The Technology Strategy Board, together with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), and Scottish Government, is offering up to £13m for businesses to develop engineering solutions across the agri-food supply…
EPSRC: Research Challenges in Carbon Capture for CCS
EPSRC, as part of the RCUK Energy Programme, invites proposals for collaborative research projects to undertake fundamental research to tackle challenges in carbon capture for carbon capture and storage (CCS). An indicative budget of up to £4M is available from…
Wellcome Trust: Sustaining Health
Humanity faces profound questions about how our planet can sustain nine billion people by 2050. With the trend of urbanisation, the majority of the world’s population now live in cities. There is a global nutrition crisis, with dual problems of…
TSB: Multi-million competition on enhancing agri-food production systems through engineering solutions
The Technology Strategy Board is planning to launch a multi-million competition, which will fund business-led, collaborative R&D projects in the general area of ‘engineering solutions for agrifood production systems, from primary production to the food processing and manufacturing environment’. This…
Human Frontier Science Program: postdoctoral fellowships
2014 competition: the application guidelines are available now. HFSP postdoctoral fellowships encourage early career scientists to broaden their research skills by moving into new areas of study while working in a new country. The next submission deadline is 29 August 2013. HFSP fellowships are for three…