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From biodata to digital medicine – developing data-driven opportunities bursaries
Primary funder name: Wellcome
Disciplines: Translational Medicine; Microbial Genomics; Spin-Offs & Academic Innovation; Genomics; Human Genome
Summary text: These bursaries support attending a virtual course from biodata to digital medicine – developing data-driven opportunities, to be held in January 2021. Bursaries cover up to 50 per cent of the fee.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 14 Dec 20
HiSTORY OF NEUROSCIENCE CALL FOR ONLINE PROJECTS
Primary funder name: Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, BE
Disciplines: Sociology of Science & Technology; Digitising & Digital Archives; Digital Humanities; Neuroscience; History of Science
Summary text: This initiative aims to create a virtual public platform for hosting autobiographies, videos, pictures and other electronic materials relating to neuroscientists and their work. Grants are worth up to €1,500 each.
Award amount max: €1,500
Closing date: 15 Dec 20
digital healthcare interventions to address the secondary health effects related to social, behavioural, and economic impact of COVID-19
Primary funder name: NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Disciplines: Telemedicine; Virology; Health & Society; Health Disparities; Health of Minority Groups; Disadvantaged & Minority Groups; Health Economics; Health & Medical Informatics
Summary text: This supports research to address secondary health effects of the social, behavioural and economic changes of COVID-19 through the use of digital health assessments and interventions to yield measurable near-term impact. Grants are worth up to USD 200,000 each for one year.
Award amount max: USD 200,000
Closing date: 15 Dec 2020
Digital economy telling tales of engagement competition
Primary funder name: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Disciplines: Virtual Economy
Summary text: This aims to capture the wider impact of digital economy research and to provide researchers with the opportunity to tell their story of research impact in an interesting and engaging way to a wider audience. Three awards, worth £10,000 each over 18 months, are available.
Award amount max: £10,000
Closing date: 16 Dec 2020
Digital innovation and engagement fund
Primary funder name: UK Research and Innovation
Disciplines: Digitising & Digital Archives; Museums & Curation
Summary text: This supports museums to explore digital innovation and to evaluate, refine, and build on their recent digital engagement. Grants are worth between £25,000 and £50,000 over one year.
Award amount max: £50,000
Closing date: 21 Dec 2020
Digital life sciences open call
Primary funder name: European Open Science Cloud Life
Disciplines: Distributed & Cloud Computing
Summary text: This supports the development of a wide variety of projects that will contribute to the long-term aims of developing an open digital space for data and tools in the life sciences, fostering interdisciplinary collaborations and advancing data-heavy research areas. Successful applicants receive up to €85,000, training and expert advice.
Award amount max: €85,000
Closing date: 22 Dec 2020
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
Innovations partnership scheme fellowships
Primary funder name: Science and Technology Facilities Council
Disciplines: Nuclear Physics; Computer Science & Informatics; Particle Physics; Universe Sciences; Synchrotrons & Accelerators
Summary text: These support knowledge exchange and commercialisation professionals in positions at UK universities in developing innovation and impact from its STFC-funded research outputs. Fellowships last for up to four years and funds are provided at 40 per cent of full economic costs.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 03 Jan 2021
Biomedical data repository: AIDS-related
Primary funder name: NIH: National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Disciplines: Health & Medical Informatics; Informatics & Big Data; HIV/Aids
Summary text: This supports AIDS-related biomedical data repositories whose primary function is to ingest, archive, preserve, manage, distribute, and make accessible the data related to a particular system or systems. The maximum project period is five years.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 07 Jan 2021
International ASSIS prize for the security of health information systems in Europe
Primary funder name: Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium | Académie Royale de Médicine de Belgique
Disciplines: Cybersecurity; Health Systems, Administration; Health & Medical Informatics
Summary text: This recognises substantial progress in the development of secure health information systems in Europe. The prize is worth €5,000.
Award amount max: €5,000
Closing date: 11 Jan 2021
Robotics platform – generator bolt inspection and tightening
Primary funder name: Innovate UK
Disciplines: Robotics; Wind Energy
Summary text: This aims to develop a semi or fully autonomous device that is capable to perform the inspection and bolt replacement of the pole shoe connection.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 11 Jan 2021
European museum collaboration and innovation space
Primary funder name: Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges
Disciplines: Digital & Interaction Design; Museums & Curation; Software Engineering; Virtual, Simulated & Augmented Reality; Digitising & Digital Archives
Summary text: This enables museums to work with creative and technology partners, as well as with each other, through small, experimental projects, to apply digital technologies to a selected area of work or activities in an innovative way. Proposals are expected to request approximately €1 million in order to address the challenge appropriately, but other amounts may also be requested.
Award amount max: €1,000,000
Closing date: 12 Jan 2021
Development of the digital security by design software
Primary funder name: Innovate UK
Disciplines: Industrial & Corporate Security; Cybersecurity
Summary text: This supports projects to investigate requirements for adoption of digital security by design technologies across the software development ecosystem. Funding is worth between £40,000 and £80,000 over six months.
Award amount max: £80,000
Closing date: 13 Jan 2021
Folger Institute research fellowships
Primary funder name: Folger Shakespeare Library
Disciplines: Research Libraries & Special Collections; Digitising & Digital Archives; Performance Art; Museums & Curation; Early Modern History; English Literature; Film
Summary text: These support collection-based research and aim to forge new relationships with archives, collections, libraries and museums around the world. The fellowships support four weeks of continuous research and are worth USD 3,500 each.
Award amount max: USD 3,500
Closing date: 15 Jan 2021
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