The HI-ACT Secondments Flexible Fund is available for HI-ACT researchers or industry partners to support skills development and knowledge exchange between academia and industry, public and third sector in the integration of hydrogen and future energy use.
Academic researchers (internal) and partners (external) can undertake secondments of up to three months at partner institutions (both academic and non-academic) within the consortium.
Projects can be costed to support up to 3 months for a secondee, plus suitable travel and subsistence costs at 100% full economic cost (fEC). We will fund 80% of the eligible full economic cost (fEC). The total fund available is around £30,000 per year @ 100% fEC. We would generally expect individual flexible fund applications to request funding of no more that £15,000 (100% fEC).
The overall purpose of the secondment funding opportunity is to support skills development and knowledge exchange between academia and industry, public and third sector in the integration of hydrogen and future energy use.
Preference will be given to applicants who can clearly demonstrate the expected impact of their proposal, and how it will achieve the objectives listed below.
The overall grant will be awarded to the home organisation to support the secondment to the host organisation.
For industry secondments, the grant will be awarded to the host (academic) organisation. The applicant must have arranged the secondment with the host organisation before submitting an application.
Secondment funding can support secondments from academic research institutions to industry, business, governmental bodies or third sector organisations, as well as supporting non-academics wanting to work with academia.
Our Second Call for Flexible Fund Applications is now open
Deadline January 5th 2026 at 5pm
Applications for the Secondments Fund are also accepted on a rolling basis so can be submitted at any time. We reserve the right to close the rolling call depending on the number of successful candidates.
More Information
For further information regarding our secondment call, please access the Fund Guidance document below.
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