Category Archives: Arts and Creative Technologies

Erasmus+ Key Action 3 – Policy Innovation

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The EU’s Erasmus Plus programme, invites applications for European forward-looking cooperation projects in education and training, and youth. These will provide in-depth knowledge on target groups, learning, teaching, training or youth work situations and effective methodologies and tools that help policies to develop, as well as conclusions relevant for policy makers in education, training and youth at all levels. The call supports projects in two strands: education and training field, and youth field.

Public or private organisations in education, training and youth or other socioeconomic sectors, or organisations carrying out cross-sector activities are eligible to apply. Applicants should be legal entities based in either a EU member state or in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey, or Macedonia.

The minimum partnership requirement for this call is three organisations representing three eligible countries.

The total budget available for the co-financing of projects under the present call is €17 million; €15m for the education and training strand, and €2m for the youth strand. The maximum grant per project is €500,000.

Financial contribution from the EU cannot exceed 75 per cent of the total eligible project costs.

Activities must start between 1 November 2015 and 1 January 2016, and the project duration must be between 24 and 36 months.

Closing date 24th February 2015

For further information see

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.C_.2014.425.01.0004.01.ENG

EUREKA invites proposals for its Celtic-Plus call

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EUREKA aims to develop marketable products and services by concentrating on creating bottom-up, near-market projects generated by the project partners themselves.

EUREKA invites proposals for its Celtic-Plus call. Funding supports projects on the following themes:

•get connected, including network elements and infrastructures;

•while connected, including end-to-end services and applications, digital home, digital enterprises, digital city, digital school, digital transport, e-health, security, privacy and identity;

•future internet relations, including further developments of the network infrastructure, making the internet a high-quality service platform, introducing the Celtic-Plus use case factory and contributing to future internet capacity building and test-cases or platforms;

•green-internet relations, including consideration of environmental issues in information and communication technologies, encouraging better energy efficiency and developing a multidisciplinary approach.

Each project must involve at least two partners from two different countries. Consortia is open to any type of company covering the Celtic-Plus research areas, large industry as well as small companies or universities and research organisations. Companies outside the EUREKA countries may participate as well.

The average budget for a Celtic-Plus consortium is between €1 million and €70m over 24 to 36 months.

http://www.celticplus.eu/Project-calls/Call-2014/call-2014-information.asp

 

Best Practice in Social Sciences, Humanities and Interdisciplinary Research

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The League of European Research Universities (LERU) has recently published a brochure presenting excellent interdisciplinary Social Sciences and Humanities projects.

The publication includes descriptions of 42 SHH projects run by the LERU member institutions with the support of national or European funding – European Research Councils grants and Framework Programmes’ collaborative research grants.

See the link below to access the LERU brochure.

SME Funding Event

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Enterprise and Commercial Development  were joined yesterday by our UK Research Office (UKRO) representative Blazej Thomas and National Contact Point (NCP) for SME Innovation, Dr Jane Watkins as well as Mudlark owner Charles Hunter for an interactive session on European Funding and SME’s.

(pictured above from left to right, Prof Allan Howells, Dr Jane Watkins, Matthew Hocking, Jose Beech, Blazej Thomas & Charles Hunter)

The all day event, sponsored by EUREKA and hosted by the External Projects Team was held in the Ashley Building, and was designed to stimulate discussion and debate on the routes to EU Horizon 2020 funding for SME’s and local organisations as well as providing insight to academics on funding opportunities within the programme. Over 50 attendees had the opportunity to listen to expert advice as well as question our speakers on the nuts and bolts of European funding.

The slides will be avaliable to all participants, so if you didn’t attend and would like to recieve them please email: externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk

 

Call for HEI proposals to host national debates as part of the AHRC’s 10th anniversary

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To mark its tenth anniversary in 2015, the Arts and Humanities Research Council will support number of activities for celebrating and promoting the achievements and the role of the arts and humanities research community.

A call, ending on 18th December 2014, invites Higher Education Institutions to host national debates that address the theme ‘The way we live now’, and explore specific aspects of our human world, such as The City, Identity, The Book, Faith, Diversity, The Nation.

A series of five to six national debates are planned to be supported and held at universities and cultural organisations around the UK at intervals during the year. Each debate should feature three to four speakers, and should allow plenty of time for audience participation.

Only one application is accepted per institution. Each debate may receive up to £7,500 from AHRC, with matched funding required from the host organisation. Each organisation may host one or two events.

http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Pages/Proposals-HEIs-host-national-debates-10th-anniversary.aspx

New Generation Thinkers 2015 -AHRC

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Are you passionate about your research – do you want to get it across to a wider audience?

The AHRC and BBC Radio 3 are looking for applications for the New Generation Thinkers of 2015.

This pioneering scheme aims to develop a new generation of academics who can bring the best of university research and scholarly ideas to a broad audience – through BBC broadcasting. It’s a chance for early career researchers to cultivate the skills to communicate their research findings to those outside the academic community.

