A collection of the latest digital funding opportunities across all disciplines. To follow the main links, please ensure you are logged into Research Professional via your institution. Alternatively, direct links to funding pages can be found under the Website heading.
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 December 2021
MedTech Innovator accelerator and competition
Primary funder name: MEDTECH Innovator
Disciplines: Health & Medical Informatics; Medical Devices; Telemedicine
Summary text: This provides networking and mentorship opportunities for medical device, digital health and diagnostic companies. Innovator accelerator companies may compete for a prize worth USD 350,000. Other prizes available are worth a total of USD 500,000.
Award amount max: €500,000
Closing date: 15 January 2022
HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-02 — a digitised , resource-efficient and resilient industry
Primary funder name: Horizon Europe
Disciplines: Housing; Urban Design; Urban Planning & Policy
Summary text: This supports projects that set out a credible pathway to contributing to the goal of industrial leadership and increased autonomy in key strategic value chains with security of supply in raw materials. The total budget is €10 million. Grants are worth up to €2.5m each.
Award amount max: €2.5m
Closing date: 25 January 2022
Digital fellowships in Japanese studies
Primary funder name: Harvard University
Disciplines: Digital Humanities; Japanese Language; Japanese History; Japanese Literature; Politics & Economics of Asia
Summary text: These support individuals working in the field of Japanese studies with an interest and commitment to the promotion of digital methods of inquiry, research, publication and preservation, particularly within the humanities and social sciences. Fellowships include a stipend worth up to USD 70,000 for one year.
Award amount max: €70,000
Closing date: 15 February 2022
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.
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Closing date: 01 March 2022
Heritage and Education Centre digital innovation
Primary funder name: Lloyd’s Register Foundation, GB
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 £200,000 for direct costs.
Award amount max: £200,000
Closing date: 03 March 2022
Data science collaborative research programme
Primary funder name: Novo Nordisk Foundation | Novo Nordisk Fonden, DK
Disciplines: Sustainable Development & Resource Use; Biostatistics; Biotechnology; Biomedical Engineering; Informatics & Big Data
Summary text: This supports synergistic research collaborations rooted in data science. Grants are worth up to DKK 25 million each over four to five years.
Award amount max: DKK 25,000,000
Closing date: 16 March 2022
EIT Health – pharma start-up accelerator
Primary funder name: European Institute of Innovation and Technology
Disciplines: Sustainable Development & Resource Use; Biostatistics; Biotechnology; Biomedical Engineering; Informatics & Big Data
Summary text: This enables start-ups with innovative healthcare solutions to participate in a tailored training programme and access business development opportunities.
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Closing date: 16 March 2022
HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01 — climate neutral, circular and digitised production
Primary funder name: Horizon Europe: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Disciplines: Engineering Software; Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; Carbon Sequestration; Electrochemistry; Materials Fabrication & Processing; Carbon Dioxide Reduction & Mitigation; Environmental Manufacturing; Industrial Design; Advanced Manufacturing; Waste Recycling, Reduction & Recovery; Automation & Control Engineering; Flexible Manufacturing Systems; Industrial Chemistry; Hydrogen & Synthetic Fuels
Summary text: This supports projects that set out a credible pathway to global leadership in clean and climate-neutral industrial value chains, circular economy and climate-neutral digital systems and infrastructures. The budget is €334.5 million. Grants are worth up to €18m each.
Award amount max: €18,000,000
Closing date: 30 March 2022
HORIZON-CL4-2022-DATA-01 — world leading data and computing technologies
Primary funder name: Horizon Europe: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Disciplines: Data Communications; Distributed & Cloud Computing; Artificial Intelligence; Business Big Data & Informatics; 5G, Wireless & Mobile Networks; Data Analysis; Software Engineering; Virtual Economy
Summary text: This supports projects that set out a credible pathway to contributing to the goal of globally attractive, secure and dynamic data-agile economy. The budget is €205 million. Grants are worth up to €13m each.
Award amount max: €13,000,000
Closing date: 05 April 2022
HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01 — digital and emerging technologies for competitiveness and fit for the green deal
Primary funder name: Horizon Europe: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Disciplines: Nanotechnology; Environmental Impact Assessment; Nanoelectronics; Manufacturing Processes & Technologies; Artificial Intelligence; Distributed & Cloud Computing; Sensors & Transducers; Automation & Control Engineering; Materials Sciences; Nanotoxicology; Quantum Computing & Technologies; Photonics & Optical Communication; Computer Networks; Robotics; Energy Storage - Batteries & Grid
Summary text: This supports projects that set out a credible pathway to contributing to the goal of open strategic autonomy in digital technologies and in future emerging enabling technologies. Grants are worth up to €190 million each.
Award amount max: €13,000,000
Closing date: 05 April 2022
HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-01 — a human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Primary funder name: Horizon Europe: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Disciplines: Internet & Mobile Technology; Artificial Intelligence; Information Technology & Internet Law; Virtual, Simulated & Augmented Reality; Child Abuse
Summary text: This supports projects that set out a credible pathway to contributing to the goal of a human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies. The budget is €121 million. Grants are worth up to €11.5m each.
Award amount max: €11,500,000
Closing date: 05 April 2022
Fellowship – digital humanities
Primary funder name: Leibniz Institute of European History | Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte
Disciplines: Digital Humanities
Summary text: This supports international doctoral students in carrying out their research project using digital humanities methods at the Institute for a period of six to eight months. One fellowship is available, carrying a monthly stipend of €1,350.
Award amount max: €10,800
Closing date: 19 April 2022
Digital resource creation and digital humanities
Primary funder name: Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe
Disciplines: Jewish Studies; Cultural Heritage; Digital Humanities; Digitising & Digital Archives
Summary text: This supports proposals for the digitisation and transcription of Jewish archival or library collections, as well as the creation of accompanying metadata, using techniques such as optical character recognition, text encoding initiative, or linked open data. Grants are worth up to £75,000 each per year for up to three years. Most grants are worth between £15,000 to £40,000 per year.
Award amount max: £225,000
Closing date: 19 April 2022