Latest Funding Opportunities

By the SMU Corporate Communications team

Launch Date

Deadline for Submission to ORE

Deadline for Submission to Funding Agency

Funding Agency / Grant Name

Scope

Quantum

Jul 2014

N.A.

Sep 2014

Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO)-Jasper Research Award

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Aim to draw attention to the role of education, science and culture in accelerating the goals of regional mobility through facilitating knowledge flows, education and labor mobility and cultural exchanges in the region.

Plaque of Recognition and Travel Fellowship

Jul 2014

Aug 2014

Sep 2014

Singapore Cancer Society (SCS) / Cancer Research Grant 2014

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Support local cancer research projects across a wide spectrum of subjects relevant to the quality of life, quality of care and quality of treatment for cancer patients. 

S$25,000 to S$300,000 

Jul 2014

Aug 2014

Aug 2014

National Research Foundation  / Science of Research, Innovation and Enterprise (SRIE) programme 

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Provide funding for research and relevant capability-building activities that supports evidence-based policy-making in research, innovation and enterprise (RIE). 

Award amounts per proposal will vary according to scale and topic.

May 2014

Jul 2014

Aug 2014

Ministry of Education (MOE) / Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2, 1/2015 Aug 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

May 2014

Jun 2014

Aug 2014

Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) Risk Management Research Program –2014 Call for Proposals

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The GARP Research Committee will favor proposals covering the following topics though other topics will be considered.

• Risk Governance and the Board of Directors 
• Risks of central clearing
• Risks of the shadow banking system
• Variability of risk measures
• New approaches to extreme tail risk measurement
• New approaches to operational risk measurement

 

US$15,000

Jun 2014

Aug 2014

Sep 2014

A*STAR – SERC Public Sector Research Funding (PSF) 2014 Grant Call 

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Seek proposals in areas of upstream research and/or exploring novel concepts, which can create a meaningful impact on SERC’s current and future activities. SERC is interested in breakthrough sciences and technologies that can impact areas in, among other things, semantic web, big-data driven sciences, digital manufacturing, future computing paradigms, future complex service systems, materials by design, robotics, energy and sustainability in cities.

Up to S$1 million

Jun 2014

Sep 2014

Sep 2014

Merlion Programme 2014 Call for Proposals

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Create or strengthen existing scientific co-operation between France and Singapore. Three types of grants are covered in this programme – the Merlion Project, Merlion Workshop, and Merlion PhD Project (for PhD students only).
 

It requires a balanced funding between the France and Singapore partners and the support provided is mainly for logistical purposes.

N.A.

N.A.

Aug 2014

Microsoft Research / Windows Azure Research Award Program

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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

Aug 2014

The Spencer Foundation / Small Research Grants in the Areas of Inquiry

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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

Aug 2014

 

The Spencer Foundation / Initiative on the New Civics 

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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)

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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


Please contact the respective grant managers if you are interested to apply for the above programmes.

 
Office of Research, Singapore Management University