Peacebuilding and Resilience in an Era of Global Health Challenges: A Bilateral Research Call to Enhance Understanding & Support for Mental Health Challenges in Colombia
Deadline: 03-Aug-20
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Science, Technology and Innovation Projects CTeI of national affairs (Minciencias) have announced a bilateral call between researchers in the UK and Colombia.
(Ad) Still, finding it difficult to find new grants and donors to support your work? No way to easily search and identify upcoming funding opportunities? No idea how to raise funds? We have a solution for you. Our Premium Membership service answers all your questions. Learn more.
This call invites internationally competitive and cross disciplinary research projects, that aim to enhance the evidence base on understanding and addressing the mental health challenges facing post-conflict societies in Colombia.
Themes
(Ad) Too many advertisements on this website? Get an ad-free and fully optimized website experience to find grants and donors of your interest. Premium Membership service offers a clean and user-friendly interface for you to raise funds successfully! Learn more.
The call is structured around four overarching themes:
Mental health conditions, including; post-traumatic stress disorder and co-morbid conditions such as depression and anxiety.
Substance misuse and dependence.
Gender and interpersonal violence.
Mental health care systems and services.
Funding Information
(Ad) Premium Membership offers unlimited search options to find your grants and donors. Search by country or thematic area of your work interest or even by keyword. View the number of open grants for your country. on a Google Map. Keep a watch on grant deadlines through a calendar. Learn more.
Funding will be available to support up to 9 joint research projects, for up to 36 months. UKRI will support a UK contribution of £3m to this call, with an equivalent level of match resource (COP $4.5m) being made by the Colombian funder, Minciencias.
UK applications can request up to £333,000 (80% fEC).
The Colombian component of each project may receive up to COP $483,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Proposals must meet the criteria listed below:
(Ad) Too many emails about grants, but too few leads? Join Premium and use our Specific Email Alerts feature where you can select your country/countries and thematic areas of work interest and receive grant information accordingly. Learn more.
Proposals must have both a UK and a Colombian principal investigator (PI), as well as coinvestigators from both countries, as appropriate to the research proposed and input should be balanced across the two countries.
Applicants can only be PI on one proposal.
Colombian PIs cannot be involved in any other grants currently funded by Minciencias.
Any principal investigators and co-Investigators must be from an organisation eligible for UKRI or Minciencias funding.
Applicants can be named on more than one proposal as a Co-Investigator, providing they have sufficient time available to work on all relevant proposals if they were all to be successful.
The UK funding for this initiative comes from the Newton fund. This means that the funding will be awarded in a manner that fits with Official Development Assistance (ODA) requirements. All proposals under this call must therefore be compliant with these guidelines.
Assessment Criteria
Proposals to this call will be assessed in accordance with the following criteria:
(Ad) Our Premium Donor Search feature works like a mini-search engine. As soon as you define the search criteria and click on search, it scans the internet for the best possible matches of donor agencies based according to your interest and presents a list that you need. Learn more.
Research importance and quality (50 marks/primary criterion):
Importance of the research question(s) and/or overall challenge
Appropriateness and viability of the proposed approach, objectives, and methods, including addressing any ethical issues
Are the costs included in the proposal ‘appropriate’ (i.e. are they focused on and necessary for building sustainable partnerships) and good value for money?
Relevance of the activities and methods proposed to the stakeholders and situations targeted in the intervention
Effectiveness and sustainability of the proposed intervention
Fit to Call (20 marks):
An effective and meaningful integration of a range of different disciplines and skills that can be shown to deliver added value
Expertise assembled is appropriate and sufficient to address the research questions posed
Relevance of the proposal to addressing the call challenges – how appropriate and developed is the collaboration between the UK and Colombian research in addressing the call challenges?
Is the distribution of work between the UK and Colombian partners appropriate? I.e. is it a true and fair partnership?
Engagement and Impact within Colombia (20 marks):
Effective engagement, co-design / co-production, and knowledge exchange with relevant stakeholders (social actors) and research users including those with lived experience of armed conflict, mental health, local communities, health care practitioners inside and outside of formal healthcare settings, educators, policy makers and governors.
Evidence that the research will have real-world relevance, and the role of non-academic partners, where included, to facilitate this.
Meaningful plans for patient and public involvement throughout the award
Quality of plans for knowledge exchange and mobilization and how these will accelerate implementation of research evidence into socially appropriate policy and practice.
Potential for economic and societal impact, including how underrepresented groups and those most at risk of mental health problems are likely to benefit.
Expected outputs and publications (10 marks):
Potential for delivering new and timely knowledge through quality research outputs and publications.
For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/funding/funding-opportunities/aoo-research-call-enhance-understanding-for-mental-health/