There will be a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants 2019 call briefing delivered by the UK National Contact Point for ERC in Newcastle on 14^th June 2019

Registration: here

This will be aimed at established PIs seeking to undertake ground-breaking, high risk research project within any field of research. Suited to those with significant research achievements over the last ten years. Up to €2.5m for up to 5 years with an additional €1m for eligible ‘start up’ costs associated with applicants moving to EU or for major equipment / research facilities.

There will be a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship 2019 call briefing delivered by the UK National Contact Point for MSCA in Newcastle on 13^th June 2019.

Registration: here

This call will provide opportunities to work on research within Europe or outside Europe, deadline 11 September 2019:

• European Fellowships take place in host institutions in EU Member States or Associated Countries and are open to researchers either coming to Europe or moving within Europe
• Global Fellowships are based on a secondment to a host institution in a country outside Europe followed by a mandatory return period to a European host institution.

We have opened calls for our Wellcome Trust funded SMALL GRANT and BROADENING OUR HORIZONS schemes and I’d be obliged if you could circulate details to staff in your Units.

The SMALL GRANT SCHEME aims to provide seedcorn funding to allow researchers to:

• test the feasibility of initial ideas and of potential future studies;
• produce preliminary data;
• raise the quality of outputs by supporting additional experimentation often required by the higher ranking journals.

This call includes research in the humanities and social sciences that addresses any aspect of health.  This scheme specifically encourages inter-disciplinary research across Institutes and Faculties.

The scheme will be aimed at individuals who have limited funding, in particular applications from early year researchers are encouraged.

Funds will be made available for projects to commence in September 2019.

Current submission deadline: 01 July 2019  Applications should be submitted to marjorie.holbrough@ncl.ac.uk

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/medicalsciences/research/wellcome/#smallgrantsscheme

The BROADENING OUR HORIZONS SCHEME crosses all career stages and pathways (researchers, core facilities’ staff and technicians).

The scheme will provide funding to cover travel, accommodation costs and meeting expenses (where no external funding schemes exist for this purpose) to allow for:

• attendance at specialist training courses or conferences;
• short placements in other labs and scientific facilities develop collaborations, strengthen existing skills or to develop skills and expertise in a new technique or discipline;
• organisation of small meetings and sandpit events in order to bring researchers from different research disciplines together;

and for Early Career Researchers

• to allow them to receive mentorship from a research leader in their field outside Newcastle in order to develop their own career and professional network and to increase links between external leaders and Newcastle.

THIS IS A REACTIVE SCHEME, SO APPLICATIONS CAN BE MADE AT ANY TIME, AND FUNDS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED UNTIL THEY RUN OUT.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/medicalsciences/research/wellcome/#broadeningourhorizons

MRC/ESRC/CIHR Pre-call announcement: UK-Canada Diabetes Research Team Grants

https://mrc.ukri.org/funding/browse/uk-canada/uk-canada-diabetes-research-team-grants/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Through the UK-Canada Diabetes Research Team Grants, the MRC, ESRC and CIHR aim to:

• support world-leading collaborative research teams aimed at tackling diabetes
• enhance existing partnerships and develop new partnerships between the UK and Canada in the area of diabetes research
• strengthen the strategic relationship between the UK and Canada.

The focus of the collaborative projects will be upon ‘mechanisms and translational solutions’. Projects should focus on one or more of the following key diabetes knowledge gaps:

• genetic variability
• molecular mechanisms, including immune-mediated beta cell injury
• human implementation pilot studies to reverse type 2 diabetes through physical activity and nutrition.

Applications that include researchers with expertise in the social sciences, in addition to biomedical researchers are welcome.
Social scientists can bring an understanding of, for example, individual behaviour, economic evaluation, inequalities, the wider political economy, and wider environmental influences.

This is meant to focus on research applicable to UK and Canadian settings, not on global health.

Each grant will require a UK PI and a Canadian Nominated Principal Applicant (NPA) who will equally share leadership and project management for each project funded.
The UK and Canadian applicants will develop a common research plan and jointly prepare the full proposal to be submitted to the MRC.
An abbreviated application will be submitted to CIHR by Canadian applicants.

Funds available:

UK:

• The MRC and ESRC will make up to £2 million available.
• UK-based applicants may request up to a maximum of £333,333 per proposal to cover the UK component of each research team grant.
• Projects must be three years in duration and must start on 1 April 2020.

CIHR:

• The total amount available from CIHR for the Canadian component of this funding opportunity is $2,700,000, enough to fund approximately six grants.
• The maximum amount per grant is $150,000 per year for up to three years for a total of $450,000 per grant.

Full programme details will be available in the coming weeks.

UK queries to international@mrc.ukri.org