Kicking of 2021 we had some of the Edinburgh Research Office (ERO) team highlighting ‘Grant Opportunities and funding landscape changes in the Covid-19 era‘ as part of Webinar 7. Dr Andy Liken and Al Innes highlight some of the grant opportunities that exist in the Covid-19 era as well as some of the cuts to funding from organisations and charities.
The ERO experts also provide a heap of resources and support to help you navigate through this and make the experience as painless as possible including (these links were relevant to this webinar in Jan 2021):
ACCORD rules: updated guidance and FAQs regarding research during the COVID19 pandemic
UKRI COVID-related funded projects across UK: bubble-map
UKRI up-to-date COVID-related funding opportunities
Expression of interest: emergency route for time-critical COVID-19 research
Interventions to reduce antibiotic resistance or transmission
Applied global health research: improve health in LMICs
Pre-announcement: Healthy Ageing Catalyst Awards 2021
Researcher Initiated Grant Schemes – limit £300k
Prioritised support for urgent COVID-19 research. Rolling deadline,
Covid-19 Therapeutics Accelerator
Wellcome changing strategic focus 2021
CRUK funding for Discovery, Translational, and Clinical streams
NIHR-BHF Cardiovascular Partnership
ERC 2021 available, Horizon 2020 open to UK researchers
