Applications Invited for British Ecological Society Outreach and Engagement Grant

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About the Organization

The vision of the British Ecological Society is for a world inspired, informed and influenced by ecology.

Our mission – what we do to achieve our vision – is to generate, communicate and promote ecological knowledge and solutions.

We provide grants to promote excellent ecological research by supporting early career ecologists, help fund training & travel, and to communicate ecological science as widely as possible. In recent years, over £400,000 per annum has been awarded globally through the various Society grants.

About the Grant

Providing funding of up to £2,000 for individuals, teams and organisations to engage public audiences with the excitement of ecological science.

Objectives:

• Engaging public audiences with the relevance and importance of ecological science and careers is vital.
• This grant will support BES members to deliver independent outreach, public engagement and science communication activities that engage public audiences with the excitement, importance and relevance of ecological science or enhance the experience and skills of others to communicate ecology with public audiences.
• The grant will support diverse formats that reach and engage public audiences in innovative, creative and impactful ways, whether through in-person events, digital formats, or physical resources.

All Grants must be for projects that meet at least one of the top-level BES aims:

• Communicate evidence-based messaging for what ecology is, how nature works, and the use of ecological science as a solution to local and global challenges.
• Raise awareness and public understanding of ecological careers, their relevance and importance, breadth, and diversity, and show that anybody can become an ecologist.
• Share how individuals can take action to benefit the environment, themselves, and society.
• Increase the ability of others to deliver the above aims through outreach and engagement activities.

Whilst all forms of outreach and engagement will be supported, the funding may have the greatest impact if the Grant particularly encourages applications for activities that achieve the following:

• Pilot novel methods of communicating ecological sciences with public audiences.
• Engagement which may stimulate dialogue with ecologists, inform behavioural change and action for both ecologists and the public, or encourage ecological career prospects.
• Encourage interdisciplinary collaborations.
• Produce engagement materials or outcomes others can use or benefit from subsequently.
• Develop the skills of others in communicating ecological science with public audiences e.g., training.

Eligibility

• The lead applicant must have a BES membership. The lead applicant should be the person who will oversee the project delivery and complete the final report.
• Projects should be a maximum of 12 months.
• Awards are open to individuals, teams and organisations across all experience levels to organise ecological public engagement events. Collaborations between two or more people are also welcome.
• Your proposal must be aimed at a non-academic audience, and all projects must clearly demonstrate direct interaction with them. They should also show evidence of links to the research community at regional, national and international levels, where appropriate.
• There are no restrictions on where applicants come from nor where they carry out their outreach and engagement work.
• Applications from museums and schools are welcome, but projects must involve significant outreach beyond schools.
• We will not award more than one grant to any applicant in any year and no more than three grants in any five years. Failure to submit a satisfactory report at the end of a grant will mean you are ineligible to apply for further grants.
• For repeat, annual events that request funding more than once – the Grants Committee would only consider this if the project showed new novel ideas and development on the previous application

How to Apply

Apply for this grant

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