Application deadlines

Here you can find this weeks Application deadlines

Current research funding announcements/deadlines (external)

  1. Research Council of Norway (Forskningsrådet NFR)
    a) VAM: International migration and the prerequisites for the welfare and working life model.

Call for researcher projects that study various aspects of the prerequisites for the welfare and working life model in light of societal changes related to migration, socioeconomic differences and greater diversity.

Deadline: 23 November 2016

b) BEHOV-ME: will fund research under the topic of chronic fatigue syndrome / myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS / ME). This instrument aims to initiate research projects in areas that particularly sought by users of health services. The goal is to exploit research findings in the service within relatively short term.

Deadline: 23 November 2016

c) FHF: The Norwegian Seafood Research Fund funds research on marine protein to ensure that marine resources are used optimally. Documenting the potential health effects of marine raw materials is therefore essential. This is a call for research on effects of and causal relationships between consumption of marine protein and health.

Deadline: 23 November 2016

New d) Programme for User-driven Research-based Innovation (BIA). Within the scope of its responsibility, the BIA programme seeks to promote the greatest possible value creation in Norwegian trade and industry through research-based innovation in companies and the R&D groups with which they cooperate.

Deadline: 23 November 2016

e) Preannouncement: ERA-NET TRANSCAN-2 will launch the Call “Minimally and non-invasive methods for early detection and/or progression of cancer”. That includes screening of the general population, risk stratification, surveillance of high-risk groups, minimally invasive methods.

Deadline: for pre-proposals is 13 February 2017

f) FORNY2020 announces funding for skills upgrading, structural improvement and networking. Søkere anbefales å sende inn skisser før 1. november. There is a need to establish or expand TTO function at the universities where this is lacking and projects of this kind will therefore be given priority in the upcoming announcement.

Deadline: 17 February 2017 (Applicants are advised to submit sketches before 1 November)

g) Preannouncement: ERA-NET EuroNanoMed III cofund announcement supports projects that combine innovative research in basic, clinical and industrial nanomedicine. The announcement will have three themes: Regenerative medicine • Regenerative Medicine • Diagnostics • Diagnostics • Targeted delivery systems • Targeted delivery systems

Deadlines:1. trinn søknadsfrist 16.01.2017 first stage 16 January 2017, second stage 9 June 2017


  1.  Horizon 2020 – several Calls

Selected H2020 deadlines 2017:

European Research Council (ERC) Frontier research grants

Call is open! (new link) Consolidator Grant: is designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme.

Deadline: 9 February 2017.

Marie Sklodovska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Excellent and innovative research training plus attractive career and knowledge-exchange opportunities through cross-border and cross-sector mobility, no thematic priorities.

MSCA-ITN: The Innovative Training Networks aim to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers, able to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit.

Deadline: 10 January 2017

Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (MSCA-RISE-2017): RISE gives support for mobility and exchanges of research and innovation staff, incl. managerial, technical and administrative staff between institutions in different sectors or with research institutions in countries outside of Europe.

Planned opening date: 01 December 2016

Deadline: 5 April 2017

Societal Challenges (SC): Collaborative breakthrough research and radical innovation

SC1-2017 Health, demographic change and wellbeing:

The headline goal of the programme ‘Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing’ is better health for all. Its main policy objectives are to improve health and wellbeing outcomes, to promote healthy and active ageing, to promote market growth, job creation, and the EU as a global leader in the health area.

Personalised medicine, single-stage

SC1-PM-15_2017: Personalised coaching for well-being and care of people as they age

Deadline: 31 January 2017

Deadline: 14 March 2017

Deadline: 11 April 2017

Important! Please contact Corina Guder (FA) or Faculty advisers Ramune Midttveit, Itana Sloper-Krivokapic. We urge you to start your proposal preparation work as early as possible. Advisors are at your disposal if you require assistance with topic interpretation, eligibility conditions, consortium building and other proposal preparation activities.

Horizon 2020 – Complementary Calls

a) COST Action: open Call – funding for research networks. Proposals should reflect the main characteristics of COST Actions, namely providing for knowledge sharing, creation and application, being open and output-oriented while aiming at strengthening the scientific and technological basis of the proposed topic(s).

