Primary funder name: Innovate UK

Closing date: 04 Sep 20

Full text:  Innovate UK, with funding from the National Physical Laboratory, the National Measurement Laboratory at LGC, the National Engineering Laboratory and the Science and Technology Facilities Council, invites expressions of interest for its call on analysis for innovators round five. This aims to match UK scientists and facilities with companies that have analysis or measurement problems affecting an existing product, process or service. Applicants should describe the problem and estimate the value to their company of solving it. Applicants must be UK based businesses carrying out the project in the UK and must be eligible to receive state aid. Businesses must be prepared to work with and discuss problems with one or more analysis for innovators funding partners. The total budget is £3 million to cover projects worth between £25,000 and £300,000 each. For feasibility studies and industrial research projects, applicants can get funding for their eligible costs of up to 70 per cent for micro or small businesses, up to 60 per cent for medium-sized businesses and up to 50 per cent for large businesses.

Website: https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/410/overview

Disciplines: Any

This call is for researchers to apply for computational resource from EPSRC funded High Performance Computing (HPC) services to support research projects from across EPSRC’s remit. It is the successor to the ARCHER RAP and Tier-2 Open access calls which ran prior to 2020. Projects can run for up to one year (service dependent). On average, this call runs twice a year.

The services available are ARCHER2, the upcoming Tier-1 national supercomputer accessible to EPSRC research communities, and most of EPSRC’s Tier-2 HPC services: Isambard, NI-HPC, JADE, Cirrus, NICE, CSD3 and HPC Midlands +.

EPSRC’s final Tier-2 service, the Materials Modelling Hub, is not accessible through this call but can be accessed through EPSRC’s Materials Chemistry Consortium (MCC) and UK Car-Parrinello Consortium (UKCP).

The ARCHER2 service provides the capability for researchers to run simulations and calculations which require large numbers of processing cores working in a highly parallelised fashion. The Tier-2 services form a bridge in compute capacity from the Tier-3 local university supercomputers to the Tier-1 ARCHER2 service, as well as providing a highly diverse range of compute architectures which are of limited availability elsewhere in the UK. The Tier-2 layer has been refreshed in 2020, increasing its capacity and further diversifying its hardware offering.

Detailed information on each of these services, their capabilities, service specific restrictions/requirements on proposals and indicative amounts of resource available can be found in Appendix 1 of the call document, see below. Please note that some Tier-2 services only accept applications from specific research areas.

How to Apply

Further information on the call and how to apply can be found in the Call Document in the ‘Resources’ section below. Once the application is prepared it should be submitted via the embedded smart survey link below. A two-stage application process will be used. Stage 1: applicants must submit a Technical Assessment to the service they are requesting access to, along with a short project description. Stage 2: applicants must then submit all relevant documentation via the embedded form on the EPSRC Call page.

Website: https://epsrc.ukri.org/funding/calls/access-to-high-performance-computing/

Website: https://epsrc.ukri.org/funding/calls/healthcare-technologies-new-challenges-networkplus/
Funding Available: £5 million is available to support between six and eight NetworkPlus grants.

How to apply: Outlines followed by invited full proposals.

Assessment Process: Outlines will be considered by an independent panel of Healthcare Technology experts. Invited full proposals will be assessed by an interview panel.