Research Innovation Enterprise

Funding

Social Shifters Student Innovation Challenge – win £1,000 grant funding!

The Social Shifters Student Innovation Challenge is here to support very early-stage social enterprise ideas and to inspire students to find their passion, then take action! The best student ideas will be invited to pitch for a £1,000 cash award…
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Converge Challenge – training workshops for 2022

The Converge Challenge is Scotland’s largest entrepreneurial training programme and competition, with a prize fund of £160,000+. It is open to staff and students at Scottish Universities and Research Institutes. 2022 marks the start of their new funding cycle, and with…
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Converge heralds new era with increased support to the next generation of academic innovators

Converge has opened applications for its 2022 programme until 5th April with biggest prize pot in its 11-year history  New categories include Net Zero Challenge and Create Change Challenge  Expanded programme reinforces actions from Logan Review to appeal to most…
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Strategic Research and Knowledge Exchange Funding Call

The Research, Innovation and Enterprise Office has launched an internal strategic funding call which will focus on R&KE activity which could (in the future) enable applicants to be successful in winning external R&KE funding. The Strategic Research and Knowledge Exchange…
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What are the responsibilities of being a Principal Investigator on a Research & Innovation project? 

The Principal Investigator (PI) of a project is the individual who takes responsibility for intellectual leadership, and the overall management of the project. This covers many aspects of project development, from concept to beyond the project end-date, and in the dissemination…
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Small grants for academics to hire a PhD Research Assistant in Data and the Creative Industries

Creative Informatics is offering small grants for research active staff across the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University that would like to hire PhD-level research assistants for a maximum of 56 hours of work. Applications will be accepted on…
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