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ESRC-NRF Newton Call for Collaborative Research: Higher Education in Africa

Deadline: 3 May 2016

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and National Research Foundation (NRF) invite Collaborative Research between the UK and South Africa, offering additional value to existing programmes of education research, and contribute to the economic development and welfare of South Africa and Africa more broadly.

Thematic Areas

Proposals addressing the following themes are invited:

  • Organisation of higher education systems, higher education institutions (HEIs) and alternative providers
  • Equity in higher education access and participation
  • Curriculum, pedagogy and modes and levels of provision
  • Higher education for the public good
  • Higher education and the labour market

Funding Information

  • The ESRC has allocated up to £2.5 million and NRF has allocated RAND 10 million;
  • Proposals are invited for joint UK and South African projects; each proposal may request £415,000 – £630,000 at 100 per cent fEC from the ESRC and R1.67m to R2.5m from NRF over 30 months in duration.

Eligibility Criteria

  • UK applicants must meet the ESRC eligibility.
  • Full-time employees at an NRF-recognised research institution in South Africa, who are eligible to apply according to the general NRF regulations and conditions, are invited to apply.
  • Part-time employees on contract at an NRF-recognised research institution (as defined above) in South Africa are invited to apply, but on condition that their appointment at the South African institution is for (at least) the duration of the project applied for in the submission. The length of the contract should be stated in the proposal form. Salaries must be paid by the research institution, and the primary employment of the individual concerned must be at that institution. A contract researcher appointed at a research institution on behalf of a third party to fulfill a very specific function for the latter does not qualify for support.
  • Retired academics/researchers are invited to apply, provided that they meet all set criteria as stipulated below:
    • Are resident in South Africa
    • Are formally affiliated to a South African higher education institution (eg appointed as an emeritus professor, honorary research associate/professor, supernumerary/contract employee).

How to Apply

Applicants must submit identical proposals via respective websites.

For more information, please visit ESRC-NRF.

EuroMarine Call for Proposals 2016: Improving the Science-Governance Interface

Deadline: 31 May 2016

European, marine science network has launched a call for proposals for its four categories of activities with a motive to improve the science-governance interface, providing expertise and transferring knowledge.

The call budget will range from 100 k€ to 120 k€ depending on final EuroMarine 2016 resources and the number of proposals.

Goals

  • To support the identification and initial development of important emerging scientific topics and methodologies in marine sciences.
  • To foster new services relevant to the marine scientific community.

Eligible Topics

  • Understanding marine ecosystems for healthy oceans under global / climate change [basic science]
  • Building scenarios for marine socio-ecological systems under changing oceans [governance]
  • Marine science as a provider of new concepts for innovation and technology [novel ideas and innovation]

Eligible Countries

Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands , Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Proposals should involve at least three 2016 Full Member Organisations of EuroMarine (mentioned above), from at least two different countries.
  • Proponents are welcome to involve any relevant Invited Member Organisations (as preferential partners of EuroMarine activities).
  • Proposals can involve organisations outside EuroMarine. However, if the proposal is selected for funding, scientists from EuroMarine Full MOs should be informed of the activity in a timely manner and allowed to participate in it, within budgetary and logistic limits.
  • Activities with closed list of participants and participation upon invitation only are not eligible.
  • Activities should preferably be carried out in 2017 and any exemption should be requested and justified in the proposal.

How to Apply

Applicants must fill the proposal template form via given website.

For more information, please visit 2016 EuroMarine.

Call for Proposals: UK-Malaysia Joint Health Research in Non-Communicable Diseases

Deadline: 20 April 2016

The UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Academy of Science, Malaysia (ASM) are currently inviting proposals to the UK-Malaysia Joint Health Research Call on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) through the Newton-Ungku Omar Fund.

This initiative will provide funding for UK-Malaysian collaborative research projects focused on non-communicable diseases in Malaysia.

Funding Available

The award of up to £2m of MRC funding available for this scheme, and up to £2m from ASM will be provided for the applicants.

Eligibility Criteria

This call will fund partnerships between UK and Malaysia based researchers working in the area of NCDs.

