Deadline: 25-Apr-23
Apply for consortia funding to support a programme of impact activities within a research and innovation cluster.
Proposals must
- Be co-created with civic actors.
- Be aligned with civic ambitions.
- Engage business and local stakeholders.
- Involve at least 2 universities.
- Draw from the full breadth of UK research and development activity.
Funding Streams
There are 2 funding streams:
- Stream 1 (for emerging or nascent clusters): estimate 3 to 5 awards with maximum £2.5 million per award, over 4 years.
- Stream 2 (for established or mature clusters): estimate 3 to 5 awards with maximum £5 million per award, over 4 years.
Funding Information
- Total fund: £25,000,000.
- Award range: £500,000 – £5,000,000.
Activities
PBIAAs can support similar activities to EPSRC’s institutional IAAs but all activities must deliver impact within the cluster.
Funding can be used to support a wide range of activities that support the scheme aims, including:
- Engaging users and forging new strategic partnerships.
- Building the clusters capability and culture.
- Progressing towards commercial opportunities, whatever best fits the strategic aims and opportunities of the cluster.
EPSRDC encourages the development of creative and innovative approaches to accelerating impact and building or enhancing ecosystems. Activities could include:
- Strengthening engagement with local users and their networks or supply chains to accelerate the translation of research outputs into place-based impacts.
- Building and maintaining a local environment and culture that enables effective and ambitious knowledge exchange and impact, including development of skills, capacity and capability within the consortium and for the identified cluster.
- Supporting, developing and fostering strategic partnerships as part of place-based knowledge exchange and impact activity, including across disciplines and sectors.
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Providing early-stage support for progressing research outputs towards the next stages in the impact pipeline, for example:
- Proof of concept projects.
- Commercialisation.
- Market validation.
- Activities targeting policy, business and the third sector.
Eligibility Criteria
Standard EPSRC eligibility rules apply. Research grants are open to:
- UK higher education institutions.
- Research council institutes.
- UK Research and Innovation-approved independent research organisations.
- Eligible public sector research establishments.
- NHS bodies with research capacity.
Collaboration with a civic body is mandatory on this opportunity. Successful delivery of a Place Based Impact Acceleration Account will require collaboration with some of the following:
- Universities.
- Industry.
- Public or third sector.
- Community groups.
- The public.
This list is not intended to be exhaustive, and EPSRC encourages applicants to identify the most appropriate partners or collaborators as necessary.
You can apply if you are a resident in the UK and meet at least 1 of the conditions below:
- Are employed at the submitting research organisation at a level equivalent to lecturer or above
- Hold a fixed-term contract that extends beyond the duration of the proposed project, and the host research organisation is prepared to give you all the support normal for a permanent employee.
- Hold an EPSRC, Royal Society or Royal Academy of Engineering fellowship aimed at later career stages.
- Hold fellowships under other schemes.
Holders of postdoctoral level fellowships are not eligible to apply for an EPSRC grant.
For more information, visit EPSRC.
For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/place-based-impact-acceleration-account/