About the programme
The Green Future Fellowships are designed to support engineering and scientific researchers from multiple disciplines working on novel, pioneering solutions. The programme will support projects that include a mix of urgently needed technologies as well as novel, long-term innovations. The Green Future Fellowships are funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology through a £150 million endowment to the Academy.
The programme will offer:
- Funding for a minimum of 10 researchers and innovators per year, for the next 5 years
- Awards of up to £3 million
Who should apply
Individuals working to develop practical, breakthrough technologies and climate change solutions to achieve net zero. Green Future Fellowships must be held in the UK. The full eligibility criteria will be published in due course.
Example project or innovation areas
Green Future Fellowships may include but are not limited to projects such as:
- Generating 24-hour, 365-day a year electricity without burning fossil fuels.
- Reducing the energy usage of vital infrastructure like telecoms networks, data centres and sewage processing.
- Building electronic memory that uses much less energy.
- Making future electronic devices without relying on mining of rare and expensive minerals.
- Creating new bacteria that will clean up pollution and waste faster.
- Developing robots to keep our offshore wind turbines running more reliably, whatever the weather.
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