Research Newsletter - Issue 96: Funding Opportunities

TORA deadline:  3rd October 2024

Call deadline:  10th October 2024

This initiative aims to recognise and celebrate the wider benefits and achievements of HRB funded researchers beyond academic impact and aims to showcase both the achievements and practices of individuals (and their teams) so they can serve as a role model for the wider HRB community to maximise the impact of their research.

In the context of this award, the HRB are seeking examples of where HRB-funded research has had an impact/s on policy, practice, services or the health and social care system, with direct or indirect benefits resulting in terms of enhanced health and wellbeing, quality of life and better health outcomes and experiences for patients, communities, organisations or the public more generally.

Due to the high standard of previous nominations, individuals who were nominated unsuccessfully before may be nominated again. 

The HRB will award one Impact Award in the 2025 round.  The HRB IMPACT award is a monetary prize of €50,000 which will be granted to the recipient’s chosen HRB–approved Host Institution in support of their work.  The recipient will be announced at the HRB Grant Holders’ Conference in February 2025.

Nominations

• The application process is nomination-based.
• Nominators for the award cannot nominate themselves.
• Nominations must be submitted to the HRB via the approved signatory in an HRB-approved Host Institutions.
• There is no limit to the number of nominations that can be made by any one Host Institution.
• Each nomination must include details of a named nominator as they will serve as the primary point of contact for the HRB during the application and review process.

Nominees

• Must hold, or have held, a HRB award/s as Principal Investigator.
• This funding may have been awarded at any time during the Nominees’ career but must be directly linked to the area of research that has resulted in the impact on people’s health, patient care, health policy, or practice that is the basis for their nomination.
• Nominees should have a contractual relationship of some sort with a HRB-recognised Host Institution for the purposes of administration of the IMPACT award, if successful.
• Nominees must be working/have worked on the island of Ireland when pursuing the research related to the nomination.
• Nominees must agree to their nomination being submitted to the HRB and must complete part of the application (and they will be responsible for the management of the award via a designated Host Institution, if successful).

For further information see the HRB website here. 

TORA deadline:  Five working days before funder deadlines

Call deadline:  Multiple deadlines 10th October 2024 - 22nd January 2025 - see call documentation

The EU4Health final of wave of calls have now been launched. This includes a number of funding opportunities for health researchers, practitioners and SMEs seeking to improve healthcare systems and patient outcomes in the following areas:  

• Radiation safety and quality of computed tomography imaging of children and young adults (3M) 
• To support the establishment of new networks of expertise on cancer and cancer conditions (1M) 
• Personalised cancer medicine (3M) 
• Advancing the adoption of artificial intelligence in health (4.5M) 
• Health promotion and prevention of non-communicable and communicable diseases, including vaccine-preventable and other cancers caused by infections, and on smoke- and aerosol-free environments (5M) 
• To support a comprehensive, prevention-oriented approach to mental health in the Union (2M) 
• To contribute to the organisations of conference and events (450k) 

2024 Work Programme 
The work programme in full is available to download here.

Calls can be found on the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) website.

For queries, please contact EU4Health@hrb.ie.

TORA deadline:  18th October 2024

Call deadline:  25th October 2024

This is an international research travel scheme awarded to outstanding early career researchers (who are within seven years of receiving their PhD) in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Focussed on encouraging excellence in research and scholarship, and supporting the development of international links and collaborations.

Applications are accepted for the following:

• Proposals for a clearly defined piece of research or research activity undertaken through a short international visit, which will have an identifiable outcome on the completion of the project
• The scheme will support a short visit to any country to support primary research in any subject area
• Applications for visits of between one week and six weeks in length will be considered
• The key objectives of the research visit should be to: (i) initiate one-to-one collaborations, and/or (ii) explore opportunities to build lasting research collaborative networks and/or (iii) to gain access to ideas, library resources, research facilities including the use of equipment and/or (iv) receive research training not available in Ireland
• Funds are available to facilitate initial project planning and development and to support the direct costs of research

Awards of up to €2,500 are made and further details can be found here.  

