Resource Recovery From Waste: Challenges for the health of the environment
Commissioning
The Resource Recovery from Waste programme will be commissioned in two parts.
The first part will consist of the formation of and reporting from a Programme Advisory Group. This group will consist of key representatives who will advise NERC on the strategic direction of the programme, integration of the programme science, and potential opportunities for impact.
The Advisory Group's recommendations will be used to formulate an announcement for programme catalyst grants, which are aimed at enabling researchers to develop realistic and relevant research strategies and research partnerships with the potential for significant national/international impact.
These grants will allow researchers to build partnerships and to develop proposals and will support the following kinds of activity:
- Evidence gathering, strategic reviews and research needs/impact assessments
- Planning and hosting of themed 'research challenge workshops' and research meetings
- Building appropriate research strategies, plans and proposals
- Bringing together working partnerships, collaborations and management mechanisms
- Developing leading teams and management structures
- Developing knowledge exchange and communication strategies
The second phase will consist of a call for consortium grant proposals and will be developed in detail during the catalyst grant phase. It is likely that a successful catalyst grant will be a pre-requisite for invitation to this call, which is expected towards the end of 2013.