Latest Funding Opportunities

23 Feb 2015

Launch Date	Deadline for Submission to ORE	Deadline for Submission to Funding Agency	Funding Agency / Grant Name	Scope	Quantum
Feb 2015	Mar 2015	Apr 2015	MOE AcRF Tier 3 Programme (Large-scale Research) – White Paper Submission Click here for more details.	Provide funding for large-scale research programme that has economic and societal impact by bringing together collaborative teams of experts within SMU and/or across universities in Singapore.	Type-A grants: $5-10M over five years Type-B grants: $10-25M over five years
Feb 2015	Mar 2015	Apr 2015	MOE-NIE / 3^rd and final eduLab Call for Proposal Click here for more details.	An Institute of Higher Learning (IHL) led eduLab project should involve 2 or more partner schools (primary, secondary or JC level) to be completed within a 2 to 2.5 year time frame with an end date of no later than 30 June 2018. It must feature an IDM-enriched innovation which supports teaching and learning practices in the classroom and beyond with a view towards wide adoption in a sustainable manner as an end goal.	Tier 1: Below S$200,000 Tier 2: S$200,000 to less than S$1 million Tier 3: S$1 milllion and above
Feb 2015	Mar 2015	Mar 2015	National Research Foundation (NRF) / Proof-of-Concept (POC) 13th Grant Call Click here for more details.	Facilitate the commercialisation of technologies developed in the institutions of higher learning (IHLs); Support projects which are technically proven and commercially viable. The grant will go towards supporting the developmental cost in building a fully functional prototype. The work must be conducted in the IHLs, and should yield results pertaining to viability for commercialisation.	Up to S$250,000
Jan 2015	Feb 2015	Mar 2015	Ministry of Education (MOE) / Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2, 2/2015 Feb 2015 Click here for more details.	Support research in Singapore-based universities for all disciplines that have academic significance and good potential for creating new knowledge.	S$100,000 to S$1 million
N.A.	N.A.	Apr 2015	Microsoft Research / Windows Azure Research Award Program Click here for details.	The Windows Azure for Research Award Program facilitates and accelerates scholarly and scientific research by enabling researchers to use the power of Windows Azure to perform big data computations in the cloud.	Large allocations of Windows Azure storage and compute resources for a period of one year.
Mar 2014	Please contact ORe for details	Jun 2015	The Spencer Foundation / Small Research Grants in the Areas of Inquiry Please click here for details.	Invite research proposals in (a) the relation between education and social opportunity; (b) organisational learning in schools, school systems and higher education systems; (c) teaching, learning and instructional resources; (d) purposes and values of education; (e) field-initiated proposals.	Up to US$50,000
Mar 2014	Please contact ORe for details	Jun 2015	The Spencer Foundation / Initiative on the New Civics Please click here for details.	Invite research proposals that ask critical questions about how education can more effectively contribute to the civic development of young people.	Up to US$50,000
Mar 2014	Please contact ORe for details	N.A.	The Spencer Foundation / Initiative on Philosophy in Educational Policy and Practice (IPEPP) Please click here for details.	Strengthen work that brings the tools and perspectives of contemporary moral and political philosophy to bear on concrete problems that may arise in addressing problems of education practice and policy.	Up to US$40,000