The AHRC Follow-on Funding Scheme offers flexible funding to encourage creativity, accommodate risk and promote innovative activities in support of knowledge exchange, public engagement, active dissemination or commercialisation activities that arise unforeseeably during the lifespan of or following an AHRC-funded project. Such activities must enhance the value and benefit of the AHRC-funded research project, and demonstrate potential to deliver significant economic, social, cultural and/or policy impacts.
It is intended to encourage and facilitate a range of interactions and creative engagements between arts and humanities research and a variety of user communities including business and commercial, third sector and heritage sector, public policy, voluntary and community groups and the general public.
The AHRC Follow-on Funding scheme will run initially as a pilot for 24 months and will offer awards of up to £120,000 (fEC) for a maximum of 12 months. Applications can be made to support such activities that have emerged during a current project or are supplementary to a completed AHRC-funded project as long as such activities were not taken account of in the original award. It is expected that smaller awards of up to £30,000 (fEC) can be used for shorter, higher risk activities, for example testing the feasibility of an idea, exploring new partnerships for knowledge exchange, testing the market or investigating a new business model.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The AHRC will review the Follow-on Funding scheme during the summer 2012. The scheme will continue beyond 2012 but may be subject to some changes in eligibility and/or assessment criteria as a result of the review.
The scheme opened on 19 October 2010. It operates without formal deadlines and you are able to submit proposals at any time of year.
The assessment process for an application is expected to take approximately 8 weeks and the earliest start date for a project should be no earlier than 3 months after submission. You should note that, on occasions where there is a delay in obtaining the peer reviews for an application, the assessment process may take longer. In such circumstances, the AHRC will contact the applicant to inform them of any delay.
Please note that all applications must be made through the cross-council Joint Electronic Submission (Je-S) System. Further information on this can be found on the Je-S helptext system. If you need any assistance using the system please contact the Je-S Helpdesk on 01793 444164 or on JeSHelp@rcuk.ac.uk.
The AHRC work with the RCUK Shared Services Centre (SSC) to deliver all of our funding activities. All queries regarding eligibility for funding and applications in progress and also queries regarding current awards, should be directed to the SSC team dealing with your subject area using the contacts page.
For further information about Knowledge Transfer activities and opportunities in the AHRC please go to the Knowledge Transfer pages.