A leaflet giving an overview of how the External Projects Team can help you.
This leaflet is crammed with links on where you can find funding information and how to access the External Projects Team blog, funding opportunities calendar and other information
Youth in Action Programme
Opportunities for UK HEIs
The call is specifically addressed to people working in the youth sector, youth workers and youth leaders, young people themselves (aged between fifteen and twenty-eight years old) and other actors involved in youth organisations and structures. Applicants to the Programme must be non-profit organisations, including NGOs, public bodies at regional or local level and youth councils. HEIs are therefore eligible applicants in so far as they are public bodies. The Youth in Action Programme will not support stand alone education programmes, indeed activities performed as part of formal educational programmes at any level are not eligible for support. It may, however, support extra-curricular activities, such as volunteering and work experience. The following indicative list of activities is included in the call documentation:
Large-scale youth events, seminars, conferences
Activities encouraging the development of partnerships and networks
Activities encouraging the policy dialogue in the field of youth
Information and awareness campaigns in favour of and by young people
Training and capacity-building of youth workers, youth organisations and multipliers
Job-shadowing and long-term mobility for youth workers
Technical Features
Partners: Must involve partners from 4 different countries (including, at least 1 from the EU 27 Member States and 1 more from the EU 27 or the EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland) or pre-accession countries (Croatia; Turkey); plus 2 other partner countries1.
Project Duration: 6 to 12 months
Projects Commence: between 1 October and 31 December 2013
Grant Rate: Up to 80%
Maximum Grant Size: €100,000
Timetable
Deadline for submission of applications: 14 May 2013
Announcement of selection results: August 2013
Projects commence: Earliest 1 October 2013
Link to guidelines: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/youth/funding/2013/call_action_3_2_en.php
Funder: British Academy/Leverhulme Trust
Title: Small Research Grants
Deadline: Wednesday 10 April 2013
Value: £10,000 (up to)
Overview: Primary research in the humanities and social sciences. Funds may be used to facilitate initial project planning and development, to support the direct costs of research and to enable the advancement of research through workshops or conferences, or visits by or to partner scholars. All applications should demonstrate that funds are sought for a clearly defined, discrete piece of research with an identifiable outcome. Applications for individual and collaborative projects are equally welcome. International groups of scholars are eligible to apply, provided the lead applicant is a UK-based scholar. Grants are tenable for up to 24 months and are worth between £500 and £10,000.
Plus there is also funding for the following areas:
Up to £1,000 aimed at recent postdoctoral scholars and awards for travel from Funding from the Sir Ernest Cassel Trust.
Up to £10,000 for individual or cooperative research projects relating to Britain or China from the Sino-British Fellowship Trust.
Up to £500 for the study of ancient Persia and related areas from the Ancient Persia Fund.
Up to £2,500 for research on antiquities, historical geography, early history or arts in parts of Asia from the Stein Arnold Fund
Further information: http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/srg.cfm
ARC interest: CABR, IACT, CMAT, CAMH, CSER, IEPR
Supporting Independent Living for the Elderly through Robotics invites applications under its pre-commercial procurement SILVER challenge. Funding supports two to three years projects with the aim to develop new innovative robotic solutions to make elderly people more independent from professional homecare. Tenderers should aim at a market introduction of their new solution a maximum of two to four years after the end of the PCP. All legal entities from EU members and associated state countries and with relevant portion of research and development are eligible. The total budget is €2,150,000. The process will be divided in three phases:
•up to eight companies will participate in the design of a solution with a budget up to €350,000 for a period of six months;
•up to four companies will participate in the development of a prototype with a budget up to €720,000 for a period of one year;
•up to three companies will participate in the pre-commercial development with a budget up to €1,080,000 for a period of one year.
Closing date 05 Jun 13
Deadline information Registrations due 5 June; applications due 12 June 2013
http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:74279-2013:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0
For further information contact: externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) will allocate £4.47 billion to 129 universities and higher education colleges and 203 further education colleges for the academic year 2013-14.
This funding is allocated for the following key areas and activities:
Further details are given in ‘Recurrent grants and student number controls for 2013-14’ (HEFCE 2013/05). The ring-fenced settlement for science and research means that HEFCE can maintain overall levels for research and knowledge exchange funding until 2014-15.
