Awards

Awards of up to £30k are available to establish collaborations and accelerate impact and cover a broad range of activities such as:

• Proof-of-concept awards - to develop collaborations between UKRI-BBSRC academics and businesses and business to business collaborations in research areas of common interest
• Access to equipment/technology – collaborative projects which enable organisations to open-up access to equipment and cutting-edge technologies across Campus and support training and skills development
• Full or part-time secondments - to learn a skill or technique, experience working in another sector and create fluidity across organisations at all career levels
• Access to specialist expertise – for start-ups and academics to access experts and consultants who can advise on key proof-of-concept experiments to take projects to the next technology readiness level (e.g. Innovate UK Catapults)
• Technology evaluation awards – recommendations from the technology focus groups to support multi-lab testing of equipment to accelerate evaluation, validation, transfer and uptake of new technologies
• Co-development of training and skills – specific training courses to directly meet the needs of the Campus community (e.g. industry-focussed flow cytometry courses)
• Access to bench-space – subsidised access (50% of full cost) to space and equipment in the Campus communal lab space for start-ups based on Campus (e.g. Accelerate@Babraham)