Summary of call
The Cities Partnerships Programme Stockholm, comprising UCL and the Stockholm Trio of Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Stockholm University (KI, KTH & SU), announces a new round of joint research funding to continue to support collaborative research projects and to build on the existing partnerships between the three institutions. The aim of the fund is to catalyze new collaborations and in the longer term to build international teams who are well positioned to apply for external research funding.
With these funds, and a workshop hosted in Stockholm in late March, the Programme intends to develop collaborations in five key research areas:
· Social and/or institutional aspects of climate action e.g. inequalities, public and/or market engagement, technology and behaviour, relationship with rights, regulations, law, etc.
· Public health and mental health in climate adapting cities e.g. climate-health governance, individual/ social wellbeing, etc.
· Digitalisation of climate change and/or health in cities e.g. the role of Big Data, Metaverse, AI, etc.
· Housing e.g. affordability, supply, noise pollution, allergens in the living environments, access to green spaces, housing for young people, green gentrification, social segregation, etc.
· Urban safety and security e.g. urban crime, terrorism or warfare in the city, unsafe urban mobility, environmental and health disasters, etc.
This call gives an opportunity for academics to engage in the above-mentioned emerging networks, which are being actively developed between London and Stockholm. However, the fund is open to all areas and we encourage applicants from any discipline to submit collaborative proposals.
Proposals will be assessed and recommended for selection by a panel composed of academic staff from all four universities, starting with each university taking the lead on assessment and recommendation of its own proposals.
The call particularly welcomes proposals involving UCL and multiple institutions in the Stockholm Trio, in recognition of the quality and depth of collaboration between the universities (though the panel recognizes that some excellent projects will need to draw on scholars from UCL and a single Stockholm university, and will welcome such applications).
For UCL, these funds are offered as part of the wider portfolio of Research, Innovation and Global Engagement (RIGE) funding streams.
How to apply
1) Applicants are invited to submit their proposals on behalf of their project team via this application portal.
2) A brief summary of the principal participants and the summary project details are required.
3) The detailed project outline should be submitted via a Word document upload. A template project form can be found here. This must be submitted via this portal in Section 4.
4) Proposals will be assessed and recommended for selection by a panel composed of academic staff from all 4 partners
5) For UCL costs, successful recipients will receive funds using the internal transfer process known as 'journal transfer' (JT). UCL Global Engagement will request a PTAE code for this transfer in the award notification email. Costs within partner universities will be disbursed in the usual manner.
Key dates
Deadline for application: Monday 14 November 2022 (22h59 UK time, 23h59 Swedish time)
Decisions communicated to applicants on or before: mid December 2022