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Applications are now open for the2025/2026 British Council’s Research Environments collaboration grants. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Opportunity Details
The grants support capacity strengthening and collaboration activities that help develop research environment connections between the UK and Brazil, Morocco, Pakistan and Peru.
Key details
Project length: 12 months, starting January 2026
Funding can be used to establish new research environment links, or significantly develop existing links, between research groups, departments or institutions, with the potential for longer-term sustainability.
Each collaboration should support capacity strengthening in the partner institution, while stimulating longer-term interactions between the UK and the partner country.
Grant amount: £25,000 to £40,000
The call accepts joint proposals from one lead UK institution and one lead partner country institution. The application must be submitted by the lead UK institution.
UK lead institutions must be one of the following:
Partner country institutions must be one of the following:
Apply via our online application form
Application documentation (including an offline sample of the application form) is available to download below.
All applications must be submitted via our online grant platform (registration required): https://goingglobalpartnerships.grantplatform.com/
The online application can only be started and submitted by the lead UK institution. Any application started by a non-UK institution will be automatically ineligible.
If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]
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