Deadline: 28-Mar-23
Apply for funding to conduct research to address distinct challenges posed by the climate crisis, including but not limited to realising net zero goals.
Capitalising on clusters of design excellence, Green Transition Ecosystems (GTEs) are large scale projects that focus on translating the best design-led research into real-world benefits.
GTEs will connect directly with the wider Future Observatory: Design the Green Transition programme.
Aims
The overarching aims of GTEs are to:
- empower the UK design research base to respond to regionally or sectorally significant green transition challenges in agile and collaborative ways
- embed circularity and sustainability across product, service, strategy and policy design in relation to the identified challenges
- contribute to increasing design gross value added in the nations and regions of the UK which have seen stagnation or decline
- realise measurable, green transition-supportive behaviour change across sectors and publics
- catalyse and foster opportunities for the socially, culturally and environmentally-acceptable commercialisation of design research-led interventions
- enable and support a greater diversity of voices and perspectives in the design of green-transition supportive-interventions, including users and publics
- create opportunities to build capacity and capability in design research for green transition challenges
Funding Information
The full economic cost of your project can be up to £4.625 million. AHRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost for up to 19 months.
Eligibility Criteria
They invite proposals from consortia comprising at least:
- 2 UK-based, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) eligible research organisations
- 2 UK-based and registered businesses operating in the design economy:
- design-intensive industries (for example digital design, architecture)
- other functions supporting design-intensive industries (for example supply chain)
- design-intensive workstreams within other sectors (for example aerospace, retail)
- 1 public sector organisation (local or national, excluding UK based research organisations)
- 1 third sector, civil society or community organisation
For more information, visit Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).