Deadline: 28 February 2018
The Royal Society is seeking applications for its Newton International Exchanges as Mobility Grants to provide international researchers with funding towards travel, subsistence and research expenses for either a one-off short visit to explore opportunities for building lasting networks or for bilateral visits to strengthen emerging collaborations.
This scheme aims to help strengthen the research and innovation capacity of researchers from partner countries by assisting them in visiting or sending staff and students to the UK and developing networks, research projects and partnerships with their UK hosts/counterparts and the wider UK research and innovation community.
The Royal Society’s Newton Mobility Grants are available through the Newton Fund, which is part of the UK’s official development assistance.
Objectives
- Strengthen research capacity of the partner countries – by facilitating training and skill transfer from the UK to partner countries.
- Support excellent research – by linking the best researchers in the UK with the best researchers and their groups in partner countries and providing support for initial exploratory research.
- Establish long term research links – between both partners to ensure sustainable research capacity in partner countries and benefit to the UK research community in the longer term.
Funding Information
- up to £3,000 for one-off travel lasting up to 3 months
- up to £6,000 for multiple visits to be completed within 1 year (including a maximum of £1,000 for research expenses)
- up to £12,000 for multiple visits to be completed within 2 years (including a maximum of £2,000 for research expenses)
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must have a PhD or equivalent research experience and hold a permanent or fixed-term contract in an eligible university or research institute, which must span the duration of the project.
- Collaborations should focus on a single project involving overseas-based scientist (“the Applicant”) and UK-based scientist (“the Co-applicant”).
- Awards are currently only available for scientists in the following countries:
- Brazil (in partnership with Brazilian National Council of State Funding Agencies (CONFAP))
- Mexico (in partnership with Mexican Academy of Sciences (MAS))
- South Africa (in partnership with the National Research Foundation (NRF))
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: United Kingdom
For more information, please visit Newton Mobility Grants.
