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Closing date: 11 Dec 2025 The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is calling for proposals to phase one of its programme on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science. NERC is seeking bold, ambitious projects that accelerate the development of leading-edge data science tools and AI to help deliver transformative solutions to …
Submission deadline: 13 Nov 2025 The Horizon Europe Partnership Water4All has launched its next call for proposals under the theme āWater and Healthā. UK participants are welcome. The call aims to support research and innovation projects addressing key challenges related to the link between water and human health, including water …
Round 2 and 3 closing dates: 25 Nov 2025, 25 Feb 2025 The Royal Society‘s Faraday Discovery FellowshipsĀ are prestigious long-term awards that support the most talented research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. The Accelerated International Route, established in 2025, is intended for outstanding international researchers nominated by their UK …
A recent paper looks at the revival rates for microorganisms found in ancient permafrost cores from the Permafrost Research Tunnel near Fairbanks, Alaska. The researchers compared microbial growth rates, marker gene sequences and greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4) emissions across cores held anaerobically at ambient (ā4Ā°C) and elevated (4Ā°C, 12Ā°C) temperatures. …
The Royal Society‘s Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship aims seeks to provide opportunities for experienced senior and mid-career researchers to focus on full-time research for up to one year, by relieving them of all teaching, administrative and pastoral care duties during that period. Preference will be given to candidates who, …
The Better Water for All Network+, led by Dr Bing Guo of the University of Surrey, was successfully launched on 3 Oct 2025 in an event that brought stakeholders together to discuss how we can achieve a sustainable water future and tackle the challenges of chemical and biological micropollutants. The …
PFAS continues to draw the attention of regulators and others, to such an extent that it can sometimes be hard to keep up. Fortunately the UKās Contaminated Land: Applications in Real Environments group (CL:AIRE) has now set up a PFAS Webpage that compiles relevant information from around the world. Ā Non-commercial …
At the suggestion of one EBNet member who is particularly active in this area, a brief shout-out for the work of WASTE, which aims to catalyse scalable, system-level solutions to urgent challenges in the area of sanitation and solid waste management. WASTE is an international organisation that develops and manages …
IEA Bioenergy Task 37ās webinar on The Role of Biogas Systems in Building a Sustainable Society is now available to view for those who missed the live event. The webinar included an introduction to Task 37 by the Task Lead Dr Bernhard Drosg, followed by technical presentations: Sustainability effects associated …
Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowships are open to experienced researchers, particularly those who are or have been prevented by routine duties from completing a programme of original research. Priority will be given to applicants whose teaching and administrative duties have significantly impacted their ability to undertake research in the three years …
It is with great sorrow that we note the death on 9 Sept 2025 of Prof Pathik Pathak, Professor of Sociology in the School of Economic, Social & Political Sciences at the University of Southampton. Colleagues will know him as a higher education innovator, a champion of the power of …
The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (DHF) programme aims to support outstanding early career scientists who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances, such as caring responsibilities and/or health-related conditions. The programme aims to enable the next generation of research leaders to: Build an independent research career at a UK …
A recent perspective paper on wastewater treatment will please many readers while ruffling a few feathers for some others. The paper notes that over the last century wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) have essentially evolved in a piecemeal way to address a number of issues, rather than adopting holistic design approaches …
Microbiome-Net, a new BBSRC-funded Network, officially launchedĀ at the Microbiome Innovation One Health Conference on 15-16 Sept 2025. Its goal is toĀ strengthen capacity, support innovation, and foster a more connected and collaborative national microbiome innovation ecosystem. Microbiome-Net brings together teams from NBIC, the University of Liverpoolās Microbiome Innovation Centre, the …
Abstracts deadline: 15 Dec 2025 Conference: 27 June – 3 July 2026, Delft,Ā Netherlands The IWA Water in Industry 2026 (WIN2026) conference covers topics related to industrial water use, treatment, monitoring, recovery and policy. Abstracts based on original research or case studies and workshop proposals are invited on the following themes: …
