UKRI-Southeast Asia Collaboration on Infectious Diseases

5 April 2024

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is partnering with leading funders in Southeast Asia to support research focused on infectious diseases with epidemic or antimicrobial resistance (AMR) potential. UKRI funding for this partnership will be provided through the International Science Partnership Fund (ISPF). This funding program will support collaborative research between the UK and at least one partner country in Southeast Asia. Multilateral research teams including more than two partners are encouraged.

Application Deadlines:

  • Deadline for Optional Expression of Interest: 14 April 2024 4:00pm UK time
  • Application Closing Date: 30 May 2024 4:00pm UK time

Funding Partners:

  • ARDA Thailand (Agricultural Research Development Agency)
  • DRTPM DIKTI Indonesia (Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia)
  • HSRI Thailand (Health Systems Research Institute)
  • MOHE Malaysia (Ministry of Higher Education)
  • NAFOSTED Vietnam (National Foundation for Science and Technology Development)
  • PREPARE Singapore (Programme for Research in Epidemic Preparedness and REsponse) on behalf of NRF Singapore (National Research Foundation)
  • DOST-PCHRD Philippines (Philippines Council for Health Research and Development, Department of Science and Technology)

Fund:

  • Up to £1,000,000 from UKRI
  • Southeast Asia funding partners will provide co-funding to support their national research teams.
    • For Thailand:
      • 2-3 million THB per award from HSRI
      • 1-3 million THB per award from ARDA

Duration: a maximum of 36 months.

  • Note: Projects must start by 1 April 2025.

Research Areas: Infectious Diseases with Epidemic or Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Potential

Eligibility:

General:

To be eligible to apply for this opportunity you must:

  • be a research team made up of at least one researcher based at an eligible UK institution and at least one researcher based at an eligible research institution in a Southeast Asia DAC-list country
  • include additional researchers based in eligible UK institutions only if there is at least one eligible research institution in a Southeast Asia DAC-list country involved in the project
  • include additional researchers based in Southeast Asia institutions only if there is at least one eligible research institution in a Southeast Asia DAC-list country involved in the project

Specific (Thai) National Rules:

  • Eligible Institutions must be Thai research institutions.

How to Apply?

Expression of Interest (optional)

  • Researchers planning to submit to this funding opportunity are encouraged to submit a short expression of interest (EOI) by 4:00pm UK time (Greenwich Mean Time) on 14 April 2024. It is the responsibility of the UK project lead to submit the EOI on behalf of the UK and Southeast Asia research collaboration.


Please note, this step is voluntary and does not form part of the review process, if you do not submit an EOI you can still apply to the funding opportunity.

Application stage

The project lead, who will be based in the UK, 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.

Additional submission information from:

  • HSRI: Applicants must submit application to UKRI and also submit a copy directly to HSRI.
  • ARDA: Applicants must submit application to UKRI and also submit a copy directly to ARDA funder via email: supakkawat@arda.or.th / submission system NRIIS platform:  https://nriis.go.th/www/.

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