Issue 86 May 2018 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Science & Technology Innovations Facilities Council This issue: 1 UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships 3 SBRI: identify, catalogue and analyse terrorist still imagery online 4 Audience of the future: design foundations 5 Improving patient diagnosis and treatment: apply for funding 6 Open programme funding competition round 1 7 STFC Global Challenge Research Fund & 21st Century Challenges Network Calls 2018 Showcase and Briefing Event8 £3.5 million for STFC spin out using space technology to monitor the environment 9 STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory to test next generation of cancer treatment 10 STFC a partner in the new Harwell EnergyTec Cluster 11 NuSec Newsletter issue 2 12 UK supported climate satellite successfully launched into Earth orbit 14 Global scientists come together to make better use of Earth Observation data 16 Eminent STFC supported scientists honoured by the Royal Society 17 UK astronomers contribute to 3D map of a billion stars 18 External Innovations Team and Innovations Club contacts UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships The UK research and Innovation (UKRI) has just launched a new scheme to support early career researchers and innovators with outstanding potential in universities, UK registered businesses, and other research and user environments including research councils’ institutes and laboratories. The UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship scheme is a single scheme across the entire UKRI remit that will: • develop, retain, attract and sustain research and innovation talent in the UK Credit: Gorodenkoff (https://www.shutterstock.com) • foster new research and innovation career paths including those at the academic/business and interdisciplinary boundaries, and facilitate movement of people between sectors • provide sustained funding and resources for the best early career researchers and innovators (up to seven years support available on a 4+3 model) • provide long-term, flexible funding to tackle difficult and novel challenges, and support adventurous, ambitious programmes more We apologise for the late distribution of this issue due to a transition period with mail sending clients (this is all to do with GDPR) Innovations Club Issue 86 May 2018 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships This is scheme is additional to existing Research Council fellowship The key dates for the first call are: schemes and is distinct as the Future Leaders Fellowships; • Thursday 7 June - host organisations must submit an Expression of Interest • are available across the entire UKRI remit, (EOI) for each of the applicants they intend to submit in the first round • are open to individuals based in business as well as those based in • 16:00 on Tuesday 3 July 2018 – first round full application deadline universities, The second call deadline will be on 31 October 2018 (EOI deadline 4 October • provide long term support of up to seven years (on a 4+3 model with 2018). Dates for subsequent calls will be published on the UKRI website. review at 4 years), • come with additional expectations of host organisations in their support For further information please see the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to the fellow, for academic host organisations this includes tapered salary pages, questions about the scheme should be directed to [email protected]. commitment from year 3 of the fellowship and commitment to an open- Please feel free to disseminate this information to those that might benefit ended position for the fellow during or at the end of their fellowship. from this new funding opportunity. There will be six calls for these fellowships; two calls per year between 2018-19 and 2020-21 (financial years), typically awarding at least 100 fellowships per call across UKRI’s remit (with the initial round being smaller, aiming to award ~50 fellowships). Credit: Designed by nikitabuida/Freepik (www.freepik.com) InnovationsNewsletter Issue 86 May 2018 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 SBRI: identify, catalogue and analyse terrorist still imagery online Organisations can apply to develop solutions for automatic Competition information identification, cataloguing and analysis of online still imagery. This is • Eligibility phase 1 of a 2-phase competition. • Scope Competition opened: Monday 14 May 2018 • Dates Registration closes: Wednesday 20 June 2018 12:00pm • How to apply Description • Supporting information One of the Research, Information and Communications Unit’s (RICU) primary Funding type: Procurement objectives is to help prevent people from being drawn into extremism and terrorism. This is mainly achieved through the removal of terrorist Project size: We expect projects in phase 1 to range in size up to total propaganda online and the promotion of counter narrative communications costs of £50,000 including VAT per organisation for up to 3 months. We campaigns. expect to fund up to 5 projects. More than 80% of terrorist media shared online by the group’s supporters is still imagery. RICU forecast that terrorist propaganda will increasingly be used to exploit local issues in the UK, Europe and North America. For this purpose they will rely on supporter-produced imagery. Such propaganda is highly dangerous because it is so often created both by and for our own citizens. We are looking to develop technology that automates the detection of still imagery. This is phase 1 of a 2-phase competition. Phase 2 is dependent on the success of this phase. STOP TERRORISM InnovationsNewsletter Credit: Icons made by a href/Freepik (www.freepik.com) Issue 86 May 2018 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Audience of the future: design foundations UK businesses can apply for a share of £1 million for early-stage, Competition information human-centred design projects that will determine future R&D • Eligibility activity in immersive experiences. This is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. • Scope • Dates Competition opened: Monday 21 May 2018 • How to apply Registration closes: Wednesday 4 July 2018 12:00pm • Supporting information Description Funding type: Grant Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to Project size: Your project’s total costs should be between £20,000 and £1 million to fund early-stage, human-centred design projects through the £60,000. We expect projects to be able to start from 1 October 2018. They Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF). These will seek to understand must last between 2 and 6 months and end by 31 March 2019. customer needs and create new or better ideas for: • immersive audience experiences across the creative industries • products or services used to create, deliver and experience immersive content across the creative industries Projects must use established human-centred design principles (such as the Design Council’s ‘double diamond’ process. Immersive experiences blur the line between the physical and simulated world. They use virtual, mixed, and augmented reality technologies, haptics and other sensory interfaces coupled with data. This competition is for early-stage projects that use customer research to generate ideas that meet customer needs. Fast, low-cost prototyping and user testing of those ideas is also within scope. Projects should deliver well-defined, user-validated ideas ready for further technical research and development (R&D). This is part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund’s Audience of the Future programme. Successful applicants will have an opportunity to apply InnovationsNewsletter for later stage R&D funding from this programme in 2019. Credit: Designed by Peoplecreations/Freepik (www.freepik.com) Issue 86 May 2018 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Improving patient diagnosis and treatment: apply for funding Businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million What we are looking for Competition information to develop new technologies in the field of precision This competition is for both early-stage feasibility studies • the competition opens on 14 May 2018, and the deadline medicine. and for collaborative research and development. Projects for applications is at midday on 11 July 2018 may combine different research categories if needed. More accurate identification and treatment • a briefing event will be held on 31 May 2018 • for feasibility projects, these: Disease processes and treatments can vary highly from Feasibility studies • must be led by a business working alone or with other person to person. Only between 30% and 70% of patients Projects could conduct feasibility studies into: are thought to respond positively to any drug. businesses or research organisations • initial technical activities • have project costs of up to £100,000 and to last up to More than 80% of terrorist media shared online by the • the value proposition of a concept 12 months group’s supporters is still imagery. RICU forecast that terrorist • understanding the technical, operational, clinical For collaborative research and development projects, these: propaganda will increasingly be used to exploit local issues and regulatory requirements of a technology and the • can be led by a business or a research and technology in the UK, Europe and North America. For this purpose they challenges of getting it adopted by medical professionals will rely on supporter-produced imagery. Such propaganda is organisation and must include another organisation such • determining relevant regulatory and health technology as a healthcare provider, business or research organisation highly dangerous because it is so often created both by and assessments for our own citizens. • have project costs of up to £2 million and to last up to • analysing progress and developing a clear development 24 months plan for a technology Precision medicine - also known as stratified medicine or • businesses could attract up to 70% of their project costs personalised medicine - seeks to improve this through more Collaborative research and development accurate identification of disease and of the right treatment Find out more about this competition and apply to pursue.