Provisional plan of activities organised by approximately when calls may be issued. Details of activities may change closer to the time. We plan to update this list roughly every three months. See also current calls for proposals.

October - December 2009

• Discipline Hopping
  Call co-ordinated by MRC.
  Date of call: October 2009
  Contact: Amanda Chmura
  
  
• Technology Strategy Board Collaborative Research and Development and Innovation Platform Competitions
  Funding for industrial-academic collaborative R&D projects in strategically important areas. Additional funding from EPSRC may be available for projects with a significant high-quality academic component that provide added value to our existing portfolio.
  Date of call: November 2009
  Contact: Robert Heathman
  
  
• Innovation and Knowledge Centres
  Centres of excellence with five years’ funding to accelerate and promote business exploitation of an emerging research and technology field. A key feature is a shared space and entrepreneurial environment, in which researchers, potential customers and skilled professionals from academia and business can work together.
  Date of call: November 2009
  Contact: Robert Heathman

January – March 2010

• Multidisciplinary Research Funding at the New Research Complex at Harwell
  Flexible, underpinning funding for up to 5 years to enable research groups working across traditional discipline interfaces to develop close collaborations with experts at the shared facilities on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory site.
  Date of call: January 2010
  Contact: Stephanie Lewis
  
  
• 2010 Industrial CASE pool competition
  Industrial CASE provides funding for PhD studentships where businesses take the lead in arranging projects with an academic partner of their choice.  This year we will be operating a limited competition. The details (including scope/ eligibility restrictions) will be published with the formal call for proposal in January.
  Date of call: January 2010
  Contact: Anita Howman
  
  
• Technology Strategy Board Collaborative Research and Development and Innovation Platform Competitions
  Funding for industrial-academic collaborative R&D projects in strategically important areas. Additional funding from EPSRC may be available for projects with a significant high-quality academic component that provide added value to our existing portfolio.
  Date of call: February 2010 
  Contact: Robert Heathman
  
  
• EPSRC-NPL Post-Doctoral Research Partnerships
  Postdoctorate research grant scheme funding research into technologies with impact through measurement applications. Up to £13 million will be available through the partnership to support research at the National Physical Laboratory.
  Date of call: February 2010
  Contact: Robert Heathman

April - June 2010

• Engineering International Collaborative Funding
  A series of three N+N meetings supporting engineering grand challenges with priority countries to take place in 2009/10 and 2010/11.
  Date of call: April 2010
  Contact: Simon Crook
  
  
• Innovative Manufacturing Research Centres 2
  Call for Innovative Manufacturing Research Centres under new funding model with priority areas identified from the manufacturing theme day and complementing the areas of the new IMRCs announced in the first call and those IMRCs with funding post 2011.
  Date of call: April/May 2010
  Contact: Anne Farrow
  
  
• Towards Next Generation Healthcare: The Research Councils' Lifelong Health and Well Being Phase 3
  Third phase of this cross-research council programme led by MRC.
  Date of call: May 2010
  Contact: Claire Wagstaffe
  
  
• Flashlight Funding
  To invest in collaborative support in emerging areas.
  Date of call: June 2010
  Contact: Louise Tillman
  
  
• Postdoctoral Fellowships
  Call for a small number of postdoctoral fellows in selected topics for researchers who have completed a PhD within the previous three years.
  Date of call: June 2010
  Contact: Steve Milsom
  
  
• Technology Strategy Board Collaborative Research and Development and Innovation Platform Competitions
  Funding for industrial-academic collaborative R&D projects in strategically important areas. Additional funding from EPSRC may be available for projects with a significant high-quality academic component that provide added value to our existing portfolio.
  Date of call: April-June 2010
  Contact: Robert Heathman

July - September 2010

• EPSRC-NPL Post-Doctoral Research Partnerships
  Postdoctorate research grant scheme funding research into technologies with impact through measurement applications. Up to £13 million will be available through the partnership to support research at the National Physical Laboratory.
  Date of call: August 2010
  Contact: Robert Heathman
  
  
• Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowships
  Annual call for postdoctoral fellowships. Joint funding from RAEng and EPSRC Process Environment and Sustainability and Information and Communications Technology programmes.
  Date of call: August 2010
  Contact: Emma King, Matthew Davis  
  
  
• Technology Strategy Board Collaborative Research and Development and Innovation Platform Competitions
  Funding for industrial-academic collaborative R&D projects in strategically important areas. Additional funding from EPSRC may be available for projects with a significant high-quality academic component that provide added value to our existing portfolio.
  Date of call: September 2010
  Contact: Robert Heathman

October - December 2010

• Technology Strategy Board Collaborative Research and Development and Innovation Platform Competitions
  Funding for industrial-academic collaborative R&D projects in strategically important areas. Additional funding from EPSRC may be available for projects with a significant high-quality academic component that provide added value to our existing portfolio.
  Date of call: November 2010
  Contact: Robert Heathman

January – March 2011

• Innovative Manufacturing Research Centres 3
  Call for Innovative Manufacturing Research Centres under new funding model that complement the IMRCs funded in calls 1 and 2. The call may also highlight priority areas.
  Date of call: January 2011
  Contact: Anne Farrow
  
  
• Technology Strategy Board Collaborative Research and Development and Innovation Platform Competitions
  Funding for industrial-academic collaborative R&D projects in strategically important areas. Additional funding from EPSRC may be available for projects with a significant high-quality academic component that provide added value to our existing portfolio.
  Date of call: February 2011
  Contact: Robert Heathman
  
  
• EPSRC-NPL Post-Doctoral Research Partnerships
  Postdoctorate research grant scheme funding research into technologies with impact through measurement applications. Up to £13 million will be available through the partnership to support research at the National Physical Laboratory.
  Date of call: February 2011
  Contact: Robert Heathman