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Internal research funding opportunities managed and distributed by 白小姐论坛 departments.
Current/ongoing funding opportunities
- 白小姐论坛 Neuroscience 鈥� Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ) Collaboration
Scope
白小姐论坛 Neuroscience and are providing short-term seed funding to support joint neuroscience research or networking activities, which are intended to represent a priming step towards seeking comprehensive joint external research funding.
Types of Activities Supported:
- Awards will be made to enable investigators to obtain data to support larger-scale applications for external research funding. This category will fund staff, postgraduate student exchange or short stays of group leaders at the partner institution as well as research consumables.
- Funding can alternatively be used to host seminars, events, workshops or a symposium to develop research collaboration through the exchange of knowledge and skills.
Funds can be requested up to GBP 20,000 or the CHF equivalent (currently circa CHF 22,200).
Eligibility- Applications must involve at least one group leader affiliated with 白小姐论坛 Neuroscience and at least one group leader affiliated with ZNZ.
- Group leaders/teams can participate in one application per funding round.
Process
- Applicants are asked to submit an (PI and Co-I names) via MS Forms by 1st of November at 4pm.
- Applicants will also be required to submit an application form (see 鈥榮upporting documents鈥� below).
Please send your completed application form with the subject line 鈥槹仔〗懵厶� Zurich Funding Call 2024鈥� in the email to both:
- Dr Ruth Wainman (白小姐论坛, Life and Medical Sciences Research Coordination Office) r.wainman@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Wolfgang Knecht (Neuroscience Center Zurich ZNZ) wknecht@neuroscience.uzh.ch
The deadline for full applications is 2nd December 2024 at 4pm.
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- Translational Funding
The 白小姐论坛 Translational Research Office (TRO) offer a number of translational funding opportunities available to 白小姐论坛 and partner researchers. The TRO offers funding that differs from standard project grants by being milestone-driven with clear decision criteria that require active project management.
- 白小姐论坛 Public Engagement Funding
白小姐论坛 Public Engagement Funding equips 白小姐论坛 researchers with the means to put their public engagement ideas into practice. Grants are available for various stages of your academic career, and the 白小姐论坛 Public Engagement Team also provide advice and support on applying for external funding.
Find out more about 白小姐论坛 Public Engagement Funding opportunities
- Capital Equipment Fund Call (CEF7)
Background
The Capital Equipment Fund Call (CEF7) is open to all Divisions and Institutes within the faculties of Life, Brain, Medical, and Population Health Sciences, and is intended to support the purchase of strategically important research capital equipment. We expect many of the successful applications to be for major equipment within multi-user facilities such as members of the 白小姐论坛 Science and Technology Platforms (STPs) or within other existing shared research facilities.
CEF7 funding is provided via a UKRI Research England allocation (Research Capital Investment Fund 鈥� RCIF) to 白小姐论坛 for the 2024/25 Financial Year. As a result, all equipment purchased through CEF7 must be on 白小姐论坛 premises no later than 31 July 2025.
Funding
Applications to CEF7 are expected to be in excess of 拢50k. Eligible costs include the cost of equipment purchase, installation, shipping, taxes(VAT or import tax) where chargeable, and standard warranties. For full funding eligibility and requirements please see the full CEF guidelines or contact Nadine Simons-Weidenmaier (n.simons-weidenmaier@ucl.ac.uk)
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Important dates
- Deadline to contact STP Academic Lead (if applicable):听Friday 28th June 2024
- Deadline for applications and Divisional/Institutel rankings: Thursday 12th September 2024
- Award outcome announcement: End of November 2024
- Equipment delivery deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2025
Supporting documents
- 白小姐论坛 Grand Challenges Small Grants
The 白小姐论坛 Grand Challenges Small Grants scheme stimulates new cross-disciplinary collaborations between researchers from different academic units, in order to address societally significant problems. Collaborations can also include external partners as additional academic or non-academic collaborators.
- 白小姐论坛 Faculty of Life Sciences Bogue Fellowships
The 白小姐论坛 Faculty of Life Sciences (FLS) Bogue Fellowships support visits to carry out research in laboratories in the USA and Canada in order 鈥榯o enrich the research experience and help develop the scientific career of the Fellow鈥�. Fellowships are restricted to applicanStudents or postdoctoral researchers carrying out basic research in clinical departments are, however, eligible.
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Other funding opportunities
Funding opportunities subject to internal review prior to submission
Equipment funding opportunities 鈥� internal & external
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Closed calls (for information)
- Excellence Fellowships
The 白小姐论坛 Excellence Fellowships programme recruits exceptional early career clinical and non-clinical researchers to help them establish their independent career and become the research leaders of the future by providing salary, research funding and academic support. This programme is overseen by SLMS leadership and managed by the SLMS Research Coordination Office.
