Current funding calls:
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Horticultural Quality and Food Loss Network
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Closing Date 28th February 2022
The Network is providing a range of funding opportunities to its members, including pump-priming funds for feasibility studies and preliminary data collection to facilitate new collaborations (with emphasis on industry involvement and multidisciplinary) with ring-fenced funds for Early Career Researchers (ECRs), Business Interaction Vouchers (BIV) and Networking Visit Funding (NVF).
The Network is providing a range of funding opportunities to its members, including pump-priming funds for feasibility studies and preliminary data collection to facilitate new collaborations (with emphasis on industry involvement and multidisciplinary) with ring-fenced funds for Early Career Researchers (ECRs), Business Interaction Vouchers (BIV) and Networking Visit Funding (NVF).
Opportunities for Early Career Researchers:
UKRI
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Deadline: rolling recruitment
UKRI is inviting applications to join its Early Career Researcher (ECR) Forum pilot. The aim of the forum is to engage with the full diversity of early career researchers across its remit on the issues that matter to them and give researchers a stronger voice in UKRI's activities under the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers.
UKRI is inviting applications to join its Early Career Researcher (ECR) Forum pilot. The aim of the forum is to engage with the full diversity of early career researchers across its remit on the issues that matter to them and give researchers a stronger voice in UKRI's activities under the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers.
Nuffield Foundation
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Are you keen to inspire the next generation of food researchers/practitioners?
Nuffield Research Placements are engaging, real-life research projects, where year 12, or equivalent, students have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution towards the work of a host organisation. They are looking for supervisors who can inspire talented 17-year old students by giving them the chance to discover what a career in Social Sciences and STEM.
Nuffield Research Placements are engaging, real-life research projects, where year 12, or equivalent, students have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution towards the work of a host organisation. They are looking for supervisors who can inspire talented 17-year old students by giving them the chance to discover what a career in Social Sciences and STEM.
UKRI - Cross Council
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Closing Date: 3rd March 2022
A cross-council pilot limited to interdisciplinary proposals which take a problem-driven approach to the development and application of basic technologies in sensing and imaging that will have an impact on UK science, society, and the environment
A cross-council pilot limited to interdisciplinary proposals which take a problem-driven approach to the development and application of basic technologies in sensing and imaging that will have an impact on UK science, society, and the environment
NERC
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Deadline 8th March 2022
Apply for funding to support innovative, large-scale and complex projects that tackle big science questions and have the potential to produce world-leading research. You must be from an eligible UK research organisation and eligible for NERC funding. Your project must fall predominantly within NERC’s remit. This opportunity can fund research that crosses over into other research council areas. The full economic cost of your project can be between £1.2 million and £3.7 million.
BBSRC/NERC
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Deadline 24th March 2022
Apply for funding to improve capability across molecular, data, agricultural and environmental sciences. You must be based at an organisation eligible for UKRI funding. Your application should outline innovative activities that: build collaborations that lead to the creation of interdisciplinary research communities; has the capacity to impact a challenge with ‘real world’ implications.The full economic cost of your project can be up to £200,000.
Horizon Europe
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Horizon Europe is the ambitious EU research & innovation framework programme for 2021-2027 with a budget of £81.94 billion. AgriFood features heavily in Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (work programme) and a number of funding calls are open and in the area of AgriFood.
Upcoming Events:
IFST
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9th March 2022
What participants will learn about: Food contact materials and food packaging legislation.
Food packaging is key to supporting food safety and product integrity as well as a critical focal point in environmental sustainability efforts. Food contact material regulatory requirements are in place generically but specific requirements for all types of food packaging materials do not currently exist in the UK. This webinar aims to update the audience on the status and future developments for UK packaging legislation.
Food packaging is key to supporting food safety and product integrity as well as a critical focal point in environmental sustainability efforts. Food contact material regulatory requirements are in place generically but specific requirements for all types of food packaging materials do not currently exist in the UK. This webinar aims to update the audience on the status and future developments for UK packaging legislation.
Total Food 2022 Conference
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13th - 14th July 2022 - Nottingham
Total Food 2022 will be a gathering of industrialists, academics, policy-makers and charities with the common goal of protecting the environment and promoting human and animal health through waste minimisation and the optimal exploitation of co-products. This requires multidisciplinary actions spanning social, technological, economic, environmental and political factors. Total Food is unique in bringing this community together to identify and tackle the challenges to the food and agricultural sectors in the sustainable production and use of food.
