Science|Business Database: Coronavirus Funding Opportunities

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As a service to the global R&D community, Science|Business has compiled this database of funding opportunities. Users are encouraged to let us know of funding calls that could be incorporated into the database. Please email all suggestions to [email protected]. The database will be updated daily. For rapid news about COVID-19, see our live blog.

Special support for rapid implementation projects

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

A call for R&D projects that can quickly contribute to improving the response of health systems to the impact of COVID-19, contributing to better patient management and the implementation of public health measures.

Amount
€ 1.5M
Agency or Funder
Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
Eligibility (if available)

Portugal-based entities only

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Call for the development of technologies for products, services and processes to tackle COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Part of the third phase of the PIPE programme, aimed at Innovative Research for SMEs. Its objective is to support research for SMEs which have conducted innovative research in the past.

Amount
R$20M
Agency or Funder
São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and FINEP
Eligibility (if available)

Brazilian SMEs based in the state of São Paulo.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

AHA Rapid Response Grant
COVID-19 and Its Cardiovascular Impact

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Cardiovascular-focused applications that will contribute to understanding the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention, clinical manifestations, clinical management (including critical care management) and social beha

Amount
up to $100,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
American Heart Association
Eligibility (if available)

Not specified

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Call for COVID-19 medical or non-medical research projects: CLOSED

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The proposals focused on prevention, diagnostics, treatment and/or (medical or non-medical) consequences of COVID-19.

Amount
€50,000
Agency or Funder
Ghent University
Eligibility (if available)

Ghent University staff or visiting professors only.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

A Swiss funding call for research on COVID-19 diagnostics, immunology and interventions

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Support for researchers from four partner universities in Switzerland on diagnostics, human immune response, medical interventions and disease management.

Amount
0.5M to 2.5M CHF
Agency or Funder
Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH) at University of Basel & ETH Zurich
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers from its four partner institutions (University of Basel, ETH Zurich, University Children’s Hospital Basel and Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute)/ Multi-institutional consortia and collaborations with national or international researchers are encouraged.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Scottish Government funding for COVID-19 research in the field of therapeutics, diagnostics, experimental medicine, data science and social science

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The call will support Scottish universities in their result-oriented research to come up with clinical practice and policy outcomes.

Amount
£1.25M per proposal
Agency or Funder
Scottish Government
Eligibility (if available)

Scottish universities

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Emergency call for COVID-19 research in the wake of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

A rapid call to Austria businesses for COVID-19 projects lasting no longer than 12 months. To accelerate decision making, this call has a deadline of 8 April; a second call will have a deadline of 11 May.

Amount
€ 21 million
Agency or Funder
Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG)
Eligibility (if available)

Austrian companies planning a research and development project in accordance with the KLIPHA-COVID19 tender guidelines

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

An Argentinian call aimed at improving the country's capacity to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Research grants are offered in the fields of diagnosis, prevention, treatment other aspects related to COVID-19.

Amount
$100,000 (U.S. dollars) per project
Agency or Funder
La Agencia Nacional de Promoción de la Investigación, el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación (Agencia I+D+i )
Eligibility (if available)

Inter-American Development Bank members

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Covid-19 research call as part of the Competitive Research Program

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

An opportunity for private and public sector research in the fields of technology and material developement, infection prevention and control, and epidemiology.

Amount
Rs. 20M per project
Agency or Funder
Pakistan Science Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers, research consortia, academia/R&D/industry collaborations

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

North and South: projects linking France with a less-developed country

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Opportunities for resource-limited countries to collaborate with French researchers on COVID-19 diagnostics and countermeasures

Amount
€4M
Agency or Funder
Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le Sida et les Hépatites Virales (ANRS)
Eligibility (if available)

One team based in France associated with a team based in a resource-limited country

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Development and Promotion of Innovative Drugs for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Rather than focusing on existing infectious disease research, the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development particularly wants proposals based on innovative ideas and approaches through technology transfer from different fields and multidi

Amount
3.000-5.000 JP¥ per task per year
Agency or Funder
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Eligibility (if available)

Japanese research institutions only.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Near-market proposals for diagnosis, management and treatment.

Date added: 29 Apr 2020

Innovation Fund Denmark is seeking interdisciplinary projects to mitigate the impact of the outbreak on citizens, the healthcare system or the social economy through diagnosis, management and/or treatment.

Amount
DKK 50M
Agency or Funder
Innovation Fund Denmark
Eligibility (if available)

Any legal entity

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Emergency support for emerging viruses research and ongoing projects

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Three separate calls to support networking, top up existing grantholders, and support projects already selected for funding.

Amount
R$25M
Agency or Funder
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Eligibility (if available)

Companies and researchers from education and research Institutions based in Rio de Janeiro.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Top-up funding for research on therapeutic strategies and diagnostic methods for COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Polish investigators already working on COVID-19 are offered rapid, flexible and additional funding to allow them to intensify their research.

Amount
PLN 10M
Agency or Funder
National Science Center
Eligibility (if available)

Must hold a PhD

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Rapid research on the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Projects should focus on detection, treatment, support crisis management capabilities, enhanced resilience and recovery of India's workers, and small businesses during the pandemic.

Amount
$1M (U.S dollars)
Agency or Funder
Omidyar Network India
Eligibility (if available)

NGOs, research organisations, social entrepreneurs, and for-profit businesses, and partner organisations

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Call for projects to support to clinical and translational proposals to address the COVID-19 emergency

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The call will specifically give support to clinical and translational proposals that include clearly targeted technologies or projects to prevent, treat, monitor, or diagnose the COVID-19 disease.

Amount
€300,000
Agency or Funder
'La Caixa'' Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Non-profit legal entities based in Spain or Portugal.

Date application deadline

Request for proposals focused on the development of medical technologies to combat COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

US Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) is looking to rapidly accelerate the inquiry, testing, and fielding of new 21st-century capabilities, employing novel technologies and approaches to the detection of exposure, prevention, containm

Amount
To be defined
Agency or Funder
Department of Defense (DoD)
Eligibility (if available)

Must be a member of the MTEC consortium to receive a grant, although membership is not required to make an application.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Solutions that address the impact of the outbreak

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation is looking for scientific and technological solutions related to diagnosis, treatment , mitigation and monitoring.

Amount
COP$ 26M
Agency or Funder
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia
Eligibility (if available)

Research institutes and organisations

Date application deadline

DIH-Hero project

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Funded through Horizon 2020, this call will focus on projects in robotics healthcare.

Amount
€1M
Agency or Funder
European Commission
Eligibility (if available)

SMEs and slightly larger companies

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Funding opportunity for research in sub-Saharan Africa

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The EU launches an the emergency funding mechanism to support projects on COVID-19 management and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

Amount
€500,000 per project
Agency or Funder
European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
Eligibility (if available)

EU member states and member states of EDCTP (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia)

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline