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General Introduction
 
The aim of the Engineering Biology Mission Hubs and Awards call registration is to ensure proposals ideas are appropriately targeted to this call and to provide an early indication of the level of demand, team composition and research areas. Potential applicants (Principal Investigators) must register their interest in the call by 5 May 2023 at 16:00 by completing the survey below.

This information is being gathered by BBSRC, who are leading on delivery of this UKRI funding opportunity. Please note that to facilitate coordination between multiple research offices at the same Research Organisation, BBSRC may provide a collated list of registrations, including PI names, contact emails, and project titles, to each of the nominated research office contacts within the same Research Organisation. No further proposed project details will be shared.

No financial information is required at the registration stage.

If you have any questions about the registration form, please contact engbio@bbsrc.ukri.org
 
Online Survey Instructions
 
Please register your interest in applying for the Engineering Biology Missions Hubs and Awards call by filling out the survey below. 
 
You will not be able to return to a draft survey, as such we recommend only completing the online registration survey once you have all the necessary information. 

Please ensure you click 'submit' to save completed responses. If you do not click 'submit' changes made to this page will not be saved. 

When you submit the survey, you will receive an on-screen notification that we have received your submission. We will not confirm receipt of your registration by email. Once you have submitted a completed survey, the BBSRC Engineering Biology team will review your submission and will aim to provide feedback as soon as possible (typically within 10 working days), via the email address provided for the Principal Investigator.
 
Privacy Notice
 
All personal data provided to UK Research and Innovation in connection to this registration form will be processed in accordance with current UK data protection legislation and the EU General Data Protection Regulations 2016/679 (GDPR) where appropriate.

Please email engbio@bbsrc.ukri.org if you have any questions and one of our team will respond as soon as possible.
 
Section 1: Details of the opportunity

Please indicate which of the two funding opportunities you are registering for.

Opportunities:
Engineering Biology Mission Hubs - 60 month duration and UKRI will award up to £10.5 million (80% FEC), with a further £1.15m capital available per proposal.
Engineering Biology Mission Awards - 24 month duration and funding ranging from £0.6 million to £1.9 million (100% FEC), with a further 20% as capital per proposal.

If you would like to submit an application to both opportunities, you will need to complete two instances of this survey, one for each.

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* 1. Which opportunity are you registering for?

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* 2. What is the predominant mission focus of your project

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* 3. What secondary mission focus (if any) does your proposed idea align with?
Please note this is not a requirement, nor is there added benefit in spanning multiple themes.

Section 2: Details of your Proposed Team

We encourage applications from research teams leveraging the full strengths of the UK's diverse Research and Innovation community. Applicants should consider the breadth of the UK's research organisations, disciplines, and people (their career stages and backgrounds) when building their team. 

All applicants must meet BBSRC’s eligibility criteria. See Section 3 of the BBSRC Grants Guide for details.

International co-investigators are not permitted.

UKRI recognises the vital role that technicians make to research and innovation as per the UKRI Technician Commitment Action Plan, accordingly we strongly support the appropriate inclusion of skilled technical staff in grant proposals. Fellows, technical staff and postdoctoral scientists who are not eligible to apply as Co-Investigator can be included as Researcher Co-Investigator where they make a substantial intellectual contribution to the formulation and development of the project, and will be engaged with the ensuing research.

Applicants may make changes to the proposed team after registration, but the overall partnership is expected to be broadly aligned to the information submitted at registration.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

BBSRC is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion by eliminating unlawful discrimination in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.

Applicants are expected to consider equality, diversity and inclusion from the earliest stage of building their teams through to the delivery of awarded projects.

Consideration of these issues is important for all applications to BBSRC for funding, but particular care should be taken for projects taking a team science approach involving multiple co-applicants, such as those supported through this Engineering Biology scheme. 

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* 4. Principal Investigator Contact Details

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* 5. How many Co-Investigators, including Researcher Co-Investigators, will your project involve?

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* 6. Co-Investigator 1 Details

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* 7. Co-Investigator 2 Details

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* 8. Co-Investigator 3 Details

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* 9. Co-Investigator 4 Details

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* 10. Co-Investigator 5 Details

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* 11. Co-Investigator 6 Details

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* 12. Co-Investigator 7 Details

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* 13. Co-Investigator 8 Details

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* 14. Co-Investigator 9 Details

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* 15. Co-Investigator 10 Details

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* 16. Please provide a designated central point of contact within the Research Grants Office of the Principal Investigator’s Research Organisation.

You are expected to liaise with your research office and any internal process in place within your organisation prior to submission to BBSRC.

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* 17. How many non-recipient project partners do you anticipate your project will involve, through which you anticipate receiving support (cash or in-kind)?

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* 18. Project Partner 1 Details

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* 19. Project Partner 2 Details

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* 20. Project Partner 3 Details

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* 21. Project Partner 4 Details

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* 22. Project Partner 5 Details

Section 3: Your Proposal

The next questions request a summary of your proposed Engineering Biology Missions Hubs and Awards proposal. Applicants may make changes to the proposed programme after registration but the overall focus is expected to be broadly aligned to the information submitted at registration. BBSRC will provide brief feedback on the information provided where appropriate.

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* 23. Please provide a provisional title for your proposal.

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* 24. Please provide 3 keywords which describe the science area(s) of your proposal.

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* 25. Please provide a brief description of the anticipated research programme and its overall goals, indicating how the project will meet the scope of the Engineering Biology Mission Hubs and Awards call. (maximum 250 words)

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* 26. Please describe the specific objectives of the programme. (maximum 150 words)

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* 27. Please provide a brief explanation of why a single, large, integrated program of work in the form of a Mission Hub or Award grant is required to address this research challenge, as opposed to breaking the problem into a series of smaller sequential research grants. (maximum 150 words)

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