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The Research and Development Authority Weekly 03.07.2018
Important Notice:
All research proposals must be reviewed and approved by the RDA before submission.

 

Calls For Proposals
 
 
United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) “Regular” and “Start-up” Programs 2018 calls open

The BSF website will open on September 1, 2018 for submissions to its “Regular” and “Start-up” Programs in the following disciplines:
  • Chemistry 
  • Computer Sciences 
  • Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (including “Physical oceanography/limnology” & “aquatic geochemistry”)
  • Economics 
  • Energy Research 
  • Environmental Research  
  • Materials Research 
  • Mathematical Sciences 
  • Physics 
  • Sociology
  • Psychology (excluding Psycho-biology) 
A “Start-up” applicant may be no more than 10 years since the completion of PhD/MD studies.  

Details on the programs and Guidelines will be published in the near future.

RDA Deadline (both programs): November 13, 2018
RDA Contact: Galia Chelets, Tel: 64 72436

 
 
 
Japanese Israeli Collaboration – in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences - Open to ISF active grant holders  

The program promotes research collaboration among Israeli and Japanese scientists, with support provided by an agreement between the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

The program is open for projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences only to researchers who have an active Individual Research Grant, with at least two years remaining of the grant, not including an extension  year (at the time of submission).
 

Prior registration at ISF Online is mandatory by August 9, 2018 (13:00 pm) 
RDA Deadline: an administrative application for the Israeli PI must be submitted by August 12, 2018 (13:00 pm)
RDA Contact: Tal Rafaely, Tel: 64 77709

 
 
 
NATO - Science for Peace and Security Programme  

The Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme is a policy tool that enhances cooperation and dialogue with all partners, based on scientific research, innovation, and knowledge exchange.  
NATO's priority in research is in the following topics: Counter-Terrorism, Energy Security, Cyber Defense, Environmental Security, and Disaster Management and Prevention, and more. Any application must directly address at least one of the SPS Key Priorities and have a clear link to security.

Applications must be made by project directors from at least one NATO Member Country and one Co-Director from a NATO Partner Country.  
 

RDA Deadline: September 12, 2018 (Due to the university holiday break)
Foundation Deadline: October 1, 2018
RDA Contact: Lori Liss, Tel: 64 72435

 
 
 
The Volkswagen Foundation | Global Issues – Integrating Different Perspectives on Social Inequality - Call for pre-proposals

This call focuses specifically on the development and reproduction of social inequality within a thematic framework, consisting of 4 pillars, as detailed in pages 2-3 in the Information for Applicants.
This call mainly targets the social sciences, but by no means excludes the involvement of other disciplines.
The programme offers funding opportunities for international research teams consisting of scholars based in high income countries (HIC) as well as low and middle income countries (LMICs) outside Europe. Israel is considered a non-European HIC.
Each team may consist of up to five partners, consisting of (at least) one based in a European HIC and two based in LMICs.
An additional central element of this call is supporting junior scholars.

RDA Deadline: October 24, 2018
RDA Contact: Lori Liss, Tel: 64 72435

 
 
 
Department of Defense (DOD) Office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) | Research Programs
   
CDMRP has published its call for Pre-Applications for several open programs:
RDA Deadline: July 24, 2018
RDA Deadline: July 31, 2018
RDA Deadline: September 12, 2018
RDA Deadline: Varies according to program

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
  • Note that for some of these programs, the interval between submission of the LoI and the deadline for the full proposal is very short.
  • Researchers interested in any of the above CDMRP programs must contact the RDA as soon as possible to receive important guidance concerning the submission process.
RDA Contact: Jennifer Cardozo Kishon, Tel: 64 77748

 

 
For additional funding opportunities and more calls for proposals,
go to the "Approaching Deadlines" table.
 
For more information regarding financial guidelines and points of contact, click the following link:  

 

Horizon 2020 Spotlight
Horizon 2020 – Security and CyberSecurity 2018-2020
Secure societies - Protecting the freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
 
The Horizon 2020 Security - CyberSecurity Deadline is coming up on August 23, 2018.

