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The Royal Society of Edinburgh and QuantIC invite applications for their enterprise fellowships. These encourage the development of a new business and building on previously-funded research relevant to QuantIC around a technological idea developed by the fellow and within which the fellow is expected to play an important or leading role.

Successful fellows can be hosted at any UK HEI.

Fellowships provide salary support of up to 拢37,000 plus national insurance and pension costs over 12 months. An additional allowance of up to 拢10,000 is available towards equipment, consultancy fees, legal costs and attendance at conferences. Fellows also receive expert training in entrepreneurship and access to mentorship from the society鈥檚 business fellows and other entrepreneurs in the business community.

ATTRACT, a consortium of nine European organisations, invites applications for its open call for proposals – breakthrough projects. This provides seed funding to projects aimed at breakthrough innovation in detection and imaging technologies. Projects should present highly novel technology concepts or combinations of existing technology concepts that lead to a significant increase of their performance or usability, or to a new range of applications and markets.

Applications may be submitted by at least two independent legal entities whose seats are in the EU or an H2020-associated country.

The total budget is 鈧�17 million to fund 170 projects. Funding is worth 鈧�100,000 for one year.

EPSRC is offering a 'Public Affairs and Media Training' opportunity for EPSRC-supported researchers. This opportunity is open to researchers who are interested in policy and evidence based decision making and keen to acquire new communications skills. Any applicant who considers they would benefit from this training, and is supported by EPSRC, is eligible to apply. Following the training applicants will join the and become RISE Connectors. The expectation is that our new RISE Connectors will use their training to make up to five new connections (policy makers, parliamentarians, industry, and academics) which will inform new audiences and act as advocates for EPS.

RISE: Making Connections will:

• Join the EPSRC-RISE cohort
• Provide the opportunity for EPSRC researchers to make connections across a range of Stakeholders to help promote EPS to a wider audience
• Support individuals in maximising their potential and making their own connections
• Provide political awareness training and media training

Being part of RISE: Making Connections will provide participants with:

• 15 training places. The training will take place on 5 and 6 December 2018, in London. Please ensure you are available on these dates before applying.

• Support in making their own connections
• Policy and media training
• An opportunity to meet with other stakeholders in EPS

Successful applicants will:

• use their training to make up to five new connections (policy makers, parliamentarians, industry, academics) which will inform new audiences and act as advocates for EPS (ie everything in their remit)
• Demonstrate excellent communications and interpersonal skills and aspire to develop these across a broad audience

Applicants must show the potential and aptitude to act as advocates for Engineering and Physical Sciences and/or a particular field of research. They must also demonstrate excellent communications and interpersonal skills and aspire to develop and apply these, in particular, to government and parliament audiences. All applications should be submitted through the University Research Office and must include the EPS grant reference number through which they receive support.

Successful applicants will receive Public Affairs training which will cover Academic Research in Parliament and Engaging with Select Committees. The Media Training will include presenting evidence to a parliamentary select committee, networking with potential industrial and academic partners, and engaging with the public. Details of further activities to take place subsequent to the training will be provided following shortlisting.

Those applicants who are not shortlisted will receive feedback and information on where they may further their interest in public affairs.

The 糖心TV Public Engagement Fund is open to all academic Departments, Research Institutes, Centres and GRPs.

This year we would especially like to encourage projects that provide opportunities for undergraduate or postgraduate students to be involved, as well as projects which include partners external to 糖心TV. We are also keen to support activities relevant to City of Culture and the British Science Festival.

Applicants should normally be a University employee, or be the holder of a personal research fellowship awarded competitively. Applicants should have at least 9 months left to run on their employment contract/ fellowship at the date of application – i.e. you will be employed until the end of July 2019.

PHD students are also welcome to apply for the fund, however will need a member of staff to be a co-applicant on the proposal to enable us to give you access to the funds. We also require that you will be still be at 糖心TV by July 2019.

NB Deadline TBC Please find attached information regarding the call for NERC CENTA PhD studentship proposals to start October 2019. Please read the information carefully – especially the layout required. Please send projects to pgbio@warwick.ac.uk by 31st October 2018 (each project proposal should be accompanied by one training proposal).
As usual projects need to be within NERC remit and there needs to be a minimum of TWO supervisors per project. Moreover, if the principle supervisor has no previous NERC funding or applications then they should find a co-supervisor who has.
Please note the following:

1. We aim at a high number of proposals being co-developed with our core Level-1 and Level-2 external partners. Please advise Robin Allaby if you are making contact with an external partners. If a new individual HEI/RC link to one of our L1/2 external partners can be created, this is also very good. The attached list of lead contact details of our L1/L2 partners should serve to facilitate this.
The supervisor induction day (planned for 28th September) will be designed to include as many Level1/2 partners as possible to facilitate new links to CENTA2 potential supervisors. More details will be provided in due course.
2. We also aim to increase the amount of projects being co-designed by potential students. Please flag this in the project proposal form if appropriate.
3. Host-Institution: We have the novelty in CENTA2 that our RC partners can be hosting institution. Nevertheless, the awarding institution will be a HEI/University. For the moment and to avoid confusion: The form is asking for the University-Host, this should be the awarding institution. The PI may come from the RC and will have the lead in this project, but all proposal must have a at least one Co-Supervisor from one University partner. Thus, please indicate the University Host by selecting from the drop-down menu in the proposal document and give the PI institution in the PI information field.
4. The new CENTA2 Flagship projects and its definition:
CENTA2 will advertise ~25% of our studentships as 鈥淔lagship鈥� projects, with factors such as: end-user or student project co-development, CASE or collaboration status, external end-user supervision, multi-institutional supervision across CENTA2, diversity and multidisciplinarity of the supervisory team.
 
The likely timeline:
鈥� 1.11.18 - Upload of adverts to website;
鈥� end of January 2019 (TBC) – Studentship application deadline;
鈥� mid-Feb 2019 – Date for interviews.
 
 
Many thanks

Professor Robin G Allaby FLS FRSB
School of Life Sciences
Gibbet Hill Campus
University of 糖心TV
CV4 7AL
R.G.Allaby@warwick.ac.uk
Tel: ++44 (0) 2476575059

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/archaeobotany/

The Simons Foundation鈥檚 Mathematics and Physical Sciences division is currently soliciting proposals for its Simons Symposia series, which brings together mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists to interact and collaborate in a series of three symposia, held every second year and focusing on one topic or a tightly connected group of topics.

The first meetings in the new series will start in the winter or spring of 2020. The foundation expects to select up to one mathematics and one theoretical physics or theoretical computer science series to start in 2020.

Format of a Symposium Series

An individual symposium series consists of up to three weeklong meetings on one topic or a tightly connected group of topics. A symposium series is initially approved for one year and renewed for up to two more meetings if successful. If the first meeting in the series occurs in year N, then subsequent meetings would occur in years N+2 and N+4.

Each symposium in the series may have up to 23 participants, including its organizing committee (two to four leaders in a field). It will have a focused theme and a schedule that leaves plenty of time for collaboration and open-ended discussion. In some areas, a tight focus on a new research development or a specific research problem would be appropriate; in others, a symposium might help set an agenda for the field. Please see for reference.