International Exchanges Global Round Grant

The International Exchanges Global Round offers UK scientists a unique opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers worldwide. This scheme facilitates one-off visits and bilateral travel to stimulate new partnerships, provide seed funding for preliminary data, and enhance research ideas. It is essential for fostering international collaboration, enabling the exchange of expertise, and strengthening emerging research ties. This initiative is particularly focused on establishing new connections rather than supporting existing collaborations.

The International Exchanges Scheme is designed to offer a flexible platform for UK based scientists to interact with the best scientists around the world. It is available for scientists based in the UK who want to stimulate new research collaborations with leading scientists overseas through either a one-off visit or bilateral travel.
Aims of the Scheme
The objectives of the International Exchanges scheme are to:
Stimulate the development of new research collaborations between UK researchers and researchers from around the world;Provide seed corn funding to establish partnerships, gather preliminary data, develop research ideas and strengthen applications for further funding;Enable UK and international research groups to exchange research staff, to share expertise andexchange ideas
Grants cover bilateral visits to strengthen emerging collaborations. This scheme is not intended to support continued research activities between a UK applicant and a co-applicant who was a former colleague or PhD student or to support other existing or recent collaborations between the applicant and co-applicant. Rather, the scheme is intended to stimulate new collaborations between scientists in the UK and overseas.