British Council through Newton Bhabha Fund in collaboration with Department of Biotechnology (DBT) announces Researcher Links Workshop Grant 2020 which is designed to promote international development-relevant research and professional development of early career researchers. The programme gives financial support to bring together a UK and India cohort of early career researchers in a workshop with a potential for long term sustainability.

Who can apply for Workshop Grant? 

• Not-for-profit higher education institutions or publicly-funded research organisations that have Leading or Established Researchers are eligible to apply as Lead institutions.
• Leading or Established Researchers from above mentioned category of institutions can apply to be Principal Applicants (as defined by the European Commission –for further clarity click here).
• Each proposal must have two Principal Applicants, one from UK, and one from India. 

Priority areas

Applications are invited in the following areas:

a.Agriculture and allied areas

b.Environment and Circular Bio-economy

c.Biotechnology-education: research/​policy for accelerated development of the sector

d.Health

e.Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning 

Topics of priority within each of the above area are available here.

For more information click here.

Please click here for full details on-call guidelines and online application form.