Here, you find this week’s deadlines.
CURRENT RESEARCH FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENTS/DEADLINES (EXTERNAL)
Research Council of Norway (Forskningsrådet NFR)
Research Program on Sickness Absence, Work and Health (SYKEFRAVÆR) The programme is announcing funding for research on the role that competence and skills play in promoting inclusion in working life, and the connections between insufficient skills and health. There is a particular need for studies that shed light on measures that can increase inclusion in working life for people with health challenges.
Deadline: 6 September 2017.
Aurora mobility grants for researcher exchange with France Scientific staff/groups of researchers at Norwegian institutions may seek funding for short-term stays in France to launch and develop joint research projects.
Deadline: 6 September 2017.
IS-DAAD: researcher exchange with Germany. Funding is available for short-term visits in Germany for the purpose of launching and developing new joint research projects.
Deadline: 6 September 2017.
FORNY2020 The main objective of FORNY2020 is increased commercialization of promising research results from publicly funded research institutions.
Deadline: 11 October 2017
Gender Balance in Senior Positions and Research Management (BALANSE) Funding is available for projects designed to bring about cultural and structural change that promotes gender equality and gender balance in senior positions and research management.
Deadline: 11 October 2017
Biotechnology for Value Creation (BIOTEK2021) The medical sector aims to develop the biotechnological knowledge base, while focusing on better utilization of existing research results.
Deadline: 6 September 2017
Research-based innovation (FORNY2020) The program will support the development of results from both researchers and students, and will contribute to innovation in all fields of study and business and in the public and social sectors.
Deadline: 11 October 2017
New FET OPEN – NOVEL IDEAS FOR RADICALLY NEW TECHNOLOGIES (H2020-FETOPEN-2016-2017 FET OPEN supports research and technology activities that are at an early stage and have ideas for radically new future technologies as the theme. The supported projects often have a high risk profile, but also a high upside in the development of new technology areas.
Deadline: 27 September 2017
Funding to encourage increased participation in EU health research (HELSE-EU): Support for development of proposals for EU funding for health research
The primary objective of the HELSE-EU scheme is to encourage Norwegian health researchers to participate under Horizon 2020 and to promote the submission of more project proposals. This fund is for collaboration to develop project proposals in areas of strategic importance for health.
Deadline: 11 October 2017
Horizon 2020 – several Calls | Selected H2020 deadlines 2017
European Research Council (ERC) Frontier research grants
Starting Grants ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.
Deadline: 17 October 2017
Synergy Grant ERC Synergy Grants are intended to enable minimum two to maximum four Principal Investigators and their teams to bring together complementary skills, knowledge, and resources in new ways, in order to jointly address ambitious research problems.
Deadline: 14 November 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.
Individual Fellowships (IF): aims to help experienced researchers to advance their careers and gain new skills through advanced training, international mobility, and optional intersectoral secondments. The host organization can be universities and research institutes in addition to a company or other non-academic sector organizations.
Deadline: 14 September 2017
The COFUND: aims at stimulating regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in researchers’ training, mobility and career development.
Deadline: 28 September 2017
Spreading excellence and widening participation through engaging organisations of those countries which could commit more towards the EU research and innovation effort.
Twinning WIDESPREAD-05-2017: The specific challenge is to address networking gaps and deficiencies between the research institutions of the Widening countries and internationally-leading counterparts at EU level. CSA Coordination and support action.
Deadline: 15 November 2017, planned opening 11 May
Horizon 2020 – Complementary Calls
IMI2 Call 11 and Call 12 launch the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is launching two new Calls for proposals with topics on Alzheimer’s disease, big data, vaccines, autoimmune disease, the blood-brain barrier, drug development, and the exploitation of IMI project results.
