Last month's activities
September featured the Vision 2020 Marine & Maritime Helix Launch event at Villa Bighi, Kalkara, attractive for its strategic location in Valletta Grand Harbour and its historical significance, both representative of the theme and the event.
A variety of international delegates came from within the Vision 2020 Network and also from outside the network, coming together to build consortia for applying under Horizon 2020 calls in the Marine and Maritime Field. They interacted with diversity of Maltese delegates who attended the event, both as University of Malta Academics as well as representatives from Industry.
Breakout sessions were held with the aim of building consortia for applying for funding under the following calls: Multi-use of the Maritime space, where the University of Malta shall be leading the consortium; Solutions for biobased plastics for maritime applications, whereby two coordinators were present in order to consolidate their consortium; New solutions for the sustainable production of raw materials, where a coordinator was present; and Building a water smart economy and society, where collaborative opportunities were explored.
The group were taken for a guided tour of Kalkara and the 3 cities, and participated in a networking dinner in Valletta.
We would like to thank the Vision 2020 network for their support in the organisation, as well as our sponsors for their invaluable support:
- MaritimeMT
- Falzon Group of Companies
- MEUSAC
- Malta Marittima Agency
- AquaBioTech Group
Winners of funding during this month.
Congratulations to...
Internal Security Fund Police:4NSEEK - Forensic against child sexual exploitation - Prof. Kenneth P Camilleri
ARMOuR - A radical model for resilience in young minds - Prof. Joe Cannataci
DG Justice and Home Affairs:
JPCOOPS - Judical and Police Cooperation preventing Radicalisation Towards Terrorism - Dr Aitana Radu
Open Calls
ERC grantsAre you a researcher with an excellent scientific profile and with visionary research projects in mind that you want to realise in Europe? The European Research Council (ERC) has a funding scheme that will meet your needs.
Attention to all applicants: A new work programme is published with some minor changes to the programme.
Find out more.
Starting, Consolidator, Advanced, Synergy and Proof of Concept Grants
Advanced Grants - Call to open shortly. Deadline 29 August 2019
Proof of Concept Grants - Call closed. Next call will be published later on.
Starting Grants - Call open. Deadline 17 October 2018
Consolidator Grants - Call to open shortly. Deadline 7 February 2019
Synergy Grants - Call open. Deadline 8 November 2018
HORIZON 2020 TWINNING
This call is designed specifically for the 'low performing' member states including Malta. It needs to be coordinated by Malta, partnering up with two other 'Centres of Excellence'. It does not fund research but rather networking between these three entities in order to improve research performance.
Find out more.
Deadline: 15 November 2018
HORIZON 2020 ERA Chairs
This call, also designed specifically for the 'low performing' member states including Malta, is intended to develop a new research area in Malta. Funding is available to engage an expert in the research field as well as his/her team for a period of 5 years.
Find out more.
Deadline: 15 November 2018
COST
These are Europe-wide networking actions in various research areas.
Full details
Next collection date: 29 November 2018.
Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA)
Would you like to learn more about the revamped Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions? Searching for bottom-up research funding and host a post-doc researcher? Are you a research institution/company looking for partnership with academia in third countries as well as industry? The following call for proposals are currently open:
MSCA Innovative Training Networks (ITN): This programme is designed to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers, able to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit. ITN will raise excellence and structure research and doctoral training in Europe, extending the traditional academic research training setting, incorporating elements of Open Science and equipping researchers with the right combination of research-related and transferable competences. It will provide enhanced career perspectives in both the academic and non-academic sectors through international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility combined with an innovation-oriented mind-set.
Further information available online.
Deadline: 15 January 2019
MSCA Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE): The RISE scheme promotes international and cross-sector collaboration through exchanging research and innovation staff, and sharing knowledge and ideas from research to market (and vice-versa). The scheme fosters a shared culture of research and innovation that welcomes and rewards creativity and entrepreneurship and helps to turn creative ideas into innovative products, services or processes.
Further information available online.
Deadline: 2 April 2019
Various Horizon 2020 Calls in the Marine & Maritime field
Full details.
Deadline: 23 January 2019
Vision 2020 Network!
UM is a member of the Vision 2020 Network and leads the Marine & Maritime Helix! It is now possible to join winning consortia under Horizon 2020 through the Crowdhelix platform. We are pleased to announce that YOU as a University of Malta Academic / Researcher can now use this platform in order to:- find partners to join you in a consortium for a proposal you wish to lead
- join a consortium applying under a particular call as a partner.
What are you waiting for? Registration is quick and easy, and is available through this link. It will also be possible to join thematic, or 'Helix events' with the aim of joining such consortia. Find out more.
SPIN - The New Research Funding Software.
As you begin thinking about your next research project, we encourage you to consider utilising SPIN, an extensive research funding opportunity database. Visit the website at infoedglobal.com.SPIN contains over 40,000 opportunities from more than 10,000 sponsors. Training sessions are organised upon request for groups of 5 or more. For further information please contact Karen Cacciattolo.
For further information as well as support in the application process, get in touch with the Research Support Services Directorate today.