Research Newsletter - Issue 81: Funding Opportunities
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The second call for the DOROTHY COFUND postdoctoral fellowship, focused on public health crises and their legacies, will launch on 1st March 2023.
DOROTHY (DevelOp interdisciplinaRy apprOaches to healTH crisis collaborativelY) COFUND postdoctoral research fellowship is co-funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), the Irish Research Council, Health Research Board and Environmental Protection Agency.
The call is open to researchers across all disciplines provided the proposed research focuses on public health crises and their legacies.
The second call aims to fund 25 postdoctoral researchers. The projects can be of 36 month duration, during which the first 18 months (outgoing phase) would be spent by the researcher in an institution outside of Ireland and the next 18 months (return phase) the researchers would be based in the host institution in Ireland.
Contact: sumona.mukherjee@dcu.ie
The IRC Ulysses call lis now open, with a funder submission deadline of 4pm on 13th April 2023.
The Ulysses scheme is aimed at fostering new collaborations between Ireland and France-based researchers by providing seed funding for reciprocal travel visits. The scheme thus facilitates the exchange of innovative ideas and approaches across all disciplines.
Selected research projects will also be supported by the following strategic partners:
- Electricity transmission system operator EirGrid will partner with France-based Réseau de Transport d’Électricité to support suitably aligned research projects in the area of renewable energies and smart grids.
- The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and ADEME, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency, will provide support to research projects exploring topics relating to energies.
Awards will be up to a maximum of €5,000 each to Ireland and France-based research partner(s) to cover travel and living expenses. These awards are simultaneously receivable and must be used by end of the 2025 calendar year.
Please note that applications to the Ulysses call are required to be submitted via the Research Office. The deadline for submitting the applications on TORA is 4th April.
Contact: sumona.mukherjee@dcu.ie
Each year, SCoTENS provides Seed Funding to support a number of collaborative research projects and professional activities in teacher education in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. To date, 126 research, conference and exchange projects have been funded. Information about funded projects that are now complete (including downloadable reports) can be found here.
The Seed Funding call is now open and closes on 28th April 2023.
The sums allocated are usually in the region of £3,000 – £6,000 (approx. €3,750 – €7,500). Please submit applications in Sterling and advise if you wish the grant to be paid in Euro. The exchange rate used will be that shown on www.xe.com on the day the payment is made.
All proposals must be submitted by North-South partnerships. The two lead partners MUST be from institutions that are fully-paid up members of SCoTENS. The application must be signed by the Heads of Department/School or equivalent of the two lead partners to be considered for funding. The SCoTENS committee is keen to receive proposals from people who have not been partners in SCoTENS-funded projects in the last 5 years or are new applicants. Applications from North-South partners who co-facilitated workshops at SCoTENS Conferences and are interested in deepening their engagement and scholarship are also encouraged.
Please note all applications to the SCoTENS Seed Funding Scheme call are required to be submitted via the Research Office. The deadline for submitting the applications on TORA is the 19th April.
Contact: javier.monedero@dcu.ie
Science Foundation Ireland has launched the SFI Frontiers for the Future 2022 Call (Projects stream). This programme provides opportunities for independent investigators to conduct highly innovative, collaborative research with the potential to deliver impact, whilst also providing discrete opportunities for high-risk, high-reward research projects.
The programme call is divided into Project and Award streams:
- The Project stream will run as a fixed deadline call with a submission deadline of 14th April 2023 at 13:00 Dublin Local Time.
- The Award stream will run as a rolling call with applicants free to submit applications from 14th April 2023.
Further information on this Call and how to apply is available here.
Contact: ecaterina.mcdonagh@dcu.ie
The Marine Institute is pleased to announce a call for proposals for Post-Doctoral Fellowships of up to four years in duration. They are seeking applications for 10 topics under this call, nine defined topics and one open topic under four specified research themes. Further details, including the application procedure, are available in the Guidelines for Applicants Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2023.
All applications must be submitted through the Marine Institute's online grant management system (RIMS). Details on registration and links to the system are also available in the Guidelines for Applicants. Further details for each fellowship are available in the Proposal Outline documents below:
- Arctic Region
- Coastal Climate Modelling
- EwE Model
- FERAL Salmon
- Fisheries Food-webs
- Maritime Digitalisation
- Ocean Barometer
- Phytoplankton
- Shipwrecks
- Open Topic - Defined by Applicant and relevant to one of the following research themes:
- Theme 1) Climate Impact / carbon footprint of Ireland’s Ocean Economy
- Theme 2) Coastal Communities and Socio-Cultural Transitions
- Theme 3) Equity in Access to Shared Marine Spaces
- Theme 4) Future of Ireland’s Marine-related Cultural and Heritage assets
Please see the latest FAQ Document for further information.
The call close date is 16:00 on Tuesday, 18th April 2023. Please email the Marine Institute Research Funding Office (funding@marine.ie) if you have any queries.