IMI2 Call 11 Single stage proposals. The topic of this call is Exploitation of IMI project results. Information can also be found on the participant portal: Exploitation of IMI project results
Deadline: 24 October 2017
IMI2 Call 12 Two stage proposals. The topics of this call are:
Topic 1: Development and validation of technology enabled, quantitative and sensitive measures of functional decline in people with early stage Alzheimer’s disease (RADAR-AD)
Topic 2: FAIRification of IMI and EFPIA data
Topic 3: Development of sensitive and validated clinical endpoints in primary Sjögren’s Syndrome (pSS)
Topic 4: European Health Data Network (EHDN)
Topic 5: Analysing the infectious disease burden and the use of vaccines to improve healthy years in aging populations
Topic 6: Discovery and characterisation of blood-brain barrier targets and transport mechanisms for brain delivery of therapeutics to treat neurodegenerative & metabolic diseases
Topic 7: European Screening Centre: unique library for attractive biology (ESCulab)
Deadline: first stage 24 October 2017, second stage 16 May 2018
COST Action: open Call – COST does NOT fund research itself, but supports networking via different tools such as meetings, short term scientific missions, training schools and dissemination activities part of COST Actions. 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). Actions are:
- Stem cells of marine/aquatic invertebrates: from basic research to innovative applications
- European Network on Understanding Gastrointestinal Absorption-related Processes
- European Network for Problematic Usage of the Internet
- Maximising Impact of research in NeuroDevelopmental DisorderS
- Coordination and Harmonization of European Occupational Cohorts
- European network of multidisciplinary research to improve the urinary stents
- Leukemia Gene Discovery by data sharing, mining and collaboration
- Realising the therapeutic potential of novel cardioprotective therapies
- Indoor living space improvement: Smart Habitat for the Elderly
- Investigation and Mathematical Analysis of Avant-garde Disease Control via Mosquito Nano-Tech-Repellents
- European Network of Vaccine Adjuvants
- European Cleft and Craniofacial Initiative for Equality in Care
If interested please contact Hans Hellebostad, best before 15th of September, hh@forskningsradet.no
More information can be found here and you can use this application form.
Human Brain Project (HBP) is a H2020 FET Flagship Project which strives to accelerate the fields of neuroscience, computing and brain-related medicine. HBP is asking potential new Partners to submit proposals that will directly contribute to the development of the HBP Platforms and increase the scope of their application, in terms of neuroscience and clinical research. Following calls are open:
- Co-designing the HBP digital infrastructure for advancing the understanding of multilevel brain organisation
- Coordination of Data Protection in the HBP
- CDP6 – Modelling allosteric drugs
- Coordination of Gender Equality Activities
- Comparative single cell analyses of principal neurons and Interneurons in mice and humans
Deadline: 30 September 2017
UiB
Read more (information and routines for application at UiB).
PES and POS (Project establishment support) and POS (posisjoneringsmidler) for Horizon2020 applicants (Norges Forskningsråd/UiB): open-ended during Horizon2020 Call period. Each H2020 coordinator-submitted, and formally approved/eligible proposal, will receive a PES grant without submitting a PES-application. Each submitted and formally approved/eligible partner proposal will receive a minimum of NOK 20,000 without submitting a PES-application.
You can apply for POS support by filling in POS 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.
Other institutions / foundations / grants
The Research Fund for Asthma and Allergy aims to promote research in the asthma and allergy sectors. In 2017, the fund will award NOK 500,000 to research projects and pilot projects. Criteria for application: 1) Promote research in the asthma and allergy sectors 2) Projects with focus on children will have some priority 3) Maximum application amount is NOK 150 000.
Deadline: 15 September 2017
The Olav Thon Foundation – support for Nordic research projects in medicine 2018 supports research projects that have focus on either 1) mechanisms of antibiotic resistance or 2) development of new antibiotics or 3) strategies to combat antibiotic resistance.
Deadline: 15 September 2017
NordForsk: A call for research projects on the shifting preconditions for societal security in the Nordic countries: The overall context of this call is the relationship between societal security and the Nordic model of society. The call wishes to explore if and how the Nordic frameworks, regulations and institutions contribute to secure societies.
Deadline: 20 September 2017
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: 6 October 2017
Upcoming call Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) The agreement between UiB and CAS gives researchers with a permanent scientific position an opportunity to apply for their own research group for a one-year stay at the center. They choose their own theme and specialization, and invite researchers from all over the world to participate in the project.
Deadline: January 2018
Helse Vest’s research funding 2018; Call for proposals
Research funds are to be an incentive as well as an economic contribution to produce more high quality research, and to build research expertise through awarding PhD and postdoctoral fellowships. Applications to Helse Vest are evaluated for scientific quality and the project’s benefit to patients and impact on patient care. These two criteria are equal.
Deadline: 15 September 2017
EDCTP is launching 11 calls for proposals in 2017 to support clinical research and capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa. Proposals are invited for the following topics:
- Treatment innovations for poverty-related diseases
- Strategic actions supporting large-scale clinical trials
- Clinical trials to reduce health inequities in pregnant women, newborns and children
- Targeting control and elimination of NIDs through clinical trials
- Targeting control and elimination of NIDs through product-focused implementation research
- EDCTP-AREF Preparatory Fellowships
- Ethics and regulatory capacities
- Career Development Fellowships
- EDCTP-TDR Clinical Research and Development Fellowships
- Senior Fellowships
- Senior Fellowships for co-morbidities between poverty-related diseases (PRDs) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
Some of the calls are single stage and some are in two stages. For more information please have a look at the website given above.
