Dear all,

 

Please find below a summary of upcoming research funding calls. You can subscribe  to our bi-weekly Research Funding Newsletter at  http://newsletter-researchfunding.oulu.fi/.

In addition, you can use also  the Research Funding deadline calendar in Notio, which includes also Horizon 2020 deadlines.

 

 

Research Funding Calls

·        Valtioneuvoston tutkimus- ja selvitystoiminnan haku 2019 (VNTEAS) DL 15.11.

·        K.H. Renlundin säätiö/foundation: for geological and environmental research DL 30.11.2018

·        H2020/ Marie Curie:  MSCA Innovative Training Networks (ITN), DL 15.1.2019

·        The Bioeconomy in the North (BiN) Program DL 17.1.2019

·        H2020 Future and Emerging Technologies Open (FET-Open), DL 24.1.2019

·        European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant, deadline 7.2.2019.

·        Kunnallisalan kehittämissäätiö rahoittaa kuntia koskevia tutkimushankkeita ja myöntää alan tutkijoille apurahoja, deadline 28.2.2019.

·        Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation (continuous call)

·        International joint call: Trans-Atlantic-platform – Social Innovation, DL February 14 2019

 

·        Pre-announcement: STN – Strategic Research:  DL January 2019

Teemat/themes:

1.      Kohti kestävää, terveellistä ja ilmastoneutraalia ruokajärjestelmää /

Towards a sustainable, healthy and climate-neutral food system

2.      Innovatiiviset materiaalit ja palvelut resurssiviisauden ja kestävän kehityksen edistäjinä /

Innovative materials and services to promote resource wisdom and sustainable development

3.      Julkisen vallan muuttuva rooli ja yhteiskunnan ohjaamisen mahdollisuudet /

                    The evolving role of public authority and the potential for steering society

4.      Kulttuuri teknologisoituvassa yhteiskunnassa/ Culture in an increasingly technologically driven society

 

·        Pre-announcement: ERA-NET Bioenergy  ,DL January 2019

·        Pre-announcement: NEW ERA-NET Cofund on the Blue Bioeconomy

·        Pre-announcement: International joint call, Solar-driven chemistry, DL February 2019

 

 

Events

·        Brown bag lunch event 13.11. klo / at 11-12, Business Kitchen

·        Fulbright Grant programme info 14.11.

·        Kunnallisalan kehittämissäätiö/ Työsuojelurahasto/ PoDoCo  - infotilaisuus 19.11.2018 klo 12-15.30, L8

·        Kvantum Science coffees 30.11. and 18.12.

Next Kvantum Science Coffee will be served on November 30, starting at 9:00 in the Tellus Innovation Arena’s Stage. The questions of the day treat hydrology, water resources and global change. Researchers Hannu Marttila, Pertti Ala-Aho and Jussi Jyväsjärvi act guides to this current topic with the following introductions:

‒     How bioeconomy effects on water resources?

‒     Future changes in snow hydrology?

‒     Groundwater depended ecosystems

 

Kvantum Science Coffee is a casual and relaxed discussion forum where researchers can present new ideas, get feedback and collaboration within or outside of own discipline, discuss about methods or other scientific practices, or just raise discussion about topical themes. If you want to suggest a topic for the Science Coffee, please contact coordinator Pirjo Taskinen for further information.

 

·        The 12. International Conference on Cold Regions Research and Development ISCORD 2019 will be arranged in Oulu on June 17-19, 2019.

Call for abstracts for is open until November 14, 2018. More about the conference and the call for abstracts in the conference pages

 

 

·        Kolarctic CBC info event and the possibility to pitch your idea 

Regional Council of Lapland will keep an application info on Wednesday 21.11. (around 10.00 -11.00 tbc) at the university of Oulu. After the info event researchers will have the opportunity to discuss their application ideas with a Kolarctic CBC advisor. Would you be interested in presenting your idea to the advisor? If yes, then please contact Research Funding Specialist Kirsi Ojutkangas kirsi.ojutkangas@oulu.fi at the very latest by Thursday 8.11.2018.

 

Kolarctic Cross Border Cooperation 2014-2020 is a financing programme for supporting cooperation between the countries in the North Calotte (Finland, Sweden, Norway) and northwest Russia. It is one of several EU programmes supporting cross-border cooperation across the EU external borders. The Programme offers EU funding and National financing to projects that are in line with the Programme’s strategy. The Managing Authority of Kolarctic CBC 2014-2020 in Finland is the Regional Council of Lapland in Rovaniemi.

The 3rd Call for Proposals is now open. Applications can be submitted from 21.9. until 21.12.2018 at 1600 Finnish time.

 

 

Have your say – propose new Academy Programmes or strategic research themes

 

The Academy of Finland and the Strategic Research Council (SRC) are inviting proposals for new strategic research themes and Academy Programmes for the year 2020. The Academy and the SRC have opened a survey where members of the scientific community and other end-users of research knowledge across society can have their say and participate in the formation of topics and themes for Academy Programmes and SRC programmes.

Click here to go to the survey.

You may submit several proposals and comment on proposals submitted by others. You can use the appendix feature to add a more extensive description of the topic you are proposing. The survey is open until the end of November and it’s open to all interested parties.

Visit the AoF website to read more about the survey.  

 

 

Best wishes

Päivi

 

Päivi Tomperi

Research Funding Specialist

Research Support Services

University of Oulu

Paavo Havaksen katu 3

P.O Box 7300

90014 Oulu

Finland

 

tel. +358 (0)294 483972

e-mail: paivi.tomperi@oulu.fi

 

Room: IT 252