Upcoming Funding Opportunities

24 Oct 2013

Launch Date	Deadline for Submission to ORE	Deadline for Submission to Funding Agency	Funding Agency / Grant Name	Scope	Quantum
Aug 2013	Oct 2013	Nov 2013	Ministry of Social & Family Development (MSF) / Family Research Fund (FRF) Grant Call 2013. Click here for the 2013 FRF Grant.	The proposed project should promote the understanding of issues affecting families in Singapore.	S$100,000
Sep 2013	N.A.	Nov 2013	United States Embassy Singapore / 2014 Fulbright U.S.-ASEAN Visiting Scholar Awards. Click here for the Fulbright U.S.-ASEAN Visiting Scholar Awards.	These grants are for research and lecture in fields that will support ASEAN initiatives (eg. Engineering, Information Sciences, Journalism, Law, Management Information Systems, Political Science, Public/Global Health, Social Work, Sociology, and Statistics).	Travel support will cover round trip international airfare (economy class) on a U.S. carrier, living and settling-in allowances.
Oct 2013	Nov 2013	Dec 2013	National Medical Research Council (NMRC) / Health Services Research New Investigator Grant (HSR NIG) – Nov 2013. Click here for the 2013 NMRC HSR-NIG Grant Call.	The HSR aims to study how social factors, financing systems, organisational structures and processes, health technologies, and personal behaviours affect access to healthcare, the quality and cost of healthcare, and ultimately our health and well-being. The HSR-NIG is a sub-category of the HSR Competitive Research Grant (CRG) to cater to new HSR investigators.	Up to S$100,000
Oct 2013	N.A.	Oct 2013	East Asian Development Network (EADN) / Individual Research Grants. Click here for details.	Research proposals related to economics, human development, political and social dynamics, gender issues, international relations and other topics within the social sciences will be considered.	Up to US$15,000
Oct 2013	Nov 2013	Nov 2013	Singapore Cancer Society (SCS) / Cancer Research Grant 2013 Click here for details.	Research in sciences, and psycho-social / socioeconomics that is relevant to the quality of life, quality of care and quality of treatment for cancer patients.	Up to $200,000 Up to $100,000 (psycho-social research)
N.A.	N.A.	Dec 2013	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.
Nov 2013	Jan 2014	Feb 2014 (TBC)	Ministry of Education (MOE) / Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2, 2/2014 Feb 2014. Click here to visit the MOE Tier 2 on eWISE.	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
Dec 2013	Mid-Jan 2014	N.A.	Ministry of Education (MOE) / Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 1 (SMU internal research grants), Grant Call 2 (FY2013/2014). Click here to visit the SMU internal research grants on eWISE.	To support SMU faculty in the development of their research potential and progress, preferably align to the University’s or School’s strategic objectives.	Up to S$40,000

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.