UKRI GCRF/Newton Fund Agile Response call

Global Effort on COVID-19 (GECO) Health Research call

Full details:

https://www.ukri.org/funding/funding-opportunities/ukri-gcrf-newton-fund-agile-response-call-to-address-covid-19/

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/documents/global-effort-on-covid-19-geco-health-research-call-specification/24832#Eligibility

Funding agencies

UK Department for BEIS’s GCRF and Newton Fund through UKRI

UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), and UKRI

Proposal deadline

No deadline

Round 1: 22 June 2020

Round 2: 10 August 2020

Round 3: 28 September 2020

Eligibility à implication for PIs from developing countries

· Researchers in developing countries must be employed by an organisation that led or has led and held UKRI grants in order to lead the proposals.
· If not, researchers from developing countries need to partner with UK-based collaborators.

Any researchers employed by legally registered higher education institutions and not-for-profit research institutions in developing countries are eligible to lead the proposals.

Scope

· New research or innovation with a clear pathway to impact on policy or practice that has the potential (within the period of the award) to deliver a significant contribution to the understanding of, response to, and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in a developing country context.
· Supports the manufacture and/or wide scale adoption of an intervention with significant potential for impact in developing countries.
· Gathers critical data and resources quickly for future research use.

Based on the WHO COVID-19 Global Research Roadmap priorities
· Epidemiology
· Clinical management
· Infection prevention and control
· Social Sciences and Humanities in the Outbreak Response

Project length

Up to 18 months

Up to 18 months

Award range

No specific budget

Up to £1 million