The CCPs are inclusive, community-wide initiatives bringing together engineering and physical sciences researchers and research software development expertise. CCPs comprise researchers and developers who collaborate on large-scale scientific software development projects, maintenance, distribution, training, and user support. They provide a focal point for communities to identify their scientific software requirements and take a strategic approach to software support in a particular field.
CoSeC supports many of the Collaborative Computational Projects (CCPs) under a Service Level Agreement (SLA) and both CoSeC and these (SLA-supported) CCPs are funded by EPSRC on five-year cycles. While CoSeC's funding is due for renewal in April 2021, it is now time for the CCPs to re-apply for renewal of their funding.
This call is to support a further cohort of CCPs, to underpin research and research communities within the EPSRC remit. These CCPs will contribute to the development of innovative, sustainable and robust software that will ensure researchers have the e-infrastructure and skills required to undertake world-leading research, both now and in the future.
CoSeC provides core technical computational science support that is available to the CCPs through the call via 15 full time equivalents (FTEs) per annum. Up to £2.5m of funding is available to support new and existing CCPs that underpin research and research communities within the EPSRC remit. EPSRC expects to support approximately 7-10 CCPs for a duration of up to five years.
The deadline for submission of proposals is 16:00 on 10 October 2019. See here for further details.
(The above text has been adapted from the EPSRC CCPs call page)
