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Dear all, Please find below details about a new Research Councils UK (RCUK) funding call which opened today. RCUK School-University Partnerships Initiative RCUK School-University Partnerships Initiative is a new initiative worth £1.5million over three years to create and build partnerships between universities and secondary schools. This partnership working will support researchers' direct engagement with students and bring contemporary and inspirational research contexts into formal and informal learning to enhance and enrich the curriculum. Funding of £150,000 is available to successful HEIs over three years. The call opens today (18 June 2012) and closes 25 September 2012. Further information is available within the Call for Proposals (http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/per/Pages/Schools.aspx). Kind regards, Claudine Claudine Anderson Public Engagement with Research Policy Manager Research Councils UK (RCUK) Polaris House North Star Avenue Swindon Wiltshire SN2 1ET Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Web: www.rcuk.ac.uk/per<http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/perTel> Tel no. 01793 442818 Concordat for Engaging the Public with Research - aims to create a greater focus on and help embed public engagement with research across all disciplines in the higher education and research sectors. The Concordat outlines the expectations and responsibilities of research funders in the UK. http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/per/Pages/Concordat.aspx National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement - recognising, rewarding and building capacity for public engagement. Getting started in public engagement or wanting more support? Find out about best practice and opportunities for training and funding at www.publicengagement.ac.uk<http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk> ********************************************************************** Learn more about the exciting research currently underway in UK Universities through our big ideas for the future report: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/bigideas ********************************************************************** Internet communications are not secure and therefore RCUK does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the RCUK unless specifically stated. All RCUK staff can be contacted using Email addresses with the following format: [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptable Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html Email commands: 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************