UKRI: Global Centers in clean energy and climate change

09/02/2023

11/05/2023

Apply for funding to support new cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, use-inspired research on clean energy and climate change through international partnerships fostering novel breakthroughs or informing policy. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is able to support Global Centers Implementation ‘Track-1’ awards focused on clean energy and climate change topics. UKRI funding for this opportunity will be utilised to create an ecosystem of global centres which thrive on international partnership. Specifically funding is available for UK based researchers to create partnerships which must contain a partner in the US and could also include partners in Canada or Australia. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding. The full economic cost of ‘Track-1’ projects can be up to £6,250,000 and can be up to 5 years in duration. UKRI will fund 80% of the full economic cost.

UKRI has identified 4 priority areas which we are particularly interested in seeing ideas in: - negative emission technologies - systems approaches to tackling the ‘final 20%’ - targeting the difficult to decarbonise - removing the barriers to uptake of solutions.

The UK element of the project is open to research groups and individuals based at eligible UK organisations. Eligible organisations are: - UK higher education institutions - research council institutes - UKRI-approved independent research organisations - eligible public sector research establishments - eligible research and technology organisations - NHS bodies with research capacity.