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Other Calls for Proposals
This section contains details of calls for proposals that are not funded under the Science and Heritage Programme, but are still of relevence to the heritage science community.
USER-CENTRED DESIGN FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN BUILDINGS
The Technology Strategy Board have announced their latest competition which is focussed on realising real energy demand reduction in buildings through engaging with occupants and employing user-centred design to create buildings that work in practice. The competition is to attend a sandpit (5 day funding workshop) in March 2010. The Technology Strategy Board has allocated £2m to fund industry-led collaborative research arising from the sandpit. The deadline for applications is noon on 17th December 2009.
The competition will be of interest to anyone working in user-centred design, energy efficiency, energy demand reduction, human factors and non domestic buildings. Potential applicants need to register and sign in on the TSB's site to download the application form and guidance documents http://www.technologyprogramme.org.uk/.
Applications are welcomed from industry and academia and from both practitioners in the built environment and experts in for example user centred design, psychology, social science, ergonomics, engineering, architecture, arts and humanities, action research, user centred design, customer focussed products, human factors, human-computer interaction, consumer testing and post occupancy evaluation. Industrial applicants should ensure that their companies are ready, willing and able to engage in a collaborative project before applying.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES APPROACHES TO RESEARCHING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
The AHRC and the Landscape and Environment Programme are pleased to announce a new network call entitled Arts and Humanities Approaches to Researching Environmental Change. Proposals are now being invited and the deadline is 4pm Thursday 10th December 2009 (please note that the JeS form will not be available until 20th October).
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The network activities funded under this competition will be expected to run for between six months and one year, and each award can be up to a value of £30,000 fEC. For further information on the call please go to the Landscape and Environment Programme website or the AHRC website
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DESIGN AND DECISION TOOLS FOR LOW IMPACT BUILDINGS
The £4m ‘Design and Decision Tools for Low Impact Buildings’ competition, which opens for applications on 15th June has now been launched by the Technology Strategy Board as part of the Low Impact Buildings Innovation Platform funding. The competition will focus on the development, enhancement and integration of building design and decision tools to help achieve the government’s tough target of an 80% reduction in carbon emissions from buildings by 2050. Expressions of interest must be submitted by 23 July 2009, and full applications by 27 November 2009. Applicants will be advised of the outcome on 18 December 2009.
For details of the competition please go to http://www.innovateuk.org/deliveringinnovation/forthcomingcompetitions.ashx. Further information about the Technology Strategy Board can be found on their website: www.innovateuk.org
A Design and Decision Tools Brokering Meeting will be held on Tuesday 19th May 2009 at One Great George Street, Westminster, London SW1P 3AA, presenting an opportunity to hear more about the Technology Strategy Board call for projects and to set up collaborations.
For more information phone 01923 664550 or email information@mbektn.co.uk.
To register please go to http://designanddecisiontools.eventbrite.com/
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AHRC/BT PILOT RESEARCH NETWORKING CALL
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and BT are pleased to announce a call for research projects of mutual strategic interest under a pilot programme of Research Networking. The research theme for this call will be ‘Digital Heritage: understanding the personal, social and cultural contexts of consumers of cultural heritage’.
The AHRC and BT are working together to develop a collaboration to bring together the arts and humanities research community with BT researchers and other stakeholders with an interest in digital heritage to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaborative research.
The AHRC/BT Pilot Research Networking funding call is intended to support interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers to explore the theme of ‘Digital Heritage: understanding the personal, social and cultural contexts of consumers of cultural heritage’. The AHRC and BT welcome networks which involve academic colleagues from the arts and humanities together with people from BT, non academic organisations, businesses and other parties whose interests complement the aims of the pilot programme. Project proposals to this call should involve BT through for example, provision of expertise, ‘in-kind’ access to technology and capability. Academic researchers should contact John Seton from BT Research (john.seton@bt.com) to discuss appropriate BT involvement and/or other parties potentially interested in participating in this call. Applicants may apply for funding up to a full economic cost of £15, 000 for projects lasting up to 1 year in total.
Applications to this scheme should be submitted to AHRC through the cross council Joint electronic-Submissions (JeS) system. Application forms will be available via the AHRC website on Tuesday 21st April 2009. The application deadline for this call will be 4pm on Thursday 21st May 2009.
For further information regarding this pilot programme and application guidance please follow this link; http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Pages/AHRCandBTResearchNetworkingPilotFundingCall.aspx Please contact Joanna Pollock, Knowledge Transfer Programme Manager, AHRC (tel: 0117 9876585 email: j.pollock@ahrc.ac.uk ) if you have any queries. WHITE
UP TO ONE MILLION EUROS AVAILABLE FOR UK HUMANITIES REASEARCH
A unique research funding opportunity that could allow UK arts and humanities academics access to up to one million Euros funding for collaborative research projects has recently been launched.
Organised by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) and facilitated in the UK through the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) this Joint Research Programme (JRP) call is intended to enable trans-national Collaborative Research Projects in two humanities research areas:
The call is open to all UK humanities and arts academics and to ensure that as many UK academics as possible have an opportunity to participate in this research call the AHRC will be holding briefings at the end of January in London (29th) and Glasgow (30th).
The briefings will provide an opportunity to ask questions about eligibility, the programme themes and how to apply. It will also be an opportunity to network and forge new contacts. If you would like to attend this event, please email hera@ahrc.ac.uk indicating which of the two sessions you would like to attend.
By launching this first HERA JRP call for proposals, 13 national funding partners want to create collaborative, trans-national research opportunities that will derive new insights from humanities research in order to address major social, cultural, and political challenges facing Europe. In consultation with their national researcher communities, they have jointly defined and developed common research priorities, and created a new trans-national funding mechanism.
The beneficiaries of this Call are eligible scholars located in Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom, irrespective of their nationality.
Successful proposals will require the building of consortia of three or more partners based in three or more different HERA JRP countries (e.g. UK, Netherlands, Austria etc).
HERA JRP collaborative research projects are humanities-driven, but do not exclude participation from other disciplines that are relevant to the theme of the call.
Outline Proposals need to be submitted electronically via the HERA website by 7 April and it is expected that Full Proposals will be invited in May 2009 with 1 September 2009 as the expected deadline for submission.
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HERITAGE SCIENCE RECOGNISED BY THE TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY BOARD
The Technology Strategy Board’s Autumn 2007 Call for Proposals for Collaborative Research and Development (Phase 3) in the area of Gathering Data in Complex Environments has been announced. This call invites proposals for projects that overcome technological and commercial barriers to tracking, monitoring and control for identified end-uses, to enable data to be gathered that cannot be currently collected. An indicative £10m of funding has been allocated.
Cultural heritage: environmental management of historic buildings, collections, sites and landscapes is one of the sectors identified in this Call. The closing date of this competition is May 8th 2008. Full details can be found on the Technology Strategy Board’s website:http://www.technologyprogramme.org.uk/
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