Research Newsletter - Issue 95: Funding Opportunities
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Title: SFI Discover Programme Call
TORA deadline: 26th June 2024
Call deadline: 3rd July 2024
The Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Discover Programme Call is now open. The aim of this programme is to broaden participation and engagement of the public with Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). This could include areas such as increasing public awareness, building confidence in the scientific method, providing insights into STEM-related careers, enabling equal access to participation in STEM, or developing capacity and skills for the delivery of STEM Education and Public Engagement.
There are multiple categories within the Call, with funding ranging from €69k for 12 month projects to €330k for 24 month National Initiatives. Some applicants may be interested in the co-funding partnerships available with the Department of Education or the European Space Education Resource Office Ireland and there are also areas of special consideration, including climate action, equity of access and co-creation.
If you are interested in applying or finding out more, please:
- Access the full details of the call and guidelines on the SFI website.
- View a pre-recorded SFI call information webinar.
- Contact the Research Support Call Manager for the Discover call, Dr Helen Burke (helen.burke@dcu.ie), or the Research Development Officer for your Faculty:
- Humanities and Social Sciences: Dr Eamonn McConnon (Eamonn.McConnon@dcu.ie)
- DCU Business School: Avril Healy (avril.healy@dcu.ie)
- Institute of Education: Dr Triona O'Hanlon ( triona.ohanlon@dcu.ie)
- Engineering & Computing: Dr Faisal Zahoor (faisal.zahoor@dcu.ie)
- Science and Health: Dr Peter Hyde (peter.hyde@dcu.ie)
- Ask your Faculty RDO about availing of the budget build service being provided by the DCU Research Projects Administration team, who are available to assist you with preparing your budget for this call.
- Create a draft application on the SFI online portal SESAME. If you are not registered on SESAME, contact research@dcu.ie and we will set you up.
- Submit your application to TORA by Wednesday, 26th June 2024, for institutional review and approval and signing of the institutional cover letter, which is mandatory with this application.
Submit your application to SFI via SESAME by Wednesday, 3rd July.
Title: SFI SDG Challenge Workshop Support Scheme
TORA deadline: 28th June 2024, COB
Call deadline: 5th July 2024,1:00pm
The SFI SDG Challenge is intended to support highly motivated, interdisciplinary and international challenge teams, who together with beneficiaries, end-users and other stakeholders will identify and validate relevant, meaningful and important challenges, and co-create solutions that will maximise societal impact.
To facilitate this engagement, instigate team formation and seed idea generation, SFI and Irish Aid will provide limited financial support to organise networking events. Organisers are expected to include participants from potential partner countries, and are encouraged to engage with a broad network of innovators (including from outside of academia) that may help to strengthen the societal impact of applications to the programme. In organising such networking events, applicants are encouraged to consider their carbon footprint relating to travel, and consider options with lowest carbon impact. Departments, institutions and Research Centres are encouraged to apply, but individual researchers may also apply to organise such an event.
Requests may be made up to €5k and events should be of an appropriate scale to warrant support from SFI and Irish Aid. Awards may not be used to support activities of individual applicants in the preparation of their application.
If funded through this support scheme, networking events must take place before the application deadline of 8th October 2024.
For more information, see the call’s webpage here .
Download application form and guidelines on how to submit here.
Contact the Research Support Call Manager for this call, Dr Katya McDonagh (ecaterina.mcdonagh@dcu.ie), or the Research Development Officer for your Faculty:
- Humanities and Social Sciences: Dr Eamonn McConnon (Eamonn.McConnon@dcu.ie)
- DCU Business School: Avril Healy (avril.healy@dcu.ie)
- Institute of Education: Dr Triona O'Hanlon (triona.ohanlon@dcu.ie)
- Engineering & Computing: Dr Faisal Zahoor (faisal.zahoor@dcu.ie)
- Science and Health: Dr Peter Hyde (peter.hyde@dcu.ie)
Title: Royal Irish Academy Commemorations Bursary
TORA deadline: 1st August 2024
Call deadline: 9th August 2024
The RIA Commemorations Bursary aims to encourage new local research and 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 Commemoration of events associated with the early years of the state as well as other significant historical anniversaries, events and themes. The purpose of this grant is to provide support for the direct costs of research up to a maximum of €10,000.
