€6.5m EU award to train tomorrow’s scientists

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The funding will enable student mobility, integrating the DTA’s three disciplinary areas across applied biosciences for health, energy and social policy and creating more than 80 fellowships at 15 participating institutions including Manchester Met, developing a cohort of early-stage researchers over two intakes. 

Professor Jamie McPhee, Head of the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, is the director the DTA in Applied Biosciences for Health.

Professor Craig Banks is the Manchester Met lead for the energy DTA.

University Alliance’s successful bid was the only winning British entry out of five in the funding round and is one of eight programmes across Europe to win support narrowed down from 29 bidders.

It scored the highest out of any successful bid in both the ‘impact’, ‘excellence’ and ‘quality and efficiency’ judging categories. 

The DTA, which is the UK’s largest doctoral training programme of its kind, was launched in 2015 to create a new model closely aligned to industrial strategy and priority challenges, producing industry-ready graduates. It was set up with the objective of attracting external funding.