EPSRC funding software for the future
Up to £4M of funding is available for projects focused on the development of software that is used in computational science and engineering by the EPSRC's Software for the Future call, which closes on 28 May 2014.
In both the recently published EPSRC E-infrastructure roadmap and the EPSRC Software as an Infrastructure strategy, the importance of software development and the need to invest in people and training in this area has been strongly highlighted. EPSRC has made a long-term commitment to support software development, ensuring that funding continues to support leading scientific research and key codes used by the Engineering and Physical Sciences community.
The Software Sustainability Institute can partner with your bid (as described in appendix 2 of the call). We can provide expertise and effort on best practice for developing reproducible, reusable and reliable software; the role and recruitment of software developers within an academic software team; meeting the software training needs of a research project; and developing a sustainable user and developer community. The Institute can also assist with the creation of the software management plan which is requested as part of the pathways to impact document (see page 6 of the call document).
More information
- If you are interested in partnering with the Software Sustainability Institute, please contact us.
- If you are interested in the projects that were funded by the last Software for the Future call, this information is available on the EPSRC website.
- For more information about the Software for the Future call, visit the EPSRC's website.