| Newton Fund | | | Multiple disciplines | Various calls opening throughout the year with funding activities including capacity building, fellowships, mobility schemes, research collaborations, and innovation partnerships to develop innovative solutions to development issues for Newton partner countries. | Newton Fund partner countries | |
| Global Challenges Research Fund | | | Multiple disciplines | Link to all open GCRF calls led by one or more of the UK's Research Councils (AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC, STFC) or UKRI. | LMICs | |
| Horizon Europe | | | Multiple disciplines | Link to all open Horizon Europe calls.
| Europe and associated countries | |
| COST Actions | | | Multiple disciplines | The European Cooperation in
Science and Technology (COST) is a funding organisation for the creation of
research networks, called COST Actions. COST provides networking
opportunities for researchers and innovators to strengthen Europe’s
capacity to address scientific, technological and societal challenges. Researchers can
submit a proposal to join an ongoing COST Action.
| Europe, Israel, South Africa | |
| NIHR Global Health Research Programme | | | Global health | The Global Health Research Centres programme provides substantive funding to support research-driven partnerships between institutions in low and middle income countries (LMICs) and in the UK. The first call will fund centres to undertake high quality research in non-communicable diseases and support the development of a critical mass of sustainable, competitive research capacity. Funding awards of up to £10 million over five years are available to consortia made up of one UK institution and up to four LMIC institutions.
| LMICs | 2021033131-Mar-2021 |
| NIHR Global Health Research Programme | | | Global health | These awards will provide funding to collaborations of specialist researchers within universities and research institutes in LMICs and the UK who wish to establish new programmes of applied health research. Global Health Research Groups will be either new to delivering applied health research globally or wish to expand an existing partnership. Global Health Research Groups will address unmet global health needs through equitable research partnerships and must have Joint UK and LMIC Lead applicants, clear plans to strengthen research capacity and support future sustainability of research in partner countries.
| LMICs | 2021051818-May-2021 |
| Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) | | | Biomedical sciences, physical science, engineering | The Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) is a collaboration between the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR), the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). The award will provide up to 4 fours of PhD studies. PhD training will be carried out in English at your chosen lab at A*STAR Research Institutes, NTU, NUS or SUTD.
| Singapore | 2021060101-Jun-2021 |
| Health Systems Research Initiative (HSRI) | | | Health systems | Apply for funding for research to improve health systems in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). This can be an exploratory, stand-alone study or a pilot or feasibility work that leads to a large research project in future. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and Wellcome will fund UK research at 74% of the full economic cost and LMIC research at 100% of the full economic cost.
| LMICs | 2021052626-May-2021 |
| Applied Global Health Research Board | | | Global health | Apply for funding for applied global health research that will benefit the health of people living in low and middle income countries (LMICs). The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will particularly welcome proposals that combine expertise from more than one sector to meet a global health challenge.
| LMICs | 2021041414-Apr-2021 |
| Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships | | | Biomedical sciences | Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships are aimed at researchers who want to undertake a guided period of research and will go on to lead their own independent research. You must either be in the final year of your PhD studies or be an early-career researcher with some initial postdoctoral experience. The scope of your proposal should be broader than that of a typical postdoctoral position and could include conducting resarch in more than one location either in the UK or another country.
| Worldwide (apart from mainland China) | 2021032323-Mar-2021 |
| Senior Research Fellowships | | | Biomedical sciences | Senior Research Fellowships support independent researchers who are emerging as global leaders in their field and want to tackle the most important questions in science. You can apply if you're already leading your own independent research programme and you are an emerging global leader in your field. Your host organisation must be located in either the UK, Republic of Ireland, or a low- or middle-income country apart from mainland China.
| LMICs (apart from mainland China) | 2021070101-Jul-2021 |
| University Awards in Humanities and Social Science | | | Biomedical sciences | University Awards enable humanities and social science researchers to gain permanent positions at academic organisations. You can apply for a University Award if you've been nominated by a head of department at an eligible academic organisation. You should have a PhD or the equivalent experience, and have built up a competitive track record in a relevant area of research. The academic organisation should be in the UK, Republic of Ireland or a low- or middle-income country (apart from mainland China).
| LMICs (apart from mainland China) | 2021061616-Jun-2021 |
| Knowledge Frontiers | Polish Academy of Sciences, British Academy
| | Humanities, social sciences | The British Academy and the Polish Academy of Sciences invite applications from early
career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to participate in a virtual
Knowledge Frontiers Symposium on the broad theme of Just Transitions. The Symposium will encompass a range of virtual research activities that will facilitate
cross-disciplinary and international discussion, networking, knowledge exchange, and
cooperation, and aims to encourage international engagement between
early career researchers based in Poland and in the United Kingdom.
