EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account
EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)
Call 14 will open Monday, 7th April 2025 and close Friday, 16 May 2025 at 5pm.
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.
Online Application for Call 14
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
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 open on a rolling basis (subject to funding availability).
The ESRC IAA Rapid Fund is currently open. 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.
IAAs Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)