For support under this call, applicants must be eligible to apply for funding from their respective country’s funding agency:

  • MRC
    • For the UK participants, standard RCUK eligibility criteria as described on the RCUK website will apply.
    • This call is a ‘managed mode’ call being run by the MRC on behalf of the participating research councils. Therefore Research Organisations that are eligible to apply to the MRC, for example MRC Units and Institutes may apply to this call.
  • Malaysia
    • The Malaysian PI must have been awarded a doctorate or have equivalent research experience at the time of application. Applicants working towards a PhD, or awaiting the outcome of their viva/ submission of corrections are not eligible to apply.
    • Applicants must be Malaysian citizens and hold a permanent or fixed-term contract in an eligible university or research institute in Malaysia. Applicants with fixed terms contracts finishing before their grant end-date must secure confirmation from their Head of Department, stating that their contract will be extended to cover the duration of the award if their application is successful.
    • Contact between the Malaysian PI and UK PI prior to the application is essential. This contact should lead to a clearly defined and mutually beneficial research project proposal. Please note that ASM & MRCUK will not be able to assist in locating a Malaysian or UK collaborator.
    • Applications cannot be accepted from Principal Investigators in commercial organisations.
    • Applicants must be competent in oral and written English.
    • The Malaysian Applicant’s employing organisation must be willing to agree to administer the grant.

Key Dates

  • Closing Date for investigators to indicate their intention to submit a proposal Wednesday, 20th April 2016
  • Deadline for investigators to submit proposal Wednesday, 1 June 2016 (4pm UK time)
  • Panel Meeting October 2016
  • Grants begin by 17 January 2017

How to Apply

Applicants are requested to submit the Expressions of Interest and then full applications via email.

For more information, please visit UK-Malaysia Joint Health Research.

Wellcome Trust Pathfinder Awards: Catalyse Innovative Development Projects in areas of Unmet Medical Need

Deadline: 20 June 2016

The Wellcome Trust is currently seeking applications for the Pathfinder Awards, funding innovative discrete pilot studies to develop assets and de-risk future development.

Priority Areas

Priorities for Pathfinder Award funding include (in no particular order):

  • discrete high-quality experiments to demonstrate proof-of-concept data assay development
  • IP development for a critical experiment to validate IP (in strong cases)
  • stimulating product development that could ultimately improve the outlook for patients with orphan and neglected diseases
  • encouraging effective partnership between a public sector applicant (academic or not-for-profit entity) and a company partner.

Funding Description

  • The average award amount is envisaged to be in the region of £100,000, but up to £350,000 will be considered in exceptional circumstances.
  • For partnership applications, the Wellcome Trust contribution to the partnership will be capped at £100,000.Evidence of matching funding from the company partner will be expected.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Applications are welcome from academic and commercial organisations based in the UK or the Republic of Ireland. Applications from organisations and companies overseas will only be considered when applying in partnership.
  • Eligible institutions are not-for-profit research institutions, including those funded by the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, and equivalents that are registered to Welcome Trust Grant Conditions.
  • Commercial companies are eligible to apply either as lead applicants or as collaborators.

How to Apply

Applicants are required to submit their applications through an online process.

For more information, please visit Wellcome Trust.

Apply for Children & Young People Now Awards 2016!

Deadline: 1 July 2016

Applicants are invited to apply for Children & Young People Now Awards 2016 that is providing an opportunity to become the gold standard for everyone working with children, young people and families.

The awards provide a great source of pride and recognition for all those who strive day in, day out, to improve the lives of others.

Award Categories

  • Children and young people’s wellbeing and achievement
    • The Early Years Award
    • The Play Award
    • The Youth Work Award
    • The Youth Volunteering and Social Action Award
    • The Learning Award
    • The Arts and Culture Award
    • The Advice and Guidance Award
    • The Young Carers Award
    • The Leaving Care Award
    • The Health and Wellbeing Award
    • The Early Intervention Award
    • The National Citizen Service Award
    • The Children in Care Award
    • The Youth Justice Award
    • The Family Support Award
    • The Safeguarding Award
  • Individuals, teams and organisations
    • Children and Young People’s Champion
    • The Children’s Achievement Award
    • The Partnership Working Award
    • The Recruitment and Professional Development Award
    • The Public Sector Children’s Team Award
    • The Children and Young People’s Charity Award

Eligibility Criteria

  • Any organisation or individual from the United Kingdom only can enter the awards.
  • Applicants can enter any number of categories, but the maximum number of categories an initiative can be entered for is three.

