NERC-ESSO MoES Call for Proposals: Drivers of Variability in the South Asian Monsoon
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK and The Earth System Science Organization (ESSO) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), India, jointly invite outline bid proposals for research on Drivers of Variability in the South Asian Monsoon.
Up to £3m is available from NERC for this call to fund eligible costs requested by successful grant applications by UK teams. Comparable funding is available from the MoES to fund eligible costs requested in successful grant applications by Indian teams.
Proposals are sought for collaborations between UK and Indian researchers. Projects will be selected through a two stage process.
For further information please visit: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/monsoon/events/ao.asp
Closing date: 16:00 on 22 July 2013
BBSRC-DBT joint call for proposals for Crop Genomics
Following a successful UK-India workshop held in May 2012 in Norwich, UK, the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and India’s Department of Biotechnology (DBT) have now announced a join call inviting proposals for collaborative research projects that support the use of genomics and associated bioinformatics approaches to address crop improvement.
Priority areas for this call fall into two categories:
Enabling technologies:
- Bioinformatics
- Next generation sequencing
- TILLING platform
- Genetic diversity resources
- High throughput chemical profiling
Trait-oriented research:
- Crop stress biology
- Resource use efficiency
- Product quality
- Plant architecture
BBSRC have committed up to £5 million for this call, with matched resources from DBT.
Closing date
For full application: 19 June 2013 (1600 GMT and 2400 IST)
Contacts:
BBSRC:
For eligibility and peer review queries: CGAT@bbsrc.ac.uk
For scientific queries: Debbie Harding
debbie.harding@bbsrc.ac.uk
DBT:
Scientific and administrative queries: Dr Shailja Gupta (shailja@dbt.nic.in)
Further details for the call proposals can be found
here.
Upcoming joint workshop on the South Asian monsoon
Applications are invited for UK scientists wishing to attend a joint workshop between the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences in New Delhi, India, on 4-6 February 2013.
This is part of a new joint initiative between the UK and India on the South Asian monsoon through research on the links between small scale processes and larger scale monsoon variability
Closing date: 1600 GMT on 12 December 2012
For more information and the announcement of the workshop document please visit the NERC website here
AHRC: UnBox Researcher Fellowships
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) announces a call for short term researcher fellowships in India. Applications are invited from researchers interested in undertaking a short-term fellowship with one of a variety of hosts in India in the run up to the 2013 UnBox festival (6-10 Feb 2013) in Delhi.
Successful applicants will form part of small teams working on research relevant challenges at each host for 3-4 weeks leading up to the festival. They will also attend the festival itself, where they will have the chance to bid for further AHRC small-scale funding to continue collaborations.
This opportunity is part of a collaboration with the AHRC, British Council, UnBox festival and the UK’s Science and Innovation Network.
New deadline: India Based (citizens) Creative Entrepreneurs – 8 December 2012
Visit here for more details.
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BBSRC-DBT joint call for proposals Farmed Animal Disease and Health (FADH)
The
UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and India’s Department of Biotechnology DBT) jointly invite proposals for collaborative research projects for control measures and technologies to combat infectious diseases and improve health of farmed animals.
This call is focussed around three priority areas:
- New generation vaccines
- Genetics of host disease resistance
- Novel diagnostic tools
And two underpinning, cross-cutting themes
- Epidemiology and modelling
- Investigating pathogen biology at the molecular level
BBSRC have committed up to £5 million for this call, with matched resources from DBT.
Closing date
For intention to submit 21 January 2013
For full application: 6 March 2013 (1600 GMT and 2400 IST)
Contact
UK - FADH@bbsrc.ac.uk
India - Shailja Gupta shailja@dbt.nic.in
Further details for the call proposals can be found here.
Innovative Engineering for Health:
£30 million partnership between EPSRC and the Wellcome Trust
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Wellcome Trust £30 million partnership is a boost for biomedical engineering research which will fund innovative and multidisciplinary projects that will help to address a defined need in healthcare for which current solutions are inadequate.
