Funding Opportunity for Technology Transfer and Collaborations

Are you interested in receiving funding to enhance technology transfer from STFC technology areas (e.g. space instrumentation, astronomy, physics) to the storage of radioactive waste and carbon capture and storage?

Would you like a small proof of concept grant to test equipment or technology with potential use for monitoring gases, geophysics or geochemistry in deep geological repositories?

Do you wish to bring overseas visitors to the UK to enhance technology transfer into geological repositories?

Have you got a good workshop idea to improve knowledge exchange between technology areas and geological repositories?

Then read on…..

Funding is available for satellite workshops and travel awards between labs or organizations to advance science and technology collaborations related to Geological Repositories with small amounts of funding to test instrumentation. This is an open call with no deadline.

This funding opportunity is provided by the Geological Repository Network (GeoRepNet) under the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Futures Programme Global Challenge Networks.

Satellite Workshops
Applications are welcome for satellite workshops related to Geological Repositories and on possible technology transfer beneficial for Geological Repositories.
Examples include: small workshops which may help creating a bridge between STFC-supported instrument development in planetary sciences and astronomy, particle and nuclear physics and the development/use of this instrumentation in the construction and monitoring of geological repositories.
Funding up to £4,000 per workshop is available.

Travel and Instrumentation Awards
Funding is available for travel between labs or organizations to develop science and technology within or outside UK which improves the translation of technology towards geological repositories. The travel should generate new links between organisations seeking to improve our understanding of how to establish, build and monitor geological repositories. We are particularly interested in the transfer of high technologies that fit within the STFC remit (e.g. space technologies). This travel funding is intended to provide travel funds to support one or more individuals. A small amount of funding (up to £1,000) may also be used as part of the award for consumables to test technologies to carry out proof of concept testing of instruments and methods in the laboratory or in the field.

Funding for each award would typically be ~£2,000.

How to apply:
Please send us an e-mail (to: info@georepnet.org) with the topic “Workshop Funding Application” or “Travel Award Application” and with the following details:
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In case of a Travel Award Application, please provide the details of travel and subsistence funding requested.
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