Each year, up to sixty successful applicants have a chance to develop their programme-making ideas with experienced BBC producers at a series of dedicated workshops and, of these up to ten will become Radio 3’s resident New Generation Thinkers. They will benefit from a unique opportunity to develop their own programmes for BBC Radio 3 and a chance to regularly appear on air.

BBC Radio 3 and its programmes the Verb, the Essay and the Sunday Feature have provided a platform for debate and commentary from scholars across the world.

The New Generation Thinkers scheme also works with BBC TV Arts who will be looking to develop New Generation Thinkers and their ideas into arts television.

Applicants do not have to be funded by the AHRC to apply; the scheme is open to all early career researchers based in a UK Research Organisation.

We welcome applications from researchers working in all areas of the arts and humanities. This year we are again extending the call for researchers who work in areas of social sciences and medical science whose work intersects with the arts and humanities. There are a series of interfaces, and many areas of common ground between. This can be seen in both cross-council programmes, Connected Communities and Life Long Health and Wellbeing.

The subject coverage for this year’s schemes covers all disciplines covered by the AHRC detailed below, including additional subjects that intersect with the work of sister councils ESRC and MRC.

http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Pages/New-Generation-Thinkers-2015.aspx

Presentations from Info Day on Knowledge Alliances and Sector Skills Alliances Now Available

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Slides from the information event about Knowledge Alliances and Sector Skills Alliances under the Erasmus+ Programme organised by the European Commission on 12 November 2014 in Brussels are now available on-line.

The Info Day provided support to applicants for Knowledge Alliances and Sector Skills Alliances in developing their proposals for the deadline of 26 February 2015. It gave networking opportunities to over 300 organisations across Europe.

Knowledge Alliances
The European Commission is supporting Europe’s innovation capacity in higher education, business and the broader socio-economic environment. These are multilateral, transnational, result-driven projects open to any discipline, sector and to cross-sectoral cooperation. Projects need to involve at least 6 organisations from 3 different Programme Countries, of which at least 2 need to be higher education institutions and 2 enterprises.

Sector Skills Alliances
Sector Skills Alliances are transnational projects drawing on evidence of trends in a specific economic sector and skills needed in order to perform in one or more professional fields. The consortia are designing and delivering joint vocational training programmes and teaching and training methodologies. The sectors that are eligible under this action in 2015 are:

  • Manufacturing and Engineering;
  • Commerce;
  • Information and communication technology;
  • Environmental technologies (Eco-innovation);
  • Cultural and creative sectors;
  • Health care;
  • Tourism.

Projects need to involve at least 9 organisations from 3 different Programme Countries. In each country there must be a ‘trio’ composed of: vocational education and training provider(s), organisation(s) with expertise in a particular sector (including research centres) and bodies with regulatory function in education and training systems.

Main funding rules
• Duration: 2 or 3 years;
• Grants: € 700.000 or up to € 1.000.000;
• Grant for implementation support based on staff unit costs (covering all project expenditure) and in duly justified cases for mobility activities.

Further Guidance
More details are available in the Erasmus+ Programme Guide on the Call website. The e-Form and instructions for submission will be published by the EC in December 2014.

http://www.ukro.ac.uk/subscriber/Pages/141113_alliances_infoday_presentations.aspx

H2020 Science in and for Society – New Website

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The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission has launched a new thematic website for the “Science with and for Society” part of Horizon 2020.

The site for “Science with and for Society” (SWAFS) has replaced the Science in Society website. The “Science with and for Society” programme is crucial in implementing the Responsible Research and Innovation governance framework.

The new website is easier to navigate and contains more information about all policy areas of the SWAFS programme:

  • Public Engagement;
  • Science Education;
  • Gender Equality;
  • Research Ethics;
  • Open Science (Open Access);
  • Governance.

It is possible to provide the European Commission with feedback on the new portal -which can be found here:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/index.cfm

Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliances and Sector Skills Alliances Actions – Partner Search Tool

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The European Commission has launched an on-line partner search tool dedicated to Knowledge Alliances and Sector Skills Alliances Actions of Erasmus+ Programme.

The tool is supporting organisations interested in the current Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliances-Sector Skills Alliances 2015 call for proposals, with the deadline of 26 February 2015, in finding partners for their projects.
The database is searchable by project country, organisation type and project type.

To use the tool, please follow the link  below.

http://infodaykassatool.teamwork.fr/

 

 

What Works wellbeing

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The Economic and Social Research Council invites applications for its What Works wellbeing programme. This funds wellbeing themed evidence programmes in support of a new and independent What Works centre for wellbeing. Proposals should address the following themes:

•cross-cutting capability;

•work, learning and wellbeing;

•community wellbeing;

•culture, sport and wellbeing.

Principal investigators must be based at a research organisation for the duration of the award. The inclusion of international co-investigators is welcomed and inter-institutional proposals or partnerships with non-higher education institutions are strongly encouraged.

Funding is worth between £875,000 and £1.06 million per programme over three years.

Find more details here

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/funding-opportunities/32283/what-works-wellbeing.aspx

Closing date 02/12/14