cc: r.warren@uea.ac.uk,iain Brown ,anderson_Kevin,e.tompkins,a.minns@uea.ac.uk date: Fri Oct 31 15:52:08 2003 from: Mike Hulme subject: NERC capital equipment funds to: tyn.council Some of you may have picked up an allocation of £8m by NERC for investment in capital equipment. This scheme has just been announced and the Tyndall Centre, along with 20 universities and the other NERC Centre and Institutes are eligible to submit up to three proposals for funding, typically in the range £50k to £250k each. Some of your universities may be on the shortlist of 20 (UEA is for example), but we have an opportunity to bid separately from our host institutions here. Limited staff costs may be considered. The deadline is 12 January. The announcement is attached. Preference will be given to bids that link to NERC's science strategy, benefit the wider community, and help regional collaboration. Whilst Tyndall Centre might not be a big user of major capital equipment, there may be one or two things that we should think of bidding for, e.g., virtual reality kit, access grid nodes, major compute or data storage facilities. Or maybe people can think laterally about capital equipment that would allow us to do new things. Any ideas to me please over the next few weeks. Thanks, Mike