Deadline: 30-Nov-21
The British Council is seeking applications for UK-ASEAN Institutional Links Early Career Researchers (ILECR) Scheme to provide seed funding to senior researchers from higher education institutions in the UK and partner countries – Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.
The funding enables the senior researchers to lead a team of UK and partner country early career researchers for 12 months to work on selected areas aligning to the Indo-Pacific Tilt and Sustainable Development Goals.
They expect the ILECR Scheme to stimulate new research impact by having senior researchers in UK and partner countries to lead a team of early career researchers (ECRs) in an interdisciplinary partnership on emerging areas while developing and broadening ECRs’ professional knowledge, experience and skills in research and translation.
Each proposal is co-led by a Principal Applicant from UK and a Principal Applicant from partner country. Associated Partners like government agencies, not-for-profit organisations, businesses, SMEs and start-ups can be included in the proposal. Participation of ECRs from UK and partner country including their roles in the project, expected milestones and achievements will be planned and identified by the Principal Applicants. The ECRs must have a PhD or equivalent research experience.
Aims
- Part of the Going Global Partnerships programme, the British Council UK-ASEAN Institutional Links Early Career Researchers Scheme aims to:
- Contribute to capacity strengthening of early career researchers (ECRs)
- Support research and translation partnerships
- Establish new research links or significantly develop existing links, with the potential for longer term sustainability
- The UK-ASEAN Institutional Links-Early Career Researchers Scheme is funded by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) through ASEAN Dialogue Partner Grant and delivered by the British Council.
Thematic Areas
They invite interdisciplinary proposals on the following thematic areas from four countries only:
Funding Information
- Size of grant: Up to £50,000
- A total of £250,000 is available for four countries, matched by country partner’s institutions. Two grants for Singapore and one each for Brunei, Malaysia and Thailand.
- Duration of the grant: Up to 12 months
Eligibility Criteria
Proposals must fulfil the following criteria to be eligible for funding under this Programme:
- Each proposal must have matched efforts from the partner country institution and associated partners; at least 50% of the grant requested in cash and the remaining is in-kind contribution.
- Each proposal must have one Principal Applicant from the UK and one Principal Applicant from the partner country
- Both Principal Applicants must be Leading Researchers or Established Researchers
- Individuals may only act as Principal Applicant on one application. Multiple applications from the same individual will not be accepted.
- Principal Applicants must be employed by one of the following types of organisations and have a contract that extends beyond the period of the grant i.e., April 2022 –March 2023 (Emeritus and Honorary Professors may not charge for their time).
- A not-for-profit higher education institution with the capacity to undertake highquality research, unless specified otherwise.
- A UK higher education institution (all UK higher education institutions that receive grant funding from one of the UK higher education funding bodies are eligible).
- A not-for-profit research organisation with the capacity to undertake highquality research and a UK Catapult Centres
- Both of the Principal Applicants’ Institutions (the ‘Lead Institutions) must have the capacity to administer the grant.
- The ECRs recruitment process and timeline must be identified.
- Institutions based in the partner country affiliated to institutions in the UK or any other country, such as an overseas campus or research organisation must apply for the grant as Partner Country’s Lead Institution and must include at least one eligible higher education institution or research organisation in the partner country as Associated Partner. Institutions cannot apply in conjunction with their own affiliates in UK.
- Institutions or Individuals with active sanctions against them from partner country will not be eligible for this Call.
- For-profit organisations like businesses and not-for-profit organisations can participate as Associated Partners but are not eligible to apply as Lead Institutions. A business is defined as an organisation undertaking commercial activities.
- For-profit organisations and not-for-profit organisations can participate but are not eligible to receive any grant funds except to cover travel associated costs.
For more information, visit https://www.britishcouncil.org/education/he-science/opportunities/uk-asean-institutional-links-early-career-researchers-scheme