Newton Fund: science and innovation partnerships

The Newton Fund aims to develop science and innovation partnerships that promote the economic development and welfare of developing countries.

The fund is £75 million each year from 2014 for five years. We expect that the UK funding will lead to extra funding from:

• partner countries
• private foundations
• multi-lateral organisations
• corporate partners.

The fund will cover three broad categories of activity:

• people: improving science and innovation expertise (known as ‘capacity building’), student and researcher fellowships, mobility schemes and joint centres
• programmes: research collaborations on development topics
• translation: innovation partnerships and challenge funds to develop innovative solutions on development topics.

The countries we can work with under the fund are: China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Turkey, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Egypt and Kazakhstan.

if you are interested in applying, please email aimi.maccormac@anglia.ac.uk.