Environmental Science Impact Programme - Announcement of opportunity

Closing date and time for outline proposals: 16:00 on 3 March 2016

Awards totalling £2·5-£5m are available to research organisations over 5 years to boost impact from NERC environmental science.

The Environmental Science Impact Programme (ESIP) is dedicated to bringing research organisations together with businesses, policy bodies and other actors contributing to economic development specific to their location to deliver significant regional impact from NERC environmental science.

NERC invites research organisations with a strong and substantial portfolio of NERC funded research to apply through ESIP calls for a five year programme of activity with an overall value of between £2·5-£5m.

The ESIP will fund a limited number of highly ambitious programmes that will achieve transformative impact from NERC environmental science research by:

• Bringing considerable NERC investment in excellent research within the participating research organisation(s) together with strengths in businesses, policy bodies and other stakeholders particular to their location(s).
• Conducting a coherent programme of high impact, focused, co-designed and co-delivered research translation and innovation activities.
• Leveraging benefits and contributions from other sources of funds relevant to the ambition of the proposal.
• Creating durable collaborations between the academic and non-academic participants.

Transformative impact will be achieved through the translation of NERC science into actions or policies that improve performance, resilience and sustainability, and support growth. The geographical reach of this impact may range from regional to global, and can include societal and economic benefits, but there must be realisable economic gains to the region.

For further information see details here.