British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Funding for International Activities
Select from the list below
- Country-specific agreements and special programmes
- International collaborative programmes
- Special Joint Project programmes
- Other relevant Academy schemes
Country-specific agreements and special programmes
The Academy is signatory to 40 agreements and memoranda of understanding with partner academies and institutions in 30 countries. The Country List gives full details of agreements and special programmes which support individual research visits and collaborative research projects with overseas partners.
Special Joint Project programmes
The Academy has a number of special schemes with partner institutions to support bilateral projects with particular countries or regions. See Country List or click below for a direct link to the relevant scheme.
- Africa: International Partnerships Scheme
- Australia: partner Academies in Australia
- Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia): East European Joint Projects
- China: partner Academies in China and Sino-British Fellowship Trust funds
- Commonwealth Countries: Association of Commonwealth Universities
- France: Centre National de la Recherche Scientific and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme projects.
- Japan: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Latin America and the Caribbean: UK-Latin America/Caribbean Link Programme
- Middle East: International Partnerships Scheme
- South Asia: International Partnerships Scheme
- Spain: CSIC Joint Projects
- Taiwan: National Science Council and Academia Sinica Joint Projects
International collaborative programmes
The Joint Activities and Networks schemes, and the South East Europe Joint Project schemes, have been terminated as separate grants schemes. The Academy's Small and Larger Research Grants schemes have been extended to include the kind of activities previously allowed under the Joint Activities and Networks schemes and the South East Europe Joint Project schemes. (Existing and ongoing grant-holders will not be affected by this change.) For further information, see Small Research Grants and British Academy Research Development Awards.
Other relevant Academy Schemes
- Special Funds: private funds which support research on and travel to various countries in Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
- Research Grants: Small and Larger Research Grants may be used to support work in any country
- Conference Grants: support for travel to and from the UK
- Visiting Scholars: support for postdoctoral foreign scholars to undertake research visits to the UK of between two and four months.
- Newton International Fellowships: Overseen by the British Academy, The Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society, this scheme aims to improve links between overseas researchers and UK scholars through the provision of two-year research fellowships in the UK for foreign scholars
Deadline: January 2010