Deadline: 21-Sep-21
The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is offering Grants for Embedded Digital Researchers Applying Transformative Technologies to support environmental solutions and catalyse further activity.
The continued advancements in digital technologies, tools and techniques, coupled with the growth of data, communication systems and bandwidth, puts digital capabilities right at the heart of the drive to deliver leaps in understanding in environmental science and the formulation of innovative solutions.
Key Roles
Embedded researchers will play a key role in enabling the use of the following UKRI transformative technologies in an environmental context, that is:
- artificial intelligence (AI)
- digital twinning
- engineering biology informatics
- quantum technologies
- autonomous systems or robotics.
Approaches
The projects should fall within the arc of digital approaches as:
- data acquisition
- digital infrastructure and high performance computing (HPC)
- data processing, algorithms and analytics
- data visualisation, decision support tools or user engagement.
Funding Information
- Each researcher can apply for up to £50,000 (this is at 80% full economic cost, that is total project costs can be up £62,500), for projects lasting no more than six months.
- The latest start date of grants will be 12 November 2021.
- Activities must be completed by 12 May 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
- NERC research and fellowship grants for all schemes may be held at approved:
- UK higher education institutions
- research council institutes
- independent research organisations
- public sector research establishments.
- Applicants must have a fully verified Joint Electronic Submission system (Je-S) account.
- For postdoctoral research associates (PDRAs) who do not hold an individual account, employing institutions may grant full accounts to applying PDRAs.
- Alternatively, a lead figurehead applicant from the applicant’s institution may be used, with no time or costs allocated for them.
- It must be clear in the application who the intended embedded researcher will be.
- Individual researchers and non-academic host organisations may respectively be associated with and submit only one application to this funding opportunity. An academic institution may put forward multiple applications, each with separate researchers and non-academic hosts.
For more information, visit https://beta.ukri.org/opportunity/embedded-digital-researchers-applying-transformative-technologies/