Funding Call – ODA Research Management Capacity Strengthening
Dear Research Network, Colleagues and Friends,
Please see the enclosed funding opportunity via the British Academy with awards of up to £50,000 for 18-24 months in duration. Projects must begin in March 2025.
The details are located below. Applications are due October 30, 2024. Click here for more details or read below.
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Funding Call – ODA Research Management Capacity Strengthening
The British Academy is inviting proposals which seek to embed and enhance working practices and systems within and between institutions. This is to support equitable partnerships in international research through support for skills collaboration between research offices and research management functions.
Aims
The primary intended outcome of this programme is to enhance the capabilities of institutions in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries and UK-based institutions to overcome systemic barriers of working across borders, as well as embedding the resulting best practice within the institutions to support sustained and equitable international research collaboration. Emphasis is placed on activities that enable sustainable change that continues well beyond the life of the award in institutions, including the development and implementation of policy frameworks or training programmes, for both UK and overseas institutions. These activities are likely to need to reach beyond research offices. It is understood that needs of partner institutions might differ and projects should reflect this.
Awards are expected to involve significant time devoted to dialogue and communication between the institutions involved so that links can be built and enhanced, ways of working can be adapted, and best practice can be reached for all those involved in supporting future research projects. The Academy views the involvement of financial, HR and legal functions within institutions as key to the success of any award, given the significant challenges that these areas can cause in the running of international research projects. Awards that are only aiming to bring together respective research offices will be considered insufficient and will not be supported.
The Academy is particularly conscious that UK-based institutions have significant areas in which they need to learn and listen to partners in these countries and that upskilling and changing practices in UK-based institutions are key actions that support of this kind should be aiming to achieve, while ensuring that the primary benefit of any work on the award is for institutions based in ODA-eligible countries.
Applicants are encouraged to set out:
The change they are seeking to achieve and the challenges they are aiming to overcome
How they will seek to resolve the challenge(s) they have identified and the steps/activities they will take to achieve the change they seek
How they will seek to implement the change during and beyond the award and the commitment they have secured from senior stakeholders to ensure real change on the ground
International Science Partnerships Fund
This call is supported from the UK’s International Science Partnerships Fund managed by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. In the context of this call, funding from the International Science Partnerships Fund is funded by Official Development Assistance (ODA), therefore applications for this funding must be ODA-eligible.
Only research that has a primary objective which is directly and primarily relevant to the problems of developing countries may be counted as ODA.
Eligibility requirements
The awards, which can be between two institutions or involve a wider consortia of institutions across different countries, are aimed at research offices and research management functions, including HR, finance, and legal operations in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries to collaborate with institutions based in the UK to enhance their ability to work together in future. The Academy expects that the institutions involved in any application would likely be building on past and/or existing research activity and collaboration.
Each project will be led by a named Lead. The Lead can be of any nationality, but must be based in a research office and/or research management function, including HR, finance, and legal operations in a role in an eligible university or research institute in the UK, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries. The Lead’s position must last at least the duration of the grant funded by the Academy.
If the Lead is based in the UK, each proposal must include at least one Co-Applicant who is based in a research office and/or research management function, including HR, finance, and legal operations in an eligible university or research institute in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries.
If the Lead is based in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries, each proposal must include at least one Co-Applicant who is based in a research office and/or research management function, including HR, finance, and legal operations in an eligible university or research institute in the UK.
The award must be held at an institution recognised by the Academy. The following types of organisations will be eligible to apply to host the award:
Higher Education institutes that received funding from one of the UK higher education funding bodies
Research institutes (RIs), for which research councils have established a long-term involvement as major funder as part of the national research base
Approved relevant independent research organisations
Public sector research organisations
Research organisations based in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries
Value and duration
The British Academy is offering awards of up to £50,000 for 18-24 months in duration. Projects must begin in March 2025.
Application process
Applications for the ODA Research Management Capacity Strengthening programme must be submitted online using the British Academy’s Grant Management System (GMS), Flexi-Grant®.
The deadline for submissions and UK institutional approval is 30 October 2024, 17:00 (GMT).
For further information on this scheme, including full eligibility requirements, please see the scheme notes.
Contact details
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