FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR 2023-24
EQUIPMENT
There are funding opportunities for students, researchers and SMEs to access Royce equipment at the University of Cambridge. Similar schemes are available at the other Royce partners: Imperial, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford and Sheffield. For more information visit its UK Funding Page and Access Scheme Overview Page.
Student and Researcher Access Scheme - External to the University of Cambridge
External students, post-doc researchers and academics are invited to apply for funding up to £5k to access Royce equipment at the University of Cambridge for short projects that must be completed by 31 March 2024. Proposals may be submitted to royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk using the External Access Funding Form and will be approved on a first-come-first-served basis.
SME Access Scheme
SMEs are invited to apply for funding up to £10k in commercial costs to access Royce equipment at the University of Cambridge for projects that must be completed by 31 March 2024. Proposals may be submitted to royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk using the SME Access Funding Form and will be approved on a first-come-first-served basis. Previous SME projects have led to new industry-academic collaborations and allowed SMEs to develop their devices, go back out to investors to raise capital to expand their businesses and create jobs.
ENTREPRENEURIAL SCHOLARSHIPS
Royce@Cambridge also supports commercialisation activities though sponsoring five places on the Cambridge Impulse Programme for technology entrepreneurs. These are for University of Cambridge researchers including PhD students and postdoctoral researchers working in advanced materials. Details of Royce Impulse sponsorships are available here.
Henry Royce also sponsors ten places on EnterpriseTECH at the Cambridge Judge Business School for PhD students and postdocs working in materials science or engineering research. More details here.