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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.

Working in pairs

We will offer space at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) building in India Street for working in pairs. This has proved to be a highly effective mechanism to make rapid progress in joint research work, e.g. at Oberwolfach. The definition of pairs includes small groups and could also be linked with the visitor programme. The aim is to support short periods of concentration on an interdisciplinary project, e.g. to carry out an initial study ready for a larger grant proposal or to complete a piece of joint work.

Supervising in pairs

Here we will offer some support for academic staff to take on joint supervision of a postgraduate project from another discipline as a way to start a multidisciplinary collaboration between the supervisors.
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Coordination: Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences
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