postgraduate students and those within five years of Eligibility profile completing a postgraduate degree. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Bursaries do not normally exceed £500, but in exceptional circumstances a grant of up to Disciplines £1,000 may be awarded. ------History of Art; History of the Built Environment; British & Irish History; History Closing date: 15 Apr 16 of Architecture; Architecture; Art & Design: Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 History, Practice & Theory; Cultural History April 2016, 15 October 2016, and repeated annually. Contact Detail Posted date: 27 Apr 15 ------Email: [email protected]
OCTORAL INTERNSHIPS Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research D
Description: The Hong Kong Institute for Monetary capital account liberalisation in Research invites applications for its doctoral mainland China, and its implications internships. These support visits to HKIMR, for Hong Kong; lasting typically three months. Applicants are monetary and financial cooperation in encouraged to address the following topics: Asia; renmimbi offshore market monetary and financial stability in development in Hong Kong. Hong Kong and mainland China;
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Each applicant must be enrolled in an Eligibility profile economics, finance or related PhD ------programme. Preference is given to candidates Country of applicant institution: Any in the final stages of writing their PhD dissertation, and who are conducting research Disciplines on issues of important for the Asian region. ------Politics & International Studies; Financial HKIMR offers travel and accommodation Law; Economic Development; Financial allowances for interns from overseas, as well Regulation; Business & Management Studies; as a daily stipend. Economics & Econometrics; Law; Sales & Marketing; Market Structure & Pricing; Financial Economics; Banking; Financial Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) Planning; International Trade; Accounting & Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Finance been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 20 Oct 14 HKIMR Award type: Directed grants for individual 55/F, Two International Finance Centre investigators, Travel for research purposes 8 Finance Street, Central Award amount max: - Tel: +852 2878 1978 Award budget total: - Fax: +852 2878 7006 Website: http://www.hkimr.org/content-id14 Email: [email protected]
MPACTAFRICA Code for Africa I
Description: The Code for Africa invites applications for its Teams of journalists or news innovators from impactAFRICA programme. This supports all across the world may apply. All projects data journalism that tackles development should include members from their target issues, such as public healthcare, in Ghana, country of Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Africa, Tanzania or Zambia. Academic Zambia. Proposals should focus on in-depth research projects must demonstrate a media reportage into hidden, neglected or under- partnership to publish the research in reported health and development issues. The journalistic format that adheres to the resulting projects should offer compelling innovative storytelling guidelines and is storytelling, told in an original way that uses innovative and designed to reach a large digital techniques for improved audience audience in one of the eligible countries. engagement, and that also uses data to personalise or localise stories for maximum The total budget is US$500,000. The 10 impact. finalists will receive production grants to
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ESEARCH CAREER ENHANCEMENT AWARDS American Physiological Society R
Description: The American Physiological Society invites Posted date: 19 Sep 13 applications for its research career Award type: Travel for research purposes, enhancement awards. These awards are Directed grants for individual investigators, designed to enhance the career potential of Personal development APS regular members. Award amount max: $4,000 Award budget total: - The award can be used to support short-term Website: http://www.the- visits to other laboratories to acquire new aps.org/mm/awards/Other-APS- specific skills and to support attendance at Awards/Established-Professional special courses devoted primarily to methodologies appropriate for both a new Eligibility profile investigator and a more senior investigator ------entering a new field of research. Country of applicant institution: Any
Awards are worth up to US$4,000. Disciplines ------Closing date: 16 Apr 16 Physiology; Growth & Growth Factors; Deadline information: Deadlines on: 16 Human Physiology April 2016, 15 September 2016, and repeated annually.
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Contact Details Bethesda ------MD 20814-3991 APS Tel: +1 301 634 7164 9650 Rockville Pike
OMING SOON: AUSTRALIA-ASEAN COUNCIL GRANTS Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade C
Description: The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australia citizens or permanent residents, as will shortly be inviting applications for its well as Australian entities with an Australian Australia-Association of South East Asian business number or Australian company Nations council grants. They are scheduled to number, may apply. Joint applications may be open 29 February and close 15 April 2016. The accepted from non-Australian citizen or following information is from the previous permanent resident individuals or round and is subject to change. organisations who are working in partnership with Australian individuals, groups or These grants provide seed funding for organisations, innovative proposals relevant to promote the cooperation between Australia and South-East Grants will normally be worth between Asian countries of Brunei Darussalam, AU$10,000 and AU$40,000 per application per Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, year. Around eight to 10 projects will be Burma, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and funded. Multiyear funding may also be Vietnam. The council priorities funding for available for up to three years. activities which: increase people-to-people linkages Closing date: 18 Apr 16 between Australia and South-East Deadline information: Applications are Asian countries, particularly between invited between 1 February and 3pm, 18 people and institutions that have the April 2016. capacity to influence others; Posted date: 06 Jan 16 increase knowledge and Award type: Directed grants to institutions, understanding in Australia of South- research groups etc, Technology East Asian countries, and the innovation/development, Innovation grants, opportunities they present; Travel for research purposes, Networking/collaboration, Directed grants enhance awareness and for individual investigators understanding in Australia and South- Award amount max: $120,000 East Asia of each other’s cultures, Award amount min: $10,000 values and traditions. Award budget total: $300,000 Priority areas include trade, women in Website: http://dfat.gov.au/people-to- leadership, innovation and technology, people/foundations-councils- media, education, arts and culture. institutes/australia-asean- council/Pages/australia-asean-council.aspx
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Economics of Asia; Arts; Politics & Economics Eligibility profile of Australia & New Zealand ------Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Australia ------DFAT Disciplines RG Casey Building ------John McEwen Crescent Leadership; Biotechnology; Computer Science Barton ACT 0221 & Informatics; International Trade; Media Tel: +61 2 6261 1333 Studies; Engineering; Education; Politics & Email: [email protected]
OMING SOON: TRANSNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS Water JPI C
Description: The WaterWorks ERA-NET cofund, in private non-profit organisations, and private collaboration with the Water JPI and the companies may apply in consortia. Each FACCE JPI, will shortly be inviting consortium must include a minimum of three applications for its transnational collaborative partners from three different participating research projects. The call is expected to open countries. Researchers from third countries on 16 February 2016, with an expected closing can participate at their own expense. date on 19 April 2016. The following information may be subject to change. Projects may last between 24 and 26 months. The indicative total budget for this call is €26 This call aims to support transnational million. research on sustainable management of water resources in agriculture, forestry and Closing date: 19 Apr 16 (Forecast) freshwater aquaculture sectors. Proposals Deadline information: !! Call has not yet must focus on at least one of the following been announced by funder, but this is the topics: approximate deadline we expect. Pre- proposals are invited between 16 February increasing the efficiency and resilience and 5pm CET, 19 April; full proposals due of water uses; by 5pm CET, 15 September 2016. monitoring and reducing soil and Posted date: 18 Jan 16 water pollution; Award type: Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Academic-Industry integrating social and economic links, Networking/collaboration, Publish, dimensions into the sustainable edit, translate, disseminate management and governance of water Award amount max: - resources. Award budget total: €26,000,000
Website: Universities, other higher education http://www.waterjpi.eu/index.php?option=c institutions, public research institutions,
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EADLINE BROUGHT FORWARD: EQUIPMENT GRANTS Alzheimer's Research UK D
Description: The Alzheimer’s Research UK has brought Closing date: 20 Apr 16 forward the deadline of its equipment grants. Deadline information: Deadlines on: 18 The previous closing date of 20 November has November 2015, 20 April 2016. been brought forward to 18 November 2015. Posted date: 26 Aug 15 All other call details remain unchanged. Award type: Equipment and materials Award amount max: £100,000 These provide funds for scientific equipment, Award amount min: £10,000 flexibly defined. Applications for joint Award budget total: - funding for even larger pieces are accepted. Website: http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants ARUK would prefer to place equipment /equipment/ within centres of excellence, such as Application form: https://a-r.org.uk/ institutions within the ARUK network, where Eligibility profile it would enhance a strong dementia research ------environment. The lead applicant and point of Country of applicant institution: Any contact must be based in a UK academic or Country of applicant institution: United research institution. The application may Kingdom include researchers or institutions outside the
UK. Lead applicants or co-applicants must Disciplines hold tenure appointments. ------
Alzheimer's Disease & Senile Dementia Grants are worth between £10,000 and £100,000 each.
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OMEN PEACEMAKERS PROGRAMME University of San Diego W
Description: The Joan B Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice approximate deadline we expect. This call is at the University of San Diego invites repeated once a year. applications for its women peacemakers Posted date: 07 Apr 15 programme. This enables women Award type: Personal development, Travel peacemakers to spend 10 weeks at the for research purposes, Development university, in order to document their stories (Africa/Caribbean), Publish, edit, translate, and best practices relating to human rights disseminate, Networking/collaboration and peacemaking efforts in their home Award budget total: - countries. Applicants are paired with a peace Website: writer and a documentary film team to http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ipj/pr document their stories. ograms/women_peace_makers/ Application form: Applicants must be women who: http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/docu ments/institutes/ipj/2015-WPM-
Application.doc have made significant contributions to
peacemaking or defending human Eligibility profile rights in their communities; ------ have been active in the field for at Country of applicant institution: Lower- least 10 years; Middle-Income countries, Low Income are active at the grassroots, local, countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries national or international level, and have concentrated their efforts on Disciplines their own country; ------ have typically led or created Civil & Human Rights; Democracy & organisations, networks or Participation; Litigation & Mediation; Peace & movements for peace or human rights; Disarmament; Politics & International Studies are willing to share their work, insights and challenges. Contact Details ------Funding covers local transportation costs, Joan B Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice return airfare to San Diego, housing, living University of San Diego expenses and incidental costs for the 10-week 5998 Alcalá Park period. San Diego CA 92110-2492 Tel: +1 619 260 7570 Closing date: 20 Apr 16 (Forecast) Email: [email protected] Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the
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EADLINE BROUGHT FORWARD: SABBATICALS AND SECONDMENTS GRANTS Alzheimer's Research UK D
Description: The Alzheimer's Research UK has brought Closing date: 20 Apr 16 forward the closing date for its sabbaticals Deadline information: Deadlines on: 18 and secondments grants. The previous closing November 2015, 20 April 2016. date of 20 November 2015 has been brought Posted date: 26 Aug 15 forward to 18 November 2015. All other call Award type: Directed grants for individual details remain unchanged. investigators, Networking/collaboration, Equipment and materials These support tenure or tenure-track Award amount max: £50,000 researchers who wish to enrich their research Award amount min: - programmes and establish collaborations. The Award budget total: - scheme enables researchers to experience new Website: and interdisciplinary areas, which would not http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants be possible through existing funds. /sabbaticalsecondment/ Application form: https://a-r.org.uk/
The lead applicant and point of contact must Eligibility profile be based in a UK academic or research ------institution. Applications may include Country of applicant institution: Any researchers or institutions outside the UK. Country of applicant institution: United Lead applicants or co-applicants must hold Kingdom tenure or tenure-track appointments.
Disciplines Grants are worth up to £50,000 each for a ------duration of six to 12 months and may be used Alzheimer's Disease & Senile Dementia towards staff members, equipment, animals and running costs.
ESEARCH FELLOW AWARD Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation R
Description: The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Researchers world wide who hold a PhD, MD invites applications for its research fellow or equivalent degree at the post-doctorate, award programme. The goal of the clinical fellow or junior faculty level are programme is to help support young encouraged to apply. Post-doctorate and investigators studying in the field of multiple medical fellows applying for the award must myeloma. work under the supervision of a research mentor in the multiple myeloma field.
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Proposals may request up to US$75,000, Application form: including up to 10 per cent for indirect costs, https://proposalcentral.altum.com/ for one year. Eligibility profile Closing date: 21 Apr 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. Disciplines Applications due by 5pm EST. This call is ------repeated once a year. Leukaemia & Other Blood Cancers Posted date: 16 Jan 15 Award type: Directed grants for individual Contact Details investigators, Postdoctoral training ------fellowships, Early-Career fellowships, MMRF Travel to conferences, meetings etc. 383 Main Avenue Award amount max: $75,000 5th floor Award amount min: - Norwalk, CT 06851 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 203 652 0233 Website: http://www.themmrf.org/research- Email: [email protected] partners/mmrf-research-grants/
ARY R DAWSON GRANT Society of Vertebrate Paleontology M
Description: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology invites Deadline information: !! Call has not yet applications for the Mary R Dawson Grant. been announced by funder, but this is the This recognises graduate student research approximate deadline we expect. This call is excellence and promotes a successful career in repeated once a year. vertebrate paleontology by supporting the Posted date: 07 Feb 13 recipient’s dissertation research. Award type: Young investigator awards, Thesis/Dissertation funding, Travel for Current membership in the Society of research purposes, Directed grants for Vertebrate Paleontology is required, and the individual investigators, Financial aid for student must have advanced to candidacy for postgraduate students the PhD. Award budget total: - Website: http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Award- The award may be used to cover dissertation (1).aspx research travel, data collection and analyses. Eligibility profile
------Closing date: 22 Apr 16 (Forecast) Country of applicant institution: Any
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Palaeontology & Palynology; Biological Departement of Biological Sciences Sciences; Palaeoclimatology; Vertebrate Clemson University Biology; Earth Sciences; Physical Sciences; 132 Long Hall Evolutionary Adaptation & Variation; Clemson, SC 29634 Evolutionary Biology; Seismology & Seismic Email: [email protected] Waves; Animal Physiology
ICHARD ESTES MEMORIAL GRANT Society of Vertebrate Paleontology R
Description: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology invites Website: http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Award- applications for the Richard Estes memorial (2).aspx grant. This is intended to support graduate research in non-mammalian vertebrate Eligibility profile palaeontology, with emphasis on systematics, ------morphology, biography and paleoecology. Country of applicant institution: Any The society especially welcomes one-off field- based activities. Disciplines ------Applicants must be members of the society Biological Sciences; Seismology & Seismic and graduate students at the time of Waves; Palaeoclimatology; Evolutionary application. Biology; Physical Sciences; Palaeontology & Palynology; Evolutionary Adaptation & Closing date: 22 Apr 16 (Forecast) Variation; Animal Physiology; Vertebrate Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Biology; Earth Sciences been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 07 Feb 13 Museum für Naturkunde Award type: Directed grants for individual Leibniz-Institute for Research on Evolution & investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate Biodiversity at Humboldt University Berlin students, Thesis/Dissertation funding Invalidenstrasse 43 Award budget total: - 10115 Berlin Email: [email protected]
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AREER ENHANCEMENT AWARDS American Society for Bone and Mineral Research C
Description: The American Society for Bone and Mineral Website: Research invites applications for its career http://www.asbmr.org/Grants/Detail.aspx?ci enhancement awards. These awards foster the d=6fcf57fe-6cf0-4a8c-8fdc-b3d6e4429feb academic potential and career of a bone and mineral faculty member and facilitate the Eligibility profile acquisition of skills and knowledge not ------otherwise available to the applicant but useful Country of applicant institution: Any for the specific project outlined in the application. Three types of career Disciplines enhancement award are available: ------Clinical Medicine; Primary Care; Orthopaedic collaborative research support award; Surgery; Human Biological Sciences; Bone sabbatical research support award; Cancers; Physiology; Osteoporosis & Other general research support award. Bone Diseases; Translational Medicine; Public Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Closing date: 22 Apr 16 (Forecast) Musculoskeletal System; Diagnostic Sciences 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. ASBMR Posted date: 13 Nov 12 2025 M Street, NW, Suite 800 Award type: Personal development, Washington, DC 20036-3309 Networking/collaboration, Directed grants Tel: +1 202 367 1161 for individual investigators Fax: +1 202 367 2161 Award amount max: $50,000 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
ARVIN AND BETH HIX PREPARATOR’S GRANT Society of Vertebrate Paleontology M
Description: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology invites palaeontology through the advancement of applications for its Marvin and Beth Hix preparation will be considered, although preparators’ grant. This is intended to further preference will be given to proposals for the field of vertebrate palaeontology through training apprenticeships and workshops, the advancement of preparation. Any primarily travel expenses to learn of teach proposal which furthers the field of vertebrate preparation.
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To be eligible for the grants, applicants must Country of applicant institution: Any be current members of the society. Disciplines Closing date: 22 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Vertebrate Biology; Animal Physiology; been announced by funder, but this is the Seismology & Seismic Waves; Evolutionary approximate deadline we expect. This call is Biology; Palaeontology & Palynology; repeated once a year. Evolutionary Adaptation & Variation; Posted date: 07 Feb 13 Palaeoclimatology; Biological Sciences; Award type: Directed grants for individual Physical Sciences; Earth Sciences investigators, Equipment and materials, Travel for research purposes, Personal Contact Details development ------Award budget total: - Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Website: http://vertpaleo.org/awards/hix- History preparators-grant.aspx 2401 Chautaugua Avenue Norman, OK 73072 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------
ATTERSON MEMORIAL GRANT Society of Vertebrate Paleontology P
Description: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology invites Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate applications for the Patterson memorial grant. students, Directed grants for individual The purpose of this award is to support investigators graduate-level student field work in Award budget total: - vertebrate paleontology. Proposals must be Website: http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Award- for field work, and particular consideration (3).aspx will be given to proposals for field work that is innovative, venturesome and unusual. Eligibility profile ------Applicants and their sponsors must be SVP Country of applicant institution: Any members. Disciplines ------Closing date: 22 Apr 16 (Forecast) Palaeoclimatology; Animal Physiology; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Physical Sciences; Vertebrate Biology; been announced by funder, but this is the Seismology & Seismic Waves; Evolutionary approximate deadline we expect. This call is Biology; Earth Sciences; Biological Sciences; repeated once a year. Palaeontology & Palynology; Evolutionary Posted date: 07 Feb 13 Adaptation & Variation
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Contact Details P.O Box 37012, NHB, MRC-121 ------Washington, DC 20013-7012 Smithsonian Institution Email: [email protected] Department of Paleobiology
LBERT E WOOD AWARD Society of Vertebrate Paleontology A
Description: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology invites research purposes, Financial aid for applications for the Albert E Wood award. postgraduate students This supports student research that involves Award amount max: $1,200 museum and university vertebrate fossil or Award amount min: - natural history collections. Proposals must be Award budget total: - for collection-based work on some aspect of Website: http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Award- vertebrate evolution, with special attention (9).aspx given to those that greatly enhance the value Application form: of fossil material already residing in https://online.vertpaleo.org/svpssa/sbmssam collections. ysubmittals.sbmcreate?p_collection_id=2015 _SVP_AWARDS&p_subcollection_cd=AEW Both the applicant and the sponsor must be &p_topic=AEW current SVP members. Eligibility profile
------The award is worth up to US$1,200. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 22 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Palaeobiology; Vertebrate Biology repeated once a year. Posted date: 30 Mar 15 Contact Details Award type: Student awards, Directed grants ------for individual investigators, Travel for Email: [email protected]
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VANS FUND University of Cambridge E
Description: Cambridge University invites applications Eligibility profile under the Evans fund. This supports research ------in anthropology or archaeology in relation to Country of applicant institution: Any south-east Asia. Disciplines Graduates from any university may apply. ------Asian Studies; Archaeology of Asia; Closing date: 23 Apr 16 (Forecast) Anthropology Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. ------Applications due by 12 noon. This call is Evans Fund repeated once a year. Department of Social Anthropology Posted date: 11 Mar 15 Free School Lane Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Cambridge students, Directed grants for individual CB2 3RF investigators Tel: +44 1223 334 599 Award budget total: - Fax: +44 1223 335 993 Website: Email: [email protected] http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/about- us/funding/research-funding/evans-fund
OSTPONED: MOBILEX MOBILITY GRANTS Styrelsen for Forskning og Innovation – Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation P
Description: The Danish Council for Independent early-career researchers to carry out research Research’s Medical Sciences division’s (FSS) projects at research institutions in Denmark Mobilex mobility grants will not be offered in and abroad. Spring 2016 on account of lack of funding. The following information is from the previous Applicants must have obtained a PhD or round and is subject to change. equivalent qualifications. A researcher already employed at a Danish institution may These aim to facilitate more career paths in apply for a project to be carried out abroad, Danish research, increase mobility within and a researcher employed abroad may apply Danish research environments and enable
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Closing date: 23 Apr 16 (Forecast) Medicine & Health 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. Danish Council for Independent Research Posted date: 11 Dec 15 Bredgade 40 Award type: Directed grants for individual 1260 København K investigators, Equipment and materials, Tel: +45 7231 8200 Travel for research purposes Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH AWARD Institution of Structural Engineers R
Description: The Institution of Structural Engineers invites The award is worth £5,000 up front and £1,000 applications for its research award. This upon delivery. Projects must begin within six supports the development of innovative months of the award being made. research areas in structural engineering and facilitates additional aspects of ongoing Closing date: 24 Apr 16 (Forecast) research. Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Applicants from industry and academia at approximate deadline we expect. This call is any stage in their careers may apply. repeated once a year. Industrial support is required. Posted date: 13 Feb 15
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Award type: Directed grants for individual Country of applicant institution: Any investigators, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Academic-Industry Disciplines links, Innovation grants, ------Networking/collaboration Structural Engineering Award amount max: £6,000 Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: http://www.istructe.org/events------awards/awards/research-award Technical Department Application form: Institution of Structural Engineers http://www.istructe.org/downloads/events/a 47-58 Bastwick Street wards/research-award/is_0720-research- London, EC1V 3PS grant-appl-form-2015-v1b.aspx Tel: +44 207 235 4535 Fax: +44 207 235 4294 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------
ALL FOR PARTNERSHIP CONCEPT PAPERS FOR SENEGAL Agency for International Development (USAID) C
Description: The Agency for International Development (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to (USAID) invites applications for its call for institutions, research groups etc partnership concept papers for Senegal. This Award budget total: $2,000,000 supports activities related to the Mission’s Website: Resilience in the Sahel Region (RISE) strategy http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view- to increase resilience of chronically vulnerable opportunity.html?oppId=280487 populations in agro-pastoral and marginal agriculture livelihood zones of the Sahel. Eligibility profile ------Any type of entity may apply. Country of applicant institution: All African Nations The total budget is US$2 million for eight awards. Disciplines ------Ref: RFA-625-16-000001. Social Reform & Social Movements; Development Studies Closing date: 26 Apr 16 Deadline information: Contact Details Posted date: 14 Dec 15 ------Award type: Directed grants for individual Tel: +1 221 33 869 6100 investigators, Development Email: [email protected]
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AREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD C Medical Research Council
Description: The Medical Research Council invites September 2015, 27 April 2016, 22 September applications for its career development 2016. award. This supports postdoctoral researchers Posted date: 25 Sep 14 who are not clinically active to consolidate Award type: Early-Career fellowships, their research skills and make the transition Directed grants for individual investigators, from postdoctoral researcher to independent Travel for research purposes, investigator. Proposals are encouraged across Networking/collaboration, Equipment and all areas of the research council’s remit. materials Applications may range from basic studies Award budget total: - with relevance to mechanisms of disease, to Website: http://www.mrc.ac.uk/skills- translational and clinical research. careers/fellowships/non-clinical- fellowships/career-development-award-cda/ Applicants should have a PhD or equivalent. Application form: https://je-s.rcuk.ac.uk/
Applicants who hold a tenured academic Eligibility profile position are not eligible. ------
Country of applicant institution: Any The fellowship provides a salary, support for research staff, consumables expenses, travel Disciplines costs and capital equipment appropriate for ------the research project under full economic costs. Medicine & Health; Pharmacy & MRC encourages applicants to consider the Pharmacology; Primary Care; Diagnostic funding for research outside the UK, at a Sciences; Nursing; Public Health, Health second UK institution or within industry in Services & Primary Care; Human Biological order to establish collaborative networks or Sciences; Allied Health Professions; Clinical cross-sector development. Medicine; Dentistry; Physiology
The maximum duration of an award is five Contact Details years. ------
MRC Closing date: 27 Apr 16 Polaris House Deadline information: Applications are North Star Avenue accepted between 16 March and 4pm, 27 April 2016; and between 12 August and 4pm, Swindon SN2 1FL 22 September 2016. Deadlines on: 24 Email: [email protected]
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OSTPONED: MOBILEX MOBILITY GRANTS Styrelsen for Forskning og Innovation – Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation P
Description: The Danish Council for Independent Closing date: 27 Apr 16 (Forecast) Research’s Technology and Production Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Sciences division’s (FTP) Mobilex mobility been announced by funder, but this is the grants will not be offered in Spring 2016 on approximate deadline we expect. This call is account of lack of funding. The following repeated once a year. information is from the previous round and is Posted date: 11 Dec 15 subject to change. Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Travel for research purposes, These aim to facilitate more career paths in Equipment and materials Danish research, increase mobility within Award amount max: - Danish research environments and enable Award amount min: - early-career researchers to carry out research Award budget total: - projects at research institutions in Denmark Website: http://ufm.dk/en/research-and- innovation/funding-programmes-for- and abroad. research-and-innovation/calls/2015/danish-
council-for-independent-research-call-for- Applicants must have obtained a PhD or proposals-autumn-2015-and-spring-2016 equivalent qualifications. A researcher already employed at a Danish institution may Application form: http://ufm.dk/en/research- apply for a project to be carried out abroad, and-innovation/funding-programmes-for- and a researcher employed abroad may apply research-and-innovation/e-grant for a project to be carried out at a Danish research institution. Eligibility profile ------Grants are open to all nationalities but the Country of applicant institution: Any applicant may not, within the last three years, have stayed more than 12 months in the Disciplines country where the project will be carried out. ------Engineering Grants have a duration of 24 months. The funds may be used for salaries, operating-, Contact Details travel- and living costs and equipment. ------Overhead for the employing institution is also Danish Council for Independent Research included, if the institution is located in Styrelsen for Forskning og Innovation Denmark. Bredgade 40 1260 København K Up to 16 grants are available across all five Tel: +45 7231 8200 council divisions. Email: [email protected]
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ACULTY GRANT PROGRAMME Marfan Foundation F
Description: The Marfan Foundation, in collaboration with Closing date: 27 Apr 16 (Forecast) the Canadian Marfan Association, invites Deadline information: !! Call has not yet applications for its faculty grant programme. been announced by funder, but this is the This supports research into Marfan syndrome approximate deadline we expect. This call is and related disorders. repeated once a year. Posted date: 13 Mar 15 Special areas of interest include: Basic Award type: Directed grants to institutions, research, translational studies and clinical research groups etc, Clinical trials studies in cardiovascular, orthopedic, Award amount max: $100,000 pulmonary, ophthalmologic, pain and other Award amount min: - pertinent areas utilising synergistic Award budget total: - collaborations; integration of novel theories Website: http://www.marfan.org/nm-cma- from non-traditional researchers into faculty- grant?utm_source=Researcher+RFP+Email+- established paradigms; novel animal model +3.21.14&utm_campaign=Research+RFP+- systems; innovation; and the distillation of +3.27.14&utm_medium=email knowledge into practical new therapies. Application form: Special consideration is given to proposals in http://www.marfan.org/download/file/fid/35 non-cardiac disciplines and clinical research 16 areas. Eligibility profile A principal investigator must hold an MD, ------DO, PhD, ScD, DDS, DVM or equivalent Country of applicant institution: Any degree. The investigator must have proven ability to pursue independent research as Disciplines evidenced by original research publications in ------peer-reviewed journals and should hold a Connective Tissue; Genetic Diseases; position of associate professor or above. Cardiovascular Diseases; Respiratory Faculty members with less experience who Medicine have obtained an NIH R-01 grant are also eligible. Work can be performed in the US or Contact Details internationally and non-US appointments are ------acceptable. Marfan Foundation 22 Manhasset Avenue The MF and the CMA will co-fund one two- Port Washington NY 11050 year grant for US$100,000, and the MF will Tel: +1 516 883 8712 award an additional one or two two-year Fax: +1 516 883 8040 grants worth US$100,000 each. Email: [email protected]
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OSTPONED: MOBILEX MOBILITY GRANTS Styrelsen for Forskning og Innovation – Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation P
Description: The Danish Council for Independent Closing date: 28 Apr 16 (Forecast) Research’s Natural Sciences division’s (FNU) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Mobilex mobility grants will not be offered in been announced by funder, but this is the Spring 2016 on account of lack of funding. The approximate deadline we expect. This call is following information is from the previous repeated once a year. round and is subject to change. Posted date: 11 Dec 15 Award type: Directed grants for individual These aim to facilitate more career paths in investigators, Travel for research purposes, Danish research, increase mobility within Equipment and materials Danish research environments and enable Award budget total: - early-career researchers to carry out research Website: http://ufm.dk/en/research-and- projects at research institutions in Denmark innovation/funding-programmes-for- and abroad. research-and-innovation/calls/2015/danish- council-for-independent-research-call-for-
proposals-autumn-2015-and-spring-2016 Applicants must have obtained a PhD or Application form: http://ufm.dk/en/research- equivalent qualifications. A researcher and-innovation/funding-programmes-for- already employed at a Danish institution may research-and-innovation/e-grant apply for a project to be carried out abroad, and a researcher employed abroad may apply Eligibility profile for a project to be carried out at a Danish ------research institution. Country of applicant institution: Any
Grants are open to all nationalities but the Disciplines applicant may not, within the last three years, ------have stayed more than 12 months in the Materials Sciences; History of Science; Food country where the project will be carried out. Science; Physics; Chemistry; Earth Systems & Environmental Sciences; Biological Sciences Grants have a duration of 24 months. The funds may be used for salaries, operating-, Contact Details travel- and living costs and equipment. ------Overhead for the employing institution is also Danish Council for Independent Research included, if the institution is located in Bredgade 40 Denmark. 1260 København K Tel: +45 7231 8200 Up to 16 grants are available across all five Email: [email protected] council divisions.
