[Turing-Southampton] NERC Highlight topics announced | deadline for expressing interest in collaborative bid 18 December 2018

[Susan Davies]

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Please see below an email from the Turing Institute.  If you are interested in being part of a NERC collaborative bid, please let me know by Tuesday 18 December, so that I can feed this back to the Turing.

Many thanks,

Susan
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Susan Davies
Turing University Liaison Manager
Web Science Institute
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ

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The Natural Environment Research Council have announced their latest round of 'highlight topics' for funding. I'm reaching out to you, to gauge interest in applying for these schemes as part of our Turing network, acknowledging that there is expertise in a number of these areas across the university partners. Please let me know if you would be interested in being part of a collaborative bid and if you have a particular area you are interested in. It's likely that this will be a short turnaround, so if you are interested, can you please let me know by 18th December.
I have requested further details from the NERC portfolio manager for the programme, however they have unfortunately responded that there are no further details at this stage, so we will need to proceed without the full guidance and documentation. The current guidance on the NERC site is: "Notifications of intent are anticipated to be required in January 2019 and the deadline for full proposals is likely to be in March 2019". The general funding page states 31st January.

We are currently developing relationships with a number of the NERC  research centres and we would be happy to facilitate conversations with partners for you. We see this as an opportunity to develop a collaborative bid in environmental priority areas, within our emerging AI for Science and humanities theme.

Current details available:
https://nerc.ukri.org/research/funded/programmes/highlight-topics/news/highlight-topics-fifth/<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnerc.ukri.org%2Fresearch%2Ffunded%2Fprogrammes%2Fhighlight-topics%2Fnews%2Fhighlight-topics-fifth%2F&data=01%7C01%7CE.Simperl%40soton.ac.uk%7C1f1235e6646c4a37a23108d65ed050dc%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C1&sdata=vMrnmc6g3jHSUx%2FPWc9QeUTzHr9hDQDntCgdQ5eK6kE%3D&reserved=0>

"As a result of its ideas process, NERC is pleased to announce the topics that will be offered through its highlight topics programme, following the fifth cut-off for ideas.

The highlight topics in this call will be:


  *   Marine noise pollution: Understanding chronic effects
  *   Understanding the likelihood and impact of UK wildfires
  *   Impact of experimental deep-sea mining in the Central Pacific: A new inter-disciplinary challenge for UK environmental science
  *   Assessing large scale ecological responses to environmental change
  *   The impact of legacy waste in the coastal zone
  *   Advancing capabilities to predict UK and European weather conditions one season ahead
  *   The mineral systems approach to exploration and discovery of new sediment-hosted copper (Co,V) deposits.
Up to £16 million is available for this call. No more than two projects at up to £2 million will be funded for each topic, with the exception of 'Impact of experimental deep-sea mining' where no more than one project will be funded at up to £4 million. There are more highlight topics than funding is available, so not all highlight topics will necessarily result in funded grants.

An announcement of opportunity will be published shortly. Notifications of intent are anticipated to be required in January 2019 and the deadline for full proposals is likely to be in March 2019."



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