The University has received an award of ?100K from NERC to increase, advance and accelerate impact from NERC investments in research.

The Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)?is to be used by 1 April 2014.?

The award is to support a range of small-scale and diverse knowledge exchange and commercialisation activities, to deliver the following objectives:

1.?????????? To strengthen interaction between NERC-funded science and the user community, primarily businesses, to accelerate and amplify the impact of NERC science;

2.?????????? To support strategic-level, cross-project impact activities that help?enable impact to be achieved in a more effective and timely manner;?

3.???????? To increase the number of high quality case studies related to the direct and/or indirect impact of NERC science.

Applications

NERC grant holders (past and current) are invited to submit a one-page application for this scheme.?

Applications should include:

a.????? Underpinning research – details of the NERC funding that underpins the impact.

b.????? Opportunity/potential to generate impact – how the underpinning research has the potential to generate impact.

c.??????Generating impact/accelerating the impact process – activities that will be conducted to support the generation of the potential impacts and anticipated outcomes.

d.??? Costing and justification of resources.

NERC Impact Acceleration?Account 2013 – Application Form

Completed proposal forms should be submitted to Mylène?Ployaert (mgsp@soton.ac.uk) by 16:00 on Friday 27 September.

Awards up to ?50K will be made in October 2013.? The very short turnaround is due to the fact that the IAA has to be used before 1 April 2014.