The competition is open to the best business-led, innovative or disruptive ideas or concepts. These can be drawn from any technology, engineering or industrial area. This area can be one that fits into, or be outside of, any one or…
MRC New Foundations for Ambitious New Programmes
The research councils have together announced the first phase of health research awards from the new £1.5bn Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). They will address issues affecting people in low and middle income countries (LMICs) using the UK’s world-class research…
Innovation Programme Launched
After 2 months of blood, sweat, and fortunately no tears, the Innovation Programme for Greater Lincolnshire’s website is finally live! Launched in September 2016, the Innovation Programme is a 3 year, £3.3m European Regional Development Funded project which aims to…
Academies launch fund for interdisciplinary research
Britain’s three leading national academies have announced a joint scheme to support multidisciplinary work that is unlikely to be supported by other funders. The Academies Partnership in Supporting Excellence in Cross-disciplinary Research, or APEX, award scheme, was launched…
UK in a Changing Europe – Brexit Priority Grants
Pre-call announcement The ESRC will shortly be launching a call under the UK in a Changing Europe initiative for Brexit Priority Grants. These are to support additional activity (including research synthesis and potential new short-term research activity) related to the…
Transforms to Sustainability – Pre-call announcement
Climate change, environmental degradation and resource pressures have created unprecedented situations for societies worldwide. Conventional knowledge and capacity building to tackle the challenges associated with sustainability have proven inadequate, and a comprehensive and concerted research initiative is needed to boost…