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Strategic Equipment is intended to enhance UK scientific capability and support a portfolio of high-quality, cutting-edge research of high priority to EPSRC; it can include both existing and potential research projects. The request should fit with the host university strategy and enable research that predominantly falls within EPSRC's remit. This scheme can fund individual or combined assets with a value over 拢400,000. Strategic Equipment could include, but is not limited to, enabling technology that increases novel research capability, or high-specification equipment that enables research through increased capacity (e.g. faster, higher resolution or more cost-effective results). Applications for Strategic Equipment should not include underpinning equipment that we would expect to see in a well-found lab.

EPSRC wishes to encourage a culture of equipment sharing where appropriate in order to maximise usage within the research group, across institution(s) or across the UK. As such, Strategic Equipment should account for the national picture, both in terms of equipment available and research being undertaken. EPSRC has worked with the academic community to prepare several ; Strategic Equipment applications should take these into account where applicable.

Items of equipment with a value of 拢400,000 or more can be applied for through this process. Please note that the threshold applies to individually capitalisable assets, rather than by accumulating the value of a number of assets, except where individual assets are clearly intended to be used together as a combined asset. Please note that the choice of this threshold does not imply any consequences for university procurement and tendering rules.