British Council inviting proposals for grants under UKIERI

Updated on: Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The British Council is inviting proposals for grants under the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI). Ten grants of up to 50,000 pounds each are being made available as part of the Trilateral Research in Partnership Awards, which aims to support the mobility of PhD and postdoctoral students between the UK, India and the US. Funds are available to support projects of up to two years that encourage multidisciplinary research projects and sustainable institutional links between the nations. Each proposal must be supported by a UK, US and an Indian institution and endorsed by the respective heads of department or their equivalent. All proposals will need to include details of additional contributions to be made by the three institutions involved.

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