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Delivery planning Following the publication of our new Strategic Plan earlier this year, our task now is to translate that vision into specific plans for 2011 to 2014. The Delivery Plan will detail our activities, targets and milestones for that period. Work in developing these plans will be carried out in conjunction with our community. Over the summer, we will be actively engaging with our major partners, including key university and business partners, learned societies and professional institutes, and government, to ensure that we factor into our thinking all relevant issues and questions. The intelligence and advice we receive through these representative
groups will form the principal external inputs to our planning activities. The Strategic Plan, which set out our vision for keeping the UK at the heart of global research and innovation, is available at www.epsrc.ac.uk. It describes EPSRC’s high level goals for the next three to five years. Developed in consultation with our partners and communities, it was informed by the research landscape, the global economic situation and government strategy.
The intelligence and advice we receive through these representative groups will form the principal external inputs to our planning activities.
First Grants update Council discussed the First Grants Scheme at its meeting on 10 March this year. It was supportive of the need for an approach for nurturing the very best first-time applicants at the start of their research careers. However, Council felt that it was not clear that the current scheme would be the most appropriate way to do this across all disciplines and in all circumstances. EPSRC will now be considering different approaches of
support, as part of its future planning later this year, but will retain the current guidelines for this scheme on an interim basis until the planning cycle is complete. At present First Grants have a funding cap of ÂŁ125k and a duration limit of 2 years.
Contact: Adrian Paul adrian.paul@epsrc.ac.uk
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