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The International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) is designed to enable potential and foster prosperity.
It puts research and innovation at the heart of our international relationships, supporting UK researchers and innovators to collaborate with peers around the world on the major themes of our time: planet, health, tech and talent.
By working closely with our international partners, we aim to address global challenges, build knowledge, and develop the technologies of tomorrow.
Funding councils:
AHRCBBSRCEPSRCESRCInnovate UKMRCNERCSTFC
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The International Wheat Yield partnership (IWYP) brings together funding from public and private international research organisations. This unique collaboration aligns with the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s (BBSRC) strategic priority in agriculture and global food security.
Funding councils:
BBSRC
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The Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI) promotes integration and alignment of national research resources and priorities in Europe under a common research strategy to address diverse challenges in agriculture, food security and climate change.
Funding councils:
BBSRC
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The aim of this programme is to find ways to deliver a better, evidence-based and interdisciplinary decision-making framework to inform how land is used, through research collaboration with policy, business and land management partners.
Funding councils:
AHRCBBSRCEPSRCESRCNERC
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This programme will take an interdisciplinary approach to funding research that aims to use local, cultural, and natural assets and activities to support improvements in health inequalities in the UK.
It is supported by a partnership with the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) and will fund projects in three phases.
Funding councils:
AHRCBBSRCESRCMRCNERC
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The National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Research (NICER) programme includes investment for a Circular Economy hub, centres, and collaborative research and development competitions to realise the UK’s potential to grow and prosper sustainably by transitioning to a more circular economy.
Funding councils:
AHRCBBSRCESRC
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BBSRC has identified industrial biotechnology in its strategic plan as a priority area to reduce dependency on petrochemicals and help the UK to become a low carbon economy, contributing to the targets for reducing emission of greenhouse gases.
Funding councils:
BBSRC
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The aim of this research area is to support a broad range of high quality research relating to diet, nutrition and obesity that will help in the promotion of health and in the protection from, and treatment of, disease such as diabetes and cardiovascular problems.
Funding councils:
BBSRCESRCMRC
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The aim of this programme is to support the research needed to understand the risks posed by plastic pollution in low and middle income countries. It will explore which interventions, policies and regulations can mitigate these risks, enabling a cleaner, more resilient and productive environment.
Funding councils:
AHRCBBSRCEPSRCESRCNERC
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The aim of this strategic priority is to address issues of food waste through increased efficiencies or interventions which prevent wastage, at any point in the food chain, from source to stomach. It also looks at potential alternative uses for food waste.
Funding councils:
BBSRC
