This element of Researcher Links is designed to provide financial support to bring together a UK/partner country bilateral cohort of early career researchers to take part in a workshop focusing on building links for future collaboration and enhancing the researchers’ career opportunities. Workshops will be coordinated by two leading researchers  , one from each country, and will focus on either a specific research area or an interdisciplinary theme (for example ‘Sustainable Cities’). The workshop coordinators can identify up to four other leading or well-established researchers to be involved in the workshop, to act as mentors, but the remaining participants must be researchers at an earlier stage in their career. Proposals will be accepted in any discipline/multidisciplinary area including from the natural sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, but some countries may have specified areas which will be prioritized in the final selection process . The British Council will co-fund the workshops with partner country funders. 

Who should propose a workshop?
Leading Researchers1 should apply to be workshop coordinators and propose a theme for the workshop using the application form. It must be a joint application, with one coordinator based at a UK institution and one based in the partner country. The applicants can be of any nationality.

Location of the workshop
The workshops will take place outside the UK, in the partner country. The current list of countries inviting proposals for workshops is:
Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam.

Subsequent calls may have different partner countries involved.

Timing of the workshop
Workshops should take place before the end of March 2014.