Deadline: 18-Jan-23
Apply for funding to initiate or develop new international partnerships with researchers overseas and to tackle the challenges faced by developing countries.
The aim of this funding opportunity is to support early career researchers to initiate or develop new international partnerships with researchers overseas in order to tackle the challenges faced by developing countries. You and your international partners may have a previous relationship, but EPSRC does not expect you to have worked together extensively.
EPSRC expects the proposed collaborative project to present a balance between partnership building activities and direct research, as appropriate considering the key objectives of the funding opportunity. The international academic project partners must also have an integral role in the proposed work.
Funding Information
EPSRC has up to £5,000,000 to spend on the 2 funding routes of this funding opportunity, including:
- Up to £1,000,000 for this international development funding route.
- Up to £4,000,000 for the open funding route.
You may apply for up to £200,000 at 100% full economic costs with a duration of up to 2 years. All costs will be funded at 80% of full economic costs.
Eligible Expenses
You can request funds for anything eligible under standard EPSRC rules. This includes but is not limited to funding available to cover:
- Staff time.
- Travel and subsistence.
- Visiting researchers.
- Meetings or workshops.
- Resources to enable different approaches to building and sustaining collaborations, which reduce the need to travel.
- ‘Proof of concept’ research activities for UK researchers exploring new international partnerships.
Activities
You can request funding to support any eligible international collaborative activities, including (but not limited to):
- Joint research activities: scoping, feasibility, or proof of concept studies.
- Travel and networking.
- Programmes of exchange visits or staff secondments.
- Impact-specific activities.
Although the majority of the application should lie within EPSRC remit, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations with international partners are welcomed.
Eligibility Criteria
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You must be:
- An early career researcher who meets the eligibility requirements of EPSRC’s New Investigator Award scheme.
- Based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.
- This funding opportunity is only open to early career researchers who meet the eligibility requirements of EPSRC’s New Investigator Award scheme.
- Whether they are successful or unsuccessful, applicants who apply for an early career researcher international collaboration grant for international development are still eligible to apply for a New Investigator Award. Applicants who hold a New Investigator Award but otherwise still satisfy the other New Investigator Award eligibility criteria are still eligible to apply to this funding opportunity.
- Appropriate collaborators in 1 or more lower-middle income, low income or least developed countries on the Development Assistance Committee list of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development are a mandatory requirement for proposals submitted through this opportunity.
- These collaborators may be academic researchers and, or, direct beneficiaries of the research outcomes. This excludes India and China. Projects with partnerships in India or China should apply through the open funding route.
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