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Briefing Webinar: Enabling Research in Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging

4 Feb 2020

UKRI will host a webinar 11:00 – 12:30 on Monday 10 February 2020 to support the funding opportunity for Enabling Research in Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging.

Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund - Announcement of Opportunity February 2020

Closing date: 12 Mar
2020

31 Jan 2020

NERC is inviting proposals to its Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund (GPSF). The Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund allows UK environmental science researchers to forge new partnerships and networks with the best international researchers wherever they are located and seed collaborations that will be sustained beyond the lifetime of the grant.

£15 million for new research into major environmental topics

29 Jan 2020

New research on major environmental issues, such as the understanding impacts of UK wildfires, assessing large scale ecological responses to environmental change and the impact of legacy waste on the coastal zone, have been funded under the fifth round of NERC highlight topics.

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Briefing Webinar: Enabling Research in Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging

4 Feb 2020

UKRI will host a webinar 11:00 – 12:30 on Monday 10 February 2020 to support the funding opportunity for Enabling Research in Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging.

Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund - Announcement of Opportunity February 2020

Closing date: 12 Mar
2020

31 Jan 2020

NERC is inviting proposals to its Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund (GPSF). The Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund allows UK environmental science researchers to forge new partnerships and networks with the best international researchers wherever they are located and seed collaborations that will be sustained beyond the lifetime of the grant.

£15 million for new research into major environmental topics

29 Jan 2020

New research on major environmental issues, such as the understanding impacts of UK wildfires, assessing large scale ecological responses to environmental change and the impact of legacy waste on the coastal zone, have been funded under the fifth round of NERC highlight topics.

View all funding news and calls

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