(*Note: There may be calls to be announced in addition to the list below)
Provisional plan of activities organised byapproximately whencalls may be issued. Details of activities may change closer to the time. We plan to update this list roughly every three months.
January - March 2009
- Environmental Nanoscience Initiative
Second phase of the NERC-led initiative - focusing on the behaviour and effects of nanomaterials in the environment and forming consortia of both UK and US researchers.
Date of call: January-February 2009
Contact:John Wand or seedetails on NERC website - IDEAS Factory - Detecting terrorists at a distance
Joint activity with the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure and possibly other sponsors including research councils
Date of call: January 2009
Contact: Alex Hulkes - Technology Strategy Board Collaborative Research and Development and Innovation Platform Competitions
Funding for industrial-academic collaborative R&D projects in strategically important areas. Additional funding from EPSRC may be available for projects with a significant high-quality academic component that provide added value to our existing portfolio.
Date of call: January-March 2009
Contact:Robert Heathman - Innovative Manufacturing Research Centres
Call forInnovative Manufacturing Research Centresin gap areas under a new funding model.
Date of call: January 2009
Contact:Anne Farrow - EPSRC-NPL Postdoctoral Research Partnerships
Postdoctorate research grant scheme funding research into technologies with impact through measurement applications. Up to £13 million will beavailable through the partnership to support research at the National Physical Laboratory.
Date of call: February 2009
Contact:Robert Heathman - Industrial CASE pool competition
Funding for up to 63 PhD studentships for companies with a UK research and/or manufacturing base. We especially welcome proposals from SMEs and companies establishing a new collaboration.
Date of call: February 2009
Contact: Anita Howman - Retreat Sandpit
Sandpit linked to horizon scanning.
Date of call: February 2009
Contact:Samantha Madden - Energy Communities
Consortia building workshop/call with co-funding from NERC and ESRC.
Date of call: March 2009
Contact:Jacqui Williams - Follow-on Fund
Proposals for up to 12 months funding available to develop the commercial potential of ideas generated by EPSRC research grant funding.
Date of call: March 2009
Contact:David Mahoney - Cross-Disciplinary Feasibility Studies
This call will build on activities such as Bridging the Gaps and Collaborating for Success through People.
Date of call: January-March 2009
Contact:Katie Finch - Sustainable Urban Environment 3
Funding for the next phase of the programme.
Date of call: March 2009
Contact:Claire Tansley
April - June 2009
- Joint Call with EU Partners in Complexity Science through Complexity NET ERA-NET
A pilot call to support multi-disciplinary collaborations in complexity science across partners.
Date of call: April 2009
Contact:Gavin Salisbury - Carbon Capture and Storage
Call in area of carbon capture and storage: environmental impacts and ccs systems. NERC-led call.
Date of call: April 2009
Contact:Jacqui Williams - Rising Stars
To support the best postdoctoral researchers in ICT.
Date of call: April 2009
Contact:Matthew Ball - Technology Strategy Board Collaborative Research and Development and Innovation Platform Competitions
Funding for industrial-academic collaborative R&D projects in strategically important areas. Additional funding from EPSRC may be available for projects with a significant high-quality academic component that provide added value to our existing portfolio.
Date of call: April-June 2009
Contact:Robert Heathman - Nanoscience through Engineering to Application: Grand Challenge 3 - Environment
Third of the Nanotechnology through Engineering to Application grand challenges.
Date of call: June 2009
Contact:Claire Wagstaffe - Towards Next Generation Healthcare: Healthcare Lifelong Health and Well Being Phase 3
Third phase of this cross-research council programme led by MRC.
Date of call: June 2009
Contact:John Wand - Postdoctoral Fellowships
Call for a small number of postdoctoral fellows in selected topics for researchers who have completed a PhD within the previous three years.
Date of call: June 2009
Contact:Steve Milsom - Demand Reduction
Energy efficiency in buildings – strategic partnership with EDF.
Date of call: June 2009
Contact:David Holtum - Flashlight Funding
To invest in collaborative support in emerging areas linked to challenging engineering.
Date of call: June 2009
Contact:Louise Tillman - Material Grand Challenge Sandpit
To nucleate an activity around a materials grand challenge identified through previous workshop.
Date of call: June 2009
Contact:Sophie Oldham - Complexity User Challenges – Phase 2
A number of different activities will be supported where complexity science can contribute to real world challenges.
Date of call: April-June 2009
Contact:Gavin Salisbury - Career Acceleration Fellowships
To support talented researchers at an early stage in their career.
Date of call: June-July 2009
Contact:Pilar Sepulveda - LeadershipFellowships
To support talented early- or mid-career researchers with the most potential to develop into the research leaders of tomorrow.
Date of call: June-July 2009
Contact:Pilar Sepulveda
July - September 2009
- IDEAS Factory - Resilience
Research to improve the resilience of UK infrastructure.
Date of call: July-September 2009
Contact:Alex Hulkes - Bridging the Gaps
This call will seek to support novel and innovative solutions to bridging gaps across engineering and the physical sciences.
Date of call: July 2009
Contact:Katie Finch - EPSRC-NPL Postdoctoral Research Partnerships
Postdoctorate research grant scheme funding research into technologies with impact through measurement applications. Up to £13 million will beavailable through the partnership to support research at the National Physical Laboratory.
Date of call: August 2009
Contact:Robert Heathman - Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowships
Annual call for postdoctoral fellowships. Jointfunding from RAEng and EPSRCProcess Environment and Sustainability and Information and Communications Technology programmes.
Date of call: August 2009
Contact:Emma King, Matthew Davis - Technology Strategy Board Collaborative Research and Development and Innovation Platform Competitions
Funding for industrial-academic collaborative R&D projects in strategically important areas. Additional funding from EPSRC may be available for projects with a significant high-quality academic component that provide added value to our existing portfolio.
Date of call: September 2009
Contact:Robert Heathman - National Science FoundationMaterials World Network Call
The call is an initiative to foster opportunities for collaborative activities in materials research between researchers in the US and UK.
Date of call:July-September 2009
Contact:Nicolas Guernion - National Science Foundation Chemistry Call
EPSRC's Physical Sciences Programmeis participating in the 2009 call by the National Science Foundation “International collaboration in chemistry between US investigators and their counterparts abroad”.
Date of call:July-September 2009
Contact:Katie Daniel
October - December 2009
- Discipline Hopping
Call co-ordinated by MRC.
Date of call: October 2009
Contact:Katie Finch - Technology Strategy Board Collaborative Research and Development and Innovation Platform Competitions
Funding for industrial-academic collaborative R&D projects in strategically important areas. Additional funding from EPSRC may be available for projects with a significant high-quality academic component that provide added value to our existing portfolio.
Date of call: November 2009
Contact:Robert Heathman - Innovation and Knowledge Centres
Centres of excellence with five years’ funding to accelerate and promote business exploitation of an emerging research and technology field. A key feature is a shared space and entrepreneurial environment, in which researchers, potential customers and skilled professionals from academia and business can work together.
Date of call: November 2009
Contact:Robert Heathman - Challenging Engineering
To invest in the research of future research leaders, through consolidatedfive-year support.
Date of call: November 2009
Contact:Susan Soulsby - Partnerships for Cross-Disciplinary Research
This activity will explore the opportunity for a small number of cross-disciplinary partnerships at an organisational level between EPSRC and an HEI.
Date of call: October-December 2009
Contact:Zoe Brown