Latest funds on Research Professional 29/04/2016

Bi-weekly highlight of new funds posted on Research Professional.

You can see the full list here: All new funds from the last two weeks, or set up your own Opportunities Alert to highlight when funding in your research area comes up.

FHS

Project grants

British Heart Foundation, GB

These support short-term research projects lasting up to three years and costing less than £300,000. Grants may cover salaries, research consumables and equipment.

Maximum award: £299,999

Closing date: None

Small grants

Burdett Trust for Nursing, GB

These support projects that will transform services at the hospital-community interface, leading to improvements in patient care and that will empower health visitors to promote public health, particularly among vulnerable groups and communities. Grants are worth £2,000 to £8,000 over 12 months.

Maximum award: £8,000

Closing date: None

Invention for innovation (i4i) product development awards

Department of Health including NIHR, GB

These support R&D of medical devices, active implantable devices and in vitro diagnostic devices in any area of existing or emerging clinical need in order to increase patient benefit. There is no funding limit. Awards are tenable for up to three years.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 01 Jun 16

 

FCES

Research grants

Royal Society, GB

These provide seed-corn funding for early-career UK scientists for research within the society’s remit in the life and physical sciences, including the history of science. Two types of grants are available for a maximum period of 12 months: grants of up to £15,000 for specialised equipment, essential consumable materials and services, and travel and subsistence for essential field research; and grants of up to £15,000 for research in the history of science or up to £5,000 to assist with the publication of scholarly works on the history of science.

Maximum award: £15,000

Closing date: 01 Jun 16

Kan Tong Po visiting fellowships

Royal Society, GB

This provides additional grants under the international exchanges scheme for UK or US-based scientists to collaborate with Hong Kong-based academics, or for Hong Kong-based scientists to collaborate with academics in the UK or US. Fellowships provide up to £3,000 for airfare and subsistence for visits lasting up to three months.

Maximum award: £3,000

Closing date: 07 Jun 16

International exchanges scheme – France cost-share programme

Royal Society, GB

This stimulates new collaborations within the natural sciences between scientists in the UK and France. The Royal Society provides up to £12,000 for the UK team as a contribution towards their travel and subsistence costs. An additional £12,000 is available from the National Center for Scientific Research France towards the French team’s travel and subsistence costs.

Maximum award: £24,000

Closing date: 10 Jun 16

Scientific meeting grants

Company of Biologists, GB

These support hosting meetings, workshops and conferences within the field of biology, and encourage the sharing of knowledge across the community. Grants are generally worth from £2,000 to £6,000, depending on the size of event, and may be larger if justified.

Maximum award: £6,000

Closing date: 22 Jun 16 (recurring)

 

FACT

Research fellowships in humanities and social science

Wellcome Trust, GB

These enable individuals who are not yet established in academic posts to undertake a period of postdoctoral research. Fellowships provide research expenses, appropriate employers’ contributions and a salary, tenable for up to three years.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 06 Jul 16 (recurring)

 

FBL

Projects grants

Sir Halley Stewart Trust, GB

These support projects that focus on the prevention of human suffering, with priority given to proposals in medical, social and religious areas, with education being a central theme. Main grants are worth up to £60,000 over a period of one to three years.

Maximum award: £60,000

Closing date: None

Latest funds on Research Professional 20/04/2016

Bi-weekly highlight of new funds posted on Research Professional.

You can see the full list here: All new funds from the last two weeks, or set up your own Opportunities Alert to highlight when funding in your research area comes up.

Leadership fellows scheme – early-career researchers

Arts and Humanities Research Council, GB

This enables early-career researchers to develop their leadership experience and capabilities as they establish themselves and develop beyond doctoral and postdoctoral work, and to produce innovative research that moves significantly beyond doctoral projects. Grants are worth between £50,000 and £250,000 over a period of between six months and two years.

Maximum award: £250,000

Closing date: None

Project grants

Pilgrim Trust, GB

These support projects in the areas of preservation and scholarship, and social welfare. There is no cap on funding, although small grants are usually worth less than £5,000 and main grants are usually worth over £5,000.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: None

Research activity grants

Pasold Research Fund, GB

These support research projects relating to textile history, preliminary work to prepare a more substantial grant application and conference attendance. Grants are worth up to £750 each.

