Upcoming Funding Opportunities

17 Jan 2014

Launch Date	Deadline for Submission to ORE	Deadline for Submission to Funding Agency	Funding Agency / Grant Name	Scope	Quantum
Nov 2013	Jan 2014	Feb 2014 (TBC)	Ministry of Education (MOE) / Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2, 2/2014 Feb 2014 Click here for the MOE Tier 2 Grant Call.	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
Jan 2014	N.A.	Jan 2014	Global Development Awards and Medals Competition (AMC) / Medals for Research on Development (Medals) Click here for details.	Support completed research papers that have engaged path-breaking approaches in addressing contemporary development issues in: 1) Determinants of growth, industrial and trade policies; 2) Environmental sustainability, management of natural resources and structural transformations; 3) Political, institutional, social and governance transformations.	Medal winners will receive monetary grants and all Medal finalists will receive travel grants to the GDN Conference.
Jan 2014	N.A.	Mar 2014	Global Development Awards and Medals Competition (AMC) / Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD) Click here for details.	Support outstanding research proposals in: 1) Determinants of growth, industrial and trade policies; 2) Environmental sustainability, management of natural resources and structural transformations; 3) Political, institutional, social and governance transformations.	First prize: US$30,000 Second prize: US$10,000 Third prize: US$5,000
Jan 2014	Please contact ORe for details.	Mar 2014	Singapore NRF Fellowship Award (Class of 2015) Click here for details.	Seek to provide opportunities for early career researchers from all over the world to lead high impact, independent research in Singapore.	Up to S$3 million
Jan 2014	Mar 2014	Apr 2014	A*STAR Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) / Singapore-China Joint Research Programme 2014. Click here for the Singapore-China Joint Research Programme.	The 2014 joint research programme funds projects that address critical technologies in the areas of 'Smart Cities Technologies', preferably in the following sub-areas: Urban Analytics, Mobility Networks, Smart Grid, Complex Systems, Sensors and Sensor Network, and Integrated City Planning.	Up to $300,000
N.A.	N.A.	Feb 2014	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 (TBC)	Mar 2014 (TBC)	Apr 2014 (TBC)	National Research Foundation (NRF) / Competitive Research Programme (CRP) Click here for details.	Support multi-disciplinary teams in Singapore to conduct high-impact research programmes in all areas of science and technology.	S$5 million to S$10 million
Apr 2014 (TBC)	May 2014 (TBC)	Jun 2014 (TBC)	MOH NMRC - Health Services Research Competitive Research Grant (HSR CRG) Click here for details.	Seeks to harness HSR and relevant expertise in a system-wide effort to promote the translation of knowledge into better care and improved health outcomes on a sustainable basis, and to enhance the role of HSR in policy and practice in Singapore.	Up to S$1 million
Apr 2014 (TBC)	Jun 2014 (TBC)	Jul 2014 (TBC)	A*STAR Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) / Public Sector Research Funding (PSF) Click here for details.	Seek proposal in areas of upstream research, and/or exploring novel concepts.	Up to S$1 million
Apr 2014 (TBC)	May 2014 (TBC)	Jun 2014 (TBC)	Neptune Orient Lines Ltd/ NOL Fellowship (NOLF) Programme Click here for details.	Develop a first-rate research programme on important global transportation, cargo and supply chain and logistics issues.	Up to S$400,000

Please contact Selly Julianty at sjulianty [at] smu.edu.sg (subject: RE%3A%20Upcoming%20Funding%20Opportunities) or Joanne Liang at joanneliang [at] smu.edu.sg (subject: RE%3A%20Upcoming%20Funding%20Opportunities) if you are interested to apply for the above programmes.