EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) Funding Opportunity
Impact acceleration account (IAA) is a strategic award that provides funding to Queen's University for a wide range of impact activities. This award enables researchers to develop flexible, creative and tailored approaches to increase the impact of their research by building new or developing existing partnerships locally and across the world.
EPSRC IAA Call 8 opens on Monday, 25 March 2024 and due to close on Tuesday, 7 May 2024 at 5pm.
EPSRC recognises that the IAAs are an important mechanism for delivering impact for Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS) research and that there is a strong potential in supporting greater connectivity across the broader EPS ecosystem.
Funding is available to researchers to further support impact generation from their research for a range of project activities including Secondments, Collaboration Catalysts, Demonstration of Commercial Principle projects, Enterprise Fellowships and for Non-Commercially Focused projects. Projects wishing to focus on non-commercial impacts and, in particular, projects with potential policy impacts are encouraged. Applications for Enterprise Fellowships and Outward Secondments are encouraged . Typical funding for each project is expected to be between £2,500 and £10,000 (with up to £30,000 available for secondments and enterprise fellowships). It is not a requirement that IAA-funded projects are related to previous UKRI funding.
'Follow on Funding' Information Day
Join us on Tuesday, 7th May at 10am – 2.30pm in the Canada Room
We are planning to host a Follow-On event for all our current IAA award holders across the University. This is to encourage them to consider ‘next steps’ after their IAA project has completed. The session will take place on the morning of Monday, 07 May in the Canada Room; and will consist of a series of short presentations from a range of teams across the Directorate, and will be followed by a networking lunch
Colleagues in Research & Enterprise will present on follow on funding opportunities:
- Agility Fund
- Engage Research Seed Fund
- Proof of Principle (PoP)
- Proof of Concept (PoC)
- Collaborative Studentships
- Innovation Programmes – iCURE
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Other IAA funding opportunities: AHRC, BBSRC and ESRC
The AHRC, and BBSRC Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAA) at Queen's are open on a rolling basis.
The ESRC IAA closes 25 March 2024. Leading Impact / Cross + / Partnerships / Placing People is open. Impact Content and Events is open. Please view further details here.
View available opportunities here
To discuss your proposal for the above IAAs, please email iaa@qub.ac.uk and include the relevant IAA in the subject line.
EPSRC equality, diversity, and inclusion action plan
EPSRC is committed to a long-term plan of action around equality, diversity, and inclusion and have developed an EDI action plan that sets out our priorities for 2022 to 2025. EPSRC has detailed initial actions and expected outcomes across five action sets.
Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Responsible Innovation