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Thursday, March 30, 2017
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Pre-outline, outline and full application stages. There are no deadlines and meetings to consider outlines are held every 2 months. Programme Grants are a flexible mechanism to provide funding to world-leading research groups to address significant major research challenges. They are intended to support a variety of activities focussing on one strategic research theme. Although it is expected that most proposals will be interdisciplinary and collaborative they can address key challenges in a single discipline. Applicants must discuss their suitability for Programme Grant funding with an identified EPSRC contact before submitting an Outline application. |
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Closing date (Notification of Intent): 16:00 BST (20:30 IST) on 30 March 2017 Closing date (Full Proposals): 16:00 BST (20:30 IST) on 26 April 2017 NERC, the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and India's Department of Science and Technology (DST) jointly invite proposals to a new three-year research programme to improve water quality. The programme aims to improve water quality by providing a better understanding of the sources and fate of different pollutants and by supporting the development of management strategies and technologies to reduce pollution levels. This collaboration is supported by the Newton-Bhabha Fund, established by the governments of the UK and India to provide a framework for increasing research and innovation collaborations that support sustainable economic growth. Proposals are sought for collaborative research projects involving researchers from both the UK and India. Up to £4·2m is available from NERC and EPSRC for this call, with up to £450k (80% Full Economic Cost) available for the UK component of a project, and the equivalent in terms of research effort available from DST for the Indian component. Please see the Announcement of Opportunity and Notification of Intent documents below for full details of the invitation and how to apply. |
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STFC Public Engagement FellowshipsThe Science and Technology Facilities Council invites applications for its public engagement fellowships. These enable highly skilled practitioners of public engagement to deliver a prolonged, thematic programme of public engagement and highlight the achievements of STFC science and technology. Programmes should focus around the following areas: •particle physics; •nuclear physics; •solar and planetary science; •astronomy; •particle astrophysics; •cosmology; •accelerator science. Applications are open to any applicant who can demonstrate a strong track record of research in an STFC-funded area of science and technology, or can demonstrate a strong track record of research that has been underpinned by use of the council’s national laboratories and facilities. Applicants must have a contract of employment at a UK research organisation that wholly covers the duration of the fellowship. Host institutions should provide public engagement fellows with the appropriate level of assistance and support. Fellowships will not be awarded for the sole purpose of authorship and publication of books and novels, though proposals in which the production of a book is an output of a longer programme will be considered. Fellowships should take up at least 20 per cent of the fellow’s time for a period of up to 36 months. Awards are worth up to £125,000 at 80 per cent full economic cost, or up to £100,000. |
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The European Science Foundation, with support from Horizon 2020, invites applications for its transnational access call. Funding provides researchers interested in pursuing planetary science research with access to a comprehensive set of laboratory facilities and field sites tailored to the needs of planetary research. Applications in other research disciplines are also considered based on innovation and potential scientific and technological impact to the planetary sciences field. Applications should address one of the following themes: •TA1 – planetary field analogues; •TA2 – distributed planetary simulation facility; •TA3 – distributed sample analysis facility. The main applicant must work in the EU or in associated countries or international cooperating partner countries and must apply to use facilities outside the country in which they are employed. Applicants working in third countries are eligible under certain conditions. Funding covers the expenses of up to two researchers and includes travel, accommodation and living costs for up to several weeks. |