The TAS Hub’s research programme takes a grass-roots approach to solving our grand challenges. Each of the programmes, Agile, Integrator, and Pump-Priming, are designed to complement and integrate the Nodes’ research and feed results into the wider TAS Programme.
- Key Dates
- Call Announced – September 2022
- Pre-registration open – October 2022
- Workshop – tbc
- Bid Submission opens – 9 November 2022
- Bid Submission deadline – 23 November 2022
- Awardees advised by – 28 February 2023
Timeline
- Call announced – February 2023
- Project idea submission deadline (300-word abstract) – tbc 2023
- Virtual Sandpits – 27-29 March 2023
- Bid submission deadline – 10 May 2023
- Awards announced – Summer 2023
- Projects start – Autumn 2023
Key information
- Open to the TAS network
- Agile projects are short, focused, multidisciplinary research to complement and inform the Nodes’ research
- Integrator projects drive cross-cutting activities that will synthesise and consolidate the strands of the overall TAS programme into coherent research activities
- Workshops and sprints to co-develop integrative research projects
- They run for between three-to-twelve months
- To address the public perception and adoption of autonomous systems
- Regular engagements with the Nodes to develop an understanding of their research objectives, work plans, and impact plans
- Researchers with the capacity to are encouraged to work on multiple projects
- Open to researchers from the core partner universities (Agile) or Nodes (Integrator) and representatives from the project partner organisation
- Provide top-up funding for existing TAS Hub projects to build links across the TAS Network.
- Provide up to £5M (100%FEC) of competitive research funding to the UK research community with targeted annual calls to fund complementary and integrative research (strict spend profile)
- Fund a variety of project types, each worth between £50k to £150k
- Early career proof of concept; industry-led; foundational; exchanges; and business incubators
- Over the initial 4 years of TAS, we anticipate funding 25 to 80 projects
- Themes for later calls will be set by the grand challenges programme, and reviews of the research programmes across the Hub and Nodes
- The grand challenges programme in the TAS Hub will serve to source grand challenges for the TAS Programme from the international TAS community
- Candidate ideas will go through a sifting and consultation process involving the Hub, Nodes and industry partners
- Grand challenge ideas will be developed further for projects on the other research programmes – Pump-priming, Agile, and Integrator – as appropriate.