Partnership Networking Fund
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The Crick and University Partnership Networking Fund supports staff and students from the Crick, UCL, Imperial and King’s to organise networking events with now up to £4,000 or £10,000 available per project, depending on the remit.
Crick and university partners' staff and students can apply for financial support for networking, with now up to £4,000 and £10,000 available per project.
Purpose of the networking fund
Build and strengthen interactions within the Crick-University partnership through joint events and build communities of staff and students around common research themes.
Allow groups of scientists and/or operation staff to create new professional networks, share expertise and skills, possibly beyond their own discipline.
Support interdisciplinary scientists to make connections, share and develop research ideas that could be included in joint research funding applications.
Primarily benefit the Crick and partner university staff and students, however, networking events could also include external participants from other universities, industry, policy or other organisations where appropriate.
Who can apply?
Any student or staff member (employee) from the Crick and its university partners are eligible to apply as an applicant e.g. researchers (from research groups and STPs/scientific platforms), technical and/or operation staff.
All applications must involve the Crick and at least one university partner to be eligible. Proposals which have applicants or attendees from all partners are particularly welcome and encouraged if the topic proposed would benefit all.
Types of events supported by the networking fund
The fund will support a wide range of in-person and hybrid events such as:
- seminar series
- small and large-scale symposia
- scientific meetings
- training events and workshops
- scientific networks to exchange ideas on specific research topics or technical/methodological approaches
- public engagement activities and events (where public engagement is not the central purpose, but a way to strengthen the research collaboration and research ideas across the partnership)
Awards and remit
Two types of awards are now available, depending on the remit and objectives of the events.
Up to £4k award: to support networking events aimed at either sustaining existing collaborations within the partnership or developing new links e.g., new networks, seminar series, small-scale symposia and workshops.
Up to £10k award: to support events that focus on strategically important thematic areas, particularly those currently prioritised by the Crick and its university partners:
- engineering
- clinical research
- human biology and physiology
- developmental neurobiology
- advanced AI and data science in basic biosciences
These events should aim to establish long-lasting interactions between the Crick and its partner universities and clearly advance the Crick partnership strategy.
Two to three calls will be run each year. Applications will be reviewed by the Networking Fund Committee that comprises representatives from each of the partners (Crick, UCL, Imperial, King’s).
Have a question?
Email us at uni-partnership@crick.ac.uk.
