Placements & Additional Funding

IT Equipment/Training Funds

If you require IT equipment or funds for training and consumables, please speak to your supervisor, as there are funds available to them to utilise for these purposes

Erasmus+

Erasmus+ is open to doctoral students in Mechanical Engineering. There is an application process, and language requirements, which should be checked before applying.

Partner Universities for Mechanical Engineering

Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Saint-Etienne, France (work placement only)

Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France

Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France

Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany

Universidad de Navarra, Spain

EPSRC National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) Innovation Placements

The funding is designed to be used to develop key skills through provision of additional placement opportunities.

This could include:

• entrepreneurial training/placements

• relevant placements with industry

• relevant placements with policy organisations relevant to the Industrial Strategy

• exploratory small projects/placements with SMEs

• summer schools and conference placements relevant to Industrial Strategy challenges

• other placements to support and increase the impact arising from doctoral research which is relevant to the Industrial Strategy

The funding will cover the costs directly related to the placement such as stipend, travel and subsistence costs where these are over and above the student's normal expenditure, fees for relevant training or events, etc.

Further details available here