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The Royal Society and the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology invite applications for their cost-share programme of their international exchanges scheme. This stimulates new collaborations within the natural sciences between scientists in the UK and Taiwan. Eligible research subjects include the following: physics; chemistry; mathematics; computer science; engineering; agricultural, biological and medical research; the scientific aspects of archaeology, geography and experimental psychology.

The UK applicant must apply to the Royal Society and the Taiwanese applicant must apply to MOST. Both applicants must have completed a PhD and must hold a permanent or fixed term contract in an eligible organisation.

The Royal Society provides up to £12,000 for the UK team’s airfare to Taiwan and the Taiwanese team’s subsistence whilst in the UK. Up to £2,000 of this amount may be spent on research expenses and consumables. An additional £12,000 equivalent is available from MOST towards the Taiwanese team’s airfare to the UK and the UK team’s subsistence whilst in Taiwan. Awards are available for a fixed period of two years.

The Royal Society, via the Newton Fund, invites applications for the Newton mobility grants. These enable researchers from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa to visit or send staff and students to the UK to develop networks, research projects and partner with their UK hosts and the wider UK research and innovation community. Activities must be related to a subject within the natural sciences, including physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, engineering, agricultural, biological and biomedical research, the scientific aspects of archaeology, geography and experimental psychology, but excluding social science, and clinical or patient-oriented research.

Researchers based in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa may apply in collaboration with a UK-based co-applicant. All applicants must have completed a PhD or have equivalent research experience, and hold a permanent or fixed term contract for the duration of the award at an eligible university or research institute.

The following types of grants are available:

•up to £3,000 for one-off travel lasting up to three months;

•up to £6,000 for multiple visits to be completed within one year, including a maximum of £1,000 for research expenses;

•up to £12,000 for multiple visits to be completed within two years, including a maximum of £2,000 for research expenses.

Rolling Deadline

The Science and Technology Facilities Council invites applications for its new applicants scheme. This aims to provide newly appointed academic members of staff the opportunity to obtain research funding in the areas of experimental and theoretical particle physics, and certain aspects of astrophysics between grant reviews. This may allow them to begin to establish a research programme on appointment.

Applicants must be employed as a full- or part-time academic member of staff at the grant holding university by the start date of the new applicants grant, must be the sole investigator, and they may not be funded on more than one grant.

Funding covers a period of between one and three years.

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council invites applications for its digital manufacturing potential call. This aims to develop novel digital tools that aim to integrate

advanced ICT techniques into manufacturing environments, in order to foster a long term transformation within UK manufacturing. The expected outcome of this call is a

range of multidisciplinary research projects that directly address challenges facing the manufacturing community, across the entire manufacturing value chain. Applications should address two or more of the following thematic areas:

•industrial internet of things;

•human factors and automation;

•cyber and physical systems;

•data analytics and decision making;

•service design and customisation;

•sustainability;

•cyber security;

•design for future manufacturing;

•robotics and artificial intelligence within manufacturing context;

•virtual and augmented reality;

•sensors and wearables.

Internal Deadline for EOI 10th October 2017

Following on from my email on Friday please see the timeframes for applicants wishing to submit a proposal: