Recent announcements from Innovate UK on this industry/academia initiative offers the University an opportunity to collaborate with key customers to access significant research funding. Under the Clean Growth Grand Challenge upcoming calls will focus on : Transforming Food Production (£90…
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This week the Research and Innovation Managers for SEBE and SOC, Ian Anderson and Carol Johnstone, held a funding Workshop for staff within these schools. The main focus of the event was around funding opportunities from EPSRC and The Leverhulme…
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Here’s the first of our ‘meet the academic‘ interviews – where we ask researchers a few questions about their work, and tease some tips from them. Dr. Francesco Pomponi (FRSA PhD AFHEA MIET) is a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in…
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Dr Coral Hanson, a Research Fellow in the School of Health & Social Care, came across the ACU last year, submitted a short grant application and was soon on a plane to Perth, Australia. As a result, she’s keen to…
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Just to make you aware, that in response to increased KTP funding for 2017/18, and in an effort to get as many submissions by April 2018, InnovateUK have doubled up on the themed calls available and increased the number of…
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Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Ian Anderson and myself attended the Innovate UK annual conference where announcements were made on significant funding to encourage industry to work with HEI’s, a key element of this being the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF).…
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Murgitroyd, European patent and trade mark attorneys, have just launched their “Innovator Launchpad Competition”. Applications are now invited from all pre-profit start-ups and not-for-profits based in the UK -deadline is Wed, 15th Nov @1200 GMT and submission is through their…
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Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research and Innovation said, in a lecture at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on Monday night, that we should not give up on Europe and we should keep applying. He told the audience that to give…
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As part of the government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, Innovate UK have just announced funding available for an extra 200 Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) this year (17/18). Edinburgh Napier University has an excellent track record of successfully securing KTP awards…
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Early Career Researcher? – Looking for a small research grant? The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland is inviting applications for its Research Incentive Grants by the 15th October, 2017. These are grants for up to £10,000. Applicants must…
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