Submissions open for Ireland-Scotland Bilateral Network Grants

The ambition of the Ireland-Scotland Bilateral Network Grants is to strengthen cooperation and learning between excellent researchers, academics and practitioners in Scotland and Ireland within the five thematic areas identified within the 2021 Irish-Scottish Bilateral Review.

Objectives

• To strengthen cooperation and learning between Scotland and Ireland through bilateral funding for joint projects;
• To foster partnerships/networks within and beyond academia;
• To encourage the initiation of new partnerships and/or the development of existing partnerships;
• To contribute to policy discussion in Ireland and Scotland in the specified thematic area.

Themes

• The Ireland–Scotland Bilateral Network Grants invite applications which address the theme of ‘Business and Economic Relationships’. The Ireland-Scotland Bilateral Review notes the scope for shared learning and activity to increase their economic cooperation in a number of areas, including renewable energy, and with this in mind, they especially welcome applications that adopt an environmental focus when addressing the theme.

Funding Information

• The maximum sum available for any one grant is £12,500 per project (GBP Sterling) for a period of 3–6 months.

Eligible Projects 

• ‘Business and Economic Relationships’:
  • The project can build on existing international collaboration between the two countries or may demonstrate plans for the development of new collaborative networks.
  • Projects are welcome from all disciplines across the Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences.
  • Applications that push disciplinary boundaries by bringing various disciplines together are particularly welcome, especially where wider inclusion and diversity elements are evident.
  • While awards will be open to all career stages and all HEIs in Ireland and Scotland, they encourage applications that are either led by early career researchers (ECRs) or include ECRs as active participants within the proposed project.

Eligibility Criteria

• The grant is open to academic researchers working in higher education institutions (HEI) or research institutes (RI) in Scotland or Ireland. In each application, the lead applicant must be a full or part-time academic in any of the listed disciplines, and a tenured and/or salaried staff member of an HEI or RI in Scotland or Ireland (not including Northern Ireland).
• Lead applicants must be on open-ended, continuing, or fixed-term contracts which extend beyond the end date of the envisaged grant period. The grant cannot be used to extend an applicant’s contract.
• In each application, the lead applicant must be a full or part-time academic in any discipline and a tenured and/or salaried staff of a higher education institution (HEI) or research institute (RI) in Scotland or Ireland. Lead applicants must be on open-ended, continuing, or fixed-term contracts which extend beyond the end date of the envisaged grant period. The grant cannot be used to extend an applicant’s contract.
• Each application must include a partner in the other country, i.e. those with a lead applicant in Ireland must have a co-investigator in Scotland and vice versa.
• Application partners may come from any discipline across the Humanities, Social Sciences or Sciences.
• Each application may have a number of partners/co-investigators across both countries if appropriate to the project.

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