Monthly Archives: June 2015

ERC Grant Deadlines 2015-16

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erc_logo_longThe 2016 ERC Work Programme is about to be published, and the European Team are now able to confirm some key details and dates for your diary for those interested in applying to the ERC.

ERC Starting Grant – 2-7 years post-PhD experience, promising track record, designed to support up-and-coming research leaders who are about to establish a proper research team and to start conducting independent research in Europe
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Opening Date: 23rd July 2015
Closing Date: 17th November 2015

ERC Consolidator Grant – 7-12 years post-PhD experience, promising track record, designed to support researchers at the stage at which they are consolidating their own independent research team or programme
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Opening Date: 15th October 2015
Closing Date: 2nd February 2016

ERC Advanced Grant – 12 Years + post-PhD experience, established track record identifying applicant as leader in current field, targets researchers who have already established themselves as independent research leaders in their own right.
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Opening Date: 24th May 2016
Closing Date: 1st September 2016

As you can see the ERC Starting Grant call will be opening shortly. In order to help prepare for this, the European Research Services team at Oxford will be running two identical workshops in order to give further details and give an opportunity to have questions answered.

Date 1: Wednesday 8th July 2015 – 9:30am-12pm – Old Road Campus, Headington >>Book
Date 2: Wednesday 15th July 2015 – 9:30am-12pm – Sherrington Lecture Theatre, Physiology >>Book

Innovate UK: Aerospace Technologies – Call

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innovate-uk-logoInnovate UK are shortly to announce the “Game Changing Technologies in Aerospace” call, which is seeking collaborative R&D and Feasibility studies to accelerate highly innovative technology development for civil aerospace. They are looking for projects that offer solutions to key aerospace industry challenges and for opportunities to bring in technologies and capabilities from outside the traditional aerospace sector.

Innovate UK will be investing up to £10 million in this topic, and are looking for projects that offer solutions to key aerospace industry challenges and for opportunities to bring in technologies and capabilities from outside the traditional aerospace sector. It is expected that collaborative R&D projects will range in size from total costs of £250,000 to £1.5 million. Feasibility studies are expected to have total project costs of up to £100,000.

The R&D call will have a registration deadline of the 9th September, whilst the Feasibility call will have a registration deadline of the 5th November. The EOI deadline for each will fall a week later. There will be a competition briefing on the 15th July 2015 which will become active for registration once the call goes live.

To find out more – Click Here

Centre for Defence Enterprise – Competitions

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logo1. Understand and Interact with Cyberspace

£500k is available for a CDE themed competition seeks proof-of-concept research proposals for innovative approaches to improve the way humans interact with data to allow them to understand what’s going on in cyberspace. Successful proposals will demonstrate a solution that can tackle the scale and breadth of the problem. In particular by providing cyber understanding to decision makers and users that include non-technical generalists.

The competition deadline will fall on the 3rd September 2015.

2. What’s inside that building?

£650k is available for a CDE themed competition, looking for novel techniques to remotely provide information about the layout and situation inside a building. Innovate are interested in technologies and methods to gather any information that contributes to our overall awareness, with the ability to remotely gather information about the inside of buildings is critical to defeat increasingly sophisticated adversaries.

This competition closes on 10th September 2015.

These calls will be discussed at the network event in London on the 9th July 2015 followed by a Webinar Competition Brief on the 16th July 2015.

To find out more about “Understand and Interact with Cyberspace” – Click Here
To find out more about “What’s inside that building?” – Click Here
To sign up to the Network Event – Click Here

CDE Open-Source Data – Call

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logoA new CDE themed competition has been announced, which seeks research proposals to develop a prototype solution to provide an unstructured and open-source data analytics platform for defence. MOD’s Information Systems and Services (ISS) vision is to deliver information capabilities by developing closer alignment with industry partners. Hence, this CDE themed competition seeks to develop a prototype solution to provide an unstructured and open-source data analytics platform for defence.

£250k of funding is available for this Phase 1 competition. Successful outputs and exploitable solutions from this phase 1 funding could be taken forward to Phase 2, where £2 million is available.

A briefing webinar is being held for those interested on the 17th July 2015, with the call closing on the 13th August 2015

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To sign up to the Webinar – Click Here

Digital Humanities Training – Visualising Data

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logoThe Humanities Division is holding a training session in collaboration with TORCH and The Humanities Summer School, aimed at giving practical training and advice on how to incorporate a range of digital methodologies in your work. In this workshop you will get a taste of what it’s like to take raw data through every stage towards amazing visualisations, and to hear about the art and science of visualising data from Dr Margaret Varga, Chairman of the NATO Visual Analytics Research Group. The seminar will illustrate visual analytics techniques through some example applications from the group’s work in: Cyber defence, Aviation safety – bird strikes, Maritime domain awareness, Infectious disease analysis and contact tracing etc.

Date: Tuesday 30th June 2015
Time: 2pm – 4.30pm
Location: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter

Places are limited, so to book your place – Click Here