The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is pleased to give advance notification of the forthcoming call for proposals to the Research Development Fund. WUN is a collection of research-intensive universities committed to addressing the world’s most urgent challenges collaboratively.
The Research Development Fund (RDF) is a catalytic fund aimed at building partnership and collaboration across the network to undertake innovative, high quality, sustainable research that addresses one of the four WUN Global Challenges:
– Responding to Climate Change (specifically Food Security, Food Systems, Over-/Under-nutrition; Migration/Resilience; and Climate/Health co-benefit in cities)
– Public Health (Non-communicable Diseases – health of family and migrants; resilience of adolescents in different cultural contexts; and schools as a setting for reducing risk factors)
– Global Higher Education and Research (access and equity in higher education: economic and social outcomes of diversity and globalisation)
– Understanding Cultures (Global Migration and Population; Generations in Global Context and Chinese Culture in the World)
Each WUN institution can submit a maximum of three proposals. In 2013, £166 786 was invested in 16 research projects.
Proposals must demonstrate quality and leadership and must outline a realistic, well-considered plan to achieve ongoing sustainability and financial support outside of WUN. The official Call for Proposals is available on our website and the final deadline will be 31 October 2014.
The deadline for one page expression of interest to be submitted internally to Eleonora Gandolfi ([email protected]) is 5pm GMT on Wednesday 16 July 2014. Invitations for full applications will be sent on Monday 22 August for a draft full application deadline on Friday 3October.
More information can be found at southampton.likn.co/international/partnerships/Development_fund.html or on the WUN website – http://www.wun.ac.uk .