University of Bristol Bridging the Gaps Cross-Disciplinary Feasibility Account

将采取一种动态、灵活的方法来管理跨学科可行性项目基金，这些项目是在布里斯托大学的EPSRC弥合差距奖下进行互动后产生的。五个初步想法是：环境建模中的综合不确定性;工程和地质中的断裂;纯数学和算法;复杂网络和最佳搜索策略;模式分析和全球新闻挖掘。这笔赠款将像一个小型研究理事会一样运作，旨在资助该呼吁范围内的短期、高风险可行性研究。鉴于时间紧迫，将立即为前5项研究（上文概述）提供6个月的资金。另外两个电话将寻求新的建议或继续为现有的研究提供资金。BTG委员会将继续存在，但其成员扩大到六名学者，以涵盖可行性报告的更广泛职权范围。它将向大学研究委员会报告。从BTG吸取的经验教训表明，将需要20%的项目管理支持，20%的行政支持，以管理资源，与研究人员接触，并通过授权的BTG网站保持宣传和传播。研究和企业发展部的项目经理的情况将最大限度地增加寻求后续支持的机会。

A dynamic, flexible approach will be taken to managing a fund for cross-disciplinary feasibility projects in areas that have emerged from the interactions that took under the Bristol University's EPSRC Bridging the Gaps award. Five initial ideas are : Integrated Uncertainty in Environmental Modelling; Fracture in Engineering and Geology; Pure Mathematics and Algorithms; Complex Networks and Optimal Search Strategies; Pattern Analysis and Global News Mining. The grant will be run like a mini-research council, seeking to fund short-term, high risk feasibility studies within the remit of the call. Given the short time available, the first 5 studies (outlined above) will be funded immediately for 6 months. Two further calls will then seek fresh proposals or continuation funding for existing studies. The BTG committee will be continued, but its membership widened to six academics to cover the wider remit of the feasibility account. It will report to the University Research Committee. Lessons learned from BTG suggest 20% of project management support will be required, and 20% of administrative support to manage the resources, to engage with researchers and to maintain publicity and dissemination via the exisiting BTG website. The situation of the project manager within Research and Enterprise Development will maximise opportunities to seek follow-on support.