Deadlines: from 5 September 2017 to 2 February 2018
ExtraStiftelsen In the field of health The Extra Foundation supports time-limited projects and measures. This includes preventive health care, rehabilitation, habilitation, care and public health work. In the field of research, one main goal is to link research closer to the health challenges that residents in Norway face in their daily lives in the municipalities.
Deadline: 15 September 2017 (for health projects)
EEA The activities funded under this call should aim at planning of joint research undertakings, joint proposals to be submitted under Horizon 2020 and other international R&D funding programmes.
Deadline: 31 December 2017
The Novo Nordisk Foundation
The program supports application-oriented research and test new ideas that may lead to the development of new medical treatments, disease prevention, devices and diagnostic methods. The goal of an Exploratory Pre-seed Grant is to stimulate entrepreneurship and to explore the potential of research findings at a very early stage.
Deadline: 5 October 2017
Fulbright Grant supports both researchers associated with universities and research institutions in Norway and applicants who do not have formal ties with a Norwegian institution. All subjects. Scholarships range from NOK 100,000 to NOK 200,000.
Deadline: 1 October 2017
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
Core Funding Programs:
1. Target Advancement Program
2. Therapeutic Pipeline Program
3. Improved Biomarkers and Clinical Outcome Measures Program
Additional Funding Opportunities:
Mitochondrial Biomarkers for Parkinson’s Disease
Pre-Proposal Deadline: 7 September 2017
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES INFORMATIONAL WEBINAR, 7 September 2017
Fellowships and Personal Grants
EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) Fellowships
Research on the molecular mechanisms of life at all levels.
Deadline: throughout the year.
Short-term Short-Term Fellowships fund research exchanges of up to three months between laboratories in eligible countries.
Long-term The EMBO Long-Term Fellowships are awarded for a period of up to two years and support post-doctoral research visits to laboratories throughout Europe and the world.
Applications received by 11 August 2017 will be evaluated in their autumn meeting, with interviews in October. Outcomes will be announced on the first week of December.
ERS | EMBO Fellowships The goal of this joint programme is to encourage collaboration between clinicians and basic researchers and to bring more clinicians into basic science. The ERS is interested in offering such fellowships particularly to clinicians working in the field of respiratory medicine.
Deadline: 1 October 2017
NordForsk International Postdoctoral Research Fellowships within the Nordic Neutron Science Programme. The call is thematically open and supports fellowships within any scientific field using neutron scattering techniques, including instrument and method development
Deadline: 30 August 2017
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research: The Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders The goal is to develop a network of highly trained clinician-researchers — the next generation of leaders in Parkinson’s patient-relevant drug development and expert clinical care.
Deadline: 6 December 2017
Meetings/workshops/conferences
Horizon 2020 – Application support – Level 2, Norges forskningsråd, Drammensvn. 288, Lysaker – FRISCH 2, 29 September 2017
“Shaping the future of pediatrics” is the first conference on the innovation in pediatrics in Europe. The conference will include sessions on –omics, Big Data, Patient empowerment, and The cycle of innovation in pediatrics. 20–22 September 2017, Rome, Italy.
Conference organised by EATRIS: TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE 2017, 24–26 September, Prague.
Horizon 2020: Society challenges, ICT and digitization. The objective of the event is to inform about a new work program in Horizon 2020. Selected areas are health, safety, transport, energy and social science, 18 November 2017, Research Council, Lysaker
4th International Systems Biomedicine Symposium: Impact of Big Data in Healthcare, 4-5 October 2017, Luxembourg
As a satellite event of the “Impact of Big Data in Healthcare” Big Data in Healthcare – Partnering Event will take place on 3 October2017, Luxembourg. Registration open until 30 September.
The pre-arranged face-to-face meetings are an excellent opportunity to network in a targeted way and to initiate contacts and projects with other R&D players and industry.
New SC6-H2020 CONSORTIUM BUILDING WORKSHOP is a one-day Consortium building workshop around selected topics of the upcoming Work Programme (2018-2020) of the Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 6 (Europe in a changing world – Inclusive, innovative and reflexive societies).
26 October 2017, Brussels, Belgium
FUNDING FOR COOPERATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION
UTFORSK Brazil – Joint call for SIU and CAPES (Link in Norwegian)
As part of UTFORSK, SIU provides support for collaborative projects between higher education institutions in Brazil and Norway through joint announcements with the government agency CAPES in Brazil.
