New Engagement Grants to Inspire the Next Generation of Scientists
New initiative to create resources and increase engagement in crystallography and structural science.
- New grants to create crystallography and structural science outreach resources and activities.
- Grants cover costs to produce resources or activities that will increase schools and public engagement in crystallography and structural science.
Cambridge, UK – 31 August, 2022
– The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) today announced new
Engagement Grants in their latest initiative to advance structural science for the
public benefit.
More information, including how to apply, can be found at the CCDC
Engagement Grants page.
Structural science and crystallography play vital roles in the
world around us, but few outside the field get to hear about it. This area
of science deals with the study of materials in their solid state, including their
interactions, stability, and properties. Scientists in this field discover and develop
new semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, batteries, catalysts and more. Choosing this field
offers great opportunities to have a meaningful impact on scientific development and our
everyday lives.
CCDC are a UK-based charity, who maintain and curate the world’s
database of over one million experimental small molecule crystal structures that have
been shared by scientists globally. Alongside this database they provide software for
researchers working in this field, so they can search, visualize, analyse and learn from
this incredible resource. Their charitable objectives include advancing education in the
chemical sciences, and it is hoped these grants will empower scientists around the world
to inspire the next generation.
To help crystallographers and structural scientists to inspire others, the
grants cover costs to produce resources or activities that will increase schools and
public engagement in crystallography and structural science.
The grants could be used to produce videos, social media series, games,
posters, or activities to engage or inspire those not currently involved in STEM
(science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). This includes children, those
undecided about what to study, or the general public. The only restriction is that the
outputs must be about crystal structures, crystallography, or structural science, and
applicants must be over 18.
“We are excited to launch these new grants and are looking forward to
being energized and inspired by the applications. We know these grants will help others
to share our love of structural science to a wider audience, and will support our global
community to be part of our mission to grow engagement in crystallography and inspire
the next generation of structural scientists.”Suzanna Ward, Head of Data and Community, CCDC.
More information, including how to apply, can be found at the CCDC
Engagement Grants page.
Press Contact
Sophie Bryant, Marketing Manager, sbryant@ccdc.cam.ac.uk.
Notes to Editors
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About the CCDC
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) are world-leading experts in
structural chemistry data, software and knowledge for materials and life sciences
research and development.
We specialise in the collation, preservation and application of scientific
structural data for use in pharmaceutical discovery, materials development and research
and education.
We compile and distribute the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), a certified trusted
database of fully curated and enhanced organic and metal-organic structures, used by
researchers across the globe.
We inspire the next generation of scientists through our educational and
outreach activities, and through our PhD
sponsorships.
We empower scientists of all backgrounds to achieve their research goals
through our FAIRE access
programme as part of our non-profit, charitable status.
Our cutting-edge software
empowers scientists to extract invaluable insights from CSD and proprietary data,
informing and accelerating their research & development.