Key Dates

  • Judging: July and August 2016
  • Shortlist Announced: Beginning of September 2016
  • Awards Ceremony: November 2016

How to Apply

Applicants can apply online via given website.

For more information, please visit Now Awards 2016.

Apply to Participate in Humanitarian Emergency Response Operations and Stabilisation Programme

Deadline: 25 April 2016

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Stabilisation Unit (SU) are seeking applications for its Humanitarian Emergency Response Operations and Stabilisation Programme (HEROS). It is envisaged that the programme will run for up to 5 years subject to supplier performance and on-going need.

Program Objectives

The programme consists of the following objectives:

  • Humanitarian emergency response management
  • Humanitarian planning, preparedness and capacity building
  • Anticipation, surveillance and early warning/action
  • Management, coordination and communications – Operational capability and deployment
  • Sourcing staff including surge capacity
  • Staff deployment/management
  • Staff security – Procurement, logistics and operational capability Procurement support
  • Logistics support
  • Operational capability.

How to Apply

Interested applicants must register themselves to DFID Supplier Portal.

For more information, please visit DFID-HEROS.

The Waterloo Foundation Grant Program: An Initiative to Protect Tropical Rainforests

Deadline: 1 June 2016

The Waterloo Foundation (TWF) is currently seeking proposals for its Tropical Rainforests Grant Program.

The project aims to support Tropical rainforests, on which people rely heavily for their livelihoods, and they are the most biologically-diverse ecosystems on land, home to more than half of all terrestrial species of animals, plants and insects.

Under our Forests programme, preference will be given to initiatives working to protect tropical rainforests for their value to the climate, communities and biodiversity, principally through avoided deforestation. We will consider both practical local projects, and strategic initiatives.

Grant Information

It is considered providing one off and multi-annual grants (usually for up to three years).  The majority of grants in this programme will be for a total of £50,000 – £100,000.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The UK-based charities, many of whom work in close partnership with smaller local NGOs based in the countries in which they operate, are eligible to apply.
  • For an organisations based outside of the UK contact details must be sent for a named person who is willing to provide a reference for their work. This must be someone who:
    • Works for an international NGO with offices in the UK
    • Works for an organisation that the Foundation has previously given a grant to
    • Works for an organisation with offices in the UK, which has been a current or former donor to your organisation
    • Works for an academic institution, think tank or as an independent consultant who is based in the UK, and which has evaluated your organisation.

Eligible Projects

Local Projects:

Applicants will need to demonstrate how their project involves:

  • Exposing, addressing and overcoming the local drivers of deforestation
  • Management of the specified area
  • Methods to measure and monitor the protected area
  • Sustainable livelihoods for forest-dependent communities

Strategic Projects:

The applications will be considered for strategic projects that are working on addressing the drivers of deforestation on a wider or international scale. These could include:

  • Working on international or regional forest policy
  • Campaigning for improved practices in commerce
  • Innovative ways of reducing deforestation e.g. financial systems or solutions based on the value of forest ecosystem services

Ineligible Projects

  • Tree planting projects
  • Projects focused solely on the use of fuel-efficient stoves – we have selected one partner to undertake forest-related efficient stove interventions
  • Projects with animal conservation as the sole focus
  • Projects focusing on environmental education
  • We are currently not accepting proposals for REDD projects, pending a review of projects already funded.
  • In addition, we only consider proposals from US-based organisations under exceptional circumstances, due to the higher availability of environmental funding in the US compared to the UK.

How to Apply

Applicants are required to submit their proposals in a prescribed format via email.

For more information, please visit The Waterloo Foundation Grant Program.

