Small Grants: The NERC Small Grants scheme will close following completion of the 2011 competition. The closing date for submission of small grant proposals to the final call is 1 September 2011. It will remain possible to submit proposals for small discrete projects, proof-of-concept studies and pump-priming exercises to the Standard Grants scheme, if they exceed the minimum scheme funding level.
The Urgency Grant scheme will continue in a revised format following the closure of the Small Grants scheme.
Consortium Grants: The Consortium Grants scheme will be modified to operate via one grant round per year rather than two, and an outline stage assessed by members of the Peer Review College will be introduced. The final closing date for submissions to the Consortium scheme in the current format will be 1 December 2011 (concept notes to be submitted by 1 September 2011).
From 2012 additional resources will be committed to the Consortium Grants scheme.
Detailed information on the new format for the Consortium scheme from 2012 and information about other changes planned for responsive mode is scheduled to be released in autumn 2011.
For further information visit: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/news/responsive-mode-changes.asp
