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ALL EPSRC VISITSEPSRC plans and priorities

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DIGITAL ECONOMY

EPSRC leadAHRCESRCMRC

ENERGY

EPSRC leadBBSRCESRCNERCSTFC NANOSCIENCE

THROUGH ENGINEERING TO APPLICATION

EPSRC leadBBSRCESRCNERCSTFCMRC

LIVING WITH ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

EPSRC BBSRCESRCNERC leadSTFCMRCAHRC

AGEING: LIFE LONG HEALTH & WELLBEING

EPSRC BBSRCESRCNERCSTFCMRC leadAHRC

RESPONDING TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES

GLOBAL THREATS TO SECURITY

EPSRC BBSRCESRC leadNERCSTFCMRCAHRC

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EPSRC 2004-05 to 2010-11 EXPENDITURE

£0M

£200M

£400M

£600M

£800M

£1,000M

2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

Budget Full economic costs £795M£815M £843M Plans include:

• Our priority themes

• ETI

• Target for TSB collaboration

• RCUK priority themes

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THE EPSRC CONTEXT

EPSRC Delivery Plan 2008/09 to 2010/11

November 2007

Polaris HouseNorth Star AvenueSwindon, SN2 1ET01793 444000www.epsrc.ac.uk

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• Increase focus on the key challenges for society • Encourage even more ambitious and transformative research in a healthy research base

• Attract and nurture talented and skilled people

• Work with all partners to more effectively translate/understand how research can contribute to solving the challenges facing society

• Realign our own internal organisation to deliver our goals most effectively

EPSRC GOALS 2008-11

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Living with environmental change (£9M)Global threats to security (£6M)Ageing: life-long health and wellbeing (£11M)

THE WHOLE EPSRC PICTURE

Values are commitment 2008-11

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THE NEW EPSRC ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

RESEARCH BASE

Public Engagement

Physical Sciences

Materials, Mechanical & Medical Engineering

Process, Environment & Sustainability

Cross-Disciplinary Interfaces

Research Infrastructure

& InternationalInformation & Communications

Technology

Mathematical Sciences

Programmes

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Programmes

THE NEW EPSRC ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

BUSINESS INNOVATION

Digital Economy

Nanoscience through Engineering to

Application

Energy

Towards Next Generation Healthcare

User led Knowledge and Skills

User led Research

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ESSENTIAL PLATFORM FOR A HEALTHY RESEARCH BASE

Longer term international quality research to provide a vibrant and sustainable research environment able to respond to future challenges

Key strategies:• Supporting transformative research• Community-led challenges• More ambitious and flexible programmes of

research for leading edge groups• Signposting strategic areas• Encouraging user collaboration

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SECURING THE FUTURE SUPPLY OF PEOPLE

Supporting talented people at all stages of their careers to ensure the UK has the people to support a healthy research base and economy

Key strategies:

• Increased use of centre based approaches to align with strategy and to strengthen the international competitiveness of UK PhD

• Restructured fellowship scheme and alignment in part with focused themes

• Meeting users’ training needs

• Attracting the next generation of researchers

• Early stage career support

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TOWARDS BETTER EXPLOITATION

An emphasis on excellence with impact and the importance of people, to achieve the vision: “for the UK to be equally renowned for KT and innovation as it is for research discovery”

Key strategies: • Increase business-focused skills development/postgraduate training

• Accelerating the exploitation of research outputs to enhance business pull and address societal grand challenges

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WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP

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Universities

KNOWLEDGE AND THE MARKET PLACE

Discovery

Understand Adapt/Integrate Validate Deploy

Industry and business

Exploitation

HEIF

Initiation

Application

EPSRC

ETI, TSB and other KT stakeholders

Timescale to market in years; typically 5-20

Invent

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CONCLUSIONS• The major feature of our plans is the identification of key priority themes

addressing important societal challenges

• All research disciplines have an important role to play in these themes

• The largest proportion of our budget is spend on investigator-led research and training

• We want to encourage researchers to be more ambitious

• Need for us all to demonstrate the wider impact of science and engineering research on society and the economy

• As a framework university you are a key stakeholder - we need to work together align our strategies

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ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION

• How can you help us realise these goals? Focus on the key challenges? More ambitious research? Reviewers?

• How can we work together to demonstrate impact? Of additional FEC funding? Of science and engineering research on society?

• What are the major drivers/forces you are considering as you

develop your strategy?