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call: Expression of interest 18 Jun 2018

UK Research and Innovation Call: Creative Circular Economy Approaches to Eliminate Plastics Waste

Closing Date for EOI Submissions 10 July 2018 at 16:00 Hours

Closing Date for Full Proposals 16 August 2018 at 16:00 Hours

Up to £8m is available for institutional awards for up to 18 months to research organisations to bridge the gaps between UK Research and Innovation research disciplines and respond creatively to the challenge of creating new circular economy approaches to eliminating future plastic waste. The programme should focus on novel ideas and solutions that include consideration of sustainable feedstocks and materials, manufacturing and recycling processes, consumer behaviour and systems (for example legal, fiscal and policy systems) set within a context of environmental and health benefits.

news: Press Release 18 Jun 2018

Science Minister announces £20 million Plastics Research and Innovation Fund

Science Minister announces £20 million Plastics Research and Innovation Fund to turn the tide on plastics production

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News 15 Jun 2018

UKRI-EPSRC Council establishes policy baseline

Major policies and plans set in motion by predecessor body to inform new Council

call: Invitation for proposals 14 Jun 2018

Healthcare Impact Partnerships 2018/2019

EPSRC invites proposals for Healthcare Impact Partnerships. A budget of at least £5 million is available to support projects that progress previous EPSRC-funded research towards generating impact in healthcare. Anyone intending to submit a proposal to this call must register their Intent to Submit via this page by 16:00, 12 July 2018.

news: Press Release 13 Jun 2018

EPSRC publishes results of public dialogue on Quantum Technologies

Engineering ICT Mathematical sciences Physical Sciences Quantum technologies

News 13 Jun 2018

Researchers recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours list

EPSRC congratulates academics honoured in 2018 list

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call: Expression of interest 12 Jun 2018

Tackling the challenges of plastic waste

EPSRC is holding a one day workshop to understand the current, and future, capacity and capability for engineering and physical sciences research to deliver a waste free plastics economy.

news: Press Release 06 Jun 2018

EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training - results of outline call

Results of the outline call process for the 2018 Centres for Doctoral Training Exercise

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News 06 Jun 2018

UK Institute to harness disruptive technology to transform drug discovery

Business Secretary Greg Clark today announced funding for a series of ambitious technology projects that will transform the way medicines are discovered, enabling the pharmaceutical industry to develop groundbreaking drugs faster, cheaper and better than ever before.

Engineering Healthcare technologies Physical Sciences

call: Invitation for proposals 01 Jun 2018

UK Japan Civil Nuclear Research Programme Phase 5

EPSRC seek collaborative research applications with UK and Japan-based principal investigators covering key research challenges to accelerate the decommissioning of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Energy Engineering Manufacturing the future Physical Sciences

news: Announcement 31 May 2018

Strength in Places Fund call open

UK Research and Innovation’s Strength in Places Fund (SIPF) is an ambitious scheme that will help areas of lower economic activity benefit from the world-class research and innovation capability spread across the UK.

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call: Invitation for proposals 30 May 2018

UKRI AI CDT 2018

UKRI is seeking to invest in 10-20 Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT) focussed on areas relevant to Artificial Intelligence. Centres funded as a result of this call will train the research leaders of the future and equip them with the knowledge, skills and creative approaches the UK requires.

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call: Invitation for proposals 30 May 2018

EPSRC CDTs 2018

EPSRC is seeking to invest £492 million in Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT). Centres funded as a result of this call will train the research leaders of the future and equip them with the knowledge, skills and creative approaches the UK requires.

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Blog 30 May 2018

My Engineering Career? A Series of Disasters!

Professor Tiziana Rossetto from University College London (UCL) looks at how a career in engineering can help in the event of natural disasters.

call: Invitation for proposals 25 May 2018

Synchrotron X-ray Materials Characterisation National Research Facility

Following the 2017 Statement of Need process, EPSRC would like to support a Synchrotron X-ray Materials Characterisation Facility. The aim of this service is to provide the UK academic research community with access to a materials characterisation beamline capability in X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy techniques via synchrotron radiation.

Engineering Physical Sciences Research Infrastructure