Core research challenges in digital twinning for crisis resilience

3 months ago


Swindon, United Kingdom NERC - the Natural Environment Research Council Full time
Opportunity status: Open Funders: , , , , , , Funding type: Grant Total fund: £4,375,000 Maximum award: £4,375,000 Publication date: 27 June 2024 Opening date: 25 June 2024 9:00am UK time Closing date: 5 September 2024 4:00pm UK time

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

The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £4,375,000. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will fund 80% of the FEC.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.

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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, identifying appropriate mitigations prior to submission. Visit for more information.

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 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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