Collaboration for a Sustainable Future: pilots & UK seed funding

Full Job Description

Opportunity status: Open

Funders:

Research England, UK Research and Innovation

Funding type: Other

Total fund: £19,000,000

Award range: £100,000 - £5,000,000

Publication date: 1 October 2026

Opening date:

1 October 2026 9:00am UK time

Closing date:

4 February 2027 4:00pm UK time

You must meet the unique eligibility of this funding opportunity, please see eligibility section for details. This funding includes both England-only and UK-wide elements.

This funding opportunity is for higher education providers to lead institutional collaborations for a sustainable cost-effective future. Funding to pilot new institutional collaborations (England-only) and to seed innovation partnerships across two self-defined geographic areas (UK-wide). This is not a research grant opportunity.

Research England (RE) will fund 100% of the full economic cost (FEC).

Eligibility

This is not a research grant opportunity.

This funding opportunity consists of two elements:

• England-only pilots (around £4 million) and

• cross-UK innovation partnerships seed funding (£15 million).

The latter (UK-wide) of which has different eligibility to the former (England only).

Throughout this funding opportunity, you should assume all text is relevant to the entire funding opportunity (including England-only pilots and cross-UK innovation partnerships seed funding), with any specific cross-UK innovation partnerships conditions as additional, unless expressly stated otherwise.

This funding opportunity is open to organisations with standard eligibility Check if your organisation is eligible and who meet the eligibility of this opportunity detailed below.

Research England will discount any application which does not meet the eligibility criteria. If you are unsure, please contact the UKRI Funding Service Helpdesk.

Who Is Eligible To Apply

There is different eligibility for the two elements of this funding opportunity: England-only pilots (£4 million total) and cross-UK innovation partnerships seed funding (£15 million total)

For England-only pilots we welcome applications from English higher education providers where the English higher education provider must be registered with the Office for Students (OfS) in the approved (fee cap) category of the OfS’s register. This includes continuing to meet the OfS’s ongoing conditions of registration.

For the cross-UK innovation partnerships seed funding, we welcome applications from higher education providers in England as outlined in the previous paragraph. We also welcome applications from higher education providers in Wales, universities in Scotland and higher education institutes in Northern Ireland who meet UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s standard eligibility criteria. Throughout this funding opportunity that group will be referred to as ‘higher education providers.’ Cross-UK innovation partnerships may be between any areas of the UK – there is no requirement to include a higher education provider from a specific UK nation.

Demand Management

An individual higher education provider may be listed as a recipient of funding from this funding opportunity in: (i) up to two applications for England-only pilots (lead provider in only one), and/or (ii) up to one application for the cross-UK innovation partnerships seed funding applications.

If a higher education provider is to receive funding from more than two applications England-only pilots or one application for UK-wide cross-UK innovation partnerships seed funding, or both, we will endeavour to reach out to resolve with the application teams which of the applications should go forward to assessment. However, we reserve the right to cancel all applications which involve a higher education provider listed as a funding recipient in more applications than detailed here, and to do so without discussion.

Higher education providers may be involved as project partners and therefore not receiving funding, in as many applications as they deem appropriate.

Who Is Not Eligible To Apply

The following are not eligible to apply:

• collaborative research projects

• applications not led by higher education providers as defined under eligibility

• applications which do not involve at least two higher education provider

Please see what we will and will not fund within the ‘What we are looking for’ section for this opportunity.

Equality, Diversity And Inclusion

We are committed to achieving equality of opportunity for all funding applicants.

Research England funds institution-led not applicant-led opportunities, including on behalf of UKRI for UK-wide funding. As such, we expect institutions in receipt of funding to support people to work in a way that suits their personal circumstances. This includes:

• career breaks

• support for people with caring responsibilities

• flexible working

• alternative working patterns

UKRI can offer disability and accessibility support for UKRI applicants and grant holders during the application and assessment process.

Demand Management

Demand management is being applied to this funding opportunity. Further details are provided in the ‘who is eligible to apply’ section.

Research England awards funding for organisation-led not individual-led applications. Therefore, you are asked to look closely at the information provided in this funding opportunity, and to have the guidance open within the Funding Finder when completing your application in the UKRI Funding Service. The information provided reflects the funding Research England awards.

