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.

Solutions for product supplies, vaccines, treatment and diagnosis

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Projects should be able to be quickly implemented and focus on increasing supplies of products to deal with the pandemic, vaccines, improving COVID-19 treatment and diagnosis, and new public health measures.

Amount
€12M
Agency or Funder
Ministry of Science and Innovation
Eligibility (if available)

Companies and technology centres

Emergency response to COVID-19 in Peru (CLOSED)

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Funding for innovative and low-cost solutions focused on COVID-19 diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology, PEE, and telehealth.

Amount
Up to PEN 350,000
Agency or Funder
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, Peru
Eligibility (if available)

Public and private Peruvian institutions, non-profits, universities, and international and foreign centres based in Peru

Foreign participation? (where known)
No

Made in Canada filtration material for the manufacture of N95 respirators and surgical masks

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Finding alternative filtration material to manufacture N95 respirators and surgical masks for healthcare workers.

Amount
CA$6M
Agency or Funder
National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
Eligibility (if available)

Business for-profit based in Canada

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

CITRIS Seed funding for transformative technology and policy solutions

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Proposals should focus on how information technology can change the way the pandemic is handled. Projects should be able to be rapidly implemented through public and private channels, with large scaling possibilities and technology transfer.

Amount
Up to $50,000 per project
Agency or Funder
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers with Principal Investigator status at UC Berkeley, UC Davis (including UC Davis Health), UC Merced, and UC Santa Cruz.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Project funding for Vienna-based companies

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Support for rapid development and production of medical devices, software, protective equipment, tools for social distancing, and expansion of diagnostic capacities or logistics solutions.

Amount
Up to €200.000
Agency or Funder
Vienna Business Agency
Eligibility (if available)

Vienna-based companies

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Long term impact of COVID-19

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Research must address long-term impacts of COVID-19 to support recovery and learning for health and care services, and to mitigate the impact of any further waves of infection.

Amount
Not specified
Agency or Funder
National Institute for Health Research
Eligibility (if available)

Any UK institution

Date application deadline

Applied health research focused on low and middle-income countries

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Call for epidemiology, clinical management, infection control and health system response studies looking to mitigate the pandemic’s health impacts in low- and middle-income countries.

Amount
Up to £1 M
Agency or Funder
UK Research and Innovation and the National Institute for Health Research
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers from LMICs and the UK

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Rapid response call for UK-led research into COVID-19

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UKRI calls for projects with potential to deliver a significant contribution to the understanding, prevention or management of the COVID-19 outbreak within 12 months.

Amount
UK - 80% of full economic costs. Overseas - 100% direct costs only
Agency or Funder
UK Research and Innovation and the Department of Health and Social Care
Eligibility (if available)

Principal investigator must be hosted by an institution eligible for UKRI funding.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline