EPSRC: Research for a digitally enabled circular economy and sustainable digital technologies

26/10/2023

25/01/2024

This funding opportunity is intended to do just that by bringing together academics, industry and, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to collaboratively build solutions that deliver against UK net zero, environmental, and digital futures targets. This EPSRC funding opportunity aims to fund up to eight collaborative research programmes that contribute to the development of a digitally enabled circular economy and more sustainable digital technologies. This cross disciplinary funding opportunity will support programmes driving knowledge exchange and collaboration across ICT, materials science and CE communities to deliver a more sustainable, resilient and circular future. The full economic cost of your project can be up to £1.8 million. EPSRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost.

Through this funding opportunity, we are looking to invest in two interlinked areas of research: sustainable information communication technology (ICT), research addressing novel approaches to the development of more environmentally sustainable and circular digital and communication technologies digitally enabled circular economy (CE), research developing digital solutions to enable a circular economy. Research in this strand may support a circular economy in any sector and is not limited to the digital sector

Career stages Early Career and Emerging in Field; Mid-Career to Established in Field Eligibility Note You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.