Deadline: 11 September 2017
NordForsk – Nordic Centre of Excellence – New learning and teaching environments and practices
NordForsk’s Education for Tomorrow is announcing NOK 25 million in funding for one Nordic Centre of Excellence (NCoE). The focus of the NCoE may be early childhood education and care, primary education or teacher education, or combinations of these contexts.
Deadline: 13 September 2017 (14:00)
Partnership Programme for North America (Link in Norwegian)
The program provides support for scientifically founded cooperation, aimed at long-term and institutional anchored cooperation relations with Canada and the United States
Deadline: 22 September 2017
Eurasia Programme
The Eurasia Programme supports project cooperation between institutions in Norway and Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Information webinar: 31 August 2017
Deadline: 22 September 2017 (15:00)
InternAbroad (Link in Norwegian)
InternAbroad aims to facilitate increase use if internship mobility for students from Norway. This is the first call for this programme.
Information webinar: 31 August 2017
Deadline: 22 September 2017 (15:00)
UTFORSK Partnership Programme – two-year projects
The UTFORSK Partnership Programme supports project cooperation between higher education institutions in Norway and higher education institutions in Brazil, China, India, Japan, Russia and South Africa.
Information webinar: 25 April 2017
Deadline: 22 September 2017
Research and Innovation in the Educational Sector (FINNUT) (Link in Norwegian)
Announced: 72 million NOK for research project about and for the education sector (final call on 10 October 2017). Funding available for research projects that will contribute to the renewal of education research through international and interdisciplinary research cooperation.
Deadline: 22 November 2017 (13:00)
Announced: 24 million NOK for young research talents about and for the education sector (final call on 10 October 2017). Funding available for young researchers with research projects that can contribute to the renewal and development of education research.
Deadline: 22 November 2017 (13:00)
Programme for coopeation on higher education with Russia (Russlandsprogrammet) (Link in Norwegian)
The program for cooperation on higher education with Russia provides support for cooperation between universities and colleges in Russia and Norway. (More information will be available on SIUs websites in August.)
Deadline: 23 October 2017
Project establishment funds for Erasmus+ Projects (Link in Norwegian)
Funds to support the development of Erasmus+ projects within the following actions: 1) Knowledge alliances, 2) Sector alliances, 3) Capacity building, 4) Joint degrees, 5) Jean Monnet, and 6) Sports.
Deadline: 1 November 2016 (15.00)
CONTINUING DEADLINES
Scholarship for research stay abroad for PhD candidates and Post Doctors (Link in Norwegian)
The offer for a scholarship for research stays abroad applies to PhD candidates and Post Doctors in projects with full or partial funding for the Research Council for a minimum of 24 months. The research stays abroad may last for a minimum of 3 months and a maximum of 12 months.
Globallink – Scholarships to Canada (Link in Norwegian)
Globalink allows for the Norwegian and Canadian master’s and PhD students can apply for CAD 15.000 to conduct research practice in a business in the partner country.
Nærings-ph.d. (Industrial PhD)
The overall objectives are to increase the recruitment of researchers to Norwegian industry, to boost long-term competence building and increase research efforts in business and industry and to enhance interaction between academia and industry.
Overseas research grants under the Industrial PhD Scheme
Deadline: Continuing
Offentlig ph.d. (OFFPHD)
The overall objectives are to increase long-term and relevant capacity building and research in the public sector, increase recruitment of researchers to the public sector and promote greater interaction between academia and the public sector.
Overseas research grants under the Public PhD Scheme (Link in Norwegian)
Deadline: Continuing
Funding for companies with employees seeking to pursue a doctoral degree
Funding is available for new candidates under the Industrial Ph.D. scheme, with project start-up in 2016. Grant proposals are not confined to particular thematic areas or industries.
Deadline: Continuing
Research and Innovation in the Educational Sector (FINNUT)
FINNUT is a long-term programme for research and innovation in the educational sector. The programme funds research on a wide spectrum from early childhood education and care to higher education and adult learning.
Deadline: Continuing
Mobility grants North America in educational research (UTNAM)
The aim of the mobility grant is to contribute to increased cooperation between Norwegian and North American educational researchers through supporting visits to Norway for the purpose of research or dissemination for top North American educational researchers. The scheme will also contribute to the dissemination of results of North American research to Norway and furthermore contribute to competence building in Norwegian research communities. Grants will be awarded for visits of shorter or longer duration.
Deadline: Continuing
International bilateral research cooperation (INT-BILAT)
The Research Council supports travel to and participation in events that expand industry-oriented R&D cooperation with Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, Russia, South Africa and the US. The applicant must have an existing or recently concluded project funded by the Research Council.
Deadline: Open-ended application deadline. The call will remain active until all the available funding has been awarded (NOK 2 million).