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2020-INNOSUP-2016 FOR A BETTER INNOVATION SUPPORT TO SMES – TOPIC 4 Horizon 2020: Industrial Leadership H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: Closing date: 28 Apr 16 Industrial Leadership, under the Innovation Deadline information: Proposals invited in SMEs work programme, invites proposals between 10 November 2015 and 5pm for its H2020-INNOSUP-2016 for a better Brussels time, 28 April 2016. innovation support to SMEs call. Proposals Posted date: 15 Oct 15 must address the topic INNOSUP-04-2016 Award type: Networking/collaboration, SMEs for social innovation – challenge Directed grants to institutions, research platform. The action aims at incentivising groups etc, Innovation grants more SMEs to seize innovation opportunities Award amount max: - arising from social needs or societal Award amount min: - challenges, and thereby develop further Award budget total: €3,500,000 solutions to those, in partnerships with social Website: enterprises. http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202
0-innosup-2016-2017.html Proposals must take the form of coordination and support actions. These require Eligibility profile participation by at least one legal entity ------established in a member state or associated Country of applicant institution: Any 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. EU All International Cooperation Partner
countries (ICPC), Overseas Countries and Each successful proposal is expected to Territories receive around €3.5 million although proposals for other amounts will also be Disciplines considered. The total indicative budget for ------this call is €3.5m. Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises; Research
& Innovation Economics & Policy Ref: OJ C6776.
ROJECT GRANTS Worldwide Cancer Research P
Description: Worldwide Cancer Research invites research into the causes, mechanisms, applications for its project grants. These diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer. support fundamental and translational
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Principal investigators may be based at any Award budget total: - non-profit research institute worldwide. They Website: should have at least three years’ post-PhD http://www.aicr.org.uk/applyingforagrant.st research experience, or equivalent m qualification. Application form: https://grants.worldwidecancerresearch.org/ Grants are worth up to £250,000 each over 12 to 36 months, although most projects receive Eligibility profile up to £200,000. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 29 Apr 16 Deadline information: Submissions invited Disciplines between 1 October and 31 October 2015, and ------between 1 April and 29 April 2016. Cancer Studies & Oncology Posted date: 27 Apr 15 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Contact Detail research groups etc, Directed grants for ------individual investigators Email: [email protected] Award amount max: £250,000
OSTPONED: MOBILEX MOBILITY GRANTS Styrelsen for Forskning og Innovation – Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation P
Description: The Danish Council for Independent for a project to be carried out at a Danish Research’s Social Sciences division’s (FSE) research institution. Mobilex mobility grants will not be offered in Spring 2016 on account of lack of funding. The Grants are open to all nationalities but the following information is from the previous applicant may not, within the last three years, round and is subject to change. have stayed more than 12 months in the country where the project will be carried out. These aim to facilitate more career paths in Danish research, increase mobility within Grants have a duration of 24 months. The Danish research environments and enable funds may be used for salaries, operating-, early-career researchers to carry out research travel- and living costs and equipment. projects at research institutions in Denmark Overhead for the employing institution is also and abroad. included, if the institution is located in Denmark. Applicants must have obtained a PhD or equivalent qualifications. A researcher Up to 16 grants are available across all five already employed at a Danish institution may council divisions. apply for a project to be carried out abroad, and a researcher employed abroad may apply Closing date: 29 Apr 16 (Forecast)
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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Eligibility profile approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 11 Dec 15 Award type: Directed grants for individual Disciplines investigators, Equipment and materials, ------Travel for research purposes Social Sciences Award amount max: - Award amount min: - Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: http://ufm.dk/en/research-and- Danish Council for Independent Research innovation/funding-programmes-for- Bredgade 40 research-and-innovation/calls/2015/danish- 1260 København K council-for-independent-research-call-for- Tel: +45 7231 8200 proposals-autumn-2015-and-spring-2016 Email: [email protected] Application form: http://ufm.dk/en/research- and-innovation/funding-programmes-for- research-and-innovation/e-grant
OSTPONED: MOBILEX MOBILITY GRANTS Styrelsen for Forskning og Innovation – Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation P
Description: The Danish Council for Independent and a researcher employed abroad may apply Research’s Humanities division’s (FKK) for a project to be carried out at a Danish Mobilex mobility grants will not be offered in research institution. Spring 2016 on account of lack of funding. The following information is from the previous Grants are open to all nationalities but the round and is subject to change. applicant may not, within the last three years, have stayed more than 12 months in the These aim to facilitate more career paths in country where the project will be carried out. Danish research, increase mobility within Danish research environments and enable Grants have a duration of 24 months. The early-career researchers to carry out research funds may be used for salaries, operating-, projects at research institutions in Denmark travel- and living costs and equipment. and abroad. Overhead for the employing institution is also included, if the institution is located in Applicants must have obtained a PhD or Denmark. equivalent qualifications. A researcher already employed at a Danish institution may Up to 16 grants are available across all five apply for a project to be carried out abroad, council divisions.
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Closing date: 29 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Eligibility profile been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call Country of applicant institution: Any is repeated once a year. Posted date: 11 Dec 15 Disciplines Award type: Directed grants for individual ------investigators, Equipment and materials, Arts and Humanities Travel for research purposes Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: http://ufm.dk/en/research-and------innovation/funding-programmes-for- Danish Council for Independent Research research-and-innovation/calls/2015/danish- Bredgade 40 council-for-independent-research-call-for- 1260 København K proposals-autumn-2015-and-spring-2016 Tel: +45 7231 8200 Email: [email protected] Application form: http://ufm.dk/en/research- and-innovation/funding-programmes-for- research-and-innovation/e-grant
NHANCING REGULATORY SCIENCE FOR THE RISK-BASED ASSESSMENT OF EMERGING MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES (U01) E Food and Drug Administration
Description: The US Food and Drug Administration invites will remain the same for each year of the applications for its enhancing regulatory award. Funding for each award is worth up to science for the risk-based assessment of US$1m per year, over a maximum of three emerging manufacturing technologies (U01) years. funding opportunity announcement. This supports the advancement of regulatory Ref: PAR-15-187. science to facilitate the implementation and assessment of emerging manufacturing Closing date: 29 Apr 16 technology in the pharmaceutical sector. Deadline information: Applications due by 11.59pm Eastern Time, 30 June 2015 and by US and foreign for-profit and non-profit 8pm Eastern Time, 29 April 2016, 28 April organisations and public and private 2017, 30 April 2018 and 30 April 2019. organisations are eligible to apply. Each Posted date: 20 Apr 15 application may feature multiple principal Award type: Networking/collaboration, investigators and programme directors. Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc The total budget is US$2 million, to fund up to Award amount max: $3,000,000 two grants. It is anticipated that this budget Award amount min: - Award budget total: -
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Website: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa- Disciplines files/PAR-15-187.html ------Application form: Pharmaceutical Drugs; Manufacturing http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicant Processes & Technologies s/download-application- package.html#search=true&oppNum=PAR- Contact Details 15-187 ------Tel: +1 301 796 2905 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------Country of applicant institution: Any
ESEARCH PROGRAMME GRANTS March of Dimes Foundation R
Description: The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation premature infants or children with invites letters of intent for its research birth defects. programme grants. These support research projects directed at the prevention of birth Applications are welcomed from all qualified defects, encompassing basic biological scientists with faculty appointments or processes governing differentiation and equivalent at universities, hospitals and not- development, genetics and genomics of these for-profit and for-profit research institutions. processes, clinical studies, reproductive health and environmental toxicology, and social and Grants do not ordinarily cover the principal behavioural studies concerning cognitive and investigator’s or other faculty salary, but they behavioural risks that affect outcomes of do provide salary support for technical help. pregnancy, the perinatal period, and Funding is generally worth approximately subsequent child development. The focus of US$100,000 per year over a period of up to the proposal should be on one of the three years. following areas: Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) cell lineage and differentiation, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet developmental biology; been announced by funder, but this is the gene discovery, biological approximate deadline we expect. This call is mechanisms, translational medicine; repeated once a year. social and behavioural sciences Posted date: 19 Feb 13 involving family units, including Award type: Directed grants for individual genes, toxicants, social determinants investigators Award budget total: - that adversely affect language or behaviour, especially if involving
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Website: Reproduction & Fertility; Maternal Health; http://www.marchofdimes.com/research/rese Reproductive Medicine; Primary Care; archgrants.html Growth & Growth Factors; Psychology; Application form: Anxiety Disorders; Learning Difficulties; http://researchgrants.marchofdimes.com/ Psychology of Language Acquisition; Special Needs Education; Attention Deficit Eligibility profile Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); Cognitive ------Processes; Clinical Medicine; Paediatrics; Country of applicant institution: Any Public Health, Health Services & Primary Care Disciplines ------Contact Details Neonatal Disorders; Cancer Genetics; Foetal ------Health & Prenatal Development; Allied MOD Foundation Health Professions; Hearing & Otology; National Office Population & Ecological Genetics; Medical 1275 Mamaroneck Avenue Genetics; Biological Sciences; Speech White Plains, NY 10605 Pathology & Disorders; Child Development; Email: Birth & Congenital Defects; Diagnostic [email protected] Sciences; Personality Disorders; Youth & Adolescents; Pregnancy & Birth;
LTERNATIVES RESEARCH GRANTS Alternatives Research and Development Foundation A
Description: The Alternatives Research and Development Grants are each worth up to US$40,000. Foundation invites applications for its alternatives research grants. These aim to Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) promote the development, validation and Deadline information: !! Call has not yet adoption of non-animal methods in been announced by funder, but this is the biomedical research, product testing and approximate deadline we expect. This call is education. Studies should have the potential repeated once a year. to replace or reduce laboratory animals. Posted date: 04 Apr 14 Award type: Directed grants for individual Grants are open to individuals affiliated with investigators a non-profit, tax-exempt institution, Award amount max: $40,000 organisation or foreign equivalent. However, Award budget total: - preference will be given to individuals Website: http://www.ardf-online.org/ associated with US institutions or organisations. Application form: http://ardf- online.org/2014_ARDF-Application.pdf
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Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any Alternatives Research and Development Foundation Disciplines Alternatives Research Grant Programme ------801 Old York Rd Animal Models; Bioinformatics; Biological Suite 316 Sciences; Diagnostic Sciences; Animal Jenkintown, PA 19046 Breeding; Disease Models; Physiology; Tel: +1 215 887 8076 Laboratory Animals; Bioproduction & Fax: +1 215 887 0771 Bioproducts; Genetically Modified & Email: [email protected] Transgenic Animals
C WHITE DENTAL AWARDS Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow T
Description: The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons their research in all areas of dentistry of Glasgow invites applications for the TC to a larger audience. White dental awards. These support research related to dentistry. The following awards are Applicants must be fellows or members of the available: dental faculty of the college. They must either be dental care professionals with associate the TC White young researcher grant, membership or dentists who have passed part worth up to £10,000, enables one MFDS or equivalent. Those who have individuals at an early stage of their passed part one MFDS or equivalent must careers to develop general research have registered to sit part two MFDS RCPS skills in a wide range of dental (Glasg). research; three TC White travel grants, worth up to £2,000 each, enable individuals Closing date: 30 Apr 16 to gain clinical or research experience, Deadline information: This call is repeated and to attend or present at symposia; once a year. two TC White observership awards, Posted date: 14 Jul 15 worth £2,000 each, enable non-UK Award type: Young investigator awards, residents to gain experience at a centre Travel to conferences, meetings etc., of excellence within the UK or Personal development, Travel for research overseas for a period of two weeks; purposes, Directed grants for individual investigators, Publish, edit, translate, one TC White lecture award, worth up disseminate to £1,000, enables those at an early Award amount max: £10,000 stage of their career, who have less Award budget total: - than 12 years experience, to present
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Website: Disciplines https://www.rcpsg.ac.uk/dentistry/supportin ------g-your-career/awards-and-scholarships.aspx Dentistry
Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any Email: [email protected]
NNUAL DIVERSITY RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAMME American Library Association A
Description: The American Library Association invites Eligibility profile applications for its annual diversity research ------grants. The grants aim to address critical gaps Country of applicant institution: Any in the knowledge of diversity issues within library and information science. Disciplines ------Applicants must be ALA members. Three Sociology; Disadvantaged & Minority Groups; grants are available, each comprising a one- Computer Science & Informatics; Education; time award of US$2,500. Multicultural & Cross-Cultural Studies; Research Libraries & Special Collections; Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) Assistive Technology; Information Science; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Special Needs Education; Libraries & been announced by funder, but this is the Information Science; Allied Health approximate deadline we expect. Professions; Accessibility for Disabled People; Applications due between 31 January and 30 Social Work & Social Policy; Digitising & April 2014. This call is repeated once a year. Digital Archives Posted date: 28 Nov 13 Award type: Directed grants for individual Contact Detail investigators ------Award amount max: $2,500 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: $7,500 Website: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/diversity/divers ityresearchstatistics/diversityresearch
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OYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS ESSAY PRIZE Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine R
Description: The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Award amount max: £1,000 Medicine and the Royal College of Physicians Award budget total: - invite applications for their essay prize. This Website: recognises novel work in the form of a jointly http://www.ipem.ac.uk/ProfessionalMatters/ written essay which has exploited or IPEMRCPEssayPrize.aspx developed any aspects of the physics and Application form: engineering in medicine and biology. The http://www.ipem.ac.uk/Portals/0/Documents/ essay should aim at increasing public Prizes%20and%20Awards/RCP- awareness of the contribution of physics and IPEM%20Essay%20Prize.doc engineering in healthcare. It may be either a published article or written with a view to Eligibility profile publication. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Applicants must either be members of the society or institute. Disciplines ------The prize is worth £1,000, and winners are Biomedical Engineering; Medical Physics invited to IPEM’s conference dinner to receive the award. Contact Details ------Closing date: 30 Apr 16 Prizes and Awards Advisory Group, Deadline information: Applications are Institute of Physics and Engineering in invited between 1 January and 30 April Medicine, annually. This call is repeated once a year. Fairmount House, Posted date: 20 Nov 15 230 Tadcaster Road, Award type: Networking/collaboration, YORK YO24 1ES Prizes Email: [email protected]
ONTRIBUTION OF MULTISENSORY COMPONENTS TO STRUCTURED- LANGUAGE READING INSTRUCTION C International Dyslexia Association
Description: The International Dyslexia Association invites in teaching reading, particularly for students applications for its multisensory instruction at risk of academic failure or grants. The purpose is to stimulate scientific underachievement, such as those with study of the value of multisensory instruction dyslexia. The association provides funding for
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NNELIESE MAIER RESEARCH AWARDS Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung – Alexander von Humboldt Foundation A
Description: The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation German nationals are only eligible if they invites nominations for the Anneliese Maier have worked abroad for the last five years or research awards. These enable humanities more. Previous winners of awards from the and social sciences researchers from abroad to Humboldt Foundation are not eligible. The collaborate with specialist colleagues in nomination of female researchers is especially Germany in order to further the encouraged. internationalisation of research in these topics in Germany. The award amount is €250,000 over five years. Any expense that serves the research Nominations for the award must come from collaboration of the award winner with an established scholar at a university or specialist colleagues in Germany is eligible. A research institution in Germany. Candidates substantial part should be used for involving must not already hold or have accepted an students, doctoral candidates and junior offer of permanent employment in Germany. researchers. Up to eight awards are available.
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Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Art & Design: History, Practice & Theory; approximate deadline we expect. Communication & Media Studies; This call is repeated once a year. Scandinavian Languages; Archaeology; Posted date: 19 Aug 14 Anthropology; Business & Management Award type: Directed grants for individual Studies; History; Dutch Language; investigators, Travel for research purposes, Humanities; Politics & International Studies; Networking/collaboration Sociology; German Language; Linguistics; Award amount max: €250,000 Education; Sports & Exercise Studies; Award budget total: - European Studies; Philosophy; Cultural Website: http://www.humboldt- Studies; Law; Economics & Econometrics; foundation.de/web/anneliese-maier- Social Sciences; Social Work & Social Policy award.html Application form: http://www.humboldt- Contact Details foundation.de/pls/web/wt_show.text_page?p ------_text_id=1249777 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Jean-Paul-Strasse12 Eligibility profile 53173 Bonn ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
NHANCING POST-MARKET SURVEILLANCE THROUGH DEVELOPING REGISTRIES FOR MEDICAL DEVICE EPIDEMIOLOGY (U01) E Food and Drug Administration
Description: The Food and Drug Administration invites prospective embedded studies and quality proposals for its enhancing post-market improvement. Another purpose is to develop surveillance through developing registries for registries and consortia in key medical device medical device epidemiology call. This U01 areas to implement new registry funding opportunity aims to address methodologies that strategically broaden the identified gaps in the current postmarket scope of the US and international postmarket surveillance system by developing new surveillance system. methodologies for registry data collection and linkage, or by adapting known methodologies Eligible applicants include domestic and to medical devices. The purpose of this study foreign for-profit or non-profit organisations is also to develop novel methodology that and public or private institutions. allows for use of the registry data collection infrastructure to serve multiple purposes Application budgets should not exceed including postmarket surveillance, device US$150,000 per year. Funding will be tracking through unique device identifiers, provided for one year, with the possibility of
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DVANCING MEDICAL DEVICE POST-MARKET SURVEILLANCE INFRASTRUCTURE AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODOLOGIES THROUGH A MULTI-STAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIP (U01) Food and Drug Administration
Description: The US Food and Drug Administration invites sustainable multi-stakeholder proposals for its grants for advancing medical partnership; device postmarket surveillance infrastructure develop new epidemiologic and epidemiologic methodologies through methodologies or to apply existing multi-stakeholder partnership (U01). The methodologies in new ways to purpose of this U01 funding opportunity provide a comprehensive announcement is to continue to facilitate understanding of medical device development of the National Medical Device performance and clinical outcomes Postmarket Surveillance System, associated with device use in real- epidemiologic methodologies and scientific world use settings; systems to facilitate a comprehensive develop new systems of data understanding of medical device performance collection or analysis to permit and clinical outcomes associated with medical prospective active medical device device use. The specific aims are to: post-market risk identification, periodic systematic updates of support implementation of the comprehensive evidence syntheses, national medical device post-market visual analytics and other efforts to surveillance system through broadly apply complex methodology
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to diverse data sources that facilitates Award amount min: - post-market surveillance; Award budget total: - develop methodological approaches Website: or systems that facilitate the use of http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa- post-market information for files/PAR-13-232.html regulatory decision-making throughout the entire device lifecycle; Eligibility profile support the development of and ------access to high-quality data sources Country of applicant institution: Any that can be used in comprehensive post-market evaluation of medical Disciplines device performance and associated ------outcomes. Quality Control & Management; Primary Care; Public Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Epidemiology; Medical Eligible applicants include domestic and Devices; Clinical Decision-making & Analysis; foreign for-profit or non-profit organisations Business & Management Studies; Political and public or private institutions. Risk Factors & Analysis
Application budgets should not exceed Contact Details US$1.1 million per year, over a project period ------of one to five years. RFA-FD-13-232. Division of Epidemiology Center for Devices and Radiological Health Closing date: 30 Apr 16 Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Deadline information: Applications due by Radiological Health 11.59pm Eastern time. 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Posted date: 23 May 13 WO66-5521 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002 research groups etc Tel: +1 301 796 668 Award amount max: $5,500,000 Email: [email protected]
BEL VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAMME International Mathematical Union A
Description: The International Mathematical Union and Applicants must hold a PhD in mathematics, the Niels Henrik Abel Board invite be based in a developing country at the time applications for the Abel visiting scholar of application, hold a position in a university programme. This enables mathematicians or research institution and be in the early professionally based in developing countries stages of their professional careers. Applicants to visit an international research collaborator should not yet be of full professorial rank but for a period of one month. have a working contract in a university or college, and they must be under 40 years of
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Issue 25: Volume 1a: Grants from External Donors (April – June, 2016) age on the application deadline. The maximum age may be increased by up to Eligibility profile three years in the case of an individual with a ------broken career pattern. Applications from Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, women mathematicians are strongly Angola, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, encouraged. The applicant must already have Benin, Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, the Democratic initiated contact with the proposed Republic of the, Central African Republic, international research partner. The Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, collaboration should take place at the Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Micronesia, Federated international partner’s home institution. States of, Georgia, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, The grant is worth up to US$5,000, and will Honduras, Haiti, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, cover health insurance, visa cost, all travel Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, Lao People's and living expenses, including Democratic Republic, Liberia, Lesotho, accommodation for one month. Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, Mali, Mauritania, Malawi, Closing date: 30 Apr 16 Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Deadline information: Applications must be Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, received at least four months before the Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, desired starting date. Deadlines on: 30 April Paraguay, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Sudan, 2016, 31 August 2016, 8 January 2017. Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, Posted date: 14 Jan 16 El Salvador, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Award type: Personal development, Travel Tajikistan, Tonga, Tuvalu, Tanzania, United for research purposes, Young investigator Republic of, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, awards, Directed grants for individual Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, investigators, Networking/collaboration South Sudan Award amount max: $5,000 Award amount min: - Disciplines Award budget total: ------Website: Mathematical Sciences http://www.mathunion.org/cdc/grants/abel- visiting-scholar-program/ Contact Details Application form: ------http://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/image Email: [email protected] s/cdc/downloads/Application_Form_for_the_ Abel_Visiting_Scholar_Program.docx
TUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS Unitas Malacologica S
Description: Unitas Malocologica invites applications for excellent studies of molluscs. These are its student research awards. These support usually awarded to applicants who are
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OMMITTEE FOR AID AND EDUCATION IN NEUROCHEMISTRY FUNDING International Society for Neurochemistry C
Description: The International Society for travel awards for individuals to Neurochemistry’s Committee for Aid and scientific meetings of ISN sister Education in Neurochemistry invites societies; applicants for its funding schemes. These aim support for participation by to stimulate neurochemical research in individuals in scientific workshops, economically deprived and developing training courses or satellite meetings countries. Funding supports scientists in the in developed or developing countries; early stages of their careers who reside in support for the implementation of countries with limited financial support for scientific or educational workshops research in neurochemistry. The initiative and small schools in a developing includes six diverse support schemes; country. visit by the applicant to another Applicants must be postdoctoral young laboratory; investigators within eight years of completing research supplies for use in the their PhD or PhD students at the mid to final applicant's home laboratory; stages of their studies. They must be active ISN CAEN Return home grant; members or applying to be members of the ISN CAEN career interruption, re- ISN. Awards are worth up to US$10,000, entry, grant; depending on the scheme.
