Fwd: US-UK Collaborative Development Awards: call for proposals and application

Dear all

 

The British Embassy and British Consulates in the US are pleased to accept applications for the 2012 UK-US Collaboration Development Award (CDA) Programme.  These awards provide funding so that UK and US scientists, engineers, academic leaders and innovation experts can travel abroad for short visits to lay the groundwork for collaborative efforts. This programme is sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) and Foreign & Commonwealth Office's (FCO) Global Partnership Fund and is administered through the UK's Science & Innovation (S&I) Network based in the US.

 

The UK-US CDA Programme aims to develop relationships initiated through our networking activities into long-term collaborations.  Applications for the current round are open to academic and industrial science and innovation experts in the UK and US who have connected to international counterparts through projects and other interactions with the S&I Network.  Ideal outcomes include joint publications; joint or complementary funding applications; student / researcher exchange programmes; sharing of equipment, materials and facilities; knowledge exchange of skills and techniques;  institutional linkages; technology transfer; and industry sponsorship.  Please do not be limited by these ideas - we strongly encourage the development of innovative models for collaboration.  Please forward to contacts and colleagues who might be interested. Please also feel free to contact me with any ideas outside of this opportunity that could encourage US-UK collaboration.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

o   August 1, 2012 (11:59pm PDT): Deadline for Applications

o   August 31, 2012: Award notification

o   December 15, 2012: CDA-sponsored travel must be concluded

o   Within 2 weeks of return: Evaluation forms and expenditure records due

 

Best regards,

Kerry

 

Kerry Norton, M.S.

Vice Consul, Science and Innovation

British Consulate-General, Atlanta

133 Peachtree Street, NE Suite 3400

Atlanta, GA 30303

Telephone: 404-954-7738

Mobile: 404-630-8434

FTN: 8438-7738

kerry.norton@fco.gov.uk

http://www.bis.gov.uk/sin

http://ukinusa.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/other-locations/atlanta/science/

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