[Academic] Fwd: Funding Opportunities: Newton Fund and Horizon 2020

[Andrew Daley]

Hi Everyone,

Here is some information on funding opportunities via the Newton Fund and Horizon 2020 that might be of interest to several people. The first part is on upcoming Newton Fund opportunities. Please also scroll to the bottom of the e-mail for information on H2020 opportunities and also a bilateral fund for exchanges with Brazil.

Best regards,
Andrew


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Professor Andrew Daley

Department of Physics
University of Strathclyde
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From: Katie Robinson <katie.robinson at strath.ac.uk<mailto:katie.robinson at strath.ac.uk>>
To: Katie Robinson <katie.robinson at strath.ac.uk<mailto:katie.robinson at strath.ac.uk>>
Subject: Funding Opportunities: Newton Fund and Horizon 2020
Date: 27 March 2015 15:31:44 GMT

Dear Colleague,

We have recently received notification of some calls for funding that may be of interest to you or to staff in your Department.  Please see details below.  Please let me know if you require any further information.


NEWTON FUND – New Opportunities:

Country

Call Title/Link

Deadline

India

India-UK Collaborative Industrial R&D Programme<https://interact.innovateuk.org/competition-display-page/-/asset_publisher/RqEt2AKmEBhi/content/india-uk-collaborative-industrial-r-d-programme?utm_source=Newton+updates+list&utm_campaign=17a6ad54f9-Newton_fund_bulletin_12_01_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe132e884b-17a6ad54f9-100034053>
Innovate UK

15 April 2015

Turkey

PhD Placements in Turkey: Newton Katip Celebi Fund<http://www.britishcouncil.org/education/science/current-opportunities/PhD-turkey?utm_source=Newton+updates+list&utm_campaign=17a6ad54f9-Newton_fund_bulletin_12_01_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe132e884b-17a6ad54f9-100034053>
British Council

20 April 2015

South Africa

ESRC/NRF International Centre Partnerships<http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/funding-opportunities/33993/esrcnrf-international-centre-partnerships.aspx>

29 April 2015

Chile

Grants for UK-Chile two-stage Applied Science and Technology Transfer<http://www.britishcouncil.org/education/science/current-opportunities/FONDEF-IDEA-two-stage>
British Council

30 April 2015

China

Climate Science for Service Partnerships – MET Office<http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/collaboration/newton/calls?utm_source=Newton+updates+list&utm_campaign=17a6ad54f9-Newton_fund_bulletin_12_01_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe132e884b-17a6ad54f9-100034053>

1 May 2015

Multi-country

Wellcome Trust-MRC Newton Fund Collaboration<http://www.mrc.ac.uk/news-events/news/wellcome-trust-mrc-newton-fund-collaboration/>

20 May 2015
17 July 2015

Chile

Call for UK institutions to partner with research centres in Chile in new technology and innovation call<http://www.britishcouncil.org/education/science/current-opportunities/CONICYT-regional-programme>
British Council

1 June 2015

Thailand

UK-Thailand Joint Health Research call<http://www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/browse/uk-thailand-joint-health-research-call/>
MRC

2 June 2915

Turkey

Fellowships for Visiting Scientists and Scientists on Sabbatical Leave<http://www.international.ac.uk/programmes/current-opportunities/the-newton-fund/calls-for-turkey-newton-katip-celebi-fund/tubitak-calls.aspx?utm_source=Newton+updates+list&utm_campaign=c46e0523b0-Newton_fund_bulletin_26_03_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe132e884b-c46e0523b0-100034053>

Rolling



NEWTON FUND – Upcoming deadlines:

Country

Call Title/Link

Deadline

South Africa

Research Chairs Initiative<http://www.international.ac.uk/programmes/current-opportunities/the-newton-fund/calls-for-south-africa/british-council-calls.aspx?utm_source=Newton+updates+list&utm_campaign=c46e0523b0-Newton_fund_bulletin_26_03_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe132e884b-c46e0523b0-100034053>

31 March 2015




EUROPEAN FUNDING:

Horizon 2020: Marie Sklodowska-Curie: Individual Fellowships – call now open.
The 2015 Individual Fellowships (IF) call has been published on the European Commission Participant portal. <http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h2020-msca-if-2015.html>
Individual Fellowships offer individual transnational fellowships to the most promising experienced researchers in Europe and beyond.

There are two main types of fellowship:

·         European – these take place at a host institution within a European Member State or Associated Country and involved either movement within Europe or movement from a third country to Europe.

·         Global – these take place at an institution in a third country, outside Europe, and involved movement from Europe to the third country.  Global fellowships have a mandatory 12 month return phase to a European host.


The deadline for application is 10 September 2015.



B.BICE Travel Grants UK/Brazil:
The B.BICE+ project has launched two calls to finance different modalities of working visits and exchanges between Europe and Brazil for research and innovation actors.
The deadline for applications is 6 April 2015.


·         First call: travel grants for research actors – B.BICE will finance EU-Brazil travel to participant in international scientific events (with the aim of promoting EU-Brazil collaborative Projects) or working visits (to build or reinforce a long term partnership or future EU-Brazil collaborative research project) for research actors working for institutions based in Brazil or EU Member States/Associated Countries

·         Second Call: exchange visits for innovation actors – finance for one representative of a Brazilian or European institution willing to organise a visit exchange to a partner institution.  The call is particularly targeted at representatives of innovation organisations, laboratories or research institutions, innovation agencies and networks. Exchanges of up to EUR 3000 will be financed.

B.BICE+ is an International Cooperation (INCO) project funded by the European Commission aiming to enhance bilateral cooperation and to support political dialogue in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) among Europe and Brazil.  Further information is available here<http://www.b-bice-plus.eu/b-bice-launches-two-calls-for-travel-grants-press-release/>.

If you require any further information then please do get in touch.

Kind regards

Katie

Katie Robinson
Horizon 2020 Project Officer
Research and Knowledge Exchange Services
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