We are now inviting applications for Business Interaction Vouchers (BIVs), a new funding stream to provide opportunities for academics and industrialists or non-academics to work together on short-term projects that aim to build new partnerships, accelerate research impact, and strengthen engagement between academia and industry in the UK bioenergy sector.
The objective of the call is to broker new relationships with relevant industrialists and improve our understanding of how contemporary knowledge in the non-academic community is supporting energy and industrial priorities. The scope of work is anything that falls within the Hub’s scope of activity and details can be found in our Research section. Note that this includes engineering, physical science, social and biological science approaches as well as associated sustainability and wider evaluations.
Funded activities could include, for example, meetings, travel, laboratory trials or tests, investigations, secondments, workshops, preliminary assessments, and site familiarisations. These must be focused on improving academic and non-academic understanding of biomass, bioenergy and bioproduct priorities in the current landscape, and ideally would form a pathway to a future collaboration.
Successfully funded projects will be impact focused and consider how they engage with and enrich Hub activities and communities.
Projects can request up to £15,000 funding at 100% FEC for one project based at one UK research organisation. Payment of 80% (up to max £12,000) of the FEC costs will be made, as is normal in UKRI funded research.
For more information and to apply visit https://www.supergen-bioenergy.net/news/launch-of-the-supergen-bioenergy-hub-business-interaction-voucher-scheme/
