BBSRC International Travel Award Scheme Grant

BBSRC International Travel Award Scheme Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Amount: Up to £3,000
Last Updated: August 21, 2025

Summary

The BBSRC International Travel Award Scheme offers funding for researchers to connect with international partners, facilitating collaborations and proposal preparations. This scheme supports short-term travel for initial contacts, visits to unique facilities not available in the UK, and attendance at European consortia-building events. Eligible applicants include holders of current BBSRC research grants and employed BBSRC-supported researchers. Funding is capped at £3,000 for travel and subsistence costs.

Overview

Aim Apply for funding to visit international partners, to initiate collaborations, prepare joint funding proposals, visit overseas facilities or attend European consortia-building events. Scope Our international travel awards support: short-term travel for initial contacts with international partners to discuss or prepare proposals for international programmesup to one month visiting specific facilities not available in the UK, undertaking a piece of work, or gaining access to techniques or materials of benefit to your BBSRC research project or teamattendance at European consortia-building events to discuss a future role in it

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. You can apply for support if you are:a holder of a current BBSRC research granta BBSRC-supported researcher employed at BBSRC institutes.The application must be made by a principal investigator, but the principal investigator does not have to be the one travelling.You can only apply after your BBSRC grant has started, and there must be at least six months remaining on your project from the start of the international travel award.Our international travel awards support:short-term travel for initial contacts with international partners to discuss or prepare proposals for international programmesup to one month visiting specific facilities not available in the UK, undertaking a piece of work, or gaining access to techniques or materials of benefit to your BBSRC research project or teamattendance at European consortia-building events to discuss a future role in it.Funding is limited to travel and subsistence costs of up to £3,000.

Ineligibility

Funding is limited to travel and subsistence costs only for UK scientists and cannot be used to fund:Salary costs Consumables Items of equipment Other research costs Students are not eligible.