Academy of Finland to open six calls within five Academy Programmes
The Academy of Finland's April 2019 call will include six calls implemented under the Academy Programmes funding scheme. Four of the calls involve new Academy Programmes, while two calls are supplements to existing programmes.
The aim of the Molecular Regulatory Networks of Life Academy Programme (R'Life, 2020–2023)http://www.aka.fi/en/research-and-science-policy/academy-programmes/current-programmes/RLife/ is to broaden our understanding of the function and structure of the genome. The programme's total funding budget is 8 million euros. The Academy will launch two R'Life calls.
* The main call is open to consortia * The additional call is targeted at researchers who have ongoing funding from the Academy of Finland.
The aim of the C1 Value Academy Programme (C1 Value 2020–2023)http://www.aka.fi/en/research-and-science-policy/academy-programmes/current-programmes/carbon-capture-and-utilisation-of-c1-compounds/ is to find solutions to reduce the amount of carbon compounds in the atmosphere and to utilise C1 compounds in the manufacture of industrial products and materials. The funding budget has been set at 6 million euros.
The Academy Programme Climate Change and Health (CLIHE, 2020–2023)http://www.aka.fi/en/research-and-science-policy/academy-programmes/current-programmes/environmentalhealth/ is designed to include research into the direct and indirect effects of climate change on human health and on maintaining and promoting health, and into developing new assessment techniques and examining the associated prerequisites and risks in the short and long term. The programme's total funding budget is 8 million euros.
The Academy Programme Radiation Detectors for Health, Safety and Security (RADDESS, 2018–2022)file:///C:/Users/03002063/Work%20Folders/K%C3%84%C3%84NN%C3%96KSET/2019/Radiation%20Detectors%20for%20Health,%20Safety%20and%20Security%20%28RADDESS,%202018%E2%80%932021%29 will open a supplementary call targeted at research teams engaged in international cooperation. The international collaboration partner must be based in a country outside the EU. Funding will be granted to projects researching device-driven and functional radiation detection systems. The call's funding budget comes to a maximum of 2 million euros.
The Digital Humanities Academy Programme (DIGIHUM, 2016–2022)http://www.aka.fi/en/research-and-science-policy/academy-programmes/current-programmes/digihum/ will open a supplementary call for research projects that address novel methods and techniques in which digital technology and state-of-the-art computational science methods are used for collecting, managing and analysing data in humanities and social sciences research. The programme's total funding budget is 3 million euros.
The calls will open on Tuesday, 2 April. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, 24 April 2019 at 16.15 local Finnish time. The full call texts will be published on 7 March.
The Academy will organise a webinar about the programme calls on 21 March at 13.00–15.00. University of Oulu Research Support Services will organise an event to follow the webinar together, after which an internal info event will follow.
More informationhttp://www.aka.fi/en/about-us/media/press-releases/2019/academy-of-finland-to-open-six-calls-within-academy-programmes/
Call for Academy Professor applications to open in September 2019
The Academy of Finland will open the next call for Academy Professor applications during the September 2019 call. Applications are submitted in two stages. The letters of intent are reviewed in the September call panels. Applicants for the second call stage are chosen based on the review reports. The second stage will open in spring 2020.
The review panels will rank the applicants. The applicants that are invited to the second stage are proposed by the Academy research councils to the General Subcommittee, which will decide who goes through to the second stage. Applications for the second stage are submitted to the Academy in June 2020. International panels of experts will review the second-stage applications at the beginning of September. The General Subcommittee will make the funding decisions in autumn 2020. The funding period begins on 1 September 2021.
An Academy Professor is an expert who is an internationally esteemed researcher in their field, whose scientific endeavours are viewed to have significant impact on the scientific community and the society. They are expected to promote research in their own field both during and after their Academy Professorship. Research posts as Academy Professor are intended for fixed-term, full-time research work. The term is five years.
At present, there are 34 researchers working as Academy Professorshttp://www.aka.fi/en/about-us/scientists-behind-the-research/ funded by the Academy of Finland.
More information: Vice President for Research Maijala Riitta, tel. +358 295 335 002, firstname.lastname(at)aka.fi
Ennakkotietoja Suomen Akatemian FIRI 2019 hausta ja yliopiston sisäinen hakuaika / Preliminary information on the Academy of Finland FIRI 2019 call and the University's internal application procedure
Oulun yliopiston sisäinen hakuaika päättyy 8.4.2019 / Internal deadline of the University: 8th April 2019
Suomen Akatemia tutkimusinfrastruktuurihaku FIRI 2019 avautuu huhtikuussa ja sulkeutunee toukokuun puolivälissä. FIRI 2019 -haussa voi hakea rahoitusta tutkimusinfrastruktuurien tiekartalla oleville (haku 1) ja tiekartan ulkopuolisille tutkimusinfrastruktuureille (haku 2). Lisätietoja Notiossa: https://notio.oulu.fi/fi/Lists/Tiedotteet/DispForm.aspx?ID=710
The Academy of Finland research infrastructure call FIRI 2019 will open in April and it will close in mid-May. In the FIRI 2019 call you can apply for funding for major national research infrastructures included in the Finnish Roadmap (call 1) and new openings and / or other infrastructures outside the Finnish Roadmap (call 2). More information in Notio: https://notio.oulu.fi/en/Lists/Bulletins/DispForm.aspx?ID=454
Next themes for strategic research are in preparation
The Council for Strategic Research has begun the preparation of the next themes for strategic research for the 2020 calls in collaboration with ministries, universities, RTOs and other stakeholders. The new themes were defined on the basis of more than 200 proposals. The themes were further fashioned in workshops organised by the Strategic Research Council, resulting in the definition of the following societal challenges under the seven themes:
Artificial intelligence:
* Finnish multidisciplinary artificial intelligence * Artificial intelligence at the interface of complexified knowledge society and science
Communality:
* Society and individual-shaping communality * The new forms of communality
Market Economy 2030:
* Intelligent and applied market economy * Sustainable market economy
Learning and knowledge use.
* A learning market economy * Process of learning throughout the life course * Knowledge society and its enablers
Biofutures 2100:
* Sustainable welfare 2100 * Solutions for sustainable a natural resource economy * Planetary wellbeing / planetary resilience
Health:
* Sustainable development and cross-generational health (behaviour) * The new solutions and forms of advancing health and wellbeing
Technology:
* Transformative technologies as drivers of policy change
A tentative timetable for the next calls for strategic research is as follows:
* Spring 2019: Open consultation for stakeholders * Summer 2019: Strategic Research Council proposes research themes to the government * Autumn 2019: Strategic Research council opens calls for proposals after receiving a decision from the government * 2020: Strategic Research Council gives out funding decisions.
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