Use this form with applications that include the options:

• Permanent grassland with very low inputs (outside SDAs) (GS2)
• Assessment of eligibility for permanent grassland options (GS5)
• Management of species-rich grassland (GS6)

You do not have to use this form. You can use your own document if it gives enough information to meet the requirements.

Send this form or your own document with an application to show that land is eligible for a permanent grassland option.

We are looking for proposals that support the NDA mission to deliver safe, sustainable and publicly acceptable solutions to the challenge of decommissioning and clean-up of the UK’s civil nuclear legacy.

Up to £500,000 is available to support projects that will lead to the award of a PhD.

The NDA’s goals for the scheme are as follows:

• maintain and develop the key technical skills that will be required to help us carry out the mission over the coming decades
• provide fundamental understanding of technologies and processes across the NDA estate
• develop early stage technologies (Technology Readiness Level 1 to 3)
• encourage 2-way knowledge transfer between the academic and industrial communities working on nuclear decommissioning

Eligibility

Only project proposals with a total cost to NDA of less than £120,000 will be considered (excluding cost of any collaboration with US research organisations).

Applications for the annual bursary scheme are invited from:

• UK academic institutions for PhD projects
• sub-contractors, including Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) seeking ‘top-up’ funding for CASE awards and EngDocs

The relevant themes are:

1. characterisation
2. waste packaging and storage
3. land quality
4. decommissioning
5. spent fuel and nuclear material
6. effluents
7. open criteria (including robotics and aqueous effluents)

Eligibility will cover PhD projects involving universities or sub-contractors where the bursary is used as a grant top-up to access national facilities for research involving the handling of radioactive materials.

How to apply

Submissions will close at 15:00 on Monday 12 November 2018.

NDA PhD Bursary Call 2019

This guidance sets out the criteria and process for higher education providers seeking to apply for either university title or university college title up until 31 March 2019.

This guidance will continue to apply up to 31 July 2019 for any issues arising post-award, including changes of circumstances.

It applies to higher education providers in England only.

Providers seeking to apply for university title or university college title from 1 April 2019 should refer to the Office for Students’ new guidance.

This guidance sets out the criteria and process for providers seeking to apply for taught degree awarding powers (TDAPs) and/or research degree awarding powers (RDAPs) until 31 March 2018.

This guidance will continue to apply up to 31 July 2019 for any issues arising post-award, including changes of circumstances.

It applies to providers in England only.

Providers seeking to apply for TDAPs or RDAPs from 1 April 2018 should refer to the Office for Students’ new guidance.

This list includes all the food products from the UK which are currently being considered under the EU protected food name scheme.

This scheme highlights regional and traditional foods whose authenticity and origin can be guaranteed.
Food or drink products which are designated under the scheme are given legal protection against imitation throughout the EU.

Food businesses can read more about how to register food or drink products and see a list of UK registered products under the scheme.

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