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Recording: Effective Proposals EURAXESS UK Webinar
Interested in learning how to create an effective funding proposal?
Watch this webinar recording from EURAXESS UK to help you understand what funders want. Learn how to produce proposals that address funders’ needs, flow logically and use language that convinces those who matter. Plus, get an overview of UK and EU (Horizon Europe) funding.
Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) €101.8m call to co-fund organisations to create new or strengthen existing doctoral and postdoctoral programmes. To support institutional, regional, national and international training and career development programmes for researchers.
UK Science and Tech Secretary announces renewed push on UK-EU science and technology links, to tackle shared global challenges. With new UK campaign for Horizon Europe and joining cutting-edge European research consortia.
Funding to support ambitious research and innovation across UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s remit. You must be an early career researcher or innovator who is either:
- looking to establish or transition to independence - developing your own original and ambitious plans within a commercial setting
Funding: AHRC Local Government Association Fellowship
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) LUCIA-Local Government Association (LGA) ECR fellowship programme. Funding to connect researchers and local, regional and national government representatives, and conduct research into equitable, cross-sector partnership building, as a LUCIA-LGA early career fellow. Maximum award £135,000
Funding: MRC Predoctoral clinical research training fellowship
Medical Research Council (MRC) Predoctoral clinical research training fellowship. Funding to undertake a PhD. Your research can focus on any area of Medical Research Council (MRC)’s remit to improve human health.
You must:
- be a registered healthcare professional - be at an appropriate point in your training to undertake a PhD - show plans to pursue a research career
Webinar: Navigating the European Competence Framework for Researchers
The first webinar in a series focused on the recruitment of researchers in both academic and non-academic public sectors. Under the ERA Talent project and its Community of Practice on Recruitment, this event aims to foster collaboration, knowledge sharing, and best practices in recruitment. For professionals, researchers, and policymakers to come together to address recruitment challenges, exchange insights, and enhance recruitment strategies and services.
Funding: UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships
UKRI and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape, including what metascientific, ethical, epistemic, and socioeconomic questions this raises, and how governments, industry, and funding organisations should respond.
Funding - British Academy International Fellowships 2025
The British Academy International Fellowships Programme enables early career researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Jointly run by the British Academy and the Royal Society.
Webinar - Incorporating Gender into International Research Proposals
The British Council is working with UKRI to offer a one hour webinar around incorporating gender considerations into international research proposals. To support Research Managers and Project Leaders understand funders' requirements in this area. As well as reviewing the requirements for gender inclusion in applications, they'll also discuss how these are reviewed and offer insights from researchers who have worked on international projects to understand what steps they took to ensure their projects were gender sensitive.
Event - CONNECTS-UK 2nd European Researchers in the UK Event
Present your research and network with other European researchers in the UK. Held at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. Support for travel expenses available.
Funding - Royal Society International Exchanges grants
Royal Society International Exchanges grants for scientists based in the UK to stimulate new research collaborations with leading scientists overseas. Grants can cover either a one-off short visit to explore opportunities for building lasting networks or bilateral visits to strengthen emerging collaborations.
Horizon Europe European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) has launched a call for proposals for an EIT Knowledge and Innovation Community (EIT KIC) to build a new sustainable innovation partnership to strengthen Europe’s water, marine and maritime sectors and ecosystems. The call for proposals invites consortia of organisations and industry leaders bringing together water-related education, research and business to put forward their vision and strategy for EIT Water.
The Horizon Europe UK National Contact Point for the EIT, Ben Morris, will be delivering a briefing on this initiative on 14th February at 1030-1130 GMT. Registration not required, click on this link to join at the time.
UK-based researchers and innovators across all sectors - access dedicated help from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) experts on Horizon Europe. Learn about Horizon Europe opportunities and understand how to access funding from the world's largest research funding pot. With a budget of €93.5 billion, from 2021 to 2027.
MSCA, R1 Researcher, Computer science, Engineering, Technology. Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AIPT), Aston University, UK. Apply by 15 April.
R2 Researcher, Physics. CNRS - National Center for Scientific Research, France. Apply by 19 February.
EURAXESS UK is a British Council managed portal which aids researchers in their career development, supporting researchers moving to, and from, the UK. In addition to providing useful information and resources, the EURAXESS portal features a free funding database and job search tool. If you have any feedback on the newsletter or want to make suggestions about content that you would like to see, please let us know. Please contact Oonagh Collins from the Euraxess UK team, at EuraxessUK@britishcouncil.org.
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