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Closing date: 30 Apr 16 People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Deadline information: Deadlines on: 30 Lesotho, Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, April 2016, 31 August 2016, 31 December Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Nigeria, 2016, and repeated annually. Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Posted date: 27 Jan 15 Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Award type: Hosting visits, Hosting Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Senegal, conferences, Equipment and materials, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, Syrian Travel for research purposes, Travel to Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor-Leste, conferences, meetings etc., Directed grants Tonga, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, for individual investigators, Young Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Lower- investigator awards Middle-Income countries, Low Income Award amount max: $10,000 countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries, Award budget total: - Kosovo, South Sudan Website: http://www.neurochemistry.org/funding/co Disciplines mmittee-for-aid-and-education-in------neurochemistry-caen.html Neuropharmacology; Neurotransmitters
Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Albania, ISN CAEN Armenia, Bolivia, Bhutan, Belize, Congo, Côte University of Melbourne d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Victoria 3010 Egypt, Fiji, Micronesia, Federated States of, Tel: +61 3 8344 2556 Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Email: [email protected] Honduras, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Kiribati, Lao
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MALL RESEARCH GRANTS Fisheries Society of the British Isles S
Description: The Fisheries Society of the British Isles Application form: invites applications for its small research http://www.fsbi.org.uk/assets/FSBISmall- grant scheme. This supports small research Research-GrantApplication-form.pdf projects in any field of study relevant to fish biology and management. Eligibility profile ------Applicants must be members of the society. Country of applicant institution: Any
The budget is £30,000 and grants are worth up Disciplines to £5,000 each. ------Fisheries Science; Agriculture; Ichthyology; Closing date: 01 May 16 Biological Sciences Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 May 2016, 1 September 2016, 1 January 2017, and Contact Details repeated annually. ------Posted date: 18 Apr 13 FSBI Award type: Directed grants to institutions, c/o Charity and Social Enterprise Unit research groups etc, Directed grants for Brabners Chaffe Street individual investigators Horton House Award amount max: £5,000 Exchange Flags Award budget total: £30,000 Liverpool L2 3YL Website: http://www.fsbi.org.uk/research- Tel: +44 15 1600 3362 grants/ Email: [email protected]
ENIOR RESEARCH AWARDS Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America S
Description: The Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of with funds to generate sufficient preliminary America invites applications for its senior data to become competitive for funds from research awards. The objective of these other sources. All research must be relevant to awards is to provide established researchers
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Closing date: 01 May 16 Contact Details Deadline information: Letters of intent due ------5pm EST, 1 May and 1 November; full CCFA applications due 5pm EST, 1 July and 14 386 Park Avenue South January. Deadlines on: 1 May 2016, 1 17th Floor November 2016, and repeated annually. New York, NY 10016 Posted date: 12 Dec 12 Email: [email protected]
OSEPH H FICHTER RESEARCH GRANT Association for the Sociology of Religion J
Description: The Association for the Sociology of Religion A grant fund of US$24,000 will be distributed invites applications for the Joseph H Fichter among successful applicants. research grant. This supports scholars involved in sociological research on women in Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) religion or on the intersection between Deadline information: !! Call has not yet religion and gender or religion and been announced by funder, but this is the sexualities. Dissertation research and approximate deadline we expect. This call is postdoctoral research by junior and senior repeated once a year. scholars may be funded. Posted date: 01 Oct 13 Award type: Thesis/Dissertation funding, Applicants must have or be currently Directed grants for individual investigators pursuing a PhD qualification. Membership of Award amount max: - the association is also required. Award budget total: $24,000
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Website: Religion & Society; Psychology; Education; http://www.sociologyofreligion.com/lectures Gender Roles & Sexuality; Feminist, Women's -papers/fichter-research-grant-competition/ & Gender Studies; Gender & Sexuality in Education; Theology & Religious Studies; Eligibility profile Psychology of Sex & Gender; Feminist ------Theory; Theology; Sociology Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Detail Disciplines ------Email: [email protected]
TELLA BLUM RESEARCH GRANT Costume Society of America S
Description: The Costume Society of America invites Award amount max: $2,500 applications for the Stella Blum research Award budget total: - grant. This supports students working in the Website: field of North American costume. http://www.costumesocietyamerica.com/Gra ntsAwards/stellablum.html Applications are welcome from Application form: undergraduate or graduate students who are http://www.costumesocietyamerica.com/Gra matriculating in a degree programme at an ntsAwards/stellablum.html accredited institution, researching a project in the field of North American costume and who Eligibility profile are members of CSA. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The grant is a monetary award of US$2,000, plus up to US$500 for travel to present the Disciplines research at a CSA national symposium. ------American History; Textiles & Fashion Design Closing date: 01 May 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 05 Jan 16 CSA Award type: Directed grants for individual 5903 60th Avenue investigators, Student awards, Travel for Riverdale, MD 20737 research purposes, Equipment and materials Email: [email protected]
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MALL RESEARCH GRANTS Fisheries Society of the British Isles S
Description: The Fisheries Society of the British Isles Application form: invites applications for its small research http://www.fsbi.org.uk/assets/FSBISmall- grant scheme. This supports small research Research-GrantApplication-form.pdf projects in any field of study relevant to fish biology and management. Eligibility profile ------Applicants must be members of the society. Country of applicant institution: Any
The budget is £30,000 and grants are worth up Disciplines to £5,000 each. ------Fisheries Science; Agriculture; Ichthyology; Closing date: 01 May 16 Biological Sciences Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 May 2016, 1 September 2016, 1 January 2017, and Contact Details repeated annually. ------Posted date: 18 Apr 13 FSBI Award type: Directed grants to institutions, c/o Charity and Social Enterprise Unit research groups etc, Directed grants for Brabners Chaffe Street individual investigators Horton House Award amount max: £5,000 Exchange Flags Award budget total: £30,000 Liverpool L2 3YL Website: http://www.fsbi.org.uk/research- Tel: +44 15 1600 3362 grants/ Email: [email protected]
ENIOR RESEARCH AWARDS Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America S
Description: The Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Applicants must hold an MD, PhD, or America invites applications for its senior equivalent degree and be employed by an research awards. The objective of these either public or private non-profit or awards is to provide established researchers governmental institution that is engaged in with funds to generate sufficient preliminary healthcare or health-related research. data to become competitive for funds from Eligibility is not restricted by citizenship or other sources. All research must be relevant to geography. inflammatory bowel disease, specifically Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis.
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Awards are for one to three years. The Eligibility profile maximum award per year is US$115,830. ------Total direct costs may not exceed US$105,300 Country of applicant institution: Any per year and indirect costs may not exceed 10 percent of direct costs or US$10,530. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 May 16 Diagnostic Sciences; Gastroenterology; Deadline information: Letters of intent due Clinical Medicine; Bowel Diseases 5pm EST, 1 May and 1 November; full applications due 5pm EST, 1 July and 14 Contact Details January. Deadlines on: 1 May 2016, 1 ------November 2016, and repeated annually. CCFA Posted date: 12 Dec 12 386 Park Avenue South Award type: Directed grants for individual 17th Floor investigators, Senior fellowships New York, NY 10016 Award amount max: $347,490 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.ccfa.org/science-and- professionals/research/grants- fellowships/senior-research-awards.html
OSEPH H FICHTER RESEARCH GRANT Association for the Sociology of Religion J
Description: The Association for the Sociology of Religion approximate deadline we expect. This call is invites applications for the Joseph H Fichter repeated once a year. research grant. This supports scholars Posted date: 01 Oct 13 involved in sociological research on women in Award type: Thesis/Dissertation funding, religion or on the intersection between Directed grants for individual investigators religion and gender or religion and Award amount max: - sexualities. Dissertation research and Award budget total: $24,000 postdoctoral research by junior and senior Website: scholars may be funded. http://www.sociologyofreligion.com/lectures -papers/fichter-research-grant-competition/ Applicants must have or be currently pursuing a PhD qualification. Membership of Eligibility profile the association is also required. ------Country of applicant institution: Any A grant fund of US$24,000 will be distributed among successful applicants. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Religion & Society; Psychology; Education; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Gender Roles & Sexuality; Feminist, Women's been announced by funder, but this is the & Gender Studies; Gender & Sexuality in Education; Theology & Religious Studies;
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Psychology of Sex & Gender; Feminist Contact Detail Theory; Theology; Sociology ------Email: [email protected]
TELLA BLUM RESEARCH GRANT Costume Society of America S
Description: The Costume Society of America invites Award amount max: $2,500 applications for the Stella Blum research Award budget total: - grant. This supports students working in the Website: field of North American costume. http://www.costumesocietyamerica.com/Gra ntsAwards/stellablum.html Applications are welcome from Application form: undergraduate or graduate students who are http://www.costumesocietyamerica.com/Gra matriculating in a degree programme at an ntsAwards/stellablum.html accredited institution, researching a project in the field of North American costume and who Eligibility profile are members of CSA. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The grant is a monetary award of US$2,000, plus up to US$500 for travel to present the Disciplines research at a CSA national symposium. ------American History; Textiles & Fashion Design Closing date: 01 May 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 05 Jan 16 CSA Award type: Directed grants for individual 5903 60th Avenue investigators, Student awards, Travel for Riverdale, MD 20737 research purposes, Equipment and materials Email: [email protected]
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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 May 16 ------Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 May Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological 2016, 1 November 2016, 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, Tel: +1 212 683 5000 Directed grants for individual investigators Fax: +1 212 532 1492 Award amount max: $20,000 Email: [email protected] Award amount min: -
OST-PHD RESEARCH GRANTS Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research P
Description: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for support individual research projects that Anthropological Research invites applications demonstrate a clear link to anthropological for its post-PhD research grants. These
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Researchers world wide with a PhD degree or Eligibility profile equivalent may apply. Scholars close to ------completing their doctorate may apply, Country of applicant institution: Any provided that they complete the degree before the grant award date. Disciplines ------Grants are worth up to US$20,000 each, to be Anthropology used for research expenses. Contact Details Closing date: 01 May 16 ------Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 May Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological 2016, 1 November 2016, and repeated Research annually. 470 Park Avenue South, Posted date: 23 Mar 15 8th Floor Award type: Directed grants for individual New York, NY 10016 investigators Tel: +1 212 683 5000 Award amount max: $20,000 Fax: +1 212 532 1492 Award amount min: - Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
YN WHEELER RESEARCH GRANT Fisheries Society of the British Isles W
Description: The Fisheries Society of the British Isles The award budget is £6,000. invites applications for the Wyn Wheeler research grant. This provides financial Closing date: 01 May 16 support for members to continue their Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 May activities in fish biology following retirement 2016, 1 September 2016, 1 January 2017, and from full-time employment. repeated annually. Posted date: 12 Mar 14 Applicants may be based anywhere in the Award type: Directed grants for individual world, but must have been paid-up members investigators of the society for a minimum of 28 days at the Award budget total: £6,000 closing date for applications.
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Website: http://www.fsbi.org.uk/research- grants/ Contact Details Application form: ------http://www.fsbi.org.uk/assets/FSBISmall- FSBI Research-GrantApplication-form.pdf c/o Charity and Social Enterprise Unit Brabners Chaffe Street Eligibility profile Horton House ------Exchange Flags Country of applicant institution: Any Liverpool L2 3YL Tel: +44 151 600 3362 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------Biological Sciences; Ichthyology; Agriculture; Agriculture, Veterinary & Food Science; Fisheries Science
AEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY RESEARCH GRANTS Society for Pediatric Dermatology
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Description: The Society for Pediatric Dermatology invites Deadline information: !! Call has not yet proposals for its paediatric dermatology been announced by funder, but this is the research grants. These support scholarly approximate deadline we expect. This call is clinical or basic research and study initiations repeated once a year. in the field of paediatric dermatology. Two Posted date: 27 Jun 14 types of awards are available: Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Directed grants to institutions, one William Weston research award, research groups etc, worth up to US$20,000, for scholarly Networking/collaboration clinical or basic research with Award amount max: $27,500 preference given to young Award amount min: - investigators and members of the Award budget total: - Website: society; http://www.pedsderm.net/sections/research_ three pilot project awards of to grant.php US$7,500 for studies important to
paediatric dermatology, with Eligibility profile preference given to clinical studies ------and projects by members of the Country of applicant institution: Any society, while collaborative clinical
studies are encouraged. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Dermatology; Paediatrics; Clinical Medicine; Allergy; Primary Care; Melanoma & Other
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Skin Cancers; Public Health, Health Services 8365 Keystone Crossing, Suite 107 & Primary Care Indianapolis IN 46240 Contact Details Tel: +1 317 202 0224 ------Email: [email protected] SPD
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: $35,000 for the Dr Eric Guiler Tasmanian devil Website: research grants. These support research http://www.tassiedevil.com.au/tasdevil.nsf/ projects that focus on research to better Grants-&- understand the devil facial tumour disease scholarships/F3F98304778C800ECA2576CB00 and its impacts on wild devil population, the 7D1E6B investigation of strategies to augment the wild Application form: devil populations, and the development of http://www.tassiedevil.com.au/tasdevil.nsf/fi potential treatments for, and responses to, the les/F3F98304778C800ECA2576CB007D1E6B/$ disease. Priority is given to projects that: file/TDRAC%20application%20form_Sept% 202015.pdf optimise the insurance population;
develop a vaccine or treatment to Eligibility profile devil facial tumour disease; ------ improve genetic outcomes. Country of applicant institution: Any
Applications are invited from national and Disciplines international individuals or organisations. ------Collaborative research projects that involve Veterinary Medicine; Animal Parasites & UTAS are given priority. Pathogens; Endangered Species
Grants are worth up to AU$35,000 each. Contact Details ------Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Save the Tasmanian Devil Appeal Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Locked Bag 1350 been announced by funder, but this is the Launceston Tasmania 7250 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Tel: +61 3 6324 3314 repeated 2 times a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 29 Sep 15
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ESEARCH GRANTS International Retinal Research Foundation R
Description: The International Retinal Research Posted date: 09 Aug 13 Foundation invites applications for its Award type: Directed grants to institutions, research grants. These support scientific research groups etc, Directed grants for research on the diseases of the human eye, individual investigators, Studentship especially its centre, the macula, and allocations peripheral retinal research that ultimately will Award amount max: $100,000 accelerate the outcome of discovery. Specific Award budget total: - consideration will be given to scientists Website: http://www.irrfonline.org/grants--- actively working toward discovering the funding.html causes, prevention, and cures of macular Application form: degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. http://www.irrfonline.org/irrfonline/Grants_ &_Funding_files/Grant_Application.doc Grants will only be awarded to non-profit Eligibility profile organisations. Principal investigators must ------have faculty appointments. Postdoctoral Country of applicant institution: Any researchers may serve as co-investigators, and postdoctoral fellowship funding may be Disciplines approved for individuals with a terminal ------degree who have opted to pursue training in Diabetes; Ophthalmology; Sensory Systems; vision research. Physiology; Eye Diseases; Vision Science;
Clinical Medicine Funding is worth up to US$100,000 over a maximum of two years. Contact Details
------Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) IRRF Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the 1720 University Boulevard approximate deadline we expect. Optional Birmingham, AL 35233 postdoctoral scholar nominations due by 1 Tel: +1 205 325 8103 March; submissions due by 1 May annually. Email: [email protected] This call is repeated once a year.
ESEARCH GRANTS National Rosacea Society R
Description: The National Rosacea Society invites programme. This programme offers research applications for its research grants grants of US$10,000 to US$25,000 to
Issue 25: Volume 1a: Grants from External Donors (April – June, 2016) encourage and support scientific investigation Award amount min: $10,000 into the potential causes and other key aspects Award budget total: - of rosacea that may lead to improvements in Website: its treatment and potential prevention or cure. http://www.rosacea.org/grants/index.php High priority is given to research in such areas as pathogenesis, progression, Eligibility profile mechanism of action, cell biology and ------potential genetic factors of this conspicuous Country of applicant institution: Any and often life-disruptive condition. Studies may also be funded in such areas as Disciplines epidemiology, predisposition, quality of life ------and associations with environmental and Life Expectancy & Quality of Life; lifestyle factors. Epidemiology; Genetics & Systems Biology; Pathogenesis; Cell & Developmental Biology; The program is supported by donations from Biological Sciences; Environmental & individuals, and funds are available to Occupational Health & Safety; Diagnostic researchers worldwide. Sciences; Medical Genetics; Dermatology; Public Health, Health Services & Primary Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Care; Molecular Genetics; Clinical Medicine 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. National Rosacea Society Posted date: 30 Mar 09 800 S Northwest Hwy Suite 200 Award type: Directed grants for individual Barrington, IL 60010 investigators Tel: +1 847 382 8971 Award amount max: $25,000
OLLECTION STUDY GRANTS American Museum of Natural History C
Description: The American Museum of Natural History Grants are worth between US$500 and invites applications for its collection study US$1,500 and they cover partial travel grants. These enable pre-doctoral and recent expenses and subsistence. postdoctoral investigators to study the scientific collections at the AMNH. These Closing date: 01 May 16 collections represent the fields of Deadline information: Applications for the anthropology, invertebrate zoology, physical vertebrate zoology division due by 11.59pm sciences, palaeontology, and vertebrate ET, 1 November annually; applications for zoology. Projects of at least four days’ all divisions due by 11.59pm ET, 1 duration are encouraged. November and 1 May annually. Posted date: 09 Oct 13
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Award type: Directed grants for individual Country of applicant institution: Any investigators, Access to libraries, Travel for research purposes Disciplines Award amount max: $1,500 ------Award amount min: $500 Physics; Zoology; Chemistry; Invertebrate Award budget total: - Biology; Earth Sciences; Animal Physiology; Website: http://www.amnh.org/our- Palaeontology & Palynology; Vertebrate research/richard-gilder-graduate- Biology; Biological Sciences; Anthropology school/academics-and-research/fellowship- and-grant-opportunities/research-grants- Contact Details and-student-exchange-fellowships ------Application form: Richard Gilder Graduate School https://myrggs.amnh.org/Applicant/ApplyO Central Park West at 79th Street nline_Login.aspx American Museum of Natural History New York, NY 10024-5192 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------
ENTENARY AWARDS Egypt Exploration Society C
Description: The Egypt Exploration Society invites Deadline information: !! Call has not yet applications for its centenary awards. These been announced by funder, but this is the assist early-career Egyptologists with approximate deadline we expect. conducting fieldwork and museum- or Applications due by 5pm GMT. This call is archive-based research. The society repeated once a year. particularly welcomes proposals that have Posted date: 07 Apr 15 arisen from, or can be related to, present or Award type: Directed grants for individual past society fieldwork. investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate students, Travel for research purposes Applicants must be current postgraduate Award amount max: £2,500 students or be within five years of having Award amount min: - been awarded their postgraduate degree. Award budget total: £6,000 Applicants need not be members of the Website: http://www.ees.ac.uk/research/centenary- society. awards.html
The total budget is £6,000 to be divided Application form: among projects, which are unlikely to receive http://www.ees.ac.uk/userfiles/file/EES_Cent more than £2,500 each. _Award_2015%20FINAL%20protected.doc
Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast)
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Eligibility profile African Studies; Archaeology of Africa; ------Middle Eastern Studies Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Disciplines ------Email: [email protected]
INI GRANTS International Initiative on Exploitative Child Labor M
Description: The International Initiative on Exploitative Award budget total: - Child Labor, in association with the Emily Website: Sandall Foundation, invites applications for http://endchildlabor.org/?page_id=310 its mini grants. These support projects that seek to help end exploitative child labour. Eligibility profile ------Individuals and non-governmental Country of applicant institution: Any organisations may apply. Disciplines Grants are worth US$500. ------Social Work & Social Policy; Child Protection Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) & Welfare; Disadvantaged & Minority Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Groups; Child Abuse; Labour Economics; been announced by funder, but this is the Development Studies; Law; Social Policy approximate deadline we expect. Application must generally be received by Contact Details April and November of each year. This call ------is repeated 2 times a year. IIECL Posted date: 19 Aug 14 1016 South Wayne Street, Suite 702 Award type: Directed grants for individual Arlington, VA 22204 investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Tel: +1 703 920 0435 research groups etc, Development Email: [email protected] (Africa/Caribbean) Award amount max: $500
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LINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME International Society of Nephrology C
Description: The International Society of Nephrology Posted date: 26 Nov 15 invites applications for its clinical research Award type: Clinical trials, Directed grants programme. This supports research and to institutions, research groups etc intervention studies related to chronic kidney Award amount max: $20,000 disease and its risk factors. Award amount min: $10,000 Award budget total: - The following activities may receive support: Website: http://www.theisn.org/programs/clinical- screening and intervention studies – research-program identifying the individuals at high risk Application form: http://cr.theisn.org/ for chronic kidney disease by screening programmes; Eligibility profile ------ clinical research studies addressing Country of applicant institution: Lower- specific local needs – small clinical Middle-Income countries, Low Income research projects aimed at addressing countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries specific needs at regional or country
level. Disciplines
------Each project leader must be a member of ISN Nephrology & Kidneys based at a nationally recognised institution, and the project must be conducted in a low- Contact Details or middle-income country, with preference ------given to projects in least-developed countries. ISN The top three projects in each round will Global Operations Center receive between US$10,000 and US$20,000. Rue des Fabriques 1
1000 Brussels Closing date: 01 May 16 Deadline information: Application form Tel: +32 2 808 0420 opens in January, with proposals due by Fax: +32 2 808 4454 10pm CET, 1 May and 1 October annually. Email: [email protected]
MERGING INTERNATIONAL, MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH TEAM GRANTS International Continence Society E
Description: The International Continence Society (ICS) international, multidisciplinary research team invites applications for its emerging grants. These facilitate the development of
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Disciplines Grants are worth up to £10,000 each and may ------be used to cover travel expenses for team Incontinence; Urology; Bowel Diseases meetings, meeting fees, preparation of grant applications and other related expenses. Contact Detail Projects must be completed within two years ------of receipt of funds. Email: [email protected]
NTERNATIONAL, MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS International Continence Society I
Description: The International Continence Society invites Proposals must be multidisciplinary, applications for its international, involving more than one speciality, healthcare multidisciplinary research project grants. profession or scientific discipline, and involve These grants facilitate the development of a partnership between more than one international collaborations by providing institution from at least two different financial support for new international, countries. multidisciplinary research partnerships, which are defined as partnerships between at Funding of up to £10,000 is available. Funding least two International Continence Society can be used to cover travel expenses, members representing different disciplines, meetings, preparation of grant applications institutions and countries. and other related expenses.
Closing date: 01 May 16
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Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Eligibility profile Posted date: 22 Jan 16 ------Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Country of applicant institution: Any research groups etc, Networking/collaboration, Institutional Disciplines development ------Award amount max: £10,000 Clinical Medicine; Public Health, Health Award amount min: - Services & Primary Care; Physiology; Urology Award budget total: - Website: Contact Details http://www.ics.org/members/awardsfellowsh ------ips/researchgrants Tel: +44 117 9444 882 Application form: Email: [email protected] http://www.ics.org/Documents/DocumentsD ownload.aspx?DocumentID=851
LOBAL NURSING RESEARCH GRANT Sigma Theta Tau International G
Description: The Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Society of Nursing invites applications for its been announced by funder, but this is the global nursing research grant. This supports a approximate deadline we expect. This call is registered nurse in conducting a research repeated once a year. project that focuses on responding to health Posted date: 20 Aug 14 disparities globally. Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Principal investigators must be registered research groups etc nurses with a current licence and at least a Award amount max: $12,000 master’s degree in nursing. Applications are Award amount min: - open to individuals throughout the world. All Award budget total: $12,000 other qualifications being equal, preference Website: will be given to Sigma Theta Tau members. http://www.nursingsociety.org/advance- elevate/research/research-grants/global-
nursing-research-grant The project, which may receive up to
US$12,000 of funding, must be completed Eligibility profile within 18 months. The award recipient must ------attend the STTI convention to accept the Country of applicant institution: Any award.
