BBSRC Global Partnering Awards, 2019

Closing date: 14 Nov 2019 16:00

Aims

  • To establish partnerships between UK and overseas laboratories
  • To promote the exchange of scientists, particularly early career scientists
  • To promote access to facilities
  • To enhance collaborative activities with CGIAR Centres and programmes (Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research Centres)
  • While this scheme will consider applications for partnership activities with any country not currently covered by individual schemes, BBSRC particularly welcomes applications which seek to partner with researchers in Argentina.

Scope

  • Funds can only be used for travel, subsistence and other activities, such as workshops or exchanges. They are not to fund salary costs, consumables, items of equipment or other research costs, nor to link ongoing single collaborative projects
  • Typically up to £30,000 over a four year period for partnerships with one or more life science laboratories in countries not currently eligible through our existing partnering award schemes
  • Applicants who wish to partner with researchers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, India, Japan, New Zealand, USA and Taiwan should apply to these specific Partnering Award schemes
  • Research groups should try and access other sources of funding in addition to the Partnering Award
  • Successful awards should aim to start from April 2020.

Assessment criteria

  • The relevance of the award and benefit that this will bring to BBSRC
  • The benefits brought back to the UK; for example through access to new facilities or unique partnerships that would have been otherwise unavailable
  • The uniqueness of the opportunity to work with international partners in ways that would otherwise be unavailable
  • The level of contribution (either financial or in-kind) from the UK institution or the overseas partner
  • The opportunities for the exchange of scientists, with a balance of activities that are appropriate to the topic area
  • The opportunities for early career researchers that will benefit their future career.

Eligibility

  • Open to current BBSRC research grant holders, who are in receipt of BBSRC funding
  • UK consortia of academics may apply, with one person acting as the lead.

 

 

For more details, or to apply, visit the call webpage.

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