Early Career Researcher Ideas Catalyst Call 2025

Read below how you can apply.

Sustainable Futures invites applications from Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to the ECR Ideas Catalyst Call 2025 and will be funding projects related specifically to research and partnerships that focus on environmental sustainability.  

The aim of this call is to help ECRs develop ideas for future funding applications and to build connections and networks externally or across disciplines and faculty boundaries with a focus on catalysing new interdisciplinary ideas to combat environmental challenges big or small.  

We are offering funds to support skill development, events, sandpits, resources, or other innovative ideas that enable collaboration and interdisciplinary working. Creative ideas are very welcome. Supported activities could include: (but are not limited to) networking or community building events; lunch and learns; purchasing resources or tools to enable collaboration (e.g. Ketso).  

Please find all details of the call, including key dates in this document.  Please find the online application form here.

For any questions or queries, please contact us at: sustainablefutures@manchester.ac.uk