STFC: Nucleus awards for public engagement with STFC’s programme

29/09/2022

10/11/2022

The Science and Technology Facilities Council invites applications for its nucleus awards for public engagement with STFC’s programme. This supports high quality programmes of public engagement that inspire and involve target audiences with stories of STFC science, technology and facilities. Award holders may also use Nucleus awards to create and sustain public engagement networks that develop communities of practice. The total budget is £300,000. The full economic cost of the project may be between £15,000 and £125,000 over three years. STFC will fund up to 80 per cent of the full economic cost.

STFC’s remits are astronomy, solar and planetary science, particle physics, particle astrophysics, cosmology, nuclear physics, and accelerator science.

Almost anyone can apply for a Nucleus award, including grant funded researchers, STFC scientists, technicians and engineers, facility users, schools, museums, science communicators, universities, colleges, community interest companies and libraries. The host organisation must be based in the UK. The principal applicant must be eligible to apply on behalf of the organisation that would hold the award. Every application must include a researcher in an STFC-funded area of science or technology. Applicants may apply for a Nucleus award for any new idea or evolution of a project that has been previously supported by an STFC Spark award.