SG-UK Plastics Research Project invites proposals

Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF) and the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) invite proposals for collaborative research projects under the Understanding the Impact of Plastic Pollution on Marine Ecosystems in South East Asia (South East Asia Plastics (SEAP)) programme.

The aim of the programme is to support collaborations between researchers in the UK, Singapore and the wider South East Asian region to increase understanding of the impacts and risks of plastics in marine ecosystems (including mangroves, coral reefs and beaches) and the essential services these ecosystems provide, in order to support the development of mitigation measures.

Where appropriate, projects funded through this call will be considered part of a joint UK–Singapore contribution to the Commonwealth Marine Plastics Research and Innovation Framework, which aims to provide a platform and overarching structure for bringing together governments, industry, researchers and practitioners from across the Commonwealth to work together to tackle this global issue.

Applications are sought from teams comprising researchers from Singapore, the UK and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in South East Asia. NRF will fund the Singaporean component of the successful grants and UK and South East Asian LMIC researchers will receive funding from NERC.

For further information visit https://nerc.ukri.org/research/funded/programmes/seap/news/ao-singapore-plastics/.

Closing date for notification of intent to submit: 16:00 (UK time) on 5 March 2020

Closing date for full proposals: 16:00 (UK time) on 7 May 2020

The same joint application should be submitted to both the UK’s Joint Electronic Submission (Je-S) system and Singapore’s Integrated Grant Management System (IGMS) before this deadline.