Newton Funding Opportunities - Deadline: 28 September 2015
(17/08/2015)
The British Embassy Hanoi is pleased to inform you of three (among others) existing funding opportunities for Vietnamese researchers from the Newton Fund. These specific schemes are administered by British Council. Please find below their newsletter for your kind support to circulate it to your networks and institutions. For overall opportunities from the Newton Fund,please visit our website: www.newtonfund.ac.ukDeadline : 28 September 2015.
Newton Programme Vietnam is now offering three orpotunities dedicated to research individual and institutions. Details are as below:
1. Newton Researcher Links workshop grants: provide financial support for Vietnamese institutions to organise technical workshops that bring together early-career researchers from the UK and Vietnam to allow them to make international connections that can improve the quality of their research.
2. Newton Researcher Links travel grants: provide financial support for Vietnam based early-career researchers to undertake an international research placement up to 6 months in the UK to strengthen links for future collaboration, build research capacity in developing economies, and enhance the researcher's career opportunities.
3. Newton Institutional Links grants: provide financial support for Vietnam and UK institutions to establish links beyond the level of the individual researcher and innovation practitioner, opening up opportunities for more sustainable, solution-oriented collaborations between academic groups as well as with the private and third sector (e.g. SMEs, NGOs, technology transfer offices and other not-for-profit organisations).
Deadline: apply online by 16:00 UK time on 28 September 2015.