BBSRC - Funding opportunities

Royal Society call: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, deadline 1 March 2012

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:27:59 +0000

This scheme is for scientists in the UK who are at an early stage of their career and wish to conduct research in Japan.

STFC call: Global Challenge Networks - pilot scheme, deadline 29 March 2012, 4pm

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:45:10 +0000

£1M/annum to create multidisciplinary research communities by supporting interactions between STFC-funded researchers and appropriate science, technology and industry groups.
Although this is a STFC call it may be of interest to bioinformaticians

EPSRC Sustainable chemical feedstocks

Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:58:04 +0000

We encourage biological science researchers to become involved with EPSRC's "Sustainable Chemical Feedstocks" funding call for multi-site consortia across the engineering, physical sciences and biological sciences communities to address the challenges in developing sustainable chemical feedstocks for future manufacturing processes.

Horticulture and potato initiative, outline application deadline: 25 April 2012

Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:35:53 +0000

As part of our portfolio of activities related to food security, we are launching a new collaborative funding activity to support excellent quality, industrially relevant research projects on potato and edible horticulture crops. We will invest up to £7M through two calls. The Scottish Government and Natural Environment Research Council are also contributing to this initiative.

Industry fellowships scheme - application deadline: 22 March 2012

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 15:18:28 +0000

The scheme aims to:
Enhance knowledge transfer in science and technology between those in industry and those in academia:
Provide opportunities for an academic scientist to work on a collaborative project with industry
Provide opportunities for someone employed in industry to work on a collaborative project with a university department or a not-for-profit research organisation

Strategic longer and larger grants (sLoLas), outline application deadline: 15 March 2012, 4pm

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:18:29 +0000

Funding typically supports integrated research projects requiring long timescales, extensive resources and/or multidisciplinary approaches. Proposals must be over £2M (FEC project value) and can be up to 5 years in duration.

Food security and living with environmental change

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:48:59 +0000

The fund promotes applications for research within 2 areas of our remit:
Food security
Living with environmental change

Next responsive mode deadline - 24 April 2012

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:51:03 +0000

Applications for grant funding can be made at any time to the Research Committees under our responsive mode scheme, on any topic within our portfolio.

BBSRC-Brazil (FAPESP) joint funding of research - Application deadline: 24 April 2012

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:05:18 +0100

Research Councils UK (RCUK) and FAPESP, the State of Säo Paulo Research Foundation, have agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to welcome, encourage and support applications that may cut across their national boundaries and involve international collaborative teams.

Biotechnology young entrepreneurs scheme, application deadline: 25 May 2012

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 12:04:39 +0000

Teams benefit from entrepreneurial awareness training, and present their plans for hypothetical businesses to real entrepreneurs, financiers and industrialists.

Follow-on funding. Standard Follow-on funding application deadline: 16 May 2012 or Super Follow-on funding (pilot 2) application deadline: 16 May 2012

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:35:35 +0000

The programme is designed to help demonstrate the commercial potential of ideas arising from Research Council funded research. It provides financial support at the very early or pre-seed stage of turning research outputs into a commercial proposition.