QUB Net Zero Impact Accelerator - Call open 2 January 2025

The QUB Net Zero Impact Accelerator call opens on 2 January 2025 and welcomes project ideas focused on stimulating net zero related projects across the university involving industry and external partners.  

Two funding streams will be available:

• Emerging Impact Fund, accepting applications for projects up to £12,500
• Impact Follow-on Fund, accepting applications for projects up to £50,000

The deadline is Monday 27 January 2025 and projects will have to be completed before the end of July 2025. 

The Accelerator is being funded by the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) through the Department for the Economy. For further information please contact Joan Grieve on j.grieve@qub.ac.uk You will find the call on the Research and Enterprise Sharepoint page.

EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)

Funding Call 11 is now closed.   Call 12 is due to open February 2025.

Impact acceleration account (IAA) is a strategic award that provides funding to Queen's University for a wide range of impact activities. This award enables researchers to develop flexible, creative and tailored approaches to increase the impact of their research by building new or developing existing partnerships locally and across the world.

EPSRC recognises that the IAAs are an important mechanism for delivering impact for Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS) research and that there is a strong potential in supporting greater connectivity across the broader EPS ecosystem.

Funding is available to researchers to further support impact generation from their research for a range of project activities including Secondments, Collaboration Catalysts, Demonstration of Commercial Principle projects, Enterprise Fellowships and for Non-Commercially Focused projects.  Projects wishing to focus on non-commercial impacts and, in particular, projects with potential policy impacts are encouraged.  Applications for Enterprise Fellowships and Outward Secondments are encouraged. Typical funding for each project is expected to be between £2,500 and £10,000 (with up to £30,000 available for secondments and enterprise fellowships).  It is not a requirement that IAA-funded projects are related to previous UKRI funding.

Application Form   (Word version)

Online Application

Guidelines

Other IAA funding opportunities: AHRC, BBSRC and ESRC

The AHRC, (Rapid Fund is open) and BBSRC  Impact is open on a rolling basis.

MRC IAA currently closed

The ESRC IAA Rapid Impact closed 4 November 2024.   Leading Impact / Cross + / Partnerships / Placing People is currently closed.  Impact Content and Events is (currently closed).  Please view further details here. 

View available opportunities here

To discuss your proposal for the above IAAs, please email iaa@qub.ac.uk and include the relevant IAA in the subject line.

EPSRC equality, diversity, and inclusion action plan

EPSRC is committed to a long-term plan of action around equality, diversity, and inclusion and have developed an EDI action plan that sets out our priorities for 2022 to 2026. EPSRC has detailed initial actions and expected outcomes across five action sets.

Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and  Responsible Innovation