Skip to main content

Bournemouth University

BU Research Blog

Latest research and knowledge exchange news at Bournemouth University

  • Home
  • RDS Team
    • RDS advice to academics during COVID-19
    • Faculty-Facing Staff
    • Funding Development Team
    • Project Delivery Team
    • Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team
  • Clinical Governance @ BU
  • Research Ethics @ BU
  • REF 2021
    • BU REF 2021 Code of Practice
    • Declaration of Staff Circumstances
    • BU’s Unit of Assessment Teams
    • REF FAQs
    • Archive – REF 2014
      • BU REF 2014 Code of Practice
      • REF 2014 Frequently Asked Questions
        • REF 2014 Overview
        • Staff eligibility
        • Mock REF 2014 (REF preparation) exercises at BU
        • REF 2014 Assessment of outputs
        • REF 2014 Staff selection
        • REF 2014 Equality and diversity
  • Impact
    • Partnerships & collaborations
    • Working with businesses
      • Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF)
    • Communicating your research
    • Influencing policy makers
    • Public engagement
      • Quick guide to public engagement
    • Student engagement
      • Stages of engagement
      • Case study: Sean Beer
      • Case study: James Gavin
      • Case study: Anna Feigenbaum
  • Research Toolkit
  • Research Lifecycle
  • Policy
  • PGR
    • The Doctoral College Team
    • Postgraduate Researcher Development Steering Group

August 8, 2016

Horizon 2020 funding in 16/17: Societal Challenges – SC1

EU, Funding opportunities, Global engagement Emily Cieciura

Societal Challenges, by their nature, require input from across the disciplines. Please read on, even if you think this is not applicable to your direct area of research. 

Health, demographic change and wellbeing, (Horizon 2020, Societal Challenge 1) has a number of opportunities relevant to BU in 16/17:

  • healthHorizon Prize – Birth Day (closes 6/9/17) – Reducing maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality
  • Personalised Medicine (various calls with a range of closing dates) – for example:
    • Implementing the Strategic Research Agenda on Personalised Medicine
    • Actions to bridge the divide in European health research and innovation
    • Support for large scale uptake of Digital Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing
    • Methods research for improved health economic evaluation
    • Promoting mental health and well-being in the young
  • SME Instruments (various calls with a range of closing dates) – for example:
    • Accelerating market introduction of ICT solutions for Health, Well-Being and Ageing Well
  • Ebola and other filoviral haemorrhagic fevers (Ebola+) programme: future outbreaks (various closing dates up to March 2018)

Find out more about the Health, demographic change and wellbeing Societal Challenge.Euro_Flag

Please also take a look at the 16/17 Work Programme for this Societal Challenge. You may find it easier to review the opportunites by scanning through a PDF, with links from the contents pages.

More information about Horizon 2020 is located on their dedicated website and on the Particpant Portal. The Societal Challenges form one of the three pillars, which make up this flagship EU scheme.

You can advertise for potential partners or promote your area of expertise to others leading bids using the EU CORDIS website.

Watch out for further blog posts outlining other EU and international opportunties in 16/17.

What next?

Take a look at the dedicated BU Research Blog page for Horizon 2020. If you are considering applying to any EU calls, please contact Emily Cieciura, RKEO’s Research Facilitator: EU & International, as soon as possible, so that we can support your bid.

Tags: EU European Commission Health demographic change and wellbeing horizon 2020 Societal Challenges

Related Posts

  • Horizon 2020 funding in 16/17: Societal Challenges – SC3September 1, 2016
  • EU Horizon 2020 Funding – Societal ChallengesJuly 27, 2015
  • Horizon 2020 funding in 16/17: Societal Challenges – SC2August 16, 2016
  • EU Radar – Societal Challenges – Smart, Green and Integrated TransportApril 1, 2015

BU staff can login below:

Other services

Don’t miss a post!

Subscribe for the BU Research Digest, delivered freshly every day.