Scope

Research England supports English higher education providers to create and sustain the conditions for a healthy and dynamic research and knowledge exchange system in the higher education sector. This supports UKRI’s mission to advance knowledge, improve lives, and drive growth.

The Research England Collaboration for a Sustainable Future (CSF) Programme sets out to identify barriers and opportunities to institutional collaboration within the research and innovation system for a sustainable cost-effective future. The CSF programme will help us identify where Research England could deliver interventions that make the most difference for sustained joint working.

Through this funding opportunity within the CSF programme, we are seeking to support pilots and seed funding which span multiple organisations that test new higher education provider collaborations for a sustainable cost-effective future, for example collaborations underpinned by formal multi-institutional contractual based agreements. This includes seed funding for new cross-UK innovation partnerships open to UK-wide higher education providers.

We are interested in practical and ambitious ideas.

We are expecting to hear from those who can identify and enable joint working across higher education providers. Collaborative research projects are not within the scope of this programme. Environmental and other types of sustainability are out of scope unless they are enabling a cost-effective future.

The Government’s vision, as laid out in the Post-16 Skills White paper, is for a research and innovation ecosystem that supports and keeps the UK at the forefront of global science including by embedding sustainability and enabling collaboration.

The UK’s strongest differentiating asset is the quality of its research and innovation system which by most metrics is, per capita, world-leading and to a very great extent driven by our extraordinary university system. Universities are engines of economic growth and drive societal impact both in the regions in which they are each situated and through the collective strengths they share and deliver to the UK economy.

However, the university sector is under acute and accelerating pressures.

This funding opportunity forms a key part of the Collaboration for a Sustainable Future programme, and for more information please see the programme’s webpage.

Through this funding opportunity, we expect to fund projects that:

• span multiple organisations (at least two higher education providers) to support a transition toward sector sustainability, shared capability and/or collective contribution to national priorities

• derisk and test new collaborations and models which drive efficiency and cost effectiveness of the research and innovation system

• clearly articulate any direct and indirect beneficiaries including clear buy-in from wider stakeholders where appropriate

• build on best practice and learnings from different sectors, geographies, industries, charities, international and wider communities if appropriate

• consider and understand the impact of new approaches on the culture and environment of our higher education research and innovation system for example the impact on equity, inclusion, diversity, trust and collective responsibility

For The Cross Uk Innovation Partnerships Seed Funding

Within the scope of this funding opportunity, we will support a subset of cross-UK innovation partnership seed funding awards with a total of £15 million. Applications will bring together distinct geographical strengths to deliver economic growth together.

We expect to fund projects that:

• bring together two or more innovation eco-systems across two self-defined geographical areas within the UK, to enhance each other’s strengths in a complementary way and deliver more than the sum of its parts

• bring together higher education providers and wider partners such as local government, businesses, investors and cutting-edge innovation with these geographical areas

• will be driven by the geographical areas strengths and responsive to meet local government priorities. We will support proposals which broker links and ensure we foster true partnership and shared ambition

Please note that where information is required specifically for the cross-UK innovation partnership seed funding within this funding opportunity – that will be clearly stated, otherwise the information applies to the full scope of the funding opportunity including these partnership seed awards. We expect these partnership applications to be new and novel reasons to bring together complementary strengths across the self-defined geographical areas.

Duration

There are two durations for projects within this funding opportunity.

The duration of England-only pilot projects awarded is up to 24 months. We are particularly interested in projects of up to 12 months duration, to help inform further development of the overarching programme. Projects must start by 1 July 2027. All funding must be used by the end of June 2029.

The duration of cross-UK innovation partnership seed funding projects is up to 36 months, and we expect the duration of projects to reflect the ambitions and scale of the proposal. Projects must start by 1 July 2027. All funding must be used by the end of June 2030.

We expect to communicate funding decisions in May 2027.

Funding Available

There are two amounts of funding available within this opportunity

For England-only pilot projects, eligible higher education providers can apply for awards between £100,000 and £1million over a period of up to 24 months. We are particularly interested in projects of up to £500,000 over a 12-month period. We may consider funding a highly collaborative project of up to £1 million where the scale and complexity warrant a higher level of funding. However, given the overall budget, we envisage funding only one such larger project.

