News and Events: Funding, Grants and Competitions

Funding, Grants & Competitions

• ERC Proof of Concept

  Deadline: Tuesday 22 January 2019

  All Principal Investigators in an ERC frontier research project, that is either on going or has ended less than 12 months before 1 January 2019, are eligible to participate and apply for an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. The funding will cover activities at the very early stage of turning research outputs into a commercial or socially valuable proposition. The Principal Investigator must be able to demonstrate the relation between the idea to be taken to proof of concept and the ERC frontier research project (Starting, Consolidator, Advanced or Synergy) in question.

  For more information, see https://erc.europa.eu/funding/proof-concept.

• Research Innovation and Sustainability Fund

  Deadline: Friday 1 March 2019

  The Research Innovation and Sustainability (RIS) Fund 2019 enables employees to apply for temporary teaching release in order to have more time to write grant applications, or to finish one or more (substantial, strategic) publications so as to strengthen the track record significantly and qualify for a successful grant application in the near future.

  For more information, see http://aihr.uva.nl/content/news/2018/11/ris-fund-kopie.html or contact Simon Speksnijder at AIHR-fgw at uva.nl.

• NWO Scientific Meetings and Consultations

  Deadline: Tuesday 31 December 2019
  Full, associate and assistant professors and other researchers with a comparable appointment can submit an application for support for the organisation of scientific meetings or consultations for the formation of new teams and consortia. This funding instrument is open for applications with a research question within or that overlaps with the earth sciences, astronomy, chemistry, computer science, life sciences, physics and mathematics.
  For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/funding/our-funding-instruments/enw/nwo-scientific-meetings-domain-science/nwo-scientific-meetings-domain-science.html or contact dr. Varsha Kapoerchan at wbo_science at nwo.nl.

• ERC Consolidator

  Deadline: Thursday 7 February 2019

  Are you a scientist who wants to consolidate your independence by establishing a research team and continuing to develop a success career in Europe? The ERC Consolidator Grant could be for you. You can also apply if you have recently created an independent, excellent research team and want to strengthen it.

  For more information, see https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/erc-2019-cog.html.

• NWO Vici

  Deadline: Tuesday 26 March 2019

  The Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Vici is an NWO grant for senior researchers. It gives senior researchers the opportunity to build up their own research group, often in anticipation of a tenured professorship. The research group must become structurally embedded in the research institution.

  Submission deadline for the 2018 round (pre-proposals) is 26 March 2019, 14:00 hrs (CET). Closing date for the submission of full proposals is 27 August 2019, 14:00 hrs (CEST).

  For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/funding/our-funding-instruments/nwo/innovational-research-incentives-scheme/vici/index.html.

• VCLA International Students Awards 2019 in Logic & Computer Science

  Deadline: Friday 15 March 2019

  The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) at TU Wien seeks nominations for the VCLA International Student Awards 2019, in the following two categories:
  · Outstanding Master Thesis Award
  · Outstanding Undergraduate Research (Bachelor) Award

  The annually awarded VCLA International Student Awards recognize authors of scientific works across the wide spectrum of Logic and Computer Science. The award is dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith, the brilliant computer scientist who tragically passed away in March 2016, and aims to carry on his commitment to promoting young talent and promising researchers in these areas.

  For more information, see https://logic-cs.at/award-call-2019/ or contact award at logic-cs.at.

• Call for Nominations: Ackermann Award 2019

  Deadline: Monday 1 April 2019

  The Ackermann Award is the EACSL Outstanding Dissertation Award for Logic in Computer Science. Nominations are now invited for the 2019 Ackermann Award. PhD dissertations in topics specified by the CSL and LICS conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution between 1.1.2017 and 31.12.2018 are eligible for nomination for the award. The 2019 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at CSL 2020, the annual conference of the EACSL, 13-16 January 2020, in Barcelona.

  For more information, see http://www.eacsl.org/submissionsAck.html or contact Thomas Schwentick at thomas.schwentick at tu-dortmund.de.

• FameLab: Pitch your research!

  Deadline: Thursday 31 January 2019

  FameLab is an international competition for young scientists interested in science communication, co-organized by the UvA's Faculty of Science and the UvA AMC.

  For more information, see http://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-natuurwetenschappen-wiskunde-en-informatica/news/2019/01/famelab-pitch-your-research.html.

• (New) Call for Nominations: 2019 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic & Computation

  Deadline: Friday 1 March 2019

  An annual award, called the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation, was established in 2015.The award is for an outstanding contribution represented by a paper or by a small group of papers published within the past 25 years. This time span allows the lasting impact and depth of the contribution to have been established. The award can be given to an individual, or to a group of individuals who have collaborated on the research.

  Nominations for the 2019 award are now being solicited. The contribution must have appeared in a paper or papers published within the past 25 years. Thus, for the 2019 award, the cut-off date is January 1, 1994. In addition, the contribution must not yet have received recognition via a major award, such as the Turing Award, the Kanellakis Award, or the Gödel Prize. While the contribution can consist of conference or journal papers, journal papers will be given a preference. Self-nominations are excluded. The 2019 award will be presented at ICALP 2019, the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming.

  For more information, see https://siglog.acm.org/alonzo-church-award-for-outstanding-contributions-to-logic-and-computation-2019/ or contact shankar at csl.sri.com.