| Poland | 2021072121-Jul-2021 |
| The Wohl Alliance | | | Clean growth | The Wohl Alliance is a new
initiative funded by the Wohl Legacy and managed by the British Council
together with the UK Science and Innovation Network in Israel, in partnership
with the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology. The Wohl Alliance
aims to further research-linked cooperation between the UK and Israel in areas
of clean growth linked to food, water and energy. The Wohl Alliance will offer grants
of up to £20,000 to help form, maintain, enlarge and promote such collaboration.
| Israel | 2021072929-Jul-2021 |
| Longitudinal Population Studies | | | Global health | Wellcome - along with African scientists and international funders - have identified the need to develop an African-led network of longitudinal population studies to leverage resources, infrastructure and expertise in the continent. This commission will support the formative phase of the African Population Cohort Consortium (APCC). Wellcome ahave launched a request for proposal (RFP) to commission an African-led delivery partner to run the formative phase of APCC. Delivery teams may also consist of international partners.
| Africa | 2021051414-May-2021 |
| NIHR Global Health Research Programme | | | Global health | These awards will provide funding to collaborations of specialist researchers within universities and research institutes in LMICs and the UK who wish to establish new programmes of applied health research. Global Health Research Units will have an existing track record of delivering internationally recognised applied global health research and wish to consolidate and expand this work. Units will address unmet global health needs through equitable research partnerships and must have Joint UK and LMIC Lead applicants.
| LMICs | 2021051818-May-2021 |
| Innovation Fund 2021 | | | Lyme disease | This fund will award small project grants of up to £50,000 towards innovative projects which address Lyme disease diagnostics and/or finding effective treatment protocols for all stages of Lyme disease. The fund is open to academic institutions, accredited labs, and small commercial enterprises in the UK and Europe, including collaborations between UK academic institutions and partners based in Europe.
| Europe | 2021041616-Apr-2021 |
| 2021 Grants and Opportunities Programme | | | Arts, humanities, social sciences | The British Institute
at Ankara (BIAA) invites scholars at
all stages of their career to apply to its 2021 grants and opportunities
programme. Support is available for research projects located within the
arts, humanities and social sciences that focus on Turkey and / or the Black
Sea region and address one or more of the BIAA’s current Strategic Research Initiatives.
| Turkey | 2021042929-Apr-2021 |
| BIEA Thematic Research Grants | | | Humanities, social sciences | The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) invites applications for funding for research projects in the humanities and social sciences in eastern Africa (Sudan to Mozambique, Zambia to Madagascar). BIEA will support early career researchers and scholars in eastern Africa. Researchers may include postgraduate students in eastern African or the UK, people who have not followed conventional research careers but whose local knowledge or contacts make them well-fitted to conduct high quality research, and/or collaborative projects which might involve more established scholars but where the resources are ring-fenced for early career or Africa-based project partners.
| Eastern Africa | 2021051414-May-2021 |
| CHANSE Programme | | | Digital innovation, social sciences | Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe (CHANSE) will support new and innovative research into the workings, meaning and consequences of transformations and innovations in the present digital age, viewed through the lens of the social and cultural dynamics. Research areas must be within ESRC or AHRC’s remit, and proposals must demonstrate a strong European dimension. €750,000 is
available. Projects start in September or October 2022 and will last 24 to 36
months.
| Europe | 2021050707-May-2021 |
| The Alliance Hubert Curien Programme | | | Multiple disciplines | The Alliance Hubert Curien programme is a joint initiative managed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Ministry of Higher Education & Research (MESRI), and the Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs (MEAE). The initiative will encourage reciprocal mobility and joint collaboration between early career researchers. Research groups in the UK and France can apply for funding for travel and subsistence, and other joint research related costs which will enable reciprocal mobility over a two-year period.
| France | 2021053131-May-2021 |
| The Health Technology Assessment Programme | | | Health technology | This programme supports research that is immediately useful to patients, clinical practice, and policy or decision makers. HTA research is undertaken when evidence exists to show that a technology can be effective. The researcher-led workstream offers researchers the opportunity to submit proposals on topics or research questions within the programme’s remit. The commissioned workstream invites applications in response to calls for research on specific questions, which have been identified and prioritised for their importance to the NHS and patients.
| Australia | 2021072828-Jul-2021 |
