Open Call: Strategic Coordination Hub for Local Policy Innovation Partnerships (UK)

Deadline: 12-Jan-23

Apply for funding to establish a strategic coordination hub (SCH) for Local Policy Innovation Partnerships (LPIPs).

The strategic coordination hub will work with the LPIP to:

• convene stakeholders across the research and policy ecosystem
• draw together understanding of local challenges
• act as a front door to national policy stakeholders
• support engagement across the network
• assess the transferability of their findings across the network and beyond, including support through a commissioning fund

Objectives

• The network will support the following programme objectives:
  • connecting and catalysing: strengthening partnerships and collaborations between researchers, policymakers (local, regional, national) and other relevant local stakeholders, attracting resource and capability for research and innovation, knowledge exchange and skills to address local public challenges
  • local insight and understanding: identifying and understanding the opportunities and challenges in different places and their relationship to the national context
  • solutions focused: working with stakeholders to implement evidence informed actionable solutions that reflect local opportunities and challenges, and supporting local leaders to test and trial innovative interventions to drive inclusive and sustainable growth

Funding Information

• Funding is available for 44 months.
• Total fund: £3,600,000.

Outcomes

• Together, the LPIPs and SCH will support the following outcomes:
  • a ‘what works here’ approach to local policy priorities, supporting areas with economic growth, levelling up, net zero, innovation, skills and societal resilience
  • enhanced local research and innovation advice providing a single front-door for local expertise and advice in partnership areas, streamlining access to local public policy research and innovation capability
  • supporting local action through contributing to local implementation, testing and evaluation of evidence-informed policy change
  • improving UK and national policymakers’ understanding of local challenges and opportunities through improved access to stakeholders, local evidence and insights into ‘what works here’
  • creating stronger and more diverse partnerships by investing in the capability and capacity required for multi-partner collaboration, bringing the right stakeholders together at the right time to progress local priorities
  • empowering local communities and enriching knowledge exchange practices by ensuring people and grassroots groups are engaged, listened to and able to influence local agendas

Eligibility Criteria

• You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding.
  • Eligibility is normally based on:
    • your suitability to lead or work on a research proposal or business innovation project
    • the research organisation or business where the work is intended to take place.
    • Your business or organisation could be eligible for some levels of funding, but not others. For example, it might not be eligible to get a grant directly from UKRI, but could take part in a funded project as a collaborator.
  • Your eligibility as an individual
    • Your eligibility to work on a project as an individual will depend on whether you’re applying for:
      • an individual funding opportunity (for example, a fellowship)
      • a role in a research team (for example, principal investigator or co-investigator).

For more information, visit LPIP.

For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/strategic-coordination-hub-for-local-policy-innovation-partnerships/