UKRI Harmonisation IAA 2022-2025

Applications open for rapid response only

• Travel and subsistence, consumables
• Researcher/PDRA salary
• Specialist advice and market research
• Meetings, workshops, conferences and networking events specifically targeted at external organisations and non-academic users of research.
• Provision of training or expertise which will benefit practitioners or other non-academics.
• Practical applications of research to improve the environment, reduce pollution, recycle waste products, or improve sustainability, health, quality of life, understanding of health issues, deliver new treatments or therapies, affect non-academic practice or guidelines, etc.
• Engagement with intermediary groups, such as NGOs, policymakers or local government which will influence subsequent policy and practice

• Costs related to basic research activity, which should be funded through standard grant route
• Costs that should have been anticipated and supported as part of the initial funding (such as public engagement related to a specific grant)
• Undergraduate activities, core PhD, Masters and CPD costs or training
• Equipment with a value over £10,000 per item
• Indirect costs or estate costs
• Late-stage commercial development for which there are other funding sources, e.g. companies, Innovate UK, Venture Capital, Scottish Enterprise, etc.

Main Award (Stream 1: between £5k – £25k) 

For projects with some proven partnerships in delivering impact, which in the past received some level of impact funding, whether internal, such from the KE&I or IIF, or external, such as previous IAA funding, and which are not at high risk of failure.
This stream includes up to £20k ring-feenced for applications from early career and under-represented researchers.

Kick-start Award (Stream 2: up to £5k) 

For projects which propose new partnerships with little or no proven impact record and are defined as a higher risk but also have a higher potential of reward for impact. These applications are for no more than 1 year of funding but are eligible for an additional £2.5k top-up based on the result of a 6-month panel review.
This stream includes rapid response and contingency applications.

The call for the next round of main applications will be in 2024, though rapid response applications are welcome anytime but they will have to demonstrate why they are urgent and cannot wait until the next call.

Eligible costs include any activities or mechanisms to achieve impact from EPSRC & MRC funded research, including:

• Travel and subsistence, consumables
• Researcher/PDRA salaries
• Specialist advice and market research
• Meetings, workshops, conferences and networking events specifically targeted at external organisations and non-academic users of research.
• Provision of training or expertise which will benefit practitioners or other non-academics.
• Practical applications of research to improve the environment, reduce pollution, recycle waste products, or improve sustainability, health, quality of life, understanding of health issues, deliver new treatments or therapies, affect non-academic practice or guidelines, etc.
• Engagement with intermediary groups, such as NGOs, policymakers or local government which will influence subsequent policy and practice

• Costs related to basic research activity, which should be funded through standard grant route
• Costs that should have been anticipated and supported as part of the initial funding (such as public engagement related to a specific grant)
• Undergraduate activities, core PhD, Masters and CPD costs or training
• Equipment with a value over £10,000 per item
• Indirect costs or estate costs
• Late-stage commercial development for which there are other funding sources, e.g. companies, Innovate UK, Venture Capital, Scottish Enterprise, etc.

Main Award (Stream 1: between £7.5k – £30k) 

For projects with some proven partnerships in delivering impact, which in the past received some level of impact funding, whether internal, such from the KE&I or IIF, or external, such as previous UKRI/peer reviewed funding which included an impact element, and which are not at high risk of failure.

These applications can be for up to 2 years of funding, i.e. up to £60k total (the second year’s funding is dependent on positive panel review after year 1, at which point there is the potential for an additional £10k top-up).

Kick-start Award (Stream 2: up to £7.5k)

For projects which propose new partnerships, have little or no proven impact record, and are defined as a higher risk but also have a higher potential of reward for impact.

These applications are for no more than 1 year of funding but are eligible for an additional £2.5k top-up based on the result of a mid-project panel review.