Europe Hub funding opportunities

This programme is established in partnership with Ivan Franko National University Lviv (IFNUL) to honour the memory of Maya Harbuzyuk, late Dean of IFNUL's Faculty of Culture and Arts. The Fellowship is open to Academics and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) at IFNUL with an interest in the field of Shakespeare research or general drama and theatre research. Fellows are invited to Birmingham for up to three months to conduct a research project. Funding includes a living cost allowance and travel bursary.

For more information about the latest calls, please visit The Maya Harbuzyuk Twinning Fellowship in Theatre Studies.

About

Note: The second round of funding has now closed. Updates for subsequent rounds will be posted in this section. 

About

This joint fund offers colleagues from Birmingham and Leiden University up to £15,000 to deepen existing relationship, establish new collaborations, and widen faculty-faculty networks, with an aim to:

• Progress joint research priorities and connect researchers;
• enhance our institutional research profiles through collaborative publications;
• build productive, impactful relationships with leading academic, scientific, cultural and policy communities;
• expand access to expertise, facilities and educational exchange;
• and evolve into jointly submitted proposals to external funding agencies for sustained support of collaborative research activities.

Criteria

The UoB-Leiden seed fund supports collaborative engagement between UoB and Leiden University with the following priorities:

Implementation Grants to support and strengthen existing faculty-faculty relationships leading to clearly defined outputs.

Priority will be given to activities that have the potential to:

a) Progress joint research priorities;

b) Connect world-leading researchers;

c) Enhance our institutional research profiles through collaborative publications;

d) Build productive, impactful relationships with leading academic, scientific, cultural and policy communities;

e) Evolve into jointly-submitted proposals to external funding agencies for sustained support of collaborative research activities.

Initiation Grants to encourage wider faculty involvement and expand institutional engagement. We invite funding applications from colleagues interested in developing new research relationships. Priority will be given to:

a) Applicants who can clearly demonstrate that they have established a potential area of collaboration with UoB counterparts;

b) Activities with the potential to extend beyond individual links to wider – i.e., ‘research group to research group’ – collaborations;

c) Projects with the potential for sustained and enlarged collaborative activity.

Guidelines

There are no restrictions on the forms of activity undertaken with UoB-Leiden funding, providing they meet the criteria outlined above.

The fund is available to support planning visits, workshops and exchanges with the partner institution for the purpose of developing the strategic partnership. The fund may also support meetings in third party locations where there is potential to develop and/or showcase collaboration.

Activities may include but are not limited to:

• Academic projects to extend academic networks and research outputs, joint conferences, workshops, collaborative experiments and co-authored publications;
• Curriculum innovation and development of joint teaching and learning initiatives;
• Partnership development to provide mobility and internship opportunities to ensure the distinctiveness of our high-quality student experience;
• Civic and cultural relationship-building to enhance our status as an ‘engaged’ university.
• Trilateral activities that link research projects into wider strategic regions – including, for example, countries in Africa, Latin America, China, India.

Applications that can demonstrate potential for relationships to become sustainable beyond the proposed project and initial seed funding term are strongly encouraged, whether through faculty and department commitment or the likelihood of externally leveraged grants and awards.

Financial Support

• Funding will be allocated locally, with UoB paying the travel and accommodation costs of UoB staff travelling to Leiden, and the costs of projects occurring at UoB; and Leiden University paying the travel and accommodation costs of Leiden staff travelling to UoB, and the costs of projects occurring at Leiden.
• Funding will be subject to the travel reimbursement and other relevant financial policies of the institution providing the funding to its faculty or units.
• Requests of support for non-standard costs such as research equipment costs or research assistant staffing will need particularly clear justification.
• The maximum funding available per project will be up to £15,000 in total, with half coming from each partner.

The joint EUniWell Seed Fund has been set up to stimulate collaborative activity across our partner institutions in the EUniWell European University alliance. The programme is not restricted in terms of content or theme, but priority will be given to proposals that address EUniWell's core commitment to advance well-being in health, education, society and individuals, and/or the environment.

EUniWell is formed by the eleven universities of

• Birmingham (UK)
• Cologne (Germany)
• Florence (Italy), Inalco (France)
• Konstanz (Germany)
• Linnaeus (Sweden)
• Murcia (Spain)
• Nantes (France)
• Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
• Semmelweis (Hungary)
• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine).

There are two calls per academic year. For more information and to view the latest calls, please visit EUniWell Seed Fund.