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Innovative approaches to enhance poverty-related diseases research
Primary funder name: European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership
Disciplines: Health Systems in Developing Countries; Tropical & Neglected Diseases; Preventive Medicine; Virology
Summary text: This supports small- to medium-scale clinical trials or clinical research studies that deliver proof-of-concept or validation of smart, highly innovative technologies or concepts to prevent, treat or diagnose poverty-related diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. The total budget is €23.4 million supporting between five and 15 grants.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 13 Aug 20
NEH/AHRC new directions for digital scholarship in cultural institutions
Primary funder name: Arts and Humanities Research Council
Disciplines: Cultural Studies; Libraries & Information Science; Museums & Curation; Digital Humanities
Summary text: This supports collaborative teams in the UK and US that have the potential to deliver a transformational impact on digital methods and digital research in cultural institutions. Awards are worth up to £250,000 for up to three years.
Award amount max: £250,000
Closing date: 18 Aug 20
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Healthy ageing with the support of digital solutions
Primary funder name: ERA-Net Active Assisted Living Programme
Disciplines: Assistive Technology; Medical Devices; Telemedicine; Geriatrics & Gerontology; Health & Medical Informatics
Summary text: *** The closing date for this opportunity has been extended. The previous deadline of 22 May has been extended to 24 August 2020. All other call details remain unchanged. This call supports innovative, translational and multidisciplinary collaborative projects that develop ICT-based solutions targeting any application areas within the programme domain. Grants are worth up to €2.5 million for up to 30 months. ***
Award amount max: €2,500,000
Closing date: 24 Aug 20
H2020-SU-DS-2020 digital security, single stage – topics 2-4
Primary funder name: Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges
Disciplines: Communication Studies; Financial & White-Collar Crime; Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises; Cybersecurity; Cyberwarfare; Information Technology & Internet Law
Summary text: This supports projects concerned with user-friendly systems on cybersecurity, digital privacy and personal data protection, enabling an active participation of citizens and organisations to their own security, privacy and personal data protection. Grants are worth between €2 million and €8m.
Award amount max: €8,000,000
Closing date: 27 Aug 20
Assessing the challenges and opportunities for market surveillance activities in relation to new technologies and digital supply chain
Primary funder name: Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Disciplines: eCommerce; Trade Policy; Consumer Law; International Trade; Market Structure & Pricing; Distributed & Cloud Computing; International Trade Law
Summary text: The tenderer will conduct a study assessing the impact of new technologies and the digital supply chain on market surveillance activities. The contract is worth €300,000 over 12 months.
Award amount max: €300,000
Closing date: 31 Aug 20
COMING SOON: Researcher mobility grants
Primary funder name: European Association of National Metrology Institutes (EURAMET)
Disciplines: Thermochemistry; Power & Energy Systems Engineering; Radiography; Ocean Chemistry; Fluidisation & Fluid Mechanics; Radiation Sources & Isotopes; Geothermics & Radiometrics; Cloud Physics; Sensors & Transducers; Telemetry & Measurement Sciences; Software Development Practices; Radio Frequency Engineering; Radiotherapy; Medical Devices; Fibre Optic Networks; Low Temperature Science & Cryogenics
Summary text: *** This opportunity will be available soon. The next call is expected to open on 29 June and have a deadline on 1 September 2020. The following information is subject to change. These grants support researchers in undertaking transnational guestworking on work related to joint research projects. Grants are worth up to €45,300 each over between one and 18 months. ***
Award amount max: €45,300
Closing date: 01 Sep 20
Call for proposals for the foundation of an innovation lab in digital health – computational biology
Primary funder name: Israel Innovation Authority
Disciplines: Computational Biology; Health & Medical Informatics; Artificial Intelligence
Summary text: This supports the foundation of of a digital health innovation lab with an emphasis on biotechnology solutions, in the face of global challenges in the field. Up to NIS 6 million is available for the establishment of the technological infrastructure and up to NIS 1m from the ongoing annual operation of the lab to be established.
Award amount max: ILS 10,000,000
Closing date: 01 Sep 20
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Eurogia2020 call for projects
Primary funder name: EUREKA
Disciplines: Energy Conservation & Efficiency; Wind Energy; Environmental Manufacturing; Hydro, Ocean, Tidal & Wave Energy; Environmental Technology; Renewable Energy Engineering; Environmental Economics & Natural Capital; Carbon Dioxide Reduction & Mitigation; Solar Power & Photovoltaics
Summary text: *** The closing date for this opportunity has been extended due to the coronavirus. The previous deadline of 16 April has been extended to 4 September 2020. All other call details remain unchanged. This supports international partnerships in developing innovative projects in energy and telecommunication. ***
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 04 Sep 20
Translational awards
Primary funder name: British Heart Foundation
Disciplines: Health & Medical Informatics; Cardiology; Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack); Cardiovascular Diseases; Diagnostic Sciences; Drug Design; Medical Devices; Medical Models, Mathematical; Alzheimer's Disease & Senile Dementia; Diabetes; Stroke & Cerebrovascular Disorders
Summary text: These support the development of cardiovascular technologies from the proof-of-concept stage to being ready for the commercial market. Funding of up to £750,000 is available per project.
