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Environment & Human Health

Types of activities

The types of activities that will be funded through the Environment and Human Health programme are as follows:

Workshops and networks

These are small awards to enable contacts and communities to be built.

Working Groups

This scheme is intended to support groups of up to 20 scientists to work at a designated institution for a few days to a few weeks (generally smaller groups and longer stays are most effective), concentrating on specific issues that require in depth analysis of data and synthesis of ideas.

'Discipline-hopping', Consortia Building and Career Development awards

This scheme provides short term support, in the form of salary replacement and ancillary costs, for researchers spending periods of between 3 and 12 months in close collaboration with an active research group in an adjunct discipline (e.g. a medical researcher working with a group engaged in environmental research or vice versa); these could be international placements.

Proof of Concept studies and Exploratory Awards.

These are small, targeted awards to fund the early stages of multi-disciplinary research projects into Environment and Human Health. Such awards (6 to 18 months in duration) would be expected to lead to larger, more mature studies.

The funding call for the Environment and Human Health Programme closed in August 2006. There are no more funding calls planned at present.