Deadline: 19 September 2016
The Newton Fund, a UK Government initiative is currently inviting applicants for its Travel Grants 2016 with an aim to promote the economic development and welfare of either the partner countries or, through working with the partner country, to address the problems of low-income and vulnerable populations.
Objectives
- Support international development-relevant research
- Contribute to capacity building of early career researchers
- Establish new research links or develop existing links
Challenge Areas
- Agriculture (e.g. irrigation, crop yields)
- Climate and environment (e.g. climate change, green technology, sustainable development, ecosystem services, resource scarcity)
- Sustainable energy for all
- Education research and innovation for development
- Economic growth (e.g. equitable growth, financial sector development, private sector development)
- Health (e.g. HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases, child mortality, maternal health)
- Water and sanitation
- Food and nutrition (including food security)
- Demographic change and migration
- Rural and urban development
- Infrastructure (including civil engineering, information and communication technologies, big data for social and economic development)
- Humanitarian disasters and emergencies, disaster risk reduction
- Resilient and connected communities
- Governance, society and conflict (e.g. transparency, accountability, effective institutions, land and natural resource rights, poverty alleviation, social development, structural inequalities, violence and security, peace building, civil society)
- Development-relevant data collection, quality and access (including administrative data and macroeconomic statistics).
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be based either in the UK, or in one of the partner countries listed below, and be affiliated with a recognised publicly funded research establishment or public or private Higher Education Institution.
- For-profit organisations are not eligible to receive any grant funds.
- Travel may only be between the UK and partner country, but can be in either direction.
How to Apply
Applicants must apply online via given website.
Eligible Countries: UK, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, South Africa and Vietnam.
For more information, please visit Travel Grants 2016.