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This BBSRC community engagement event comprises two on-line workshops that will bring together stakeholders with an interest in tackling food loss and waste in its broadest sense, underpinning a circular economy. Your input, expertise, and insights are sought to shape BBSRC’s and UKRIās strategic thinking that will enable investment in …
The next four-year term of the UKRI-funded Supergen Bioenergy Hub will begin in November 2023. They invite all academics, industrialists, policymakers and the third sector working or interested in biomass and bioenergy to join them at their launch event on 14 November 2023, Aston University. Find the agenda and register: …
Share your own views with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: HERE. This call for evidence asks for your experiences and insights into the strengths, weakness and opportunities for the UKās engineering biology ecosystem. Government will use the outcomes of this call for evidence to inform policy that will …
Share your own views on the UK’s water industry: HERE A Fresh Water Future is an independently-funded project, delivered by CIWEM but overseen by a range of environmental NGOs, experts and practitioners. It aims to understand where consensus may be built on how water should be managed better in the …
Interested in biofilms? The National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) Showcase will take place on Tuesday 12 September 2023 from 09:00 ā 17:30 at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham. Featuring talks from partner research institutions, researchers, industry/end-user partners etc., making this a great networking and knowledge exchange event. Register …
The long-awaited UK Government’s Biomass Strategy has been published. It sets out steps government intends to take to strengthen biomass sustainability and the opportunities for the use of sustainable biomass across multiple sectors of the economy in support of achieving the UKās net zero target. It builds on the 2021Ā Biomass …
Deadline: 14 July 2023. Up to Ā£20,000 per BIV. Purpose: to encourage and support collaboration between academia and industry. The collaboration can be any defined piece of work by the academic partner to support the industrial partner and which is intended to facilitate small, confidence-building measures between the partners with …
Reflections on the move to a double-blind Proof of Concept Call. Recent criticisms within academia and a strong focus on EDI initiatives have highlighted anxieties about inequalities in the workplace. Our diverse research community needs to be assured that we take inclusion seriously and aim to safeguard the quality of …
Look sharp! Funding opportunity details for outline applications will be published on 25 May 2023 for this major funding opportunity for interdisciplinary ideas that transcend, combine or significantly span disciplines.This pilot scheme will support breakthrough or disruptive interdisciplinary ideas not routinely funded through existing UKRI responsive mode schemes. Awards will …
The Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships (QECS) offer a unique fully funded opportunity to study a two-year Master’s degree in a low or middle income Commonwealth country. This opportunity is open to citizens of a Commonwealth country who have graduated with an equivalent of a 2:1 at the time of application. …
This UKRI Call For Evidence is on current and past activity to improve the UK culture and environment across the R&I sector. Completion time for the survey is approx.10 mins. Or express your interest in joining one of four online co-creation workshops here.The final report of the State of the …
This free online two-hour workshop is hosted by Cloud-SPAN. It provides an introduction to R for complete beginners. The workshop assumes no prior experience of coding. By the end of the course you will be able to; find your way around RStudio use the basic data types and structures in …
Deadline: 20 September 2023 The CBE JU second call for project proposals is now live. A total of ā¬215.5 million will be dedicated to advancing competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe across 18 topics. Call topics: Innovation actions ā flagship Optimised and integrated wood-based value chains – ā¬17 million Expansion …
Engineering biology is the application of (rigorous) engineering principles to the design and fabrication of biological components and systems, from modifications of natural systems to new forms of artificial biology. It encompasses the entire innovation ecosystem, from breakthrough synthetic biology research to translation and application. UKRI is inviting applications for: …
The Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) is offering an intensive and highly interactive summer course from 3-21 July 2023 in Singapore, which unites fields such as environmental biotechnology and microbial ecology. The course is open to students who are currently pursuing graduate programs in STEM disciplines and …
