Partner Funds

Africa and Middle East Teaching Fund Initiative  

Closed

Awards of up to £3,500 to help UCL academics collaborate with HE institutions in sub-Saharan Africa to increase independent teaching capability/capacity in the region

Teaching activity in sub-Saharan Africa

UCL-Wits University Strategic Partner Funds (Research/Teaching Collaborative Activity)

Closed

Awards of up to £5,000 are available to support the development of research collaboration between UCL and Wits in all areas

Research/teaching proposals in areas of mutual interest and complementarity strengths that will strengthen the partnership between UCL and Wits

UCL-Wits University Strategic Partner Funds (Grant for Pump Priming Initiatives)

Closed

Awards of up to £20,000 are available to support pump priming initiatives between UCL and Wits in all areas

Any UCL activity with University of Witwatersrand to serve as a catalyst to enable UCL-Wits collaborators to apply for larger external funding

UCL-Wits-ARUA Partner Funds

Closed

Up to £20,000 is available to support a trilateral collaboration between UCL, Wits and one or more members of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA)

Any UCL activity with University of Witwatersrand and one additional ARUA university

UCL-Peking University Strategic Partner Funds

Closed

Successful proposals in any field, as well as those aimed at mitigating the COVID-19 outbreak and one or more of the UN SDGs, will receive up to £10,000

Any UCL activity with Peking University

UCL-Zhejiang University Strategic Partner Funds

Closed

Up to six successful proposals in any field, as well as those aimed at mitigating the COVID-19 outbreak and one or more of the UN SDGs, will receive up to £10,000

Any UCL activity with Zhejiang University

UCL-Osaka University Strategic Partner Funds

Closed

Each successful proposal will receive up to £5,000 from each institution for a total award of up to £10,000

Any UCL activity with Osaka University

UCL-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds

Closed

Each successful proposal will receive up to £5,000 from each institution for a total award of up to £10,000

Any UCL activity with Tohoku University

 UCL-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Strategic Partner Funds

Closed

Each successful proposal will receive up to £5,000 from each institution for a total award of up to £10,000

Any UCL activity with Shanghai Jiao Tong University

University of Sydney – UCL Partnership Collaboration Awards

Closed

Each successful proposal will receive up to AUD 10,000 from each institution for a total award of up to AUD 20,000

UCL activity with University of Sydney that will address global challenges as well as develop multi-disciplinary research

UCL-University of Toronto Strategic Partner Funds (Emerging Global Talents)

Closed

Each successful proposal will receive up to £10k for UCL academics and up to $15k for U of T academics in teams led by early career researchers for one year of funding

UCL activity with University of Toronto 

UCL-University of Toronto Strategic Partner Funds (Strategic Challenges Fund)

Closed

Each successful proposal will receive up to £40k for UCL academics and up to $60k for U of T academics over two years of funding

Activities of bigger scale aligning with the SDGs for academics in UCL and University of Toronto

UCL-Cornell Global Strategic Collaboration Awards (GSCA)

Closed

Each successful proposal may receive up to the equivalent of $5,000/£4,000 from each university for a total of $10,000/£8,000

Any collaborative and interdisciplinary UCL activity with Cornell