NERC

Once established, the Networks will foster collaborative activities between academic researchers and business representatives at all career stages to identify and develop new approaches to tackle major research challenges and help deliver key benefits to the UK Aquaculture sector. The Networks will be interdisciplinary, working across the boundaries of biological and environmental science. The participation of other disciplines including engineering, economics, social science, remote sensing and computational modelling is strongly encouraged.

NERC invites the environmental science community to submit new ideas for strategic research.

NERC is seeking ideas for research challenges that should be priorities for strategic research investment through either highlight topics or strategic programme areas. NERC would welcome ideas from both researchers and those who use environmental science research.

SUMMARY

Finding new ways to understand how the lives of people in the UK are affected by government decisions is a central aim of the new Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN).

Application closing date: 15 February 2016

NERC, Unilever, the Big Innovation Centre and Hackmasters are inviting expressions of interest from academic partners to collaborate in a five-day hack-week focused on the challenge of water scarcity. Academics are invited to apply to take part in this event by completing the form below.

The hack-week will be held in London on 7-11 March 2016, 09:00-18:00 daily. Applicants must attend for the entire week.

NERC and the Department for International Development (DFID) will shortly be inviting proposals for a new £4m collaborative research programme on 'Understanding the Impacts of the Current El Niño Event'.

Closing date: 16:00 on 18 February 2016

NERC has joined forces with Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water (DCWW) to help tackle future environmental challenges in managing water supply and provide vital data to decision makers. 

Officially announced today, NERC has launched a new three-year strategic partnership with DCWW, a not-for-profit water utility company supplying more than three million people in Wales and adjoining parts of England.

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.

8 - 9 th March 2016
Nottingham

The Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and NERC invite you to participate in a two-day interactive strategic workshop (sandpit) with the ultimate aim of funding up to six multidisciplinary research translation projects within the remit of the Sustainable Agriculture Research Club (SARIC).

For more information visit the SARIC Sandpit webpage: