[Physstaff] Fwd: RKES International Funding Bulletin

Thu Apr 28 20:44:54 BST 2016

FYI

Professor Erling Riis
Head of Department
Department of Physics       Tel: 0141-5483490
Strathclyde University
John Anderson Building      e-mail: e.riis at strath.ac.uk<mailto:e.riis at strath.ac.uk>
Glasgow, G4 0NG
UK

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From: Michael McTernan <michael.mcternan at strath.ac.uk<mailto:michael.mcternan at strath.ac.uk>>
Date: 28 April 2016 at 16:16:09 BST
To: <e.riis at strath.ac.uk<mailto:e.riis at strath.ac.uk>>
Subject: RKES International Funding Bulletin
Reply-To: Michael McTernan <michael.mcternan at strath.ac.uk<mailto:michael.mcternan at strath.ac.uk>>

Welcome to the third edition of the monthly RKES International Funding Bulletin. I hope the information is useful. Best, Michael
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International Funding Bulletin

The RKES International Funding Bulletin identifies opportunities for International Research & Knowledge Exchange funding.

This edition features:

  *   Selected H2020 calls and deadlines to note
  *   Latest Newton Fund calls
  *   Energy Innovation calls - Mexico
  *   The Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO) programme
  *   'EUROGIA2020' call on innovative energy technology
  *   Trans-Atlantic Platform call on big data
  *   Call for transnational working groups on Antimicrobial Resistance
  *   ESRC-DFID call on Raising Learning Outcomes
  *   Europe-USA call on molecular plant sciences
  *   Royal Society International Exchanges call
  *   UK-US lead agency agreement
  *   UK-Brazil lead agency agreement

  *   FEATURE: New relationship with City University of New York (CUNY)

Selected Horizon 2020 calls and deadlines

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowships<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=967fae3505&e=ea2f712f58>

  *   The 2016 call for Individual Fellowships is open. The deadline is 14 September 2016.
  *   This action is meant to support the best, most promising individual researchers from anywhere in the world (incoming and outgoing).
  *   The RKES guide to this programme is accessible here.<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=529707aebc&e=ea2f712f58>
  *   The UK Research Office (UKRO) will hold an information event<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=42cef4b32b&e=ea2f712f58> at the University of Edinburgh on 11 May 2016.
  *   10 page application (which can be drafted by the proposed fellow).

ERC Advanced Grants<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=5e3ed1e9ae&e=ea2f712f58>

  *   The next call is expected to be announced in May with a deadline of 1 September 2016.
  *   Designed to allow outstanding research leaders of any nationality and any age to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects in Europe.
  *   UKRO is holding two events in early June for researchers who are interested in applying to the 2016 ERC Advanced Grant call. See here<http://strath.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=1fa6240dd9&e=ea2f712f58> for more info.

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITNs)<http://strath.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=e1bb005b8a&e=ea2f712f58>

  *   Innovative training networks bring together universities, research centres and companies from different countries in Europe and worldwide to train new generations of researchers.
  *   There will be a SPIRAL information session <http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=4a7b9129b4&e=ea2f712f58> on 4 May focused on the programme.
  *   The deadline for the next call is 10 Jan 2017. The application process typically needs a long-run in.

Access the RKES factsheet on key H2020 deadlines and programmes here.<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=5be984d747&e=ea2f712f58>

There will be a H2020 Hints and Tips session<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=c20ecdf273&e=ea2f712f58> on the 18 May.

Latest Newton Fund Calls

DEADLINE
27 June

CALL: Newton Institutional Links<http://strath.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=206291a29f&e=ea2f712f58>

Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Thailand. (Mexico call due shortly).

Aim to build research and innovation collaborations (Size of grant: £50,000 - £300,000)

DEADLINE
27 June

CALL: Workshop grants - Researcher Links<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=cdade1b6f5&e=ea2f712f58>

Brazil, Egypt, India, Turkey and South Africa (Mexico call due shortly)

Aim to bring together early-career researchers to strengthen links

DEADLINE
27 June

CALL: Travel Grants - Researcher Links <http://strath.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=eef2627fcd&e=ea2f712f58>

Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Turkey

For early-career researchers to undertake an international research placement to strengthen links

HINTS & TIPS: Newton Links Grants

  *   The British Council want link grants to be a 'first rung on the ladder' for future collaborations.
  *   They might, for example, lay the foundations for larger Newton <http://strath.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=98c0a5ece3&e=ea2f712f58> Research and Innovation Bridges<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=e767f31763&e=ea2f712f58> grants (currently covering China, Brazil, Malaysia, India).
  *   Horizon 2020 bids (Newton Fund countries Mexico, China & Brazil all have co-funding mechanisms in place).<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=124f30fcc6&e=ea2f712f58>
  *   Bi-lateral funding calls run by the Research Councils.
  *   Other Official Development Assistance programmes (such as Global Challenges Research Fund<http://strath.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=9335af1f16&e=ea2f712f58>, SPHEIR<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=edf3177366&e=ea2f712f58>, The Ross Fund<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=20869d4681&e=ea2f712f58>).