Disciplines Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) ------
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Health Professions & Workforce; Clinical Decision-making & Analysis; Health Contact Details Disparities; Primary Care; Standards of Care; ------Access to Health Care; Public Health; Health Sigma Theta Tau International Systems, Administration; Public Health, 550 West North Street Health Services & Primary Care; Medical Indianapolis, IN 46202 Effectiveness & Patient Outcomes; Quality of Tel: +1 317 634 8171 Care; Population Studies, Medical; Nursing Fax: +1 317 634 8188
C GRINDLEY FUND University of Cambridge G
Description: The University of Cambridge School of the Award amount min: - Biological Sciences invites applications for the Award budget total: - GC Grindley fund, which supports research in Website: the field of behaviour and its relation to http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/funding/grindley mental processes and underlying Application form: physiological mechanisms. The fund is only http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/funding/forms/grn available in exceptional cases for PhD dform.doc students who have come to the end of their funding. However, short research projects of Eligibility profile up to three months, that extend or augment ------PhD work, with a view to publication, may be Country of applicant institution: Any supported. Awards are not offered for undergraduate expeditions or travel to Disciplines conferences. ------Criminal & Antisocial Behaviour; Eligibility applies only to persons working at, Experimental Psychology; Violence & Violent or intending to work at, the University of Crime; Sociology; Compulsive Behaviour; Cambridge, or to those collaborating with Social Work & Social Policy; Behavioural persons working at the university. Medicine; Social Aspects of Mental Health; Social Behaviour & Attitudes; Social Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Problems; Psychology 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. Department of Experimental Psychology Posted date: 01 Oct 14 University of Cambridge Award type: Publish, edit, translate, Downing Site disseminate, Directed grants for individual Cambridge CB2 3EB investigators, Networking/collaboration Tel: +44 1223 333 564 Award amount max: - Email: [email protected]
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ROJECT GRANTS Van Eeden Foundation – Stichting het Van Eeden-fonds P
Description: The Van Eeden Foundation invites Award type: Directed grants for individual applications for its project grants. These investigators, Travel to conferences, support research and conservation projects on meetings etc., Financial aid for postgraduate a botanical, ecological or ethnobotanical topic, students, Publish, edit, translate, relevant to one of the target areas: Guyana, disseminate, Travel for research purposes Suriname, French Guiana, Aruba, Bonaire, Award budget total: - Curaçao, Saba, St Eustatius, and St Maarten. Website: http://www.vaneeden- fonds.nl/UK/Grantapplication.html Applications are open to students and Application form: http://vaneeden- researchers worldwide. The research must be fonds.nl/UK/grant_application conducted under the supervision of a scientific institute in one of the target areas, or Eligibility profile at an university or research institute ------elsewhere. Country of applicant institution: Any
Grants are generally worth up to €1,250, Disciplines though larger projects may also receive ------support. Funding can be used towards Biological Sciences; Ecology; Botany; fieldwork, internships, visits to herbaria or Taxonomy; Environmental Science; Latin conferences, publications, laboratory analyses, American & Caribbean Studies; Terrestrial travel or other research expenses. Salaries and Ecology; Agriculture; Evolutionary overhead costs will not be covered. Adaptation & Variation; Plant Physiology
Closing date: 01 May 16 Contact Details Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 May ------2016, 1 November 2016, and repeated Van Eeden-fonds annually. Ooststeeg 24 Posted date: 30 May 14 6708 AV Wageningen Email: [email protected]
NTER-ARTS OFFICE – GRANTS TO ARTISTS Canada Council for the Arts – Conseil des Arts du Canada I
Description: The Canada Council for the Arts invites curators active in integrated arts to research, applications, via its Inter-Arts Office, for its create, produce or engage in professional grants to artists. These enable professional development, including market access Canadian artists and independent critics or activities, in Canada or abroad. Candidates
Issue 25: Volume 1a: Grants from External Donors (April – June, 2016) may apply for one, two or all three of the institutions, research groups etc, Travel for following programme components: research research purposes and creation, production and professional Award amount max: $30,000 development. Award budget total: - Website: Applications are open to Canadian citizens or http://canadacouncil.ca/en/council/grants/fin persons with permanent resident status. d-a-grant/grants/inter-arts-office-grants-to- Applicants do not need to be living in Canada artists when applying. Application form: https://go.canadacouncil.ca/index.aspx?l=e Grants are worth up to CA$25,000 each for artists and CA$30,000 for collaborations. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 02 May 16 Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: Applications due by 1 May annually, however, if this date falls on Disciplines a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline ------moves to the next business day. This call is Arts; Interdisciplinary Art; Digital & repeated once a year. Computer Art Posted date: 07 May 15 Award type: Personal development, Directed Contact Details grants for individual investigators, ------Networking/collaboration, Directed grants to Tel: +1 613 566 4414 ext 4679 Email: [email protected]
2020-JTI-FCH-2016-1 FCH2 JU CALL Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: FCH-01-3-2016 PEMFC system Societal Challenges and the Fuel Cells and manufacturing technologies and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking invites quality assurance; proposals for their H2020-JTI-FCH-2016-1 FCH-01-4-2016 development of FCH2 JU call. Proposals may address the industrialisation-ready PEMFC following topics: systems and system components; FCH-01-5-2016 develop new FCH-01-1-2016 manufacturing complementary technologies for technologies for proton exchange achieving competitive solutions for membrane fuel cells stack components marine applications; and stacks; FCH-01-6-2016 develop new FCH-01-2-2016 standardisation of complementary technologies for components for cost-efficient fuel cell achieving competitive solutions for systems for automotive applications; rail applications;
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FCH-01-7-2016 improvement of FCH-02-10-2016 demonstration of fuel compressed storage systems and cell-based energy storage solutions for related manufacturing processes in isolated micro-grid or off-grid remote the perspective of automotive mass areas; production; FCH-02-11-2016 megawatt or multi- FCH-01-8-2016 development of MW demonstration of stationary fuel innovative hydrogen compressor cells; technology for small scale FCH-03-1-2016 development of decentralised applications for innovative hydrogen purification hydrogen refuelling or storage; technology based on membrane FCH-01-9-2016 large scale validation systems; of fuel cell bus fleets; FCH-04-1-2016 novel education and FCH-01-10-2016 validation of fuel cell training tools; urban trucks and related FCH-04-2-2016 identification of legal- infrastructure; administrative barriers for the FCH-02-1-2016 establish testing installation and operation of key fuel protocols for electrolysers performing cells and hydrogen technologies. electricity grid services; FCH-02-2-2016 development of Proposals must take the form of research and compact reformers for distributed bio- innovation actions, innovation actions or hydrogen production; coordination and support actions, depending FCH-02-3-2016 development of on the topic addressed. Research and processes for direct production of innovation actions and innovation actions hydrogen from sunlight; require participation by at least three legal FCH-02-4-2016 co-generation of entities, each established in a different EU hydrogen and electricity with high- member state or associated country. temperature fuel cells; Coordination and support actions require at FCH-02-5-2016 advanced monitoring, least one legal entity established in a member diagnostics and lifetime estimation for state or associated country. stationary solid oxide fuel cells stacks and modules; The total budget is €117.5 million. FCH-02-6-2016 development of cost effective manufacturing technologies Ref: OJ C017, H2020-JTI-FCH-2016-1. for key components or fuel cell Closing date: 03 May 16 systems for industrial applications; Deadline information: Applications due by FCH-02-7-2016 demonstration of 5pm Brussels time. large-scale rapid response electrolysis Posted date: 19 Jan 16 to provide grid balancing services and Award type: Directed grants to institutions, to supply hydrogen markets; research groups etc, Innovation grants, Networking/collaboration FCH-02-8-2016 large scale Award amount max: - demonstration of commercial fuel Award amount min: - cells in the power range of 20-100kW Award budget total: €117,500,000 in different market applications; Website: FCH-02-9-2016 large scale https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/por demonstration of commercial fuel tal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h20 cells in the power range of 100-400kW 20-jti-fch-2016- in different market applications; 1.html#c,topics=callIdentifier/t/H2020-JTI- FCH-2016-
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1/1/1/1&callStatus/t/Forthcoming/1/1/0&callS countries (ICPC), Overseas Countries and tatus/t/Open/1/1/0&callStatus/t/Closed/1/1/0 Territories &+identifier/desc Country of applicant institution: Any
Eligibility profile Disciplines ------Country of applicant institution: EU Combustion & Fuel Engineering; Hydrogen & (European Union), EU Associated Countries, Synthetic Fuels; Fuel Cells EU All International Cooperation Partner
EEDING DRUG DISCOVERY Wellcome Trust S
Description: institutions, research groups etc, Innovation The Wellcome Trust invites applications for grants its seeding drug discovery scheme. Funding is Award budget total: - available to facilitate early-stage small Website: molecule drug discovery that will be the http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Innovat springboard for further research and ions/Awards/Seeding-Drug- development by the biotechnology and Discovery/index.htm pharmaceutical industry in areas of unmet Application form: medical need. http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/c orporatesite/@technology_transfer/document Proposals are welcome from non-profit s/web_document/wtx027222.doc research institutions based in the UK or overseas. Eligibility profile ------Early-stage drug discovery projects may Country of applicant institution: Any request funding for up to two years, while late-stage lead to clinical projects may request Disciplines up to four years’ funding, to support lead ------optimisation and preclinical development. Cytopathology; Pharmacy & Pharmacology
Contact Details
Closing date: 04 May 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Innovations been announced by funder, but this is the Wellcome Trust approximate deadline we expect. Gibbs Building Applications due by 5pm GMT. 215 Euston Road Posted date: 14 Jan 15 London NW1 2BE Award type: Technology Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 innovation/development, Directed grants to Fax: +44 20 7611 8857 Email: [email protected]
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NNOVATIONS PARTNERSHIP SCHEME Science and Technology Facilities Council I
Description: The Science and Technology Facilities Council Award type: Academic-Industry links, invites applications for its innovations Technology innovation/development, partnership scheme. This aims to transfer Directed grants to institutions, research technology and expertise developed through groups etc, Networking/collaboration, STFC funding to the marketplace in Innovation grants partnership with industry and other academic Award amount max: £360,000 disciplines. Award amount min: - Award budget total: - Applicants must collaborate with a partner. Website: Applicants must have been previously or be http://www.stfc.ac.uk/funding/working- currently funded by the STFC, and should with-industry/innovations-partnership- show that their work will develop scheme/ technologies or expertise from STFC funded Application form: https://je- s.rcuk.ac.uk/JeS2WebLoginSite/Login.aspx projects. Higher education institutions, research councils, the European Synchrotron Eligibility profile Radiation Facility, CERN and the European ------Southern Observatory may apply as lead Country of applicant institution: United partners. Industrial and non-profit Kingdom organisations may also apply in collaboration Country of applicant institution: Any with a lead academic partner.
Disciplines A maximum of £120,000 is available for mini ------IPS projects, and a maximum of £360,000 is Nuclear Physics; Particle Physics; Galactic available for standard IPS projects, which Astronomy; Cosmology & Extragalactic correspond to 80 per cent of full economic Astronomy costs. Mini IPS projects have a duration of up to 12 months and standard IPS projects have a Contact Details duration of three years. ------
STFC Closing date: 04 May 16 Polaris House Deadline information: Deadlines on: 4 May North Star Avenue 2016, 7 September 2016, 27 January 2017, and Swindon SN2 1SZ repeated annually. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 02 Oct 15
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NDUSTRIAL RESEARCH CENTRES Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning – Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research I
Description: The Swedish Foundation for Strategic The total budget is worth up to SEK400 Research invites proposals for its industrial million. Each centre may receive between research centres. Funding aims to boost long- SEK50m and SEK100m for a total period of six term problem- and application driven to eight years, including overheads. Up to research centres encompassing collaborative eight centres will be supported. research ecosystems between industry, research institutes and academia. Centres Industry partners must fund their should be strategically defined around participation with a combination of in-kind formulated industrial needs with formidable and cash by at least 20 per cent of the total research challenges, and research problems budget of the centre. A maximum of 25 per should be defined and pursued together by cent may be used for salaries for the main the industrial and academic partners. applicant or co-applicants. Funding may be Research centres must be concentrated on used for salaries, research tools and running disruptive innovation, including new costs of the centre. enabling technologies or emerging technology shifts in a long-term perspective. Closing date: 04 May 16 Deadline information: Proposals are invited Centres should consist of two to five between mid October 2015 and 2pm CET, 4 industrial partners together with one to five May 2016. academic or research institute partners. At Posted date: 24 Sep 15 least one of the partners must be a department Award type: Research calls for business, at a Swedish university, which will administer Academic-Industry links, Technology the grant. The main applicant must be a innovation/development, researcher based at a Swedish university or Networking/collaboration, Directed grants to research institute, and must be prepared to institutions, research groups etc, Innovation assume operative responsibility for the centre grants throughout the grant period. Co-applicants Award amount max: kr100,000,000 should be researchers from industry, public Award amount min: kr50,000,000 Award budget total: kr400,000,000 authorities, research institutes and university Website: departments. http://www.stratresearch.se/sv/Bidragsguide/
Utlysningar/2015/IRC---Industrial-Research- Companies should normally be registered in Centers/ Sweden or close to Sweden so that the exchange can work practically and be justified Eligibility profile strategically for Sweden. Industrial partners ------may be hospitals if the centre involves clinical Country of applicant institution: Any research. International partners may Country of applicant institution: Sweden participate on their own budget, excluding international researchers that become Disciplines employed by the centre through participating ------Swedish partners. Engineering; Food Science; Medicine & Health; Biological Sciences; Materials
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Sciences; Chemistry; Physics; Earth Systems & Contact Details Environmental Sciences; History of Science ------Tel: +46 733 581 678 Email: [email protected]
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. Award amount max: £10,000 Grants may be used to facilitate initial project Award amount min: £500 planning and development, to support the Award budget total: - direct costs of research and to enable the Website: advancement of research through workshops http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/srg.cf or conferences, or visits by or to partner m scholars. Application form: https://egap.britac.ac.uk/
Applications for individual and collaborative Eligibility profile projects are equally welcome. International ------groups of scholars are eligible to apply, Country of applicant institution: United provided the lead applicant is a UK-based Kingdom scholar. Country of applicant institution: Any
Disciplines Grants are tenable for up to two years and are ------worth between £500 and £10,000. Social Sciences; Humanities
Closing date: 11 May 16 Deadline information: Applications due by Contact Details 5pm. Deadlines on: 14 October 2015, 11 May ------2016. Tel: +44 20 7969 5217 Posted date: 10 Sep 15 Email: [email protected]
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NCIENT PERSIA FUND British Academy A
Description: The British Academy invites applications to Award type: Directed grants for individual its ancient Persia fund. The aim of this fund is investigators, Travel for research purposes to encourage and support the study of ancient Award budget total: - Persia and related areas, including central Website: Asia, in the period before the coming of Islam. http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/persi Activities supported by the fund include a/index.cfm research grants for the study of ancient Iran Application form: https://egap.britac.ac.uk/ and neighbouring areas, covering the travel costs of students and scholars. Eligibility profile ------For UK residents, an application to this fund Country of applicant institution: Any for travel costs may be combined with an application for a small research grant for other Disciplines costs, up to a total of £7,500. Applicants based ------outside the UK are not eligible to apply for Middle Eastern Studies additional support, but are welcome to apply for a travel grant up to the normal limit of Contact Details £500. Grants are tenable for 12 months. ------Research Grants Office British Academy Closing date: 11 May 16 10-11 Carlton House Terrace Deadline information: London SW1Y 5AH Posted date: 16 Oct 15 Tel: +44 20 7969 5217 Email: [email protected]
NDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIP AWARDS Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council I
Description: The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Applications should be made to the following Research Council invites applications for its committees according to the research topic: industrial partnership awards. These support science-led research projects that address any research committee A evaluates topic within the council’s remit, and where proposals related to animal disease, industrial partners contribute in cash funding. health and welfare;
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research committee B evaluates Deadline information: Applications due by proposals related to plants, microbes, 4pm. food and sustainability; Posted date: 24 Sep 15 research committee C evaluates Award type: Research calls for business, proposals related to genes, Academic-Industry links, development, and science, technology, Networking/collaboration, Directed grants to engineering and mathematics institutions, research groups etc approaches to biology; Award budget total: - research committee D evaluates Website: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/collaborati proposals related to molecules, cells ve-research/industrial-partnership- and industrial biotechnology. awards.aspx
Application form: https://je-s.rcuk.ac.uk/ Principal applicants must be resident in the
UK and hold an academic staff appointment, Eligibility profile at the lecturer level or equivalent, at a higher ------education institution, research council Country of applicant institution: United institute or a BBSRC approved research Kingdom organisation. Company partners should be Country of applicant institution: Any registered in the UK or have a UK research and development or manufacturing site. Disciplines Where a suitable company cannot be found in ------the UK, an overseas company may be used. Agriculture, Veterinary & Food Science;
Biological Sciences; Environmental Industrial partners must contribute in cash at Engineering least 10 per cent of the full economic cost of projects. Awards are tenable for up to five Contact Details years. ------Tel: +44 1793 413 240 Closing date: 11 May 16 Email: [email protected]
2020-FETOPEN-2016 NOVEL IDEAS FOR RADICALLY NEW TECHNOLOGIES – TOPIC 2 H Horizon 2020: Excellent Science
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: Proposals may address FETOPEN-02-2016 Excellent Science, under the future and coordination and support actions. emerging technologies programme, invites proposals for its H2020-FETOPEN-2016 novel Proposals should address only one of the ideas for radically new technologies call. This following subtopics: aims to support the early stages of joint science and technology research for radically a – FET communication; new future technological possibilities. b – FET exchange;
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c – FET conference; Deadline information: Proposals invited d – FET innovation greenhouse. between 8 December 2015 and 5pm Brussels time, 11 May 2016. For each of the scope items a and c at most Posted date: 15 Oct 15 one action will be funded. Award type: Innovation grants, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Projects must take the form of coordination Hosting conferences, and support actions. These require Networking/collaboration participation by at least one independent legal Award amount max: - entity, established in a member state or Award budget total: €3,000,000 Website: associated country. Under Excellent Science, http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port Switzerland may participate as an associated al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 country. 0-fetopen-2016-2017.html
All H2020 funding calls allow third country Eligibility profile partners who secure their own funding to ------participate in consortia. Country of applicant institution: EU
(European Union), EU Associated Countries, Each successful proposal is expected to EU All International Cooperation Partner receive between €300,000 and €1 million countries (ICPC), Overseas Countries and although proposals for other amounts will Territories also be considered. The total indicative Country of applicant institution: Any budget for this call is €3m. Country of applicant institution: Switzerland
Ref: OJ C6776. Disciplines
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Innovation & Technology Management; Spin- Closing date: 11 May 16 Offs & Academic Innovation
2020-FETOPEN-2016-2017 NOVEL IDEAS FOR RADICALLY NEW TECHNOLOGIES – TOPIC 1 H Horizon 2020: Excellent Science
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: possibilities. Proposals may address the topic Excellent Science, under the future and FETOPEN-01-2016-2017 FET-open research emerging technologies programme, invites and innovation actions. proposals for its H2020-FETOPEN-2016-2017 novel ideas for radically new technologies Projects must take the form of research and call. This aims to support the early stages of innovation actions. Research and innovation joint science and technology research for actions require participation by at least three radically new future technological legal entities, each established in a different
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EU member state or associated country. All Networking/collaboration, Technology H2020 funding calls allow third country innovation/development, Innovation grants partners who secure their own funding to Award amount max: - participate in consortia. Under Excellent Award budget total: €194,500,000 Science, Switzerland may participate as an Website: associated country. http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 Each successful proposal is expected to 0-fetopen-2016-2017.html receive up to €4 million although proposals for other amounts will also be considered. The Eligibility profile total indicative budget for this call is €194.5m. ------Country of applicant institution: EU Ref: OJ C6776. (European Union), EU Associated Countries, EU All International Cooperation Partner Closing date: 11 May 16 countries (ICPC), Overseas Countries and Deadline information: Call opens 8 Territories December 2015. Proposals due 5pm Brussels Country of applicant institution: Any time, 11 May 2016 and 17 January and 27 Country of applicant institution: Switzerland September 2017. Posted date: 15 Oct 15 Disciplines Award type: Directed grants to institutions, ------research groups etc, Spin-Offs & Academic Innovation; Research Management; Innovation & Technology Management
TAND-ALONE LINK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council S
Description: The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences research committee B evaluates Research Council invites applications for its proposals related to plants, microbes, stand-alone LINK programme. This supports food and sustainability; pre-competitive research projects that address research committee C evaluates any topic within the council’s remit, and proposals related to genes, where industry contributes funding. development, science, technology, engineering and mathematical Applications should be made to the following approaches to biology; committees according to the research topic: research committee D evaluates proposals related to molecules, cells research committee A evaluates and industrial biotechnology. proposals related to animal disease, health and welfare; Applying teams must include at least one company, with preference given to small and
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ONOR FROST FOUNDATION SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS British Academy H
Description: The British Academy, in collaboration with Applications from international groups of the Honor Frost Foundation, invites scholars are welcome, provided there is a UK- applications for its small research grants. based scholar as lead applicant. These support research in maritime archaeology and maritime cultural heritage. Grants are worth up to £10,000 each. The grants are mainly intended to provide new funding opportunities within the UK for Closing date: 11 May 16 high quality research projects in maritime Deadline information: Applications are archaeology, and applicants do not need to invited between 1 April and 11 May 2016. adhere to the Honor Frost Foundation’s Posted date: 20 Oct 15 regional focus. Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc
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Award amount max: £10,000 Country of applicant institution: Any Award budget total: - Website: Disciplines http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/hff.cf ------m Maritime Archaeology Application form: https://egap.britac.ac.uk/ Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Tel: +44 20 7969 5217 Country of applicant institution: United Email: [email protected] Kingdom
OMING SOON: COMPARATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS Network for Studies on Pensions, Ageing and Retirement C
Description: The Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging Award type: Directed grants for individual and Retirement will shortly be inviting investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate applications for its comparative research students grants. The next call will be expected in 2016. Award amount max: €10,000 The following information is subject to Award budget total: €70,000 change. Website: http://www.netspar.nl/grants_research_grant These are awarded to researchers not already .htm receiving funding from Netspar. Proposals for research projects must be on topics that relate Eligibility profile to the organisation’s objective: to conduct ------innovative scientific research on all aspects of Country of applicant institution: Any the economics of ageing. The maximum grant is €10,000 per project. Seven grants are Contact Details available in this round. ------Tel: +31 13 466 8220 Closing date: 12 May 16 (Forecast) Email: [email protected] Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Disciplines approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Geriatrics & Gerontology; Savings & Posted date: 14 Jan 15 Investments; Psychology of Ageing
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RIGINAL, ISN’T IT? VolkswagenStiftung – Volkswagen Foundation O
Description: The VolkswagenStiftung invites applications approximate deadline we expect. This call is for its Original - Isn’t it? funding opportunity. repeated once a year. This aims to encourage scholars in the Posted date: 10 Apr 15 humanities and cultural studies to embark on Award type: Directed grants to institutions, projects of groundbreaking originality. There research groups etc, Travel for research are no specific requirements as to what form purposes, Directed grants for individual this originality should take. There are two investigators, Publish, edit, translate, funding lines. Line one addresses individual disseminate, Travel to conferences, meetings researchers offering them a possibility to etc., Innovation grants develop new ideas, hypotheses or topics in Award amount max: €150,000 the form of an essay or treatise. Line two Award amount min: - addresses researchers who wish to join small Award budget total: - teams to follow up on new research ideas and Website: http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/fundi put their feasibility to the test in an ng/challenges-for-academia-and- exploratory phase. Here, too, the main society/original-isnt- criterion is the potential for ground-breaking it.html?tx_itaofundinginitiative_itaofunding originality. initiativekeydates[controller]=FundingInitia
tive&cHash=16f8133d244d06a981e3fe74623a2 Applications are welcome from all researchers daf who have finished their PhD. Funding line Application form: one is only open to Germans, but teams under https://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/vwsant line two can include partners from both rag/login.do?siteLanguage=en Germany and abroad. The number of researchers per group must not exceed four. Eligibility profile Teams comprising partners drawn from the ------social sciences, life sciences, natural sciences Country of applicant institution: Any or engineering are particularly welcome. Disciplines Funding available under line one is up to ------€80,000 over maximum one year. For teams Arts and Humanities the maximum funding is €150,000 over 18 months. A total of approximately 20 projects Contact Details will be funded each year. The funding may be ------used for research stays, workshops, salary for VolkswagenStiftung employing a deputy during an additional Kastanienallee 35 research semester and translation costs. 30519 Hannover Tel: +49 511 8381 218 Closing date: 12 May 16 (Forecast) Fax: +49 511 8381 4218 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Email: [email protected] been announced by funder, but this is the
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ESEARCH GRANTS Horses and Humans Research Foundation R
Description: The Horses and Humans Research Website: Foundation invites applications for its http://www.horsesandhumans.org/Research. research grants. The purpose of HHRF funded html research is to investigate the therapeutic Application form: effects of horses on humans. The broad http://www.horsesandhumans.org/Applicati research agenda includes basic research as onForms.doc well as clinical studies that will ultimately impact the physical and mental health and Eligibility profile quality of life for people with disabilities who ------are involved with equine-assisted Country of applicant institution: Any activities/therapies. Disciplines Preference will be given to investigators with ------solid credentials and research experience. Allied Health Professions; Physiology; Mental Health; Psychology; Care for Disabled People; Grants are generally worth up to $50,000 for Primary Care; Mammalogy; Counselling & up to one year. Talking Therapies; Public Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Life Expectancy & Closing date: 14 May 16 (Forecast) Quality of Life 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. Horses and Humans Research Foundation Posted date: 09 Dec 10 P.O Box 480 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 research groups etc Tel: +1 440 543 8306 Award amount max: $50,000 Fax: +1 440 543 4386 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
RITISH ACADEMY/LEVERHULME SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS British Academy B
Description: The British Academy, in association with the Leverhulme Trust, invites applications for its Grants may be used to facilitate initial project small research grants. These support primary planning and development, to support the research in the humanities and social sciences. direct costs of research and to enable the
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NCIENT PERSIA FUND British Academy A
Description: The British Academy invites applications to for a travel grant up to the normal limit of its ancient Persia fund. The aim of this fund is £500. Grants are tenable for 12 months. to encourage and support the study of ancient Persia and related areas, including central Closing date: 11 May 16 Asia, in the period before the coming of Islam. Deadline information: Activities supported by the fund include Posted date: 16 Oct 15 research grants for the study of ancient Iran Award type: Directed grants for individual and neighbouring areas, covering the travel investigators, Travel for research purposes costs of students and scholars. Award budget total: - Website: For UK residents, an application to this fund http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/persi for travel costs may be combined with an a/index.cfm application for a small research grant for other Application form: https://egap.britac.ac.uk/ costs, up to a total of £7,500. Applicants based outside the UK are not eligible to apply for Eligibility profile additional support, but are welcome to apply ------Country of applicant institution: Any
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Disciplines British Academy ------10-11 Carlton House Terrace Middle Eastern Studies London SW1Y 5AH Tel: +44 20 7969 5217 Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------Research Grants Office
NDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIP AWARDS Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council I
Description: The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences registered in the UK or have a UK research Research Council invites applications for its and development or manufacturing site. industrial partnership awards. These support Where a suitable company cannot be found in science-led research projects that address any the UK, an overseas company may be used. topic within the council’s remit, and where industrial partners contribute in cash funding. Industrial partners must contribute in cash at least 10 per cent of the full economic cost of Applications should be made to the following projects. Awards are tenable for up to five committees according to the research topic: years.
research committee A evaluates Closing date: 11 May 16 proposals related to animal disease, Deadline information: Applications due by health and welfare; 4pm. research committee B evaluates Posted date: 24 Sep 15 proposals related to plants, microbes, Award type: Research calls for business, food and sustainability; Academic-Industry links, research committee C evaluates Networking/collaboration, Directed grants to proposals related to genes, institutions, research groups etc development, and science, technology, Award budget total: - Website: engineering and mathematics http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/collaborati approaches to biology; ve-research/industrial-partnership- research committee D evaluates awards.aspx proposals related to molecules, cells Application form: https://je-s.rcuk.ac.uk/ and industrial biotechnology.