Maximum award: £750

Closing date: None

Training and travel grants

British Ecological Society, GB

These enable students and postgraduate research assistants to meet the costs of specialist field training courses, and to network and publicise their research by presenting their work at workshops and conferences. Grants of up to £1,000 are available.

Maximum award: £1,000

Closing date: None

Urgency grants

Natural Environment Research Council, GB

These allow scientists to respond rapidly to unexpected and transient events affecting the environment. The maximum total project funding is £65,000, and NERC will fund up to 80 per cent of full economic costs. Projects may last for up to 12 months.

Maximum award: £52,000

Closing date: None

Industrial secondment scheme

Royal Academy of Engineering, GB

This enables early- and mid-career engineering academics to conduct a collaborative research project in an industrial environment. Awards are worth up to £30,000 and are tenable for up to six months full-time or 12 months part-time.

Maximum award: £30,000

Closing date: 31 May 16

Energy catalyst – mid-stage awards – technology development

Innovate UK, GB

These fund projects that take innovative ideas through to the technology development stage by conducting industrial R&D in the energy sector, including laboratory studies, component or system development, testing, and verification and evaluation in simulated environments. Projects may receive up to £1.5 million each over a maximum period of three years. The total programme budget is worth up to £9m.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 08 Jun 16

-There is also an early or late stage award for this.

Methodological research to improve the quality of national clinical audits – highlight notice

Medical Research Council, GB

This highlight notice supports research into methodologies to optimise national clinical audits, focusing on: benefits and costs of different methods to check case ascertainment and the quality, completeness and accuracy, of audit data; linkage across audits to construct and assess pathways of care – meta-audit; and using multiple audits to look at a provider’s overall performance.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 21 Jun 16 (recurring)

Evaluating the NHS diabetes prevention programme

Department of Health including NIHR, GB

This aims to address knowledge gaps on impact and sustainability of the NHS diabetes prevention programme in England.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 23 Jun 16

Appleyard fund

Linnean Society of London, GB

Grants from this fund contribute towards the costs of research projects in the fields of botany or zoology. Grants are worth up to £2,000.

Maximum award: £2,000

Closing date: 14 Sep 16 (recurring)

Society awards

Wellcome Trust, GB

These support projects that encourage the public to explore biomedical science, its impact on society and culture, its historical roots or the ethical questions that it raises. Grants are worth at least £40,000, and have an average value of £180,000 over two to three years.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 16 Sep 16 (recurring)

Latest funds on Research Professional 11/03/2016

Bi-weekly highlight of new funds posted on Research Professional.

You can see the full list here: All new funds from the last two weeks, or set up your own Opportunities Alert to highlight when funding in your research area comes up.

Horizon scanning research and intelligence centre

Department of Health including NIHR, GB

Funding aims to designate and fund a single NIHR horizon scanning research and intelligence centre that will act as a centre of excellence in provision of advanced notice to national policymakers of key new emerging health technologies. The budget is worth up to £2 million per year over five years, commencing 1 April 2017.

Maximum award: £10,000,000

Closing date: 12 Apr 16

 

Distinguished visiting fellowships

Royal Academy of Engineering, GB

These enable an academic engineering department in a UK university to be a host for up to a month to am expert from an overseas academic centre of excellence. Fellowships are worth up to £6,000 each, and include the cost of one return air fare, accommodation and a daily allowance to cover incidental expenses.

Maximum award: £6,000

Closing date: 18 Apr 16 (recurring)

 

Grants for research and innovation

Nuffield Foundation, GB

These support research, practical experiments or development work in the areas of children and families, early years education and childcare, economic advantages and disadvantages, education, law in society and social wellbeing. Grants normally range from £10,000 to £250,000, with the majority worth between £50,000 and £150,000.

