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The STEM Grand Challenge is a long-term project, working to enhance the science, engineering and innovation infrastructure on campus. We asked him five key questions about what this means for Warwick.

The Faculty Research Development Fund is now inviting applications for projects with activities taking place between 1 January 2023 and 31 July 2023.

The Faculty RDF offers awards up to around £5,000 to support researchers at all stages in their careers to prepare major external research funding proposals. Researchers can apply to the below pathways:

• RDF Seed Funding
• RDF Seed Funding – Early Career Researcher pathway for researchers up to five years’ post-PhD experience

Funding is available to support pump-priming activities such as (but not limited to) research assistance for literature reviews, pilot projects, bringing together potential collaborators, or engagement and co-creation with non-academic stakeholders.

Further information on the scheme, including eligibility, can be found in the guidelines so please read them carefully before applying.

Applications, which should consist of (i) the fully completed application form and (ii) a CV from the main applicant (up to 5 pages), should be emailed to fss.rdf@warwick.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday, 9th December 2022. Completed applications should be emailed as an attachment with ‘RDF application' followed by the applicant’s name in the subject line.

For further information please contact the Faculty's Research Strategy and Development Manager, Harbeena Lalli (h.lalli@warwick.ac.uk).

Apply for funding to conduct research to address distinct challenges posed by the climate crisis, including but not limited to realising net zero goals.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding.

Green Transition Ecosystems will connect directly with the wider Future Observatory: Design the Green Transition programme.

Opening date: 10th January 2023 9am UK time
Closing date: 6th April 4.00pm UK time

“This week, Dr Herizo Andrianandrasana, a research fellow from Institiute for Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick, is in Aasiaat Greenland, to participate in a workshop called 'Towards good practice in the use of local and scientific knowledge for informing natural resources management'. Participants include Danish and Greenlandic government officials, local associations of fishers and hunters, local community members practicing community-based monitoring, scientists from Universities from Denmark, Greenland, UK/Madagascar, Norway, Japan, USA, Brazil, and local authorities from the municipalities in Greenland. The Greenlandic government delegation was led by the Minister of fishing & hunting.

Heri's talk in Aasiaat focusses on the adoption of the 2015 'Manaus Letter' he co-developed during an international symposium in Brazil in 2014, and his 19 years’ experience on community-based conservation and monitoring in Madagascar. The aim of workshop is to promote and strengthen the use of community-based conservation approach in Greenland and also exchange experiences from different parts of the world so that local people, scientists and authorities in Greenland can strengthen collaboration towards sustainable fishing and hunting (marine and terrestrial wildlife), build the gap between scientific monitoring and local knowledge. The workshop is an opportunity to provide realistic recommendations towards the use of Participatory Monitoring and community-based conservation in decision making. The outcomes of this workshop which is supported by the EU funded CAPARDUS Project and Government of Denmark funded UArctic Thematic Network on Collaborative Research Management, will be presented at the COP 15 of CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) expected in Montreal on 7-19th of Dec 2022”.

The third call for applications to the EUTOPIA Science and Innovation FellowshipLink opens in a new window scheme opened on 15th September 2022 with a deadline of 15th December 2022.

The Fellowships provide two years of funding for early career researchers to undertake a significant piece of independent research as a step towards establishing a permanent academic career. Fellows will be based at Warwick but will be able to strengthen their research by undertaking secondments at other EUTOPIA-SIF institutions and external partners.

The IAS at Warwick will offer up to six fellowships in the third call. Fellows will be hosted by the IAS but, to support their research, they will be based in an academic department or centres at Warwick under the guidance of an academic mentor.

Applications are welcome from any subject area or discipline but are expected to show a link to one of the five EUTOPIA SIF key research areas:

• Materials Engineering;

• Data & Intelligence;

• Health;

• Sustainability;

• Welfare & Inclusion.

Successful applicants will start in September 2023 and join a community of fellows across the EUTOPIA Alliance fellows to develop their independent research profiles and undertake training to help establish an academic career.

Further information and an FAQs are available on the IAS WebsiteLink opens in a new window.