EPSRC Programme grant full proposal

Programme grants provide flexible funding to world-leading research groups addressing significant major research challenges. Funding should bring together a team of internationally recognised scientists or engineers to focus on one strategic research theme. EPSRC sees programme grants as critical mass investments, which cover a diverse engineering and physical sciences portfolio. They benefit UK research through the concentration of high-performing talent. This funding opportunity is only for invited applicants who have successfully completed an outline application. Programme grants are not just large grants, they must be strategic in nature. They allow world-leading researchers to tackle bigger, more open-ended problems through a coherent and holistic approach. The grants provide freedom to conduct feasibility studies, cross-fertilise ideas, build up new skill sets, and create greater visibility nationally and internationally. They help bring in other researchers, attract more funding, promote UK science, and allow early career researchers in the team to be given greater independence and responsibility.