AHRC has announced the Design Exchange Partnerships: design the green transition – round 3 call. The aim of the Design Exchange Partnerships is to stimulate the real-world application of high-quality arts and humanities-led design research to address green transition goals and bring about tangible impact on local communities. The theme of round 3 is "more-than-human" which refers to the idea of designing for impact beyond humans. AHRC welcomes broad interpretations of the theme of more-than-human, including but not limited to one or more of the following areas: technology/AI, materials, the natural world, health and wellbeing and urban environments. The full economic cost of your project can be either up to £62,500 for six months or £125,000 for 12 months (AHRC will fund at 80% full economic cost).

Each project must involve:

• one early career arts and humanities design research associate (including those undertaking doctoral studies in an arts and humanities design-led discipline) who provides the majority of the intellectual leadership for the project. NB: the funder takes a flexible approach to defining early career and will accept proposals including research associates at other career stages who can justify the value of this project to their own development. This position is open to job share arrangements.
• at least one academic supervisor who will be named as project lead for the purposes of administering the award
• at least one non-academic organisation with a specific challenge relevant to the overarching theme of Design the Green Transition. Non-academic partners must be either a micro or small and medium-sized enterprise-sized, UK registered business, charity or not-for-profit or a similarly sized department of a public sector organisation. The non-academic partner is required to provide a minimum contribution of 10% of the FEC (5% for micro-organisations).

The AHRC and the Future Observatory held a recorded webinar on 2nd May, 2024 in which they discussed the vision and theme for this call. Interested applicants may wish to view the recorded launch webinar using the passcode:  #87Mn*g? The AHRC will run application development surgeries on 3rd and 4th July and details for registering can be found on the call page.

For more information about the call, please visit the call page.

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