Apply for CCG Flexible Research Fund

The Fund is demand-led and is designed to respond to new opportunities identified through CCG’s engagement with national stakeholders in partner countries; international organisations; the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO, the funder of the CCG programme); and CCG’s research strategies. CCG is led by Loughborough University and implemented through partnerships with academia, business, and nongovernment organisations. The FRF is a funding mechanism for research that will provide tangible and impactful benefits in CCG countries. The topics in this FRF call are tailored to focus on four of CCG’s current priority countries: India, Laos, Vietnam, and Ghana.

Objectives

The Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) programme’s Flexible Research Fund (FRF) has four main objectives:

• To respond to new research opportunities within the CCG programme’s remit;
• To expand CCG’s research capacity and impacts;
• To diversify participation in the CCG research programme via new institutions, perspectives, locations; and
• To strengthen the role of researchers from low- and middle-income countries.

Call Topics

Further information on the topics, including timescales and budgets, can be found in the grant specification document:

• Green Hydrogen in India
• Energy Efficiency in Lao PDR
• Macroeconomic Implications of Transitions to Low-Carbon Energy in Viet Nam
• Climate Change and Low-Carbon Transport in Viet Nam
• Financing the Energy Transition in Ghana
• Cooling in Vietnam and Lao PDR.

Eligibility Criteria

To apply to the CCG-FRF initiative you may be:

• Individuals and organisations engaged in independent research. This includes universities, think tanks, consultancies, and independent researchers. Consortium applications are eligible, but a lead organisation must be identified.
• The competition welcomes applications from organisations based in any part of the world.
• Organisations that fund grant-making schemes of their own are not eligible to apply.
• In addition to meeting the criteria above, your project must be innovative and related to one of the six call topics.
• A lead applicant, who will be the Grant Recipient, should be clearly identified. This organisation/person will be responsible for producing the deliverables agreed upon in the contractual agreement.
• A minimum of 40% of the funding available through this FRF call will be directed to researchers and/or organisations in low- and middle-income countries. Applicants will need to clarify which FCDO supported country the project applies to, as per the guidance for each call topic. You should describe the roles played by all partners, especially the organisation that is based in the country supported by FCDO.

For more information, visit Loughborough University.