Total Food 2022 will be a gathering of industrialists, academics, policy-makers and charities with the common goal of protecting the environment and promoting human and animal health through waste minimisation and the optimal exploitation of co-products. This requires multidisciplinary actions spanning social, technological, economic, environmental and political factors. Total Food is unique in bringing this community together to identify and tackle the challenges to the food and agricultural sectors in the sustainable production and use of food.
UKRI @ COP26
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31st October Onwards
To complement UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) programme of activities in Glasgow for COP26, they have also now launched their virtual UKRI COP26 event site. Through this site you can register to attend various events that UKRI is involved with and find out more about a wide range of UKRI climate change-related research and innovation.
To complement UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) programme of activities in Glasgow for COP26, they have also now launched their virtual UKRI COP26 event site. Through this site you can register to attend various events that UKRI is involved with and find out more about a wide range of UKRI climate change-related research and innovation.
Future Funding Opportunities 2020 - Webinar
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Friday July 10th 2020, 3.00-4.15pm
UKRI contacts presented future grant opportunities & SFN released call for scoping projects. The deadlines for many of these opportunities are in October/November 2020. Presenters slides are available via this link. |
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Other Opportunities
Many funding bodies/networks have regular calls that you can find on their webpages as follows:
- BBSRC - www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding
- EPSRC - www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls
- Gates Foundation - https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/how-we-work/grant-opportunities
- GCRF - Various - see UK Strategy for the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) for details
- GFS - https://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/activities/interdisciplinary-calls/#post-14965
- Horizon 2020 - https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en
- NERC - www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/application/currentopportunities
- N8 AgriFood - www.n8agrifood.ac.uk/ (For Pump Priming and Events)
- Newton - www.newtonfund.ac.uk/funding/funding-opportunities
- RCUK - www.rcuk.ac.uk/funding
- SIRN - http://sirn.org.uk/funding-research-collaboration-and-training-opportunities/
- STFC - www.stfc.ac.uk/funding/research-grants/funding-opportunities/funding-calls
- Innovate UK - Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTN) - https://ktn-uk.co.uk/events
You can also find out about particular opportunities that we think may be of interest to our members here:
Farm to Fork: Sustainable Food Production in a Changing Environment - online course
Open Now
How does food reach our plates? How is the food industry changing? What threats are there to food supply chains? How can we build a sustainable food industry?
Get answers to these questions and more with this course that explores food and agriculture in the modern world. You will learn about the complexity of the global food supply chain, the vulnerability of the food industry to emerging threats and the solutions to stopping these threats early. You will also consider the issues surrounding production of food of animal origin. Find out more here
Food as Medicine - online course
Open Now
Explore the role of food in health. Apply nutrition science to guide you on using food as medicine for you and your family. This course introduces the concept of food as medicine. You will explore how food can be important both in preventative health and as an aid in the management of certain chronic diseases today, in the past and in the future. You will also learn about what’s in food that gives it the potential to improve our health and how to recognise which types of foods are essential for health and wellbeing, and how food can play an important role in treating/preventing disease. Find out more here
Food as Medicine: Food and Inflammation - online course
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Understand how food and nutrition relates to inflammation with this course for healthcare professionals. Learn how to answer questions related to inflammation and disease, and food. On this course, designed specially for healthcare professionals, get an introduction to current evidence surrounding the impact of nutrition and foods on development and treatment of chronic low-grade inflammation, and potential subsequent disease development Designed by experts in food, nutrition and genetics from Monash University, and featuring input from General Practitioners and nurses this course will give you up to date information on inflammation and health, and help you to help your patients incorporate foods with potential anti-inflammatory properties into their diet. Find out more here
DAFNI
The Data Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI) represents an £8 million investment in a 4 year project to provide world-leading infrastructure systems research capabilities. The infrastructure systems provide essential services such as energy, transport, digital communications, water supply, flood protection, and wastewater and solid waste collection, treatment and disposal. With DAFNI it will be possible to e.g. characterise the demand for infrastructure services at a household level, for every household in the UK. DAFNI is funded by EPSRC, run by STFC and currently includes 11 UK universities (Oxford, Newcastle, Cambridge, Southampton UCL, ICL, Cranfield, Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, Birmingham). DAFNI has now reviewed the requirements for its core capabilities to enable access to and interpretation of the results by researchers and practitioners. It has refined the key components to be a National Infrastructure Database, Modelling Service, Cloud Environment, Visualisation Suite and Security Service. You can find out more on the website or by contacting samuel.chorlton@stfc.ac.uk
NERC urgency grants
Open year round
NERC urgency grants allow scientists to respond rapidly to unexpected and transient events affecting the environment, for example the 2010 Amazon drought or the eruption at Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano in the same year. Submission of an urgency grant proposal is only permitted if relying on published funding opportunities would clearly result in a missed opportunity to undertake environmental research of high scientific importance. Urgency proposals must fall within the NERC scientific remit. Prospective applicants must first contact the appropriate science programme officer for approval before submitting a proposal for consideration under the urgency scheme. Find out more here
BBSRC International Travel Award Scheme (ITAS)
BBSRC have set up this scheme to help scientists add an international dimension to their BBSRC-funded research by making and establishing new contacts with international counterparts. This is an open and ongoing call - further details can be found on their website.
