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.

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

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

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

Improving patient health and understanding the pathogenesis of COVID-19 to contain the spread

Date added: 08 May 2020

€7M are available for collaborative research projects lasting 12 months that can rapidly acquire knowledge about potential clinical and public health measures to be used immediately to improve patient health.

Amount
Up to €1M per project, €7M total
Agency or Funder
Ministero della Salute
Eligibility (if available)

Leading institutional applicant must be a designated Italian clinically oriented biomedical institute (IRCCS); collaborations must include a minimum of five and a maximum of seven partners

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

Calling all startups

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Funding for startups working on tech-based solutions to problems created by COVID-19

Amount
$500,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
Antler Innovation Pte Ltd
Eligibility (if available)

Open to startups from anywhere in the world.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
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

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

Trinational Nordic and Nordic-Estonian/Latvian COVID-19 data projects

Date added: 15 May 2020

Funding for trinational health data research involving involving at least three countries – either three or more Nordic countries, or two or more Nordic countries plus Estonia and/or Latvia.

Amount
NOK 57M
Agency or Funder
NordForsk
Eligibility (if available)

Project leader must hold a PhD and work at the host institution

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
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

Call for proposals from businesses to make UK more resilient to COVID-19 pandemic

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Support for UK businesses to focus on emerging or increasing social and industrial needs during and following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Amount
£20M
Agency or Funder
Innovate UK
Eligibility (if available)

UK registered businesses (sole traders are not eligible to apply)

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
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

BSAC COVID-19 Funding Call

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

A COVID-19 funding call to support researchers in microbiology in better understanding and addressing COVID-19 outbreak.

Amount
up to £25,000
Agency or Funder
British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Eligibility (if available)

Very broad, including early career researchers and clinical trainees. Note that applications are not normally encouraged from principal investigators and co-workers in receipt of grants in excess of £100K (or local equivalent) in the past two years. See stage.bsac.org.uk/funding/ for details.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Support for trainee researchers

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Support to undergraduate, postgraduate, doctorate and postdoctoral students for diagnosis and treatment projects related to COVID-19

Amount
Up to TL 6,000 per month
Agency or Funder
TÜBİTAK
Eligibility (if available)

Undergraduate, postgraduate, doctorate and postdoctoral researchers

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Enlisting space-based technologies in the fight against COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Companies are invited to propose projects using at least one space-based technology to improve the management of COVID-19 in diagnostics, therapeutics, mental health and education (e-learning)

Amount
50% of the acceptable cost (up to €1M per project)
Agency or Funder
European Space Agency (ESA)
Eligibility (if available)

Candidates from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Point of Care and Home Diagnostic Kit for COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The challenge: to develop a home diagnostic kit, without using a nasopharyngeal swab, that can detect COVID-19 within 3 days of the start of symptoms.

Amount
CA$2,3M
Agency or Funder
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
Eligibility (if available)

Small business based in Canada

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Support Grants for COVID-19 proposals in South Asia

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Projects will examine problems that minorities are facing in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amount
€750-€1,000 per project
Agency or Funder
The South Asia Collective
Eligibility (if available)

Projects should held in the following countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Date application deadline