UK Space Agency, GB: SciSpacE support AO grant call

16/11/2023

14/12/2023

The aim of the call is to continue to develop the UK’s microgravity community and their research outcomes, and to maximise the return on the UK’s investment in microgravity facilities, through the ESA Exploration programmes. The purpose of this AO is to support UK based researchers who have already secured facility access to microgravity and space environments research platforms through the ESA SciSpacE Programmes Research Announcements. The UK Space Agency is making funding available to support the preparation of experiments. This scheme is open to academics from the UK or overseas, working at UK Research Organisations, who have already been selected by ESA for access to microgravity or space environments facilities. A total of £750,000 is available, with individual awards being up to £200,000.

The UK Space Agency only welcomes proposals for resources and related costs to support experiment preparation and implementation. This could take the form of (but are not limited to): support for academics including promising early career researchers, post doctorate research assistants and lead academics travel costs to facilitate data collection or experiment implementation equipment costs (to support experiment preparation) data analysis required to prepare the experiment only Exploitation of experiment data (analysis, write up, and dissemination) is not within the scope of this call and is generally within the remit of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). We are also unable to provide support for PhD students.

Eligibility Note This scheme is open to academics from the UK or overseas, working at UK Research Organisations, who have already been selected by ESA for access to microgravity or space environments facilities.