The Engineering and Physical Science Research Council are calling for collaborations between academic groups in the UK and the USA in the area of Water Engineering.

The call is placed within the context of the global grand challenges of Resilience and Sustainability identified at a recent international summit. The collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of the call aims to encourage proposals that bring different, complementary sets of knowledge, skills and experience together, and which add value to existing engineering research activities.

Supplementary funding is available from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for UK groups to collaborate with groups in the USA. Funding is only available for work which is supplementary to current research funded by EPSRC, and applicants will be required to submit their application to the EPSRC for assessment. Through a parallel activity, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will fund US groups working in the same field to collaborate with groups in the UK.

Funding from the EPSRC is in the region od £1-2 million.

Funds should be available for collaborations to commence from autumn 2013.

Source: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/open/Pages/cleanwaterforall.aspx