Hi,

Please find attached a document where you can find all open and forthcoming Horizon 2020 calls – and below a short list of open/upcoming research funding calls.

Open Calls

Academy of Finland September Call, deadline 25 September. Read more

· Interreg Nord 11th Call is open. Deadline 30 September. Read more

· The Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme (NPA) Seventh Call is open. Deadline 30 September. Read more

· NordForsk is issuing a new Nordic-Russian call: Feasibility study for co-production between researchers and local indigenous communities. Deadline 17 October. Read more

· NordForsk is issuing a call for proposals for Nordic Research Infrastructure Hubs. Funding will be provided for high-quality activities that will increase Nordic cooperation on RI by building long-term institutional capacity, promoting excellence, and creating Nordic added value. Deadline 22 October. Read more

· Nordforsk Nordic Programme for Interdisciplinary Research call for projects addressing at least two of the following three areas of science: Life science; Physical Sciences & Engineering; Social Sciences and Humanities, deadline 13 November. Read more

· New call for proposals for Nordic societal security. The call forms part of the NordForsk research programme on societal security and will fund research projects that focuses on what is frequently referred to as the global megatrends. Deadline 20 November. Read more

· Swiss Government Scholarships, academic year 2020/2021. For Finnish students postdoctoral scholarships, PhD scholarships, Research Fellowship scholarships and arts scholarships are offered this year. Deadline 31 October. Read more (F->Finland)

· The European Research Council, ERC Synergy Grant Scheme, deadline 5.11.2019. Read more

· ERA-Net BiodivERsA Joint Call on biodiversity and climate change. Deadline 1^st Phase 05 November 2019. 2nd Phase 10 April 2020 Read more

· Pre-announcement: Research and Innovation Programme on Digitalisation of the Public Sector – call for proposals. Read more

· Research visits to the United States for the academic year 2020-2021. The Fulbright Scholar Programs . The Fulbright Finland Foundation offers many different grant opportunities for pre-doctoral researchers and junior and senior scholars in the U.S. The deadline for applications is on December 8, 2019.

Propose the next profiling theme for the University of Oulu by October 18 2019 (Profi6)

The Academy of Finland will open the next call supporting the profiling of universities(Profi 6 call) in January 2020. The aim of the funding is to support and speed up the strategic profiling of Finnish universities in order to improve their capacity for enhancing the quality of research. The University of Oulu will submit one application for this call. The application will describe a profiling area connected to the university's strategy and an action plan for reaching the desired objective. Each profiling theme will be evaluated and scored individually. The evaluation will assess what is added value of research in the proposed profiling themes at national level. In this call the university of Oulu will apply funding only for a few themes that are connected to the current profiling themes.

We are now inviting researchers to propose themes and measures for which

· utilise the 6G Flagship and connect new application areas to the current research of the Flagship and therefore strengthen digital transformation; the main focus is to develop knowledge in application areas (verticals) in collaboration with the Flagship, or

· strengthen and deepen or refocus the current profiling area(s) or link the current profiling areas to each other.

The proposals should address the global challenges of the UN´s 2030 agenda for sustainable development.

Leave your proposal through the linked Webropol query by 18 October 2019.

More information:Profi6 Call_EN.pdf

Events

Kvantum Science Coffee 27.9. at 9:00-10:00

Science Coffee event studies Space Climate and Solar effects on climate system on September 27th at 9:00-10:00 o'clock in the Tellus Innovation Arena’s Stage. We will hear two introductory talks to the theme. Professor Ilya Usoskin will give a talk entitled "Hostile Sun: extreme solar particle storms" and Docent Timo Asikainen will give a talk entitled "Effects of energetic particle precipitation on climate". More information: https://www.oulu.fi/kvantum/node/63162

Getting Ready for Horizon Europe -workshop 5.11 with Dr. Sean McCarthy

The Next Framework Programme (Horizon Europe) will be launched in 2021. The planning for this Programme started at the beginning of 2017. This half-day workshop has been designed to help Directors, Researchers and Senior Support Staff to monitor (or influence) the development of the Programme. This will be important when preparing strategies for the period 2021 to 2027.

The workshop covers the following items:
- the formal process for preparing the Next Framework Programme,
- the Organisations that will be consulted in the preparation
- the documents that will used at the different phases of the preparation.
- the issues (Political, Economic, Social and Technical) that will influence the content

This highly recommended workshop is based on Seán McCarthy’s ongoing analysis of the debate and 38 years working with the previous 8 Framework Programmes.

Workshop Presenter: Dr. Seán McCarthy http://www.hyperion.ie/seanmccarthy.htm

Best wishes

Päivi