UEC Research Equipment Call for 2020 (extended deadline)
Faculty-prioritised Large Equipment Grants
Purpose
The purpose of these grants is to provide funding to faculties for prioritised pieces of large equipment not covered for funding by faculty equipment committees.
Eligibility
UCT researchers are eligible to apply if they are:
- permanent academic staff
- permanent joint academic staff (excluding registrars).
Not eligible to apply:
- honorary research associates
- emeritus professors
- emeritus associate professors
- honorary professors
- honorary associate professors
- senior research scholars.
Those who wish to have access to new equipment must form part of research groupings and may not be the principal applicant.
Submission process
Please check current opportunities page to see if this call is currently open. Alternatively please contact the Research Support Services for timelines around this call. Department/individual researchers must make applications directly to the faculty equipment committee (see Table below).
The application, accompanied by recent quotes, must provide details on the projected lifetimes and motivations for each item. These motivations must show that the appropriate infrastructural support for the functioning of each item has been investigated.
Please submit your application via email or in hardcopy to your faculty equipment committee representative (see Table above for details).
The faculty equipment committee prioritises the requests and submits the applications to the UEC via the Research Office.
Conditions
- Applicants must be able to show that they have tried to get funding elsewhere, i.e. demonstrated fundraising effort is important. A minimum of a 10% contribution from the applicant is required. If part of the funding will be solicited from outside bodies, it is mandatory that a donor prospect clearance be obtained from the Development Office before approaching the UEC.
- The UEC will not be responsible for currency differences caused by delays in purchasing equipment.
- In the event that there is a saving due to currency differences, excess funds must be returned to the UEC.
- Copies of the invoices of the final amounts must be submitted to the Research Office.
- A report on the expenditure of this equipment award is required to be submitted to the Research Office in November of that year.
Emergency repair
On an annual basis, the UEC sets aside R250,000.00 for possible emergency repair requirements. Applications for emergency repairs are considered on an ad hoc basis by the chair.
National Equipment Programme (NEP) and the Nano National Equipment Programme (NNEP)
The National Research Foundation (NRF) runs the Research Infrastructure Support Programme which encompasses the NEP and the NNEP. Each year institutions are invited to put forward applications for this funding programme. The UEC selects the possible UCT applications which are then approved for forwarding for NEP and NNEP by the regional expensive equipment programme (REEP) committee. The faculty/department/individual is required to make a 10% contribution should the NEP/NNEP applications be successful.
REEP committee
The REEP Committee is made up of representatives from the higher education institutions in the Western Cape. The committee meets annually to approve NEP/NNEP applications for submission to the NRF.
Contact
Email researchfunding@uct.ac.za for more information.
Download Application Forms
URC equipment application form (R&I18). Or click http://www.researchoffice.uct.ac.za/internal-funding
URC emergency repairs to equipment (R&I21). Or click http://www.researchoffice.uct.ac.za/internal-funding
Time-Lines
- Applications to reach the Faculty Equipment Committee Representative research.health@uct.ac.za :
Category 1 submission date 23 April 2020
Category 2 submission date 06 March 2020
- FEC Meeting to prioritise UEC applications: To be confirmed
- Faculty Equipment Committees to submit prioritised applications to the Research Office for UEC review: 21 May 2020
- UEC Review Meeting: 9 June 2020
Faculty of Health Sciences
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Faculty |
University equipment committee (UEC) representative |
Contact details |
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Faculty of Health Sciences |
Professor Jonathan Blackburn Ms Carlette Hlungwani |