Each network will focus on key challenges facing UK cities or environments in green infrastructure development, low carbon connected digital infrastructure and sustainable urban systems

Funding worth £400,000 is being offered for research projects to explore the role of digital technologies in supporting a data-enabled net zero transition

Proposals that will develop solutions to address the challenges in integrating hydrogen into whole energy systems will also be supported

A share of £2.5m of funding is available for topics including molten salts, light-water reactor fuels and advanced small modular reactors

Interested areas include mechanical storage systems, compressed air energy storage, storage of heat, hydrogen or natural gas and heat pumps or pumped heat electrical storage

Teams must have experience of researching energy as part of engineering or the physical, geological, biological and social sciences as well as equality, diversity and inclusion in an applied context

Proposals must address one of the following topics: radioactive waste treatment, robotic and autonomous systems for decommissioning, fuel debris materials and decommissioning technology

The projects aim to overcome challenges of devices that capture the energy generated by waves and convert it into a renewable source of electricity