Award amount max: £750,000
Closing date: 06 Sep 20
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Call for participants in a three-day sandpit focused on digital technologies for health and care
Primary funder name: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Disciplines: Biomedical Engineering; Health & Medical Informatics
Summary text: *** The closing date for this opportunity has been extended. The previous deadline of 1 September has been extended to 8 September 2020. All other call details remain unchanged. This call enables researchers from a broad range of disciplines to attend a sandpit on digital technologies for health and care, to be held in November 2020. It is expected that up to £1.2 million of UKRI funding will be made available to fund research projects arising from this sandpit, with approximately £400,000 available for each project. ***
Award amount max: £400,000
Closing date: 08 Sep 20
Scoping grants
Primary funder name: National Archives
Disciplines: Digitising & Digital Archives; Manuscripts & Books; Archiving
Summary text: These fund a report that incorporates expert advice on a range of areas relating to collections management and the development of the applicant’s collection. Four grants, worth up to £3,000 each, are available.
Award amount max: £3,000
Closing date: 14 Sep 20
Cultural heritage, identities and perspectives – responding to changing societies joint call
Primary funder name: JPI Cultural Heritage and Global Change
Disciplines: Manuscripts & Books; Intergenerational & Environmental Ethics; Cultural Heritage; Archiving; Cultural History; Digitising & Digital Archives; Materials Conservation & Preservation; Social Ethics
Summary text: This supports collaborative research on the role of heritage in society from different international perspectives and values systems. The total budget is €6.1 million to fund projects for up to 36 months.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 22 Sep 20
Digital project grants
Primary funder name: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Disciplines: Digital & Computer Art; History of Art; British & Irish History; History of Architecture
Summary text: These enable institutions to support a curator or research scholar undertaking a digital research project which will lead to a digital or online project. Grants are worth up to £40,000.
Award amount max: £40,000
Closing date: 30 Sep 20
Open call
Primary funder name: CloudiFacturing
Disciplines: Distributed & Cloud Computing; Computer-aided Manufacturing & Design; Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering
Summary text: This supports experiments in cloudification of production engineering for predictive digital manufacturing. Funding is worth up to €100,000 per experiment over 12 months.
Award amount max: €100,000
Closing date: 30 Sep 20
COMING SOON: Research scholar programme
Primary funder name: Google
Disciplines: Machine Learning; Imaging & Image Processing; Surveying & Mapping; Administrative Big Data & Informatics; Network Infrastructure; Neuroscience; Artificial Intelligence; Algorithms; Internet & Mobile Technology
Summary text: *** This opportunity will be available soon. The next call is expected to open in autumn 2020. The following information is subject to change. This programme supports collaborations with early-career faculty members at institutions carrying out research in fields relevant to Google. Funding is worth up to USD 60,000 for one year. ***
Award amount max: USD 60,000
Closing date: 30 Sep 20
eNurture network plus funding call
Primary funder name: UK Research and Innovation
Disciplines: Social Aspects of Mental Health; Digital Natives; Mental Health
Summary text: This supports research on children and young people’s mental health in a digital world. Funding is worth between £2,000 and £56,250 per project.
Award amount max: £56,250
Closing date: 30 Sep 20
Research resources awards in humanities and social science
Primary funder name: Wellcome
Disciplines: Materials Conservation & Preservation; Cataloguing & Classification; Archiving; Manuscripts & Books; Libraries & Information Science; Digitising & Digital Archives; Social Sciences; Humanities
Summary text: These help collection and information professionals develop library and archive material for humanities and social science researchers. Grants are worth up to £500,000 for up to five years.
Award amount max: £500,000
Closing date: 08 Oct 20
Public engagement with historical records
Primary funder name: National Archives and Records Administration
Disciplines: American History; Digitising & Digital Archives; Humanities Education
Summary text: This supports projects that encourage public engagement with US historical records, including the development of new tools that enable people to engage online. Up to five grants are available, each worth between USD 50,000 and USD 150,000 for a period of one to three years.
Award amount max: USD 150,000
Closing date: 08 Oct 20
Siemens Hans Fischer early-career and senior fellowships
Primary funder name: Technical University of Munich | Technische Universität München
Disciplines: Computer Simulation & Modelling; Artificial Intelligence; Autonomous Systems & Vehicles; Robotics
Summary text: These provide researchers with the necessary time and financial support to develop novel research areas and to establish intensive international collaborations focusing on the research fields of simulation and digital twin, and the future of autonomous systems or robotics. Up to two fellowships, worth €80,000 each for early-career researchers and €110,000 each for senior researchers over three years, are available.
