Research Funding cycle: 2022-27

Natural Capital and River Basin Management Planning - Protecting and Improving Scotland’s Water Environment

Scotland is globally renowned for its natural resources like clean rivers, rich wildlife, heather moorlands and fresh air. Protecting, enhancing and restoring these resources provides us with many benefits and is essential to safeguard our future environment, wellbeing and the economy.  River Basin Management Planning (RBMP) provides a framework to reduce pressures on Scotland’s water environment and protect and enhance the benefits that our rivers, lochs, wetlands and groundwaters provide. 

CRW2025_05 Increasing understanding of the environmental implications of utilising treated wastewater effluent in hydrogen production

Type of project: Capacity Building Project

Overview: CREW invites proposals for a c.7.5-month Capacity Building project to increase understanding of the environmental implications of utilising treated wastewater effluent in hydrogen production.

Budget: Funding available £77,000 exclusive of VAT (where applicable).

Call dates: 4th March – Thursday 23rd April, 15:00.

CRW2025_08 Assessing Future Socio-Economic Water Demand in Scotland: Drivers and Patterns

Type of project: Capacity Building Project

Overview: CREW invites proposals for a c.7.5 month Capacity Building project to provide a national assessment of future socio-economic demands on Scotland’s water resources, identifying key drivers and patterns.

Budget: Funding available £115,000 exclusive of VAT (where applicable).

Call dates: Tuesday 24th February – Tuesday 21st April, 15:00.

CRW2025_04 Road Run-off Pollution: An evidence review of current and emerging risks to Scotland’s water environment, human health, and the policy and regulatory landscape

Type of project: Capacity Building Project

Overview: CREW invites proposals for a c.7.5-month Capacity Building project to develop a risk framework to assess the potential impacts of road run-off on Scotland’s water environment and human health.

Budget: Funding available £85,000 exclusive of VAT (where applicable).

Call dates: Tuesday 24th February – Wednesday 22nd April, 15:00.

CRW2025_06 Source-to-sea risk and prioritisation – evidence and methods review

Type of project: Capacity Building Project

Overview: CREW invites proposals for a c.9.5-month Capacity Building project to deliver an evidence synthesis and review, a gap analysis, and a methodological review focused on land- and freshwater-based sources of pressures relevant to the sensitivities of key assets in marine and estuarine waters.

Budget: Funding available £90,000 exclusive of VAT (where applicable).

CRW2025_03 Review of the impacts of short- and long-term hydrological drought, including intermittent flow recovery, on freshwater ecology in Scotland

Type of project: Capacity Building Project

Overview: CREW invites proposals for a c.9.5-month Capacity Building project to evaluate the impacts of hydrological drought and intermittent flow recovery on freshwater biota in Scottish river systems, and to assess whether current water scarcity policy provides adequate and practical environmental protection across different river typologies.

Call closed

 

CRW2025_02 Reducing the mental health and wellbeing impacts of flooding: Informing cross-policy action in Scotland

Title: CRW2025_02 Reducing the mental health and wellbeing impacts of flooding: Informing cross-policy action in Scotland

Type of project: Capacity Building Project

Overview: CREW intends to commission a c.5 month Capacity Building project to develop an understanding of effective cross-policy actions that could be implemented in Scotland to mitigate the negative mental health and broader wellbeing impacts of all types of flooding.

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