Grand Challenges and the Environment Domain: Climate Emergency (closed)
This funding call is a partnership between the UCL Environment Domain and UCL Grand Challenges.
3 December 2021
UCL Grand Challenges & the UCL Environment Domain
2020-21 Call: Green Recovery from COVID-19
2021-22 Call: Climate Emergency
This funding builds on the outcomes of COP26 and the UCL Generation One Climate Campaign. There are two separate funding opportunities for the Climate Emergency call: UCL Grand Challenges and Environment Domain Funding Climate Emergency (up to £10,000) and NERC Discipline Hopping to Address the Climate Emergency (grants of up to £20,000).
We are seeking ambitious, short-term proposals for cross-disciplinary and cross-boundary projects and activities - from workshops and conferences to videos and articles - that can help to drive real world impacts that meet the challenges of the global climate emergency.
Areas of research activity could include, but are not limited to:
- fairer finance
- transport, energy and the future of cities
- climate change resilience
- climate change and health
- the biodiversity crisis
- sustainable food production
- understanding environmental change, planetary health and prosperity
Read the full call outline: Climate Emergency (PDF)
Links
> UCL Environment Domain
> NERC Changing the Environment
> More detail on our Priority Themes
Call outline
- Application deadline: 11:59pm on Sunday 9 January 2022.
- There are two separate funding opportunities: awards of up to £10,000 are available though UCL Grand Challenges and the Environment Domain and awards of up to £20,000 through NERC.
- You are encouraged to include early career researchers and students in your project plan.
- Awards are for activities that run in the academic year 2021/2021
- The spending deadline for the NERC funding is 31 March 2022. The spending deadline for the Grand Challenges/Envirnonment Domain call is 31 July 2022.
- First and second applicants are equally important—awards will be held in an account in the first applicant's department.
- Applicants should be from different disciplines—If applicants are from the same department, you should clearly show that they are experts in different disciplinary fields.