Funding opportunity: Optical wireless communications research and testing facility

Apply for funding to establish an optical wireless communications research and testing facility.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funding.

This facility will support communications architecture research and convergences among terrestrial networks, non-terrestrial networks, high altitude platform stations, inter-satellite links, free space optics, ground-to-ground networks etc.

The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £7,125,000. EPSRC will fund 100% of the FEC for facility and 100% of the FEC for resources.

This funding is subject to business case approval.

Funding can be requested for up to 2.5 years.