For cross-UK innovation partnership seed projects eligible higher education providers can apply for awards between £1 million and £5 million over 36 months.

Research England will fund 100% of the FEC.

The justification of resources will be scrutinised. You should carefully consider the size and shape of your proposed project and ensure you make a request for a funding amount that demonstrates high value for money.

We anticipate proposals will be of varying scale and length and complexity for implementation depending on the opportunities, models identified, and partner roles.

There is a total amount of £19 million available across this funding opportunity for the two elements: £4 million for England-only pilots, and £15 million for cross-UK innovation partnerships seed funding.

For England-only pilots, Research England will take a balanced view across this £4 million England-only pilots and the parallel funding opportunity for coordinating groups to identify barriers and create solutions within the Collaboration for a Sustainable Future programme.

There should be no presumption that any further follow-on funding will be available for any project within this funding opportunity. Projects must ensure that outputs are generated to share learnings and expertise through dissemination work.

Additionally, this funding opportunity is not designed to provide follow-on funding for previously supported Research England/UKRI activity, or projects not successful through previous Research England activity.

What We Will Fund

We will fund:

• collaborations which require multiple higher education providers to deliver a more sustainable cost-effective future

All applications must be:

• institutional collaborations across at least two higher education providers, and

• enable cost-effective outcomes, and

• are pilots/seed activities

Through this programme we are expecting to hear from those who can identify and enable joint working across higher education providers.

Collaborative research projects are not within scope.

We expect to fund projects which drive and test new innovations. We will support both high and low risk applications that clearly demonstrate a high reward.

We will support institutional collaboration for a sustainable cost-effective future, involving a minimum of two higher education providers, with other project partners involved where that enhances delivery of the project. Environmental and other types of sustainability are out of scope unless they are enabling a cost-effective future.

For England-only pilots where £4 million (£100,000 to £1 million per award) is available – examples for driving a sustainable cost-effective future could be institutional collaboration(s) such as:

• back-office research and innovation services such as joint administrative or specialist service functions or components of functions. Examples could be trialing new approaches to shared mid-scale facility management

• research and innovation services and capabilities which deliver more than the sum of its parts for wider system actors, for example single-front door or stream-lined offer for investors, businesses and/or other partners

• new shared and focused research and innovation services and capabilities which operate for many higher education providers and are more cost effective and able to deliver, such as enabling national social venture best practice

• all activity where there is a clear case for institutional collaboration to deliver a more sustainable cost-effective future in line which meets the scope of this funding opportunity

For the cross-UK innovation partnerships seed funding where £15 million (£1 million to £5 million per award) is available – we expect to fund institutional collaboration(s) which:

• bring together distinct geographical strengths through concentration of innovation ecosystems & capabilities aligned to local economies and to deliver economic growth together. Two or more geographies are brought together in a complementary way to advance the sums of their parts. We expect applications to self-define the geographies involved, which may be regional, cities, and/or local economic areas.

• bring together higher education providers and wider partners such as local government, businesses, investors and cutting-edge innovation within these geographical areas. Partnership projects will be driven by geographical strengths and responsiveness to meet local government priorities.

Applicants are strongly advised to look at the Research England Cambridge x Manchester partnership as an example of a funded cross-UK innovation partnership. Please note, we are looking to support innovative and new models. As such, the complementary strengths brought together as the sum of their parts should be different from existing cross-UK innovation partnership models previously supported.

This funding is to support genuinely new initiatives. For example, we do not expect to fund follow on projects to the specific shared technology transfer offices funded by Research England previously.

We do not expect to fund pilots around equipment sharing.

We do not expect to support development of research culture unless its main focus is a sustainable cost-effective future.

Activity must be within the scope of the Collaboration for a Sustainable Future programme as detailed in the scope. The scope does not include supporting restructuring or decisions driven solely to reduce financial spend.

