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<p class="MsoNormal">***apologies if you receive this more than once*<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>UKRI Turing AI Accelerator Fellowships | Call for Expressions of Interest | UoS internal selection process<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Turing Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Fellowships aim to accelerate the careers of the highest potential AI researchers with the potential to be world-leaders in the next five years and the vision to use the fellowship to achieve
this goal. The focus of the programme is on creativity of ideas, thought, and approach, and on enabling new collaboration between academia and other sectors.
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<p class="MsoNormal">As there is an <b>institutional quota of four per institution</b>, the University is running an internal process to identify applicants for the Call. Researchers interested in this opportunity should read the details of the
<a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukri.org%2Ffunding%2Ffunding-opportunities%2Fturing-artificial-intelligence-acceleration-fellowships%2F&data=01%7C01%7C%7C89ee3e1469934192e5a308d771b78e64%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=Ue9NouNLFAzy7377VsH7p%2FM0ySnCXm5A1g0p4o9GWb0%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.ukri.org/funding/funding-opportunities/turing-artificial-intelligence-acceleration-fellowships/" shash="EA64OpdyldZoA5yftwk5VZNxA001VBhoJYrbUvbHNzbwLrXPn6k6VOlwq986NYNXSwyTJzEnwqL+hxoBnT5lt/Bg+mDKKFHKhNnGYgLta7IMz3BaoGX3wCwM2vQm1B+mSKIiCPXdVanWNYgCgnFDgBZ7qA6cXxQ9n4MWQ9UbfMc=">
Call</a> before submitting the attached expression of interest form to <a href="mailto:funding@soton.ac.uk">
funding@soton.ac.uk</a> <b>by 28th November 2019 (17:00).</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">An internal selection panel will evaluate the EoIs against the criteria in the Call. Feedback will be given to all applicants by Friday 13 December 2019. Further support will be offered to shortlisted candidates in the preparation of
their outline application to UKRI.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Up to £18 million is available to fund 10-15 fellows for 5 years from 1st January 2021.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Note</b> that the scheme is targeted to researchers with significant research experience and is not suitable for applicants considering early career fellowships from UKRI.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All information can be found on the <a href="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/the-alan-turing-institute/calls/ai-acceleration-fellowships-call.page">
Turing at Southampton website</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Susan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">__________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Susan Davies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Coordination Manager,
<a href="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/index.page?">Web Science Institute</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University Liaison Manager,
<a href="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/alan-turing-institute/alan-turing-institute.page">
The Alan Turing Institute</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Room 3041, Building 32<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Web Science Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Southampton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Southampton SO17 1BJ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">023 8059 3523 | 07768 266464<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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