General information
Following the Frontiers symposium, Engineering X is offering seed funding to support collaborative projects by systems innovators, experts, and practitioners who put systems approaches into practice whilst tackling the energy access and/or just energy transition challenges. We hope to see projects that will have impact on this critical challenge whilst also testing and furthering the skills developed during the symposium on systems approaches.
Note: please be aware that due to time restrictions, RAEng staff will not be able to help you find lead awardees beyond providing you with the relevant lists and databases.
Teams must meet the following criteria:
- The project team should have at least two team members (including the lead applicant) who attended the Symposium in April 2024.
- The team must include at least one member with systems expertise.
- The project team should include at least one team member based in Colombia.
- The team is a newly formed partnership. Its’ members should not have worked on the proposed project together before.
- The project should center on addressing a challenge related to access to reliable and clean energy.
- The project must be framed using systems approaches. It must be interdisciplinary, pilot-stage and challenge-focused, aligning with the required approaches outlined below.
- The lead applicant must be affiliated with an organisation that can administer the funding on their behalf.
This award scheme is funded by Engineering X, an international collaboration founded by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Lloyd’s Register Foundation.
Seed funding of up to £20,000 per award over one year is awarded to successful collaboration bids from each symposium, designed to strengthen collaborations developed at the symposium.