COVID-19 Opportunities to get involved


Innovate UK Covid-19 fast track funding call

Innovate UK has launched a £20m funding call looking for business-led innovation in response to global disruption UK Businesses can apply for a share of £20m in a fast-track funding call to develop new ways to tackle global disruption such as that caused by Covid-19.

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Volunteers needed for the third sector

In response to COVID-19, the leading organisations that support both the charity sector and volunteering initiatives across the UK have come together to ask for help.

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COVID-19 UKRI open call for research and innovation ideas

The UKRI have opened an additional wave of funding for short-term research and innovation projects to address the current #COVID19 crisis. There is no closing date - proposals can be submitted at any time.

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KTN - COVID-19 Funding available in Scotland

The Scottish Government is making funding available for research aimed at tackling the challenges posed by the current COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland.

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NERC New funding re COVID-19 social distancing

COVID-19 Proposals will need to be sensitive to social distancing and other restrictions being brought in as a result of the current situation.

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Data Collaboratives in response to COVID-19

This document is part of a call for action to build a responsible infrastructure for data-driven pandemic response. It serves as a repository for data collaboratives seeking to address the spread of COVID-19 and its secondary effects.

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Hack from Home COVID-19

Are giving people a chance to respond with action, working together to improve the lives of everyone affected by the Coronavirus. Our goal is to band together to help communities, patients, and their families better using what we know best - technology.

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Crowd Fight Covid 19

Online platform to volunteer to support scientific research to combat the outbreak (ranging from annotating images to technical queries).

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Partnering Health and Data Expertise for COVID-19

Pairing interested data/viz volunteer consultants with practitioners in the health community, particularly interested in supporting community organizations and social service agencies looking for ways to make COVID-19 data more local for their communities

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Volunteer Data Science against COVID-19

A place for clinicians / virologists / immunologists and others with data to find fast and free help from data science experts to crunch numbers.

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Urgent call for modellers to support epidemic modelling

This urgent call to action is addressed to the scientific modelling community and is a scheme to allow those with modelling skills (including data science) to contribute to current UK efforts in modelling the COVID-19 pandemic.

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