Applications should be uploaded to TORA by Tues 11th April.
Contact: helen.burke@dcu.ie
The National Challenge Fund provides ambitious researchers the chance to make a difference by developing solutions to key challenges in the areas of Green Transition and Digital Transformation. The National Challenge Fund is a €65M research fund that consists of eight challenges. In total, it aims to fund approximately 90 research teams with up to €250k over 18 months to develop their ideas. Under each challenge stream, a number of teams will then be awarded follow-on funding of up to €500k before going on to compete for prizes between €1-€2m.
The Future Food Systems Challenge and the Sustainable Communities Challenge are now open for applications. Deadline to apply for both calls: 26th May 2023.
The Future Food Systems Challenge seeks solutions for sustainable, productive and resilient food systems. Under this Challenge, applications would be considered in areas including but not limited to:
- Methane emissions – solutions to measure, manage and reduce methane emissions from the agriculture sector.
- Sustainable and regenerative agriculture – Solutions that will enable the transformation to a low-input, low-impact agrifood sector, for example, through reduced/alternative fertiliser use, water efficiency, or fewer fossil-based or chemical inputs.
- Alternative proteins – Solutions to provide lower impact sources of protein across the food value chain for animals and humans
- Food waste/loss – Solutions to reduce food loss and waste across the full breadth of the food supply chain
- Bioeconomy – Solutions to transform and reuse biological resources into value-added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products as well as bioenergy
- Soil – Solutions to preserve and restore healthy soils as an essential
The Sustainable Communities Challenge seeks solutions that will support a sustainable future for Ireland’s urban and rural populations. Under this Challenge, applications would be considered in areas including but not limited to:
- Built environment – solutions that will address the impact of our built environment, for example, through construction materials, energy efficiency and enabling energy neutral or positive energy communities
- Transport and mobility – solutions for clean transport in cities, towns and rural communities, in areas such as planning and modelling, novel modes of transport, driving modal shifts and enabling technologies
- Resilient infrastructure – Solutions for sustainable provision of power, water, waste management, transport and other services to communities leveraging new technologies or nature-based approaches.
The SFI Challenges team will host two webinars on Thursday 30th March (register here) and Thursday 4th May (register here) where applicants can hear about the Future Food Systems Challenge and ask questions.
Contact: Please contact ecaterina.mcdonagh@dcu.ie or dara.dunican@dcu.ie as early as you can to indicate interest. The Research Development team will be available to provide support and guidance to applicants to develop and articulate competitive challenge ideas in line with the specific requirements of this call.
The Health Research Board Summer Student Scholarships Scheme will close at 13:00 on 9th March 2023. This is a great opportunity for undergraduate students in health or social care-related disciplines to be funded to complete a short research project during the summer. The purpose of the scholarship scheme is to encourage an interest in research and give students an opportunity to become familiar with research techniques.
In line with the HRB strategy, the project should fall within one of the following research areas: patient-oriented and clinical research, health services research or population health research.
The HRB will make an award to a host institution nominated in the application. Summer Scholars will be paid €300 per week for a minimum of six and a maximum of eight weeks by the host institution. The studentship will be provided on a full-time basis.
All applications must be made using the HRB Grant Electronic Management System (GEMS).
See the HRB website for further details.
Contact: helen.burke@dcu.ie
The Health Research Board Postdoctoral Fellowships – Applying Research into Policy and Practice (ARPP) 2023 is currently open, with a deadline of 2nd March 2023.
The scheme is targeted at health and social care researchers with a PhD (or PhD equivalency) and between two to six years of active post-doctoral experience, who are interested in advancing applied health and social care research aimed at finding practical solutions to specific problems. This fellowship will provide a unique opportunity to enhance their career ambition towards achieving tenured independent investigator status.
Each fellowship will provide salary for the fellow and research-related costs up to a maximum of €50K. It can be undertaken full time for three years or part time up to five years. The HRB envisages up to eight awards.
The main objectives are to:
- Support researchers with between two and six years’ prior active post-doctoral experience and who demonstrate that they have the motivation and the potential to advance on an academic track towards independent investigator status.
- Support researchers to conduct and manage health and social care research projects that are applied and aimed at finding practical solutions to specific problems or evidence gaps.
- Provide funding for the prospective fellow and the proposed project, but also to support them to enhance their development and growth as a researcher and as a research grant manager.
- Enable the prospective fellow to gain experience of working with knowledge users in relevant policy and/or practice organisations. The HRB supports the concept of integrated knowledge translation (iKT) throughout the project rather than solely end of grant communication and dissemination. The process of iKT may vary in intensity, complexity and level of engagement depending on the nature of the research and the needs of the particular knowledge user but typically involves collaboration for refinement of research questions, decisions around methodology, data collection or tool development, selection of outcomes measures, interpretation of findings, crafting of the key messages and the dissemination of results.
