AXA Exceptional Flash Call for Proposals on COVID-19

In response to the current COVID-19 crisis, the AXA Research Fund Team is launching a flash call for projects: Mitigating risk in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Funder: AXA Research Fund
Funding opportunity: Projects - Mitigating risk in the wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Brief details:
Projects should focus on:

• Protecting vulnerable populations from epidemics and catastrophes, including COVID-19: be it migrants, informal settlements, workers in the informal economy, isolated people, people with disabilities, the elderly
• Improving data collection and quality in health: how can data and technology help us get out of the crisis, understand it and mitigate it? How can it inform future containment and epidemic control?
• Understanding the effects of confinement and social distancing: what are the effects of confinement and social distancing on society and households? What are the mental health consequences? The social and domestic repercussions?
• Early warning and preparedness: how do we re-enforce our health infrastructure and ecosystem (including medical devices and drug supply) to be better prepared and how do we protect our health workers and caregivers?
• Preserving the environment and our health: connections between climate change, biodiversity loss and the origin of viral disease including socioeconomic dynamics leading to infectious disease outbreaks and sanitary crisis; Learnings from COVID-19 for mitigating future related crises in climate and biodiversity.

The AXA grant aims at supporting mid-career researchers between PhD + 6 years and PhD + 10 years maximum.

Applications are due to the funder by May 7, 2020 4PM Paris time (12am Friday 8 May Melbourne time)

University limits:
The funder has placed a limit on one application per individual department at an institution (so for example one from Economics, one from Biology, etc). The funder has stated that if multiple applications are submitted from the same department, all will be deemed ineligible.

To manage this, the MRO is running an EOI. Applicants must submit an expression of interest to the MRO. The EOI will comprise of the completed application form sent to mro-applications@monash.edu by 5pm Thursday 30 April 2020. Please do not submit your application without receiving an EOI outcome from the MRO.

Key dates:

ACTION	DATE
EOI submission (completed application form) to MRO (mro-applications@monash.edu)	5pm, Thursday 30 April
Submission to MRO for Compliance Checking (Via Pure Pre-Approval)	12pm, Friday 1 May
Full application due to Funder	May 7, 2020 4pm Paris time (12am Friday 8 May Melbourne time)

Links to further information:
Further information about this call including the application form and scheme guidelines can be found at the following link.

Pleas contact mro-applications@monash.edu if you have any queries about this funding opportunity.