 

Recent posts

BU research Funding opportunities EU
  • Missing out? The Early Career Researcher NetworkJanuary 27, 2021
  • NIHR Grant Applications Seminar ONLINE- 23rd March 2021January 26, 2021
  • Dealing with the past in the post-Yugoslav space – Reflections on a conferenceJanuary 26, 2021
  • Join our upcoming research seminarsJanuary 25, 2021
  • New publication Dr. Orlanda HarveyJanuary 22, 2021
  • Big Grant Briefing (ASV)January 22, 2021
  • Funding Development Briefing – Spotlight on: MSCA Individual Fellowships (EU)January 27, 2021
  • Big Grant Briefing (ASV)January 22, 2021
  • Invitation to VIRTUAL STEAMlabJanuary 22, 2021
  • Funding Development Briefing – Spotlight on: Philip Leverhulme PrizesJanuary 20, 2021
  • Call for PhD student participation in Erasmus+ student exchange with Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences (MMIHS) in Nepal.January 15, 2021
  • UK’s participation in Horizon EuropeJanuary 13, 2021
  • Dealing with the past in the post-Yugoslav space – Reflections on a conferenceJanuary 26, 2021
  • HE policy update for the w/e 21st January 2021January 21, 2021
  • HE Policy Update w/e 18th January 2021January 18, 2021
  • UK’s participation in Horizon EuropeJanuary 13, 2021
  • Applying for Interreg funding from January 2021January 13, 2021
  • HE policy update for the w/e 8th January 2021January 7, 2021

Search by Category

Search by popular post topics

AHRC Brexit BRIAN BU research clinical research CMMPH collaboration collaborative research conference congratulations dementia ESRC EU Europe event Events Festival of Learning FP7 funding funding opportunities Fusion Fusion Investment Fund Health horizon 2020 HSC impact innovation knowledge exchange media midwifery Nepal nhs open access Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen publication public engagement publishing ref research Research Councils research professional RKE development framework social sciences training widening participation

RSS Research Information Network

  • Physical Sciences Case studies: information use and discovery
  • Information handling in collaborative research: an exploration of five case studies
  • Information literacy monitoring and evaluation
  • Data centres: their use, value and impact
  • Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications

RSS UKRI

Browse all our categories
  • Awarded & submitted bids
  • BRIAN
  • BU Challenges
  • BU research
  • BU2025
  • Business Engagement
  • Centre for Excellence in Learning
  • Clinical Governance
  • Coffee Morning
  • conferences
  • COVID-19
  • data management
  • Delicious links
  • Doctoral College
  • ECR Network
  • EPSRC
  • ESRC
  • EU
  • Events
  • Featured
  • Featured academics
  • Festival of Learning
  • Funding opportunities
  • Fusion
  • Fusion Investment Fund
  • Fusion themes
  • Global engagement
  • Grants Academy
  • Guidance
  • hate crime
  • HEIF
  • HSS Our 9 Research Entities
  • humanities
  • Impact
  • Industry collaboration
  • Info Days
  • innovation
  • international
  • Knowledge Exchange
  • Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team
  • Knowledge Transfer
  • Knowledge Transfer Partnership
  • News from the PVC
  • nhs
  • NHS
  • open accecss
  • open access
  • parliament
  • Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
  • PG research
  • policy
  • Post-award
  • Postgraduate Research
  • pre-award
  • Public engagement
  • Publishing
  • R & KE Operations
  • REF Subjects
  • Research assessment
  • Research Centres
  • Research communication
  • Research Concordat
  • Research Ethics
  • Research Integritiy
  • research integrity
  • Research news
  • research staff
  • Research themes
  • Research Training
  • RKE development framework
  • staff profile pages
  • Student Engagement
  • student research
  • the conversation
  • Training
  • Uncategorized
  • Vitae
  • Women's Academic Network
  • writing
  • Twitter

© Bournemouth University 2021. All rights reserved.

  • Charitable status
  • Website privacy & cookies
  • Copyright and terms of use