Funding Application

The Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Supply and Security is an important (and massive!) challenge that cannot be easily addressed by one research discipline or one external stakeholder. It requires a system thinking approach to consider all the impacts of adjusting any part of the Nexus.

The supply and security of Food, Energy and Water is affected by many factors including:

Rising global populations increasing demand.
Rapid urbanization focusing supply on often highly overpopulated areas.
Changing diets – particularly the move towards more meat and dairy products
Economic growth and higher expectations.
Climate change

Many solutions are being explored for how to improve the security and supply of Food, Energy and Water including building in resilience, exploring renewable energy, developing green infrastructures. The Nexus challenge is that these solutions can often be created in a vacuum and there are often unintended consequences of choices made about energy sources, agricultural practices, water storage systems.

The focus of our Sandpit will be on the Nexus of Food Energy and Water Security and Supply in the West Midlands area. We would like ideas to have a focus on stakeholder engagement and explore ways that we might support organisations in the West Midlands to find ways of better ensuring the supply and security of Food, Water and Energy using a Nexus System thinking approach.

What we are looking for are:

New collaborations across different departments at Warwick
Ways of involving external stakeholders in the West Midlands area in the co-design of projects – opening transdisciplinary bid potential.
Ideas that ideally address Food/Water AND Energy in a system thinking manner.
Have the potential to be further developed into external research funding proposals.

Budget

You can bid for between £1,000 and £5,000 in this submission. If you think you will need more money than this you should outline how you might spend up to £5,000 and what additional money you might need to achieve your goals. It is possible for other sources of funding to be found for proposals that are considered relevant and that show progress.

The purpose of this funding is to explore the Nexus and bring together different researchers so you must have at least 3 people in your team, ideally from different departments. You may also include stakeholders from outside of Warwick in your application.

Team member 1

Team member 2

Team member 3

Team member 4

Please add other team members if required

What is the title of your funding proposal?

How does your proposal aim to strengthen the Nexus of supply and security of food, water and energy in the West Midlands area and wider region? (200 words max)

Which external stakeholders would you like to engage with?

What will you use the funding for? (max 200 words)

What will be your intended outcomes? (max 200 words)

What are your measures of success? (max 200 words)

How much funding do you need?

Breakdown of expenditure by item and appropriate cost.

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Please outline how this activity could lead to an application to external research funding

I understand that if I am awarded funding, I will be required to write a case study (by 1st February 2025 as required by the funder to illustrate outcomes of the awards and to a provide a brief account of expenditure. The award must be spent in full by 24th December 2024. Should you need an extension please make the awarding team aware at submission stage. .

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Funding Application

The purpose of this funding is to explore the Nexus and bring together different researchers so you must have at least 3 people in your team, ideally from different departments. You may also include stakeholders from outside of Warwick in your application.

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