Pre-announcement: ESRC applicant-led: challenge awards

Eligibility

• —You can be at any stage of your career.
• —It is likely that successful applications will be from significantly sized teams led by researchers with experience and expertise appropriate to the scale, complexity and ambition of the proposed project.
• —There is no limit to the number of additional roles that can be added.
• —All members of the project team must be fully justified and meet the requirements set out in the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) roles in funding applications .
• —International researchers can apply as project co-lead (international) .
• —You must include all other international collaborators (or UK partners not based at approved organisations) as project partners.
• —Business, third sector or government body project co-leads based in the UK can also be included as a project co-lead.
• —We welcome applications that take an interdisciplinary approach.
• —Find out more about how UKRI supports research that spans different disciplines.
• —The social sciences within ESRC’s remit must represent more than 50% of the research focus and effort.
• —Complete and submit the remit query form , if you are unsure whether your proposed research falls within ESRC’s remit.

About this grant

Apply for funding to bring people, expertise and ideas together in ambitious, larger-scale programmes. Challenge awards tackle major research, economic and societal challenges, generating impactful new knowledge and innovation. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding. The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be between £2 million and £10 million. ESRC will fund 80% of the FEC. Projects can be up to five years in length. This is a pre-announcement and the information may change. More information will be available on this page when the funding opportunity opens.