TORA deadline:  6th November 2024

Call deadline: 13th November 2024 (pre-proposal deadline)

The Water4All Partnership 2024 Joint Transnational Call is aimed at research and innovation contributing to long term water security. The general theme of the call is “Water for Circular Economy”, and proposals are required to address at least one of the following topics:

• Topic 1: Enhancement of water circularity in industries;
• Topic 2: Urban water circularity;
• Topic 3: Resource recovery and valorization;
• Topic 4: Economic, environmental and social implications of water reuse and recovered products.

The call topics are non-exclusive. Proposals can therefore address one or several topics and/or subtopics.

Applicants are invited to submit their proposals under the Joint Transnational Call or its modality of Early Career Researchers Call, provided they comply with the general and national/regional eligibility requirements:  Joint Transnational Call (JTC) – the annual Water4All call for funding of excellent research and innovation proposals; Early Career Researchers modality (ECR) – aimed at projects coordinated by early career researchers (<10 years post-PhD).

TORA deadline:  14th November 2024

Call deadline:  21st November 2024 (pre-proposal deadline)

The Clean Energy Transition (CET) Partnership Joint Transnational Call has now launched. There are a number of call modules available for application, with the Irish component being overseen by different national agencies (TÉ-RI, SEAI, GSI):

• CM2024-01 Data spaces & interoperability
• CM2024-02 Energy system flexibility: renewables production, storage & system integration
• CM2024-03 Advanced renewable energy (RE) technologies for power production (A/B)
• CM2024-04 Carbon capture, utilisation & storage (CCUS)
• CM2024-05 Hydrogen & renewable fuels
• CM2024-06 Heating & cooling technologies
• CM2024-07 Geothermal energy technologies
• CM2024-08 Integrated regional energy systems
• CM2024-09 Integrated industrial energy systems
• CM2024-10 Clean energy integration in the built environment

A matchmaking platform is available to those interested in the call.

TORA deadline:  19th November 2024

Call deadline:  27th November 2024

MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 call is now open. 

These are competitive doctoral programmes that respond to knowledge gaps and well-identified needs in various R&I areas across all disciplines, expose doctoral researchers to the academic and non-academic sectors via inter-sectoral mobility and offer training in research-related, as well as transferable skills and competences to ensure long-term employability and enhanced career perspectives of doctoral graduates. Proposals for doctoral networks can reflect existing or planned research partnerships among the participating organisations. There are three types of Doctoral Networks but all have the objective of promoting international, inter-sectoral and inter-disciplinary collaboration in doctoral-level training in Europe.

For more information, see the call webpage here.  

MSCA-NET, the international network of MSCA National Contact Points (NCPs), has published the 2024 Doctoral Networks proposal writing handbook. 

This valuable tool provides section by section advice (including a comprehensive overview of the EU policy priorities with a focus on the MSCA) and guidance on what to address and includes some common strengths and weaknesses for each part of the proposal.

You can access the handbook here. 

TORA deadline:  11th December 2024

Call deadline:  18th December 2024

The Health Research Board Applied Partnership Awards are currently open.  They are designed to bring knowledge users and researchers together to develop research projects that address a documented need within the Irish health or social care system.  Research findings will have a direct impact on decision-making in the knowledge user organisation.

• This is a rolling call with the closing date for Cycle 2 on 18th December 2024. 
• The Applied Partnership Awards are open to all areas of health.  In this round, the HRB also specifically welcome applications in the area of mental health, to support their work related to Sharing the Vision – A Mental Health Policy for Everyone.  A dedicated budget for mental health research has been provided by the Department of Health for this purpose.  As such, quality permitting, additional awards will be funded in the areas of mental health services research and population mental health research to support the implementation of Sharing the Vision.
• The award will be for between 12 and 24 months.  A minimum co-funding commitment of 20% of the total award amount requested from the HRB must be provided by the knowledge user organisation.  For mental health research proposals, in recognition of dedicated funds being made available under Sharing the Vision, the co-funding requirement is a minimum of 10% of the total amount requested from the HRB.  Co-funding commitments must be cash contributions.  

All applications must be made using the HRB Grant Electronic Management System (GEMS) available at grants(at)hrb.ie.  

For further details on the call, see the HRB website here.