Eligibility profile Principal applicants must be resident in the ------UK and hold an academic staff appointment, Country of applicant institution: United at the lecturer level or equivalent, at a higher Kingdom education institution, research council Country of applicant institution: Any institute or a BBSRC approved research organisation. Company partners should be
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Disciplines ------Contact Details Agriculture, Veterinary & Food Science; ------Biological Sciences; Environmental Tel: +44 1793 413 240 Engineering Email: [email protected]
2020-FETOPEN-2016 NOVEL IDEAS FOR RADICALLY NEW TECHNOLOGIES – TOPIC 2 H Horizon 2020: Excellent Science
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: All H2020 funding calls allow third country Excellent Science, under the future and partners who secure their own funding to emerging technologies programme, invites participate in consortia. proposals for its H2020-FETOPEN-2016 novel ideas for radically new technologies call. This Each successful proposal is expected to aims to support the early stages of joint receive between €300,000 and €1 million science and technology research for radically although proposals for other amounts will new future technological possibilities. also be considered. The total indicative Proposals may address FETOPEN-02-2016 budget for this call is €3m. coordination and support actions. Ref: OJ C6776. Proposals should address only one of the following subtopics: Closing date: 11 May 16 Deadline information: Proposals invited a – FET communication; between 8 December 2015 and 5pm Brussels b – FET exchange; time, 11 May 2016. c – FET conference; Posted date: 15 Oct 15 d – FET innovation greenhouse. Award type: Innovation grants, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, For each of the scope items a and c at most Hosting conferences, one action will be funded. Networking/collaboration Award budget total: €3,000,000 Projects must take the form of coordination Website: and support actions. These require http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port participation by at least one independent legal al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 0-fetopen-2016-2017.html entity, established in a member state or associated country. Under Excellent Science, Eligibility profile Switzerland may participate as an associated ------country. Country of applicant institution: EU
(European Union), EU Associated Countries, EU All International Cooperation Partner
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2020-FETOPEN-2016-2017 NOVEL IDEAS FOR RADICALLY NEW TECHNOLOGIES – TOPIC 1 H Horizon 2020: Excellent Science
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: Deadline information: Call opens 8 Excellent Science, under the future and December 2015. Proposals due 5pm Brussels emerging technologies programme, invites time, 11 May 2016 and 17 January and 27 proposals for its H2020-FETOPEN-2016-2017 September 2017. novel ideas for radically new technologies Posted date: 15 Oct 15 call. This aims to support the early stages of Award type: Directed grants to institutions, joint science and technology research for research groups etc, radically new future technological Networking/collaboration, Technology possibilities. Proposals may address the topic innovation/development, Innovation grants FETOPEN-01-2016-2017 FET-open research Award amount max: - and innovation actions. Award budget total: €194,500,000 Website: Projects must take the form of research and http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 innovation actions. Research and innovation 0-fetopen-2016-2017.html actions require participation by at least three legal entities, each established in a different Eligibility profile EU member state or associated country. All ------H2020 funding calls allow third country Country of applicant institution: EU partners who secure their own funding to (European Union), EU Associated Countries, participate in consortia. Under Excellent EU All International Cooperation Partner Science, Switzerland may participate as an countries (ICPC), Overseas Countries and associated country. Territories
Country of applicant institution: Any Each successful proposal is expected to Country of applicant institution: Switzerland receive up to €4 million although proposals for other amounts will also be considered. The Disciplines total indicative budget for this call is €194.5m. ------
Spin-Offs & Academic Innovation; Research Ref: OJ C6776. Management; Innovation & Technology
Management Closing date: 11 May 16
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TAND-ALONE LINK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council S
Description: The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences company cannot be found in the UK, an Research Council invites applications for its overseas company may be used. stand-alone LINK programme. This supports pre-competitive research projects that address Industry partners must contribute in cash at any topic within the council’s remit, and least 50 per cent of the full economic cost of where industry contributes funding. projects. Funding is available for up to five years. Applications should be made to the following committees according to the research topic: Closing date: 11 May 16 Deadline information: Applications due by research committee A evaluates 4pm. proposals related to animal disease, Posted date: 24 Sep 15 health and welfare; Award type: Directed grants to institutions, research committee B evaluates research groups etc, Research calls for proposals related to plants, microbes, business, Academic-Industry links, food and sustainability; Networking/collaboration research committee C evaluates Award budget total: - Website: proposals related to genes, http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/innovation/collabora development, science, technology, tion/stand-alone-link/ engineering and mathematical Application form: https://je-s.rcuk.ac.uk/ approaches to biology;
research committee D evaluates Eligibility profile proposals related to molecules, cells ------and industrial biotechnology. Country of applicant institution: United
Kingdom Applying teams must include at least one Country of applicant institution: Any company, with preference given to small and medium-sized enterprises, and one science- Disciplines based partner. Principal applicants must be ------resident in the UK and hold an academic staff Biological Sciences; Environmental appointment, at the lecturer level or Engineering; Agriculture, Veterinary & Food equivalent, at a higher education institution, Science research council institute or a BBSRC approved research organisation. Company Contact Details partners should be registered in the UK or ------have a UK research and development or Tel: +44 1793 413 240 manufacturing site. Where a suitable Email: [email protected]
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ONOR FROST FOUNDATION SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS British Academy H
Description: The British Academy, in collaboration with Award type: Directed grants for individual the Honor Frost Foundation, invites investigators, Directed grants to institutions, applications for its small research grants. research groups etc These support research in maritime Award amount max: £10,000 archaeology and maritime cultural heritage. Award budget total: - The grants are mainly intended to provide Website: new funding opportunities within the UK for http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/hff.cf high quality research projects in maritime m archaeology, and applicants do not need to Application form: https://egap.britac.ac.uk/ adhere to the Honor Frost Foundation’s regional focus. Eligibility profile ------Applications from international groups of Country of applicant institution: United scholars are welcome, provided there is a UK- Kingdom based scholar as lead applicant. Country of applicant institution: Any
Grants are worth up to £10,000 each. Disciplines ------Maritime Archaeology Closing date: 11 May 16 Deadline information: Applications are Contact Details invited between 1 April and 11 May 2016. ------Posted date: 20 Oct 15 Tel: +44 20 7969 5217 Email: [email protected]
OMING SOON: COMPARATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS Network for Studies on Pensions, Ageing and Retirement C
Description: The Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging These are awarded to researchers not already and Retirement will shortly be inviting receiving funding from Netspar. Proposals for applications for its comparative research research projects must be on topics that relate grants. The next call will be expected in 2016. to the organisation’s objective: to conduct The following information is subject to innovative scientific research on all aspects of change. the economics of ageing. The maximum grant
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RIGINAL, ISN’T IT? VolkswagenStiftung – Volkswagen Foundation O
Description: The VolkswagenStiftung invites applications one is only open to Germans, but teams under for its Original - Isn’t it? funding opportunity. line two can include partners from both This aims to encourage scholars in the Germany and abroad. The number of humanities and cultural studies to embark on researchers per group must not exceed four. projects of groundbreaking originality. There Teams comprising partners drawn from the are no specific requirements as to what form social sciences, life sciences, natural sciences this originality should take. There are two or engineering are particularly welcome. funding lines. Line one addresses individual researchers offering them a possibility to Funding available under line one is up to develop new ideas, hypotheses or topics in €80,000 over maximum one year. For teams the form of an essay or treatise. Line two the maximum funding is €150,000 over 18 addresses researchers who wish to join small months. A total of approximately 20 projects teams to follow up on new research ideas and will be funded each year. The funding may be put their feasibility to the test in an used for research stays, workshops, salary for exploratory phase. Here, too, the main employing a deputy during an additional criterion is the potential for ground-breaking research semester and translation costs. originality.
Applications are welcome from all researchers Closing date: 12 May 16 (Forecast) who have finished their PhD. Funding line
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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Application form: been announced by funder, but this is the https://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/vwsant approximate deadline we expect. This call is rag/login.do?siteLanguage=en repeated once a year. Posted date: 10 Apr 15 Eligibility profile Award type: Directed grants to institutions, ------research groups etc, Travel for research Country of applicant institution: Any purposes, Directed grants for individual investigators, Publish, edit, translate, Disciplines disseminate, Travel to conferences, meetings ------etc., Innovation grants Arts and Humanities Award amount max: €150,000 Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/fundi VolkswagenStiftung ng/challenges-for-academia-and- Kastanienallee 35 society/original-isnt- 30519 Hannover it.html?tx_itaofundinginitiative_itaofunding Tel: +49 511 8381 218 initiativekeydates[controller]=FundingInitia Fax: +49 511 8381 4218 tive&cHash=16f8133d244d06a981e3fe74623a2 Email: [email protected] daf
ESEARCH GRANTS Horses and Humans Research Foundation R
Description: The Horses and Humans Research Grants are generally worth up to $50,000 for Foundation invites applications for its up to one year. research grants. The purpose of HHRF funded research is to investigate the therapeutic effects of horses on humans. The broad Closing date: 14 May 16 (Forecast) research agenda includes basic research as Deadline information: !! Call has not yet well as clinical studies that will ultimately been announced by funder, but this is the impact the physical and mental health and approximate deadline we expect. This call is quality of life for people with disabilities who repeated once a year. are involved with equine-assisted Posted date: 09 Dec 10 activities/therapies. Award type: Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc Preference will be given to investigators with Award amount max: $50,000 solid credentials and research experience. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.horsesandhumans.org/Research. html
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Application form: Talking Therapies; Public Health, Health http://www.horsesandhumans.org/Applicati Services & Primary Care; Life Expectancy & onForms.doc Quality of Life
Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any Horses and Humans Research Foundation P.O Box 480 Disciplines Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 ------Tel: +1 440 543 8306 Allied Health Professions; Physiology; Mental Fax: +1 440 543 4386 Health; Psychology; Care for Disabled People; Email: [email protected] Primary Care; Mammalogy; Counselling &
PECIAL PROGRAMME ON ISLAM, THE MODERN NATION STATE AND TRANSNATIONAL MOVEMENTS – RESEARCH PROJECTS S Gerda Henkel Foundation
Description: The Gerda Henkel Foundation invites Applications may be submitted by one or proposals for its special programme on Islam, more PhDs or scholars with postdoctoral the modern nation state and transnational lecture qualifications, or by universities or movements. The programme is aimed at other research institutes. researchers who, with an eye to current developments, are examining the emergence Grants cover costs for personnel, travel, of political movements in the Islamic world at materials or other expenses. The costs of the national or transnational level. Funding hosting visiting scholars may also be financed. supports research projects in the following fields: Closing date: 27 May 16 historical and present-day Islamic Deadline information: This call is repeated systems of society and state; once a year. the concept of nation, national Posted date: 10 Jul 15 movements and nationalism in Islamic Award type: Networking/collaboration, civilisation; Travel for research purposes, Directed grants Islamic fundamentalism or Islamic for individual investigators, Directed grants emancipation; to institutions, research groups etc, Equipment and materials, Hosting visits transnational civil society movements Award budget total: - in the Islamic world; Website: http://www.gerda-henkel- Islamic states in the international stiftung.de/special-programme_islam world system.
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Application form: https://forms.gerda- Globalisation & Transnationalism; Arabic henkel- Literature; Theology & Religious Studies; stiftung.de/ghs?kind=siforp&lang=en Political Ideologies; African Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Islamic Studies Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------Email: [email protected] Disciplines ------
ARLY-CAREER GRANT Society for Endocrinology E
Description: The Society for Endocrinology invites clinical team leader. The grant is ideally applications for its early career grant. This suited to trainee members. provides financial support to endocrinologists for resources to gain preliminary data before The grant is worth up to £10,000. applying for other external funding, for resources to finalise a project or for short-term Closing date: 27 May 16 salary funding. The grant also incorporates Deadline information: Required signed funding from the Marjorie Robinson copies due within a week of each deadline. endowment fund for research into diseases of Deadlines on: 27 May 2016, 27 November the adrenal or pituitary glands. 2016. Posted date: 17 Apr 15 Members of the society who are within 10 Award type: Equipment and materials, years of completion of a postgraduate degree Directed grants for individual investigators may apply. Applicants should normally be Award amount max: £10,000 postdoctoral or, in exceptional cases, within Website: the final year of a PhD in which the project http://www.endocrinology.org/grants/grant_ must be distinct from that done during their earlycareer.html Application form: PhD. Full, associate and nurse members who https://www.bioscientifica.info/sfe/grantsSw hold a minimum of one year’s membership, itch/index.aspx?gc=4&gType=3 and scientist-in-training and clinician-in- training members who hold a minimum of six Eligibility profile month’s membership, may also apply. ------Applicants should normally be an academic Country of applicant institution: Any or academic-related staff member based at a recognised higher education or medical Disciplines institution. If not, a letter of support is ------required from the principal investigator or Hormones & Endocrinology
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PECIAL PROGRAMME ON ISLAM, THE MODERN NATION STATE AND TRANSNATIONAL MOVEMENTS – RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS S Gerda Henkel Foundation
Description: The Gerda Henkel Foundation invites Projects are generally funded for one to 24 proposals for research scholarships under its months. special programme on Islam, the modern nation state and transnational movements. Closing date: 27 May 16 This supports researchers who are examining Deadline information: This call is repeated the emergence of political movements in the once a year. Islamic world at the national or transnational Posted date: 10 Jul 15 level. Research may address: Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Equipment and materials, historical and present-day Islamic Travel for research purposes systems of society and state; Award budget total: - the concept of nation, national Website: http://www.gerda-henkel- movements and nationalism in Islamic stiftung.de/application-for-research- scholarships?page_id=74875 civilisation; Application form: https://forms.gerda- Islamic fundamentalism or Islamic henkel- emancipation; stiftung.de/ghs?kind=sifors&lang=en transnational civil society movements
in the Islamic world; Eligibility profile Islamic states in the international ------world system. Country of applicant institution: Any
Each applicant must hold a PhD or be a Disciplines scholar with a postdoctoral lecture ------qualification. Scholarships each support a Arabic Literature; Middle Eastern Studies; scholar who will work on their own specific Theology & Religious Studies; African project. Studies; Political Ideologies; Islamic Studies; Globalisation & Transnationalism Funding provides a basic scholarship sum. If appropriate and required, it may also cover Contact Details travel abroad and other travel expenses, ------childcare allowance, and material expenses. Email: [email protected]
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ESEARCH GRANTS Emil Capita Foundation R
Description: The Emil Capita Foundation invites Award amount max: $120,000 applications for its research grants program. Award budget total: - The foundation grants cutting edge auditory Website: research up to $40,000, renewable annually for http://capitafoundation.com/apply.html up to two additional years. Unconventional proposals are welcome, and priority is often Eligibility profile given to projects with promising clinical ------applications. Country of applicant institution: Any
Any scientist pursuing independent research Disciplines can apply for a research grant. Grant ------recipients are not required to have a Audiology; Allied Health Professions; Clinical university affiliation. The foundation does not Medicine; Deafness; Primary Care; Sensory fund overhead expenses/indirect costs. Systems; Public Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Hearing & Otology Closing date: 31 May 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 Capita Foundation repeated once a year. 4082 Nabal Drive Posted date: 21 Dec 10 La Mesa, CA 91941 - 7038 Award type: Directed grants for individual Tel: +1 619 849 9850 investigators Email: [email protected]
RANT FOR RESEARCH IN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, MINERAL PHYSICS, OR CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY G Mineralogical Society of America
Description: The Mineralogical Society of America invites Young researchers and students between the applications for its grant for research in ages 25 and 36 are eligible to apply. crystallography. The purpose is to support research in mineralogical crystallography, The grant is worth up to $5,000. particularly in the fields of mineralogy, crystal chemistry, petrology, mineral physics, Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) biomineralization, and geochemistry. Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the
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RANTS FOR STUDENT RESEARCH IN MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY Mineralogical Society of America G
Description: The Mineralogical Society of America invites Application form: applications for its grants for student research http://grants.minsocam.org/ in mineralogy and petrology. The purpose is to support research in mineralogy and Eligibility profile petrology. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Students, including graduate and undergraduate students, are eligible to apply. Disciplines The grants are worth up to $5,000 each. ------Earth Sciences; Igneous & Metamorphic Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Petrology; Mineralogy; Petrology 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. MSA Posted date: 20 Apr 11 3635 Concorde Pkwy, Suite 500 Award type: Young investigator awards, Chantilly, VA 20151-1125 Directed grants for individual investigators Tel: +1 703 652 9950 Award amount max: $5,000 Fax: +1 703 652 9951 Website: Email: [email protected] http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/Awards/Mi n_Pet_Award.html
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ISITING SCHOLARS AND CONSULTANTS GRANTS FOR INSTITUTES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES V Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Description: The Abdus Salam International Centre for Award type: Networking/collaboration, Theoretical Physics invites applications for its Hosting visits, Institutional development, visiting scholars and consultants grants for Directed grants to institutions, research institutes in developing countries. Funding groups etc provides assistance to institutes or research Award amount max: €7,500 groups in developing countries requiring Award budget total: - expert advice to enhance existing activities or Website: to initiate a new research programme. The http://oea.ictp.it/oea/programmes/vs/ aim is to establish a permanent link between Application form: an outside expert in a field of physics or http://oea.ictp.it/programmes/vs/vs_form.doc mathematics and the applicant institute. Eligibility profile Applications may be submitted by host ------institutions in developing countries. The Country of applicant institution: Lower- visiting scientist should be an established Middle-Income countries, Low Income researcher who makes a commitment to visit countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries the host institution two or three times, with visits lasting approximately one month each, Disciplines over a period of three years. ------Physics; Mathematical Sciences Grants cover the travel costs of the visiting Contact Details scientist and do not normally exceed €2,500 ------per visit. Office of External Activities
Closing date: 31 May 16 ICTP Deadline information: Deadlines on: 31 May Via Beirut 6 2016, 30 September 2016, and repeated 34014 Trieste annually. Tel: +39 040 224 0322 Posted date: 15 Dec 14 Fax: +39 040 224 0443 Email: [email protected]
SHRS RESEARCH GRANTS International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery I
Description: The International Society of Hair Restoration clinical research directed toward the subject of Surgery invites applications for its research hair restoration. Research that focuses on grants. The purpose is to support relevant clinical problems or has applications to
Issue 25: Volume 1a: Grants from External Donors (April – June, 2016) clinical problems will receive preferential consideration. Eligibility profile ------ISHRS members in good standing are eligible Country of applicant institution: Any to apply. Disciplines The grants are worth up to $2,600 each. ------Dermatology; Human Biological Sciences; Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Physiology 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. SRGA Committee Posted date: 03 Feb 11 International Society of Hair Restoration Award type: Directed grants for individual Surgery investigators 303 West State Street Award amount max: $2,600 Geneva, IL 60134 Award amount min: $1,200 Tel: +1 630 262 5399 Website: http://www.ishrs.org/member- Fax: +1 630 262 1520 grants.htm Email: [email protected] Application form: http://www.ishrs.org/PDF/RsrchGrantGuidel inesApp2011_FINAL.doc
ARLY-CAREER GRANTS Regional Studies Association E
Description: The Regional Studies Association invites The grant is worth up to £10,000 over a applications for its early-career grants. These maximum of 18 months. enable early-career members of the association to carry out a discrete piece of Closing date: 31 May 16 research in regional studies or regional Deadline information: Applications due by science. 3pm GMT. Posted date: 24 Nov 15 Each applicant must be based at an eligible Award type: Directed grants for individual higher education institution, and must have investigators, Publish, edit, translate, been awarded a PhD within five years. Only disseminate single authors are eligible, and applications Award amount max: £10,000 from corporate membership cannot be Award amount min: - considered. Award budget total: £10,000
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Website: http://www.regionalstudies.org/funding/pag Contact Details e/early-career-grant-scheme ------RSA Eligibility profile 25 Clinton Place ------East Sussex Country of applicant institution: Any BN25 1NP Tel: +44 1323 899 698 Disciplines Fax: +44 1323 899 798 ------Email: [email protected] Urban, Rural & Regional Economics; Urban & Regional Geography; Regional Planning & Policy
ESEARCH AND INNOVATIONS AWARDS Society for Radiological Protection R
Description: The Society for Radiological Protection invites Posted date: 20 Jan 16 applications for its research and innovations Award type: Directed grants for individual grants. These support research and innovation investigators, Innovation grants, Directed projects in the field of radiological protection. grants to institutions, research groups etc Innovations may be in any relevant area, Award amount max: £10,000 including the following: Website: http://www.srp- uk.org/careers/support-schemes underpinning research; operational movements, including Eligibility profile instrumentation; ------ theoretical analysis, including Country of applicant institution: Any mathematical codes; Disciplines regulatory approaches and training. ------
Radiation, Health Effects; Radiation & Matter Applicants may be commercial or academic institutions, however private individuals are Contact Details not eligible to apply. At least one project ------applicant must be a member of the society. SRP
DS009 Dartington Space Typically three awards worth up to £10,000 Dartington Hall each, are available every year. Devon TQ9 6EN
Tel: +44 1803 866 743 Closing date: 31 May 16 Fax: +44 8442 724 892 Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]
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ATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES STUDENT AWARDS International Association for Mathematical Geosciences M
Description: The International Association for Award type: Student awards, Directed grants Mathematical Geosciences invites applications for individual investigators for its mathematical geosciences student Award budget total: $7,500 awards. These aim to encourage graduate Website: students and postdoctoral researchers http://iamg.org/component/content/article/2- working in the field of mathematical methods uncategorised/169-mg-student-grants.html in the geosciences. Masters or PhD students Application form: wishing to use the award to conduct a period http://www.iamgmembers.org/studentforms/ of research related to their thesis or newly use/research/form1.html qualified postdoctoral scientists within three years of the completion of their PhD studies Eligibility profile may apply. Candidates should be ------undertaking research in geomathematics or Country of applicant institution: Any working in interdisciplinary fields with relevance to mathematical geoscienses. Disciplines ------Up to three awards are available. The award Earth Sciences; Applied Mathematics; budget is US$7,500. Geology
Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the IAMG approximate deadline we expect. This call is 5868 Westheimer Rd. 537 repeated once a year. Houston, TX 77057 Posted date: 02 Jun 14 Tel: +1 832 380 8833 Email: [email protected]
ATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH STUDENT AWARDS International Association for Mathematical Geosciences N
Description: The International Association for graduate students and postdocs working on Mathematical Geosciences invites applications quantitative approaches in the fields of for its natural resources research students exploration, assessment, extraction and awards. These are intended to encourage
Issue 25: Volume 1a: Grants from External Donors (April – June, 2016) utilisation of a wide variety of natural Website: resources. http://iamg.org/component/content/article/2- uncategorised/170-nrr-student-grants.html Masters or PhD students wishing to use the Application form: award to conduct a period of research related http://www.iamgmembers.org/studentforms/ to their thesis or newly qualified postdoctoral use/research/form1.html scientists within three years of the completion of their PhD studies may apply. Candidates Eligibility profile should be undertaking research in the fields ------of exploration, assessment, extraction and Country of applicant institution: Any utilisation of a wide variety of natural resources. Disciplines ------Up to two awards are available, normally Renewable Energy Engineering; Geology; Use worth US$2,500. The budget is US$5,000. & Management of Natural Resources; Earth Sciences; Extractive Metallurgy; Materials Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Sciences; Environmental Science; Metallurgy 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. IAMG Posted date: 02 Jun 14 5868 Westheimer Rd. 537 Award type: Directed grants for individual Houston, TX 77057 investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate Tel: +1 832 380 8833 students Email: [email protected] Award budget total: $5,000
OBILITY GRANTS European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology M
Description: The European Society for Radiotherapy and For a single applicant a maximum of €700 is Oncology invites applications for its mobility reimbursed for travel, accommodation and grants. These enable clinicians and scientists per diem costs; for groups the maximum is working or studying in the field of radiation €2500. The annual budget is €50,000. oncology to visit another institute to learn about or gain experience with different Closing date: 31 May 16 techniques and equipment. Visits should last Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 between one and three weeks. times a year. Posted date: 04 Jun 15 Applicants must be ESTRO members. Award type: Personal development, Travel for research purposes, Directed grants for
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HAC AWARDS SCHEME – NEW SCHOLARS AWARD Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry S
Description: The Society for the History of Alchemy and approximate deadline we expect. This call is Chemistry invites applications for its new repeated once a year. scholars award. This supports research into Posted date: 14 May 15 the history of chemistry or history of alchemy Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings by new scholars. etc., Directed grants for individual investigators, Access to libraries, Travel for Applications are open to postgraduate research purposes, Publish, edit, translate, students, both master’s and doctoral students, disseminate, Financial aid for postgraduate and those who have obtained a PhD within students five years of the year in which the application Award amount max: £500 is made. In addition, postgraduate students Award budget total: - only may apply for the costs of travel to Website: http://www.ambix.org/grants/ conferences and accommodation, but only in Eligibility profile order to give a paper. ------
Country of applicant institution: Any Funding is worth up to £500 and covers research expenses, including travel, Disciplines accommodation, subsistence, the ------reproduction of documents and library fees. History of Science
Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the ------Email: [email protected]
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HAC AWARDS SCHEME – SUBJECT DEVELOPMENT AWARDS Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry S
Description: The Society for the History of Alchemy and approximate deadline we expect. This call is Chemistry invites applications for its subject repeated once a year. development awards. These support activities Posted date: 14 May 15 including seminars, workshops, colloquia, Award type: Networking/collaboration, lecture series, conference sessions, Hosting conferences conferences, exhibitions and outreach Award amount max: £500 activities that promote either the history of Award budget total: - chemistry or history of alchemy as academic Website: http://www.ambix.org/grants/ subjects. Eligibility profile Application are open to members of the ------society only, both those in the UK and Country of applicant institution: Any overseas. Contact Details Awards are worth up to £500. ------History of Science Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Detail been announced by funder, but this is the ------Email: [email protected]
SB MOBILITY AWARD FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS European Society of Biomechanics E
Description: The European Society of Biomechanics invites or postdoctoral researchers with less than one applications for its mobility award for young year after receiving their PhD degree. Both the researchers. This provides financial assistance applicant and the scientist responsible at the for collaborative research in a foreign country foreign lab must be ESB members in good as part of a PhD or early postdoctoral standing. The lab visit should be to another research. country than where the student is enrolled for his or her PhD studies or postdoctoral Applicants must be either PhD students research. enrolled at a university or a research institute,
