Deadline: 12 June 2020
The British Council is seeking applications for Russia Researcher Links Workshops (non-Newton) to bring together early-career researchers from the UK and a partner country to make international connections that can improve the quality of their research.
Researcher Links Workshop grants are designed 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. The programme is supported by UK government.
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 – Principal Applicants must outline the specific outputs anticipated from the workshop. The aim of the workshop is to stimulate longer term links between the UK and Russia, as well as to contribute to the personal and professional development of the participants. The workshop proposal should include an explanation of the mutual benefits to the UK and Russian researchers and institutions. They should also explore any potential longer term benefit that might arise, thinking about who might benefit and how they might benefit and describing the actions that will be taken to ensure that potential impact is realised.
- Contribute to capacity building of early career researchers – The proposal must include a description of how the workshop will contribute to the personal and professional development of the participants. Principal Applicants should indicate how they envisage this occurring, including any plans for long-term mentoring of early career researchers (either within each country, or cross-nationally).
Thematic focus of the workshops
All natural and applied sciences are covered. Clinical research is excluded.
Funding Information
Maximum British Council funding available for one Researcher Links workshop in the UK/Russia is £51,940.
Duration
- The minimum duration of a workshop is three (3) days and the maximum duration is four (4) days.
- Workshops must take place between 01 June 2021 and 20th January 2022.
Language
Workshops will be held in English. It is expected that all participants will have a sufficient standard of English to engage fully in discussion. However, consideration should be given to non-native speakers.
Location
All workshops must be held in Russia or in the UK.
Eligibility Criteria
Leading or Established Researchers may apply to be workshop Principal Applicants and must propose a theme for the workshop using the online application form. The proposal must be a joint application, with one Principal Applicant based at a UK institution and one based in Russian institution. Applications must have the support of the home and partner institutions, confirmed by supporting letters uploaded in the online application. In this round, only one application may be submitted per Principal Applicant, but there is no limit to the number of applications submitted per institution.
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.
- Principal 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
- 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. Furthermore, for-profit organisations are not eligible to receive any grant funds.
For more information, visit https://www.britishcouncil.org/education/science/current-opportunities/russia-researcher-links-workshops-non-newton