MRC: UK-Indonesia Joint Partnership on Infectious Diseases, July 2018

**EOI by 26 June; full application by 24 July**

The Medical Research Council (MRC) and Kementerian Riset Teknologi Dan Pendidikan Tinggi Republik Indonesia (RISTEKDIKTI) are pleased to invite research proposals to the UK-Indonesia Joint Partnership on Infectious Diseases through the Newton Fund.

This initiative will provide funding for high-quality three-year collaborative research projects focusing on infectious diseases of relevance to Indonesia.

In total, up to approximately £2,370,000 of funding will be made available for this initiative: up to £2m of MRC funding and up to 7,200,000,000 Rupiah (approximately £370,000) from RISTEKDIKTI.

The size of the grants will vary according to the needs of the research project. However, we would expect each project to cost approximately £400,000 including up to approximately £333,000 to be requested from the MRC and up to approximately 1,200,000,000 Rupiah from RISTEKDIKTI (approximately £62,000).

Researchers planning to submit to this scheme are asked to submit a short expression of interest to international@mrc.ukri.org by 26 June 2018.

This does not form a review process and applicants should continue to complete their full proposal by the deadline of 24 July 2018.

RISTEKDIKTI and MRC welcome proposals across the spectrum of infectious diseases of health relevance to Indonesia, including vaccine development and diagnostics.

For the full call text please visit the MRC grant call webpage.