Innovate UK, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) are to invest up to £7.5m in collaborative R&D projects, with a proportion available for feasibility studies. Proposals must be collaborative and business-led.
They are seeking proposals for innovative, commercial solutions to increase the resilience, quality of life or economic performance of urban areas by integrating environmental, social and/or economic data with data from other sources. The focus is on better defining and solving problems through new ways of combining data.
Up to £2m is available from NERC for projects which use environmental data.
For more information on the call, please follow the links below.
The deadline for feasibility studies expressions of interest is noon 21 January 2015 and the deadline for collaborative R&D expressions of interest is noon 28 January 2015.