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.

Prevention and combat of outbreaks, endemics, epidemics and pandemics

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Support for postgraduate researchers in fields such as epidemiology, infection, microbiology, immunology, bioengineering and bioinformatics.

Amount
R$70M
Agency or Funder
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers of post-graduate program coordinated by CAPES

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

EIT calls for innovative proposals to address COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The EIT partnership is looking to make an immediate response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Topics such as vaccine and drug discovery/development will not be funded.)

Amount
€600,000
Agency or Funder
EIT Health
Eligibility (if available)

Projects led by EIT Health Core or Associate Partner, in a consortium with at least two partners

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

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

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

Australasian Leadership Computing Grants

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The call will provide access to leadership-class computing resources for projects related to COVID-19.

Agency or Funder
National Research Infrastructure for Australia (NCRIS) & National Computational Infrastructure Australia (NCI)
Eligibility (if available)

Australian higher education institution or research institute, or publicly funded research agency based in Australia.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Call for proposals to accelerate solutions that minimize the impacts of COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Solutions should aim at identifing risk areas, educating the population and preventing new contamination. Effective solutions should include educational and preventive measures against COVID-19.

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

Companies, startups, institutions, government, universities, and individuals

Date application deadline

Using satellite technology to decrease the impact of COVID-19 in the Mexican society

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Proposals will use space technology to decrease contagion among the population, support for the most vulnerable groups, mitigate the impact of the pandemic and reactivate the economy and psychological support for people in confinement.

Agency or Funder
Agencia Espacial Mexicana (AEM)
Eligibility (if available)

Maximum size of research group is 5, all at least 18 years old, with no restriction on educational qualification.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Innovative ideas to develop solution to combat the pandemic

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The ''Roche Canada COVID-19 Innovation Challenge'' is looking for applicants from various backgrounds to address the COVID-19 pandemic

Amount
C$50,000 per program
Agency or Funder
Hoffmann-La Roche Limited
Eligibility (if available)

Individuals, corporations, partnerships or other organizations based in Canada

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Call for proposals on how we can help children, parents, and educators deal with the Covid-19 crisis around the world.

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The project aims to study on what the extent to which technology can accelerate learning and skills for both children and adults in low- and middle-income countries

Agency or Funder
The Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF) - World Bank
Eligibility (if available)

Only World Bank task team leaders and their respective units are eligible to apply

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
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

Urgent call for research to support the response to COVID-19 in humanitarian settings

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

This call focuses on priorities related to the current COVID-19 outbreak in humanitarian settings in low and middle-income countries. Vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics will not be funded. Two further deadlines on 20 April 2020.

Amount
Not stated
Agency or Funder
Elrha
Eligibility (if available)

Refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in camps or urban settings, and conflict affected people, in low and middle income countries

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

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

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

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