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DIGITAL HUMANITIES ASSOCIATE PROJECT
Primary funder name: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Disciplines: Crimes Against Humanity; Political History; Digital Humanities; Jewish Studies
Summary text: This provides training on the use of digital humanities to study the Holocaust. The fellowships is worth USD 3,000 per month for nine months.
Award amount max: USD 27,000
Closing date: 01 Feb 2021
NGI ASSURE - RESEARCH GOES TO STANDARDISATION
Primary funder name: Next Generation Internet
Disciplines: Computer Engineering & Hardware; Cryptography; Ubiquitous Computing; Cybersecurity; Large Scale Complex IT Systems; Open Source Software
Summary text: This call supports projects developing reusable building blocks for next generation internet. Grants are worth up to €200,000 each for up to 13 months.
Award amount max: €200,000
Closing date: 01 Feb 2021
DIGI-B-CUBE OPEN CALL
Primary funder name: DIGI-B-CUBE
Disciplines: Medical Devices; Medical & Diagnostic Tests
Summary text: This supports SMEs integrating digital innovations and disruptive technologies across the medical diagnostics and related value chains. Funding is worth up to €150,000 per project.
Award amount max: €150,000
Closing date: 03 Feb 2021
Emeritus fellowships
Primary funder name: Leverhulme Trust
Disciplines: Agriculture; Arts and Humanities; Soil Sciences; Social Sciences; Physical Sciences and Engineering; Food Science
Summary text: These enable retired senior researchers to complete a research project and to prepare the results for publication. Each fellowship is worth up to £24,000 for a period between three and 24 months.
Award amount max: €150,000
Closing date: 04 Feb 2021
High-priority areas for research leveraging electronic health records and large-scale data
Primary funder name: NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Disciplines: Medical Effectiveness & Patient Outcomes; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Data Analysis; Neurology; Bioinformatics; Health & Medical Informatics; Mental Health
Summary text: This supports the use of large-scale, real-world data from electronic health records from a variety of systems to understand risk, onset, course and impact of treatments and services for mental and neurological disorders. The maximum project period is five years.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 05 Feb 2021
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT LEGACY AWARDS
Primary funder name: Science and Technology Facilities Council
Disciplines: Universe Sciences; Synchrotrons & Accelerators; Particle Physics; Nuclear Physics
Summary text: These enable STFC grant-funded public engagement programmes to continue to grow and evolve over time based on learning and evaluation. Funding covers 50 per cent of the costs, worth up to £50,000, for first-time awardees, and up to 25 per cent, worth up to £25,000, for second-time awardees.
Award amount max: £50,000
Closing date: 11 Feb 2021
Asthma health technology fund – stream 1
Primary funder name: Department of Health and Social Care including NIHR
Disciplines: Medical Devices; Asthma; Assistive Technology
Summary text: This supports the development and adoption of scalable, user-centred and evidence-based tools for the diagnosis, monitoring or management of asthma. Grants are worth up to £750,000 each for up to two years.
Award amount max: £750,000
Closing date: 11 Feb 2021
Innovations partnership scheme grants
Primary funder name: Science and Technology Facilities Council
Disciplines: Nuclear Physics; Synchrotrons & Accelerators; Universe Sciences; Computer Science & Informatics; Particle Physics
Summary text: These aim to transfer technology and expertise developed through STFC funding to the marketplace in partnership with industry and other academic disciplines. Grants are worth up to £360,000 at 80 per cent of full economic costs over up to three years.
Award amount max: £360,000
Closing date: 18 Feb 2021
FOLLOW-ON FUNDING
Primary funder name: Science and Technology Facilities Council
Disciplines: Nuclear Physics; Synchrotrons & Accelerators; Particle Physics; Universe Sciences; Computer Science & Informatics
Summary text: This provides financial support at the very early or pre-seed stage of turning research outputs into a commercial proposition. Proposals may be worth up to £110,000 to be funded at 80 per cent full economic cost for up to a year.
Award amount max: £88,000
Closing date: 18 Feb 2021
innovation partnership scheme capital call
Primary funder name: Science and Technology Facilities Council
Disciplines: Particle Physics; Galactic Astronomy; Cosmology & Extragalactic Astronomy; Nuclear Physics
Summary text: This enables current innovation partnership scheme grant holders to request specific items of capital that could be of benefit to the project, or for components to build a working prototype in order to move the idea ahead to commercialisation. Individual items of equipment must cost £10,000 or more.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 18 Feb 2021
NRP 77 - DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Primary funder name: Swiss National Science Foundation
Disciplines: Classroom Technology; Computer Science & Informatics; Ethical Use of Technology; Sociology of Science & Technology
Summary text: This supports research on the interrelationships and concrete effects of digital transformation in Switzerland that will allow the improvement of its management and governance of ongoing and future digital transformations. Projects are anticipated to be worth between CHF 300,000 and CHF 600,000 each for up to four years.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 20 Feb 2021
NETWORKED CURATOR
Primary funder name: Association of Art Museum Curators
Disciplines: Museums & Curation; History of Art; Digital & Interaction Design
Summary text: This enables non-profit art curators to take part in a course to develop their digital skills, better understand the resources and possibilities of the sector, and empower them to collaborate and actively participate in related initiatives. A travel stipend is provided.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 20 Feb 2021
Smart farming innovations for small-scale producers
Primary funder name: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Disciplines: Agricultural Engineering; Agricultural Management; Agriculture in Developing Countries; Small Farms & Subsistence Farming
Summary text: This supports smart farming solutions that leverage digital technology innovations that have the potential to drive positive impact for small-scale producer entrepreneurs delivered through bundled farmer services and enabled by scalable digital and data platforms. Grants are worth up tp USD 1.5 million each for a maximum period of two years.
Award amount max: USD 1,500,000
Closing date: 25 Feb 2021
Call for proposals on cybercrime
Primary funder name: Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs
Disciplines: Child Protection & Welfare; Cybersecurity; Rape, Sex Crimes & Sexual Abuse
Summary text: This supports proposals on the areas of cybercrime, and child sexual abuse and exploitation. Grants are worth between €300,000 and €4 million for up to three years.
Award amount max: €4,000,000
Closing date: 25 Feb 2021
Digital scholarship visiting research fellowships
Primary funder name: University of Edinburgh
Disciplines: Humanities; Digital Humanities
Summary text: These encourage digitally-focused, interdisciplinary research, international scholarly collaboration, and networking activities of visiting research fellows with a specific focus on the digital. A bursary of up to £1,000 is available for up to four months.
Award amount max: £1,000
Closing date: 26 Feb 2021
Synchronised call – EURIPIDES² and PENTA Clusters
Primary funder name: EUREKA
Disciplines: Microelectronics; Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Nanoelectronics
Summary text: This supports joint research, development and innovation projects in the electronic components and systems value chain in order to promote collaborative industrial innovation. Projects are funded through national public authorities.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 26 Feb 2021
SIGMOBILE test-of-time paper awards
Primary funder name: Association for Computing Machinery
Disciplines: Network Infrastructure; Informatics & Big Data
Summary text: These recognise papers that have had a sustained and significant impact on the mobility of systems users, data and computing community over at least a decade. Awards include an honorarium.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 28 Feb 2021
Digital innovations grant
Primary funder name: Lloyd’s Register Foundation
Disciplines: Knowledge Management; Records & Document Management; Digitising & Digital Archives
Summary text: This encourages new, engaging ideas for developing the foundation’s heritage and education centre’s resources using emerging technology. Grants are worth up to £100,000 each for one year.
Award amount max: £100,000
Closing date: 28 Feb 2021
Heritage and Education Centre digital innovation
Primary funder name: Lloyd’s Register Foundation
Disciplines: Digitising & Digital Archives; Interactive Media; Museums & Curation
Summary text: This provides support to harness emerging technologies and develop the Heritage and Education Centre’s resources. Funding is worth up to £100,000 for direct costs.
Award amount max: £100,000
Closing date: 28 Feb 2021
Small Business Research Initiative – improving multimorbidity acute care using data analytics, phase 1
Primary funder name: Innovate UK
Disciplines: Chronic Care; Surgery & Intensive Care; Emergency Medicine
Summary text: This supports proposals to develop a data-driven solution to improve the care and outcomes for patients with multimorbidity admitted in A&E. Grants are worth up to £10,000 each for up to three months
Award amount max: £10,000
Closing date: 03 Mar 21
BRAIN initiative – integration and analysis of BRAIN initiative data
Primary funder name: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Disciplines: Data Visualisation; Health & Medical Informatics; Neuroscience; Data Analysis; Medical Devices
Summary text: This aims to develop informatics tools for analysing, visualising and integrating data related to the BRAIN initiative or to enhance understanding of the brain. Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The maximum project period is three years.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 04 Mar 21
Systems biology – from large datasets to biological insight course bursaries
Primary funder name: Wellcome
Disciplines: Machine Learning; Biological Systems Analysis & Modelling; Mathematical Biology
Summary text: These enable researchers to attend a course on multi-omics data and machine learning to infer biological models, to be held virtually in June 2021. Bursaries cover up to 50 per cent of the course fee.
