{"id":846,"date":"2019-06-12T14:38:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T13:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/?p=846"},"modified":"2019-06-12T14:38:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T13:38:33","slug":"pre-call-announcement-canada-uk-artificial-intelligence-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/2019\/06\/12\/pre-call-announcement-canada-uk-artificial-intelligence-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-call announcement: Canada-UK Artificial Intelligence Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>12 September 2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 19 August 2019 (Compulsory intention to submit)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Webinar in July<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pre-call announcement: Canada-UK Artificial Intelligence Initiative<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mrc.ukri.org\/funding\/browse\/canada-uk\/artificial-intelligence-initiative\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">https:\/\/mrc.ukri.org\/funding\/browse\/canada-uk\/artificial-intelligence-initiative\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian agencies include the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR); the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC); and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).<br \/>\nThe four councils involved in this UKRI initiative include the AHRC; ESRC; EPSRC; and, the MRC.<br \/>\nThe ESRC is coordinating this initiative.<\/p>\n<p>This is a unique collaboration which will require each project to include a principal investigator (PI) based in Canada and a PI based in the UK who will share equally leadership and project management responsibilities.<br \/>\nThe Canadian and UK applicants will develop a common research plan and jointly prepare the full proposal.<br \/>\nProposals will be required to demonstrate a significant degree of, or novel approach to, interdisciplinarity with research that cuts across at least two of the following research domains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>social sciences and humanities<\/li>\n<li>health and biomedical sciences<\/li>\n<li>natural sciences and engineering (including computational and\/or mathematical sciences).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to promoting interdisciplinary AI, this call will support the development of responsible AI while establishing new partnerships and enhancing infrastructure and training between researchers in Canada and the UK.<br \/>\nThe outputs and outcomes of the research should allow for uptake by relevant stakeholders where possible.<\/p>\n<p>The total amount available for this funding opportunity is approximately CAN $14M (\u00a38 million), enough to fund approximately 10 projects.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Canadian funding agencies: The maximum amount available for Canadian researchers is CAN $173,333 (\u00a3102,000) per year for up to three years, for a total of CAN $520,000 (\u00a3305,000) per project.<\/li>\n<li>UKRI: The maximum amount available for UK researchers is a total of \u00a3625,000 (C$1.1 million) per project at 100% full economic cost (fEC).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: Canadian applicants are only eligible to receive funding from the Canadian agencies and UK applicants are only eligible to receive funding from UKRI.<\/p>\n<p>Full initiative details will be available in the coming weeks.<br \/>\nUK and Canada contacts for questions given on the website<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 September 2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 19 August 2019 (Compulsory intention to submit)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Webinar in July Pre-call announcement: Canada-UK Artificial Intelligence Initiative https:\/\/mrc.ukri.org\/funding\/browse\/canada-uk\/artificial-intelligence-initiative\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery The Canadian agencies include the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR); the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC); and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/2019\/06\/12\/pre-call-announcement-canada-uk-artificial-intelligence-initiative\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-researchfunding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}