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British Academy Visit this April

The British Academy will be visiting The University of Warwick on 23 April to provide an update on their funding opportunities, strategy and activities. The visit is to be held on Tuesday 23 April from 1pm-4pm in FAB 0.03. Find out more and register to secure your place.

Wed 14 Feb 2024, 12:06 | Tags: funding risfeed

Update of Horizon Europe Applications

Successful applicants for Horizon Europe grant awards will be guaranteed funding regardless of the outcome of the UK’s efforts to associate to Horizon Europe, under a new scheme announced by the UK Government on 29 November 2021.

Tue 07 Dec 2021, 16:22 | Tags: research funding risfeed

NIHR open-access policy to make peer-reviewed research articles openly available from June 2022

Research articles supported by NIHR must be made openly available immediately from 1 June 2022.

Tue 16 Nov 2021, 10:23 | Tags: research, funding

Welcome news for researchers as the Research Development Fund is reinstated for 2021/22

The University’s Research Development Fund, which was temporarily withdrawn during 2020-2021, has now been reinstated for the 2021/22 academic year.

This will provide pump-priming support for new research initiatives and/or future external funding applications, with approved projects commencing from 01 August 2021.

Thu 11 Mar 2021, 10:12 | Tags: funding risfeed

Research Development Fund (Strategic Awards) 2019-2020: Open for applications

Warwick’s Research Development Fund (Strategic Awards) is now open to applications for activity taking place between 1 August, 2019 and 31 July, 2020.

Tue 12 Mar 2019, 15:40 | Tags: funding

Funding available for City of Culture research projects

With Coventry City of Culture 2021 less than two years away, the Connecting Cultures Global Research Priority (GRP) is keen to remind all departments of the availability of funding to support the development of collaborative City of Culture-facing research projects.

Fri 15 Feb 2019, 15:35 | Tags: funding

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€1.45m awarded to research the role of human skills for economic development

Dr Federico Rossi, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, is one of just 400 researchers across Europe to have been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, to study which human skills are crucial for future economic development.


University of Warwick awarded £1.25 million to boost impact of Social Sciences research

The University of Warwick has received a share of £40 million which will support a range of social, economic and behavioural science research that can positively impact society.

Wed 22 Mar 2023, 14:19 | Tags: social sciences, Social Science, research, funding

University of Warwick delighted to be part of pioneering Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) with Coventry City Council

The University of Warwick has been announced as one of the partners working with Coventry City Council, after it was awarded a £5 million boost to tackle inequalities and improve health outcomes across Coventry through research.

Mon 17 Oct 2022, 12:41 | Tags: Community and region, WBS, WMS, funding, Health and Medicine

EUTOPIA takes major step towards integration with new mobility agreement

This week, a mobility agreement was signed between EUTOPIA's six founding universities: the University of Warwick, Pompeu Fabra University, CY Cergy Paris University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University of Gothenburg, and Univerza v Ljubljani.


Minerva Business Angels makes its 100th investment

Minerva Business Angels, part of the University of Warwick Science Park, has made its 100th investment. Minerva works with scale-ups, start-up businesses and spin-out companies. The landmark investment has been made in support of Skyfarer, a drone logistics operator which is conducting ground-breaking trials to deliver medical supplies between hospitals in the West Midlands this summer.


Calls for Coventry artists to collaborate in a second Coventry Creates project

· The University of Warwick and Coventry University have launched a second joint project to fund local artists to work in collaboration with academics and local arts organisations


Minerva Business Angels contribution to regional economy highlighted by new report

A new report commissioned by Midlands Innovation universities has highlighted the contribution made by University of Warwick-based Minerva Business Angels to the region’s investment ecosystem.


Boundary-spanning research centre launches six new projects

From improving mapping of species at risk to analysing the uptake of COVID-19 test and tracing apps by the public, researchers at the University of Warwick's Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) are launching six new projects investigating how new technologies are shaping society, and demonstrating how data science can tackle current social, political and ecological challenges.


£6 million programme extension to help small manufacturers across the Midlands

The programme delivered by the SME Group at WMG, University of Warwick has been a major success in the West Midlands over the last 2 years, helping over 100 companies, develop 71 new products and processes, from automation and productivity plans through to the zero emission technologies of tomorrow. The team have been awarded a further £6m from to take them through to March 2023, meaning the team has gone from a 2 year £5m programme, to an £11m 5 ½ year programme. This extension will enable the team to operate from Wolverhampton and Worcestershire in the West, to Loughborough and Luton in the East Midlands.

Wed 09 Sep 2020, 09:28 | Tags: SMEs, WMG, Engineering, Business, Employment, funding, Sciences

“Nextrode” project to revolutionise the manufacturing of battery electrodes

The Faraday Institution funded “Nextrode” project, involving WMG at the University of Warwick, will research ways to make electrodes for Li-ion batteries which unlock the electrochemical potential of their ingredients.

Wed 04 Sep 2019, 09:54 | Tags: WMG, research, funding, Batteries, electric vehicles, energy, Sciences

Minerva Business Angels teams up with Nottingham universities to grow its network of entrepreneurs

Minerva Business Angels, part of the University of Warwick Science Park and one of the most successful business angel networks in the UK, is joining forces with Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham in a partnership aimed at improving access to finance for innovative local companies.


EUTOPIA European university alliance awarded €5m by Erasmus+

EUTOPIA, an established alliance of six European universities that exists to create a connected and inclusive community addressing global and local challenges, has been successful in its bid for a €5m grant from the Erasmus+ ‘European Universities’ programme.


Minerva Business Angel Network and Sci-Tech Daresbury host pitching event for North West start-ups

Minerva Business Angel Network, part of the University of Warwick Science Park and one of the UK’s largest angel networks, returns to Sci-Tech Daresbury for the second event in a new collaboration aimed at boosting angel investment within the North West business community.


Minerva partners with Aston University and University of Birmingham Enterprise to launch new angel investor network for Birmingham

University of Warwick-based Minerva, one of the UK’s largest traditional angel investor networks, has teamed up with Aston University and University of Birmingham Enterprise to expand the funding opportunities available to start-up businesses in the West Midlands by launching a network of ‘business angels with insight’ for Birmingham.


University of Warwick research impact success recognised with continued funding from ESRC

The University of Warwick is one of 26 UK universities receiving funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for its Impact Acceleration Account (IAA). The funding award was announced today [31] by the ESRC and followed a competitive, peer-reviewed process.

 


UK’s first 1 GHz solid-state NMR Spectrometer funded at Warwick

The UK’s first 1 GHz solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer is on its way to the University of Warwick, thanks to £8 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).


Warwick-backed state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscopy facility opened

A new state-of-the-art Cryo-Electron Microscope (Cryo-EM) facility that will advance the understanding of the processes of life has been officially opened.


Warwick academic named as emerging leader in cell biology

A University of Warwick academic is to be awarded for their outstanding contribution to UK cell biology. Andrew McAinsh, professor of cell biology at Warwick Medical School is to receive the British Society for Cell Biology’s (BSCB) prestigious Hooke Medal.


University receives multi-million pound grants to improve health of the world’s poorest people

The University of Warwick is to receive more than £7 million to find better ways of delivering healthcare to some of the world’s poorest people.


Thousands donated to cancer research at the University of Warwick

Cancer research in the region has received a boost thanks to the former Lord Mayor of Coventry Cllr Lindsley Harvard. This week he handed over £8,500 to the centre which was raised by a number of fundraising events throughout the year and by local groups and individuals also showed their support for the charities with sponsored events, collections and donations.