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The Royal Society and the National Natural Science Foundation of China invite applications for the cost-share programme of their international exchanges scheme. This stimulates new collaborations within the natural sciences between scientists in the UK and China, with the aim to build lasting networks and strengthen emerging collaborations. Eligible subjects covered include: physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, engineering, agricultural, biological and medical research, geography and experimental psychology.

Collaborations should be based on a single project involving the UK based applicant and the Chinese co-applicant. Both applicants must have completed a PhD, hold a permanent or fixed term contract in an eligible organisation and be based in their respective countries or institutions at the time of the application. Retired scientists, who are still active in science, may apply. Junior scientists, such as PhD students or postdoctoral researchers, are encouraged to apply.

The Royal Society provides up to £12,000 for the UK team’s airfare to China and the Chinese 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 NSFC towards the Chinese team’s airfare to the UK and the UK team’s subsistence whilst in China. Awards are available for a fixed period of two years. Additional fellowships are also available through the Newton Fund, with the aim of developing long-term sustainable growth and welfare of partner countries through building research and innovation capacity.

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, through its resource allocation panel, invites proposals for top-up grants for the Advanced Research Computing High End Resource. These enable investigators on existing EPSRC grants to access ARCHER for a maximum period of two years in order to meet their current grant objectives. Computing resources on ARCHER are awarded in kilo-allocation units, with one kAU representing a measure of relative performance of ARCHER based on a range of benchmarks compared to previous national services.

Only named investigators on existing EPSRC grants may apply.

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council invites applications for its resource allocation panel – open access to tier 2 call. This provides open access to five tier 2 high performance computing facilities for adventurous high-risk, high-reward projects that will benefit from the diversity of computing architectures available at tier 2. The facilities in question are Cirrus, GW4, CSD3, HPC Midlands +, and JADE. Eligible projects include:

•short computational projects that do not warrant a full grant application;

•UK-led collaborative projects with international or industry partners;

•joint applications from students with proven HPC experience and their PIs;

•projects that link consecutive standard grant applications or that aid the preparation of a grant or fellowship application;

•extended feasibility studies and trialing application developments at scale;

•high-risk, high-reward projects that would benefit from using novel architectures.

Individuals eligible to hold a full EPSRC grant may apply. Students wishing to access HPC resources through this route must obtain commitment for support by an eligible

PI.

Applications can request computing resource for a maximum duration of one year.

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through its resource allocation panel invites proposals for access to ARCHER. This scheme provides access to the council’s national state-of-the-art high performance computing facility for proposals that are within the council’s remit and that would benefit from ARCHER.

Proposals may include:

•short computational projects that do not warrant a full grant application;

•UK-led collaborative projects with international or industry partners;

•joint applications from students with proven HPC experience and their principal investigators;

•projects that link consecutive standard grant applications or that aid the preparation of a grant or fellowship application;

•extended feasibility studies and trialling application developments at scale.

Individuals eligible to hold a full EPSRC grant are eligible to apply. They must be based at a UK HEI or eligible research council institute or independent research organisation.

Users can request for any number under 1,000 of kilo-allocation units over a maximum period of one year.