Research Newsletter - Issue 77: Funding Opportunities
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Call 2 of the DCU Research Initiatives Fund 2022 has been launched. This is an internal funding scheme designed to support high-quality research activities.
The scheme has two strands:
Strand 1 - Support for the production of high-quality research outputs. This strand supports new and emerging research initiatives that are likely to lead to high quality research outputs.
Strand 2 - Support for the development of competitive applications to major funders. This strand supports activities that will facilitate the development and competitiveness of research funding applications.
The scheme is open to all DCU academic staff and a maximum of €5,000 per application may be requested.
The Guidelines and Application Form can be found on the Internal Funding Schemes webpage. The closing date for applications (to be submitted by email to rif@dcu.ie) is Wednesday, 30th November 2022.
Queries can be directed to the Director of Research, Dr Sally Smith (sally.smith@dcu.ie).
The IRC Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme is open. The applicant’s deadline is on the 24th of November 2022.
The Enterprise Partnership Scheme is a unique national initiative, linking excellent researchers in all disciplines to enterprise. In the context of these calls, enterprise partners can range from multinational corporations to SMEs, non-governmental organisations, and, where justified, public sector agencies. These programmes support postdoctoral candidates in pursuing, or intending to pursue, full-time research in any discipline.
Please refer to the call website for further details. If you are looking to apply for this call and/or have any questions please get in touch with Sumona Mukherjee.
Contact: sumona.mukherjee@dcu.ie
The MSCA Staff Exchange action funds short-term international and inter-sectoral exchanges of staff members involved in research and innovation activities of participating organisations. The aim is to develop sustainable collaborative projects between different organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors (in particular SMEs), based in Europe and beyond. Exchanged staff benefit from new knowledge, skills and career development perspectives, while participating organisations increase their research and innovation capacities.
The application deadline for this call is 8th of March 2023.
Enterprise Ireland also provides support to applicants who wish to submit a coordinator application.
If you are looking to apply for this call and/or have any questions please get in touch with Sumona Mukherjee.
Contact: sumona.mukherjee@dcu.ie
The MSCA4Ukraine Fellowship Scheme will be opened for submission on 24th of October to support researchers from Ukraine to continue their work at academic and non-academic organisations in EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries, while maintaining their connections to research and innovation communities in Ukraine.
The MSCA4Ukraine call for applications and terms of reference are available on the SAR website. The Fellowship rates will be in line with MSCA Doctoral Networks and MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships. This would be a rolling call and once the portal opens, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with regular cut-off dates until all available funds are committed. It is advisable to submit applications as soon as possible after October 24th.
If you are looking to support an application for this call and/or have any questions please contact Sumona Mukherjee.
Contact: sumona.mukherjee@dcu.ie
The HRB are now inviting applications to the third round of the Secondary Data Analysis Projects call (SDAP 2023).
NEW: This is a rolling call and as such there will be one round launched in 2022 with two separate closing dates and associated peer review cycles. The closing date for Cycle 1 is the 15th of December 2022. The closing date for Cycle 2 is the 4th of October 2023.
Details:
Aligned with the objectives set out in the HRB Strategy 2021-2025, this scheme will enable the use of data to shape health policy, enhance healthcare delivery, and drive broader research and innovation initiatives. As part of this objective, the specific action to ‘Invest in research projects which employ secondary data analysis and record linkage’ was identified as being essential to support this.
The awards will support proposals typically between 18-24 months duration where the findings from the research will have direct relevance to policy and/or practice in the Irish health and social care system. This should involve close collaboration of researchers with non-academic stakeholders (policy makers and data controllers). The proposed research should be explicitly linked to the documented evidence needs of the knowledge user organisation. The HRB recognises that some data sets are not currently in an accessible format. Therefore, they strongly welcome projects that include the development of tools to make data sets accessible and/or more widely available. In these cases, the duration of the award may be up to 36 months, with up to 12 months dedicated to the development of such tools. Proposals must include at least one existing Irish or International dataset in order to be eligible for this call. Applications may be related to, but must be distinct from, the specific aims of the original data collection.
Funding will be up to a maximum of €250,000 per award.
Who should apply?
Applications should be made on behalf of a team made up of researchers, knowledge users and data controllers/processors.
Main changes from last round
• Third objective added of enhancing capacity for further research of this nature in Ireland through upskilling, training and education of team members where possible.
• Increased focus on knowledge translation.