Maximum award: £350,000

Closing date: 18 Apr 16 (recurring)

 

Call for projects

Software Sustainability Institute, GB

This offers the assistance and expertise of institute staff to research groups in order to improve the long-term sustainability of software across all academic disciplines, from computational biology to nuclear fusion.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 29 Apr 16

 

International conference symposium scheme

British Psychological Society, GB

This supports member networks to convene a symposium at an international conference in order to help the society showcase UK psychology to international audiences, by increasing member networks’ presence at international conferences. Grants are worth between £1,500 and £3,000 each.

Maximum award: £3,000

Closing date: 01 May 16 (recurring)

 

Mair scholarship

RCN Foundation, GB

This enables occupational health nurses to undertake learning and development activities such as postgraduate studies or professional short courses in order to enhance patient care, patient experience and development in nursing practice. Bursaries are worth up to £5,000 each for activities that commence between August 2016 and August 2017.

Maximum award: £5,000

Closing date: 03 May 16 (recurring)

 

Knowledge transfer partnerships

Innovate UK, GB

These aim to facilitate the transfer of knowledge, technology and skills, and help businesses innovate and grow, by linking them with a university and a graduate. Partnerships may last between six months and three years. SMEs must contribute a third of the project costs, usually around £20,000, whereas large companies must contribute 50 per cent of the costs, usually around £30,000.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 11 May 16

 

Skills development fellowships – expertise at the social science interface

Medical Research Council, GB

These support training for very early career researchers in, or individuals changing disciplines to, the areas of health economics and mixed methods research. Fellowships are available for three years and they cover salary as well as costs for consumables, travel and capital equipment appropriate for the research project.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 16 Jun 16 (recurring)

 

Fellowships in social science

Academy of Social Sciences, GB

These contribute towards research in any area, discipline or interdisciplinary field of social science.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 17 Jun 16 (recurring)

 

Joint call for European cooperation

Interreg Europe, EU

Funding enables local and regional public authorities, and other local actors of regional relevance to improve the performance of regional development policy and programmes in areas relating to research, technological development and innovation, competitiveness of SMEs, low-carbon economy, and environment and resource efficiency. Projects can be co-financed at a rate of either 75 per cent or 85 per cent depending on the legal status of the project partners.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 13 May 16

Latest funds on Research Professional 26/02/2016

Bi-weekly highlight of new funds posted on Research Professional.

You can see the full list here: All new funds from the last two weeks, or set up your own Opportunities Alert to highlight when funding in your research area comes up.

 

Open knowledge exchange fellowships

Natural Environment Research Council, GB

These enable the sharing and flow of knowledge and expertise between the NERC-funded researchers and their user communities. The fellowships will cover 100 per cent of the fellow’s salary on a pro-rata basis including superannuation, national insurance and specific allowances, in addition up to £40,000 is available for travel and other associated costs. Awards can be between one and three years in duration.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 17 Mar 16

 

Industry fellowships

Royal Society, GB

These enable academic scientists to work on collaborative projects with industry, or individuals employed in industry to work on collaborative projects with university departments or non-profit research organisations. Fellowships support a period of up to two years and cover fellows’ basic salary during the secondment as well as research expenses of up to £2,000 per year.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 31 Mar 16 (recurring)

 

Prize for newer researchers

Society for Research into Higher Education, GB

This provides support for early stage researchers in the field of higher education research by enabling them to undertake a research project in their own right, or develop research skills which will help advance their research career. Grants are worth £3,000 each and are available for projects lasting one year.

Maximum award: £3,000

Closing date: 31 Mar 16 (recurring)

 

General project funding

Education Endowment Foundation, GB

This is for evaluating interventions or approaches that improve the learning and development of children aged three and four, as well as pupils in mainstream schools from ages five to 16. Grants are usually worth between £90,000 and £1.8million each.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 01 Apr 16

 

Programme grants for applied research

Department of Health including NIHR, GB

These support high-quality projects, feasibility or pilot studies that aim to provide evidence to improve health outcomes in England through promotion of health, prevention of ill health, and optimal disease management, with particular emphasis on conditions causing significant disease burden. The award amount and funding period depends on the nature of the proposed work. There is no fixed upper limit, although funding in excess of £2.5 million is unusual.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 06 Apr 16 (recurring)

 

Centre for doctoral training – modelling and quantitative skills in ecology and evolution

Natural Environment Research Council, GB

These aim to train the next generation of UK environmental scientists in various aspects of data collection, modelling, statistical analysis and inference with input from a range of quantitative disciplines, producing researchers with substantial quantitative expertise capable of developing new theoretical modelling methods. Studentships are worth up to £84,936 each.

