{"id":13939,"date":"2022-05-30T12:38:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=13939"},"modified":"2022-05-30T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:38:59","slug":"uk-carbon-capture-storage-research-centre-flexible-fund-opens-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2022\/05\/30\/uk-carbon-capture-storage-research-centre-flexible-fund-opens-for-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Carbon Capture Storage Research Centre Flexible Fund Opens for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Carbon Capture Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukri.org%2Fwhat-we-offer%2Fbrowse-our-areas-of-investment-and-support%2Fenergy-theme%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cnubsdirectorofresearch%40newcastle.ac.uk%7C0515354e4c554086e0da08da38075054%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C637883901897760748%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=78LzjlvhhW2C92aPLcjxRtnsNf8J3KVYDr8MszvuXZo%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Energy Theme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UKCCSRC operates a flexible fund to support CCS research projects that contribute to the UK Government&#8217;s net-zero objectives. Examples of areas that can be addressed include but are not limited to the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Supporting the Government&#8217;s net-zero objectives and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1069969%2Fbritish-energy-security-strategy-web-accessible.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cnubsdirectorofresearch%40newcastle.ac.uk%7C0515354e4c554086e0da08da38075054%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C637883901897760748%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2Bg2XBFN2br2YL%2BAkNuAqZxx5QwqhyzEk7f4kSSo2cAs%3D&amp;reserved=0\">British Energy Security Strategy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Addressing CCUS challenges raised in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipcc.ch%2Freport%2Far6%2Fwg3%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cnubsdirectorofresearch%40newcastle.ac.uk%7C0515354e4c554086e0da08da38075054%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C637883901897760748%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=nRtE1M6MYjUbtuNsro8i81aSUDt97rFdAC%2Fn1NnVceM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">IPCC Sixth Assessment Report<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Research linked to the priorities identified in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fukccsrc.ac.uk%2Fukccsrc-workshops%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cnubsdirectorofresearch%40newcastle.ac.uk%7C0515354e4c554086e0da08da38075054%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C637883901897760748%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=rUSufSF6w%2Fj%2Bp8dCW%2Bww%2BKZEy6jL3kldKpRIpz1EFTI%3D&amp;reserved=0\">UKCCSRC industry and policy led &#8216;what are our research needs&#8217; workshops<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Areas of research outside of the scope of the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre, <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fidric.org%2Fresearch-innovation%2Facademic-research-projects%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cnubsdirectorofresearch%40newcastle.ac.uk%7C0515354e4c554086e0da08da38075054%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C637883901897760748%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=jvPoi4OxS78RBSHLVWMB3B7bCqD%2BfwX3Z2Bs26lFf3M%3D&amp;reserved=0\">IDRIC<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Seed funding for a piece of work that could lead to responsive mode applications.<\/li>\n<li>Industrial capture and sources of CO2\u00a0that minimise competing for fossil fuels including BECCS, DACCS, Energy from waste and sustainable aviation fuels.<\/li>\n<li>CCUS projects that address and consider the longevity of utilisation.<\/li>\n<li>Work that can be used (eg a feasibility study) to establish a principle\/understand the challenges for a larger bid to other sources of CCS funding later (noting that bid preparation itself cannot be funded).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Applications will be expected to show active engagement with industry or other research users, where relevant.<\/p>\n<p>Members of all organisations eligible to receive EPSRC funding may participate in proposals. Individual investigators must also meet EPSRC funding requirements.<\/p>\n<p>All proposals must have a UKCCSRC academic member as the Principal Investigator. Individual UKCCSRC members can be PI in no more than one proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Grants will be expected to last between three and nine months. Projects should start no later than 1 October 2022 and finish no later than 31 March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>A total of \u00a3350,000 is available. This can be used to support projects of the following fixed budget amounts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a310,000 (100% full Economic Cost (fEC)) for small projects that could lead to bigger funding, including collaborative work.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a330,000 (100% fEC) for proposals with no additional funding.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a350,000 (100% fEC) for proposals that can obtain 20% (\u00a310,000) additional cash funding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research organisations will be paid at 80% of fEC. \u00a3100,000 is ringfenced for Early Career Researcher (ECR) applicants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applications should be submitted by the 12 July 2022 (13:00) deadline.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Carbon Capture Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the UK Research and Innovation&#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2022\/05\/30\/uk-carbon-capture-storage-research-centre-flexible-fund-opens-for-2022\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13940,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939\/revisions\/13940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}