External funding: Other funding opportunities

Research Council Follow-on Fund - Call for Proposals

The Follow-on Fund helps researchers to bridge the funding gap between traditional research grants and commercial funding by supporting the very early stage of turning research outputs into a commercial proposition.

Up to 12 months support is available to develop the commercial potential of a concept and establish both commercial feasibility and scientific/technical merit through a complementary mix of both technical and business development activities. Proposals must demonstrate a strong commercial focus and not be predominantly concerned with overcoming technical obstacles or extending the original research.

The Follow-on Fund is supported by BBSRC, EPSRC, NERC and STFC. This call is for applications to EPSRC only, and is open to academics in UK research organisations to take forward ideas generated by EPSRC research grant funding.

Closing date: 4.00 pm Thursday 26 February 2009.
Further details here.

Discipline Hopping in Information and Communication Technologies - Open Call

Discipline Hopping Awards will provide short-term support to pump prime new collaborations between researchers from core ICT fields with other disciplines and/or user fields, with the aim of fostering interactions, bringing a multidisciplinary and user-driven focus to their research. Alternatively, non ICT specialists can apply for funds to bring a technological perspective to their home discipline. The scheme is aimed at researchers who have a proven track record of research in their home discipline, providing funding to investigate and develop ideas, skills and collaborations with other disciplines and end users.

No closing date - applications welcome at any time.
Further details here.


Please contact Liz if there are any funding opportunities that would be of interest to the cluster that are not currently advertised on here.