About this opportunity
This call is now closed.
Note: This is a closed call. Only lead applicants from Royal Botanic Gardens Kew or Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh will be considered eligible.
Newton Fund Institutional Links aims to build UK-partner country research and innovation collaborations centred on shared research and innovation challenges which have direct relevance to social welfare and economic development.
This programme is designed to establish links beyond the level of the individual researcher and innovation practitioner, opening up opportunities for more sustainable, solution-oriented collaborations between academic groups as well as with the private and third sector (e.g. SMEs, NGOs, technology transfer offices and other not-for-profit organisations).
These grants are funded under the Newton Fund, a UK Government initiative funded by the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), together with partner funders from around the world. The Fund aims to promote the economic development and welfare of either the partner countries or, through working with the partner country, to address the problems of low-income and vulnerable populations.
Size of grant: up to £125,000
Priority areas: Partner countries may specify priority areas and will only accept applications within these. Priority areas are listed in the guidelines document (download section).
ODA requirement: All applications must meet the required relevance to economic development or social welfare (see guidelines for further information) of the partner country.
Partner Countries
Applications can be submitted for collaborations between Royal Botanic Gardens Kew or Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh and Brazil/Sao Paulo, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Peru.
Eligibility criteria
- Principal Applicants from the UK must be permanent employees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew or Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh. The Principal Applicants’ institutions (the ‘Lead Institutions’) must have the capacity to administer the grant.
- All Principal Applicants must be Leading Researchers or Established Researchers as defined by the EC here .
Other eligibility criteria apply. Please refer to the guidelines document available from the download section below for full eligibility criteria.
Deadline
This call is now closed.
How to apply
Note: This call is now closed.
- Download and read fully the guidelines document from the download section.
- Complete the online application form.
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Contact
All queries or comments about this call should be addressed to the Institutional Links email address UK-InstitutionalLinks@britishcouncil.org. Please specify that you are enquiring about the Newton Fund Institutional Links UK and LATAM call.