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Applications Open for multidisciplinary Cancer Research UK-EPSRC Early Detection Innovation Sandpit and Award

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Cancer Research UK-EPSRC  –  Early Detection Innovation Sandpit and Award

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/funding-for-researchers/our-funding-schemes/early-detection-innovation-sandpit-and-award

Deadline: 30th September 2019

Amount: Up to £100k

This award aims to catalyse new multidisciplinary collaborations to generate novel and innovative ideas that will lead to earlier detection of cancer.

In partnership with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Cancer Research UK administers the Early Detection Innovation Sandpit and Award which aims to catalyse new multidisciplinary collaborations to drive forward earlier detection of cancer.

Applicants attend an intensive and interactive three-day residential workshop where they have the opportunity to:

  • Network and form new collaborations spanning diverse research areas and organisations.
  • Work in broad, multidisciplinary teams to generate new and innovative research ideas.
  • Pitch projects for seed funding to test the feasibility of their ideas.

The aim of this workshop is to bring in innovative computational approaches from outside of cancer research, and to direct these efforts towards cancer early detection.

Developing tools with the potential to translate into a diagnostic and/or surveillance pathway, that can bridge pathology and imaging, are of particular interest.

The theme for the November 2019 workshop is applying artificial intelligence techniques to digital pathology images for cancer early detection.

Research ideas developed at the workshop could investigate some or a combination of challenges, as outlined here.

Applicants from a wide range of disciplines are eligible including those working in the fields of cancer biology, healthcare professionals, computer scientists, mathematicians and statisticians, engineers, physical scientists, and those working in the digital and technology space.

Teams who successfully pitch proposals at the workshop will receive seed funding for one year to cover the costs of pilot/feasibility studies.

If you are interested in applying and would like to support with your application please contact Holly Davidson, SAgE RFDM (with Gwen Averley in cc).

BBSRC International Flexible Interchange Programme (I-FLIP)

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BBSRC International Flexible Interchange Programme (I-FLIP)

https://bbsrc.ukri.org/funding/filter/2019-international-flexible-interchange-programme/

Deadline: 11 September 2019

Amount:  Up to £600,000 is available in total (expecting to fund 6 and 10 projects)

Applications can be up to £100,000 per project

Duration: Up to 12 months. All projects must be completed by 31 March 2021

I-FLIP aims to increase and accelerate the uptake and impact of previous BBSRC funded research through facilitating knowledge exchange and capacity building activities that deliver direct tangible and demonstrable benefits to users.

I-FLIP will provide funding to directly address challenges faced by developing countries by supporting the movement of people between the UK academic base and user organisations in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs).

This Call will support interchanges between the UK academic base and user organisations in DAC list countries.

Accordingly, all proposals to this Call must include at least one user organisation from a country on the DAC list as a project partner

Private, public or third-sector organisations or institutions with an interest that falls within BBSRC’s remit are eligible to be considered as users in the context of this Call.

These include: private industry, public bodies (such as government departments, local government, regulatory authorities, etc.), non-government organisations or charities and other third-sector organisations.

Research Council Institutes, HEIs and IROs are not eligible as users. Any number of user organisations can be included in a single project, and each participating organisation can send and/or receive any number of interchangers.

BBSRC expects that interchangers from the UK will spend a period of time working within the country that the I-FLIP project aims to support.

BBSRC welcomes researchers, technical staff and professional service staff to participate as interchangers in order to maximise the transfer of knowledge and know-how from previous research.

Each I-FLIP project can include any number of interchanges, which can operate in either direction, between UK academic institutions and user organisations.

Interchanges can occur on a full-time, part-time or intermittent basis.

Official Development Assistance

Applicants must demonstrate that the primary purpose of their proposed project is to promote the economic development and welfare of people in the DAC partner country.

The scale and breadth of its potential impact will be an important consideration in the assessment of proposals.

Successful proposals aiming to work with a country on the DAC list of ODA recipients will focus on delivering outcomes that promote the long-term sustainable growth of that country (or countries).

Funding within this call will therefore be awarded in a manner that fits with ODA guidelines.

Please ensure to read the full call outline and guidance (pdf) available through the link above.

