FMRI: Accelerating adoption of marine sensor innovation - Swindon, United Kingdom - NERC - the Natural Environment Research Council

Description

Opportunity status: Open Funders: Funding type: Grant Total fund: £2,400,000 Maximum award: £800,000 Publication date: 12 March Opening date: 12 March 2024 9:00am UK time Closing date: 2 May 2024 4:00pm UK time

Apply for funding to enhance existing technology readiness level (TRL) 7 to 9 marine biogeochemical sensors, and collaborate with the National Oceanography Centre to integrate and validate these with autonomous underwater platforms from the National Marine Equipment Pool.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funding.

We will award 100% of the full economic cost of your project, capital only. Projects can range in size up to £800,000 maximum per project.

Projects can last for up to 18 months.

Projects must start by 15 August 2024.

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Who is eligible to apply

Before applying for funding, check the following:

Project leads and co-leads must meet our .

This funding opportunity is open to research groups and individuals. We:

• encourage research collaborations with other UK organisations
• encourage applications from diverse groups of researchers
• welcome applications from individuals at any career stage, subject to NERC eligibility criteria

Individuals may be involved in no more than two applications submitted to this funding opportunity. Only one of these applications can be as the project lead. Additional applications from the same project lead will automatically be rejected.

Who is not eligible to apply

The following are not eligible to apply:

• businesses are not eligible applicant organisations as part of this funding opportunity, they should be listed as project partners
• international project co-leads are not permitted as part of this funding opportunity. International collaborators can be listed as project partners

International applicants

Note this funding opportunity does not come under the or enable International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) collaboration.

Project partners

You should include all UK partners not based at approved organisations or international collaborators as project partners. This includes organisations from the business or financial sectors.

Project partners fund their own involvement.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to achieving equality of opportunity for all funding applicants. We encourage applications from a diverse range of researchers.

We support people to work in a way that suits their personal circumstances. This includes:

• career breaks
• support for people with caring responsibilities
• flexible working
• alternative working patterns