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The Science and Technology Facilities Council invites applications for its 21st century challenge networks fund. This supports the creation of new multidisciplinary research communities at the STFC 21st challenge interface, which are focused on addressing user needs, including those of government departments, government agencies, industry and other academic communities. Proposals must be for networks involving the application of science and
technology developed through the STFC core science programme, including nuclear physics, particle physics, particle astrophysics, astronomy, space science, and computing and accelerators in support of these, or the STFC national facilities and laboratories. Three types of networks are funded:
鈥tandard networks which aim to support interactions between STFC-funded researchers and appropriate science, technology, industry and end-user groups to build interdisciplinary communities at the interface between STFC science and 21st century challenge areas, facilitate knowledge sharing and identify priority user-needs that STFC science could have a role in addressing, and create new multidisciplinary project teams to develop proposals to seek funding for projects addressing the 21st century challenges;
鈥etwork+ networks which, in addition to standard network requirements, aim to demonstrate STFC-funded capability to address 21st century challenges and re-risking of concepts to facilitate applications for next-state funding;
鈥xtended network+ networks which, in addition to standard network and network+ requirements, aim to maximise the impact of earlier standard network and network+ activities.
PIs must be based at a HEI, recognised academic analogues, such as institutes funded by other research councils and other organisations eligible to apply for research council funding.
Funding is provided at 80 per cent full economic cost and is worth up to 拢240,000 over three years for standard networks, up to 拢480,000 over four years for network+ networks and up to 拢360,000 over three years for extended network+ networks.