Our new cross-institutional funding call to enable impact collaborations is now open.
Staff at two or more of the participating institutions who wish to collaborate on a joint impact project can apply for co-funding. You can request up to £50k per collaborating institution per impact project.
Join us at the IAA Impact Festival on Wednesday 3 September in Glasgow to get personalised feedback on your impact idea for this call. Book your ticket now.
The call is exclusively for researchers at the Universities of Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews and Strathclyde. Projects need to be based on EPSRC-themed research.
Call guidelines
Application process
- Expression of Interest (this form) deadline 10 September
- Full submission deadline preliminary date 12 November (subject to change in anticipation of information from EPSRC about exact funding amounts)
The Expression of Interest is mandatory and will be used to screen for eligibility and invite applicants to make full submissions.
Only activities to accelerate or amplify impact from EPSRC-remit research are eligible for funding. Research collaboration and original research cannot be funded. Staff at two or more of the participating institutions who wish to collaborate on a joint impact project can apply for co-funding. All institutional leads must be active in the EPSRC remit.
Cross-institutional Added Value
Applicants must demonstrate added value from cross-institutional collaboration, e.g. by combining expertise that is not available at any institution individually, or by enabling increased impact regionally or in Scotland.
Funding limit
High-quality impact projects can request up to the value of £50k per institution. This is a costing maximum; projects which are appropriately costed and demonstrate value for money will be viewed favorably. Funds are to be requested from each participating University for work to be conducted at that University.
Note: UKRI has announced additional funding for the IAAs in 2025/26 but has not yet confirmed exact funding amounts. Until confirmation from UKRI’s spending review, we will only accept EoI submissions to this funding call. We will update applicants as and when funding amounts, that ultimately will be supporting this funding opportunity, are confirmed.
Project timeframe
Projects should be prepared to start from 1st Feb 2026 and run until 31 Jan 2027. These funds are only available for a limited time, and projects cannot be extended beyond this final end date.
Contact
For questions, please contact your institutional IAA contact:
- St Andrews – impact@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Edinburgh – EPSRCIAA@ei.ed.ac.uk
- Strathclyde – iaa@strath.ac.uk
- Glasgow – cose-iaa@glasgow.ac.uk
- Heriot-Watt – s.boydell@hw.ac.uk
The expression of interest form is an online Quantrics form. You can download a Word document with the guidance and the questions to prepare your answers.