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.

Psychological research to support mental health

Date added: 11 May 2020

A call for insights that will help psychologists to work with individuals, families and groups who are struggling to cope.

Amount
Up to 20,000 USD
Agency or Funder
American Psychological Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Applicants must be be affiliated with a nonprofit charitable, educational or scientific institution, or governmental entity operating exclusively for charitable and educational purposes

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Art against COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Proposals should be related to the following themes: state of emergency, radical change, resilience, artistic practice in the future, alone together. Three deadlines: 30.3, 20.4, 04.05.

Agency or Funder
The Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes (SKTI)
Eligibility (if available)

Finnish and Finland-based artists and artist groups

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program is looking for applications to address informatics solutions

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The proposals will focus on the use of informatics to advance COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines.

Agency or Funder
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

More effective procurement for the COVID-19 emergency

Date added: 29 Apr 2020

Projects will collect and analyze data related to emergency procurement with the objective of improving efficiency, and effectiveness during the pandemic

Amount
$3.000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
Open Contracting Partership and Hivos
Eligibility (if available)

Organizations or individuals from any country

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Capacity-building for Argentina’s provinces and municipalities

Date added: 05 May 2020

Projects should contribute to improving scientific capabilities or local technology to strengthen local public health systems.

Amount
ARS50M
Agency or Funder
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
Eligibility (if available)

https://www.argentina.gob.ar/ciencia/financiamiento/id/programa-federal-covid19

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

COVID-19 in haematology

Date added: 05 May 2020

Proposals should address COVID-19 infection in malignant and benign haematologic disorders or haematological and immunological manifestations in COVID-19 infection.

Amount
€120.000
Agency or Funder
European Hematology Association
Eligibility (if available)

Home or host institute must be in Europe

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Call for students to join the fight against the spread of COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Open call for students aged 13 to 17 from around the world to form virtual teams to develop technology-based solutions to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Amount
$500 travel scholarship (U.S dollars)
Agency or Funder
The New York Academy of Sciences
Eligibility (if available)

All countries except those subject to U.S. sanctions

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Mitigating risk in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The AXA Research Fund is earmarking a total of €5M of its project funding budget to develop responses to infectious diseases and COVID-19, including post-crisis solution building.

Amount
€250 000 per project
Agency or Funder
AXA Research Fund
Eligibility (if available)

PhD holders from AXA Research Fund academic institutions.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Availability of Administrative Supplements and Revision Supplements on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Competitive revisions and additional resourcing for a currently funded grant to meet increased costs that are within the scope of the approved project but unforeseen when the new or competing renewal application was awarded.

Amount
Not limited
Agency or Funder
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) - NHLBI
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. The second part of the rapid call (the first part has a deadline of 8 April).

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

Using research to make healthcare more effective

Date added: 05 May 2020

The Donaghue Foundation wants researchers to submit COVID-19 proposals as part of its general call for projects to improve the value of the healthcare provided to patients and communities.

Amount
$400,000 (U.S. dollars) per award
Agency or Funder
Donaghue Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Investigators at tax-exempt research institutions in the United States.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Canadian researchers called to contribute to the national and global COVID-19 response

Date added: 05 May 2020

The funding for rapid research in a variety of fields responding to the current phase of COVID-19 pandemic in Canada and around the globe, which is focused on slowing and stopping the spread of the virus.

Amount
C$107.9M
Agency or Funder
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Eligibility (if available)

The principal applicant must be an independent researcher appointed at a CIHR eligible institution. Some projects require collaboration with an institution in a low- to middle-income country.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

COVID-19's impact on women and domestic violence

Date added: 06 May 2020

Support for early-stage research projects exploring women, victimisation, and domestic violence in the COVID-19 crisis. Research projects that focus on developing and developed nations are welcome.

Amount
$20.000 (USD)
Agency or Funder
The National Bureau of Economic Research
Eligibility (if available)

Applicants must be current affiliates of an academic institution

Date application deadline

Equipment for animal-free research in UK universities

Date added: 08 May 2020

Diagnostic tests, disease development, and drug identification/testing tools will be granted for immediate COVID-19 related research.

Amount
Quasi Vivo Systems, and £500 consumables budget
Agency or Funder
Animal Free Research UK and Kirkstall Ltd
Eligibility (if available)

Research must take place at a UK institution

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Non-vaccine clinical trials and other applied research

Date added: 08 May 2020

Funding for a wide array of COVID-19 research and clinical trials of new drugs and near-market tests.

Amount
Up to €2 million
Agency or Funder
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Eligibility (if available)

Individual projects and research consortia of up to 3 partners

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Grants for rural tribes and tribal organisations at risk of COVID-19.

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The funding will assist tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian health organisations, and health service providers to tribes to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19.

Amount
$15,000,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration
Eligibility (if available)

Tribes, tribal organisations, urban Indian health organisations, and health service providers to tribes serving rural communities

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Top-up funding for Smart Growth Operational Programme beneficiaries

Date added: 05 May 2020

Funding for new research tasks aimed at fighting the COVID-19 pandemic within ongoing projects.

Amount
PLN 15M
Agency or Funder
The Foundation for Polish Science
Eligibility (if available)

Existing beneficiaries of the TEAM, TEAM-TECH, FIRST TEAM, HOMING and POWROTY/Reintegrations programmes

Date application deadline