Pre-announcement: Core research challenges in digital twinning for crisis resilience

2 weeks ago

Swindon, United Kingdom NERC - the Natural Environment Research Council Full time
Opportunity status: Upcoming Funders: , , , , , , Funding type: Grant Total fund: £3,500,000 Maximum award: £3,500,000 Publication date: 14 June 2024 Opening date: To be confirmed Closing date: To be confirmed

Apply to lead an interdisciplinary research programme in digital twinning focused on improving government crisis response and resilience.

The programme must:

  • address identified digital twinning research challenges
  • develop a proof-of-concept digital twin for crisis response and resilience with relevance to all transport essential services, and their interface with other interconnected critical national infrastructure sectors
  • be delivered in close collaboration with key UK policy stakeholders

This is a pre-announcement, and the information may change. The funding opportunity will open in late June 2024. More information will be available on this page then.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funding.

Before applying for funding, check the .

EPSRC standard eligibility rules apply. For full details, visit .

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has introduced new role types for funding opportunities being run on the new UKRI Funding Service.

For full details, visit .

Who is not eligible to apply

You or your department may be involved in no more than two applications submitted to this funding opportunity. However, you may only apply as the project lead on one application.

International collaborations

Individuals based in non-UK countries can be involved in the grant as visiting researchers, project partners, or members of advisory boards. However, they are not eligible to be project leads or co-leads, with the exception of individuals based at Norwegian institutions.

Under the  a project co-lead (international) (previously co-investigator) can be based in a Norwegian institution.

Given the type of research that is to be undertaken, you must undertake appropriate due diligence and pre-application checks for trusted research, putting in place appropriate mitigations prior to submission. Visit for more information.

You may seek advice from the , a collaboration between the government and academia which provides research institutions with a first point of contact for official advice about national security risks linked to international research.

You should be aware of the and where this may relate to outputs from your research.

If successful, you will be expected to comply with UKRI’s Trusted Research and Innovation grant terms and conditions throughout the life of the grant.

Resubmissions

We will not accept uninvited resubmissions of projects that have been submitted to UKRI or any other funder.

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