Industrial CASE studentship competition 2010

Industrial CASE provides funding for PhD studentships where businesses take the lead in arranging projects with an academic partner of their choice. Funding for around 40 3.5-year PhD studentships is available. We aim to award at least 10 of the available awards to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), depending on the overall number and quality of applications.

This year we are operating a limited competition and will only accept proposals from companies wishing to establish a new collaboration. We define a ‘new collaboration’ as one new to the company, and this can be established with a UK academic institution, university department, research group or academic partner new to the company. For larger companies, a new collaboration to the company is defined as one new to a particular business unit or site within the company.

We will not consider applications from:

1. Companies wishing to strengthen an existing collaboration.
2. Spinout companies wishing to collaborate with their originating university: collaborations must be with a separate institution.
3. Organisations already receiving a direct allocation of Industrial CASE awards (excluded organisations listed in call document).

Studentships (current estimated value per student of £66,838) will be awarded to companies with the EPSRC funding provided to the host university through Industrial CASE Accounts.

Two application forms are included separately to the call document.

Submitting your application

Please send both completed forms to icasepool@epsrc.ac.uk