Maximum award: £84,936

Closing date: 13 Apr 16

 

Carnevali small research grants scheme

Economic History Society, GB

This encourages small-scale research initiatives or pilot studies in economic or social history. Grants are worth up to £5,000 each.

Maximum award: £5,000

Closing date: 01 May 16 (recurring)

 

 

Health technology assessment programme: researcher-led workstream – evidence synthesis – 15/187

Department of Health including NIHR, GB

This programme supports research that is immediately useful to patients, clinical practice, and policy and decision makers, assessing the effectiveness of technologies within the NHS.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 05 May 16

 

 

Major research fellowships in the humanities and social sciences

Leverhulme Trust, GB

These enable well-established researchers in the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences to devote themselves to a single research project. Fellowships are awarded for two to three years and cover salary costs for an individual to undertake the normal duties of the fellow, as well as research expenses worth up to £6,000 per year.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 05 May 16

 

 

Research grants programme

Arts Council England, GB

These support projects that aim to better understand the impact of arts and culture and promote greater collaboration and co-operation between the arts and cultural sector and research partners. The budget for 2016-17 is £1.11 million and grants are worth between £50,000 and £200,000 in total. Actions must take place between 1 October 2016 and 31 October 2018.

Maximum award: £200,000

Closing date: 05 May 16 (recurring)

Latest funds on Research Professional 12/02/2016

Bi-weekly highlight of new funds posted on Research Professional.

You can see the full list here: All new funds from the last two weeks, or set up your own Opportunities Alert to highlight when funding in your research area comes up.

Supporting a culture of openness in the NHS – a policy evaluation

Department of Health including NIHR, GB

The tenderer will conduct a single research project on supporting a culture of openness in the NHS, on creating a culture of prioritising care, improving openness, detecting poor care and ensuring clear accountability. The total budget is worth £475,000 over a period of 30 months.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 01 Mar 16

 

UK-France joint PhD programme

Ministry of Defence, GB

This aims to develop research in key areas of mutual interest to France and the UK, such as autonomous underwater vehicles, meta-materials, synthetic biology, sensors, vehicle armour, and human and social sciences. Five PhDs are expected to be funded.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 04 Mar 16

 

Research grants

British Ecological Society, GB

These support innovative ecological research and pump-priming projects, and help early-career ecologists to establish an independent research career. Grants for small projects are worth up to £5,000 each, and early-career ecologists’ grants are worth up to £20,000 each.

Maximum award: £20,000

Closing date: 21 Mar 16 (recurring)

 

Emslie Horniman anthropological scholarship fund

Royal Anthropological Institute, GB

This encourages postgraduates to pursue fieldwork, to develop their careers and make significant contributions to the study of the growth of civilisations, habits and customs, religious and physical characteristics of the non-European peoples and of prehistoric and non-industrial man in Europe. Awards are in the range of £500 to £7,000.

Maximum award: £7,000

Closing date: 31 Mar 16 (recurring)

 

Men’s health and emergent longer-term conditions

Burdett Trust for Nursing, GB

These aim to support nurse-led projects that will help to define proactive strategies and interventions that seek to promote better self-care and self-management and reverse the negative impact that undetected and untreated men’s longer-term health challenges may impart. Grants are typically between £10,000 and £200,000.

Maximum award: €200,000

Closing date: 02 Apr 16

 

Hudswell international research scholarship

Institution of Engineering and Technology, GB

This is awarded to assist members with advanced research work leading to the award of a doctorate at an internationally recognised university or research establishment in the field of electrical, electronic, manufacturing or information engineering. One scholarship worth £5,000 is available.

