Deadline: 18-Jan-23
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is inviting applications for the Early Career Researcher International Collaboration Grants to initiate or develop new international partnerships with researchers overseas.
Funding Information
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EPSRC has up to £5,000,000 to spend on the 2 funding routes of this funding opportunity, including:
- Up to £4,000,000 for this open funding route
- Up to £1,000,000 for the international development funding route
- You may apply for up to £200,000 at 100% full economic costs with duration of up to 2 years.
What they are looking for?
- EPSRC wants to support early career researchers to initiate or develop new international partnerships with researchers overseas. You and your international partners may have a previous relationship, but they do not expect you to have worked together extensively.
- They expect 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.
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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
- As per standard New Investigator Award guidance, you can include co-investigators if the grant crosses disciplinary boundaries and it is demonstrated that they are from a different discipline to the principal investigator.
Eligibility Criteria
You must be:
- An early career researcher who meets the eligibility requirements of the EPSRC New Investigator Award scheme
- Is based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.
- There are 2 parallel funding routes to this funding opportunity:
- Open funding route
- International development funding route
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Investigators must be academic employees – lecturer or equivalent – of an eligible organisation. Eligible organisations include:
- All UK higher education institutions that receive grant funding from one of the UK higher education funding bodies
- Some research institutes
- NHS bodies with research capacity
- UKRI-approved independent research organisations
- Public Sector Research Establishments that have independent capability to undertake and lead research programmes and satisfy various financial and legal criteria.
For more information, visit EPSRC.
For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/early-career-researcher-international-collaboration-grants/