Deadline: 27-Oct-22
The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), with the support of the Scottish Government Office in Ireland and the Department of Foreign Affairs, are pleased to invite applications for the second round of Ireland–Scotland Bilateral Network Grants.
The ambition of the Ireland–Scotland Bilateral Network Grants is to strengthen co-operation and learning between excellent researchers, academics and practitioners in Scotland and Ireland within the five thematic areas identified within the 2021 Irish–Scottish Bilateral Review.
In 2022, the Ireland–Scotland Bilateral Network Grants invites applications which address the theme of ' Revival, Resilience and Recovery'.
Objectives
- To strengthen co-operation and learning between Scotland and Ireland through bilateral funding for joint projects;
- To foster partnerships/networks within and beyond academia;
- To encourage the initiation of new partnerships and/or the development of existing partnerships;
- To contribute to policy discussion in Ireland and Scotland in the specified thematic area.
Funding Information
- The maximum sum available for any one grant is £12,500 per project (GBP Sterling) for a period of 3–6 months. The scheme will fund one grant in Ireland and one in Scotland for 2022.
Eligible Projects
- Applications must address the theme of 'Revival, Resilience and Recovery: Academic and Research networks post Covid-19'.
- The project can build on existing international collaboration between the two countries or may demonstrate plans for the development of new collaborative networks.
- The project can build on existing international collaboration between the two countries or may demonstrate plans for the development of new collaborative networks.
- Projects are welcome from the fields of: Oceanography, Aquaculture or Rural development
- Applications that push disciplinary boundaries by bringing various disciplines together are particularly welcome, especially where wider inclusion and diversity elements are evident.
- While awards will be open to all career stages and all HEIs in Ireland and Scotland, the academy particularly encourages applications that are either led by early career researchers (ECRs) or include ECRs as active participants within the proposed project.
Eligibility Criteria
- The grant is open to academic researchers working in higher education institutions (HEI) or research institutes (RI) in Scotland or Ireland. In each application the lead applicant must be a full or part-time academic in any of the disciplines listed below, and a tenured and/or salaried staff member of an HEI or RI in Scotland or Ireland (not including Northern Ireland).
- Lead applicants must be on open-ended, continuing or fixed term contracts which extend beyond the end-date of the envisaged grant period. The grant cannot be used to extend an applicant's contract.
- Each application must include a partner in the other country, ie those with a lead applicant in Ireland must have a co-investigator in Scotland and vice versa.
- Lead applicants must be from the three fields listed but application co-investigators may come from any discipline across the Humanities, Social Sciences or Sciences.
- Each application may have a number of partners/coinvestigators, across both countries if appropriate to the project.
Ineligible Costs
- Salary on-costs, that is, Health/National Insurance, Pension contributions.
- Equipment and equipment-related costs.
- Event costs, that is, the costs of putting on the event; costs for attendance at events are eligible.
For more information, visit Royal Irish Academy.
For more information, visit https://www.ria.ie/ireland-scotland-bilateral-network-grants
