ESRC: Future data services: pilots to enhance data services for the future

18/01/2024

22/02/2024

This funding opportunity aims to launch a series of pilot solutions which address current and future data service delivery challenges. These pilots should demonstrate how these challenges could be resolved, an evaluation about how effective they are, and how they could be scaled up with additional funding from April 2025 onwards. The challenges that the pilots should address fall into the following themes: - federation of data services - data discovery using machine learning or other AI technologies - increasing skills capacity for data service professionals. The total fund for this funding opportunity is £2.6 million at 80% full economic cost (FEC). The FEC of your project can be between £150,000 and £1,000,000. We will fund 80% of the FEC.

Computer Science & Informatics

Applicant type Academic Institution; Commercial or Private Sector; Government or Public Sector; Non-profit Career stages Early Career and Emerging in Field; Mid-Career to Established in Field Eligibility Note This funding opportunity is open to research groups and individuals. We: encourage collaborative research with other UK organisations encourage applications from diverse groups of researchers welcome applications from individuals at any career stage, subject to ESRC eligibility criteria.