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Dear colleagues
Please note, all new funding opportunities will be announced in this newsletter and can be found on the current funding opportunities page of the Research Support
Hub.
In this newsletter:
Funding opportunities
Visit the current funding opportunities page on the Research Support Hub to view all open funding opportunities.
Cancer Grand Challenges
Deadline for pre-submission questionnaire: 1 April 2021
Cancer Grand Challenges is a global funding platform founded in 2020 by Cancer Research UK and the National Cancer Institute in the US. By daring global teams of multidisciplinary researchers to come together and think differently, this programme
aims to find bold new solutions to challenges which have confounded scientists for many years.
Winning teams will be announced in early 2022 and will receive up to £20m over five years to carry out team science on a global scale. This will fund research costs, salaries and equipment or licensing costs to support your team.
There are nine new challenges now open for applications. For more information about the challenges, the application process and deadlines, please download this PDF.
For any further queries, Faculty of Health Sciences researchers are invited to contact Rob Huddy, while researchers from other faculties can contact [email protected].
Wellcome LEAP programme in Human Organs, Physiology and Engineering (HOPE)
Deadline for UCT internal preliminary proposal approval: 26 November 2020
Wellcome Leap Inc., a non-profit company, aims to deliver innovative breakthroughs in human global health over five to 10 years. The programme in Human Organs, Physiology, and Engineering (HOPE) is soliciting abstracts and proposals that aim to
leverage the power of bioengineering to advance stem cells, organoids, and whole organ systems and connections that recapitulate human physiology in vitro and restore vital functions in vivo.
Grants are available for up to three years (with a potential additional one-year option) with no set budget limit; however, the scope of the proposed project should determine the budget requested.
Proposals should relate to one or more of five thrust areas. For more info on the application process and deadlines, download this PDF.
For any further queries, Faculty of Health Sciences researchers are invited to contact Rob Huddy, while researchers from other faculties can contact [email protected].
Important funding notice to NRF grant holders
With the current funding cuts that the National Research Foundation (NRF) is experiencing, we strongly urge all grant holders to spend their 2020 funding timeously and validly.
It is important to note that the carry forward of funds is never guaranteed, as stated in the NRF’s guideline document. Therefore, please do try and spend all your funds if possible, so that we rely as little as possible on funds being carried
forward into 2021.
UCT's Central Research Finance is circulating the NRF carry forward guidelines among grant holders this week. Please have a look and, if you do have any queries, liaise with your senior finance officer in Central Research Finance.
Reminder: 2021 NRF rating and re-evaluation call
Second UCT internal deadline: 17 December 2020 at 09:00
Researchers are encouraged to apply for the next cycle of the National Research Foundation (NRF) rating and evaluation. This call applies both to researchers who are
applying for re-evaluation and first-time applicants.
UCT regards the rating system as an important means of benchmarking and your valued participation in this process is crucial to ensuring our success as a transforming research-intensive institution.
More importantly, in light of the significant decrease of the NRF Incentive Funding model for rated researchers since 2018, UCT will continue to provide seed funding to all successfully rated researchers, including those who
could have a renewed rating from 1 January 2022. This will be in addition to a once-off incentive funding award which the NRF will award on a successful rating.
UCT can only endorse applications that are submitted via the internal review process. Applications will be reviewed by an internal panel of experienced evaluators – all of whom have direct involvement with the NRF panels – and feedback will be
provided by the end of January. This process is intended to help UCT researchers to obtain the best rating possible.
Download the full call
here and visit the NRF rating application process page for more information on
eligibility criteria, the application process, UCT internal review, and more.
For further information, contact Jacky Sylvester or Roshan Sonday in the Research Office. For technical support, contact the NRF Support Desk.
iThenticate at the University of Cape Town
iThenticate is the leading provider of professional plagiarism detection and prevention technology used worldwide by scholarly publishers and research institutions to ensure the
originality of written work before publication. This is an online web-based system that can be used by researchers at the University of Cape Town. Turnitin is used by all registered students at the UCT. Both have an easy-to-use submission process
that checks for similarity against the world’s top published works. Researchers and institutions can feel confident that their academic reputation will be protected.
How do I get access to the system?
How can I get support for iThenticate?
Webinar: Responsible publication practices – roles of journals, researchers and research institutes
25 November 2020; 12:30 to 14:00, Microsoft Teams
The Division for Research Development (DRD) at Stellenbosch University and the Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA) is inviting the research community to a lunchtime talk presented by Prof Lex Bouter.
Lex Bouter has a tenured chair in methodology and integrity at the Department of Epidemiology and Data Science of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers and the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is currently involved in research and teaching on research integrity topics. He is the founding chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation.
Register here: http://bit.ly/Lexbouter
Free SASUF workshops for YEBO!
24 and 25 November 2020
The South Africa – Sweden University Forum (SASUF) is presenting SASUF Goes Digital: 2020 Edition from 24 to 26 November. At this event, you are invited to attend any of the free YEBO! workshops which have been designed to foster research and
collaboration between South Africa and Europe.
Download the PDF for more information about the workshops. Please note that registration is only open
until tomorrow, Friday 20 November 2020.
To register, create an account and choose your session here: https://sasuf2020.sched.com.
All questions related to this event can be directed to [email protected]
The Research Announcement is produced by the Research Office, University of Cape Town.
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