Covid-19: round-up of initiatives and resources
A round-up of initiatives and resources in the fight against Covid-19 from The Knowledge Transfer Network.
This is a round-up of initiatives and resources related to Covid-19, collated across KTN’s extensive contacts.
You can access resources from organisations working to provide solutions here. KTN is not responsible for the content of external sites.
For more details on any of these, please contact our relevant teams: Health, Biotechnology, Creative, Manufacturing or Materials.
Further information from KTN:
- Covid-19 hub page
- Covid-19: response from KTN
- Covid-19 National Contact points
- Covid-19 – Help and support for businesses
- Covid-19: regulatory guidance
- Covid-19: product specifications
- Covid-19: funding round-up
Innovate UK “de minimis” funding – fast turnaround
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £20m to respond to new and urgent needs in UK and global communities during and after Covid-19.
Your application must demonstrate both realistic and significant benefits for society (including communities, families and individuals) or an industry that has been severely impacted and/or permanently disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Your proposal must focus on a clear need and the proposed innovation to address it.
You must have the ability to deliver the project during the working restrictions of Covid-19 pandemic.
You can claim 100% of your project costs up to the maximum of £50,000. These will be paid in advance of the project start date.
For more information, click here. Applications must be submitted by midday on Friday 17th April.
You can also view a webinar recording from Innovate UK with supporting information: click here.
£1million Defence innovation funding for Covid-19
A £1million fund to fast-track innovation to aid the Armed Forces in the fight against Coronavirus has been launched by the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA).
“This is a broad call for innovation, meaning we are open to any idea from anybody to solve or tackle any challenge. If you think you have a great idea that can help the UK’s defence capacity in these unprecedented times, then we want to hear from you.”
The funding is a new strand of DASA’s Open Call for innovation.
The Coronavirus strand will initially be open for one week from today – closing midday on 15 April – for rapid assessment of the first wave of proposals, but DASA will continue to accept proposals after 15 April for consideration.
For more information, click here.
Travel and subsistence to support low and middle-income country engagement
The awards will provide travel and subsistence funding to appropriately qualified public health professionals, clinicians and academics who wish to offer science and technical advice to support the immediate response to COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries.
The awards are open to applicants who have a substantive position at a UK higher education institution or research organisation.
Applications are open until further notice, on a rolling basis.
Applications should ideally be submitted at least 2 weeks before planned travel.
Click here for more details
UKRI open call for research and innovation ideas to address COVID-19
UKRI will support excellent proposals of up to 18 months duration which meet at least one of the following:
- New research or innovation with a clear impact pathway that has the potential (within the period of the award) to deliver a significant contribution to the understanding of, and response to, the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts.
- Supports the manufacture and/or wide scale adoption of an intervention with significant potential
- Gathers critical data and resources quickly for future research use
Proposals will be accepted from anyone who is normally eligible to apply for UKRI funding. Proposals should be sent through this route for any research or innovation relevant to the above regardless of funding Council or whether relevant to multiple Councils.
There is no closing date – proposals can be submitted at any time.
For more information, click here.
Fast Funding for COVID-19 Science
A new venture fund is offering grants of $10,000 to $500,000 to coronavirus researchers, and every grant decision will be made in less than 48 hours. The fund, Fast Grants, has raised $10 million from 10 backers including Paul Graham, Stripe cofounders John and Patrick Collison, and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman.
Funding applications are open from April 7th onwards. For more information, click here.
Travel and subsistence funding to support LMIC academic engagement
These awards from NIHR will provide travel and subsistence funding to appropriately qualified public health professionals, clinicians and academics who wish to offer science and technical advice to support the immediate response to COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries.
For more information, click here.
British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) COVID-19 Funding Call
BSAC is launching a COVID-19 funding call to support researchers in better understanding and addressing COVID-19 outbreak. Grants of up to £25,000 to support research projects. Exceptional grants in excess of £25,000 will be considered. Applications are open worldwide to all organisations and will be subject to a rapid peer review process.
Deadine 1st May 2020 (but a 4-page summary must be submitted by Friday 17th April). To find out more, click here.
Space in Response to COVID-19 Outbreak
ESA launches an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) inviting companies to submit their ideas for deploying and demonstrating services to respond to the emergency that Europe, and especially Italy, is facing because of the spread of the coronavirus. It is mandatory to develop solutions based on at least one space asset (satellite navigation, satellite communications and/or satellite earth observation). Up to €1m per project. Closes 20th April 2020.
For more information, click here.
Business Wales Covid-19 Resilience Innovation Project Support
As part of the Welsh Government’s response to the Coronavirus outbreak, we are looking at supporting Innovative projects that can have a direct impact on how we fight the virus. The Covid-19 Resilience Innovation Project Support can be used to fund;
- The purchasing of specific equipment
- Adjustments to existing processes
- Implementation of new processes
The production of medical devices, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and the delivery of sanitising products are all potential areas that could be addressed by the support.
Closes 30th June 2020. No specific funding amount given. Only open to businesses in Wales.
For more information, click here.
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