EPSRC Call for Network to Drive Digital Sustainability and a Circular Economy

Project Description

Leadership of diverse and inclusive interdisciplinary research communities (both new and existing) across academia, policy and industry. Building new connections between relevant communities and projects to accelerate knowledge transfer and the realisation of near and longer term impacts. Greater community capacity and capability to embed circular and sustainable considerations across broad ICT, materials, CE and other relevant research and innovation communities over the short, medium and longer term. This includes the consideration of the need for new methods, tools and approaches, wider use of existing ones, and the training and skills required to support a growing research community. Facilitation of knowledge exchange across programmes and driving progress in cross-cutting areas, improving cross-disciplinary understanding and facilitating application of the state of the art between different areas of research. Building and supporting connections between research and non-academic stakeholders to drive greater co-creation of problems and solutions and identifying realistic translation pathways. Convene workshops and events to enable collaboration, horizon-scanning and generation of new ideas.