MRC Genome Editing Mice for Medicine (GEMM)

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Genome Editing Mice for Medicine (GEMM Call 6)

https://mrc.ukri.org/funding/browse/gemm/genome-editing-mice-for-medicine/

https://www.har.mrc.ac.uk/international-programmes/gemms

Deadline 25th October 2019

MRC has committed up to £4.5m over 5 years to the Mary Lyon Centre to administer the Genome Editing Mice for Medicine (GEMM) funding scheme.

This will exploit the Centre’s expertise to deliver novel mouse lines to advance knowledge of human disease and/or be of wide use in biomedical science.

The UK academic research community is invited to nominate mouse lines for production and outline their own experimental plans for them.

GEMM Call 6 is a full call open to nominations for mouse lines carrying bespoke indels, deletions, point mutations, conditionals and cassette knock-ins.

Nominations will be assessed by a cross-discipline panel of experts across two key themes:

  • The nominator’s own research hypotheses and specific research plans for the mouse.
  • The beneficial impact the proposed novel mouse line will have on the wider academic community.

This award will financially support mouse line generation and archiving, but not the nominator’s own experimental research costs.

Applicants will therefore be asked to describe the funding in place to support their proposed downstream work.

Successfully-generated mouse lines will be made publicly-available through the European Mouse Mutant Archive.

If you are interested in applying, please ensure to read the full call guidance available through the links above and also the GEMM 6 guide (pdf available via links).

Details of how to apply are given in the GEMM 6 guide.

 

Lister Institute Research Prizes 2020

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2020 Notice

2019 Prizewinners

2020 Terms and Conditions.doc

Lister Institute Research Prizes 2020

https://www.lister-institute.org.uk/what-are-the-research-prizes/

Deadline: Friday 27 September 2019

The Lister Institute’s research prizes are awarded as lump sums of £250,000 which must be spent within a five-year period.

The Institute currently receives around 100 applications for the six prizes. From these, approximately 20 candidates are long-listed and up to 12 are then interviewed.

Please ensure to read the full call guidance available through the link above.

Anyone who is thinking of applying should contact Gwen Averley (gwen.averley@newcastle.ac.uk) and Darren Airey (darren.airey@newcastle.ac.uk) before making an application.

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NU-KESS

(Newcastle University Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series)

Can your research inform local policy?

The Newcastle University Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series (NU-KESS) aims to promote evidence led policy making and provides a forum for researchers to present their research findings in a straightforward format on issues that are relevant to local decision makers.

NU-KESS is delivered in partnership with Newcastle City Council, Gateshead Council, Northumberland County Council, North Tyneside Council and South Tyneside Council, North East Local Enterprise Partnership (NELEP) and the North East England Chamber of Commerce (NEECC).

Would you like to present your research to local decision makers?

What’s involved?

  • Identify which of the ‘Hot Topics’ you will address and submit a 150 word abstract.
  • Attend a 1 hour training workshop prior to the seminar to develop your ideas.
  • Prepare and deliver a 30 minute presentation (up to a maximum of 20 slides) to an audience of local decision makers.
  • Prepare a written 4-5 page policy briefing for dissemination at the event.

Why should I take part?

Benefits to participants include:

  • Increased connections and engagement with policy makers.
  • Enhanced impact of your research.
  • Development of new ideas leading to further research.
  • Connecting with other researchers; working on locally relevant topics.

The call for application submissions for the 2019/20 programme is now open and closes at midnight on Wednesday 31st July.

The call is open to all academics at Newcastle University and we are looking for presentations that relate to the ‘hot topics’ policy makers have identified as a high priority for the local area.

Submissions as a team/group are welcome i.e. may include academics from other institutions; however the lead academic must be from Newcastle University.

If you are interested in taking part please read the guidance document and complete the online form.

Submissions and queries should be sent to:

nu.policyacademy@ncl.ac.uk

Annual Combined Northern and Yorkshire Rheumatology Meeting National Railway Museum, York Wednesday September 25th 2019

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“Annual Combined Northern and Yorkshire Rheumatology Meeting

National Railway Museum, York

Wednesday September 25th 2019 – please see the website for further information at https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/nyrm2019/ (best viewed in Chrome)

To register for the meeting:

The National Railway Museum is a short walk from the railway station. On-line registration is available now via the following URL link (or copy and paste into browser):

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/25th-northern-and-yorkshire-rheumatology-meeting-2019-registration-57004160980

To submit an abstract:

Please e-mail your abstract to janet.herdman@ncl.ac.uk by 29th August at the latest (late submissions will not be considered). Your abstract should be presented on a single side of A4. One figure or table may be included.