Award amount max: €110,000
Closing date: 30 Oct 20
ICT in education prize
Primary funder name: UNESCO
Disciplines: Equal Educational Opportunity; Online, Distance & Open Learning incl. MOOCs; Alternative Education; Artificial Intelligence; Classroom Technology
Summary text: This recognises innovative approaches in leveraging new technologies to expand educational opportunities by enabling access to quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all. The prize is worth USD 25,000.
Award amount max: USD 25,000
Closing date: 31 Oct 20
Applied Sciences Journal travel award in energy
Primary funder name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Disciplines: Energy Engineering; Energy Planning & Policy
Summary text: This supports postdoctoral fellows in attending a scientific conference. The award is worth CHF 800.
Award amount max: CHF 800
Closing date: 31 Oct 20
Laboratories to optimise digital health (R01 clinical trial required)
Primary funder name: NIH: National Institute of Mental Health
Disciplines: Mental Illness; Mental Health; Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing; Health & Medical Informatics; Counselling & Talking Therapies; Clinical Psychology
Summary text: This supports research to test strategies to increase the reach, efficiency, effectiveness and quality of digital mental health interventions which may impact mental health outcomes, including suicide behaviours and serious mental illness. The maximum project period is four years.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 02 Nov 20
COMING SOON: CEF-TC-2020-2 Connecting Europe Facility Telecom call
Primary funder name: Innovation and Networks Executive Agency
Disciplines: Internet & Mobile Technology; Digitising & Digital Archives; Informatics & Big Data
Summary text: *** This opportunity will be available soon. The next call is expected to open on 30 June and close on 5 November 2020. The following information is subject to change. This aims to support cross-border digital infrastructure in areas of public interest by triggering the digital transformation of public sector services in the members states for the benefits of citizens and businesses. The total indicative budget is worth €36 million. ***
Award amount max: €10,500,000
Closing date: 05 Nov 20
Notice of special interest – emergency competitive revisions and administrative supplements to clinical and translational science award programme awards to address 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) public health needs
Primary funder name: NIH: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Disciplines: Infection Agents & Pathogens; Biomedical Engineering; Medical & Diagnostic Tests; Respiratory Medicine; Medical Statistics; Health & Medical Informatics; Disease Control; Virology; Telemedicine; Clinical Surveillance; Pathogenesis
Summary text: This supports projects in translational science that address the COVID-19 public health emergency. Up to 40 awards are available. Supplement grants are generally for a maximum period of one year.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 10 Nov 20
Towards a national collection – discovery projects
Primary funder name: Arts and Humanities Research Council
Disciplines: Cultural Heritage; Digitising & Digital Archives
Summary text: This supports projects addressing the lack of coordination between different online collections and catalogues in the UK cultural and heritage sector. Grants are worth up to £3 million at 80 per cent of the total project costs for up to three years.
Award amount max: £3,000,000
Closing date: 17 Nov 20
British Library/AHRC collaborative doctoral partnerships
Primary funder name: Arts and Humanities Research Council
Disciplines: American History; Illustration; Research Libraries & Special Collections; Manuscripts & Books; Digitising & Digital Archives; Latin & Classical Greek History; Portuguese Literature; Political Science; French History; Dutch Literature; Scandinavian Literature; German History; Eastern European Literature; German Literature; Russian Literature; Spanish Literature; Military History; Italian Literature; Finnish Literature; Central European Literature; French Literature
Summary text: These enable academics at UK universities to conduct doctoral research in partnership with the library on selected research themes. Up to three awards, each tenable for up to four years, are available for tuition fees and stipend payments.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 22 Nov 20
Digital health section prize for innovation
Primary funder name: Royal Society of Medicine
Disciplines: Health & Medical Informatics; Telemedicine
Summary text: This recognises innovations that apply digital voice to improve healthcare or social care. The prize is worth £500 plus membership of the society for one year.
Award amount max: £500
Closing date: 01 Dec 20
COMING SOON: H2020-ECSEL-2020-3-RIA-IMI-ECSEL joint activity call
Primary funder name: ECSEL Joint Undertaking
Disciplines: Medical Instrumentation; Clinical Medicine; Health & Medical Informatics
Summary text: *** This opportunity will be available soon. The next call is expected to open on 1 September and close on 1 December 2020. The following information is subject to change. This supports next generation digital technologies for clinical trials at home. Grants are worth up to €5 million for up to three years. ***
Award amount max: €5,000,000
Closing date: 01 Dec 20
Pilot call for living labs testing future mobility and digital energy solutions
Primary funder name: Joint Research Centre
Disciplines: Energy Planning & Policy; Ubiquitous Computing; Power & Energy Systems Engineering; Environmental Monitoring; Transport Planning; Renewable Energy Engineering; Human-Computer Interaction & Interfaces; Transport Infrastructure Management; Energy Conservation & Efficiency
Summary text: This enables third parties to co-create living labs within the smart city application areas of energy and transport in two of the JRC research campuses. Resources, services and materials, as well as the cost of transport and subsistence during the stay, are provided.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 31 Dec 20