Collaborative grants

Our world-class  staff can work with you to bring a competitive edge to your business.

We are able to work as a contractor to you - where you fund the research directly - or as a collaborator and partner with funding from other sources.

Funding is available from both national and overseas bodies to support business and industry working with academia.

The subsequent advantage to your business is that you are able to develop innovative products, processes and/or services whilst sharing the cost of the research and development.

Funding bodies/schemes which enable collaboration between academics and industry include:

• Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR)
• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) 
• Department for International Development (DfID)
• Department of Health (DoH) 
• Ministry of Defence (MoD)
• Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) (in conjunction with The Department for Trade and Industry) - enables employers to embark on research projects with academic researchers
• Faraday Partnerships - alliance of organisations and institutions dedicated to the improvement of the competitiveness of UK Industry through the research, development, transfer and exploitation of new and improved science and technology.
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) - UK Government's leading funding agency for research and training in engineering and the physical sciences.

EPSRC's funding schemes include:

• Industrial CASE Awards - enables you to sponsor a postgraduate research project. It allocates the award directly to the industrial partner which can devise its own research project for the student.
• Engineering Doctorate Programme - this four-year postgraduate award enables the company to sponsor a postgraduate student on a project that will significantly contribute to the performance of the company.

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