Applications are now open for the British Council 2025/26 Research Environments grants
Closing Date: 9 September 2025
Applications are now open for the British Council 2025/26 Research Environments grants
Grant call for Research Environments 2025
Introducing Research Environments 2025–26 grants from Going Global Partnerships. The Research Environments grants support capacity strengthening and collaboration activities that help develop research environment connections between the UK and Brazil, Morocco, Pakistan and Peru.
About Going Global Partnerships
Going Global Partnerships supports universities, colleges and wider education stakeholders around the world to work together towards stronger, equitable, more inclusive and internationally connected higher education, science and TVET. Through international partnerships, system collaborations and opportunities to connect and share, Going Global Partnerships enable stronger transnational education, more collaborative research, higher quality delivery, enhanced learner outcomes and stronger, internationalised, equitable and inclusive systems and institutions.
Higher education and TVET providers and research organisations can access funding to develop collaborative partnerships with institutions in other countries, focusing on key areas such as capacity strengthening, collaborative research projects, developing joint teaching programmes and establishing new transnational education links. These mutually beneficial partnerships help universities and colleges develop and sustain stronger international connections.
About the Research Environments grants
Grant amount: £25,000 to £40,000
Funding can be used to establish new research environment links, or significantly develop existing links, between research groups, departments or institutions, with the potential for longer-term sustainability. Each collaboration should support capacity strengthening in the partner institution, while stimulating longer-term interactions between the UK and the partner country.
Grant call objectives and intended outcomes
The Research Environments (RE) project, which sits within the Enabling Research portfolio of projects under Going Global Partnerships, aims to support the research and academic environment through
- international collaboration.
- training programmes.
- exchange of knowledge and best practice; and
- development and implementation of pilot activities to promote capacity strengthening collaboration shaped by the demands and priorities of the partner countries and the UK.
The call invite proposals for capacity strengthening partnerships between eligible higher education
and research institutions, in partner countries and the UK. All collaborations are expected to build/establish new research environment links, or significantly develop existing links, between research groups, departments, or institutions with the potential for longer-term sustainability. The key aim of each collaboration will be to support capacity strengthening in the partner country. Going Global Partnerships would encourage applicants to use this as an opportunity to engage with the commercial and not-for-profit sectors where feasible.
The programme will:
- Support dialogue and knowledge exchange on academic standards, research governance
and strategic research policy development to help promote an academic and research
environment, between partner countries and the UK - Build opportunities for the universities and institutions in the UK and partner countries to
engage with the wider community and with policymakers. Enable researchers to be more
responsive to development needs in their countries and enable up to date research
evidence to support policy decisions. - Support skills development to communicate and translate research into benefits for social
welfare and economic growth. Amplify researchers’ ability to conduct excellent research
in areas most relevant to national priorities and fully realise its impact.
Eligibility
The call accepts joint proposals from one lead UK institution and one lead partner country institution. The application must be submitted by the lead UK institution.
UK lead institutions must be one of the following:
- A higher education provider with degree awarding powers
- A not-for-profit research institution, establishment or organisation.
Partner country institutions must be one of the following:
- A higher education provider, as locally defined
- A not-for-profit research institutions, establishments and organisations, as locally defined.
How to apply
Apply via the online application form. Application documentation (including an offline sample of the application form) is available at the official site.
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