What We Will Not Fund

We will not fund:

• projects that would go ahead without additional funding and/or deemed should be supported through existing funding sources such as, but not limited to, core research (QR), the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) or Local Innovation Partnerships Fund (LIPF)

• changes focused on a single higher education provider. All applications need to involve at least two higher education providers. We expect to see project partners and relevant stakeholders engaged in the proposal such as direct beneficiaries

• core research or innovation activity not targeted at collaboration for a sustainable cost-effective future

• buildings or equipment

• studentships, fellowships or research staff

• collaborative research projects

• follow-on funding for previously funded Research England or UKRI activity unless your application can be shown as novel and distinct

Trusted Research And Innovation (Tr&I)

UKRI is committed in ensuring that effective international collaboration in research and innovation takes place with integrity and within strong ethical frameworks. Trusted Research and Innovation (TR&I) is a UKRI work programme designed to help protect all those working in our thriving and collaborative international sector by enabling partnerships to be as open as possible, and as secure as necessary. Our TR&I Principles set out UKRI’s expectations of organisations funded by UKRI in relation to due diligence for international collaboration.

As such, applicants for UKRI funding may be asked to demonstrate how their proposed projects will comply with our approach and expectation towards TR&I, identifying potential risks and the relevant controls you will put in place to help proportionately reduce these risks.

See further guidance and information about TR&I, including where applicants can find additional support.

How to apply

We are running this funding opportunity on the new UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Funding Service so please ensure that your organisation is registered.

Research England awards funding for organisation-led not individual-led applications.

For Research England and this funding opportunity, the project lead is the person responsible for managing the application process. They are to be chosen by the higher education provider submitting the application. They will be the main point of contact for Research England. They do not need to be the most senior person involved in the application. They do need to be someone who can speak confidently to the application’s content, so they are able to respond to queries from Research England.

The project lead is responsible for completing the application process on the Funding Service, but we expect all team members and project partners to contribute to the application.

Only the lead higher education provider can submit an application to UKRI.

To Apply

Select ‘Start application’ near the beginning of this Funding finder page.

• Confirm you are the project lead.

• Sign in or create a Funding Service account. To create an account, select your organisation, verify your email address, and set a password.

• Answer questions directly in the text boxes. You can save your answers and come back to complete them or work offline and return to copy and paste your answers. If we need you to upload a document, follow the upload instructions in the Funding Service. All questions and assessment criteria are listed in the How to apply section on this Funding finder page.

• Allow enough time to check your application in ‘read-only’ view before sending to your research office.

• Send the completed application to your research office for checking. They will return it to you if it needs editing.

• Your research office will submit the completed and checked application to UKRI.

Please be aware that research office and finance teams undertake checks on hosting arrangements and financial eligibility. The ultimate responsibility for ensuring compliance with all opportunity requirements lies with the applicant.

Where indicated, you can also demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant.

When including images, you must:

• provide a descriptive caption or legend for each image immediately underneath it in the text box (this must be outside the image and counts towards your word limit)

• insert each new image on a new line

• use files smaller than 5MB and in JPEG, JPG, JPE, JFI, JIF, JFIF, PNG, GIF, BMP or WEBP format

Images should only be used to convey important visual information that cannot easily be put into words. The following are not permitted, and your application will be rejected if you include:

• sentences or paragraphs of text

• tables

• excessive quantities of images

A few words are permitted where the image would lack clarity without the contextual words, such as a diagram, where text labels are required for an axis or graph column.

For more guidance on the Funding Service, see:

• how applicants use the Funding Service

• how research offices use the Funding Service

• how reviewers use the Funding Service

References

References should be included within the word count of the appropriate question section. You should use your discretion when including references and prioritise those most pertinent to the application.

Hyperlinks can be used in reference information. When including references, you should consider how your references will be viewed and used by the assessors, ensuring that:

• references are easily identifiable by the assessors

• references are formatted as appropriate to your research

• persistent identifiers are used where possible

General Use Of Hyperlinks

Applications should be self-contained. You should only use hyperlinks to link directly to reference information. You must not include links to web resources to extend your application. Assessors are not required to access links to conduct assessment or recommend a funding decision.

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Ai)

Use of generative AI tools to prepare funding applications is permitted, however, caution should be applied.

For more information see our policy on the use of generative AI in application and assessment.

Deadline

Research England must receive your application by 4 February 2027 at 4:00pm UK time.

You will not be able to apply after this time.

Make sure you are aware of and follow any internal deadlines for your organisation.

Following the submission of your application to this funding opportunity, your application cannot be changed, and submitted applications will not be amended. If your application does not follow the guidance, it may be rejected.

