The Digital Economy Programme invites applicants to apply for short-term funding to perform their ‘Research in the Wild’.
Proposals should focus on early stage directed research through to implementation, testing and iterative improvement of technologies or methods with potential beneficiaries. A user partner (public, private or third sector), who is engaged in the research from the start of the project, will be compulsory.
Projects are limited to up to 18 months in duration.
Proposals will go through an Expression of Interest stage before full proposals are invited. Expressions of interest will be assessed internally on a quarterly basis according to the timetable given below.
Deadline for Expressions of Interest: 12th August 2010
Deadline for submission of full proposals: 30th September 2010
Interview panel meeting: 2nd/3rd March 2011
This call is being administered by EPSRC and all application details can be found on their website.
The Digital Economy is an RCUK Cross-Research Council Programme involving EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC and MRC, hence challenges in the Digital Economy will require multi-disciplinary input across a broad spectrum of subjects including researchers from the arts and humanities, economic and social scientists, medical sciences, in addition to engineering and physical sciences.
This call is being administered by EPSRC and all further details can be found on their website.
Further information on the programme is available from the EPSRC website.