See hints and tips on the call<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=9e2a952ba5&e=ea2f712f58> by Dr Claire McNulty, director Science and Research at the British Council.

COMING SOON: Developing financial systems to support sustainable growth in China
The ESRC and the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) will shortly be launching a call for research proposals focusing on developing financial systems to support sustainable growth in China.<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=6d96779c14&e=ea2f712f58> The call is expected to open in early May.

COMING SOON: Turkey-UK collaborative industrial R&D competition

Innovate UK and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), via the Newton Fund, will shortly be inviting applications for the Turkey-UK collaborative industrial R&D competition. The call is expected to open in late April 2016, when more information will be announced

COMING SOON: Newton Research Collaboration Programme - Engineering

The Royal Academy of Engineering will shortly be inviting applications for the Newton research collaboration programme. The next round will open in June 2016 when more details<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=34cb9a6bbf&e=ea2f712f58> are expected to be announced.

Energy Innovation calls - Mexico

Mexico’s Ministry of Energy (SENER) invites bids for UK HEIs to contribute to the development of two new Centres for Energy Innovation which are to be established in Mexico in the areas of Carbon Capture, Use and Storage<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=8123fe1ab3&e=ea2f712f58> (£20m investment) and Innovation in Smart Grids<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=aac210c95b&e=ea2f712f58> (£18m investment).

Closing date: 31 May 2016

The Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO) programme

The Samsung Global Research Outreach<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=582608f0ae&e=ea2f712f58> (GRO) program is an annual call for proposals that invites the world's leading universities to propose innovative research ideas which will be evaluated for their novelty and alignment with Samsung's various research fields.

This year they are seeking proposals in 24 research areas<http://strath.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=ea75823e59&e=ea2f712f58>.

Selected proposals will be financially sponsored for a one-year period, in amounts up to $100,000 (may be renewed for up to three years).

Closing date: 14 June 2016

Call for transnational working groups on Antimicrobial Resistance
The Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance JPIAMR is pleased to launch a rapid action call for leading scientists and experts in the field to establish Working Groups to identify key questions to be addressed or to identify potential solutions to overcome barriers to antibacterial resistance research studies.<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=059d33a0e4&e=ea2f712f58>

Only transnational Working Groups will be funded. To qualify for funding, each proposal must involve contributors from at least three participating countries.

Closing date: 06 June 2016

EUROGIA2020 call
EUROGIA 2020 aims to foster multidisciplinary, innovative, R&D programmes to build and develop the future energy mix.

The current call for projects<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=03512117f1&e=ea2f712f58> addresses all innovative energy technologies that will, reduce the carbon footprint of energy production and use as well as develop new technologies for energy such as solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, energy efficiency, etc.

Deadline: 23 May 2016

ESRC-DFID Raising Learning Outcomes call 2016
The ESRC and DFID plan to launch the third call in their Raising Learning Outcomes research programme<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=5dddfd7c4a&e=ea2f712f58>. The focus of the 2016 call will be on the dynamic of accountability, asking questions about how this dynamic interacts with contextual factors and elements of the education system to enable or inhibit the raising of learning outcomes for all.

The geographical focus of research in this call will be on low-income countries plus a select group of other priority countries.

To be announced: 26 July 2016

Trans-atlantic Platform - Digging Into Data Challenge
The T-AP Digging into Data Challenge<http://strath.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=d99f877a4c&e=ea2f712f58>  is open to any project that addresses research questions in the humanities and/or social sciences by using techniques of large-scale digital data analysis and shows how these new techniques can lead to new theoretical insights

Deadline: June 29 2016

Europe-USA call on molecular plant sciences

The ERA-NET Coordinating Action in Plant Sciences (9 funding organisations) will issue a call for collaborative research projects<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=eff6461045&e=ea2f712f58> to meet the European and global demand for molecular plant science innovation with a long-term perspective.

  *   Food and Nutrition Security
  *   Non-food crops
  *   Adaptation to a changing climate
  *   Biotic/abiotic stresses

Applications in other areas of molecular plant science are welcomed where the research answers fundamental biological questions of relevance to the development of the European and Global Research Area in molecular plant science.