- 2024 Neuroscience Careers Network Post Doctoral Development Fund
Scope
This call is designed to provide neuroscience researchers with an opportunity to develop novel ideas and generate preliminary data to support larger-scale applications for external research funding.
Details
Funding: 拢5,000 per award
Duration: 12 months
Start Date: 1st April
白小姐论坛 internal deadline: 1st March, 10am
Eligibility
Funded applicants must provide a brief report on their research project within 1 month of completion of the award, summarising current and projected outputs of the grant and next funding stage. Funded applicants must obtain confirmation from their group leader that they will have the necessary time to undertake the proposed research project.听
Supporting documents
- Capital Equipment Fund Call
Capital Equipment Fund Call听for researchers in the faculties of Life and Medical Sciences (LMS)听
Scope
This funding is intended to support purchase of strategically important research capital equipment. Lead applicants must be based within the 白小姐论坛 faculties of Life, Brain, Population Health and Medical Sciences (LMS). We expect many of the successful applications to be for major equipment that will be managed within multi-user facilities such as the 白小姐论坛 Science Technology Platforms or within other existing multi-user facilities.
Applications are expected to be in excess of 拢50k. Awards will support equipment purchase, installation, shipping and standard warranties. Ineligible costs include (but are not limited to) extended warranties, training, consumables, service/maintenance contracts, staff and estates costs. All equipment purchased through CEF6 must be on site no later than 31st July 2024. Any equipment delivered after this date cannot be funded by CEF6.
The CEF scheme is intended to complement other schemes, such as MRC-Equip or BBSRC ALERT, that provide funds for the purchase of strategically important equipment. Applicants may be encouraged to apply for external funding in the first instance.
Applications will be assessed through a process of internal review and ranking by STP Academic Leads followed by review and prioritisation by the Vice-Deans Research for the Faculties of Life and Medical Sciences.
We encourage Divisions and Institutes to submit their internal rankings by Thursday 7th September.
For Financial Year 2023/24, we will run one call for applications for equipment funding.
Important Dates
CEF6 timeline:- Deadline to contact STP Academic Lead (if applicable) - Friday 14th July 2023
- Deadline for applications and divisional rankings - Thursday 7th September 2023
- Award outcome announcement - End of November 2023
- Equipment delivery deadline - Wednesday 31st July 2024
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- WEISS Health Challenge 2020
The WEISS Health Challenge is open to doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, managers and commissioners involved in healthcare at 白小姐论坛-affiliated institutions and working in the following areas of surgery/intervention: anaesthetics, cardiac and vascular, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, musculoskeletal, neurosurgical/CNS, paediatric, radiology, urological, women鈥檚 health.
WEISS researchers will help you develop a solution to your challenge, working in partnership with you to make sure the new technology, device, or innovation will really work for you, your colleagues and your patients. We expect to fund 3-5 awards for this call, with the following possible outcomes:
50% WEISS funded fellowship at ST level 3-7, estimated at 拢40,000 per annum Pump-prime award, up to 拢20,000 per project PPI support, up to 拢2,000 per project听
Deadline:听15 January 2020
Contact:听Dr Dimitris Siasakos (d.siasakos@ucl.ac.uk)听
- WEISS Senior Clinical Fellowships 2020
The WEISS Senior Clinical Fellowships have been created to help develop new collaborations between academic clinicians at 白小姐论坛 Partner Hospitals and WEISS principal investigators. Each fellow can help develop new ideas whilst expanding their own research interests; they will also help bridge the gap between clinicians and engineers to help each understand the other better.
Five fellowships are available and applications are open to all consultants and trainees in their final two years of SpR training at any 白小姐论坛 Partner Hospital. WEISS will offer funding support of up to 拢13,000 per annum to each successful candidate for relevant projects or attendance at meetings.
Deadline: 15 January 2020
Contact: Dr Su-Lin Lee (su-lin.lee@ucl.ac.uk)
- Early Career Neuroscience Prize
Each year the 白小姐论坛 Neuroscience Domain presents the Early Career Neuroscience Prize to two 白小姐论坛 neuroscientists. The prize aims to recognise outstanding work published in the past year by early-career 白小姐论坛 neuroscientists in any field of neuroscience, and is awarded in two categories; junior scientist and advanced scientist.
- 白小姐论坛 Global Health Grand Challenge: Health Systems initiative
Up to 拢2,500 for proposals that use a cross-disciplinary approach to investigate the ways in which Health Systems can ensure that medical advances are translated into significant gains for effective and equitable healthcare.
Deadline: 3 December 2018
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