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BBSRC Business and Academia Prosperity Partnership

Funding Available: Total fund: £11,000,000

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Who is eligible to apply: Businesses in the private sector

Opening date: 03.05.2022 End date: 08.09.2022

Grant Information

The Prosperity Partnerships funding opportunity aims to fund business-led research that arises from an industrial need, with the work being co-delivered between the business and academic partners.

Funders: BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) 

The opportunity is aimed at supporting excellent, world-leading discovery research and innovation, which has clear benefit to the businesses involved, resulting in accelerated impact arising from the new knowledge, innovations or technologies.

Co-creation of the research programme is essential. BBSRC expects programmes funded through this opportunity to:

  • drive forward shared research challenges
  • demonstrate impact beyond the partners
  • provide benefits to the businesses involved.
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