Open Now
How does food reach our plates? How is the food industry changing? What threats are there to food supply chains? How can we build a sustainable food industry?
Get answers to these questions and more with this course that explores food and agriculture in the modern world. You will learn about the complexity of the global food supply chain, the vulnerability of the food industry to emerging threats and the solutions to stopping these threats early. You will also consider the issues surrounding production of food of animal origin. Find out more here
Food as Medicine - online course
Open Now
Explore the role of food in health. Apply nutrition science to guide you on using food as medicine for you and your family. This course introduces the concept of food as medicine. You will explore how food can be important both in preventative health and as an aid in the management of certain chronic diseases today, in the past and in the future. You will also learn about what’s in food that gives it the potential to improve our health and how to recognise which types of foods are essential for health and wellbeing, and how food can play an important role in treating/preventing disease. Find out more here
Food as Medicine: Food and Inflammation - online course
Open Now
Understand how food and nutrition relates to inflammation with this course for healthcare professionals. Learn how to answer questions related to inflammation and disease, and food. On this course, designed specially for healthcare professionals, get an introduction to current evidence surrounding the impact of nutrition and foods on development and treatment of chronic low-grade inflammation, and potential subsequent disease development Designed by experts in food, nutrition and genetics from Monash University, and featuring input from General Practitioners and nurses this course will give you up to date information on inflammation and health, and help you to help your patients incorporate foods with potential anti-inflammatory properties into their diet. Find out more here
DAFNI
The Data Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI) represents an £8 million investment in a 4 year project to provide world-leading infrastructure systems research capabilities. The infrastructure systems provide essential services such as energy, transport, digital communications, water supply, flood protection, and wastewater and solid waste collection, treatment and disposal. With DAFNI it will be possible to e.g. characterise the demand for infrastructure services at a household level, for every household in the UK. DAFNI is funded by EPSRC, run by STFC and currently includes 11 UK universities (Oxford, Newcastle, Cambridge, Southampton UCL, ICL, Cranfield, Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, Birmingham). DAFNI has now reviewed the requirements for its core capabilities to enable access to and interpretation of the results by researchers and practitioners. It has refined the key components to be a National Infrastructure Database, Modelling Service, Cloud Environment, Visualisation Suite and Security Service. You can find out more on the website or by contacting samuel.chorlton@stfc.ac.uk
NERC urgency grants
Open year round
NERC urgency grants allow scientists to respond rapidly to unexpected and transient events affecting the environment, for example the 2010 Amazon drought or the eruption at Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano in the same year. Submission of an urgency grant proposal is only permitted if relying on published funding opportunities would clearly result in a missed opportunity to undertake environmental research of high scientific importance. Urgency proposals must fall within the NERC scientific remit. Prospective applicants must first contact the appropriate science programme officer for approval before submitting a proposal for consideration under the urgency scheme. Find out more here
BBSRC International Travel Award Scheme (ITAS)
BBSRC have set up this scheme to help scientists add an international dimension to their BBSRC-funded research by making and establishing new contacts with international counterparts. This is an open and ongoing call - further details can be found on their website.
