British Council: Researcher Links Workshop Grants (UK and Russia)

Deadline: 8 June 2018

The Newton Fund, a UK Government initiative funded by the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), is seeking applications for its “Researcher Links Workshop Grants” to provide financial support to bring together a UK/Russia bilateral cohort of early career researchers to take part in workshops to meet the overarching objectives.

Researcher Links Workshops bring together early career researchers from the UK and a partner country to make international connections that can improve the quality of their research.

Objectives

This call for Researcher Links workshops has the following overarching objectives:

Establish new research links or significantly develop existing links, with the potential for longer term sustainability
Contribute to capacity building of early career researchers

Partner Countries

Workshops can be proposed between the UK and Russia.

Eligibility Criteria

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

Each proposal must have one Principal Applicant from the UK and one Principal Applicant from Russia
Both Principal Applicants must be Leading Researchers or Established Researchers
Prinicipal Applicants cannot assume role of workshop Mentors
Principal Applicants 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 unless specified otherwise in Appendix 1
- A UK higher education institution (all UK higher education institutions are eligible)
- A not-for-profit research organisation. A Catapult Centre (in the case of the UK Principal Applicant).
Both of the Principal Applicants’ institutions (the ‘Lead Institutions’) must have the capacity to administer the grant where contracting requires
Individual departments within a single institution can make multiple applications per call provided that the proposed activities are clearly different
Principal Applicants may only submit one Researcher Links application per Researcher Links call.
Principal Applicants that have received Researcher Links grants in previous years can submit further applications for Researcher Links provided the proposed activities are clearly distinct from, or build on, any already funded. In all cases the additionality must be clearly articulated in the application.
Organisations affiliated to higher education institutions in the UK or any other country and based in Russia, (e.g. an overseas campus) may apply as the Lead Institution in Russia provided that other eligible higher education institutions or research organisations are also involved as Associated Partners in-country.
Organisations cannot apply as Lead Institutions in Links with their own affiliates in other countries.
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 Researcher Links grants.