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

Feb 2015

Mar 2015

Apr 2015

MOE AcRF Tier 3 Programme (Large-scale Research) – White Paper Submission

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Provide funding for large-scale research programme that has economic and societal impact by bringing together collaborative teams of experts within SMU and/or across universities in Singapore.

Type-A grants: $5-10M over five years

Type-B grants: $10-25M over five years

Feb 2015

Mar 2015

Apr 2015

MOE-NIE / 3rd and final eduLab Call for Proposal

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An Institute of Higher Learning (IHL) led eduLab project should involve 2 or more partner schools (primary, secondary or JC level) to be completed within a 2 to 2.5 year time frame with an end date of no later than 30 June 2018. It must feature an IDM-enriched innovation which supports teaching and learning practices in the classroom and beyond with a view towards wide adoption in a sustainable manner as an end goal. 

Tier 1: Below S$200,000


Tier 2: S$200,000 to less than S$1 million

Tier 3: S$1 milllion and above

Feb 2015

Mar 2015

Mar 2015

National Research Foundation (NRF) / Proof-of-Concept (POC) 13th Grant Call

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Facilitate the commercialisation of technologies developed in the institutions of higher learning (IHLs); Support projects which are technically proven and commercially viable. The grant will go towards supporting the developmental cost in building a fully functional prototype. The work must be conducted in the IHLs, and should yield results pertaining to viability for commercialisation.

Up to S$250,000

Jan 2015

Feb 2015

Mar 2015

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

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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

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N.A.

Apr 2015

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

Jun 2015

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

Jun 2015

 

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

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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.

 
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