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UKRI GCRF/Newton Fund Agile Response call to address COVID-19

The Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID) is pleased to announce to the university community that UKRI GCRF/Newton Fund is inviting proposals for short-term projects addressing and mitigating the health, social, economic, cultural and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak in Low and Middle Income Countries.

This call is funded through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and the Newton Fund. These Funds address global challenges through disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and strengthen capability for research and innovation within both the UK and developing countries, providing an agile response to emergencies where there is an urgent research need.

UKRI will support excellent proposals which meet at least one of the following:

  • New research or innovation with a clear pathway to impact on policy or practice that has the potential (within the period of the award) to deliver a significant contribution to the understanding of, response to, and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in a developing country context.
  • Supports the manufacture and/or wide scale adoption of an intervention with significant potential for impact in developing countries.
  • Gathers critical data and resources quickly for future research use.

Eligibility:

  • Applications are strongly encouraged from LMIC countries to apply to and participate in this call.
  • LMIC country Principal Investigators from an organisation that lead or have previously led and held UKRI grants and have undergone Je-S registration and due diligence checks are eligible to be lead applicants for this call.
  • The LMIC-based organisation must be able to receive and manage funds from UKRI via a grant and must ensure their application complies with local regulations and has the necessary local approvals.

Funding:

This call will cover 100% fEC costs for Principal and Co-Investigators from LMICs. This applies to Investigators from Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Award range: there is no specific budget for this call.

Project length: up to 18 months

Closing date: none – apply at any time

Kindly refer to the link below for further details of the call:

https://www.ukri.org/funding/funding-opportunities/ukri-gcrf-newton-fund...