NERC urgency funding

Open UKRI funding opportunity · Grant. Open with no closing date. Opportunity page: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/nerc-urgency-funding-open/

Apply for funding to respond rapidly to transient environmental research opportunities arising from unexpected natural events, such as earthquakes, droughts, floods or ephemeral events in ecosystems.

Funding supports the collection of critical early data, before the research opportunity is lost. Projects can request up to £100,000 full economic cost (FEC), with NERC funding up to 80% FEC. Projects can last up to one year.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding.

Applications are accepted at any time.

What we're looking for Scope

The NERC urgency funding opportunity supports researchers to respond quickly to transient, unexpected environmental research opportunities created by sporadic natural occurrences such as earthquakes, droughts, floods, or ephemeral events in ecosystems.

The aim of this funding is to help researchers collect valuable data at the start of the event before other events and actions affect the data collection.

You can apply for urgency funding only if there is an unexpected event you need urgent data on, and if applying through other available funding opportunities would result in a missed opportunity to undertake environmental research of high scientific importance.

Your project outline must be submitted within four weeks of the event start date; the event start date must be clearly evidenced.

Your project must fit predominantly within one or more of NERC’s Research Areas

We expect your project to last up to one year and to focus on urgent data collection and essential initial analysis only. You must have a clear strategy for taking the research forward once the urgent phase is complete.

We reserve the right to limit the number of urgency funding applications considered or supported relating to the same event or location.

The following are out of scope for…