The scheme is open for applications until 9th August 2024.
For further details see here. Queries can be directed to grants@ria.ie.
Title: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024
TORA deadline: 28th August 2024
Call deadline: 11th September 2024
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships aim to support the creative and innovative potential of postdoctoral researchers wishing to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility.
DCU Research Development: Please contact your faculty research development officer if you are interested in applying. The earlier you contact your RDO the more help for your proposal can be provided.
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The Research Development team are holding a proposal development workshop for this call on Tuesday, 16th July, from 11:00am to 1:00pm. At the workshop, the team will go into details of the application and provide you with tips and suggestions on completing each section. To attend the workshop, please register here. After registration, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the session.
DCU Research Support: Please contact Christina Rushe (christina.rushe@dcu.ie) if you would like the recording or presentation slides of the information session presented by DCU Research Support in May. Christina can also help you with registering on the EU Funding and Tenders portal, checking your eligibility, and submitting your application on TORA for institutional approval.
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Please see pages 120–122 of the MSCA Work Programme 2023-2025 for details on eligibility. Applicants can also use the EU Commission’s self-assessment tool on eligibility to assist with this, which can be found in this Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 section.
IMSCO: The Irish Office for MSCA held two Proposal Writing workshops in June. For the slides of these presentations, please email Christina Rushe (christina.rushe@dcu.ie).
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Both parts of the workshops were recorded and available at the following links:
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Part1: https://youtu.be/xq3O0XMcq2A
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Part2: https://youtu.be/xtRdhK5b_98
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Title: MSCA4Ukraine: Second Call for Proposals
TORA deadline: 28th August 2024
Call deadline: 5th September 2024
The MSCA4Ukraine initiative recently received a top-up grant of €10 million to support additional displaced researchers from Ukraine.
The Scholars at Risk Europe consortium, led by Maynooth University, has published preliminary information on the second MSCA4Ukraine call for proposals, as well as information about the launch webinar and info day. The launch event took place on 14th June 2024, and the webinar recording is now available here.
Key Information (for full information, please refer to the Terms of Reference for Applicants):
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Applicant: Applications must be submitted by prospective host organisations on behalf of displaced researcher(s) from Ukraine (candidate(s)). Host organisations can be academic or non-academic organisations in any EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country. Organisations located in Ukraine are not eligible to apply as primary host organisations but can host researchers during a secondment arrangement.
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Candidates: Either postdoctoral researchers or researchers who, on or after 24th February 2022, were enrolled as doctoral candidates at a higher educational institution in Ukraine, and who have been displaced from Ukraine on or after 24th February 2022 are eligible to be nominated. Only one proposal per individual researcher can be submitted. Current and former MSCA4Ukraine fellows are not eligible to be nominated.
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Mentor: Any individual academic mentor can only support one application.
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Disciplines: MSCA4Ukraine fellowships are open to all domains of research and innovation.
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Duration: Fellowships will be awarded for a minimum of 6 months, up to a maximum of 24 months.
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Number of expected awards: approximately 50 fellowships.
Contact the Research Support Call Manager for this call, Dr Katya McDonagh (ecaterina.mcdonagh@dcu.ie), or the Research Development Officer for your Faculty:
- Humanities and Social Sciences: Dr Eamonn McConnon (Eamonn.McConnon@dcu.ie)
- DCU Business School: Avril Healy (avril.healy@dcu.ie)
- Institute of Education: Dr Triona O'Hanlon (triona.ohanlon@dcu.ie)
- Engineering & Computing: Dr Faisal Zahoor (faisal.zahoor@dcu.ie)
- Science and Health: Dr Peter Hyde (peter.hyde@dcu.ie)
Title: SFI ARC Hub Programme - Northern & Western Region Call
TORA deadline: 13th September 2024, COB
Call deadline: 23rd September 2024, 1:00pm
Science Foundation Ireland has launched the SFI Accelerating Research to Commercialisation (ARC) Hub Programme – Northern & Western Region Call.
