Application deadlines

Here you can find this weeks Application deadlines

Current research funding announcements/deadlines (external)

  1. Research Council of Norway (Forskningsrådet NFR):
    a) 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

b) 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)

c) 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

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

SC1-HCO-17-2017: Support for large scale uptake of Digital Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing

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:

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 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


New 7. Pre-announcement Active and Assisted Living (AAL): aims to fund ICT based projects with a clear market orientation that support older adults to live healthy, independently and actively.

Deadline: call intends to launch in February

New The AAL Central Info & Partnering Day is planned for the 6th of March 2017 in Brussels.


New 8. Pre-announcement Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR): call for prevention and intervention strategies to control AMR infections.  The primary aim is to compare prevention, control, and intervention strategies to prevent the development, transmission of AMR infections.

Deadline: call intends to launch in February


  1. 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


  1. Regional research Vestlandet announced funding for regional researcher project. Regional research projects will contribute to new knowledge about issues relevant to the region and theme within regional development.

Deadline: 15 February 2017


New 11. Centre for Advanced Study (CAS): Call for new exciting research projects for 2019/2020. Each year CAS hosts three international research groups yearly. Former participants often describe their stay at CAS as the best and most productive year of their career.

Deadline: 16 January 2017


Fellowships and Personal Grants

  1.  EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) Fellowships

Research on the molecular mechanisms of life at all levels.

Short-term

Deadline: throughout the year.

Long term

Deadline: 12 February

  1. The joint ERS (European Respiratory Society) and EMBO Fellowships

Deadline: 31 January 2017

  1. 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. First public conference on academic drug discovery: Drug Innovation in Academia, 8 – 9 December at the DKFZ in Heidelberg, Germany.
  2. H2020 European Health Brokerage Event: This international brokerage event will help you to build up your proposal for final calls of the 2016 -2017 Health work programme, which will still be open in 2017. Zagreb, 19 January 2017.

Funding for cooperation in higher education

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

Erasmus+ Kapasitetsbygging Veiledningsseminar v/ SIU

SIU ønsker med dette å tilby veiledning knyttet til utforming av Kapasitetsbyggingssøknader i Erasmus+, med søknadsfrist 9. februar 2017. Miljøer som er i gang med å forberede en søknad, inviteres til prosjektvise veiledningsmøter, i SIUs lokaler i Bergen. SIU ser for oss at hver veiledningsøkt kan være på opp til 3 timer. Veiledningen kan og avvikles som videokonferanse dersom det ikke er mulig for søkere å komme til SIU en av de to dagene som er satt av til aktiviteten. Veiledningene inkluderer samtale og veiledning knyttet til et konkret prosjekt under planlegging. Det forutsettes at søker er i gang med skriveprosessen, og sender et søknadsutkast til SIU i forkant av møtet, slik at SIU kan sette seg inn i prosjektet på forhånd. Tilbud om veiledning gjelder også for videreutvikling av søknad fra tidligere søknadsrunder. Det blir ikke noe generelt søknadsskriveseminar for dette tiltaket, slik vi hadde ved forrige søknadsrunde.

Veiledere: Frank Moe og Sidsel Holmberg

Dato: 5. og 6. desember, kl 09:00-16:00.

Sted: SIUs lokaler i Fortunen 1, Bergen.

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+ Global

Erasmus + Global mobility allows Norwegian higher education institutions (HEI) to send and receive students and staff to / from partner countries outside the EU / EEA. The application must be submitted by a HEI in Norway. Individuals can not apply directly. Student and/or employees must apply to their home institution.

Deadline: 2 February 2017 (12.00)

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 2017

Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees (EMJMD)

An EMJMD is a high-level integrated international study programme of 60, 90 or 120 ECTS credits, delivered by an international consortium of HEIs from different countries and. There is no limitation in terms of discipline. EMJMD proposals at application stage must present fully developed joint study programmes, ready to run and to be advertised worldwide immediately after their selection.

Deadline: 16 February 2017 (12.00 CET)

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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