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Professorship and Associate Professorship Call 2016 – Advisory Session

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cropped-theprofessorisinrevised-banner-FACEBOOK-CopyTo support the Professorship/Associate Professorship call announced by the Vice Chancellor in January, Dr Steve Wyn Williams will run an advisory session to guide prospective applicants on the conferment process and criteria.

The session will be held on:-

  • Wednesday 9th March at 11.00 am in Cadman Executive Boardroom, Cadman Building, Stoke

The session will run for two hours.

In order to ensure that there is sufficient time for questions and discussion, attendance will be capped at twenty-five members of staff. If necessary an additional session will be arranged before 4th April deadline for applications .

Places must be booked and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. To book a place, please email  your request to researchservices@staffs.ac.uk by no later than 4th March 2016

H2020 call to come: Innovative schemes for open innovation and science 2.0

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A Horizon 2020 call, for supporting Universities to become Open Innovation Centres for their region, will be launched on 10/12/2014 with a total budget of €13,670,000.

The term Open Innovation “assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance their technology.” Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm, 2006.

Implementing a model of open innovation is naturally associated with a number of risk and challenges, including the possibility of revealing intellectual property. However, numbers of successful initiatives exist and Universities can act as a trusted intermediary to bring multiple parties together and to allow them to collaborate in a hosted and trusted way.

The actions under this topic will help universities, companies and public authorities to enhance their capacity to engage in science 2.0 and open innovation. They will build or reinforce structures and mechanisms to support effective linkages for innovation between universities and companies and other employment sectors, and provide freely accessible innovation training platforms, including digital platforms.

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/2475-inso-4-2015.html

If you are interested in getting involved with European funded projects and to know more about Horizon 2020, please contact us on externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk to register to: Be a Part of European Funding – Thursday 20 November – LT114/116 Ashley Building, Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent.

Latest funds on Research Professional 13/10/2014

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Highlights of new funds on Research Professional

You can see the full list here: All new funds from the last two weeks

Catalyst Fund Higher Education Funding Council for England –Deadline 06/11/2014

This helps deliver strategic aims for higher education across research, teaching and knowledge exchange, and supports solutions at a time of changes to funding and regulation. £800,000.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1353254/

Comparison of the costs and other practicalities of converting a town to alternative heating solutions including hydrogen (tender) Department of Energy and Climate Change –Deadline 10/11/2014

Desk study and site work to investigate and compare four technology solutions for the provision of heat for an actual UK town with a population of around 10,000 to 15,000.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1487360/

Funding for PhDs in improvement science Health Foundation –Deadline 28/10/14

Support four research organisations in developing multidisciplinary teams to undertake research with a direct relevance to improvement science within UK healthcare.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1248969/

Transformative research call Economic and Social Research Council –Deadline 19 February 2015

Provide a stimulus for genuinely transformative research ideas at the frontiers of the social sciences, enabling research which challenges current thinking to be supported and developed.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1470123/

Incentivising poverty reduction in local growth strategies Joseph Rowntree Foundation –Deadline 07/11/2014

Develop a package of policy proposals to encourage, support and incentivise city level stakeholders to better integrate poverty reduction within local economic growth strategies.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1486550/

Joint master’s degrees Erasmus+ -Deadline 04/03/2014

Foster quality improvements, innovation, excellence and internationalisation in higher education institutions. Increase the quality of HE by offering full degree scholarships to the best master’s students worldwide. Improve the level of competencies and skills of master’s graduates.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1395917/

Sector skills alliances Erasmus+ -Deadline 26/02/2014

Tackle skills gaps, and enhance the responsiveness of initial and continuing vocational education and training systems to sector-specific labour market needs and demand for new skills with regard to one or more occupational profiles.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1395929/

Strategic partnerships in the field of education, training and youth Erasmus+ -Deadline 30/04/2015

Priorities: •develop basic and transversal skills in all fields of education, training and youth; •develop new approaches to strengthen education and training of prospective and practicing educators as well as youth workers; •enhance digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work. Follow link for more priorities.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1395923/

Mobility projects in the field of education and training Erasmus+ -Deadline 04/03/2015

One or more of the following activities: a study period abroad at a partner higher education institution; a traineeship (work placement) abroad in an enterprise or any other relevant workplace.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1395755/

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Latest funds on Research Professional 26/09/2014

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The External Projects Team has changed the way they provide information on upcoming funds. Instead of updating a spreadsheet, we will post bi-weekly highlights of new funds posted on Research Professional.

Highlights of new funds on Research Professional

You can see the full list here: All new funds from the last two weeks

Health services and delivery research programme NIHR -Deadline: 18/12/2014

Evaluating models of service delivery and interventions which have the potential to improve service effectiveness, efficiency and productivity.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1486487/

 

Senior non-clinical fellowship MRC –Deadline 28/04/2015

Provides non-clinical researchers opportunity to develop themselves into research leaders.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/245680/

 

Innovation Projects NERC –Deadline 18/12/2014

Activities between the science community and end users to develop products, models and tools that have the potential to generate significant impact through meeting the needs of users but generate no commercial return.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/251346/

 

Newton advanced fellowships Royal Society –Deadline 22/10/2014

Develop science and innovation partnerships that promote the economic development and welfare of developing countries

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/564411/

 

Forensics Call Innovate UK –Deadline 22/10/2014

Proof of concepts for technologies and processes which aid the rapid location and recovery of forensic material at crime scenes.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1469626/

 

Newton Mobility Grants Royal Society –Deadline 22/10/2014

Host international researchers in order to build lasting networks or strengthen emerging collaborations in any discipline within the life and physical sciences, excluding clinical medicine.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1484087/

 

Darwin Fellowship Awards DEFRA –Deadline 27/10/2014

Enable promising individuals from developing countries to come to the UK for a period of training or research and broaden their knowledge and experience in biodiversity.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/247983/

 

Digital transformations small grants AHRC –Deadline 27/11/2014

Practice-based researchers work with colleagues in other arts and humanities disciplines to explore how the use of digital technologies is transforming engagement with cultures and societies.

https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1486081/

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Professorship/Associate Professorship Call 2014 – Advisory Sessions

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To support the Professorship/Associate Professorship call announced by the Vice Chancellor, Dr Steve Wyn Williams will run two sessions that are designed to guide prospective applicants on the conferment process and criteria.

The sessions will be held on:-

 

  • Monday 3rd March at 9.30 am in Cadman Conference Room, Cadman Building, Stoke
  • Monday 10 March at 10.00 am in C346, Beacon Building, Stafford

 

Both sessions will run for around two hours

In order to ensure that there is sufficient time for questions and discussion, attendance will be capped at thirty members of staff at each session. If necessary an additional session will be arranged during early March.

Places must be booked and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. To book a place, please email Richard Gorton: r.l.gorton@staffs.ac.uk by no later than 24th February.  When replying, please state whether your booking is for 3rd or 10th March.