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British Council: Grants for international research collaborations

This call for applications is funded by the Department of Science, Innovation, and Technology’s International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF). ISPF Research Collaboration grants provide small scale seed funding for collaborations between the UK and international partners.

The objectives ISPF Research Collaboration grants are:

  • Initiate new research and innovation collaborations between academic groups, departments, and institutions in partner countries and the UK
  • Develop existing collaborations at group, departmental, and institutional level
  • Encourage these collaborations to work with non-academic organisations and individuals to support the exchange of research and innovation expertise and the translation of research knowledge into tangible benefits
  • Establish local hubs for joint UK-country/territory activity in a particular area, enabling engagement from the wider research and innovation community.

Deadline:

12 March 2024, 12 noon UK time

Partner Countries/Territories:

Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam

Size of Funding:

  • UK: 80% Full Economic Costs (FEC) up to a project cost of £100,000 (£80,000 grant funding)
  • Thailand: Included in with UK costs

Note: UK Project leaders should submit proposals with figures of 100 per cent FEC. If successful, the British Council will meet 80 per cent of the FEC paid to the UK Research Organisations and that institution will be expected to support the remaining 20 per cent.

Duration:

24 months

Thematic priority areas for Thai Researcher:

  • Resilient Planet: Clean Energy, Extreme weather and climate, Agri-tech, Environmental resilience
  • Transformative Technologies: Artificial Intelligence, Quantum, Engineering biology, Semi-conductors, Future telecommunications
  • Healthy People, Animals and Plants: Biosecurity and Pathogen detection, Global Health and Pandemics, Genomics and digital health, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), Social determinants of health
  • Tomorrows Talent: Research Capacity, Research Systems, Research Pipeline

Eligibility:

Proposals must fulfil the following criteria to be eligible for funding under this Programme:

  • Each proposal must have one Project Leader from the UK and one Project Leader from the specified Partner Country/Territory.
  • Both Project Leaders must be Leading Researchers or Established Researchers
  • UK Project Leaders must be permanent employees of one of the following (this means that Emeritus and Honorary Professors may not apply as lead):
  • A not-for-profit higher education institution with the capacity to undertake high-quality- research, unless specified otherwise in Appendix 1 [Page #25 in the guideline of the call].
  • A UK higher education institution (all UK higher education institutions are eligible).
    • A not-for-profit research organisation with the capacity to undertake high quality research. For the list of eligible UK institutions, please click here.
  • Both Project Leaders’ institutions (the ‘Lead Institutions’) must have the capacity to administer the grant.
  • Individual departments within a single institution can make multiple applications per call provided that the proposed activities are clearly different.
  • Project Leaders may only submit one Research Collaboration application per call.
  • Not for-profit higher education institutions or publicly funded research organisations are eligible to apply as Lead Institutions.
  • For-profit organisations and not-for-profit organisations can participate in but are usually not eligible to apply for Research Collaboration grants (unless specified otherwise in Appendix 1 [Page #25 in the guideline of the call]). Furthermore, for-profit organisations are not eligible to receive any ISPF grant funds except to cover travel associated costs

How to Apply?

The deadline for submission of a completed application including emailing all supporting documentation to the ISPF inbox is 12 noon UK time, 12 March 2024. Proposals submitted after the deadline will not be considered for funding.

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