Maximum award: £5,000

Closing date: 07 Apr 16 (recurring)

 

Programming development fund

British Film Institute, GB

This helps film programmers and exhibitors put together programmes of films which will be enhanced or underpinned by curation, interpretation or education activity. The total budget is worth up to £1.4 million per year.

Maximum award: £200,000

Closing date: None

 

UK research partnership investment fund

Higher Education Funding Council for England, GB

This supports large-scale projects that can attract substantial co-investment from private sources, building on the research excellence in the higher education sector. Each project may receive between £10 million and £50m. The fund may support between four and 20 projects.

Maximum award: £50,000,000

Closing date: 15 Apr 16

 

Erasmus for young entrepreneurs

Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, EU

This aims to expand and strengthen the existing network of intermediary organisations which act as local contact points for newly established entrepreneurs as well as experienced entrepreneurs in the participating countries. The maximum grant amount per specific agreement is €800,000 with a reimbursement of up to 90 per cent of eligible costs. Between 20 and 30 framework partnership agreements are expected to be signed.

Maximum award: €800,000

Closing date: 05 Apr 16

Latest funds on Research Professional 28/01/2016

Bi-weekly highlight of new funds posted on Research Professional.

You can see the full list here: All new funds from the last two weeks

Schools finance health competition

Innovate UK, GB

Funding supports phase two projects that aim to develop and evaluate prototypes or demonstrators, which offer practical solutions to enable improved financial health and efficiency savings in schools, without harming outcomes for pupils. The total budget for phase two is £200,000, including VAT. Each project may receive up to £100,000 over a maximum period of one year.

Maximum award: £100,000

Closing date: 24 Feb 16

 

Research associateships

Modern Humanities Research Association, GB

These support the completion of research projects through the provision of part-time research assistance. Up to three awards of £23,000 each are available for one year only.

Maximum award: £23,000

Closing date: 29 Feb 16 (recurring)

 

Small research study funding scheme

Posture and Mobility Group, GB

Funding supports research projects that promote best practice, provide training, collate information and advise stakeholders on posture and wheeled mobility services. Grants are worth up to £7,500 each and cover the replacement salary costs as well as other research expenses.

Maximum award: £7,500

Closing date: 29 Feb 16 (recurring)

 

International fellowship for midwives

Wellbeing of Women, GB

This fellowship enables midwives to further develop research interests in midwifery, maternity services, pregnancy, childbirth and women’s health from an international perspective. Each fellowship is worth up to £20,000, which is available to contribute to salary, research and travel costs.

Maximum award: £20,000

Closing date: 07 Mar 16

 

Awards for travel to Canada – academic staff and doctoral students

Canada-UK Foundation , GB

These enable faculty and doctoral students pursuing Canadianist research in UK universities to make a research visit to Canada. Awards are worth £1,000 each for visits lasting a minimum of one week.

Maximum award: £1,000

Closing date: 15 Mar 16 (recurring)

 

Efficacy and mechanism evaluation programme – researcher-led workstream

Department of Health including NIHR, GB

This supports research into interventions based in or used by the NHS and its partners, including clinical trials and evaluative studies of novel and repurposed interventions. There is no fixed limit on project duration. All funding should be clearly justified, but there is no upper limit.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 15 Mar 16 (recurring)

 

Environmental risks to infrastructure – knowledge exchange fellowship call

Natural Environment Research Council, GB

This aims to support infrastructure owners, operators, regulators and policy-makers to enable them to access and use environmental science to identify, quantify and manage environmental risks to infrastructure. The award is worth up to £40,000.

Maximum award: £40,000

Closing date: 17 Mar 16

 

Four year PhD studentships

British Heart Foundation, GB

These allow universities in the UK to recruit up to four students per year for four years into the cardiovascular research programme. The studentship includes a student stipend at the standard BHF rate, university PhD tuition fees at the home rate only and consumable costs of £8,000 for the first year and £14,000 per year thereafter.

Maximum award: Not known

Closing date: 31 Mar 16

Latest funds on Research Professional 14/01/2016

Bi-weekly highlight of new funds posted on Research Professional.

