British Council through Newton Bhabha Fund in collaboration with Department of Biotechnology (DBT) announces Researcher Links Workshop Grant 2020 which is designed to promote international development- relevant research and professional development of early career researchers. The programme gives financial support to bring together a UK and India cohort of early career researchers in a workshop with a potential for long term sustainability.

Who can apply for Workshop Grant?

  • Not‑for‑profit higher education institutions or publicly‑funded research organisations that have Leading or Established Researchers are eligible to apply as Lead institutions.
  • Leading or Established Researchers from both India and UK in above mentioned category of institutions can apply to be Principal Applicants (as defined by the European commission - download information here).
  • Each proposal must have one Principal Applicant from the UK, and one from India.
  • Please click here for full details.

Priority areas

Applications are invited in the following priority areas:

A. Agriculture and allied areas

B. Environment and Circular Bio-economy

C. Biotechnology-education: research/policy for accelerated development of the sector

D. Health

E. Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning in

Focus areas for each of the above category is available here

Please visit here for full call details and apply

For any further query, please write to  

UK-ResearcherLinks@britishcouncil.org or purti.kohli@britishcouncil.org