The call focuses on applied health and social care research projects in areas of importance at local, national or international level (as opposed to fully investigator-led research). Research projects should have a strong potential to make research findings applicable and transferable into improved healthcare and policy. Eligible areas of research are clinical, population health, and health services research.
For further information see the HRB website.
Contact: helen.burke@dcu.ie
The Health Research Board has launched an Applied Programme Grants Scheme. The aim of the scheme is to support a strategic programme of applied research in health and social care that will have an impact on the health and social care of individuals, population health and the health system in Ireland and beyond.
Applications should be made on behalf of a team made up of researchers, knowledge user(s) and PPI contributors.
Funding of up to a maximum of €2.5M (inclusive of overheads) will be provided per award with Programmes of between 48 – 60 months. The amount awarded and the length of the funding period will depend on the nature of the proposed work. Programmes using novel designs which facilitate shorter, more efficient programmes with earlier results are welcome.
The objectives of the scheme are to:
- Address stated national/EU/global priorities in health, public health or social care under the broad thematic areas listed below
- Support high-quality and team-based research which is likely to lead to a step change in practice and/or in outcomes to the health system, population health, or to service users and carers
- Tackle an identified problem from a variety of perspectives with a collaborative, complementary and multidisciplinary approach
- Use a range of multidisciplinary and methodological approaches
- Develop collaborations between researchers and knowledge users with a view to making outputs useable for implementation or informing policy and decision making
- Clearly demonstrate how patients, service users and/or carers have been involved and engaged with the programme
- Include clear plans for implementation, knowledge mobilisation and dissemination
Applications should be submitted under one of the following thematic areas:
- Health, wellbeing and keeping populations healthy and independent throughout life
- Mental health and disability
- Social Care and the future of community care
- Non-communicable diseases
- Resilient and sustainable healthcare systems
- Pandemic preparedness and antimicrobial resistance
- Digital health and personalised medicine
Quality permitting, the HRB anticipates awarding a minimum of 5 awards.
Further information can be found on the HRB website.
Contact: helen.burke@dcu.ie
The Irish Cancer Society is currently accepting applications for its Translational Research Scholarship Programme 2023.
The objective of the Irish Cancer Society Translational Research Scholarship Programme is to offer excellent graduates the opportunity to undertake postgraduate training in world class cancer research. These graduates should be of a relevant background, e.g. life science, biomedical, pharmaceutical, dentistry, medical or translational research.
This scholarship is specifically intended to fund research that is aligned with the Society’s Strategy (2020-2025) and its Research Roadmap. There is scholarship funding available for one applicant of the highest calibre to focus on translational or clinical research within areas of high strategic priority for the Irish Cancer Society.
During the four-year programme, Scholars will undertake general and cancer-specific training while participating in structured PhD programmes, and will have the opportunity to gain experience at an international research institution through a mobility/capacity building element.
Further information including application guidelines, can be found here. Applications can be made through the Irish Cancer Society Gateway Grant Tracker online system.
The deadline for applications is 3pm Tuesday 28th March 2023.
Contact: helen.burke@dcu.ie
The RIA Decade of Centenaries bursary scheme is now open, with an application deadline of 5th April 2023.
The aim of this scheme is to encourage new local research and local history studies (local, national and regional) as a means of recognising the significant contribution of local historians in furthering fields of study relating to the struggle for independence and the civil war period within their communities.
Applications are being sought under specific themes:
- New research to explore local legacies, personalities, places, events, and themes that have particular significance within communities, parishes and counties;
- New research to explore the fates of the minority communities on both sides of the border following Partition;
- New research to explore the contribution and experiences of women during this period, e.g. women’s participation in political, military, professional and domestic roles;
- New research exploring Ireland and the Wider World, including local connections, emigration, and the role of the Irish Diaspora in the events that occurred during this period; Ireland’s admission into the League of Nations and Ireland’s membership of the International Labour Organisation.
- New research exploring a changing society during this period, focusing on social history; popular social, cultural, and civic movements; the Irish language; creative thinking and the arts; sport; and innovation;
- New research exploring nationhood, identity, and State-Building – the establishment of a new Irish Free State and the challenges faced by the emerging Irish State;
- New research exploring how the events of this period have been remembered and commemorated within families, communities and parishes over the past century – how the process of commemoration has evolved.
- New comparative research exploring the Irish period and associated themes in an International context.
- New research exploring ‘Emotions, experiences, and expectations’ – what was felt and what was hoped for through revolution, civil war, and beyond.
- ‘History and commemoration revisited’ – new research reflecting on the Decade of Centenaries – its impact and legacy.
- New research exploring ‘The process of rebuilding a nation’ – reflections on healing, repairing, and re-building following the Civil War
Typically awards will be made in the region of €5,000-€10,000 but smaller projects will also be considered. For full guidelines and application form please refer to the call website.
Contact: sumona.mukherjee@dcu.ie