You can see the full list here: All new funds from the last two weeks

Fellowship and doctoral-level research in sport and exercise medicine bursary
British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine, GB
This supports population, community, primary care or hospital-based research that relates to the role of physical activity in preventing and managing disease. The bursary is worth up to £20,000 over a maximum period of two years. Funding covers research and study costs.
Maximum award: £20,000
Closing date: 31 Jan 16

John, Margaret, Alfred and Stewart Sim fellowship
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, GB
This supports research into the causes or treatment of depression, with the aim of fostering mental health research and the academic careers of early or intermediate researchers. The fellowship is worth up to £300,000 over a maximum period of three years.
Maximum award: £300,000
Closing date: 01 Feb 16 (recurring)

Jean Davies Award
Iolanthe Midwifery Trust, GB
This award is made available for midwives working to address the impact of social inequalities on the well-being of pregnant women, new mothers and their babies. Award is worth up to £5,000 per year.
Maximum award: £5,000
Closing date: 05 Feb 16 (recurring)

Research for understanding, mitigating and countering security threats
Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats, GB
Funding supports innovative and forward-looking economic, behavioural and social science research that will contribute to our understanding of contemporary security threats, or research that enhances the UK’s capacity to detect and mitigate such threats. The total budget is worth up to £1.25 million at 100 per cent full economic cost, of which 80 per cent is available to successful applicants.
Maximum award: Not known
Closing date: 05 Feb 16

International partnership and mobility scheme
British Academy, GB
This scheme aims to support the development of partnerships between the UK and other areas of the world where research excellence would be strengthened by new, innovative initiatives and links. Grants are worth up to £10,000 per year for a period of one or three years.
Maximum award: £30,000
Closing date: 10 Feb 16

Mid-career research fellowship
Independent Social Research Foundation, GB
These support original interdisciplinary research across the range of social sciences. Grants of up to £60,000 are available.
Maximum award: £60,000
Closing date: 19 Feb 16

International exchanges scheme – standard programme
Royal Society, GB
This stimulates new collaborations within the natural sciences between scientists in the UK and overseas. Grants are worth up to £12,000 over a maximum period of two years. Researchers may also receive the Colin Pillinger international exchanges award of £1,000 to communicate their research to the general public.
Maximum award: £13,000
Closing date: 23 Feb 16 (recurring)

Newton mobility grants – Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Malaysia, Thailand and Turkey
Royal Society, GB
These enable international researchers to undertake short-term visits to the UK and develop networks, research projects and research partnerships with UK scientists in order to develop their skills and knowledge. Grants are worth up to £12,000 each over two years.
Maximum award: £12,000
Closing date: 02 Mar 16

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MRC Looking for Referee Selectors

As part of the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) peer review process, research grants and fellowship applications are assessed by independent expert reviewers. The MRC is seeking to contract qualified scientists who are familiar with the peer review process to select these reviewers for the Research Boards and Panels. This is on a part-time casual contract basis.

MRC are looking for individuals with experience of nationally or internationally recognised research relevant to the MRC remit. Particular experience in the following areas are welcomed: Methodology research, Biostatistics, Modelling, Computational/systems biology, Bio and health informatics methodology

The deadline for applications is the 31st August 2015.  For futher information contact externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk.

 

 

Contract Review Process

The University has a Contracts and Compliance officer, Chris Kenning. He provides internal legal support and expertise in the area of research and funding.

He looks into Research Contracts in the University sector, with growing interest in ensuring the distribution of academic research for the enhancement of learning and the protection of the University’s commercially exploitable academic and scientific knowledge to the benefit of the University and staff where applicable.

This document takes you through the Contracts Review Process

If you need further support: C.Kenning@staffs.ac.uk

 

Thanks for the Blog Suggestions

The External Projects Team wishes to thank everyone who took part in the review of the Research and Funding blog. The review has given us lots of thoughts of how to develop the site to make it better for you to use. The team will be working on these ideas over the summer.

The changes we are looking at include alterations to the style of the email updates, adaptions to the structure of the site pages to make information easier to find, and taking up some of the excellent tips from the Universities Journalism department of what makes a good blog.

We will post more updates once we know exactly what the changes will be. Thanks to everyone for their ideas.

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