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The Royal Society, in collaboration with the National Academies, invites applications for its global challenges research fund challenge-led grants. These support research consortia involving groups in the UK and developing countries in addressing global challenges with a focus on resilience. The objectives of the challenge-led grants are:
鈥unding excellence – generate excellent and novel research on global challenges directly and primarily relevant to developing countries that cuts across multiple thematic areas covered by the sustainable development goals;
鈥upporting collaboration – support the development of sustainable consortia comprising outstanding researchers in the UK and the best research groups in development assistance committee list countries to generate new approaches to the most significant and complex problems faced by developing countries;
鈥romoting interdisciplinary approaches – promote collaboration across different disciplines to take an interdisciplinary approach that generates new knowledge and insights from across different research disciplines;
鈥trengthening research capacity – strengthen research capacity in developing countries through collaboration, sharing of knowledge and skills, and exchange of staff between research groups in the UK and their partners in developing countries.
Researchers across all academic disciplines may apply. The teams must consist of one UK research group and two developing country research groups. The proposed research must address two or more GCRF thematic areas and be interdisciplinary, and it must ultimately benefit the economic development and welfare of developing countries.
Grants are worth up to 拢500,000 each for a period of two and a half years. Requests can include consumables, travel and subsistence, networking costs, small pieces of equipment worth up to 拢10,000, research assistant salary, training and skills development costs, contribution to the time of the applicant or co-applicants, and contribution to overheads. The total budget is 拢8 million.