Strategic infrastructure outlines

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) offers funding to purchase strategic infrastructure including equipment, resources or both. The funding seeks to improve UK scientific capability and enable cutting-edge research of high priority to EPSRC. This opportunity has two routes: Route one provides funding for the purchase and set-up of strategic infrastructure with a minimum full economic cost of £400,000. Route two provides resources to support existing strategic infrastructure with a maximum duration of two years, but is only available to invited applicants where strategic needs are identified by EPSRC theme leads. Strategic infrastructure is intended to enhance UK scientific capability and support cutting-edge research, including technology that increases novel research capability, infrastructure enabling research through increased capacity, and cutting-edge computing hardware. The funding is open with no closing date and operates on a rolling basis.