The Wellcome Data Prize in mental health will support collaborative approaches to research into anxiety and depression in young people. Teams in the UK and South Africa will explore existing data to find new insights and build digital tools that enable future research.
WORTH
There are three phases to the prize, each six months long and with different levels of funding and support on offer:
- Discovery phase: 10 teams will be selected to receive £40,000 of funding
- Prototyping phase: 5 teams will be selected to receive £100,000 of funding
- Sustainability phase: £500,000 will be allocated across 3 winning teams
ELIGIBILITY
- Lead applicants must be based in the UK or South Africa.
- Lead applicants may be at any career stage but must have a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract, or the guarantee of one for the full duration of the award.
- Lead applicant organisations should be either a higher education institution, a research institute, a non-academic healthcare organisation or a not-for-profit organisation.
- Co-applicants can be at any career stage and based anywhere in the world, apart from mainland China.
- Co-applicants can be self-employed, e.g. a freelance data scientist (as well as employed by the usual range of host organisations below).
DEADLINE: June 5 2022
To apply and for more information visit here
