Call for bids for Vitae innovate 2010
Vitae innovate promotes innovative approaches and projects in the field of personal, professional and career development of researchers. It constitutes a funding stream of up to £100,000. Calls for bids for this round of funding are now open and close midnight on 30 June 2010.
The fund recognises an opportunity to build on the excellent work undertaken to date, especially in response to the Roberts review of 2002 and the 2007 Concordat to support the career development of researchers. Projects should ultimately benefit researchers from more than one HEI/research institute and ideally produce outputs that allow other institutes to replicate benefits for their own researchers.
We will fund both small projects (up to £10,000 in funding and up to 1 year in duration) and large projects (up to £100,000 in funding and up to 2 years in duration).
Bids will be welcomed from any individual, organisation or consortium with an interest in researcher development, including but not limited to:
- Staff supporting researcher development in HEIs (including careers advisors, staff developers and other HR professionals, researcher developers, staff in Graduate Schools)
- Employers of researchers beyond the higher education sector
- Researchers (including doctoral researchers, staff researchers, supervisors and principal investigators)
- Other organisations and individuals with an interest in careers, learning and development (including freelance trainers or other commercial providers, Learned societies, associations, trade unions, Vitae programme staff)
All details can be found at www.vitae.ac.uk/innovate. This includes details of the timeline for bids, application forms, the innovate selection panel, and projects that are currently underway with funding from the 2009 round of innovate.