Deadline
Cycle 1 deadline: 15 December 2022 @ 1pm
Cycle 2 deadline: 4 October 2023 @1pm
Seminar
The HRB hosted a seminar on Wednesday 21st September 2022 for previous SDAP awardees. The presentations are available on the HRB website here and should be of interest to applicants to this round.
HRB contact: Christina Rushe: crushe@hrb.ie
Please also note the guidance notes available on the HRB website.
Contact: helen.burke@dcu.ie
Breast Cancer Now are inviting applications for Research Projects and Clinical Research Training Fellowships.
Project Grants
Projects grants are open to UK and Ireland applicants
Project grants are available with awards of up to £250,000.
Breast Cancer Now are committed to supporting new investigators in breast cancer research and encourage applications from talented researchers at the start of their independent careers.
Deadline for applications: 17th November 2022
Contact: helen.burke@dcu.ie
The 2022 Call for Proposals for the LIFE Clean Energy Transition (CET) sub-programme is open until 16 November.
Nearly EUR 100 million is available for funding project ideas under LIFE Clean Energy Transition, which supports all selected projects under the 2022 Call with 95% of their project costs.
The LIFE Clean Energy Transition Call 2022 has 18 funding topics covering important aspects of driving forward the clean energy transition in Europe, and stakeholders actively working on accelerating the clean energy transition and decarbonising Europe are invited to submit their project ideas.
You can find more information on the call topics and available guidance here. For any further queries, please contact LIFE@decc.gov.ie.
Contact: helen.burke@dcu.ie
The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), with the support of the Scottish Government Office in Ireland and the Department of Foreign Affairs, are pleased to invite applications for the second round of the Ireland–Scotland Bilateral Network Grants.
The ambition of the Ireland–Scotland Bilateral Network Grants is to strengthen co-operation and learning between excellent researchers, academics and practitioners in Scotland and Ireland within the five thematic areas identified within the 2021 Irish–Scottish Bilateral Review.
This year, the Ireland–Scotland Bilateral Network Grants invites applications which address the theme of ‘Revival, Resilience and Recovery: Academic and Research networks post Covid-19’.
The importance of academic and research links between Ireland and Scotland are highlighted within the 2021 Irish-Scottish Bilateral Review, and a number of disciplines were identified as being natural areas of collaboration and development and which are eligible under this scheme:
- Oceanography
- Aquaculture
- Rural development
Call close date is 27th October 2022.
Full details are available on the Royal Irish Academy's website.
Contact: Helen.burke@dcu.ie
The Water4All Partnership Joint Transnational call on Management of water resources for increased resilience, adaptation and mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events is now open for applications.
Submission deadline of pre-proposals: 31st October 2022 at 15:00CET
Contact: Helen.burke@dcu.ie
Open Calls:
The second wave of calls under the 2022 EU4Health work programme have been launched. There is €28million available under these four calls, with submission deadlines of 21st or 28th of February 2023. The calls are as follows:
- Call for proposals on cancer and other NCDs prevention – action on health determinants (€11M)
- Addressing health determinants related to cancer (€8M)
- Addressing health determinants related to NCDs other than cancer (€3M)
- Call for proposals on prevention of NCDs - cardiovascular diseases and diabetes (€5M)
- Call for proposals to support the roll-out of the second cohort of the inter-speciality cancer training programme (€7M)
- Call for proposals to support structured dialogue at national or regional level on public procurement in the health sector – HERA (€5M)
Procurement:
A number of Tenders are due to be published in Q4 which include areas such as Cancer, Crisis preparedness and Health systems. They are as follows:
Cancer
- Development of a code of conduct on fair access of cancer survivors to financial services. Indicative budget: €2 Million (PIN published)
- Study on obstacles for cancer survivors to return to work. Indicative budget: €500,000
- FWC on the technical group supporting the characterising-flavours procedure
Crisis Preparedness
- Study on market research and mapping of innovative diagnostic testing solutions (HERA). Indicative budget: €200,000
- IT development for early warning, modelling, simulation, forecast (HERA) Indicative budget: €24.5 Million
Health systems
- Guidelines on access to healthcare for people with disabilities. Indicative budget: €700,000 (PIN published)
- Supporting the cooperation between the national authorities and professional sector associations in the blood, tissue and cells and organs sectors. Indicative budget: €750,000 (PIN published)
For any queries, please get in touch with Amanda Daly, National Focal Point for EU4Health (amanda.dalyl@hrb.ie)
Contact: Helen.burke@dcu.ie