Deadline: 7 December 2016

b) Pre-announcement IMI 2 (Innovative Medicines Initiative 2) – Call 10:

Deadline: call is scheduled for launch in autumn 2016

c) This is not a call but it is related to European Commission Scientific Committees and it is about Database of Experts. This database is open to scientists wishing to contribute to the work of the Scientific Committees on specific issues, on an ad hoc basis, as members of working groups or for scientific hearings and workshops. If interested, you can fill out the online application form, which is given on the above assigned webpage. This is very beneficial for every researcher!

d) The Third EU Health Programme is the main instrument that the Commission uses to implement the EU Health Strategy. Call for proposals for Pilot Projects on the following topics:

Deadline: 31 January 2017’

Read more (information and routines for application): http://www.uib.no/en/horizon2020


  1. UiB

PES (Project establishment support) and POS (posisjoneringsmidler) for Horizon2020 applicants (Norges Forskningsråd/UiB): open-ended during Horizon2020 Call period. You can apply for PES support by filling in PES application form (which is given on the above linked page) and sending it to Kristin.Hansen@uib.no.

On the following page the local contact points are listed where every call has a responsible research advisor. You can contact them or faculty advisors, Ramune Midttveit, Itana Sloper-Krivokapic.


  1. EEA/Norway Grants

Norway – Bulgaria Scholarships

Deadline: 9 December 2016


  1. Nord Forsk:

Call is open! New instrument for Nordic University Cooperation: Nordic University Hubs: The overall goal of the new funding instrument is to strengthen international competitiveness and facilitate the development of world leading research environments in the Nordic region.

Deadline: 3 May 2017


  1. The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP):.

Ethics and regulatory capacities The purpose of this call for proposals is to provide funding to actions that aim to support sub-Saharan African countries

Deadline: 22 November 2016


  1. The LEO-foundation: grants for dermatological research projects. The LEO Foundation supports international dermatological research projects and activities that address issues in disease understanding, disease treatment, disease awareness and patient wellbeing.

Deadline: several in 2017, starting on 3 February


  1. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK): Inbound Research Mobility Scheme for 2016-17. The programme supports inbound visiting scholars from overseas universities to undertake short-term research visits of up to two weeks at CUHK. Researchers holding full-time employment from all disciplines in overseas universities and institutions are welcome to apply.

Deadline: 15 November 2016


  1. Corbel 1st Open Call for research projects

The integration of several specialist services and technologies such as biobanking, curated databases, systems biology, mouse mutant phenotyping and so on of more than 15 CORBEL partner institutes will be made accessible to interested scientists. Available services are grouped into four different Access Tracks:

  1. Genotype-to-Phenotype analysis 2. Pharmacology for safer drugs/ chemical products 3. Structure-function analysis of large protein complexes 4. Marine Metazoan Developmental Models

Deadline: 30 November 2016


  1. Helse Vest: Announcement of strategic funding for research collaborationDet regionale samarbeidsorganet mellom Helse Vest, Universitetet i Bergen og Universitetet i Stavanger lyser ut midlar til den strategiske satsinga på samhandlingsforsking.: interdisciplinary collaboration project that hold a high scientific quality and which are beneficial to health services.

Deadline: 30 November 2016

New 11. Fund from The German-Norwegian study center in Kiel funds activities that identify and start collaborative projects in research and education. Funds may be allocated to travel, work meetings, workshops and symposia.

Click here for application form

Deadline: 15 December 2016


Fellowships and Personal Grants

  1. 1. EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) Fellowships

Research on the molecular mechanisms of life at all levels.

Short-term

Deadline: throughout the year.

  1. 2017-18 Harkness Fellowship

The Commonwealth Fund’s Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice provide a unique opportunity for mid-career health services researchers and practitioners from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom to spend up to 12 months in the United States, conducting original research and working with leading U.S. health policy experts.

Deadline: 14 November 2016

New 3. The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP):.

Senior Fellowships aims to support capacity development of potential African research leaders using the train-the-trainer.

