Submissions open for Workshop Grant Program – Africa and UK

All workshops should include academics from both Africa and the UK, coming together for a minimum of one day. Workshop grants can be used to facilitate participation either by covering the cost of travel for participants or contributing towards event space hire costs. Suitable outputs include a funding application for collaborative research, a collaborative publication, a journal special issue or similar.

Funding Information

• The maximum amount available is £2000, with up to £4,000 per workshop available in exceptional circumstances, requiring specific justification.

Eligibility Criteria

• Awards can only be made to individuals who have evidence of a formal affiliation with a recognized higher educational institution, or a national research/heritage organization.
• Workshops can be held in or about any of the eighteen countries stretching from Sudan to Mozambique that are part of Eastern Africa.
• You must be able to provide one academic reference by the submission deadline and to secure your own institutional risk assessment before the workshop.
• Because this grant does not support research, no research may be undertaken during the course of the supported activity, therefore no ethics approval or data management plan is required.
• Grants can be used to cover the cost of travel and accommodation; or to contribute towards the costs of events or outputs.
• Grants cannot be spent on research costs, research workshops, costs associated with publication of research. They do not fund costs of the applicant’s or supervisor’s time, honorariums, institutional overheads, or (in most cases) the cost of equipment or books. They only fund economy travel. BIEA may occasionally ask applicants to revise budgets for further consideration.
• You must be able to demonstrate that you can complete the activity by 31 January 2026.

For more information, visit BIEA.