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Two awards, worth up to €4,000 each, are Website: available for research visits of two to six http://www.esbiomech.org/?page_id=1687 months’ duration. Funding may be used towards travel costs, living expenses and Eligibility profile potential project related costs. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 31 May 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Disciplines once a year. ------Posted date: 28 Jan 16 Biomechanics; Biomechanical Engineering Award type: Travel for research purposes, Directed grants for individual investigators, Contact Detail Young investigator awards ------Award amount max: €4,000 Email: [email protected] Award amount min: - Award budget total: €8,000
ATHILDE TAGGER PRIZE FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH National Library of Israel M
Description: The International Institute for Jewish Deadline information: !! Call has not yet genealogy at the National Library of Israel, been announced by funder, but this is the invites applications for the Mathilde Tagger approximate deadline we expect. This call is prize for genealogical research. This repeated once a year. recognises a research study in the field of Posted date: 08 May 15 Jewish genealogy that has been completed but Award type: Publish, edit, translate, not yet published. The aim of the prize is to disseminate, Directed grants for individual assist the recipients to have their work investigators published in an appropriate scholarly Award amount max: $5,000 framework. Award budget total: - The research may be conducted by a single Website: researcher or a group of researchers. http://iijg.org/research/research_prize/ Preference will be given to original research in Eligibility profile areas of broad interest to family historians ------and scholars working on Jewish genealogy Country of applicant institution: Any and a range of related areas in the humanities and social sciences. Disciplines
------The prize is worth US$5,000. Cultural History; Jewish Studies
Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast)
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Contact Details Givat Ram, POB 39151 ------Jerusalem 91391 International Institute for Jewish Genealogy Tel: +972 5077 33481 c/o National Library of Israel, Email: [email protected] Edmond J. Safra Campus,
RANT FOR A RETURNING RESEARCHER Finnish Medical Foundation – Suomen Lääketieteen Säätiö G
Description: The Finnish Medical Foundation invites applications for its grant for a returning Eligibility profile researcher. This supports a medical researcher ------who wishes to return to Finland from abroad. Country of applicant institution: Finland Country of applicant institution: Andorra, The applicant must hold a doctoral degree in Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia medicine and they must have spent a and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, postdoctoral period of at least 12 months Switzerland, Serbia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, abroad. When applying, the applicant must Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, France, still be abroad. The applicant must have and United Kingdom, Georgia, Greece, Croatia, agreement with a university or a research Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, institution in Finland on administering the Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, project. Monaco, Moldova, Republic of, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, Malta, The grant is worth up to €50,000 which is paid Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, to the hosting institution. The grant can be Romania, Russian Federation, Sweden, used for salary and up to €5,000 of other Slovenia, Slovakia, San Marino, Turkey, project costs. Ukraine, Holy See (Vatican City State), All African Nations, All Asian nations, All South Closing date: 31 May 16 American nations, All Oceanian nations, Deadline information: Applications are European Institution (ESA, ESF, European invited between 1 and 31 May 2015. This call Commission & others affiliated to the EU or is repeated once a year. the idea of Europe), Kosovo, All North Posted date: 09 Dec 15 American nations, Montenegro Award type: Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Directed grants for Disciplines individual investigators ------Award amount max: €50,000 Medicine & Health Website: http://www.laaketieteensaatio.fi/fin/apuraha Contact Details t/haku/palaavan_tutkijan_apuraha/ ------Application form: Finnish Medical Foundation http://www.terveysportti.fi/apuraha P.O Box 713
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00101 Helsinki Email: [email protected] Tel: +358 50 343 6616
IGHLIGHT NOTICE FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT – RESEARCH NETWORKING SCHEME H Arts and Humanities Research Council
Description: The Arts and Humanities Research Council, significant role in the development of the under its research networking scheme, invites network beyond participation in events. applications for the highlight notice for international development. This aims to Grants are worth up to £30,000 each over two encourage research networking proposals years. An additional £15,000 full economic which explore the contribution that arts and cost may be provided to cover the costs of any humanities research can play in debates about international participants or activities in international development and to the UN addition to the scheme limit. 2030 agenda for sustainable development. It also seeks to support the development of international boundary crossing Closing date: 31 May 16 collaborations with countries which receive Deadline information: Applications due by Official Development Assistance (ODA) or 12 midnight. Proposals relevant to this with organisations which play an important notice will be accepted after the deadline but role in supporting international development. will not be eligible for supplementary funding or have an increased chance of Proposals must be led by a UK principal funding. investigator and principal investigators must Posted date: 22 Jan 16 come from a discipline in the arts and Award type: Networking/collaboration, humanities. Only one co-investigator is Directed grants for individual investigators, permissible; international co-investigators are Travel to conferences, meetings etc., eligible under this scheme. In addition to Directed grants to institutions, research these ordinary requirements for the research groups etc, Hosting conferences Award amount max: £45,000 networking scheme, proposals under the Award budget total: - highlight notice must demonstrate support for Website: the development of significant collaborations http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/funding/opportunitie with researchers or non-academic partners in s/current/highlight-notice-international- at least one of the 146 countries which are development-in-the-research-networking- ODA recipients, or with relevant international scheme/ organisations with remits that include supporting development in ODA recipient Application form: countries. These could be overseas academic http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/links/je-s/login-to-je- co-investigators, project partners or project s-system/ collaborators as appropriate but should play a
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Eligibility profile Development Studies; Arts and Humanities; ------International Studies Country of applicant institution: United Kingdom Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------Tel: + 44 1793 416 060 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------
OLLOW-ON FUND FOR IMPACT AND ENGAGEMENT – HIGHLIGHT NOTICE FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT F Arts and Humanities Research Council
Description: The Arts and Humanities Research council support for the development of significant invites applications to its highlight notice for collaborations with researchers or non- international development under the follow- academic partners in at least one of the 146 on fund for impact and engagement. This countries which are ODA recipients, or with aims to encourage applications exploring relevant international organisations with innovative ways to enhance engagement with, remits that include supporting development and impacts from, research funded by the in ODA recipient countries. AHRC in one or more countries which receive Official Development Assistance (ODA) or Grants are worth up to £100,000 over a which will contribute more broadly to maximum period of one year. Smaller grants international development. Funds are of up to £30,000 may be awarded for shorter awarded for knowledge exchange, public or higher risk activities. engagement, dissemination and commercialisation activities that arise Closing date: 31 May 16 unforeseeably during the lifespan of, or Deadline information: Applications due by following, an AHRC funded project. The 12 midnight. Proposals relevant to this scheme does not support supplementary notice will be accepted after the deadline but funding for continuation of research activities will not be eligible for supplementary or substantively new projects. funding or have an increased chance of funding. Proposals must be based on either previous or Posted date: 22 Jan 16 current research directly funded by the Award type: Networking/collaboration, AHRC, or on research that has been co- Publish, edit, translate, disseminate, funded with another UK research council. The Directed grants to institutions, research project must be led by the original principal groups etc investigator. International researchers may act Award amount max: £100,000 Award amount min: - as co-investigators. In addition to these Award budget total: - ordinary requirements for the follow-on fund Website: for impact and engagement, proposals under http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/funding/opportunitie the highlight notice must demonstrate
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JUNE 2016
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 & Pharmacology Closing date: 01 Jun 16 Deadline information: Letters of intent due Contact Details by 5pm EDT. Deadlines on: 1 June 2016, 1 ------December 2016, and repeated annually. CFFT Posted date: 04 Dec 12 Grants and Contracts Office Award type: Directed grants to institutions, 6931 Arlington Road research groups etc Bethesda, MD 20814 Award amount max: $675,000 Tel: +1 301 951 4422 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
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NTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research I
Description: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Posted date: 03 Dec 14 Anthropological Research invites applications Award type: Networking/collaboration, for its international collaborative research Directed grants for individual investigators, grants. These support international research Directed grants to institutions, research collaborations between two or more qualified groups etc, Personal development scholars, where the principal investigators Award amount max: $35,000 bring together different and complementary Award budget total: - perspectives, knowledge or skills. The aims Website: are to contribute to the development of an http://www.wennergren.org/programs/intern international anthropology that values and ational-collaborative-research-grants incorporates different national perspectives Application form: and resources, and to help to build capacity in http://www.wennergren.org/programs/intern countries where anthropology may be ational-collaborative-research-grants/access- online-application underrepresented.
Eligibility profile Proposals must involve collaboration between ------researchers of different nationalities who are Country of applicant institution: Any working in different countries. Principal researchers must hold a doctorate or Disciplines equivalent qualification in anthropology or a ------related discipline. Anthropology
Grants are worth up to US$30,000 each. Contact Details However, proposals that include a training ------element may receive up to US$35,000, of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological which no more than US$10,000 can be used Research for training purposes. 470 Park Avenue South, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10016 Closing date: 01 Jun 16 Tel: +1 212 683 5000 Deadline information: Applications can only Fax: +1 212 532 1492 be made within three months of the Email: application deadline. Deadlines on: 1 June 2016, 1 December 2016, and repeated [email protected] annually.
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XTENDED DEADLINE: LICHTENBERG PROFESSORSHIPS VolkswagenStiftung – Volkswagen Foundation
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Description: The VolkswagenStiftung has extended the Deadline information: This call is repeated closing date for the Lichtenberg once a year. professorships. The previous deadline of 31 Posted date: 22 Jun 15 May has been extended to 1 June 2016. All Award type: Directed grants for individual other call details remain unchanged. investigators, Innovation grants, Young investigator awards These professorships offer young researchers Award amount max: €1,500,000 a tenure track option at a German university Award amount min: €800,000 of their choice, and an opportunity to Award budget total: - implement new teaching concepts and carry Website: out independent long term research in highly http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/nc/en/fu innovative areas at the interface of disciplines. nding/persons-and-structures/lichtenberg- There are no thematic restrictions. professorships.html Application form:
https://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/vwsant Applicants may be researchers of any rag/login.do?siteLanguage=en nationality, however the host institution must be a university based in Germany. Candidates Eligibility profile must have either obtained a PhD no more ------than four years ago and had a change of Country of applicant institution: Any academic environment and location, at the latest upon appointment to the professorship, Disciplines or obtained a PhD no more than seven years ------ago and be returnees or coming to Germany Any from abroad, as well as had a change of academic environment within the last five Contact Details years, at the latest upon appointment to the ------professorship. VolkswagenStiftung Kastanienallee 35 Up to seven professorships are available, each 30519 Hannover worth between €800,000 and €1.5 million for a Tel: +49 511 8381 374 period of five years. Fax: +49 511 8381 4374 Email: [email protected] Closing date: 01 Jun 16
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ESEARCH GRANTS PROGRAMME IN BASIC SCIENCES TWAS R
Description: The World Academy of Sciences invites Posted date: 13 Feb 15 applications for its research grants Award type: Directed grants to institutions, programme in basic sciences. This supports research groups etc, Equipment and the purchase of research facilities required to materials, Directed grants for individual enhance productivity of projects in biology, investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate chemistry, mathematics and physics in students, Young investigator awards science- and technology-lagging countries. Award amount max: $30,000 Award budget total: - Individual applicants should be developing- Website: country nationals under 45 years of age, who http://twas.org/opportunities/research-grants hold a PhD and have some research experience but are at the beginning of their Eligibility profile career. Individual applicants should hold a ------position at a university or research institution Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, in an S&T-lagging country. Angola, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Applications from research units must be led Belize, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, by a developing-country national of any age Central African Republic, Congo, Côte who holds a PhD and has good research d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, experience. The research unit should include Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Eritrea, at least two PhD-qualified researchers and a Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, number of PhD and MSc students and Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Guinea- technicians. Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Applications from research consortia must be Kiribati, Comoros, Korea, Democratic People's led by a developing-country national of any Republic of, Lao People's Democratic age who holds a PhD and has good research Republic, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, experience. Each member of the consortium Myanmar, Mongolia, Mauritania, Maldives, should operate in a university or research Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, institution in an S&T-lagging country. Nicaragua, Nepal, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Women scientists are especially encouraged to Paraguay, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Sudan, apply. Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Suriname, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, Chad, Togo, Grants are worth up to £15,000 for Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Tanzania, individuals, up to £30,000 for research units, United Republic of, Uganda, Uzbekistan, and up to £20,000 for consortia. Grants are Vietnam, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, provided for a period of 18 months. Zimbabwe, South Sudan
Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the TWAS approximate deadline we expect. This call is ICTP Campus repeated once a year. Strada Costiera 11
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34151 Trieste Disciplines Tel: +39 040 2240 325 ------Fax: +39 040 224 559 Applied Mathematics; Pure Mathematics; Email: [email protected] Physics; Biological Sciences; Chemistry
ESEARCH GRANTS International Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy Research Foundation
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Description: The International Mechanical Diagnosis and Award type: Directed grants for individual Therapy Research Foundation invites investigators applications for its research grants. These Award amount max: $10,000 grants are designed to further research into Award amount min: $2,000 the usefulness and limitations of mechanical Award budget total: - diagnosis and therapy. Consideration will be Website: given to proposals examining basic and http://www.imdtrf.org/grantapp.html clinical sciences with the ultimate aim of Application form: improving the quality of care for http://www.mdtresearchfoundation.org/foun musculoskeletal patients. Preference will be dation/Application.doc given to proposals that include functional outcomes assessments. Eligibility profile ------Applications are welcome from individuals. Country of applicant institution: Any Grants are awarded for a period of one year and are worth between $2,000 and $10,000. Disciplines ------Medical & Diagnostic Tests; Musculoskeletal Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) System; Pharmacokinetics; Human Biological Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Sciences; Physiology; Traumatology, been announced by funder, but this is the Accidents & Injury; Primary Care; Public approximate deadline we expect. Deadline Health, Health Services & Primary Care time: 5pm GMT. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 22 Dec 10 ------Email: [email protected]
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ESEARCH GRANTS Society for Psychical Research R
Description: The Society for Psychical Research invites Application form: applications for its research grants. These http://www.spr.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Gran support research in any area of psychical t%20Appl%20Form.pdf research, except those specifically related to survival. Eligibility profile ------Applicants may apply individually, or with Country of applicant institution: Any co-applicants. Disciplines Grants do not normally exceed £7,000 each. ------Mysticism & Spirituality; Consciousness; Closing date: 01 Jun 16 Sensory Perception Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 11 Aug 15 ------Award type: Directed grants for individual SPR investigators, Directed grants to institutions, 49 Marloes Road research groups etc Kensington Award budget total: - London W8 6LA Website: Tel: +44 20 7937 8984 http://www.spr.ac.uk/main/page/research- grants
URVIVAL RESEARCH FUND – OVER £1,000 Society for Psychical Research S
Description: The Society for Psychical Research invites for theory development, or that generate applications for grants worth over £1,000 theoretical frameworks for relevant theory under its survival research fund. Grants building. support scientific research into whether some aspect of consciousness or personality Grants are typically worth £3,000 each, and survives the death of the body. Projects are unlikely to exceed £5,000. should aim to generate new evidence for survival that collate, analyse or disseminate Closing date: 01 Jun 16 relevant evidence, that draw on such evidence
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Deadline information: This call is repeated Eligibility profile once a year. ------Posted date: 11 Aug 15 Country of applicant institution: Any Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Disciplines research groups etc, Publish, edit, translate, ------disseminate Mysticism & Spirituality; Death & Mortality; Award amount max: - Philosophy of Mind; Consciousness Award amount min: £1,000 Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.spr.ac.uk/main/page/research- SPR grants 49 Marloes Road Application form: Kensington http://www.spr.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Gran London W8 6LA t%20Appl%20Form.pdf Tel: +44 20 7937 8984
ESEARCH ACTION AWARD Mustela Foundation R
Description: The Mustela Foundation invites applications Research action spin-offs in the shape of for its research action award. This supports an information distribution or training are action research approach in the development particularly appreciated. of young children in a family or institutional environment. Awards cover the set-up costs of the action.
Projects may be led individually or by a team Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) practising in: Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the maternity; approximate deadline we expect. This call is PMI (protection maternelle et repeated once a year. infantile); Posted date: 02 Apr 15 paediatrics; Award type: Directed grants to institutions, child psychiatry; research groups etc, Innovation grants, Directed grants for individual investigators school networks; Award budget total: - the medico-social sector; Website: university research. http://www.fondationmustela.com/en/suppo rting-research/research-action-award.html Application form: http://www.fondationmustela.com/fr/souteni
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Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any Mustela Foundation 10 Avenue de l'Arche Disciplines 92 419 Courbevoie CEDEX ------Tel: +33 1 4334 6504 Fax: +33 1 4334 6103
OMING SOON: SINERGIA PROGRAMME Swiss National Science Foundation C
Description: The Swiss National Science Foundation will Award type: Directed grants to institutions, shortly be inviting applications for its re- research groups etc, positioned Sinergia programme. The closing Networking/collaboration date is 1 June 2016 and further call details will Award budget total: - be announced in autumn 2015. The following Website: information is subject to change. http://www.snf.ch/en/funding/programmes/s inergia/Pages/default.aspx This programme funds collaborative research projects. Research teams can work within one Eligibility profile discipline or on interdisciplinary projects. ------Projects should consist of three to four groups Country of applicant institution: Any of established researchers based at universities or research centres in Disciplines Switzerland. One of the groups may be from ------outside Switzerland, if it provides unique Any expertise. Funding covers salaries, research and coordination costs and will be granted for Contact Details a maximum of 36 months with the possibility ------of one extension. Wildhainweg 3 P.O Box 8232 Closing date: 01 Jun 16 3001 Bern Deadline information: Email: [email protected] Posted date: 29 Jul 15
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IABETES PROJECT GRANTS World Diabetes Foundation D
Description: The World Diabetes Foundation invites Republic, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cook Islands, applications for its diabetes project grants. Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Serbia, These support sustainable diabetes projects in Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominica, developing countries that will be able to Dominican Republic, Algeria, Ecuador, Egypt, continue after the funding from WDF ends. Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Micronesia, Federated Projects must focus on general diabetes care States of, Gabon, Grenada, Georgia, Ghana, or one of the following focus areas: access to Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, care for type 2 patients, advocacy, prevention, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, eye and foot care, children with type 1 Honduras, Haiti, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Iran, diabetes, tuberculosis and diabetes, and Islamic Republic of, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, pregnancy and diabetes. Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Korea, Democratic Projects must be located in countries listed in People's Republic of, Kazakhstan, Lao the OECD development assistance committee People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Saint list, and projects involving more than one Lucia, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, partner with proven track record in diabetes Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Madagascar, management are encouraged. Projects in Marshall Islands, Macedonia, the former Tanzania, Cameroon and India are not Yugoslav Republic of, Mali, Myanmar, eligible. Mongolia, Mauritania, Mauritius, Maldives, Malawi, Mexico, Malaysia, Mozambique, Closing date: 01 Jun 16 Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Nepal, Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Nauru, Niue, Panama, Peru, Papua New December 2015, 1 June 2016. Guinea, Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Posted date: 21 Jul 15 Territory, Occupied, Palau, Paraguay, Award type: Development Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Sudan, (Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants to Saint Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, institutions, research groups etc Suriname, Sao Tome and Principe, El Award budget total: - Salvador, Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Website: Chad, Togo, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tokelau, http://www.worlddiabetesfoundation.org/ Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Application form: Turkey, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Uganda, Uruguay, http://www.worlddiabetesfoundation.org/fil Uzbekistan, Saint Vincent and the es/application-form-eng Grenadines, Venezuela, Vietnam, Vanuatu,
Wallis and Futuna, Samoa, Yemen, South Eligibility profile Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kosovo, South ------Sudan, Montenegro Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, Country of applicant institution: Any Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Albania,
Armenia, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Disciplines Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bangladesh, Burkina ------Faso, Burundi, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Bhutan, Diabetes; Tuberculosis; Eye Diseases; Botswana, Belarus, Belize, Congo, the Blindness; Pregnancy & Birth Democratic Republic of the, Central African
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Contact Details 2820 Gentofte ------Tel: +45 4442 2556 WDF Email: [email protected] Brogårdsvej 70
INGAPORE INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE AWARD Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research S
Description: The Singapore Agency for Science, Application form: https://sms.a- Technology and Research, in collaboration star.edu.sg/applicant/Login.aspx with the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, invites Eligibility profile applications for the Singapore international ------graduate award. This enables international Country of applicant institution: Any students to do their PhD training in a multidisciplinary environment in Singapore. Disciplines Training will be carried out in English and ------students will be supervised by distinguished Petroleum Engineering; Manufacturing & and world-renowned researchers. Industrial Engineering; Livestock & Animal Science; Universe Sciences; General Applications are invited from all international Engineering; Agriculture; Earth Sciences; students with excellent academic Mechanical Engineering; Oceanography; undergraduate or master’s results. Good skills Physics; Diagnostic Sciences; Neuroscience; in written and spoken English are also Mining Engineering; Metallurgy; Food required. Science; Environmental Science; Chemical Engineering; Electrical & Electronic The award includes a stipend of up to Engineering; Physical Sciences; Civil SG$30,000 annually over four years, full Engineering; Chemistry; Veterinary Medicine; tuition fees, a one-time SG$1,000 settling in Engineering; Materials Sciences; Biomedical allowance, and a one-time airfare grant of up Engineering; Ceramics; Atmospheric Sciences; to SG$1,500. Up to 240 awards are available Biological Sciences; Computer Science & every year. Informatics; Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; Nuclear Physics; Allied Health Closing date: 01 Jun 16 Professions Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 June 2016, 1 January 2017, and repeated annually. Contact Details Posted date: 04 Jul 13 ------Award type: Predoctoral training A*STAR Graduate Academy, A*STAR fellowships, Directed grants for individual 20 Biopolis Way investigators, Predoctoral fellowships 08-01 Centros 138668 Award budget total: - Tel: +65 6626 6111 Website: http://www.singa.a-star.edu.sg/ Fax: +65 6777 1711
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IGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL/OMICRON DELTA RESEARCH GRANT Sigma Theta Tau International S
Description: The Sigma Theta Tau International, with Website: funding from the Omicron Delta chapter, http://www.nursingsociety.org/advance- invites applications for its research grant. This elevate/research/research-grants/omicron- provides funding for a nurse from a middle- delta-research-grant or lower-income country for a new research project. The applicant must be: Eligibility profile ------ a registered nurse with current Country of applicant institution: Lower- license; Middle-Income countries, Low Income a resident of a middle- or lower- countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries income country, as defined by the World Bank; Disciplines a holder of a master’s or doctoral ------degree, or enrolled in a doctoral Telemedicine; Oncology Nursing; Residential programme or the country’s Care Homes; Clinical Medicine; Public Health, equivalent. Health Services & Primary Care; Hospice & Palliative Care; Geriatric Nursing; Nursing One grant, worth a minimum of US$2,500, is Education; Primary Care; Nurse Practitioners; available. Midwifery; Paediatric Nursing; Medical Education; Nursing; Palliative Nursing Closing date: 01 Jun 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 Research Services repeated once a year. Sigma Theta Tau International Posted date: 16 Jul 14 550 West North Street Award type: Directed grants for individual Indianapolis, IN 46202 investigators Tel: +1 317 634 8171 Award amount min: $2,500 Fax: +1 317 634 8188 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
RANTS FOR RESEARCH, TRANSLATION AND PUBLICATION OF KOREAN LITERARY WORKS G Daesan Foundation
Description: The Daesan Foundation invites applications publication of Korean literary works. These for its grants for research, translation and promote the translation, research and
Issue 25: Volume 1a: Grants from External Donors (April – June, 2016) publication of Korean works to foster the individual investigators, Publish, edit, globalisation of Korean culture and to translate, disseminate advance cultural exchange. Award budget total: - Website: Those applying for a grant to support http://www.daesan.or.kr/form.html?d_code= translation work must have full linguistic 9870 command of Korean and the target language. Application form: Any professor, researcher, student in the area http://www.daesan.or.kr/f_down.php?dir_f=. of Korean literature or any translator of /data/daesan_or_kr/file//Application(2015).d Korean works may apply and institutes oc working in the area of Korean literature overseas may apply for a grant to support Eligibility profile publications. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The grant amounts are dependant on the target language. Grants for translation are Disciplines worth up to KRW15 million per project; ------grants for research are worth up to KRW10m Translation Studies; Korean Language; per project and grants for publication are Korean Literature worth up to US$6,000 per project. Contact Details
Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Daesan Foundation been announced by funder, but this is the Kyodo Bldg. 1 approximate deadline we expect. Jongno-Iga, Jongno-gu Posted date: 21 Apr 15 Seoul 110-714 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Tel: +82 2 721 3203 research groups etc, Directed grants for Fax: +82 2 725 5419 Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH GRANT Macular Disease Foundation Australia R
Description: The Macular Disease Foundation Australia Each applicant must be an Australian citizen invites applications for its research grant. This or permanent resident, and must be based in supports biomedical or low-vision research on an Australian institution. Collaboration is age-related macular degeneration. Projects allowed, though co-investigators based in may address biomedical aspects, low vision, overseas institutions may not receive a salary nutrition, supplements or lifestyle, or from this grant. Research must start no later practices and protocols. than 30 June 2016.