If your abstract is a clinical abstract for the morning session:

Clinical cases for the morning presentations would be greatly appreciated including the sort of cases seen as urgent ward or out patient referrals. If you have a suitable case that you would like to present it would be helpful to discuss with Mike Green on mike.green@hdft.nhs.uk.

This is a prompt to encourage you to consider submitting an abstract summarising basic, translational and clinical science in the rheumatology field, as well as clinical cases and audit findings; remember, there is a prize for the two best abstracts, which will be presented in the final session! Abstracts submitted to the ACR or EULAR 2019 may be submitted, and we encourage submissions from students and Fellows.

We also particularly encourage rheumatology trainees from around the region to submit abstracts of notable clinical cases (in general rheumatology as well as SpA management conundrums) for presentation and discussion. If you are a trainee, please consider doing this. IF you are a consultant please provide encouragement; you are of course welcome to present cases yourselves!) It’s a fantastic opportunity to exchange expertise with interested peers and gain experience of presenting. Please also ensure that trainees working at your centre are able to cancel their clinics for the day, mindful that the date is shortly after the rotation date for some.

If you have any queries about the meeting please contact janet.herdman@ncl.ac.uk ”

Social Justice Fund 2019 – applications now open!

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Social Justice Fund 2019 – applications now open!

The Newcastle University Social Justice Fund is now open to applications that support work in the field of social justice as part of the University’s Engagement and Place Strategy. 

​​​​​​​Newcastle University is committed to social justice in all that we do and we are dedicated to working together to create a fairer and more just society. The fund will develop a portfolio of successful relationships between the University and the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector.

Funded projects will be focused around one of the following social justice themes:

  • Children, youth and lifecourse
  • Poverty, welfare and social class
  • Race, religion and migration
  • Environment, nature and landscape
  • Peace, reconciliation and human rights
  • Housing, neighbourhood and region
  • Gender, sexuality and relationships
  • Health, well-being and care
  • Education, work and employment

We are particularly interested in applications that will contribute to meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships between the University and VCSE partners and that are co-produced.

What funding is available?
The minimum amount of funding that can be applied for is £2000. The absolute maximum you can apply for is £10,000; however, we envisage that most projects will be around £5000. We would encourage applicants to consider carefully what they want to use the funds for and apply for the appropriate amount rather than the maximum available.  The detail of how the funds will be spent should be included in your application.

What are the assessment criteria?
The Newcastle Social Justice Fund invites proposals from Schools, Research Centres, Institutes and individual academics, including early career researchers and PhD students.

Applications will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

  • Evidence how key social justice issues have been addressed;
  • The project must contribute to, pilot and/or deliver innovations that can be shared or can advance good practice;
  • Applications must be submitted in partnership with a VCSE organisation;
  • The approach to collaboration will create a meaningful and sustainable partnership;
  • Potential for the projects to demonstrate new approaches to collaboration and engagement;
  • Potential for the project to contribute to education and student experience;
  • Potential for the project to contribute to research impact (that is, research that has societal benefit);
  • Potential for the project to generate additional external research income.

Please read the guidance document for full details of the fund and use the application form to submit your application via the online form by Friday 30th August 2019: https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=5177710​

NSJF Application Form 2019-20.docx
NSJF Guidance Document 2019-20.docx

For any queries please contact socialjustice@ncl.ac.uk and visit ncl.ac.uk/who-we-are/social-justice/ for more information.

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MRC Confidence in Concept call now live – EoI deadline 18.07.19

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CiC EoI 2019 v2

CiC guidance 2019 v.3

MRC Confidence in Concept – Application Form V.2 2019

The Newcastle MRC Confidence in Concept call is now live, with a closing date for Expressions of Interest of 18th July 2019.

Expressions of Interest will be reviewed by a panel, and those that are invited to submit full applications will be contacted at the end of July, with full applications due by 18 September.

Indicative / estimated costs ONLY are expected at EoI stage. Applications will be assessed on scientific grounds, with the potential to convert the CiC project to downstream translational research grants a key consideration.

The guidance documentation, and both application forms can be downloaded from the Faculty website: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/medicalsciences/research/mrc/cic/#currentcall

Should you have any questions, or would like clarification of anything, please do not hesitate to contact me.

