This month's activities
6 March - European Space Research Fund consultation sessions
The UM hosted a day of one on one consultations in collaboration with MCST in conjunction with the Space Research Fund call which is due to open this month. Seven sessions were held during the course of the day between UM resident academics interested in applying under this call, an MCST and RSSD representative as well as a representative from the European Space Agency (ESA). Best of luck to all UM applicants.
Upcoming activities
25 - 29 March - Visit by Research Support delegates from the Holon Institute of Technology, Israel and Ordu University, Turkey. The delegates will be hosted by the UM International Office as well as RSSD, and shall participate in presentations about their respective organisations together with several Faculty and lab visits, and job shadowing sessions.
Funded projects
The winners are...
Philip Farrugia for the Horizon 2020 ICT-25-2018-2020 project 'Personalised Recovery through a Multi-User Environment: Virtual Reality for Rehabilitation - PRIME-VR2'
Claire DeMarco for the Horizon 2020 TWINNING project 'a Virtual and physical ExperimeNtal Towing centre for the design of eneRgy Efficient sea-faring vessels - VENTuRE'
Congratulations to the winners and their teams!Open Calls
MCST Space Research Fund call 2019This call will open in March 2019. The Space Research Fund continues to provide financial support for research, development and innovation in the downstream Satellite Earth Observation (EO) sector, specifically projects that deal with the processing and exploitation of data collected through EO satellites. The call is open to all Maltese Legal Entities.
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Science and Technology Cooperation Project China - Malta
An agreement has been made by the Joint Commission on Science and Technology between the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of the People's Republic of China and the Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) with the aim of strengthening the scientific collaboration between the two countries and to increase the R&D activities; facilitating the transfer of technology; and maintaining a comprehensive, steady and long term cooperation through the support of researchers' mobility, and the networking of industries, universities and research institutions to generate mutually beneficial win-win research. A call for Expressions of Interest (EoIs) shall be issued between this and next month, followed by a call for proposals. MCST is allocating a total Budget of EUR 350,000 under this call.
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ERC grants
Are you a researcher with an excellent scientific profile and with visionary research projects in mind that you want to realise in Europe? The European Research Council (ERC) has a funding scheme that will meet your needs.
Attention to all applicants: A new work programme is published with some minor changes to the programme.
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Starting, Consolidator, Advanced, Synergy and Proof of Concept Grants
- Call open. Deadline: 7 February 2019
- Call to open shortly. Deadline: 29 August 2019
- Call open. Deadline: 25 April 2019, 19 September 2019
- Call closed. Next call will be published soon
- Call closed. Next call will be published soon
COST
These are Europe-wide networking actions in various research areas.
Next collection date: 5 September 2019.
Marie Sk艂odowska Curie Actions (MSCA)
Would you like to learn more about the revamped Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie actions? Searching for bottom-up research funding and host a post-doc researcher? Are you a research institution/company looking for partnership with academia in third countries as well as industry? The following call for proposals are currently open:
MSCA Individual Fellowships (IF): Are you a post-doc researcher living anywhere in the world and looking for a research experience in Malta? Are you a UM Academic who is welcoming post-docs for carrying out research projects, contributing their unique expertise and maximising the use of your expertise and infrastructure? If so this programme is for you. Fellowships are available for up to two years and cover the salary of the researcher, mobility and family allowances, training and research costs and management costs. These fellowships may also include a secondment period of up to three or six months in another organisation in Europe. Proposals are submitted by the researcher jointly with the UM academic. RSSD in collaboration with MCST is offering support in sourcing international researchers through advertising on the Net4mobility network. Please contact us for more information.
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Opening date: 11 April 2019
Deadline: 11 September 2019
Vision 2020 Network
UM is a member of the Vision 2020 Network and leads the Marine & Maritime Helix. It is now possible to join winning consortia under Horizon 2020 through the Crowdhelix platform. We are pleased to announce that YOU as a University of Malta academic / researcher can now use this platform in order to:- find partners to join you in a consortium for a proposal you wish to lead
- join a consortium applying under a particular call as a partner.
SPIN - The New Research Funding Software
As you begin thinking about your next research project, we encourage you to consider utilising SPIN, an extensive research funding opportunity database. Visit the website at .SPIN contains over 40,000 opportunities from more than 10,000 sponsors. Training sessions are organised upon request for groups of 5 or more. For further information please contact Karen Cacciattolo.
For further information as well as support in the application process, get in touch with the today.
