Aviation’s non-CO2 impacts on the climate 2026
Natural Environment Research Council
What it funds
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Who can apply
This funding opportunity is open to research groups and individuals. We: encourage interdisciplinary research and collaborations with other UK organisations welcome applications from individuals at any career stage, subject to NERC eligibility criteria You may be involved in no more than two applications submitted to this funding opportunity. Only one of these can be as project lead. Project partners fund their own involvement. We will only fund minor incidental expenses, such as some travel costs, if needed for project partners. You should include all UK partners not based at approved eligible organisations or international collaborators as project partners. This includes organisations from the business or industrial sectors. Sub-contracting aspects of the work, meaning particular goods and services, to non-eligible institutions is possible, in line with the NERC research grants and fellowships handbook. Projects incorporating funded industrial partners will be eligible for the Non-CO2 programme delivered by the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) which is part of the same research programme. See the ‘What we are looking for’ section for more detail.
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