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Deadline 12 noon 28th Feb 2019

There will be a selection process as each university may only submit one application and match funding is required (£1 to every £2 from RE)

Each bid can request up to £500k over 5 years - with this level of funding current partners including Monash might be the best way forward.

As part of UK Research and Innovation’s investment in international research collaborations, the Research England I3 will support approaches in English HEIs that lead to increased scale of effective and sustainable research collaborations at an organisational level that enhance sector practice and research outcomes. The initiative’s objectives are to:

•Increase the scale and impact of existing international research collaborations that are based on excellent research;
•Strengthen the contribution of international collaborations involving English HEIs to our society, pushing the frontiers of human knowledge, delivering economic impact and creating social impact by supporting communities to become enriched, healthier, more resilient and sustainable;
•Contribute towards the delivery of government strategy, including the Industrial Strategy, by supporting sustained improvements in institutional capacity and capability in England.

Each bid can request up to £500k over 5 years.

Universities may each lead only one bid - there will be an internal selection porcess. Bids must have a minimum of one international university or RO. Match funding of £1 for every £2 invested by Research England is required from each participant. Bids to be made through the VC of the lead HEI.

The Leverhulme Trust invites applications for its early-career fellowships. These enable early-career researchers to undertake a significant piece of publishable work and to advance to a more permanent academic position. The research may be in any subject area, with the exception of studies of disease, illness and disabilities in humans and animals, and research that is intended to inform clinical practice and the development of medical applications.

Fellowships may be held at universities or at other HEI in the UK. Applicants must not yet have held a full-time established academic post at a UK university or comparable UK institutions. Candidates must be within four years of their doctoral thesis submission or have equivalent research experience by the time they take up the fellowship. They must also either hold a degree from a UK HEI at the time of taking up the fellowship or at the time of application hold an academic position, such as a fixed-term lectureship or fellowship, in the UK.

Approximately 100 fellowships are available. Each fellowship provides up to £25,000 per year to cover 50 per cent of the fellow’s total salary costs, up to £6,000 a year towards research expenses, up to £150 a day for UK and overseas subsistence and funding for capital items up to £1,000 per item. Fellowships are tenable for three years full time, but the trust may consider part time requests. The host institution must contribute remaining 50 per cent of salary costs for the fellow.

The Science and Technology Facilities Council invites proposals for its challenge-led applied systems programme. This supports the application and commercialisation of STFC research in industrial, environmental and societal grand challenges. Projects must seek to maximise the practical impact of research and innovation to advance or address at least one of the grand challenges in the UK and other countries by:

•fostering global economic performance, and specifically the business competitiveness of the UK;

•increasing the effectiveness of public services and policy;

•enhancing quality of life, health and creative output.

Challenges that must be addressed include those faced by industry, areas of research interest developed by UK government departments and global challenges outlined in the UN sustainable development goals.

Applications must work closely with the end users and consider data ownerships, ethical issues and appropriate regulatory pathways. A business plan is required to provide exploitation plans with support from appropriate industrial and other collaboration to ensure route to market. Proposals must clearly demonstrate that the science, technology and expertise involved originated from the STFC core science programme or the STFC facilities and laboratories, CERN, the European Southern Observatory and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. Proposals offering new technology solutions should consider the importance of interoperability of data generated by devices or services. Projects from short feasibility studies to larger developmental projects may be funded. Industry and end user engagement during developing the project is strongly encouraged. Interdisciplinary projects are welcome.

Lead organisations must be eligible to hold research council grants. Lead applicants must be employed within a research organisation group previously or currently funded by the STFC core science programme, or employed within STFC laboratories and facilities. They must demonstrate that the work proposed develops technologies and expertise directly from the research.

The total budget is worth up to £2 million.

The Royal Astronomical Society and the Office of Astronomy for Development invite applications for their astro4dev grants. These aim to establish and nurture research, educational and development-related collaborations between the UK and countries where astronomy research is not well established.

Scientists, engineers or educators either based in the UK, or travelling to the UK may apply. Visits should be preceded with detailed communication with a well established contact person in the destination country. The contact could be via a regional node of the OAD or a personal contact. Applicants should contact the OAD at least eight weeks before proposed travel. Experts visiting from the UK should interact closely with the hosting scientists, engineers or educators and their students, and should deliver topical lectures and seminars that could be of broader interest at the host institution. Visitors to the UK should present a clear programme of wider participation in research, student supervision and public engagement.

Grants are usually worth up to £1,000 each for visits lasting at least one week, to cover the costs of travel. The host institution must cover local expenses and arrange accommodation.