Below is a variety of calls for funding coming up this spring. If you are interested to hear more about the topics, contact the research advisers at the Faculty to discuss funding opportunities at medforsk@uib.no. And there are more calls to choose from at our website: Application Support for External Funding | Faculty of Medicine | UiB.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation:
- Innovations for Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery. 3 years, 5 M USD. For drug discovery involving small molecules directed against Klebsiella.
- Enhancing HIV and TB Diagnosis: Adjunct Technologies for Sample collection and Processing. 2 years, 250.000 USD
- Reducing the Burden of Preeclampsia. 2 years, 500.000 USD
- Innovative Data and Modeling Approaches to Measure Women’s Health 150.000 USD, 2 years
Deadline: 25 March 2025
Nord Forsk – Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence
16 M NOK, at least four Nordic and Baltic countries. Making the most of the potentials and mitigating the risks and harmful consequences of the use of Artificial Intelligence in the Nordic-Baltic region.
Deadline: 13 May 2025
Global Health EDCTP3
- HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-01-TB-01-two-stage: Global collaboration action for the development of vaccines for reducing the disease burden of Tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa. 15 MEUR per project. Research and Innovation action.
- HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-01-MALARIA-02-two-stage: Global collaboration action for research on existing Malaria therapeutics and clinical development of new antimalarial candidates. 10 MEUR
- HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3 -2025-01-NTD-03-two-stage: Accelerating the development of prophylactic vaccines against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in sub-Saharan Africa. 15 MEUR
- HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-02-FELLOWSHIP-01-two-stage: Global Health EDCTP3 and contributing partners funded Strategic Training Hubs for Fellowships in Public Health covering Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Modelling. 6.7 MEUR per project. Coordination and support action.
- HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-03-NETWORKS-01-two-stage: Global collaborative action for strengthening the Regional Networks of Excellence and Epidemic Preparedness Consortia.
- HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-04-CH-01-two-stage: Global collaborative action tackling diarrhoeal diseases in the context of climate and health. 5 MEUR
- HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-04-ACCESS-02-two-stage: Transformative Innovations in global health. 2 MEUR
Deadline first stage: 20 March 2025
Innovative Health Initiative – Call 9
Innovation projects in collaboration with health or medical industry. The industry partners must contribute with 45% own financing.
- Topic 1 (SO1):10 MEUR. Contribute towards a better understanding of the determinants of health and priority disease areas.
- Topic 2 (SO2): 15 MERU. Integrate fragmented health research and innovation efforts bringing together health industry sectors and other stakeholders, focussing on unmet public health needs, to enable the development of tools, data, platforms, technologies and processes for improved prediction, prevention, interception, diagnosis, treatment and management of diseases, meeting the needs of end-users;
- Topic 3 (SO3): 15 MEUR. Demonstrate the feasibility of people-centred, integrated healthcare solutions.
- Topic 4 (SO4): 15 MEUR. Exploit the full potential of digitalisation and data exchange in healthcare;
- Topic 5 (SO5): 10 MEUR. Enable the development of new and improved evaluation methodologies and models for a comprehensive assessment of the added value of innovative and integrated healthcare solutions
Deadline: 29 April 2025
NordForsk – Nordic Research Infrastructure Hubs
6 MIO NOK; requires 66% own funding and collaboration with other Nordic countries. A Nordic Research Infrastructure Hub is a long-term partnership between Nordic universities, universities of applied sciences, university colleges, research institutes and/or managers of research infrastructure in a consortium that provides a framework for establishing, enhancing and/or expanding RI cooperation in the Nordic region.
Deadline: 21 May 2025
European Innovation Council – Pathfinder Open
3 MEUR, requires consortium of at least three legal entities in three different EU countries. For radically new technology and relevant potential solutions at TRL 1-4.
Deadline: 21 May 2025