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The Crick Partnership Networking Fund supports the development of connections between the four partners (Crick, UCL, Imperial College London and King's), with up to £3000 available per project. 

We are currently accepting applications for this fund - see below for details.

The Crick Partnership Networking Fund supports staff and students from the Crick and its university partners (UCL, King’s and Imperial) to organise joint networking events. These events provide a great opportunity to establish and develop new connections, exchange ideas and build initiatives across disciplinary boundaries and research sites.

The aims of the Networking Fund (NF) are to:

  1. Create and promote a range of new networking events for Crick-HEI researchers to build professional networks within the Partnership and beyond their own discipline through joint events. 
  2. Support interdisciplinary researchers to make connections, share and develop ideas and that could support joint research funding applications.
  3. Encourage applications that cross disciplinary boundaries, particularly at the Clinical and Physical Sciences interfaces.
  4. Foster the use, and building, of skills for those directly involved in these funded initiatives (e.g. communication skills, leadership, etc.). 

These projects should primarily benefit the Crick and its Partnership staff by building links between them. Events could also include external contacts from other universities, industry, policy or other organisations where there are opportunities to build wider networks. Supported events may include, but are not limited to:

  • Networking events such as workshops, seminars and small scale symposia;
  • The establishment of new networks to promote the exchange of ideas, best practice, and other research goals;
  • The development of communication activities e.g. development of webpages, news forums and case studies, for interest groups which may be time restricted (i.e. clinical staff); 
  • Public engagement activities and events.

Any member of staff or graduate student from the UCL, King's, Imperial or the Crick can jointly apply and get up to £3,000 to help run their events. More information on eligibility and selection criteria can be found in the application guidelines.

The deadline for the next round of applications is Friday 6 March 2020.

Hear more from our previous participants:

“The Networking Fund has provided an invaluable opportunity for the development of new links between individuals and teams who may not otherwise have got in contact” Wei Xing, Crick Scientific Computing (Image Analysis seminar series in partnership with UCL, Imperial and King’s College London)

“The Networking Fund has helped to bring the vibrant London neuroscience community into the Crick, as well as creating and strengthening bonds across groups and institutions” Carles Bosch, Crick Postdoc (London Neurotechnology Network in partnership with UCL and Imperial College London)

“The Networking Fund allowed us to establish a group of researchers from within the Crick and through the partner institutes that focus on single-molecule techniques, totally independent of research group, university department or field of biological enquiry”  James Flewellen, Crick Postdoc (Single Molecule Network, in partnership with Imperial College London)

“The Networking Fund enabled our newly established London Stem Cell Network (LSCN) to expand its activities in holding workshops that promoted both networking and research opportunities” Antoniana Batsivari, Crick Postdoc (London Stem Cell Network, in partnership with UCL, King’s and Imperial College London)

For queries please contact Solene Debaisieux

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