Category Archives: Application deadlines

Centre for internationalization of education (SIU) has announced new calls for fall 2018

The Russia program – Collaboration between universities and university colleges in Russia and Norway
Funding per project: NOK 300 000
Deadline: 25 September 2018

UTFORSK – Partnership to join education and research in collaboration with Brasil, India, Kina, Russland, Sør-Afrika and Japan
Funding per project: NOK 300 000
Deadline: 25 September 2018

InternAbroad – International training mobility for students
Funding per project: NOK 300 000
Deadline: 25 September 2018

Globalink – internship in company, collaboration between Norway and Canada
Funding per project: NOK 90 000
Deadline: Ongoing

Applications are to be submitted via SIU’s online application form Espresso. Please inform the leadership at the department about the planned application. If you have any questions about the calls, please contact Nedelina Naydenova or Helge Bjørlo at the Division of student affairs.

Funding for proposal preparation

The faculty has extended the deadline for Positioning Funding (POS). POS funding can be used to cover expenses related to competence development for researchers and the supporting staff and for networking towards future Horizon 2020 proposals. You can apply for a maximum of NOK 75 000. More information about the funding and the templates can be found here. 

If this is of interest, please submit the form to Amra Grudic-Feta (8thfloor or e-mail) and feel free to contact her if you have any questions. The internal deadline is 28 August.

In addition to POS funding, Project Establishment Support (PES) is also available for all applications to Horizon2020, whether you are planning to apply as a partner or a coordinator. There are no deadlines but the funding is to be spent before the application deadline. Please contact Amra if this is of interest.

Call on antimicrobial resistance

Bergen Research Foundation has announced a call on anti-microbial resistance (AMR). You can find the call text and a sketch template on their webpage.

The programme will target the following key areas:

A – Therapeutics

B – Diagnostics

C – Surveillance

Projects may address the bacterial pathogens and the resistances identified in the Global priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria published by the WHO. Multi- and extensively drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis may also be included. Other pathogens are not included.  Please read the call text for further specifications.

You can apply for projects in the range of 15-20 million NOK over a period of 4 years. Please send the pre-proposal in one PDF-file to grants@bfstiftelse.no at or before the deadline 3 September 2018.

Deadlines

Dear all,

Please see below the updated links for external funding:

External funding opportunities:
http://www.uib.no/en/med/112772/external-funding-opportunities

Funding opportunities for education:
http://www.uib.no/med/113987/funding-opportunities-education

The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked as NEW.

New for this week are the opening of the call for Innovative Medicines Initiative and the announcement of deadlines for ERC Starting Grant and ERC Synergy Grant. Please also note that if you have collaboration with researchers in Switzerland, you can be funded through their research council.

Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune, Itana and Kaia

Deadlines

Dear all,

Please see below the updated links for external funding:

External funding opportunities:
http://www.uib.no/en/med/112772/external-funding-opportunities

Funding opportunities for education:
http://www.uib.no/med/113987/funding-opportunities-education

The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked as NEW.

New for this week are calls for NANO2021, INTPART and Offentlig ph.d. for those having cooperation with the public sector. Also note a pre-announcement of a Nordic Call on Personalized Medicine from NordForsk.

Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune, Itana and Kaia

Deadlines

Dear all,

Please see below the updated links for external funding.

External funding opportunities:
http://www.uib.no/en/med/112772/external-funding-opportunities

Funding opportunities for education:
http://www.uib.no/med/113987/funding-opportunities-education

The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked with NEW.

New for this week is the opening of the call for Exploratory Pre-Seed Grants from Novo Nordisk, in addition to news in this years’ INFRASTRUCTURE announcement from Research Council of Norway. This is a popular call for researchers at the Faculty of Medicine, and the mandatory sketch deadline is 15 May 2018.

Please let us know if you have any comments on the webpages or if the researchers at your department are missing something.

Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune, Itana and Kaia

Deadlines

Dear all,

Please see below the updated links for external funding.

External funding opportunities:
http://www.uib.no/en/med/112772/external-funding-opportunities

Funding opportunities for education:
http://www.uib.no/med/113987/funding-opportunities-education

The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked with NEW.

Please let us know if you have any comments on the webpages or if the researchers at your department are missing something.

Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune, Itana and Kaia

Announcement of Peder Sather grant for 2018-2019

The University of Bergen is part of the Peder Sather consortium together with a number of other Norwegian institutions. This is a scheme where the Norwegian academic community can receive financial support for collaboration with researchers at UC-Berkeley. The announcement of Peder Sather grant for 2018-2019 is now announced.

More Information and Application form at the link below: http://sathercenter.berkeley.edu/peder-sather-grant/

We note that all disciplines and subjects can apply, and recall that the application deadline is 15 March 2018

Deadlines week 5

Dear all,
Please see below the updated links for external funding:

External funding opportunities: http://www.uib.no/en/med/112772/external-funding-opportunities

Funding opportunities for education: http://www.uib.no/med/113987/funding-opportunities-education

The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked as NEW.

Please let us know if you have any comments on the webpages or if the researchers at your department are missing something.

Kind regards,

Amra, Ramune, Itana and Kaia

BFS Starting Grant

BFS has announced a new round of the recruitment stipend with final deadline 15 March. Since there is a limitation in the number of nominated candidates from each department, we kindly ask interested applicants to send a project sketch of about two pages and their CV (BFS asks for a CV of maximum three pages, including the most important and relevant publications) within 12 February. Please send this information to amra.grudic@uib.no, cc’ing Pål Njølstad and Julie Stavnes.

Call for SPIRE funds 2018

The Research Administration Department at UiB has announced funds in the University’s Strategic Program for International Research and Educational Cooperation (SPIRE) for 2018. The program aims to support UiB’s internationalization strategy 2016-2022. This is an important instrument for strengthening the university’s allocation of external research funds and enhancing academic quality through international cooperation.

SPIRE funds can be applied in two categories:

  • SPIRE funds for international networking and partnership cooperation
  • SPIRE-guest researcher funds

Scientific staff at UiB can apply for SPIRE funds. Applications are sent through the department to the faculty. The faculty sends all applications together to the Research Administration Department. Only applications that have been assessed, rated and submitted by the faculty within the application deadline will be processed.

See Guidelines for Applicants. And use a specific application form. (Links in Norwegian only.)

Deadline for application: 15 February.

Due to work on K2 before this deadline, the department requests applications to be sent to the head of department no later than Monday 12 February.