[ HFSP – Research Grants | Research Funding ]
Event details
| Date | 30.03.2020 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
Aim: HFSP Research Grants support innovative basic research into fundamental biological problems with emphasis placed on novel and interdisciplinary approaches that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries. Projects are expected to be at the frontiers of knowledge and therefore entail risk. Participation of scientists from disciplines outside the traditional life sciences such as biophysics, chemistry, computational biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, nanoscience or physics is recommended.
Research grants are provided for teams of scientists from different countries who wish to combine their expertise in innovative approaches to questions that could not be answered by individual laboratories. Preliminary results are not required and applicants are expected to develop new lines of research through the research collaboration.
Two types of Research Grant are available:
Funding: max. $450’000/year, depending on team size
Duration: 36 months
Eligibility: All members of a Program Grant team must be in a position to initiate and direct their own independent lines of research. They must have full scientific and financial responsibility for their own laboratories (however small). All members of a Young Investigators’ grant team must be within 5 years of obtaining an independent position (see below) but must have obtained their first doctoral degree (PhD, MD or equivalent)not longer than 10 years before the deadline for submission of the letter of intent. A Young Investigator should be a project leader directing a research group. “Postdocs” are not eligible to apply for either program.
Only international research teams (with emphasis on intercontinental collaborations), not individual researchers, are eligible. The number of team members should normally be 2 –4. HFSPO promotes new interdisciplinary collaborations across the world. Therefore ,team members are expected to have their labs in different countries; they should not have collaborated before and must propose a project significantly different from their ongoing research. The international team must designate one of its members as the Principal Applicant, who must be located in an HFSPO member country (see guidelines).
How to Apply: You must first submit a “letter of intent” to apply for a grant. A guide for writing this LOI is available here. To submit, you must connect to our HFSP extranet site (see item 8) and obtain a reference number by 19-Mar-2020. The deadline for receipt of this letter, also submitted via the extranet site, is 30-Mar-2020 awards to be announced in March 2021. You will be notified early July 2020 whether you are invited to submit a full application, with a deadline mid-September 2020.
Deadline: 30-Mar-2020
Further information
Research grants are provided for teams of scientists from different countries who wish to combine their expertise in innovative approaches to questions that could not be answered by individual laboratories. Preliminary results are not required and applicants are expected to develop new lines of research through the research collaboration.
Two types of Research Grant are available:
- Young Investigators: Awarded to teams of researchers, all of whom are within the first five years after obtaining an independent laboratory (e.g. Assistant Professor, Lecturer or equivalent). Applications for Young Investigators' Grants will be reviewed in competition with each other independently of applications for Program Grants.
- Program Grants: Awarded to teams of independent researchers at any stage of their careers. The research team is expected to develop new lines of research through the collaboration. Applications including independent investigators early in their careers are encouraged
Funding: max. $450’000/year, depending on team size
Duration: 36 months
Eligibility: All members of a Program Grant team must be in a position to initiate and direct their own independent lines of research. They must have full scientific and financial responsibility for their own laboratories (however small). All members of a Young Investigators’ grant team must be within 5 years of obtaining an independent position (see below) but must have obtained their first doctoral degree (PhD, MD or equivalent)not longer than 10 years before the deadline for submission of the letter of intent. A Young Investigator should be a project leader directing a research group. “Postdocs” are not eligible to apply for either program.
Only international research teams (with emphasis on intercontinental collaborations), not individual researchers, are eligible. The number of team members should normally be 2 –4. HFSPO promotes new interdisciplinary collaborations across the world. Therefore ,team members are expected to have their labs in different countries; they should not have collaborated before and must propose a project significantly different from their ongoing research. The international team must designate one of its members as the Principal Applicant, who must be located in an HFSPO member country (see guidelines).
How to Apply: You must first submit a “letter of intent” to apply for a grant. A guide for writing this LOI is available here. To submit, you must connect to our HFSP extranet site (see item 8) and obtain a reference number by 19-Mar-2020. The deadline for receipt of this letter, also submitted via the extranet site, is 30-Mar-2020 awards to be announced in March 2021. You will be notified early July 2020 whether you are invited to submit a full application, with a deadline mid-September 2020.
Deadline: 30-Mar-2020
Further information
- More information about the program is available here
- A list of frequently asked questions is available here
- The application portal can be found here
- For any other questions, please contact the Research Office
Practical information
- General public
- Free