With thanks for your time, and best wishes, Sarah

Sarah Greenhalgh

CiC & PtD Programme Manager

Research Project Manager

Faculty of Medical Sciences Project Management Team | Newcastle University Medical School | Framlington Place | Newcastle upon Tyne | NE2 4HH

T:  0191 20 86944

E: sarah.greenhalgh@ncl.ac.uk

 

EU & International Research Funding 26 June 2019

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EU and International Research Funding Newsletter

Welcome!  In this edition there is information on:

  • ERC Advanced Grant 2019 (EU)
  • Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships 2019 (EU)
  • Draft H2020 Work Programmes: all  Societal Challenge draft programmes pre-published.  Also available are NMBP, Space, ICT and NEW! FET  (EU)
  • Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage (JPICH) call on Conservation, Protection and Use (EU)
  • NEW! Canada-UK AI Initiative (FIC / EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, AHRC)
  • Open Research Area (ORA) for Social Sciences 2019 (FIC / ESRC, AHRC, MRC)
  • Life-saving or life improving innovations in conflict zones (Grand Challenges / multinational)
  • Impact of AI on Society and the Economy (FIC / AHRC, ESRC)
  • Newton Fund opportunities for Institutional and Researcher Links (Newton)
  • NEW! Tackling global development challenges through physical sciences research (GCRF)
  • Global Challenges Academy Rapid Response Funds for project development (internal)
  • John Templeton Foundation: interdisciplinary US-based Foundation (charitable)
  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Exploration (charitable)
  • Opportunity to influence the DFID research agenda
  • Events: including NEW! Societal Challenge 5 Info Day 16 Sept, Global Challenges Summit 2019

ERC Advanced Grants Open for Application

Europe’s most prestigious research award scheme is now open.  ERC Advanced Grants invite applications for blue skies, high-risk high-reward research by researchers with a track record of significant achievements for at least the last ten years.   Think big, think slightly crazy and clarify your ultimate research aim.

A Nutshell Note with a summary of the programme is attached.

Deadline is 29th August.

For more information please see here. 

If you have any questions on the implications to this scheme of Brexit, please contact Dajana.Dzanovic@ncl.ac.uk / +44 191 208 5373.

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships 2019 

Provides opportunities to work on research within Europe or outside Europe.

  • 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.

A Nutshell Note with a summary of the programme is attached.

Deadline for applications is 11th September 2019.

For more information please see here: MSCA-IF-2019

If you have any questions on the implications to this scheme of Brexit, please contact Dajana.Dzanovic@ncl.ac.uk / +44 191 208 5373.

Horizon 2020 Draft Work Programmes for 2020

Draft Work Prorgrammes are now publicly available for:

 

Where there is no link above, please contact Dajana.Dzanovic@ncl.ac.uk / Victoria.Bainbridge@ncl.ac.uk for the the Work Programme.

Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage (JPICH) Launches Call on Conservation, Protection and Use

The JPICH Call on Conservation, Protection and Use aims to enable the emergence of new research-based frameworks that incorporate knowledge, concepts and values to help manage the ongoing and interlaced changes that affect cultural heritage in relation to its physical and social environment. The Call addresses four broad topics which are essential to understanding change and how to manage it:

  1. Analysing and modelling change
  2. Developing sustainable protection and enhancement of values
  3. Management of cultural heritage at risk
  4. Layered protection and conservation

Project consortium must include min. 3 and max. 5 of the following countries:  Belarus, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom

Call deadline is September 3rd.
More information is available here. 

Canada-UK Artificial Intelligence Initiative

The call aims to support innovative and cutting-edge interdisciplinary AI research that encourages the exploration of new interdisciplinary research methodologies, approaches and tools that cuts across at least two of the following research domains:

  • social sciences and humanities;
  • health and biomedical sciences; and
  • natural sciences and engineering (including computational and/or mathematical sciences).

The call promotes the development of responsible AI through research that includes considerations of social-cultural variables (gender, racialised identity, socio-economic status, ability, etc.), biological variables (sex) and sustainable development in the research design, to ensure that the benefits of AI technologies and tools are shared broadly across society, to mitigate against potential harms, and to enhance the trustworthiness of AI.

£8.2 million is available, supporting approximately 10 teams.

A webinar will be held on 17 July from 16:00 to 17:00 UK time.  Spaces will be limited, so we encourage you to register your interest (deadline 12 July) by emailing aiukcanada@esrc.ukri.org.