Deadline: 1 February 2017

Clinical Research and Development Fellowships to support researchers and key members of clinical trial research teams from low- and middle-income countries

Deadline: 2 February 2017

Career Development Fellowships aims to provide funding to actions that aim to support junior to mid-career researchers (“fellows”) to train and develop their clinical research skills.

Deadline: 28 February 2017


Meetings/workshops/Conferences

  1. Workshop: How to make your ERC Consolidator Grant proposal competitive will provide you with valuable input for writing a competitive ERC Grant proposal, Domus Academica, Auditorium 4, Karl Johan’s Street no. 47, Oslo,15 November. Registrationwithin 10th November.

New 2. Attend Norway’s most important meeting place for E-health! EHiN Future health, Norway’s largest meeting place for players in e-health, takes place in Oslo Spektrum, 15, 16 November, 2016.

  1. Healthcare Brokerage Event MEDICA 2016: The aim is to assist enterprises, universities and research institutions in finding partners in Europe for partnership; 15-17 November, Dusseldorf
  1. Webinar: IP Management in H2020 – with a special focus on MSCA, 29 November 10.30-11.45
  1. European Summit on Digital Innovation for Active & Healthy Ageing is designed to harness the transformative potential of the Digital Single Market, develop joint actions and maximise the benefits of digital innovation for Europe’s ageing society, 5-8 December 2016, Brussels.
  1. First public conference on academic drug discovery: Drug Innovation in Academia, 8 – 9 December at the DKFZ in Heidelberg, Germany.

Funding for cooperation in higher education

EURASIA Programme (Short-term projects)

The Eurasia Programme supports project cooperation between institutions in Norway and Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

  • Short-term projects (project period from 1 January 2017 – 31 December 2018)

Deadline: 17 November 2016 (15:00)

Innsending av prosjektskisse – fag- og yrkesopplæring i utviklingsland

Norske organisasjoner/bedrifter kan sende inn prosjektskisser der de beskriver samarbeid de ønsker å gjennomføre med land i utviklingsland. Skissene vil bli brukt i arbeidet med utformingen av programmet, som får hovedutlysning i 2017.

NB! Det følger ikke midler med prosjektskissene.

Deadline: 30 November 2016 (15.00)

Prosjektetableringsstøtte 2016 (Project Development Funds)

For å bidra til økt norsk deltakelse og gevinst fra Erasmus+ lyser SIU ut ca. 1 million kroner til dekning av prosjektetableringskostnader for norske institusjoner, organisasjoner og bedrifter som ønsker å utvikle en prosjektsøknad innenfor følgende seks sentraliserte tiltak under Erasmus+: 1) Kunnskapsallianser, 2) Sektorallianser, 3) Kapasitetsbygging, 4) Fellesgrader, 5) Jean Monnet og 6) Idrett.

Deadline: 1 December 2016

NEW DNSZ Såkornsmidler (DNSZ Seed Money)

Såkornsmidler fra Det tysk-norske studiesenteret i Kiel er nå utlyst. Utlysningen videreformidles på vegne av professor dr.juris Gudrun Holgersen som er UiBs representant i det norske hjemmestyret for Det tysk-norske studiesenteret i Kiel.

Hvem kan søke?

  • Forskere ved Universitet i Bergen kan søke om midler for utvikling av samarbeidsprosjekter med Carl-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

Hva kan støttes?

  • Aktiviteter som identifiserer og starter samarbeidsprosjekter innen forskning og utdanning. Såkornmidler kan tildeles reiser, arbeidsmøter, workshops og symposier.

Hvor mye i støtte?

  • Det kan tildeles maks. EUR 6.000 (ca. NOK 55.000) i støtte per prosjekt.

Hvor sendes søknaden?

  • Søknad sendes til Det tysk-norske studiesenteret i Kiel v/prosjektleder Andrea Hesse på e-post dnsz_buero@email.uni-kiel.de
  • CLICK HERE FOR APPLICATION FORM

Deadline: 15 December 2016

Det norske universitetssenter i St. Petersburg – midler til faglig seminar

Det norske universitetssenter i St. Petersburg ønsker økt aktivitet for å styrke forpliktende

norsk-russisk vitenskapelig samarbeid. Senteret utlyser derfor midler som støtte til to

seminarer/symposier ved senteret med inntil kr 125.000,- til hver. Seminaret må

gjennomføres senest innen utgangen av november 2017.