The EU Lifelong Learning Programme runs study visits across Europe to bring together small groups of individuals involved in different aspects of Lifelong Learning. Each visit looks at a specific topic of joint interest. English is the working language for the majority of study visits, which are open to all professionals involved in Lifelong learning including, though not only, academic staff.
The study visits are usually 3-5 days long, offering funding for 100% of travel and flat rate subsistence costs. These are very popular with staff in the University and we have had many people attending them.
They cover a huge range of subject areas. You can browse these in 2013 -2014 Study Visits Catalogue
Examples of some study visits, from the PDF Catalogue are here:
Title of Study visit
| Country | Dates | Page | |
| Sustainable development in a learning region | Slovenia | 16-20 Sept | 52 |
| New opportunities for technical branches and crafts | Czech | 16-20 Sept | 53 |
| How to integrate arts and cultural activities in lifelong learning | Sweden | 11-14 Nov | 59 |
| Energy efficiency and renewable energy: new demands in VET for new jobs | Germany | 23-26 Sept | 63 |
| Understanding teaching and learning at university – A hands-on approach | Germany | 2-6 Dec | 76 |
| Tomorrow’s teaching with virtual media | Denmark | 30 Sept -4 Oct | 90 |
| Science of data quality: brainstorming data mining | Slovakia | 18-20 Sept | 116 |
| Content-based approach and competence acquisition in teaching mathematics and scientific subjects | Italy | 21-25 Oct | 117 |
| Access to university education for disabled students | France | 3-7 Feb (2014) | 119 |
The application form is quite simple and it has a very high success rate.Some of the staff who have attended workshops have gone on to work with the people they met – to submit larger European bids.The deadline for the next round of applications is 11 a.m. GMT March 28th 2013 for visits taking place from September 2013 to February 2014, (and for study visits taking place from March to June 2014, you can apply by 15 October 2013.)
To apply you should read the Guide for applicants and download the online application form
The website with full details of the programme is here .
Please note that you cannot apply for a study visit in the UK
Background
Study visits are organised around 5 themes which reflect the latest policy developments in education and training in Europe:
1. Encouraging cooperation between the worlds of education, training and work
2. Supporting initial and continuous training of teachers, trainers and education
and training institutions’ managers
3. Promoting the acquisition of key competences throughout the education and training
System
4. Promoting social inclusion and gender equality in education and training, including the integration of migrants
5. Developing strategies for lifelong learning and mobility
Further help
If you require further information, just ask the External Projects Team for support externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk
The British Science Association Media Fellowship scheme is open for applications. The scheme aims to strengthen connections between scientists and the media by placing researchers in a 3-5 week summer placement with a media host such as the BBC, the Guardian and the Irish Times.
Participants return to their organisations better equipped to handle media enquiries, to turn their research into news and promote their research and institution. They also improve their communication skills that benefit their teaching, journal articles and grant applications.
The deadline for applications is the 11th March. Further information can be found at the following link: http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/science-society/media-fellowships. Please contact externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk if you are interested in this opportunity.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has announced its high-level funding decisions, following the annual grant letter from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on 14th January. Allocations to individual universities and colleges will be announced on 21 March. The HEFCE Board agreed £4.47 billion for distribution for the 2013-14 academic year. This breaks down as follows:
The full press release and links to further information on student number allocations is available at http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/newsarchive/2013/name,76482,en.html.
Culture Programme – Cooperation with third countries (Australia and Canada) –
Deadline 3 May 2013.
The Culture Programme is the EU’s main funding Programme for cultural activities, its overall objective is to:”Enhance the cultural area shared by Europeans, which is based on a common cultural heritage, through the development of cooperation activities among cultural operators, with a view to encouraging the emergence of European citizenship’
The Programme has three specific objectives:-
Purpose of this call for proposals
This call for proposal seeks transnational projects involving exchanges of artists and/or works or the promotion of intercultural dialogue between Europe and Australia; or Europe and Canada. At least 50% of the project activities are expected to take place in either Australia or Canada. It is open to a wide range of artistic, cultural and creative disciplines, including the following:-
The programme supports all cultural operators including: Universities, research centres, theatres, museums, professional associations, public authorities etc. The budget for this strand for 2013 is €2.65m, it is expected that approximately eight projects will be selected for support. Opportunities for UK HEIs:
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