[okfn-discuss] Fwd: EPSRC: Transport Grand Challenge: Travel behaviour, habits and practice - call for sandpit participants

Wed Jul 7 12:23:23 UTC 2010

I'm flagging this as just possibly something where OKF could make a serious
contribution. It won't be easy - I am part of a chemistry Grand Challenge
and there is relatively little funding though there are workshops, sandpits,
etc.. My eligibility for this is on the edge but if anyone really felt that
OKF could make a contribution I'd be happy to see if I could apply for the
meeting. I'd see a mixture of Open Transport info, Where does my money go,
clever mashups, Open Bibliography and who knows what else. If there's anyone
in OKF who is elegible to apply for EPSRC funding then I'm happy to hand
over.

It is likely to be highly competitive.

---------- Forwarded message ----------

*TRANSPORT GRAND CHALLENGE: TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR, HABITS AND PRACTICE*

*Applications DEADLINE: **16:00 on 18 Aug 2010*

*Event venue: **06 – 10 December 2010**; event venue to be confirmed*

This is a call for Participants in a five-day sandpit which will focus upon
determinants and incentives for changing travel behaviour, habits and
practice in order to better understand how we can move toward increased use
of lower carbon transport. The sandpit is an intensive, interactive and
free-thinking environment, where a diverse group of participants from a
range of disciplines and backgrounds get together for five days – away from
their everyday worlds – to immerse themselves in collaborative thinking
processes in order to construct innovative approaches.

*SCOPE*: It is envisaged that proposals generated from this sandpit will:

   - Increase adoption of sustainable modes and lower carbon travel choices
   (including public transport and walking/cycling).
   - Reduce energy consumption and emissions from the transport sector.
   - Allow economic stability and continued economic growth.
   - Maintain / Improve quality of life.

Applications are encouraged from diverse research areas across engineering,
physical sciences, life sciences, the social sciences and the arts and
humanities. The involvement of researchers from other fields, such as, for
example, philosophy, sociology and history is essential to ensure that
scientific research develops in a societal framework and that any ethical,
legal and societal issues that are raised are fully explored as the area
develops.

*FUNDING*: It should be noted that all accommodation, refreshments,
breakfast, lunch and dinner costs will be met by EPSRC.

*THE **EVENT*: The sandpit will run over five days starting mid-morning on
day one and finishing mid-afternoon on day five.  Participants will build up
thoughts on how the identified ‘challenges’ may be addressed and develop
their innovative ideas and activities into research projects, which contain
genuinely novel and speculative investigations that address new approaches
to changing travel behaviour, habits and practise. The process can be broken
down into several stages:

   - Defining the scope of the challenges.
   - Evolving common languages and terminologies amongst people from a
   diverse range of backgrounds and disciplines.
   - Sharing understandings of the challenges, and the expertise brought by
   the participants to the sandpit.
   - Taking part in break-out sessions focused on the challenges, using
   creative thinking techniques.
   - Capturing the outputs in the form of highly innovative research
   projects.
   - A funding decision on those projects at the sandpit using “real-time”
   peer review.

*PARTICIPANTS*: The sandpit is sponsored by the Research Councils’ Energy
programme. As such, anyone eligible to apply for funding from Research
Councils UK can apply.  The sandpit is expected to involve 20-25
participants.  Participants are welcomed at any stage of their research
career.

*PROPOSALS*: Following the sandpit, investigators involved in those projects
recommended for funding will be tasked with writing a full proposal covering
their intended activities as identified at the sandpit. The deadline for
submission of full proposals is expected week commencing 6 February 2011. £3
million has been allocated to fund collaborative research projects arising
from the sandpit.

*APPLICATION PROCEDURE*: Applications are invited from individual academic
researchers who can contribute to the sandpit and resulting research
projects.  Applicants should complete the short Expression of Interest (EoI)
form, available at*
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Calls/2010/EOI-TransportGrandChallengeTravelBehaviour.pdf
*<http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Calls/2010/EOI-TransportGrandChallengeTravelBehaviour.pdf>,
and submit it electronically to *tgc at epsrc.ac.uk* <tgc at epsrc.ac.uk> by *
16:00** on **18 Aug 2010*.

*CONTACT*: Nick Cook, EPSRC Portfolio Manager, tel 01793 44 4282, email *
nick.cook at epsrc.ac.uk* <nick.cook at epsrc.ac.uk>.

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*FURTHER INFORMATION*:

   - Call web page at *
   http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/open/travelbehaviour/Pages/default.aspx
   *<http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/open/travelbehaviour/Pages/default.aspx>
   - Details of the call at *
   http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Calls/2010/TransportGrandChallengeTravelBehaviour.pdf
   *<http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Calls/2010/TransportGrandChallengeTravelBehaviour.pdf>

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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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