Deadline: compulsory Intention to Submit by 19th August.  Full proposals by 12th September.

 

Open Research Area (ORA) for Social Sciences 2019

Projects working with at least 3 of the 4 participating countries: France, Germany, UK, Canada.

A special opportunity also exists for collaboration with Japanese partners through JSPS.  For details please see the Japanese call.

All areas of research welcome but check the priorities of the relevant national agencies.

Outline and full proposal deadline 11th September 2019, 16.00. 

ESRC is running a webinar for potential applicants on 3rd July, 10.00 and 15.00.  You are strongly encouraged to participate.  To register please email oraqueries@esrc.ukri.org stating your preference for morning or afternoon.

For more information see here or contact victoria.bainbrige@ncl.ac.uk

 

Life-saving or Life-improving Innovations in Conflict Zones: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge

Creating Hope in Conflict – A Humanitarian Grand Challenge is administered by Grand Challenges Canada and seeks life-saving or life-improving innovations to help the most vulnerable and hard to reach people impacted by humanitarian crises caused by conflict.

Priority areas are: safe water and sanitation, energy, life-saving information, healthcare products and services.

Seed funding of ~ £150,000 and Transition to Scale (TTS) funding of ~£590,000 is available.

Private sector involvement is encouraged for seed funding and a requirement of TTS funds. Match funding is expected for TTS.

Call deadline: Tuesday 16th July, 11am, ET

For more information please see: https://humanitariangrandchallenge.org/

 

Impact of AI on Society and the Economy

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX) of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), are pleased to announce a joint call for proposals exploring the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies on society and the economy. The call is now open and the deadline for applications is 17 July 2019. Successful awards will be announced in November 2019 and will be expected to begin in January 2020.

The call aims to foster collaboration between UK and Japanese social science, arts and humanities research around the theme of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on society.  Thematic areas for the call are listed below and further details are available in the call specification:

  • Impacts on humans and society
  • Economic implications, skills, work and education
  • Transparency, responsibility, governance and ethics

The total UK budget for this call is £2 million. UK applicants may request between £360,000-£500,000 (100% fEC) per project. The total Japanese budget for this call is ¥180m. Japanese applicants may request up to ¥30m per project. Together they expect to fund between five and seven joint proposals for a period of three years.  Please note that proposals will be funded under this call subject to the UK funding being secured from the Fund for International Collaboration.

You might benefit from considering our Renkei partners.

For more information please contact Dajana Dzanovic on Dajana.Dzanovic@ncl.ac.uk.

If you’re interested in this call you might also be interested in the First European Artificial Intelligence Alliance Assembly. 

 

Newton Fund opportunities for Institutional and Researcher Links

The British Council Newton Fund Institutional Links and Researcher Links Calls are now out. Both have a deadline of 9 August 2019.

Institutional Links provides grants of between £50k-£300k (depending on country and focus) for the development of research and innovation collaborations between the UK and partner countries.

Researcher Links provides funding for leading researchers (one from the UK and one from the partner country) to bring together early-career researchers from the UK and a partner country to make international connections that can improve the quality of their research.

Both of these schemes are part of the Newton Fund and as such must aim primarily to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner country or a third low or middle income country to satisfy ODA criteria.

At time of going to print the following countries are covered by these schemes:

Institutional Links – Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia and Thailand (Coming soon – Colombia, Mexico, Philippines and Turkey)
Researcher Links – Brazil and Jordan (Coming Soon – China, India, Philippines)

Check the website for updates and country specific information – https://www.britishcouncil.org/education/science/current-opportunities/newton-fund-institutional-links and https://www.britishcouncil.org/education/science/current-opportunities/newton-fund-researcher-links-workshops.

Call Deadline: 9th August 2019. 

Tackling global development challenges through physical sciences research

Project scope can be anything within the remit of the Physical Sciences theme.

Research must meet ODA requirements, being of primary benefit to a country in the Global South and with partners on the DAC list.

Up to £4 million is available from EPSRC’s GCRF allocation for this call.  5-10 research projects will be supported. through this activity. Projects will have a fixed start date of 01 April 2020 and may be up to 24 months in duration.

Deadline for Compulsory Intention to Submit 16:00 on 03 July 2019.
Full proposal deadline 20th August 2019.

