A14PEP – Call for Expressions of Interest
Information and Communication Technology
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire within unit
Memorial Deadline: Monday 19th, December 2022
External Deadline: Saturday 31st, December 2022
Description
**Please note: Canadian Researchers are no eligible to be the primary investigator, but may collaborate on projects with researchers from the designated areas.
AI4PEP offers grants, funding, and awards to researchers and institutions in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to deepen the understanding of how responsible AI solutions can improve public health preparedness and response.
The call for proposals will only be open to researchers from LMICs in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). We will use a 2-phased approach: inception and exploration phase. This approach has been chosen, since we anticipate that some partners may take longer to deliver the expected outputs and/or will require more support than other partners. Therefore, the second part of the funding will be used to specifically support these partners.
During the Inception Phase (May 2023 – April 2026), selected research teams will coherently combine different theoretical tools, advancing the responsible development and deployment of AI-based tools within the One Health framework in order to build epidemic and pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. During this phase, research teams will have an opportunity to determine if their idea warrants additional in-depth investigation, make changes to their activities, identify and bring in new partners to strengthen their impact, and solidify the relationships needed to make the scaling of their innovations a success.
In Phase 2 (May 2026 – April 2028), some or all of the research teams will receive additional funding to expand and/or scale their ideas and solutions, as well as to disseminate findings and inspire the next generation of leaders in the use of AI for pandemic and epidemic preparedness and response.
We will be soliciting proposals only for Phase 1.
We will use a three-stage process to select the most promising proposal.
Call For Expressions of Interest: to deepen the understanding of how responsible AI solutions can improve public health preparedness and response.
Deadline: December 31, 2022
Funding: Up to $1,283,286 CAD per region (up to $362,500 CAD per team)
Duration: 5 years
More details can be found here.