EPSRC network grant: Nov 2023: responsive mode

Open UKRI funding opportunity · Grant. Open with no closing date. Opportunity page: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/epsrc-network-grant-nov-2023-responsive-mode/

Network grants are for researchers at eligible research organisations. Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will support costs of building interdisciplinary research communities.

We will award 80% of the full economic cost (FEC) of the project.

For information on our new approach to EPSRC responsive mode opportunities that opened in November 2023, please see our transition pages.

What we're looking for Aim

We are committed to the continued support of excellent discovery led research as detailed in EPSRC’s strategic delivery plan 2022 to 2025.

Network grants aim to develop new interdisciplinary research communities and topics by supporting interaction between researchers and relevant science, technology and industrial groups.

This could be by:

- transfer of experimental techniques, models and scientific insights

- promotion of mobility between academe, universities and industry

We expect networks to lead to new collaborative multidisciplinary research applications in areas we support. Some may develop into virtual centres of excellence.

They should:

- be a new collaboration

- aim to form a new interdisciplinary research community and identify new interdisciplinary research topics

- involve a group with a range of expertise and experience

- be based in the UK but may include collaboration with overseas partners

- demonstrate the added value our funding would bring

We will prioritise interdisciplinary applications and those that involve industrial or other users in any field of research relevant to our remit.

We particularly encourage involvement of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Scope

You can apply for a standard research grant in any field of research relevant to our remit. We support high quality research in:

- artificial intelligence (AI)

- digital…