News and Events: Funding, Grants and Competitions

Funding, Grants & Competitions

• Horizon 2020 calls with a deadline in 2018

  Deadline: Monday 31 December 2018

  Horizon 2020 is the principal research and innovation programme from the European Commission. It succeeded the 7th framework programme and will run from 2014 until 2020.

  Calls with a deadline in 2018 currently include

  • Euratom

  • Excellent Science

  • Industrial Leadership

  • Science with and for Society

  • Societal Challenges

  • Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation

  For more information, see http://grant-support.uva.nl/research-funding/european-funding/open-horizon-2020-calls/open-horizon-2020-calls.html.

• Register for support tracks for individual grants (FGw)

  Deadline: Monday 31 December 2018
  The Grant Team of the Faculty of Humanities offers special support tracks for individual grants (in particular Rubicon, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Veni-Vidi-Vici and ERC grants). These support tracks consist of several plenary meetings with the candidates. You review the proposals of your fellow candidates, get feedback from fellows outside your own discipline and get advice from laureates or (former) evaluation committee members during workshops. You also receive feedback on your proposal from the grant and budget advisors within our team (please see the 'contact' page for more information on who should be contacted). On this page you will find more information on the tracks we offer.
  For more information, see https://medewerker.uva.nl/fgw/shared-content-secured/medewerkersites/fgw/en/az/grant-team/support-tracks-for-individual-grants/support-tracks.html or contact subsidie-fgw at uva.nl.

• Dutch National Research Agenda - Matchmaking events

  Deadline: Monday 31 December 2018
  Researchers who are employed at Dutch knowledge institutions can submit proposals for the organisation of matchmaking events, within one or more of the 25 routes of the Dutch National Research Agenda (NWA) from the portfolio for Research and Innovation. The purpose of the Matchmaking events is to form (new) consortia across the entire knowledge chain and developing proposals for innovative research. For each initiative, a maximum of € 10,000 can be applied for.
  For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/funding/our-funding-instruments/nwa/dutch-national-research-agenda---matchmaking-events/dutch-national-research-agenda---matchmaking-events.html or contact Mw. E.L.P. Mesters at m.mesters at nwo.nl.

• Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship programme

  Deadline: Monday 31 December 2018
  An IAS fellowship is an opportunity to focus and collaborate on a challenging interdisciplinary research topic for 3 to 6 months. You will do so in an inspiring setting with other research fellows and IAS-affiliated researchers. For part-time fellowships, the duration can be up to one year.
  For more information, see http://ias.uva.nl/engage/researchers/fellowship-programme/about.html or contact ias at uva.nl.

• NWO Open Competition (SSH)

  Deadline: Tuesday 25 September 2018
  With the new funding instrument NWO Open competition - SSH - non-programmed, curiosity-driven research the NWO Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) domain offers researchers the opportunity to do research on a subject of their own choosing without any thematic limitations (non-programmed). The funding instrument is aimed at research projects with primarily social sciences- or humanities-related research questions and problem statements.
  For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/programmes/open+competition+%E2%80%93+ssh.

• NWO KIEM

  Deadline: Monday 31 December 2018
  The Creative Industry - KIEM programme aims to encourage and facilitate fundamental and industrial research. Researchers can apply for funding via KIEM on behalf of consortia of companies and researchers.
  For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/funding/our-funding-instruments/gw/creative-industry/creative-industry---knowledge-innovation-mapping-kiem/creative-industry---knowledge-innovation-mapping-kiem.html.

• Visitor's Travel Grant

  Deadline: Monday 31 December 2018
  Researchers in the Netherlands can apply for a visitor's grant for highly qualified senior researchers from abroad who hold a PhD. With this grant these researchers can stay in the Netherlands for a maximum of four months.
  For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/funding/our-funding-instruments/nwo/visitors-travel-grant/visitors-travel-grant.html or contact Mw. H. Dekker at bezoekersbeurzen at nwo.nl.

• (New) Helmut Veith Stipend for Female Master´s Students in CS

  Deadline: Friday 30 November 2018
  Motivated female students in the field of computer science (CS) who plan to pursue (or pursue) one of the master‘s programs in Computer Science at the Vienna Univeristy of Technology – TU Wien taught in English are invited to apply for the annually awarded Helmut Veith Stipend.
  For more information, see http://www.vcla.at/2018/09/call-for-applications-helmut-veith-stipend-for-female-masters-students-in-computer-science/ or contact master at logic-cs.at.

• (New) ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest on on Artificial Intelligence Technologies

  Deadline: Thursday 10 January 2019

  The ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM SIGAI) supports the development and responsible application of AI technologies. From intelligent assistants to self-driving cars, an increasing number of AI technologies now (or soon will) affect our lives. We interact with AI systems, whether we know it or not, every day.

  We therefore invite all students to enter an essay into the 2018 ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest, to be published in the ACM SIGAI Newsletter "AI Matters".

  This year's topic concerns (i) the requirements, if any, that should be imposed on AI systems and technology when interacting with humans who may or may not know that they are interacting with a machine and (ii) the requirements, if any, that should be imposed on AI systems and technology when making decisions that directly affect humans.

  For more information, see https://tinyurl.com/SIGAIEssay2018.