International Exchanges

International Exchanges grants provide support for scientists based in the UK to stimulate new research collaborations with leading scientists overseas. Grants can cover either a one-off short visit to explore opportunities for building lasting networks or bilateral visits to strengthen emerging collaborations. The scheme aims to stimulate the development of new research collaborations between UK researchers and researchers from around the world, provide seed corn funding to establish partnerships, gather preliminary data, develop research ideas and strengthen applications for further funding, and enable UK and international research groups to exchange research staff, to share expertise and exchange ideas. Multiple calls for applications are open each year which are run as Global rounds (available for travel to/from all countries/territories outside the UK) and Cost Share rounds (covering cooperation arrangements that the Royal Society has in place to co-fund grants with overseas funding bodies including CNR Italy, JSPS Japan, NSFC China, and NSTC Taiwan).