External Funding Opportunities

The following external funding calls may be of interest to VALIDATE members (opportunities are also flagged on our Twitter feed).

Please send any opportunities you would like to flag to other VALIDATE members to our Network Management Team (Sam at validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk). Please let us know if you submit, and/or are successful, with any opportunity spotted through the VALIDATE Network, or made with collaborators from the VALIDATE Network (for our reporting purposes).

Funding

Funding with Deadlines

Ongoing Funding

AfOx Fellowship

The AfOx Fellowship provides fellows with an opportunity to work on a project of their choice in collaboration with Oxford-based scholars, while benefiting from the resources available at Oxford University for research.

AREF-MRC Towards Leadership Programme

Support to empower talented, emerging scientists in Africa to compete successfully for UKRI MRC and other major funding opportunities in global health research.

BBSCR Collaborate with Researchers in Norway

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Research Council of Norway (RCN) have signed a Money Follows Cooperation agreement to reduce barriers to cross-border collaboration.

BBSRC Brazil Pump-priming Award

To help scientists add an international dimension to their BBSRC-funded research by making and establishing new contacts with international counterparts.

BBSRC standard research grant

Funding can support a range of activities from research projects to technology development, new infrastructure and equipment, use of equipment and facilities, networks, and summer schools.

BBSRC: International Travel Award Scheme

To help scientists add an international dimension to their BBSRC-funded research by making and establishing new contacts with international counterparts.

BSI Communicating Immunology Grants

The aims of the BSI Communicating Immunology Grants are to stimulate interest in immunology, support formal and informal learning about immunology and promote potential careers options within immunology and inspire future researchers.

BSI Conference Travel Grants

BSI Conference Travel Grants support member attendance at conferences. Apply quarterly, up to £1,000, for eligible members attending scientific events.

BSI Regional And Affinity Groups Conference Travel Grant

The British Society for Immunology (BSI) is delighted to offer these travel grants to eligible members to support their attendance at in-person BSI Regional & Affinity Group conferences.

Daphne Jackson Fellowships

Fellowships for those looking to return to a research career after a break of two or more years for family, health or caring reasons. The aim is to give participants the confidence and skills they need to make a successful return to research.

EMBO Scientific Exchange Grants

Supporting international collaborations, enabling transfer of expertise

ERC Synergy Grant

Are you a researcher that wants to address a research problem so ambitious, that can not be dealt with you and your team alone? The Synergy Grants could be for you!

ESRC New Investigator Grants

For post-doc transition to independence; ESRC remit social science (and interdisciplinary) research

ESRC: New Investigator Grants

New Investigator Grants form one element of ESRC's support for early career researchers and the scheme is specifically aimed at supporting those looking to make the transition to an independent researcher through managing their first research projects

ESRC: Research Grants

Research grants to fund individuals or research teams based at research organisations eligible for UKRI funding.

ESRC: Working with Brazilian Researchers

To help scientists add an international dimension to their BBSRC-funded research by making and establishing new contacts with international counterparts.

ESRC: Working with Luxembourg researchers

Apply to work with researchers in Luxembourg. Collaborative work is governed by an agreement between UKRI and Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR), Luxembourg.

FAPESP Pump-Priming Awards (FAPPA)

A call for international partnerships involving researchers from the UK, and US, China and/or Israel under the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases programme (EEID)

German Academic Exchange Service DAAD Postgraduate Programs

Germany finances through DAAD the participation in one of the postgraduate programs after a first undergraduate course for technical or scientific specialization, a postgraduate or master's program in Germany, in the country of origin or in another foreig

GHIT Fund Investment Opportunities

The GHIT Fund facilitates and invests in global partnerships for the discovery and development of new health technologies, including drugs, vaccines and diagnostics, for infectious diseases prevalent in developing countries.

Google PhD Fellowships

The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields.

IIE-SRF Fellowship

The only global program that arranges, funds, and supports fellowships for threatened and displaced scholars at partnering higher education institutions worldwide.

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) - Postdoctoral Fellowship

Provides the opportunity for researchers based outside of Japan to conduct collaborative research activities with leading research groups at Japanese universities and research institutions for visits of between 12 to 24 months.

Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) awards

These awards are offered to scientists facing unfair obstacles to career progression, including but not limited to people from historically underrepresented races or ethnic groups and people from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

MCR Infections and Immunity Research

Apply for funding for research projects focused on infections and immunity.

MRC Infections and Immunity New Investigator

Apply for funding to research infections and immunity take the next step towards becoming an independent principal investigator.

MRC Infections and Immunity Partnership

Apply for a grant to support new partnerships between diverse groups of researchers in infections and immunity.

NSF: Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)

The multi-agency Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, organismal, and social drivers that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases.

Queensland Earmarked PhD Scholarships

Earmarked scholarships are funded by the Australian Government to assist PhD students with their living costs and tuition fees.

Royal Society Industry Fellowships

This long-standing scheme enables the mobility of talented scientists and engineers from industry and academia in order to move between the sectors.