Our aims are to develop confidence in young people and their families in engaging with science and STEM; we draw on concepts like Citizen Science and Science Capital and find ways to realise them in informal settings where participants take a lead on the kinds of topics that they want to explore.

Dear colleagues,

 

With apologies for cross-posting.

 

I am delighted to let you know that Phase 2, Partnership Grants, of Science Learning+ is now live.

 

Science Learning+ is an open call for proposals for Partnership Grants through an international partnership between the US-based National Science Foundation, the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Wellcome Trust.

 

Partnership Grants are expected to be significant programmes of research that will:

·         strengthen the research and knowledge base

·         bridge the practice and research gap and/or

·         share knowledge and experience in informal science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) experiences.

 

Projects must be a genuine collaboration between researchers and practitioners of informal STEM learning and between organisations in the UK/Ireland and the US. We anticipate making five awards, each of approximately £1.5M.

 

This is an open call for proposals – anyone who meets the eligibility requirements may apply.

 

Further details of the call are available on the Wellcome Trust website wellcome.ac.uk/slplus.

 

Should you wish to discuss the scheme further, please email [log in to unmask] or call 020 7611 8825.

 

Dr Mat Hickman

Programme Manager – Informal Science Learning (Education)
The Wellcome Trust
215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE

T: +44 (0)20 7611 8825

M: +44 (0) 7738 804 582

F: +44 (0)20 7611 8269
www.wellcome.ac.uk

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Our investment portfolio gives us the independence to support such transformative work as the sequencing and understanding of the human genome, research that established front-line drugs for malaria, and Wellcome Collection, our free venue for the incurably curious that explores medicine, life and art.

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