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Call for proposals (internal) - NOW CLOSED

Academic staff in the Edinburgh Research Partnership (ERP) and closely related areas in both Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt Universities are invited and encouraged to apply for pump-priming funding to start long-term multidisciplinary research projects involving local participants from both engineering and the mathematical sciences.

Light touch application process: We have the money from EPSRC already. You tell us briefly (one paragraph might be enough) what you want to do (see below) and our internal ERP committee will respond quickly with a yes or no.

Applicants should explain how their proposal aims to establish a long-term partnership between mathematical scientists and engineers within the ERP or closely related areas.

The main funding is for time recovery for permanent staff (like standard co-I time recovery on a research grant), so that an agreed amount of money will flow to your department for participating in this programme. We also have funds to support visitors etc., but, in general, we cannot fund PhD students or temporary research staff like PDRAs (e.g. we cannot pay to extend their contracts). See the information below.

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Administrative support and a venue for many of the activities will be provided by the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences. See link to ICMS below.

Problem scoping workshops

Proposals are invited for workshops, each to run over two days. They should include an instructive element to set out the background to the area of interest, a descriptive element to present details of specific problems that look promising, and, most importantly, an interactive element to get people talking together about how to solve these problems. Workshops may combined with the visitor programme to bring in external experts, including those from industry.

Multidisciplinary workshops are not always successful at generating new collaborations, so, the organisers of each workshop are required to ensure that people not only talk, but that groups of them collectively produce an outline plan of how to tackle individual problems presented in the workshops. If suitable for this programme, these plans will be considered by our Selection Panel and acted upon as soon as possible.
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Coordination: Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences
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