Processing Personal Data

Research England as part of UKRI, will need to collect some personal information to manage your Funding Service account and the registration of your funding applications.

We will handle personal data in line with UK data protection legislation and manage it securely. For more information, including how to exercise your rights, read our privacy notice.

Sensitive Information

If you or a core team member need to tell us something you wish to remain confidential, email strategicprogrammes@re.ukri.org

Include in the subject line: [the funding opportunity title; sensitive information; your Funding Service application number].

Typical examples of confidential information include:

• declaration of interest

• additional information about eligibility to apply that would not be appropriately shared in the ‘Applicant and team capability’ section

• conflict of interest for UKRI to consider in reviewer or panel participant selection

• the application is an invited resubmission

For information about how UKRI handles personal data, read UKRI’s privacy notice.

Institutional Matched Funding

There is no requirement or expectation for matched funding from the institutions involved in a proposal. Research England will fund projects at 100% FEC.

Publication Of Outcomes

Research England as part of UKRI, will publish the outcomes of this funding opportunity on the Collaboration for a Sustainable Future programme webpage.

If your application is successful, we will publish some personal information on the UKRI Gateway to Research.

Summary

Word limit: 550

In plain English, provide a summary. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for example:

• opinion-formers

• policymakers

• the public

• the wider research community

Core Team

Research England provides higher education provider-led not applicant-led funding. Therefore, we do not require all team members involved in the project to be listed under core team. Under core team, you should list anyone who you wish to have visibility of the proposal through the application process.

We do expect more detailed information, including staff posts, to be provided in the Resources and cost justification section, under ‘exception – other’.

For Research England, the project lead is the person responsible for managing the application process. They are to be chosen by the higher education provider submitting the application. They will be the main point of contact for Research England. They do not need to be the most senior person involved in the application. They do need to be someone who can speak confidently to the application’s content, so they are able to respond to queries from Research England.

List the key members of your team and assign them roles from the following:

• project lead (PL)

• project co-lead (UK) (PcL)

Only list one individual as project lead.

Find out more about UKRI’s core team roles in funding applications.

Vision

Word limit: 2,250

Through this funding opportunity, you can request funding from £100,000 to £5 million. It is expected that the word limit reflects the scale and complexity of your project.

What are you hoping to achieve with your proposed work?

Provide a description of the project – the problem it is intended to solve, and overall aim and key objectives to deliver the aim. The activities described later in the Approach section should be designed to deliver these objectives.

Explain how your proposed work:

• meets the scope of this opportunity within the programme, and the programme’s ambitions. Including spanning multiple higher education providers (at least two).

• derisks and tests new collaboration(s) with the potential to drive a sustainable cost-effective future of the research and innovation system

• demonstrates why the change the collaboration aims to bring about is needed. Include the context of this collaboration, why this project is needed and why now. This should include any reference to previous related activity, and clear explanation of why your proposed project is novel

• evidences the additionality of this project. Including clear articulation of how the activity within this project could not be undertaken without this funding opportunity, is not part of the higher education providers current plans for research and innovation, and for which no other appropriate funding source is available

• impacts direct and indirect beneficiaries including clear buy-in from wider stakeholders where appropriate

• considers the impact of new approaches on the culture and environment of our higher education research and innovation system for example the impact on equity, inclusion, diversity, trust and collective responsibility

If you are applying for the cross-UK innovation partnerships seed funding, in addition to the above, please also include how your proposed work enables:

• additional impact from the complementary strengths of the geographies and their innovation ecosystems, i.e. driving significant opportunities over and above what the individual innovation ecosystems could achieve

• enhanced partnership to deliver your approach and maximise the complementary strengths. We expect applications to bring together higher education providers and wider partners such as local government, businesses, investors, and cutting-edge innovation within these geographical areas

• the project to be driven by geographical strengths and responsiveness to meet local government priorities

• self-definition of the geographies involved, which may be regional, cities, and/or local economic areas. This should include rationale for why the particular geographies you have defined and chosen

You may demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant. Further details are provided in the Funding Service.

Approach

Word limit: 3,000

Through this funding opportunity, you can request funding from £100,000 to £5 million. It is expected that the word limit reflects the scale and complexity of your project.

How are you going to deliver your proposed work?