Deadline: 15 December 2016

Det norske universitetssenter i St. Petersburg – midler til ph.d.-aktiviteter

Det norske universitetssenter i St. Petersburg ønsker økt aktivitet for å styrke forpliktende

norsk-russisk vitenskapelig samarbeid. Ph.D.-er og unge forskere trenger å bygge

nettverk og etablere internasjonale kontakter, og bli oppmuntret til dette av seniorforskere

på sitt fagfelt. Senteret utlyser derfor inntil kr. 100.000,- til aktiviteter for Ph.D. og unge

forskere ved senteret. Aktivitetene skal ha til hensikt å stimulere til faglig fornyelse og

styrke faglig kompetanse både på norsk og russisk side. Aktiviteten skal som hovedregel

involvere både norske og russiske Ph.D.-er eller unge forskere. Dette kravet kan

imidlertid fravikes i særlige tilfeller, f.eks. i forbindelse med besøk ved museer,

samlinger eller arkiver. Aktiviteten(e) må gjennomføres senest innen utgangen av

november 2017.

Deadline: 15 December 2016

Erasmus+ Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education 2017

This action which aims to support the modernisation, accessibility and internationalisation of higher education in the Partner Countries is to be carried out in the context of the priorities identified in the Communications “Increasing the impact of EU Development Policy: an Agenda for Change” and “European Higher Education in the World”.

Advisory body: SIU

Deadline: 9 February 2017

Det norske universitetssenter i St. Petersburg – midler til vitenskapelig nettverksbygging

Det norske universitetssenter i St. Petersburg ønsker økt aktivitet ved senteret ved at nye

fagområder etablerer seg eller at fagområder som allerede har aktiviteter ved senteret, utvider

sin virksomhet. Senteret lyser derfor ut midler til igangsetting av faglig nettverksbygging og

nettverkssamarbeid. Vi søker etter en forsker eller et fagmiljø som ønsker finansiering til å

utvikle slik aktivitet. Det tildeles midler til opptil fire nettverk à inntil kr. 250.000,- for april 2017-desember 2018.

Deadline: 15 February 2016

Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliances

Knowledge Alliances between higher education institutions and enterprises aim to foster innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, employability, knowledge exchange and/or multidisciplinary teaching and learning.

Advisory body: SIU

Deadline: 27 February 2017

Strategic Partnerships

Transnational Strategic Partnerships aimed to develop initiatives addressing one or more fields of education training and youth and promote innovation, exchange of experience and know-how between different types of organisations involved in education, training and youth or in other relevant fields. Certain mobility activities are supported in so far as they contribute to the objectives of the project

Advisory body: SIU

Deadline: 29 March 2017


Continuing deadlines

Nærings-ph.d. (Industrial PhD)

Forskningsrådet gir støtte til bedrifter med ansatte som ønsker å ta doktorgrad. Ordningens overordnede målsettinger er økt forskerrekruttering i næringslivet, økt langsiktig kompetansebygging og forskningsinnsats i næringslivet og økt samspill mellom akademia og næringsliv.

English: Click here for more information about Industrial PhDs

Deadline: Continuing

Utenlandsstipend for Nærings-ph.d.

Forskningsrådet ønsker å bidra til at norske forskere i større grad deltar i internasjonalt forskningssamarbeid. Nærings-ph.d. lyser ut tilleggsmidler for prosjekter som allerede finansieres av programmet. Det er satt av inntil 1 million kroner for 2015 til utenlandsstipend for prosjekter som mottar støtte fra Nærings-ph.d.-ordningen.

Deadline: Continuing

Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren (2014-2023) (FINNUT)

FINNUT skal utvikle kunnskap av høy kvalitet og relevans for politikkutforming, forvaltning, praksisfelt og den enkelte, bidra til fornyelse av forskningsfeltet og medvirke til innovasjon i utdanningssektoren.

Deadline other projects: Continuing

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