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Grants are worth up to AU$700,000 plus GST over a maximum of three years. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) Country of applicant institution: Australia 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: 15 Apr 15 Eye Diseases; Optometry Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Contact Details research groups etc, ------Networking/collaboration Tel: +61 2 8268 8415 Award amount max: $700,000 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.mdfoundation.com.au/research.a spx
ACCINOLOGY IN AFRICA MASTER’S LEVEL COURSE Jenner Institute V
Description: The Jenner Institute, in collaboration with the Bursaries for local residents of Mali cover Malaria Research and Training Centre, Centre course fees, accommodation and meals during d’Infectiologie Charles Mérieux and the the course. Bursaries for those living further Fondation Mérieux, invites applications for afield also include travel expenses. bursaries for its vaccinology in Africa master’s level course, to be held in Bamako, Mali, from Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) 5 to 9 October 2015. This covers the main Deadline information: !! Call has not yet aspects of vaccinology, the vaccine been announced by funder, but this is the development process, biomanufacturing, approximate deadline we expect. clinical trials, and regulatory and ethical Applications due by 5pm BST. This call is issues. repeated once a year. Posted date: 08 May 15 Students, researchers and professionals Award type: Personal development, Travel resident in West and Central Africa may to conferences, meetings etc., Directed grants apply. Delegate numbers are limited to a for individual investigators maximum of 40 participants, which include 20 Award budget total: - local residents of Mali and 20 participants Website: living within the region of West and Central http://www.jenner.ac.uk/vaccinology-in- africa-course Africa. Application form:
http://www.jenner.ac.uk/_asset/file/applicati on-form-vaccinology-in-africa-2015.docx
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Eligibility profile Disciplines ------Country of applicant institution: Burkina Biochemical Engineering; Medical & Health Faso, Benin, Congo, the Democratic Republic Ethics; Immunisation Programmes & of the, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte Vaccination d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Contact Details Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, ------Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Email: [email protected] Tome and Principe, Togo, Zimbabwe
LACKMORES RESEARCH GRANT Macular Disease Foundation Australia B
Description: The Macular Disease Foundation Australia Award type: Directed grants for individual invites applications for its Blackmores investigators, Networking/collaboration, research grant. This supports research into Directed grants to institutions, research dietary and lifestyle aspects of macular groups etc degeneration. Award amount max: $600,000 Award budget total: - Each applicant must be an Australian citizen Website: or permanent resident, and must be based in http://www.mdfoundation.com.au/research.a an Australian institution. Collaboration is spx allowed, though co-investigators based in overseas institutions may not receive a salary Eligibility profile from this grant. Research must start no later ------than 30 June 2016. Country of applicant institution: Australia Country of applicant institution: Any Grants are worth up to AU$600,000 plus GST over a maximum of three years. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) Eye Diseases; Nutrition & Dietetics 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. Tel: +61 2 8268 8415 Posted date: 15 Apr 15 Email: [email protected]
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REEN TALENTS COMPETITION Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung – German Federal Ministry of Education and G Research
Description: The German Federal Ministry of Education Application form: and Research (BMBF) invites applications for http://greentalents.de/application/index.php/ its green talents competition. This supports login/signup_before.html young scientists, working on sustainable development, to visit Germany for a two- Eligibility profile week science forum followed by a fully ------funded research stay for up to three months. Country of applicant institution: Andorra, Albania, Armenia, Angola, Austria, The winners will be able to visit Germany’s Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, leading institutions, in order to gather Belgium, Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Burundi, information and learn about the options for Benin, Botswana, Belarus, Congo, the cooperation with German partners as part of a Democratic Republic of the, Central African science forum and, in the following year, be Republic, Congo, Switzerland, Côte d'Ivoire, invited to return to Germany for up to three Cameroon, Serbia, Cape Verde, Cyprus, months, to conduct research and establish Czech Republic, Djibouti, Denmark, Algeria, partnerships. Estonia, Egypt, Western Sahara, Eritrea, Spain, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Applicants must be non-German citizens and United Kingdom, Georgia, Ghana, Gambia, reside outside Germany, be currently enrolled Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Greece, Guinea- in or have completed a master’s degree Bissau, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, programme or higher with significantly above Italy, Kenya, Comoros, Kazakhstan, average grades, have a strong command of Liechtenstein, Liberia, Lesotho, Lithuania, English and be no more than 32 years of age. Luxembourg, Latvia, Libya, Morocco, Monaco, Moldova, Republic of, Madagascar, Both visits to Germany are fully financed by Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, the BMBF. 25 awards are available. Mali, Mauritania, Malta, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Closing date: 02 Jun 16 (Forecast) Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Réunion, Romania, Russian Federation, been announced by funder, but this is the Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sweden, Saint approximate deadline we expect. Helena, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sierra Leone, San Applications due by 12 noon, CET. This call Marino, Senegal, Somalia, Sao Tome and is repeated once a year. Principe, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Posted date: 21 Apr 15 Turkey, Tanzania, United Republic of, Award type: Directed grants for individual Ukraine, Uganda, Holy See (Vatican City investigators, Networking/collaboration, State), Mayotte, South Africa, Zambia, Travel for research purposes, Young Zimbabwe, All Asian nations, All South investigator awards, Personal development American nations, All Oceanian nations, All Award budget total: - North American nations, South Sudan, Website: Montenegro http://www.greentalents.de/1080.php
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Renewable Energy Engineering; Waste BMBF Recycling, Reduction & Recovery; Sustainable Project Management Agency Development & Resource Use; Energy c/o German Aerospace Center (DLR) Conservation & Efficiency European and International Cooperation Tel: +49 228 3821 1906 Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH GRANTS PROGRAM CFIDS Association of America R
Description: The Chronic Fatigue and Immune Deficiency Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Syndrome Association of America invites been announced by funder, but this is the applications for its research grants. These approximate deadline we expect. This call is grants seek to advance objective diagnosis repeated once a year. and effective treatment of CFS. Of particular Posted date: 14 Apr 11 interest are: Award type: Innovation grants Award amount max: $100,000 proposals that leverage existing Award amount min: - resources and infrastructures, Award budget total: $600,000 including but not limited to the Website: http://www.cfids.org/research/rfa- SolveCFS BioBank, for subject 2011.asp enrollment and sample collection; Application form: http://www.cfids.org/research/loi-2011.pdf proposals with robust biomarkers
requiring validation and Eligibility profile investigational therapeutics or off------label treatments with strong potential Country of applicant institution: Any to enhance clinical practice for CFS.
Disciplines The CFIDS Association of America intends to ------commit approximately $600,000 for award of Epidemiology; Infectious Diseases; General successful applications responsive to this Practice & Family Health; Immunopathology; announcement. Applicants may request a Diagnostic Sciences; Primary Care; Public project period of up to 18 months and Health, Health Services & Primary Care; maximum total budget of $100,000 including Clinical Medicine; Neurology; Infection direct costs and indirect costs. Applications Agents & Pathogens; Physiology; may be submitted by nonprofit, public and Pathophysiology; Neuroendocrinology; commercial institutions with no restrictions as Endocrine & Neuroendocrine Cancers; to geographic location. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Counselling &
Talking Therapies; Immunology Closing date: 03 Jun 16 (Forecast)
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Contact Details Charlotte, NC 28222-0398 ------Tel: +1 704 365 2343 CFIDS Association of America Email: [email protected] P.O Box 220398
ENTRES OF EXCELLENCE Danmarks Grundforskningsfond - Danish National Research Foundation C
Description: The Danish National Research Foundation size of grants vary, but can be granted for up invites outline proposals for its call for centres to 10 years. of excellence. These aim to strengthen Danish research by providing the best possible Closing date: 06 Jun 16 working conditions and organisational set-up Deadline information: Outline proposals for selected researchers across the areas of due by 12 noon. humanities, life sciences, natural sciences, Posted date: 18 Jan 16 social sciences and technical sciences. Centres Award type: Research centres, Travel to of excellence consist of units based at research conferences, meetings etc., Financial aid for institutions sharing a common idea or vision, postgraduate students, Directed grants for and an overall and clearly defined set of individual investigators, research objectives. The foundation welcomes Networking/collaboration, Equipment and outstanding research of a high international materials, Travel for research purposes standard. Award budget total: - Website: http://dg.dk/2015/10/30/niende- Applications may be for proposed centres ansoegningsrunde-til-centers-of-excellence- opslaget-er-ude-nu/ whose research idea is ambitious and original, Application form: whose proposed leader has a high standing in http://dg.dk/filer/CoE/Ansoegningsrunder/C the international scientific community, who oE9/CoE-Round9-Application-Form.docx include high-quality personnel aiming to establish a creative and dynamic international Eligibility profile research environment, and whose focus, ------structure and size is not feasible within Country of applicant institution: Denmark conventional funding. Centres are encouraged Country of applicant institution: Any to collaborate with leading international researchers, and to include employees and Disciplines visitors from abroad. ------Humanities; Physical Sciences and Grants may cover expenses for salaries, PhD Engineering; Social Sciences; Bio/Medical students, postdoctoral staff, visiting staff, technical and administrative staff, travel costs Contact Details and conferences, operational costs and ------equipment and overhead. Salaries for Tel: +45 3318 1958 permanent staff are generally not funded. The Email: [email protected]
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ENERAL SMALL GRANT American Society of Primatologists G
Description: The American Society of Primatologists Award amount min: - invites applications for its general small Award budget total: - grants. These grants are intended for general Website: research projects, with preference given to https://www.asp.org/grants/index.cfm training initiatives, start-up funds, Application form: supplementary funding for students, and https://www.asp.org/grants/research/smallgr innovations in animal care and research antapplication.doc technology. Eligibility profile Neither the applicant nor the mentor need be ------members, but they must have an ASP member Country of applicant institution: Any sponsor their grant. Disciplines Award amounts range from $500 to $1,500, ------and will be for a period of one year. Biological Sciences; Animal Care; Veterinary Medicine; Zoology; Agriculture Closing date: 14 Jun 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 Spelman College repeated once a year. Psychology Department Posted date: 13 Apr 11 350 Spelman Lane, Box 209 Award type: Directed grants for individual Atlanta, GA 30314 investigators Email: [email protected] Award amount max: $1,500
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 budget total: - and non-operative technical skills; Website: https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/fellows- cancer research of demonstrable direct members/awards-and-grants/grants/small- clinical relevance to the management research-grants.aspx of solid tumours. Application form: http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/media/408684/small Research may be undertaken in the UK or %20research%20pump%20priming%20supp overseas. Applicants should be surgical ort%20grants.doc trainees or recently appointed consultants. Eligibility profile The principal applicant must be a member or a fellow of the college in good standing. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Grants are worth up to £10,000 each for a Disciplines period of one year. They may not be used for ------personal salary costs, travel or the acquisition Dentistry; Surgery & Intensive Care of computing facilities.
Contact Details Closing date: 15 Jun 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Nicolson Street Posted date: 20 Jan 16 Edinburgh EH8 9DW Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc
HD GRANTS Osk Huttunen Foundation - Osk Huttusen säätiö
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Description: The Osk Huttunen Foundation invites Grants are worth €19,900 per year. Additional applications for its PhD grants. These support funding may be awarded to cover tuition fees doctoral studies and research at universities or family expenses, worth €3,200 per year. outside of Finland. Priority is given to studies Grants are awarded for two years with a at the most prestigious universities in the UK, possibility for a one-year extension. although other foreign institutions and universities may be considered. Closing date: 15 Jun 16 Deadline information: Applications are Applicants should be Finnish citizens with a invited between 15 May and 15 June 2016. master’s level qualification. Applicants must This call is repeated once a year. not be older than 26. Posted date: 29 Sep 15
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Award type: Thesis/Dissertation funding, Disciplines Directed grants for individual investigators, ------Young investigator awards Any Award amount max: - Award amount min: €38,800 Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: Osk Huttunen Foundation http://www.oskhuttusensaatio.net/apuraha.h P.O Box 4 tml Vuorikatu 3 00014 Helsingin yliopisto Eligibility profile Tel: +358 2 9412 2102 ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
STEOLOGY RESEARCHER GRANTS Osteology Foundation O
Description: The Osteology Foundation invites Award type: Directed grants for individual applications for its osteology research grants. investigators, Young investigator awards, These support research on oral and Directed grants to institutions, research maxillofacial tissue regeneration. groups etc Award amount max: SFr.100,000 Applications are open to advanced Award budget total: - researchers in the field of oral tissue Website: regeneration and young researchers currently http://www.osteology.org/grants/researcher- undergoing postgraduate education or within grants/ three years thereafter. Eligibility profile Grants for advanced researchers are worth up ------to CHF100,000 each for projects lasting up to Country of applicant institution: Any two years. Grants for young researchers are worth up to CHF30,000 each for projects Disciplines lasting up to one year. ------Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery; Osteoporosis & Closing date: 15 Jun 16 Other Bone Diseases Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 June 2016, 1 December 2016, and repeated Contact Details annually. ------Posted date: 23 Feb 15 Tel: +41 41 368 4445 Email: [email protected]
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ESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS Gerda Henkel Foundation R
Description: The Gerda Henkel Foundation invites Award budget total: - proposals for its research project grants. These Website: http://www.gerda-henkel- support research projects in the historical stiftung.de/application_research-projects humanities, particularly within the fields of Application form: https://forms.gerda- archaeology, art history, historical Islamic henkel-stiftung.de/ghs?kind=forp&lang=en studies, history, history of law, history of science, prehistory and early history. Eligibility profile ------Applications are open to universities and Country of applicant institution: Any other research institutes or comparable institutions, as well as to one or several PhDs Disciplines or scholars with postdoctoral lecture ------qualification. Studies below PhD level will not History of Law & Justice; Archaeology; be supported. History of Art; Ancient History; History of Science; History of Architecture; History; Grants may be used to to cover personnel, Islamic Studies travel, materials and other costs for research. Contact Details Closing date: 15 Jun 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 Gerda Henkel Stiftung times a year. Malkastenstrasse 15 Posted date: 14 Jan 16 40211 Düsseldorf Award type: Travel for research purposes, Tel: +49 211 936 524 ext 0 Equipment and materials, Directed grants to Fax: +49 211 9365 24 ext 44 institutions, research groups etc Email: [email protected]
HYSICIAN AND PUBLIC AWARENESS PROPOSALS ResMed Foundation P
Description: The ResMed Foundation invites proposals for primary-care physicians, educators and the its physician and public awareness grants. general public. These promote the awareness and knowledge of the inherent dangers of untreated sleep- Each recipient must have tax-exempt status in disordered breathing among sleep specialists, their country, and must be a not-for-profit organisation.
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Eligibility profile Grants are typically limited to US$10,000. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 15 Jun 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 June Disciplines 2016, 15 December 2016, and repeated ------annually. Diabetes; Human Metabolism; Sleep & Sleep Posted date: 20 Oct 14 Disorders; Biological Sciences; Cardiology; Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Physiology; Pregnancy & Birth; Chronic Care; research groups etc Cardiovascular Diseases; Diagnostic Sciences; Award amount max: - Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack); Human Award amount min: - Biological Sciences; Respiratory Medicine; Award budget total: - Obesity Website: http://www.resmedfoundation.org/funding/s Contact Details cientific-meetings.php ------ResMed Foundation Application form: 7514 Girard Avenue http://www.resmedfoundation.org/document Suite 1-343 s/Public%20Awareness%20Cover%20Sheet.d La Jolla CA 92037 oc Tel: +1 858 361 0755
Email: [email protected]
REAT GRANT FOR THROMBOSIS RESEARCHERS European Society of Cardiology G
Description: The European Society of Cardiology’s Posted date: 22 Jul 15 Working Group on Thrombosis invites Award type: Young investigator awards, applications for its great grant for thrombosis Directed grants for individual investigators, researchers. This enables young scientists, Personal development aged 35 years or under, to gain training in Award amount max: €12,000 basic research techniques in the field of Award amount min: atherothrombosis at well-known high quality Award budget total: €24,000 research laboratories. Website: https://www.escardio.org/Guidelines-&- Two grants, worth up to €12,000 over six Education/Career-development/Grants-and- months, are available annually. fellowships
Eligibility profile Closing date: 15 Jun 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Country of applicant institution: Any once a year.
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Disciplines European Heart House ------2035 Route des Colles Cardiology; Blood Diseases BP 179 - Les Templiers FR-06903 Sophia Antipolis Contact Details Tel: +334 9294 7600 ------Fax: +33 4 92 94 76 01 ESC
RANT FOR THE BEST INITIATIVE RELATING TO AN OPTIMAL NUTRITIONAL CARE APPROACH G Medical Nutrition International Industry
Description: The Medical Nutrition International Industry within the next 24 months. Submissions must invites applications for its grant for the best be in the form of posters. initiative relating to an optimal nutritional care approach. This recognises the most The grant is worth €30,000. innovative national initiative to fight malnutrition. Closing date: 16 Jun 16 Each initiative must focus no quantifiable Deadline information: This call is repeated advancements in one or more of the following once a year. areas: Posted date: 20 Nov 15 Award type: Innovation grants, Directed evidence of improved patient grants to institutions, research groups etc outcomes; Award amount max: €30,000 effective screening and treatment Award budget total: - pathways; Website: http://www.medicalnutritionindustry.com/m reduction in prevalence of ni-grant/2016-grant/ malnutrition risk;
demonstration of health economic Eligibility profile benefits; ------ integration of nutrition into the Country of applicant institution: Any medical curriculum;
progressive collaborations across Disciplines multiple countries or various medical ------societies. Health Promotion; Health Education; Health Systems Policy; Health Economics; Nutrition Initiatives may be endorsed by national & Dietetics; Dietary Guidelines nutrition societies worldwide, and must have been implemented in the last 24 months, or be on track to demonstrate significant outcomes
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Contact Details Email: [email protected]
AREER CATALYST RESEARCH GRANTS FOR BASIC AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH C Susan G Komen for the Cure
Description: Susan G Komen for the Cure invites pre- and training expenses. Indirect costs that do applications for its career catalyst research not exceed 25 per cent of the direct costs are grants for basic and translational research. allowed. These provide support for hypothesis-driven research that has significant potential to Closing date: 17 Jun 16 (Forecast) advance the understanding of breast cancer Deadline information: !! Call has not yet and lead to reductions in breast cancer been announced by funder, but this is the incidence or mortality. approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Research projects may be laboratory- or field Posted date: 07 May 15 based. Projects involving clinical trial samples Award type: Directed grants for individual for a study in conjunction with a clinician that investigators, Equipment and materials, does not involve direct patient interaction are Travel for research purposes, Publish, edit, also allowed. translate, disseminate, Clinical trials Award amount max: $450,000 Principal investigators must hold a doctoral Award budget total: - degree and faculty appointment, with the Website: http://ww5.komen.org/ResearchGrants/Fund requirement that they have not held any ingOpportunities.html faculty appointment, including non-tenure Application form: and tenure-track appointments combined, for http://proposalcentral.altum.com more than six years. A lead mentor who holds full-time faculty appointment with a non- Eligibility profile profit institution or organisation anywhere in ------the world must be identified. The research Country of applicant institution: Any must be conducted at the lead mentor’s institution. There are no citizenship Disciplines requirements. ------Breast Cancer Each grant is worth up to US$150,000 per year for up to three years. Funding may be used to Contact Details cover salary, equipment costs, travel costs, ------publication costs, meeting-related poster Tel: +1 866 921 9678 printing costs, and reasonable coursework
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RADUATE TRAINING IN DISPARITIES RESEARCH GRANTS Susan G Komen for the Cure G
Description: Susan G Komen for the Cure invites pre- Closing date: 17 Jun 16 (Forecast) applications for its graduate training in Deadline information: !! Call has not yet disparities research grants. These aim to been announced by funder, but this is the establish or sustain a training programme for approximate deadline we expect. This call is graduate students who are seeking careers repeated once a year. dedicated to understanding and eliminating Posted date: 07 May 15 disparities in breast cancer outcomes across Award type: Directed grants for individual population groups. The programme should investigators, Equipment and materials, empower the students with the skills and Travel to conferences, meetings etc., knowledge necessary to effectively explore Studentship allocations the causes of differential breast cancer Award amount max: $405,000 outcomes and interventions to reduce and Award amount min: - eliminate such disparities. Award budget total: - Website:
http://ww5.komen.org/ResearchGrants/Fund The principal applicant must have a doctoral ingOpportunities.html degree and a full-time faculty appointment Application form: with an accredited non-profit institution or http://proposalcentral.altum.com organisation. A minimum of three trainees, each of which must be enrolled in a master’s Eligibility profile or doctoral degree programme, must be ------identified for the grant. Trainees from Country of applicant institution: Any populations affected by disparities in breast cancer outcomes are strongly preferred. There Disciplines are no citizenship requirements. ------Breast Cancer Each grant is worth up to US$135,000 per year for up to three years. Funding may be used to Contact Details cover trainee stipends, mentors’ salaries, ------training materials, travel to annual trainee Tel: +1 866 921 9678 meeting and other associated training costs. Indirect costs are not allowed.