The goal of the SFI ARC Hub Programme is to establish a new model for regional innovation and entrepreneurial training, that will catalyse a step-change in the translation of cutting-edge publicly-funded research toward impact at a regional level. The SFI ARC Hub Programme will enhance and accelerate the commercialisation of research to create new products, processes and services.
This programme call will support the establishment of an SFI ARC Hub in the Northern & Western Region, operating in a specific thematic area aligned with the region’s strategic priorities and the ‘National Smart Specialisation Strategy for Innovation 2022-2027’ (S3). The SFI ARC Hub Programme – Northern and Western Regional Call is co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the ERDF Northern and Western Regional Programme 2021-2027. The total funding that can be requested from this programme is a maximum budget of €26.67 million (excluding overheads).
Further information on the SFI ARC Hub Programme and how to apply is available on the SFI website.
Contact the Research Support Call Manager for this call, Dr Katya McDonagh (ecaterina.mcdonagh@dcu.ie), or the Research Development Officer for your Faculty:
- Humanities and Social Sciences: Dr Eamonn McConnon (Eamonn.McConnon@dcu.ie)
- DCU Business School: Avril Healy (avril.healy@dcu.ie)
- Institute of Education: Dr Triona O'Hanlon (triona.ohanlon@dcu.ie)
- Engineering & Computing: Dr Faisal Zahoor (faisal.zahoor@dcu.ie)
- Science and Health: Dr Peter Hyde (peter.hyde@dcu.ie)
Title: COST Actions 2024
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) is a funding organisation for the creation of research networks, called COST Actions. These networks offer an open space for collaboration among scientists across Europe (and beyond) and thereby give impetus to research advancements and innovation.
A COST Action is an interdisciplinary research network that brings researchers and innovators together to investigate a topic of their choice for four years. A COST Action can be in any scientific field. COST Actions are different to many other EU funded projects because it is possible to join and participate in a research network once it has started running. The COST programme does not fund research but provides support for networking activities carried out within COST Actions.
The 60 new COST Actions for 2024 were recently announced, and the full list can be found here. Please browse the Actions for any that may be in your research field and those you may wish to get involved with.
There are currently two ways to get involved with a 2024 Cost Action:
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Working Groups: Individuals are free to make an application to join the working groups of all Actions directly through the COST portal.
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Management Committee: Ireland can nominate two individuals to the management committee (MC). Nominations are made through the national contact point David Flood (david.Flood@enterprise-ireland.com). If you are interested in becoming an MC member please let Christina Rushe (christina.rushe@dcu.ie) know, and she can initiate the nomination process.
DCU Research Support held an information session on the COST Actions in May. For the recording of this session or the presentation slides, please contact Christina Rushe (christina.rushe@dcu.ie).
Title: COST Actions Open Call
TORA deadline: 16th October 2024
Call deadline: 23rd October 2024, 12:00pm CEST
Please see the above section on how to get involved in current COST Actions. If you have used the browse Actions tool on the website and cannot find any Actions in your field, you may consider proposing your own COST Action Network. The COST programme does not fund research but provides support for networking activities carried out within COST Actions.
Enterprise Ireland has a Coordinator Grant of up to €3,000 to pay a consultant/support staff to assist with proposal creation. The application for this is through the system SMARTSIMPLE.
The deadline for the 2024 Open Call for proposals is 23rd October 2024 at 12:00pm CEST.
For questions related to the Open Call please contact David Flood (david.Flood@enterprise-ireland.com), the COST National Coordinator, or Christina Rushe (christina.rushe@dcu.ie).
DCU Research Support held an information session in May on the COST Actions. For the recording of this session or the presentation slides, please contact Christina Rushe (christina.rushe@dcu.ie).