The will open on 23 June 2016.

Royal Society - International Exchanges

This scheme is for scientists in the UK who want to stimulate new collaborations with leading scientists<http://strath.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=66e65abbdd&e=ea2f712f58> overseas through either a one-off visit or bilateral travel.

Value: £3-12,000

Deadline: 7 June 2016

UK-US Co-Funding
RCUK and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) have lead agency<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=7c42027815&e=ea2f712f58> agreements which can facilitate collaboration between UK and US researchers on:

  *   Economic and Social Research  (ESRC)
  *   Arts and Humanities Research  (AHRC)
  *   Biotech and Biological Science (BBSRC)
  *   Environmental Science, particularly Environmental Biology and Geosciences (NERC).

There are indications that a further lead agency agreement is to follow between the EPSRC and the NSF directorates for Engineering, Mathematical & Physical Sciences Computer and Information Science and Engineering.

UK- BRAZIL Co-Funding
The RCUK-FAPESP (Research Council for State of Sao Paulo) Memorandum of Understanding has been renewed for another 5 years. (It will run until Dec 2020).

FAPESP and NERC announce fund opportunity<http://strath.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=d3c3fb811b&e=ea2f712f58>
The focus of the call is in Earth System Science and Global Environmental Change research.
Closing date: 19 May 2016

BBSRC-Brazil (FAPESP) joint funding of research<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=804108f4f7&e=ea2f712f58>
Collaborative research proposals may be submitted in any area of science that is within the remit of both BBSRC and FAPESP
Closing date: 11 May 2016

AHRC-FAPESP Collaborative Funding<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=8805b3622e&e=ea2f712f58>
Collaborative research proposals may be submitted in any area of the arts and humanities within the remit of both the AHRC and FAPESP. No deadline

ESRC-FAPESP Collaborative Funding<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=3c6bbe77df&e=ea2f712f58>
Collaborative research proposals may be submitted in any area of the social sciences within the remit of both the ESRC and FAPESP. No deadline

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New relationship with City University of New York (CUNY)

Gillian Small, Deputy Vice Principal of CUNY visited Strathclyde on 24 March. Vice Chancellor Small signed an MOU with Professor Sir Jim McDonald, Principal & Vice-Chancellor.

The MOU covers: nano-science, bio-nanotechnology; photonics; structural biology; sustainable cities; entrepreneurship and enterprise.

Two workshops focusing on bionano and photonics have been agreed with CUNY to launch the relationship (led by Prof. Duncan Graham, University of Strathclyde and Prof. Rein Ulijn, CUNY). The first was held in the TIC, April 14-15 and the second will be held in CUNY on 22nd June.

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HORIZON 2020

Download<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=77b40a1100&e=ea2f712f58> the RKES Fact Sheet on Key 2016/17 Deadlines

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WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT

Horizon 2020: Hints and Tips for Successful Applications<http://strath.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=85b2416bee&e=ea2f712f58>

This session will provide detailed hints and tips on what makes a successful application to Horizon 2020. The session will include examples from previous successful applications, comments from reviewers, and advice on how to maximise your score under each section of the evaluation.

18 May 2016 (14:00 - 17:00)

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SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH

The Global Engagements Fund<http://strath.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=261d8f8f2d&e=ea2f712f58> is a University resource that enables groups of researchers to develop collaborations with excellent researchers worldwide and international organisations.

£1-5K per application (No deadlines)

In addition, there is a Horizon 2020 Proposal Development Fund<http://strath.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=4b495856a4&e=ea2f712f58>.<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=a52cb20821&e=ea2f712f58> Financial assistance is available to University staff towards the costs of applying for projects and building consortia.

RKES International Team

The International team supports applications for European and international funding for R&KE activities and education.

Contact points:

Fiona McKenna<mailto:fiona.mckenna at strath.ac.uk> & Alan Duncan<http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=1d4bf21e39&e=ea2f712f58> – Horizon 2020 & EU Programmes
Michael McTernan <http://strath.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=ae5581a923&e=ea2f712f58>  –  International (Non-EU)
Janey Andrews<mailto:j.jandrews at strath.ac.uk> – International Development
Clare McLaren<http://strath.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=3f377fd615&e=ea2f712f58> – Global Engagements Fund
Katie Robinson – (on maternity leave), Horizon 2020 Project Officer

Martin Gregory<http://strath.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e9eb54ce2adf8d15e4903fece&id=975270acaa&e=ea2f712f58> – Head of International

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