Research Newsletter - Issue 69: Funding Opportunities

The Erasmus+ Call for 2022 is now open. Full call details can be found here.

Application details are given in the Erasmus+ Guide.

Selected application deadlines are listed below:

Erasmus Mundus Action: 16th February 2022
Capacity building in the field of Higher Education: 17th February 2022
Jean Monnet Actions and Networks: 1st March 2022
Forward-looking projects: 15th March 2022
Cooperation partnerships in the fields of education, training and youth: 23rd March 2022
Cooperation partnerships in the field of sport: 23rd March 2022
Capacity building in the field of Vocational Education and Training: 31st March 2022
Capacity building in the field of Sport: 7th April 2022
Centres of Vocational Excellence: 7th September 2022
Erasmus+ Teacher Academies: 7th September 2022
Alliances for Innovation: 15th September 2022

The EPA is inviting research fellowship proposals under the following two topics:

Analysis of terrestrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals and wider impacts of land management and peatland restoration on Ireland’s Nitrogen cycle - Nitrous Oxide.
Analysis of terrestrial GHG emissions and removals and wider impacts of land management and peatland restoration on Ireland’s Carbon cycle - Carbon Dioxide.

The EPA Research Fellowships Call 2021 involves co-funding with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM).

The indicative timeframe is as follows:

Wednesday 19th January 2022 at 17:00 GMT: Deadline for queries relating to the technical contents of this call
Wednesday 19th January 2022: TORA deadline
Wednesday 26th January 2022 at 17:00 GMT: Deadline for submission of application to EPA
February 2022: Evaluation process
March 2022: Negotiation
April 2022: Grant award of successful projects
By 30th June 2022: Start of successful projects

Applications must be made online through the EPA's Grant Management and Application portal.

Queries can be sent to research@epa.ie or visit the EPA website for more information.

Contact: helen.burke@dcu.ie

The Shared Island / SCoTENS Research Initiative call has been relaunched with a closing date of the 27th of January 2022 and a max budget of €25,000. The call is focused on teacher education and the funders are specifically looking for research projects in the following area:

Teaching and Learning – “How we teach: acknowledging, understanding and learning from others on a shared island”.

The deadline for TORA is the 19th of January 2022.

Contact: adam.platt@dcu.ie

The European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) Higher Education Institutions (HEI) pilot initiative builds on the success of its first call launched earlier this year, which saw close to 750 organisations from across Europe apply for support. For the new call for proposals, up to 40 projects will be selected and awarded a maximum of EUR 1.2 million, with up to EUR 300 000 for Phase 1 (July−December 2022) and up to EUR 900 000 for Phase 2 (January 2023 - July 2024).

Activities can focus on several themes, including:

fostering institutional engagement and change;
strengthening partnerships between higher education, business and research organisations;
developing innovation and business support services;
enhancing the quality of entrepreneurial education;
creating and disseminating knowledge.

The deadline for submitting proposals is 28th February 2022. Full details and access to the application portal can be found here.

Contact: ecaterina.mcdonagh@dcu.ie

The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Research Team is seeking ideas/suggestions for research topics to be included in their next 2022 EPA Research Call.

This is an invaluable opportunity to affect the research topics of the call to ensure that they align with your research area of interest. In previous years, several DCU researchers' suggestions were included as research topics, assisting greatly with their success in applying to the call.

Note that proposed research topics must be framed in the context of the EPA Research 2030 Thematic Research Assessment 2021-2023 or linked to emerging issues.

The EPA are looking at medium- to longer-term evidence/research needs to inform/support environmental policies, i.e. if a research topic is included in the 2022 Call, this will result in a project starting in Q1 2023, completing at the earliest in Q1 2024 (for the shorter projects) and leading to the publication of an EPA Research Report in Q2-Q3 in 2024.

Note that urgent policy needs will be addressed via the EPA Research Fast-track to Policy Funding Scheme (see more details at: https://www.epa.ie/our-services/research/epa--research-funding/epa-research-fast-track-to-policy/) and should not be included here if they do not align with the proposed timeframe.

To submit your ideas/suggestions for research topics please complete the online form available on Survey Monkey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/J7LPMWQ by the 29^th January 2022.