Programme overview
- collaborative research
- strengthen corporate and personal links
- enhance knowledge transfer in engineering
- generate use-inspired impact
- access to bespoke training opportunities
- Academy appointed expert Mentor
- enrolment to the Awardee Excellence Community
About the scheme
The scheme aims to strengthen the strategic relationship between industry and academia by providing an opportunity to establish or enhance collaborative research between the two parties.
- open to engineers from all disciplines
- both industry to academia or academia to industry secondments are available
- flexible award duration six months to two years,
- options for full-time or part-time equivalents
- focus research towards generating use-inspired impact
The Academy will contribute up to a maximum of £50,000 (per-annum) towards the basic salary costs (excluding overheads) of the applicant, paid pro-rata against the amount of time to be spent at the host organisation. The total award is capped at £100,000 for awards that exceed one year in duration
Funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Awardee Excellence Community
Connecting talent, passion and expertise to drive excellence in engineering and change the world for the better
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