Comic Relief Local Communities Programme: Addressing Issues across UK

Applications accepted on a rolling basis

The Comic Relief is currently accepting applications from the UK based community organisations for its Local Communities Programme.

The aim of this programme is to empower local people, enabling them to create lasting change in some of the poorest and most disadvantaged communities in the UK. This is done by supporting organisations with the knowledge, ideas and ability to tackle complex problems in a way which is both effective and sustainable.

Objectives

  • Improve people’s life skills, education, employability and enterprise
  • Maximise people’s ability to strengthen community cohesion and build social capacity
  • Provide people with opportunities to access local services, achieve greater social justice and to reduce inequality, exclusion and disadvantage
  • Advance people’s physical and mental health, wellbeing and safety

Grant Information

Grants of between £1000 and £10,000 will be available for funding.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The community groups (as long as you have a constitution), registered charities, social enterprises, Community Interest Companies, Community Centres, Resident Associations and credit unions can apply.
  • Organisations which are currently being funded directly from Comic Relief cannot apply for a Local Communities grant.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit their applications through an online process.

For more information, please visit Comic Relief Local Communities Programme.

Call for Applications: Indo-UK Workshop on Clean Water Through Advanced and Affordable Materials

Deadline: 1 May 2016

Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund, the British Council, the B.S. Abdur Rahman University is currently inviting participants for its workshop on- Clean Water through advanced and affordable materials” to be held in Chennai, India on 8-10 August 2016.

The workshops will provide a unique opportunity for sharing research expertise and networking. During the workshops early career researchers will have the opportunity to present their research in the form of a short oral presentation and discuss this with established researchers from the UK and partner countries. There will be a focus on building up links for future collaborations and participants selected on the basis of their research potential and ability to build longer term links.

Themes

The workshop will focus on some specific themes:

  • Advanced / affordable materials and membranes for water purification;
  • Separation / Filtration technologies;
  • Waste water purification.

Eligibility Criteria

Participants must be early career researchers from UK and India.

How to Apply

Applicants are required to submit completely filled application form through an online process.

For more information, please visit this link.

ERA-HDHL Call for Joint Transnational Research Proposals: Biomarkers for Nutrition and Health

Deadline: 19 April 2016

The JPI HDHL together with the European Commission is currently inviting Research Proposals on the topic “Biomarkers for Nutrition and Health (BioNH)”.

The Joint Programming Initiative “A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life” (JPI HDHL) has been established to coordinate research in the areas of food, diet, physical activity and health in order to achieve tangible societal and health impact and to strengthen European leadership and competitiveness in this field.

Objectives

The proposals have to fulfill the following conditions:

  • Proposals should focus on biomarkers that are modifiable by diet (or a combination of diet and physical activity) and reflect a healthy state, or focus on its transition towards diet- and lifestyle-related disease. Studies focusing on disease biomarkers are outside the scope of the call.
  • Proposals can aim to identify new biomarkers, or build upon previous identification studies through necessary validation.
  • Proposals which focus on identification of new biomarkers should demonstrate the relevance of the biomarker to human health and should carefully consider approaches for validation.
  • Proposals should
    •  make use of existing biobanks and/or cohorts;
    • explain why no existing biobank or cohort is used.
  • Proposals should explain how the data gathered through their project would be available to the wider research community.
  • Proposals should avoid overlap with the aims and objectives of FOODBALL and Mirdiet.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The joint research proposals may be submitted by applicants working in universities (or other higher education institutions), non-university public research institutes, hospitals and other health care settings.
  • Participation of private parties is encouraged as well as commercial companies, in particular small and medium-size enterprises.
  • Only transnational projects will be funded: each consortium must involve a minimum of three partners eligible from the participating funding organizations and a maximum of six partners eligible from the participating funding organizations from at least three different countries.
  • No more than two eligible partners from the same country will be accepted in one consortium.

Eligible Countries: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Turkey, Poland, Romania, Spain and United Kingdom.

How to Apply

  • There will be a two-stage submission procedure: pre-proposals and full proposals.
  • Both pre- and full proposals must be written in English and must be submitted online through the JPI HDHL Electronic Submission system.

For more information, please visit ERA-HDHL.

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