Examples of the kind of challenging themes that the funding partners wish to address are:
- Engineering approaches to mental health, with particular emphasis on psychiatric conditions and mood disorders
- Solutions to facilitate neonatal and paediatric care that accommodate the challenges posed by growth and development
- Technologies with the potential to mitigate rare diseases with special reference to solutions that can rectify an abnormality common to multiple disorders.
Awards of up to £10 million are expected for a period up to seven years.
Preliminary application deadline: 10 December 2012
Contact:
EPSRC (Healthcare Technology) - Nicola Goldberg
Wellcome Trust - Technology Transfer
For further information, see: Innovative Engineering for Health
RCUK -DST call for proposals in Smart Energy Grids and Energy Storage Technologies
Research Councils UK (RCUK) Energy Programme and India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) jointly invite UK-India proposals for research projects focusing on Smart Energy Grids and Energy Storage.
Proposals must address one or more of the areas listed below:
- Appropriate distributed storage technologies
- On/off grid energy systems
- DC networks
- Control and communications
RCUK have committed up to £5 million for this initiative, over a three-year period with matched resources from DST.
Closing date: 15 November 2012 (1600hrs GMT and 1730hrs IST)
Contact:
UK - Dr Edward Clarke or Dr Samantha Riches
India - Dr A Mukhopadhyay or Sanjay Bajpai,
For further information please visit: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/open/Pages/SmartEnergyGrids.aspx
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Arts & Humanities Research Council - Research Networking Scheme
The AHRC's Research Networking scheme is designed to encourage and enable
discussion and development of ideas on a specified thematic area, issue or problem
through new research networks or running a short-term series of workshops, seminars
or similar events.
Proposals of up to £30,000 full economic costs for a period of up to two
years may be submitted. An additional £15,000 full economic cost may be sought
to cover the costs of any international participants or activities. The costs
for the additional £15,000 fEC can only be those which can be directly attributable
to international collaboration such as overseas travel and subsistence, international
calls and/or video conferencing.
This scheme operates without formal deadlines.
You can submit proposals at any time of the year and you will be informed
of the outcome of you proposal within a maximum of four months from the end
of the month in which you apply.
All applications to this scheme must be submitted via the cross-council
Joint Electronic Submission - (Je-S) System.
For further information, see the
AHRC website, Please visit the
AHRC blog to find out more about international funding opportunities.
Contact:
Je-S helpdesk on +44 (0)1793 444164 or
jeshelp@rcuk.ac.uk
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MRC Career Development Award in Biostatistics
The Medical Research Council has announced the MRC Career development award
in biostatistics. This award is a postdoctoral fellowship aiming to support
individuals working in, or who wish to move into, health related research. It
provides up to four years of support for the development and investigation of
innovative statistical methods and their application in clinical research. The
scheme is available to individuals with PhDs in statistics, biostatistics or
a related discipline and less than five years post-doctoral experience or to
those who expect to have received such a doctorate by the time they intend to
take up the award. Post-doctoral applicants have no residential restrictions
and may come from any country.
For further information, see:
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Fellowships/Careerdevelopmentawardbiostatistics/MRC003335
For closing dates, see:
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Deadlines/index.htm
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ESRC - Indian academics can be co-investigators on applications for funding
from ESRC.
Applications accepted any time.
Overseas co-investigators from almost anywhere in the world can be included
on ESRC research applications.
For further information, see:
http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/international/inc_of_Coinvest.aspx
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MRC-Indian academics can be co-investigators on applications for funding
from MRC
International collaboration in medical research is facilitated by MRC grant
terms and conditions, which permit co-applicants and collaborators on MRC grants
to be based overseas where the nature of the research makes this necessary.
For further information, see:
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Internationalopportunities/Collaborations/index.htm
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EPSRC - Visiting Researchers.
Applications accepted any time.
Funding for research scientists and engineers of acknowledged standing to visit
a UK research organisation. The visiting researcher can be from anywhere in
the world, including the UK.
For further information, see:
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/grants/network/Pages/visitingresearchers.aspx