Strategic Priorities Fund
Between 2019 and 2025, the Met Office worked with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) councils to deliver four major research programmes.
Funded through the UK's Government's Strategic Priorities Fund, the programmes enabled us to collaborate with UKRI councils and deliver research into strategic government priority areas in line with our Research and Innovation Strategy.
We jointly led three of the programmes with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) along with various other organisations. The £18.7m UK Climate Resilience Programme aimed to ensure the UK is resilient to climate variability and change. Delivered across two waves, the £42.5m Clean Air Programme tackled indoor and outdoor air pollution and its effects on our health. The work of these programmes brought together a broad range of research disciplines to drive an increase in high quality multi- and interdisciplinary research and innovation.
The £47.5m ExCALIBUR Programme was jointly led by the Met Office and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in partnership with other organisations. The programme aimed to redesign high priority simulation codes and algorithms to fully harness the power of future supercomputers, keeping UK research and development at the forefront of high-performance simulation science.
Open and competitive calls ran for all three programmes, and more information was available on the Opportunities page.
If you have a query about our Strategic Priorities Fund programmes, please contact us.