 

DFID Seeking Members for Science Advisory Group

The Department for International Development (DFID) leads the UK’s work to end extreme poverty and to help to save lives when humanitarian emergencies hit.

DFID is recruiting new Members and a Chair for its Science Advisory Group (SAG), to provide independent and impartial strategic advice on departmental science and research policy and programmes for a period of up to 3 years.

They are recruiting across all priority science and research areas: Health; Agriculture; Climate, Water, Energy; Growth; Humanitarian; Education; Governance, Conflict and Social Development; and Data for Development.

The SAG reports to DFID’s Chief Scientific Adviser and meets 3 times a year.  The current SAG consists of 11 senior academics chaired by Professor Sir Ian Diamond.

The successful candidates will be senior academic leaders (Professorial level), with expertise in national and/or international level research management and a demonstrable understanding of the impact of science and research for delivering the UK’s international development objectives.

Information on the full post description, the application process, and other relevant matters are on the DFID external website here.

CLOSING DATE: 5 p.m. (UK time) on 15th July 2019.

 

Global Challenges Academy Rapid Response Funds

Newcastle University’s Global Challenges Academy can provide agile, quick turnaround funding to support research-related activity directly benefiting DAC list countries.

To be eligible your proposed activity must  directly and primarily promote the economic development and social welfare of partner countries on the DAC list.

Activity will need to align to at least one United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UNSDG). Applicants are encouraged to discuss/co-create their ideas with their international partners ahead of submission.

Examples of eligible activity include:
• International networking and partnership building activity, addressing specific global challenges, which will lead to GCRF or Newton style funding proposals
• Preliminary data collection, pilot projects or other preparatory work needed ahead of making a external research funding application
• Activity as a response to an urgent research need in a DAC list country or a critical policy moment in a sustainable development related area
• Activity that builds on previous ODA research and might add impact (social, economic or academic capacity) or extend benefits to further geographic regions/demographic groups

There is no minimum application value, but it is expected that requests will not usually exceed £2k.

If you would like to discuss an application prior to submission, please contact Dr Elisa Lawson Research Funding Development Manager and Co-Director of Global Challenges Academy

Application form. This scheme operates with no deadlines. Submit a request at any time and decisions will be made within 5 working days. Awarded funds must be spent within 3 months of the decision notification. There is no limit on the number of applications which can be submitted for the same project/relationship but its expected only one will be active at any time. Short reports will be requested 1 month after completion.

 

John Templeton Foundation, deadline 16th August

The John Templeton Foundation is one of the new funders that our team will be focussing on in the forthcoming year.
Their funding areas are:

  • Science and the Big Questions
  • Character Virtue Development
  • Individual Freedom and Free Markets
  • Exceptional Cognitive Talent and Genius
  • Genetics
  • Voluntary Family Planning

Projects will generally last 3 years and you can apply to the Small Grant (up to $234,800) or Large Grant programme.
You must have co-funding for your proposal.

After registration, the application process is via initial Online Funding Inquiry (OFI), after which you may be invited to submit a full proposal.

The next OFI deadline is August 16th.

As this is new for all of us, please take some time to explore the Foundation’s funding areas, strategic priorities and the kinds of proposals they fund.

If you have an idea for a proposal, please get in touch with Dajana.Dzanovic@ncl.ac.uk or Victoria.Bainbridge@ncl.ac.uk

 

Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) is an initiative that awards initial grants of USD$100,000, and successful projects are eligible to receive follow-on funding of up to USD$1 million. Proposals are solicited twice a year for an expanding set of global health and development topics. Applications are only two pages, and no preliminary data is required. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies. The next application round for GCE will open in September 2019.

As this is new for most of us, please take some time to explore the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the types of challenges that they fund.

If you have an idea for a proposal, please get in touch with Dajana.Dzanovic@ncl.ac.uk / Elisa.Lawson@ncl.ac.uk / Victoria.Bainbridge@ncl.ac.uk.

 

H2020 Information Days

European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) 2019

EBDVF is the main event of the European Big Data and Data-Driven AI Research and Innovation community.  It will take place on 14-16 October in Helsinki, Finland

Global Challenges Summit 2019: 9th July, EOIs open

The Global Challenges Academy is proud to bring you a day-long bonanza of innovation, creativity and outstanding research for international development.  To express your interest in attending, including optional pecha-kucha, please click here: https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=4951790