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2020-INFRADEV-2016 DEVELOPMENT AND LONG TERM SUSTAINABILITY OF NEW PAN-EUROPEAN RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE – TOPIC 2, 4 H Horizon 2020: Excellent Science
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: Ref: OJ C6776. Excellent Science, under its European research infrastructures programmes, invites proposals Closing date: 22 Jun 16 for its H2020-INFRADEV-2016 development Deadline information: Proposals invited and long term sustainability of new pan- between 15 March and 5pm Brussels time, 22 european research infrastructures call. June 2016. Proposals may address the following topics: Posted date: 15 Oct 15 Award type: Networking/collaboration, INFRADEV-2-2016 preperatory phase Directed grants to institutions, research of ESFRI projects; groups etc, Technology INFRADEV-4-2016 European open innovation/development science cloud for research. Award amount max: - Award budget total: €50,000,000
Website: Projects must take the form of research and http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port innovation actions or coordination and al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 support actions. Research and innovation 0-infradev-2016-2017.html actions require participation by at least three legal entities, each established in a different Eligibility profile EU member state or associated country. ------Coordination and support actions require Country of applicant institution: EU participation by at least one legal entity (European Union), EU Associated Countries, established in a member state or associated EU All International Cooperation Partner country. All H2020 funding calls allow third countries (ICPC), Overseas Countries and country partners who secure their own Territories funding to participate in consortia. Under Country of applicant institution: Any Excellent Science, Switzerland may participate Country of applicant institution: Switzerland as an associated country.
Disciplines The indicative budget for this call is €50 ------million. Each successful proposal is expected Distributed & Cloud Computing; Spin-Offs & to receive up to €4m, although proposals for Academic Innovation; Research Management; other amounts will also be considered. Innovation & Technology Management
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ISTINGUISHED INNOVATOR AWARDS Lupus Research Institute
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Description: The Lupus Research Institute invites Deadline information: !! Call has not yet applications for its distinguished innovator been announced by funder, but this is the awards. These provide support to conduct approximate deadline we expect. This call is novel research into the fundamental causes of repeated once a year. lupus and so provide new directions toward a Posted date: 19 Mar 15 cure or prevention. Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Innovation grants Novel, hypothesis or discovery-driven Award amount max: $1,000,000 proposals in human or animal model based Award budget total: - lupus research are welcome. Proposals must Website: aim to uncover the fundamental causes of http://lupusresearchinstitute.org/2015- lupus and present a compelling vision of how distinguished-innovator-awards the discovery would lay the groundwork for a Application form: http://proposalcentral.altum.com/ potential cure, prevention or highly effective therapy. Eligibility profile
------Applicants must hold a position at an Country of applicant institution: Any academic institution. Applications are encouraged from investigators world wide in Disciplines diverse disciplines including immunology, ------genetics, molecular, cell and systems biology. Inflammation; Autoimmune Diseases Scientists who have not previously worked in lupus before are also eligible to apply. Contact Details
------Awards provide up to US$250,000 per year Lupus Research Institute for up to four years. Up to four awards will be 330 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1701 made. New York, NY 10001
Tel: +1 212 685 4118 Closing date: 25 Jun 16 (Forecast) Email: [email protected]
NNOVATOR GRANTS National Breast Cancer Foundation I
Description: The National Breast Cancer Foundation These support projects that challenge existing invites applications for its innovator grants. paradigms or break new theoretical ground in
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OMING SOON: RAAK-PUBLIC Netherlands Organisation For Scientific Research – Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Wetenschappelijk C Onderzoek
Description: The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Grants are worth up to €300,000 each for a Research (NWO), under the National duration of 18 to 24 months. Participants must Taskforce for Practice Based Research (SIA) contribute at least 50 per cent of the total will shortly inviting applications for its project costs, either in cash or in kind. RAAK-public scheme. The expected deadline is 28 June 2016. The information below is Closing date: 28 Jun 16 taken from the previous call and subject to Deadline information: change. Posted date: 21 Jan 16 Award type: Academic-Industry links, This scheme aims to stimulate the Grants - undirected, development of applied research at Networking/collaboration universities of applied sciences (HBO) and Award amount max: €300,000 promotes cooperation between professionals Award budget total: €4,500,000 working in the public sector and universities Website: http://www.regieorgaan- of applied sciences. The focus of the sia.nl/content/RAAK-regeling/raak-publiek collaboration is on knowledge development Application form: https://www.isaac.nwo.nl/ and application, resulting in practical knowledge for the professional practice and Eligibility profile providing a demonstrable contribution to the ------renewal of higher vocational education.the Country of applicant institution: Netherlands renewal of higher vocational education. Country of applicant institution: Any
Disciplines Only consortia of a government-funded ------university of applied sciences and at least one Any public partner are eligible to apply. One or more private partners may act as co- Contact Details applicants. ------
Tel: +31 6 8353 3173 The total available budget for this round is Email: [email protected] €4.5 million.
INNITUS RESEARCH GRANTS American Tinnitus Association T
Description: The American Tinnitus Association invites investigating tinnitus with the goal of finding application for its tinnitus research grants. a cure. The program supports scientific studies
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Scientists and doctors, worldwide, who are Application form: affiliated with non-profit institutions, are http://www.ata.org/research/grant- eligible to apply. application-form
ATA awards research grants of up to $50,000 Eligibility profile per year for up to three years, for a potential ------maximum of $150,000. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 29 Jun 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Physiology; Allied Health Professions; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Audiology; Hearing & Otology; Sensory repeated once a year. Systems Posted date: 20 Dec 10 Award type: Directed grants for individual Contact Details investigators ------Award amount max: $150,000 American Tinnitus Association Award amount min: - P.O Box 5 Award budget total: - Portland, OR 97204 Website: http://www.ata.org/research/grant- Tel: +1 800 634 8978 ext 211 program Email: [email protected]
OMING SOON: CLINICAL RESEARCH POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS National Health and Medical Research Council C
Description: The National Health and Medical Research the NHMRC. Applications are particularly Council will shortly be inviting applications encouraged from researchers wishing to build for its clinical research postgraduate capacity in research knowledge to ascertain scholarships. Applications for this call will health effects of electromagnetic emissions. open on 27 April and close on 29 June 2016. The following information is subject to change Applicants must be Australian citizens or and refers to the previous call. permanent residents, or New Zealand citizens who have special category visa status and are These scholarships provide support to based in Australia for at least 80 per cent of combined MBBS and PhS students, and the duration of the award. In addition, medical or dental graduates undertaking a applicants should be one of the following: postgraduate degree in any relevant health- related discipline, including the social and students currently enrolled in a behavioural sciences. combined MBBS or PhD programme; Australian citizens who are medical or For this year, electromagnetic energy research dental graduates currently registered has been identified as a special interest area of
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to practise within Australia at the time Award type: Directed grants for individual of application; investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate medical graduates during their intern students, Travel for research purposes, year; Travel to conferences, meetings etc. dental graduates prior to graduation, Award amount max: $115,464 provided that evidence of high quality Website: https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants- work is shown; funding/apply-funding/postgraduate- medical or dental graduates from scholarships/postgraduate-scholarships- overseas who are currently registered categories-award Application form: to practise in Australia. http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/research-
grants-management-system-rgms Full-time PhD scholarships last from one to three years and full-time master’s Eligibility profile scholarships last from one to two years. Part------time scholarships can be held for up to six Country of applicant institution: Any years. All projects must be based in Australia.
Disciplines Stipends are worth up to AU$38,488 per year. ------Additional allowances include up to Social Problems; Medicine & Health; AU$2,250 per year for travel and Biological & Medical Anthropology consumables, AU$500 for thesis presentation costs and AU$1,385 for costs for relocation Contact Details within Australia. ------
NHMRCG Closing date: 29 Jun 16 P.O Box 1421 Deadline information: Applications are Canberra ACT 2601 invited between 27 April and 29 June 2016. Tel: +61 2 6217 9451 This call is repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 07 Jul 15
OMING SOON: PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS C National Health and Medical Research Council
Description: The National Health and Medical Research These encourage graduates to obtain formal Council will shortly be inviting applications training in public health research in any for its public health and health services relevant health-related discipline including postgraduate research scholarships. the social and behavioural sciences, health Applications for this call will open between 27 policy, health services, epidemiology and April and 29 June 2016. The following health economics. For this year, information is subject of change, and refers to electromagnetic energy research has been the previous call. identified as a special interest area of the
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NHMRC and thus encourages applicants presentation costs and AU$1,385 for costs for wishing to build capacity in research relocation within Australia. knowledge to ascertain health effects of electromagnetic emissions. Closing date: 29 Jun 16 Deadline information: Applications are Each Applicant must be an Australian citizen invited between 27 April and 5pm AEST, 29 or permanent resident, or a New Zealand June 2016. This call is repeated once a year. citizen with special category visa status and Posted date: 15 Oct 15 must be based in Australia for at least 80 per Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate cent of the duration of the award. Moreover, students, Directed grants for individual the following applicants are eligible: investigators, Travel for research purposes, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. Australian citizens who have already Award amount max: $115,464 completed a degree in an area Award budget total: - applicable to public health research at Website: http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/apply/schol the time of application; ars/index.htm#a Australian citizens who are medical or Application form: dental graduates currently registered http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/research- to practice within Australia; grants-management-system-rgms health related graduates in areas applicable to public health who are Eligibility profile from overseas; ------ medical or dental graduates from Country of applicant institution: Any overseas who are currently registered to practice in Australia. Disciplines ------Full-time PhD scholarships are awarded from Public Health, Health Services & Primary one to three years and full-time master’s Care scholarships are awarded for one to two years. Contact Details ------Stipends are worth either AU$25,850 or NHMRC AU$33,318 or AU$38,488 per year, depending GPO Box 1421 on the applicant’s credentials. Additional Canberra ACT 2601 allowances include up to AU$2,250 per year Tel: +61 2 6217 9451 for travel and consumables, AU$500 for thesis Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH GRANTS Northern Nut Growers Association R
Description: The Northern Nut Growers Association Grants are offered to those institutions or invites applications for its research grants. individuals doing research on temperate zone
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mechanical harvesting; Eligibility profile postharvest handling and processing; ------ orchard establishment; Country of applicant institution: Any orchard care and maintenance;
marketing; Disciplines basic biology and ecology; ------ foreign exchange, especially Plant Diseases & Pathology; Food Science; germplasm. Tree Selection & Breeding; Agricultural Weeds, Pests & Diseases; Ecology; Plant Anyone who has an interest and capability to Development & Reproduction; Forest Health, perform research is eligible. This includes Pests & Diseases; Harvest, Transport, NNGA members, academic professionals, Processing & Storage; Plant Selection & private individuals, and corporations. Breeding; Agriculture; Biological Sciences; Environmental Science Closing date: 29 Jun 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 Email: [email protected] repeated once a year.
INNITUS RESEARCH GRANTS American Tinnitus Association T
Description: The American Tinnitus Association invites ATA awards research grants of up to $50,000 application for its tinnitus research grants. per year for up to three years, for a potential The program supports scientific studies maximum of $150,000. investigating tinnitus with the goal of finding a cure. Closing date: 29 Jun 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Scientists and doctors, worldwide, who are been announced by funder, but this is the affiliated with non-profit institutions, are approximate deadline we expect. This call is eligible to apply. repeated once a year. Posted date: 20 Dec 10
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Award type: Directed grants for individual Disciplines investigators ------Award amount max: $150,000 Physiology; Allied Health Professions; Award budget total: - Audiology; Hearing & Otology; Sensory Website: http://www.ata.org/research/grant- Systems program Application form: Contact Details http://www.ata.org/research/grant------application-form American Tinnitus Association PO Box 5 Eligibility profile Portland, OR 97204 ------Tel: +1 800 634 8978 ext 211 Country of applicant institution: Any Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH GRANTS Northern Nut Growers Association R
Description: The Northern Nut Growers Association NNGA members, academic professionals, invites applications for its research grants. private individuals, and corporations. Grants are offered to those institutions or individuals doing research on temperate zone tree nuts. Any topic dealing with temperate Closing date: 29 Jun 16 (Forecast) zone tree nuts is eligible. Projects are favored Deadline information: !! Call has not yet that are no more than two years in duration been announced by funder, but this is the and require no more than US$5,000 from the approximate deadline we expect. This call is NNGA. Suggested topics include: repeated once a year. Posted date: 05 May 11 propagation; Award type: Directed grants for individual germplasm and cultivar evaluation; investigators, Directed grants to institutions, pest management and pest biology; research groups etc Award amount max: $5,000 mechanical harvesting; Website: postharvest handling and processing; http://www.northernnutgrowers.org/grant.ht orchard establishment; m orchard care and maintenance; marketing; Eligibility profile basic biology and ecology; ------ foreign exchange, especially Country of applicant institution: Any germplasm. Disciplines Anyone who has an interest and capability to ------perform research is eligible. This includes Plant Diseases & Pathology; Food Science; Tree Selection & Breeding; Agricultural
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Weeds, Pests & Diseases; Ecology; Plant Breeding; Agriculture; Biological Sciences; Development & Reproduction; Forest Health, Environmental Science Pests & Diseases; Harvest, Transport, Processing & Storage; Plant Selection & Contact Details ------Email: [email protected]
ARDSHIP GRANT Society for Applied Microbiology
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Description: The Society for Applied Microbiology invites Website: http://www.sfam.org.uk/en/grants-- applications for its hardship grant. This assists awards/supporting-microbiology/hardship- members of the society studying towards a grant/index.cfm doctoral degree in applied microbiology. The Application form: supervisor of the doctoral student must also http://www.sfam.org.uk/download.cfm?doci be a society member. Eligible persons will d=3CE02123-5A55-4C50-891B623CDF236AA0 normally be working, taking time out to study or be self-funded. Eligibility profile ------The funds will be used to contribute towards Country of applicant institution: Any university fees and are worth up to £3,000 per year for a maximum of three years. Disciplines ------Microbiology Closing date: 30 Jun 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 20 Nov 15 SfAM Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Bedford Heights students, Directed grants for individual Brickhill Drive investigators Bedford MK41 7PH Award amount max: £9,000 Tel: +44 1234 326 661 Award amount min: - Fax: +44 1234 326 678 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
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ESEARCH GRANTS IDP Education Australia R
Description: IDP Education Australia, under the Award amount min: - International English Language Testing Award budget total: - System and in collaboration with the British Website: Council, invites applications for its research http://www.ielts.org/researchers/grants_and_ grants. These are for applied research projects awards/call_for_research_proposals.aspx relating to the IELTS. Projects are particularly Application form: encouraged in the areas of test development http://www.ielts.org/pdf/IELTS- and validation issues, issues relating to Research%20Grant%20Application%20Form contexts of test use, and issues of test impact. %202015.pdf
Applications are welcomed from researchers Eligibility profile and institutions with expertise in language ------learning and assessment research. Country of applicant institution: Any
Grants are worth up to AU$70,000 or £45,000 Disciplines respectively. ------English Language; Foreign Languages Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) Education; First Language Education; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Educational Evaluation & Assessment been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 24 Feb 15 IDP Education Australia Award type: Directed grants for individual Level 8, 535 Bourke Street investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Melbourne VIC 3000 research groups etc Tel: +61 3 9614 0534 Award amount max: $70,000 Email: [email protected]
NTER MOBILITY PROGRAMME National Research Fund Luxembourg I
Description: The National Research Fund Luxembourg institutions and research groups from abroad invites applications for funding under its in order to foster innovative, internationally INTER mobility programme. This promotes competitive research and knowledge scientific exchange between research groups exchange. The programme enables based at the Luxembourg public research postdoctoral and senior researchers working
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Bio/Medical; Physical Sciences and Visits may last between six weeks and one Engineering; Social Sciences year. Grants cover salary costs for the researcher, travel costs for researcher and Contact Details family, a mobility allowance of €1,000 per ------month, or €1,500 per month for a researcher Tel: +352 26 19 25 37 with family charges, and other costs, Fax: +352 26 19 25 35 including visa and additional health Email: carlo.duprel_@_fnr.lu insurance.
ESEARCH GRANTS Maccabi Institute for Health Services Research R
Description: The Maccabi Institute for Health Services Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Research invites applications for its research been announced by funder, but this is the grants. These are for research in the areas of approximate deadline we expect. This call is supplementary insurance, HMO budgeting repeated once a year. and online services. Applicants must have a Posted date: 10 Jun 13 PhD. The grants are worth up to ₪80,000. Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) research groups etc
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Award amount max: ₪80,000 Primary Care; Computer Science & Award budget total: - Informatics; Communication & Media Website: http://www.maccabi- Studies; Internet & Mobile Technology; Media research.org/57.html Studies; Networking Protocols; Application form: http://www.maccabi- Communication Studies research.org/he/332.html Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Maccabi Institute for Health Services Research Country of applicant institution: Any HaMered Street 27 68125 Tel Aviv Disciplines Tel: +972 3514 3538 ------Fax: +972 3514 3538 Health Insurance; Health Systems; Business & Email: [email protected] Management Studies; Insurance & Actuarial Science; Public Health, Health Services &
PERATING GRANTS International Organisation For the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease O
Description: The International Organisation for the Study research groups etc, General operating of Inflammatory Bowel Disease invites support applications for its operating grants. These Award amount max: $150,000 support research relevant to inflammatory Website: http://www.ioibd.org/grants/ bowel disease. Eligibility profile Applicants must have an active or senior ------organisation member as a principal Country of applicant institution: Any investigator or co-investigator. Disciplines Grants are worth up to US$150,000 for a ------maximum period of one year. Preference will Bowel Diseases; Gastroenterology be given to grants worth no more than US$50,000. Grants may fund salaries for Contact Details research assistants, technicians or trainees. ------IOIBD Closing date: 30 Jun 16 c/o MK Producties Deadline information: This call is repeated Javalaan 9a once a year. 3742 CN Baarn Posted date: 30 Jul 15 Tel: +31 35 542 6745 Award type: Directed grants for individual Fax: +31 35 543 0468 investigators, Directed grants to institutions, Email: [email protected]
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DUCATIONAL SUPPORT FUND Society for Underwater Technology
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Description: The Society for Underwater Technology Posted date: 20 Aug 15 invites applications for its educational Award type: Directed grants for individual support fund. This supports high calibre investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate postgraduate students who are either starting students, Personal development or continuing a degree related to one area of Award amount max: £4,000 marine science, underwater technology or Award budget total: - offshore engineering. Website: http://www.sut.org/educational- support-fund/ Master’s students who have been accepted on a one-year course of study related to the Eligibility profile society’s area of interest may apply. MRes ------course students may also apply but must Country of applicant institution: Any prove they are not being fully funded by an EPSRC grant. Students based anywhere in the Disciplines world may apply for study at any course in ------the world approved by the society. PhD Marine Engineering studies are not eligible. Contact Details Awards are worth up to £4,000 for a full ------academic year. SUT 1 Fetter Lane Closing date: 30 Jun 16 London EC4A 1BR Deadline information: Requests for Tel: +44 20 3440 5535 application forms due by 30 June; Fax: +44 20 3440 5980 applications due by 12 midnight, 29 July Email: [email protected] 2016. This call is repeated once a year.
OUNG SCIENTIST RESEARCH AWARD Commonwealth Forestry Association Y
Description: The Commonwealth Forestry Association undertaking forest-related research in pursuit invites applications for its young scientist of an academic qualification. research award. This supports students
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The award is worth up to £500. Funds are Eligibility profile provided to the candidate’s academic ------institution. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 30 Jun 16 Disciplines Deadline information: Deadlines on: 30 June ------2016, 31 December 2016, and repeated Forestry Science (Silvology) annually. Posted date: 21 Jan 16 Contact Details Award type: Student awards, Young ------investigator awards, Directed grants for The Crib individual investigators Dinchope Award amount max: £500 Craven Arms Award amount min: - Shropshire SY7 9JJ Award budget total: - Tel: +44 158 867 2868 Website: http://www.cfa- Fax: +44 870 011 6645 international.org/youth/ysra.php Email: [email protected]
NBEV-BAILLET LATOUR GRANT FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH InBev-Baillet Latour Fonds I
Description: The National Fund for Scientific Research The grant is worth up to €150,000 per year for invites applications for the Inbev-Baillet three years, with a possible extension for two Latour grant for medical research (GMR). This years. Grants may cover costs of personnel enables a young investigator of any with the exception of the PI’s salary, nationality to conduct medical research in consumables and equipment. Belgium. In 2016 the topic is infectious diseases. Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Applicants must hold a full-time position and been announced by funder, but this is the a salary secured for at least five years beyond approximate deadline we expect. This call is the beginning of the GMR and conduct their repeated once a year. research in a Belgian university or university Posted date: 29 May 15 hospital. They must hold a PhD awarded no Award type: Directed grants for individual more than 15 years before the deadline for investigators, Young investigator awards, application. Equipment and materials Award amount max: €750,000
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Award amount min: - Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: http://www1.frs------fnrs.be/en/index.php/sponsorship- Infectious Diseases prizes/prix/biomedical-sciences Application form: Contact Details http://www.inbevbailletlatour.com/media/mi ------sc_media/GMR%202016%20Application%20f Brouwerijplein 1 orm.pdf 3000 Leuven Tel: +32 1627 6159 Eligibility profile Fax: +32 1650 6159 ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
2020-INNOSUP-2016 FOR A BETTER INNOVATION SUPPORT TO SMES – TOPIC 2 Horizon 2020: Industrial Leadership H
Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: defined in the mobility rule of the Marie Industrial Leadership, under the Innovation Slodowska Curie Actions. All H2020 funding in SMEs work programme, invites proposals calls allow third country partners who secure for its H2020-INNOSUP-2016 for a better their own funding to participate in consortia. innovation support to SMEs call. Proposals must address the topic INNOSUP-02-2016 It is expected that up to 90 assignments will European SME innovation associate – pilot. be supported. The total indicative budget for This pilot is an innovation capacity building this call is €7.2 million. action to provide at European level a grant to visionary SMEs which have experienced Ref: OJ C6776. difficulty in recruiting the relevant skills nationally. Closing date: 30 Jun 16 Deadline information: Proposals invited Only applications from SMEs established in between 11 February and 5pm Brussels time, the EU member sates or countries associated 30 June 2016. to Horizon 2020 are eligible. Posted date: 15 Oct 15 Award type: Research calls for business, Proposals must take the form of coordination Networking/collaboration, Innovation grants and support actions. These require Award amount max: - participation by at least one legal entity Award budget total: €7,200,000 established in a different EU member state or Website: associated country. The associate must be a http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port PhD holder, have expertise in line with the job al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 advertisement and transnational mobility as 0-innosup-2016-2017.html
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Eligibility profile countries (ICPC), Overseas Countries and ------Territories Country of applicant institution: Any Country of applicant institution: EU Disciplines (European Union), EU Associated Countries, ------EU All International Cooperation Partner Research & Innovation Economics & Policy; Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises
IGHLIGHT NOTICE FOR THE UN INTERNATIONAL DECADE FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT – RESEARCH NETWORKING SCHEME H Arts and Humanities Research Council
Description: The Arts and Humanities Research Council, frameworks according to the Durban under its research networking scheme, invites declaration and programme of action applications for the highlight notice for the and the international convention on UN international decade for people of African the elimination of all forms of racial descent. This aims to encourage research discrimination and to ensure their full networking proposals which are relevant to and effective implementation. the UN international decade for people of African descent. The UN cites the need to Proposals must be led by a UK principal strengthen national, regional and investigator and principal investigators must international co-operation in relation to the come from a discipline in the arts and full enjoyment of economic, social, cultural, humanities. Only one co-investigator is civil and political rights by people of African permissible; international co-investigators are descent, and their full and equal participation eligible under this scheme. In addition to in all aspects of society. The theme for the these ordinary requirements for the research international decade is People of African networking scheme, proposals under the descent: recognition, justice and development, highlight notice must demonstrate a core arts and the main objectives are as follows: and humanities research focus on issues of specific relevance to people of African descent promote respect, protection and or the international decade for people of fulfilment of all human rights and African descent and engagement with, or the fundamental freedoms by people of participation of, researchers or communities African descent, as recognised in the of African descent or with relevant Universal Declaration of Human community, cultural, heritage, creative or Rights; professional organisations or relevant promote a greater knowledge of and providers of community services. respect for the diverse heritage, culture and contribution of people of Grants are worth up to £30,000 each over two African descent to the development of years. An additional £15,000 full economic societies; cost may be provided to cover the costs of any adopt and strengthen national, international participants or activities in regional and international legal addition to the scheme limit.
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Eligibility profile Closing date: 30 Jun 16 ------Deadline information: Applications due by Country of applicant institution: United 12 midnight. Proposals relevant to this Kingdom notice will be accepted after the deadline but Country of applicant institution: Any will not be eligible for supplementary funding or have an increased chance of Disciplines funding. ------Posted date: 22 Jan 16 Natural Resource Economics; Welfare Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Economics; African History; International etc., Networking/collaboration, Directed Economics; International Aid & Relief; Racism grants for individual investigators, Directed & Race Relations; Constitutional Law; grants to institutions, research groups etc, Archaeology of Africa; International Law; Hosting conferences Crimes Against Humanity; Cultural Studies; Award amount max: £45,000 Politics & Economics of Africa; Legal Reform; Award amount min: - African Languages; Development Studies; Award budget total: - Arts and Humanities; Cultural Heritage; Website: Prejudice & Discrimination; Civil & Human http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/funding/opportunitie Rights; African Literature; Legal & Social s/current/highlight-notice-un-international- Change; Economic Development; African decade-for-people-of-african-descent-in-the- Studies research-networking-scheme/
Contact Details Application form: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/links/je-s/login-to-je------s-system/ Tel: + 44 1793 416 060 Email: [email protected]
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