The call is out for proposals to the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Research Development Fund.
WUN?is a collection of research-intensive universities committed to addressing the world’s most urgent challenges collaboratively.??Last year?WUN dispensed ?120,076 across 12?research projects.
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 (focussing on global research platforms; and resilience of human systems; related to food and environmental security)
- Global Public Health (focussing on a lifecourse approach to healthy ageing; health of migrants; the resilience of adolescents and health workers in different cultural context; and schools as setting for reducing risk factors associated with NCDs)
- Global Higher Education and Research (focussing on access and equity in higher education: economic and social outcomes of diversity and globalisation)
- Understanding Cultures (focussing on migration and population; two-way understanding of China; global digital cultures; and indigenous peoples and societies)
The official Call for Proposals is now available on the website and the final deadline will be 30 October 2015 (full guidelines, pre-call form and examples from past projects are available on our sharepoint site).
The deadline for one page expression of interest to be submitted internally to partnerships@southampton.ac.uk ?is?5pm GMT on Friday 31 July 2015.
Invitations for full applications will be sent on Wednesday 12 August;?the?draft full application deadline is?Friday 2?October.