Award amount max: £375
Closing date: 04 Mar 21
Map the gap – autonomous gap crossing survey, phase 2
Primary funder name: Ministry of Defence
Disciplines: Remote Sensing; Telemetry & Measurement Sciences; Military Technology, Land; Autonomous Systems & Vehicles
Summary text: This supports technologies that demonstrate an unmanned and automated or autonomous system to gather the data required for the crossing of wet gap obstacles. The total budget is £2 million funding two to four bids over 10 months.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 09 Mar 21
BRAIN initiative cell census network – scalable technologies and tools for brain cell census
Primary funder name: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Disciplines: Central Nervous System; Cell & Developmental Biology; Biomedical Engineering
Summary text: This aims to accelerate the integration and use of scalable technologies and tools to enhance brain cell census research. Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The maximum project period is three years.
Award amount max: USD 2,000,000
Closing date: 10 Mar 21
Research exhibition grants
Primary funder name: Design History Society
Disciplines: Art & Design: History, Practice & Theory
Summary text: These assist those engaged in design history research that leads to a permanent or temporary exhibition or display, which can take either physical or digital format.
Award amount max: £1,000
Closing date: 15 Mar 21
UK-Ireland collaboration in digital humanities
Primary funder name: Arts and Humanities Research Council
Disciplines: Digital Humanities; Arts and Humanities; Society
Summary text: This supports large, innovative and multidisciplinary research in digital humanities. Funding is worth up to £320,000 per project for UK costs, at 80 per cent of the full economic cost for up to 36 months.
Award amount max: £320,000
Closing date: 18 Mar 21
Small Business Research Initiative – improving hip fracture outcomes using data, phase 1
Primary funder name: Innovate UK
Disciplines: Orthopaedic Surgery; Osteoporosis & Other Bone Diseases; Medical Devices
Summary text: This supports projects on improving outcomes for hip fracture patients by developing a system using routinely collected health data and data-analytics techniques.
Award amount max: £15,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 21
Innovation panel competition
Primary funder name: Economic and Social Research Council
Disciplines: Health & Society; Research Methods in Sociology; Self-Employment & Entrepreneurship; Employment & Unemployment Studies
Summary text: This supports research ideas that need certain data to carry out work, and researchers wanting to develop an experimental or methodological element. Successful applicants access rich household data and are provided a test-bed for new and existing projects without the associated cost, and research support.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 02 Apr 21
Artificial intelligence for Earth grant
Primary funder name: Microsoft Corporation
Disciplines: Water Resources Engineering & Management; Use & Management of Natural Resources; Sustainable Agriculture; Climate Change & Global Warming; Environmental Conservation & Biodiversity
Summary text: This provides access to Microsoft resources to support projects that change the way people and organisations monitor, model, and manage Earth’s natural systems.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 05 Apr 21
Public engagement spark awards
Primary funder name: Science and Technology Facilities Council
Disciplines: Particle Physics; Universe Sciences; Nuclear Physics; Synchrotrons & Accelerators
Summary text: These support programmes of novel public engagement that focus on a topic within the council’s remit or align to the science and technology work of the council’s national and international laboratories and facilities.
Award amount max: £15,000
Closing date: 22 Apr 21
Responsive mode – standard research grants
Primary funder name: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Disciplines: Environmental Engineering; Agriculture, Veterinary & Food Science; Biological Sciences
Summary text: These support curiosity-led research to advance the bioscience portfolio of the council. Projects can range in size up to £2 million and last up to five years.
Award amount max: £2,000,000
Closing date: 28 Apr 21
UK intelligence community postdoctoral research fellowships
Primary funder name: Royal Academy of Engineering
Disciplines: Physical Sciences and Engineering; Military Sciences
Summary text: These fellowships support the promotion of unclassified basic research in areas of interest to the intelligence, security and defence community. Fellowships are worth up to £200,000 over two years.