Please see the open calls for this deadline:
  1. Prevention, detection, response and mitigation of combined physical and cyber threats to critical infrastructure in Europe
  2. Cybersecurity preparedness - cyber range, simulation and economics
  3. Cybersecurity in the Electrical Power and Energy System (EPES): an armour against cyber and privacy attacks and data breaches 
  4. Digital security, privacy, data protection and accountability in critical sectors 
  5. Dynamic countering of cyber-attacks: a) Cyber-attacks management - advanced assurance and protection b) Cyber-attacks management – advanced response and recovery
  6. Information and data stream management to fight against (cyber)crime and terrorism 
  7. Technologies for: first responders, enhancing the fight against crime and terrorism, and border and external security  
For the full call text and assistance with these calls, please contact Ephrat ASAP.

Are you looking for partners for the Security Topics? Please see the following Partner Searches:
SMI2G Event – Partner Searches
Horizon Security Brokerage Event – Partner Searches
 
For Horizon 2020 guidance and for more information, please contact Ephrat Messing
If you are part of a Horizon consortium-in-the-making, please contact  Lori Liss

 

RDA Events
 
 
SciPub Seminar -  Writing a Winning Research Grant Proposal

The editors of the Scientific Publications team are pleased to present a seminar on grant writing.
The seminar will focus on writing proposals – mainly for ISF, and, in brief, for BSF and GIF – and will be held on the following dates (Please check the RDA’s Weekly for updates):

Thursday, July 5, 2018 (In English)
Thursday, July 19, 2018 (In Hebrew)
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 (In Hebrew)

All seminars will be held from 10:00–13:00 in the Dekel Room, 2nd floor of the Zlotowski Student Center building (near the RDA offices).
Participation is open to BGU faculty members only and requires advance registration with Reesa Stone.
The seminar's presentation is available for download on the RDA's website (Research and Development Authority > Internal Website > Information for New Researchers).

For further information contact [email protected]

 

Announcements
Data Science in higher education in Israel - A call for additional information

The Council for Higher Education has published its intention to launch a program for the development of the field of data science in the higher education system in Israel.  

To initiate the program, The Council for Higher Education has established a steering committee and part of its work is collecting information about existing activities in this field in the different academic institutions.

In response to the committee's request, BGU is preparing the relevant data.
We ask all researchers to whom this field might be relevant to fill out this linked questionnaire by July 6, 2018.

The questionnaire can be passed on to any relevant researcher at the university, even if s/he does not belong to the Data Science Research Center.
 
For further details, please contact Prof. Mark Last

 

Grant Awards

 

BSF – Regular
  • Dr. Adrian Israelson - Department of Physiology and Cell Biology
  • Dr. Anat Ben-Zvi - Department of Life Sciences
  • Professor Emeritus Arieh Zaritsky - Department of Life Sciences
  • Prof. Assaf Rudich - Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology
  • Prof. Ayelet David - Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology
  • Prof. Boris Krasnov   – Marco and Louise  Mitrani Department  of Desert Ecology  and Dr. Irena Khokhlova - Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture
  • Prof. David Katoshevski - The Management and Safety Engineering Unit and Prof. Rafael Tadmor - Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Prof. Galia Avidan - Department of Psychology
  • Prof. Ilya Fleidervish - Department of Physiology and Cell Biology
  • Prof. Michael Danilenko - Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology
  • Prof. Sammy Boussiba - The Albert Katz Department of Dryland Biotechnologies
BSF – Start-Up
  • Prof. Itai Kloog - Department of Geography and Environmental Development
  • Dr. Moshe Elkabets - The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics
BSF-NSF Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases
  • Dr. Hadas Hawlena - Marco and Louise  Mitrani Department  of Desert Ecology
Ministry of Science, Technology and Space – Center of Knowledge in Autism Research
  • Prof. Ilan Dinstein – Department of Psychology, Prof. Hava Golan – Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Dr. Idan Menashe – Department of Public Health, Dr. Gal Meiri – Soroka University Medical Center
Ministry of Defense – Mafat
  • Dr. Yaniv Brick – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

 
Departmental email & Feedback: [email protected]
 
RDA website: www.bgu.ac.il/research

 

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