Deadline: 18-Jan-22
British Council Egypt is offering this grant scheme to foster Higher Education collaboration in relation to climate resilience. As they face increasing climate concerns, universities are spearheading critical research and technological innovation, facilitating and disseminating essential learning, teaching the next generation of climate experts, supporting wider communities with outreach programmes, protecting vulnerable ecosystems, and more.
This call is one of many activities the British Council in Egypt is delivering in the run up to COP27 (the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties) which will take place in Sharm El Sheikh in November 2022.
Higher Education Partnerships for Climate Change Grants, as part of the Going Global Partnerships programme, are awarded to collaborative partnerships between UK and Egyptian universities to support initiatives addressing climate resilience.
Focus Areas
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This initiative offers an opportunity for partnership between higher education institutes and universities in the UK and Egypt focussed on:
- Enhancing the climate resilience and mitigation of universities and higher educations institutions themselves, and/or
- Enhancing higher educations institutions and universities’ contribution to the resilience of communities, business, and government
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The grants should be carried out for one year from April 2022 and can be used for a diverse range of projects, workshops and events in areas such as, but not limited to:
- Improving learning, teaching, and training for climate change adaptation; example: virtual or face to face exchange or collaboration, teaching or professional practice collaboration and sharing and co-development of learning materials
- Increasing Higher Education Institutions' faculty members and professional staff capacity in climate change adaptation; example: fellowships or collaboration, comparative analyses, and uptake capacity building, understanding and documenting indigenous knowledge and resilience practices
- Improving institutional resilience policies and practice adopted by universities; example: developing tools, training and approaches to support contingency and continuity of operations planning at higher education institutions
- Virtual student mobility to achieve internationalisation in climate resilience learning at home
- Universities to adopt climate action framework and principles, or help the strategy towards Net Zero Carbon campus
- Universities to implement community projects with students such as Carbon Literacy induction for all students
- Bringing students and youth voices to COP27
- Develop and deliver series of workshops to share climate change adaptation strategies and learning materials
Funding Information
- Maximum British Council funding available for one proposal is £35,000.
- PIs and their institutions will be asked to submit receipts and invoices to demonstrate their spend upon completion. The documentations must be kept until 31 December 2029.
- Project in receipt of funding will be expected to start in April 2022 and can run for a maximum of one year.
Eligibility Criteria
- All UK universities & higher education institutes from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. A link to eligible HEIs and list of research institutes in the UK is provided in this document. The proposal must have one Principal Applicant from the UK and one Partner University from Egypt. Universities in both the private and public sectors in Egypt are eligible to participate
- The proposal must be a joint application, with one Principal Applicant based at a UK institution and one based in Egyptian institution. The geographical location of the applicants is not a concern provided that the applicants have a permanent or fixed term contract with a UK institution or Egyptian institution and the applicants are able to deliver the grant and activities within the given duration. Applications must have the support of the home and partner institutions, confirmed by supporting letters uploaded in the online application. Only two applications may be submitted per Principal Applicant, but there is no limit to the number of applications submitted per institution. And no principal applicant will get more than one project funded.
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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 Egypt
- Principal Applicants must be permanent employees or have a fixed term contracts 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
- A UK higher education institution (all UK higher education institutions are eligible)
- Principal Applicants on fixed term contracts must have a contract longer than the duration of the grant, to ensure deliverability.
- 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 two applications per call.
- applicants based in abranch campus in Egypt must apply as the Principal Applicant of the Egypt. Locally appointed professors in an overseas campus are also encouraged to apply as the Principal Applicant of Egypt. However, in this case the UK Principal Applicant must not be affiliated with the UK Higher Education Institution which owns the overseas campus.
- Not for profit higher education institutions or publicly funded research organisations are eligible to apply as Lead Institutions. Furthermore, for profit organisations are not eligible to receive any grant funds, But they can participate as self-funded partners.
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For more information, visit https://www.britishcouncil.org.eg/en/programmes/education/uk-egypt-he-partnerships-climate-change