The aim of the Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund is to support UK environmental science researchers to forge new partnerships and networks with the best international researchers, wherever they are located, and seed collaborations that will be sustained beyond the lifetime of the grant.
The aim of the Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund is to support UK environmental science researchers to forge new partnerships and networks with the best international researchers, wherever they are located, and seed collaborations that will be sustained beyond the lifetime of the grant.
The Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund supports a single level of grant with one closing date in spring each year. One or more new international project partners are mandatory.
The Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund objectives are to:
- support new international collaborations with the best researchers wherever they are located that will result in excellent research that is developing new knowledge that cannot be achieved by individual national research communities alone or by existing collaborations
- support development of long-term partnerships with international scientists that have potential to become self-sustaining beyond the lifetime of the grant, for example, through accessing new collaborative research funding opportunities
- pilot new collaborative research ideas with international partners or enhance existing funded research through adding an international dimension or expanding the international partners already engaged.