Please complete all sections of the below application form. As part of your application, it is important to demonstrate a clear and meaningful commitment to Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EEDI). You should embed EEDI principles and considerations throughout all aspects of your project, from design to methodology and dissemination.

There is no allocated section for EEDI, so please incorporate EEDI considerations throughout the sections below. We will factor this into our assessment of applications.

Please note that all project partners must be QAA Members for the duration of the project.

By adding institutions’ details, you are confirming that they have agreed to be part of the project. Please note that you can include additional institutions as the project proceeds, but you need at least one partner to begin.

Please select only one theme.

Provide a detailed description of the proposed project. As part of this, you should:

• Set the context and outline the overall aim(s) of the project. What problem or issue is it trying to address? What is it fundamentally going to achieve?
• Detail the specific objectives, which may include the outputs, outcomes, and learning from the project.
• Outline how the project will be conducted.

• What are your chosen HE/FE partners bringing to the project?
• How will you work with your these to achieve the project objectives?
• How will you work with students to achieve the project objectives?

• Explain how you will measure the impact and success of the project, and the ongoing benefits of the project following its completion.
• How can the practices and outcomes be scaled to institutional level, to benefit across departments and faculties?
• How will the project advance practice more broadly in your area of activity, and potentially for the HE sector as whole?

Provide a structured project timeline, representing key stages/phases, milestones/deliverables and indicative timing. This may include:

• Ethics approval (if required)
• Employment of project staff (if required)
• Schedule for project oversight and engagement with partners
• Partner and wider sector meetings and consultation
• Publication of outputs
• Other dissemination activities.

Please note we expect projects to start between March and July 2027 and for their duration to be no longer than 18 months.

Please provide a summary of your initial ideas for each of the five expected flexible outputs (see CEP Application Guidance), to be produced throughout the lifetime of the project and designed to capture the learning along the way.