To thrive in the New COVID-19 Normal

Objective

Following up with the recent "Call-for-Ideas" initiatives, National Research Foundation (NRF) is calling for the RIE community to submit proposals for solutions that can address any of the following four themes. For more information about the four themes, please refer to the 'Call-for-Proposals Application Guidelines' PDF file.

1. Transforming Hospital Operations

2. Monitoring and Management

3. Living with COVID-19

4. Rethinking Urban Designs

Functioning prototypes have to be developed within two months. Applicants are not required to develop the solution from scratch and could consider enhancing or pivoting current technological solutions. Submissions need not be limited to the ideas submitted in the previous stage.

Applicants must articulate or demonstrate how the proposed solutions have the potential to be implementable, adoptable and achieve socioeconomic benefits for Singapore in the "new COVID-19 normal". Promising outcomes may be selected for further developmental work, but the emphasis is on solutions that can be rapidly adopted and deployed.

As evaluations will be conducted without physical interviews, video elaborations / demonstrations (of up to five minutes) are encouraged and should be submitted as an unlisted link on Youtube or Vimeo.

Funding Details

Each award is capped up to S$50,000 (inclusive of overheads).

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants should be from:

Local public healthcare institutions (including academic medical centres and national specialty centres) are eligible to apply. Entities such as local public hospitals, public health institutions and National Specialty centres are welcome to apply. Please find the full list of eligible entities in the ‘Call-for-Proposals Application Guidelines’ PDF file. Applicants outside of the list will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Submission

Interested applicants are to submit 2 completed files ‘Call-for-Proposals Application Template’ and ‘Call-for-Proposals Application Form’ as attached through your Host Institution’s Research Office to NHIC at enquiry@nhic.sg by 20 May 2020 (Wednesday), 5pm.

Note: SingHealth PIs are to please refer to your respective Institutional Research Administrators for guidance on internal deadlines and submission procedures set by your institutions.

Contact Person in NHIC

Email: grant@nhic.sg

Additional Information

• Call-for-Proposals Application Form.pptx
• Call-for-Proposals Application Template.docx
• Call-for-Proposals Application Guidelines.pdf