Award amount max: £200,000
Closing date: 04 May 21
Health technology assessment programme – researcher-led workstream, including brain tumours
Primary funder name: Department of Health and Social Care including NIHR
Disciplines: Patient Care & Education; Screening for Diseases; Medical Effectiveness & Patient Outcomes; Health Economics; Medical & Diagnostic Tests; Pharmaceutical Drugs; Biomedical Engineering; Health & Medical Informatics; Brain Cancer; Preventive Medicine
Summary text: This supports research to assess the effectiveness of technologies within the NHS. There are no fixed limits on the duration of projects or funding, and proposals should be tailored to fully address the problem.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 05 May 21
Best of the web competition
Primary funder name: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Disciplines: Journalism; Digital & Interaction Design; Communication & Media Studies; Mobile Devices, Apps & Ecosystems
Summary text: This recognises web and app design that advances education or research in journalism or mass communication. The prize amount depends on the funds available.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 15 May 21
CreativeXR programme
Primary funder name: Digital Catapult
Summary text: This supports the development of new virtual, augmented and mixed reality experiences within the creative industries. A total of 20 successful applicants will receive up to £20,000 of early stage investment.
Award amount max: £20,000
Closing date: 17 May 21
Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme – helping SMEs innovate in aerospace
Primary funder name: Innovate UK
Disciplines: Aerospace Engineering & Avionics
Summary text: This enables SMEs to develop innovative aerospace technologies to enhance their capabilities and increase their ability to win new business. The total budget is £2.5 million to support projects with total eligible costs worth between £100,000 and £300,000 for a duration of up to 18 months.
Award amount max: £300,000
Closing date: 18 May 21
Innovator awards
Primary funder name: Wellcome
Disciplines: Medicine & Health; Health & Medical Informatics; Biomedical Engineering
Summary text: These support researchers who are transforming ideas into healthcare innovations that could have a significant impact on human health. Grants are worth up to £750,000 for up to three years.
Award amount max: £750,000
Closing date: 24 May 21
Future leaders fellowships – business
Primary funder name: UK Research and Innovation
Disciplines: Any
Summary text: This enables businesses to develop the leadership potential of an employee through a challenging innovation or research projects. Funding is typically worth up to £1.5 million over four years to cover salaries and operational costs, but applicants may apply for more or less.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 03 Jun 21
Niche vehicle R&D projects
Primary funder name: Innovate UK
Disciplines: Automotive Engineering; Carbon Dioxide Reduction & Mitigation; Electric & Hybrid Vehicles
Summary text: This enables SMEs activities in the low carbon vehicle technology sector to undertake collaborative R&D activities.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 08 Jun 21
Sustained support for informatics technologies for cancer research and management
Primary funder name: NIH: National Cancer Institute
Disciplines: Cancer Studies & Oncology; Health & Medical Informatics
Summary text: This supports the continued development and sustainment of high value informatics research resources to improve the acquisition, management, analysis and dissemination of data and knowledge across the cancer research continuum. The maximum project period is five years.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 08 Jun 21
Newton institutional links grants – UK, Indonesia, Thailand and Turkey
Primary funder name: British Council
Disciplines: Any
Summary text: These enable partners in the UK, Indonesia, Thailand and Turkey to collaborate internationally and gain access to new research environments, facilities, knowledge and expertise in order to enhance the quality of their research and enable them to translate research and innovation into economic and societal benefit. Grants from the Newton Fund range from £50,000 to £150,000 depending on the partner country.
Award amount max: £150,000
Closing date: 12 Jun 21
Better methods, better research
Primary funder name: Medical Research Council
Disciplines: Medicine & Health
Summary text: This supports research that improves research methods being applied by others anywhere within the remit of MRC or the NIHR. Grants are worth up to £500,000 and cover up to 80 per cent of full economic costs.
Award amount max: £500,000
Closing date: 17 Jun 21
Catalyst grant
Primary funder name: Digital Science
Disciplines: Software Engineering
Summary text: This supports the development of innovative research software ideas that benefit scientific research. At least three grants, worth up to £25,000 each, are available each year for projects typically lasting for six months.
Award amount max: £25,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 21
Laboratories to optimise digital health (R01 clinical trial required)
Primary funder name: NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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: 01 Jul 21
Special Interest Group on Communications and Computer Networks rising star award
Primary funder name: Association for Computing Machinery
Disciplines: Data Communications; Computer Networks
Summary text: This recognises contributions to the field of communication networks. The award includes a travel honorarium.
Award amount max:-
Closing date: 15 Jul 21
Investigator-initiated research in computational genomics and data science
Primary funder name: NIH: National Human Genome Research Institute
Disciplines: Computational Biology; Genomics; Bioinformatics
Summary text: This supports fundamental genomics research developing innovative analytical methodologies and approaches, early-stage development of tools and software, and refinement or hardening of software and tools of high value to the biomedical genomics community. Funding is for up to five years.
Award amount max:-
Closing date: 16 Jul 21