With the ERC Consolidator Grant call now being open for submissions, potential applicants might be interested in reading proposal writing slides from a recent presentation given at Oxford, by UKRO.
This slides are only available to Oxford members of staff with Single Sign On access.
The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £1.5m to stimulate new solutions for mobile commerce (mCommerce) to counter the threat of theft and fraud.
This SBRI competition is an opportunity to develop new ways to go shopping, enable enterprise, to simply transfer money or to transact anything of value – but to do it in a way that creates confidence and security in these new platforms. The challenge is how can we make mCommerce meet the needs of all consumers?
Call Opens: 19 November 2012
Deadlines:
Registration Closes: 9 January 2013
Intent to Submit: Contact Kelly/Sharon, no later than 4 January 2013
Departmental: 9 January 2013
Internal: 11January 2013
Official: 16 January 2013
Duration: Up to 5 months
Funding: Up to 50k per project
Full call details can be found at this link.
The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 have 3 year Research Fellowships available. The fellowships:
Approximately eight awards are made each year, one of which is designated the Brunel Fellowship. Applications from qualified engineering researchers are particular encouraged and the Brunel Fellowship is specifically reserved for them.
Deadlines:
Intent to Submit: Contact Kelly/Sharon, no later than 4th January
Departmental: 11 February 2013
Internal: 14 February 2013
Official: 21 February 2013
Full call details can be found at this link.
Proving National Importance is currently a key priority for EPSRC, but it seems that there is a lack of clarity amongst academics about what actually qualifies as National Importance, and how we should be discussing it at application stage.
In light of this, EPSRC have kindly put together a set of successful examples of National Importance statements, which can be found here.
Happy reading!
ERC have opened the call for their Consolidator Grant. These grants are designed to support researchers at the stage at which they are consolidating their own independent research team or programme. The scheme will strengthen independent and excellent new individual research teams that have been recently created.
Details:
Eligibility:
Deadlines:
Intent to Submit: Contact Kelly/Sharon, no later than 4th January
Departmental: TBC
Internal: TBC (awaiting internal call brief)
Official: 21 February 2013
Full call details can be found at this link.