CAM-IES Internal Call: Access to Royce Facilities

CAMIES internal funding call:

Facilities access support for the use of Henry Royce Institute equipment at the University of Cambridge

The EPSRC Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) will provide funding to support access to shared equipment facilities by its member institutions. Up to £20 k of funding is available in total per year, hence awards are expected to be in the range of £1 k to £4 k. 

CAM-IES invites investigators from the four member institutions (University of Cambridge, Queen Mary University of London, UCL, Newcastle University) to submit proposals for award of this flexible funding, to provide access to the newly-installed Henry Royce Institute facilities at the University of Cambridge.

The Cambridge Royce facilities focus on the theme of Materials for Energy-Efficient ICT, and comprise equipment suites dedicated to the study of advanced energy materials and related ICT technologies.

Proposals may be submitted at any time during the year until 31 December 2019, and proposals will be reviewed every two months.

Applicants may submit a proposal of no more than one page to Lata Sahonta sls55@cam.ac.uk. Please include details of:

You can download the call guidelines as a pdf here: 

You can download the Cambridge Royce facilities brochure as a pdf here:  

You can download the application form as a MS Word file here: 

Facilities Access Proposal Guidelines

• Academic investigators may be from any CAM-IES member institution (University of Cambridge, Queen Mary University of London, UCL, Newcastle University)
• Equipment access costs and small consumables directly related to the project may be requested. Typical consumables costs should amount to no more than one quarter of access costs, unless there are exceptional circumstances. Reasonable travel and subsistence costs (for applicants not based at Cambridge University) can also be requested.   
• Applicants need not have had prior collaboration with CAM-IES
• Projects must be within the scope of the CAM-IES Work Package topics (or a related topic within the field of energy technologies)
• Postdocs and students may use the equipment. If a postdoc is the lead applicant, they must apply with an academic co-investigator.
• Applications for ongoing facilities access will be considered, although new projects and collaborations are encouraged
• Projects that demonstrate cross-fertilisation between two or more CAM-IES Work Package topics are strongly encouraged 
• Applications will be reviewed by a panel of CAM-IES co-investigators
• Approved costs may be claimed back on presentation of receipts. Equipment charges will be paid directly to research facilities by CAM-IES. 
• After completion of experiments, applicants are asked to provide a short paragraph of how the equipment was used, or a link to any relevant (open access)publications
• All instrument usage that is funded by CAM-IES must be acknowledged in publications using the grant codes below

Cambridge Royce facilities and charges (April 2018 to February 2019)