Your proposed work:

• is effective and appropriate to achieve your objectives

• is feasible, and comprehensively identifies any risks to delivery and how they will be managed

• is cognisant of previous approaches in this context, and why this is novel and/or different. This should include how your project builds on best practice and/or learnings from different sectors, geographies, industries, charities, international and wider communities if appropriate

• is clear what the project will do from the set of work packages, and what it will achieve in terms of clear outputs linked to the overall aim. Clearly shows the plan of activities including milestones and timelines and will maximise translation of outputs into outcomes and impacts

• identifies and explains who the direct and indirect beneficiaries might be

• describes the collaboration, how it will operate and what each partner will contribute to the programme of activities

• considers and understands the impact of new approaches on the culture and environment of our higher education research and innovation system for example the impact on equity, inclusion, diversity, trust and collective responsibility

All applications should complete the outputs, outcomes and impacts table, available to download in the supporting documents section.

You may demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant. Further details are provided in the Funding Service.

Governance

Word limit: 1,000

Through this funding opportunity, you can request funding from £100,000 to £5 million. It is expected that the word limit reflects the scale and complexity of your project.

How will you manage the award to successfully deliver its objectives?

Explain how the proposed award will be managed, demonstrating that it:

• will be effectively governed, including details about advisory structures

• will be effectively and inclusively managed, demonstrated by a clear management plan

• has clear leadership team roles and responsibilities

• will manage and encourage partnerships with non-higher education providers organisations across government, industry and civil society if relevant to your project

• has plans for monitoring your progress as well as self-evaluation throughout the lifetime of your award

You may demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant. Further details are provided in the Funding Service.

Applicant And Team Capability To Deliver

Word limit: 1,000

Through this funding opportunity, you can request funding from £100,000 to £5 million. It is expected that the word limit reflects the scale and complexity of your project.

Why are you the right team and higher education provider(s) to successfully deliver the proposed work?

• capability and empowerment to deliver the objectives of your project

• relevant experience, expertise and skills to deliver the proposed project, including the appropriate leadership and management skills to deliver as applicable

• clear buy-in from across the collaboration, evidence should be included under project partners

• commitment and support of your organisation(s), to ensure delivery of the objectives of your project

You are expected to describe the people involved in your project, and why that constitutes the right team and higher education providers to successfully deliver the proposed work.

This is not a collaborative research project. We do not expect to see Resume for Research and Innovation (R4RI) modules.

This is not a research grant opportunity.

This funding opportunity consists of two elements:

• England-only pilots (around £4 million) and

• cross-UK innovation partnerships seed funding (£15 million).

The latter (UK-wide) of which has different eligibility to the former (England only).

Throughout this funding opportunity, you should assume all text is relevant to the entire funding opportunity (including England-only pilots and cross-UK innovation partnerships seed funding), with any specific cross-UK innovation partnerships conditions as additional, unless expressly stated otherwise.

This funding opportunity is open to organisations with standard eligibility Check if your organisation is eligible and who meet the eligibility of this opportunity detailed below.

Research England will discount any application which does not meet the eligibility criteria. If you are unsure, please contact the UKRI Funding Service Helpdesk.

There is different eligibility for the two elements of this funding opportunity: England-only pilots (£4 million total) and cross-UK innovation partnerships seed funding (£15 million total)

For England-only pilots we welcome applications from English higher education providers where the English higher education provider must be registered with the Office for Students (OfS) in the approved (fee cap) category of the OfS’s register. This includes continuing to meet the OfS’s ongoing conditions of registration.

For the cross-UK innovation partnerships seed funding, we welcome applications from higher education providers in England as outlined in the previous paragraph. We also welcome applications from higher education providers in Wales, universities in Scotland and higher education institutes in Northern Ireland who meet UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s standard eligibility criteria. Throughout this funding opportunity that group will be referred to as ‘higher education providers.’ Cross-UK innovation partnerships may be between any areas of the UK – there is no requirement to include a higher education provider from a specific UK nation.

The following are not eligible to apply:

• collaborative research projects

• applications not led by higher education providers as defined under eligibility

• applications which do not involve at least two higher education provider

Please see what we will and will not fund within the ‘What we are looking for’ section for this opportunity.

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