UCL-Cornell Global Strategic Collaboration Awards

UCL and Cornell are pleased to invite proposals for the development of collaborative research initiatives. Funds will be allocated under The Cornell-UCL Global Strategic Collaboration Awards (GSCA).

As part of Cornell’s Global Hubs initiative and UCL’s Global Engagement, the Cornell-UCL Global Strategic Collaboration Awards (GSCA) are intended to contribute with initial financial support for collaborative research and education explorations with the potential to create new or expanded research partnerships, develop cutting-edge scholarship to create academic and societal impact, and attract external funding.

Projects

1. These international research exploration seed grants will help support early-stage research projects or capacity-building efforts to create and sustain long-term collaborations and secure extramural funding.
2. Applicants may propose new partnerships to explore and develop education and/or research collaborations, including student and/or research mobility, organising initial meetings and workshops and/or establishing research infrastructure for gathering preliminary data to develop a research idea that may result in joint publications and enable subsequent applications for external funding.
3. Alternately, applicants may expand an existing partnership if the research project explores new directions or aims at capacity-building and requires further development to attract future funding.
4. Proposals should be sustainable in the long-term with a plan for engagement that includes the details for sustainable external funding and publication outputs.

Eligibility

• Applications are open to any Cornell-eligible Principal Investigator and UCL-eligible Principal Investigator. All Cornel Principal Investigators must meet Cornell’s PI eligibility criteria.  
• Applications are open to UCL staff members across all faculties and departments with the following roles: 
  • Professor or equivalent 
  • Associate Professor/ Reader or equivalent 
  • Senior Lecturer/Principal Researcher/Principal Research Associate or equivalent 
  • Lecturer/Senior Research Associate or equivalent 
  • Applicants must have an open-ended UCL contract or a fixed-term contract which lasts until at least July 2024. 
• Each grant requires at least one PI from Cornell and one PI from UCL. Additional collaborators are welcome but not required.  
• No specific themes are prioritised for the research grants.   
• Graduate students, post-docs, and research assistants/associates are not eligible to apply as Principal Investigators, but they are welcome to join the applications. We welcome applications from early career researchers.

Value

Up to five successful proposals will receive up to the equivalent of $5,000/£4,000 from each university for a total of $10,000/£8,000 for one year to support collaboration activities. 

How to apply

1. All applications must be jointly developed by a Principal Investigator from Cornell and a Principal Investigator from UCL.  

2. Deadline for application: 4 October 2024, 11:59 p.m. EDT / 5 October 2024, 4:59 a.m. BST

3. All applications must be submitted online via the Cornell InfoReady platform by the Principal Investigator from Cornell using their Cornell username and password. The platform also provides the detailed guidance for the call.  

4. A copy of the questions included in the online application form (including budget and timeline templates) is also available for preview via the Cornell InfoReady platform. 

5. Only complete submissions will be considered.  

6. Late applications will not be considered.

Contact

At Cornell University: 

Sebnem Ozkan  
Associate Director, Global Hubs 
Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs (OVPIA) 
Email: globalhubs@cornell.edu 

At UCL: 

Abel Dorantes 
Global Engagement Manager 
Global Engagement Office 
Email: abel.dorantes@ucl.ac.uk 

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