Research funding - calls

Below you will find listed some of the relevant calls for proposals, papers, abstracts etc.

The Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine

• USD 10 mill earmarked for MDG 4 and 5 projects in 2010 – 2012
  
  The support will be focused on practically-oriented projects to help achieve
  The UN Millenium Development Goals no 4 and 5;

• MDG 4; to reduce infant and child mortality by 2/3 from 1990 to 2015 read more
• MDG 5 ; to reduce maternal deaths by 75% from 1990 to 2015 read more

The Foundation particularly welcomes applications relating to implementation projects that

• are supported by national health authorities
• have a commitment to publish evaluation results by end 2012
• have a potential to leverage collaboration with international relief organizations
• have financial support also from other sources

The board will focus on 3-5 countries and a limited number of projects, such as the Helping Babies Breathe project and Tanzania

Read more on the rationale for the Foundation prioritizing projects relating to these MDGs

List of projects in this category that have received support

Deadline: April 1 and October 1

RCN: GLOBVAC:Call for full proposal now open

• The GLOBVAC call for full proposals is now available on the RCN web site.
• Full proposals must be submitted electronically by 18 April 2012, 13:00 CET using “eSøknad”, and will only be accepted from applicants who submitted a mandatory Project outline by 30 November 2011.

KRISTIAN GERHARD JENSEN FOUNDATION

• Call 2012: K.G. Jebsen-centers for Medical Research
  Deadline 15 May 2012 at 12:00

NORAD/NORHED:

• NORHED builds on and will replace Norway’s current NUFU and NOMA programmes.

  • March 7: Seed money – First call for applications with deadline April 25
  NB! DELAYS in the announcement of Calls for Project Applications have unfortunately occurred.
  The Call for Seed Funding scheduled for March 7 will be postponed till June 2012. Further information will be provided on the NORHED website.

  • May 30: First main call for project applications with deadline October 19

  • June 15: Seed money – Second call for applications with deadline September 15

  • September 1: Second main call for project applications with deadline January 4, 2013

  More info about NORHED

INTERNATIONAL JOINT DEGREES
In 2012 Norwegian higher education institutions can apply for financial support to develop international joint degree programmes at Master's and PhD-level.
Deadline for applications: April 16, 2012 at 15.00