Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society

Small Grants Scheme (SSGS)

18th call for Small Grants Scheme applications (SSGS)

Call opens: 15th October 2026
Application deadline: 17:00 - 4th November 2026

Funding is available to support SAGES members research, including:

  • Conference attendance.
  • Individual research activities (includes equipment for purchase/hire, sample analyses, access to data and ad hoc assistance, networking events/provision of access to knowledge and techniques.
  • Collaborative research projects across multiple SAGES institutions. These are particularly welcomed by SAGES.

    Please explain how the funding will be used and the impact it will have.

    If applying to attend a conference, include details of any presentation you will deliver, its format (oral or poster), and its significance to you and the wider science community.

    For research projects, please provide full details of the project including it's novelty, objectives, expected outcomes, and key collaborators.

    For collaborative research activities, please highlight the collaboration and demonstrate how the partnership will operate as a reciprocal collaboration, rather than simply funding for analytical services.

Funding is available for the following categories:

  • Conference attendance - maximum award £300
  • Activity/Research - maximum award £500
  • Collaborative activity involving two or more SAGES partner institutes - maximum award £1,000
SAGES Partner institutes

Activities can start any time after the award outcome date, 25th November 2026 and must be completed by 31st July 2027.

Applicants must be SAGES members.

Applicants are not permitted to submit more than one application per call.

If you received funding from the 17th call you are ineligible to apply to this call.

Priority will be given to applicants who have no other source of funding.

Opening date: 15th October 2026

Closing date: 17:00 - 4th November 2026

Process to claim funds: The institution of the awardee must claim the fund from SAGES by the 31st January 2027, and the awardee must spend the fund and complete all activities by the 31st July 2027.

Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application by email by 25th November 2026.

The proposer will be required to make a short video to be distributed via SAGES social media channels on how the funds were used.

The awardee is also expected to attend and present the work at the SAGES annual conference.

Report must be received 2 weeks after completion of funded activity.

Application to the SAGES Small Grants Scheme - 18th call SSGS

Please complete all sections. The form will not submit if all required fields (denoted with *) are not populated. If a required field does not apply to you, enter N/A.

  • PROPOSERS DETAILS
    Please indicate the SAGES Theme the proposal most closely aligns to.
    if applicable please indicate the SAGES Fora the proposal most closely aligns to.
    Only one category should be selected
  • Please provide the names of all institutions involved in a collaborative research application
  • Enter conference name and location or title of activity/research
  • Please provide detail on what the funding will facilitate. For example, if you are applying for funds to attend a conference please provide details on what you will present, the format (oral or poster) of this, and its significance to you and the wider science community. If you are applying in relation to research activities, please provide full details of the project including its novelty, key objectives, and expected outcomes. Please also outline key collaborations.
  • Please provide itemised details on how the requested funds will be spent, as well as justification for why other sources of funding (e.g. RTSG for PhD students) are not able to cover this. Should other funding also be contributing to the proposal please fully detail this.
  • Please provide a rationale for how the proposal compliments the goals of SAGES and in particular how it aligns to the chosen SAGES Themes and/or Fora.
  • COSTS
  • a) SAGES (this request to SSGS)b) Other than SAGES (additional monetary support)'In kind' support
    this should include the costs of work/activity which will be funded by; a) SAGES b) Bodies other than SAGES c) 'In kind' contributions

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