NERC funding

Information on Natural Environment Research Council’s Follow on Fund and Innovation projects can be found below.

Follow-on Fund

Applications are invited to NERC’s Follow-on Fund.

The Follow-on Fund picks up where research grants leave off, and enables research outputs to be further developed so that their commercial potential can be realised.

Examples of activities funded include:

  • technology licensing
  • launching technology-based products or services
  • selling know-how based consultancy services
  • and the commercialisation of NERC-funded datasets.

Proposals are invited for projects pursuing any of these approaches, or indeed others.

Go to further details on the application process.

The closing date for applications is 16:00 on 27 September 2016.

NERC also funds a Pathfinder scheme to support small-scale, specific activities that can help develop a better understanding of the likely market potential for the technology around which a Follow-on Fund project is based. If there are gaps in your knowledge, you are strongly advised to first apply for a Pathfinder award.

Go to further details on applying for a Pathfinder award.

Innovation Projects (Open)

Applications are invited to NERC’s Innovation Projects Open call.

The specific aim of the Innovation Projects Open call is to increase and accelerate the uptake and impact of NERC funded research outputs by supporting translational and knowledge exchange activity which delivers direct tangible and demonstrable benefits to end users, particularly business.

Funds will be used to support projects which focus upon generating user applicable outputs from past and/or current NERC supported research and which translates them into outcomes that achieve impact.

The Innovation Projects Open call will not fund commercialisation work. For NERC’s commercialisation funding, please see the Follow on Fund mentioned above.

Go to further details on the application process.

The closing date for applications is 16:00 on 27 September 2016.

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