The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Department for International Development (DFID) invite proposals for a new £4m collaborative research programme on ‘Understanding the Impacts of the Current El Niño Event’. The programme aims to advance our understanding of the impacts of the current El Niño in low and middle income countries to increase preparedness and resilience to future events.

The programme will support small projects of up to £300k (100% FEC) and up to 18 months duration to study the impacts of the current El Niño event in developing countries. Proposals will have to show that there is an urgent need to collect novel data relating to the local and regional impacts of the current El Niño.

All projects are required to have a Principal Investigator based in a UK Research Organisation eligible for NERC funding. Projects with co-investigators and researchers based in other organisations, particularly in low and middle income countries, are encouraged but will receive funding through the lead research organisation.

Proposals must be submitted via the UK Research Councils’ Joint Electronic Submission (Je-S) system before 16:00 GMT/UTC on 18th February 2016.

Further information about this funding, please go to this link.