Travel Award for International Skills and Knowledge Exchange Grant

Travel Award for International Skills and Knowledge Exchange Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Biochemical Society
Amount: Up to £2,000
Last Updated: March 10, 2026

Summary

The Travel Award for International Skills and Knowledge Exchange provides grants up to £2,000 to facilitate research capacity building in low-income economies such as Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. These grants support visits for knowledge exchange, whether by hosting a visitor or sending someone to assist with research setup. Eligible candidates must be Biochemical Society members for over 12 months and include a teaching component in their plans.

Overview

What’s on offer? These grants are available to support research capacity building in low-income economy parts of the world e.g. Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The grants will support either a visitor from a lower-income economy country to a host laboratory in a higher-income economy country in order to learn methods. Alternatively, the grants will support a person based in a higher-income economy visiting a lower-income economy country to assist with the set-up of research. What will the grant cover? Up to £2,000 is available per grant. However applications are invited for smaller amounts of funding. The Travel Award for International Skills and Knowledge Exchange should last between two and four weeks.  This grant is intended to cover reasonable travel, accommodation, and subsistence costs during your visit.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. What are the criteria for eligibility?These grants are available to Postgraduate, Early Career, Full and Emeritus members. Either the applicant or the person hosting the Travel Award for International Skills and Knowledge Exchange must have been a member of the Biochemical Society for over 12 months on the closing date of the round that they apply to.There must be an element of teaching during the Travel Award for International Skills and Knowledge Exchange, for example, giving research seminars. Successful applicants will show detailed plans for the dissemination of the knowledge transferred, detailing how the knowledge will be transferred beyond the fellow or host lab to improve research in the lower-income economy country. You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member. Either the applicant or the person hosting the Travel Award for International Skills and Knowledge Exchange must have been a member of the Biochemical Society for over 12 months on the closing date of the round that they apply to.

Ineligibility

The member applying for the grant must not have received a Travel Award for International Skills and Knowledge Exchange or a General Travel Grant from the Biochemical Society within the previous two years on the closing date of the round that they apply to.The grant is not intended to support collaborative visits.