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.

The 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge for technology solutions to the pandemic

Date added: 05 May 2020

Open call for developers, visionaries, and problem solvers to build open source technology solutions that address three main areas: crisis communication during an emergency, ways to improve remote learning, and how to inspire cooperative local com

Amount
$200,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
IBM
Eligibility (if available)

Developers, designers, and entrepreneurs over the age of 18 or the age of majority in their jurisdiction. Not eligible: Employees of IBM, David Clark Cause, and governmental agencies

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

A special request for technology-driven proposals to address the COVID-19 pandemic

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The call will support Principal Investigators from a CITRIS campus to address COVID-19 from technological angle.

Amount
$50,000 (U.S dollars) per project
Agency or Funder
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and Banatao Institute
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers with Principal Investigator status on any of the four CITRIS campuses: UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced, and UC Santa Cruz

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Aiding industrial competitiveness through R&D in COVID-19 technologies

Date added: 12 May 2020

Projects must combine industrial and research partners and be focused on therapeutics and technologies.

Amount
Minimum of €4M, maximum of €50M (or potentially more)
Agency or Funder
Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and Bpifrance
Eligibility (if available)

Research teams must be based on a partnership between industrial and research actors

Date application deadline

Empowering life sciences with innovative technologies to fight COVID-19

Date added: 29 Apr 2020

Projects should include areas from at least one core technologies – microfluidics;
biophotonics and waves; image analysis and Big Data – and one end-use application.

Amount
€15,000 - €30,000
Agency or Funder
DIM ELICIT
Eligibility (if available)

Research teams from the Ile de France region

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline