NERC: Addressing environmental challenges - NERC highlight topics

07/03/2024

09/10/2024

The Natural Environment Research Council invites applications for its addressing environmental challenges call. Your application must address issues within a single highlight topic. We will not accept applications addressing more than 1 highlight topic. If there are multiple successful applications within a highlight topic, they must be independent applications that deliver stand-alone projects. The maximum full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £2.35 million or up to £4.7 million, depending on the topic you choose. We will fund 80% of the FEC.

The highlight topics in this funding opportunity are: A: evaluation of oxidation in the tropics to improve projections of atmospheric composition B: marine-based ice sheet contributions to past, present and future sea-level rise C: signal to noise errors and implications for climate predictions and projections D: understanding the threat of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in the environment E: pollutant deposition enhancement to upland ecosystems.

Eligibility Note You may be involved in no more than 2 applications submitted to this funding opportunity. Only 1 of these can be as principal investigator. We encourage multidisciplinary research and collaborations with other UK organisations. Other international and non-academic collaborators can be involved as project partners. We encourage applications from diverse groups of researchers. The inclusion of researcher co-investigators is encouraged where they have made a substantial intellectual contribution to the development of the application and will be engaged with the ensuing research.