BBSRC international travel award scheme

UKRI is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Our organisation brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England, which is responsible for supporting research and knowledge exchange at higher education institutions in England, and the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK.

International travel awards are for BBSRC-supported researchers making visits to initiate or prepare proposals with international partners, visiting overseas facilities for up to one month or attending European consortia-building events.

Funding of up to £3,000 is limited to travel and subsistence costs.

Our international travel awards support:

• short-term travel for initial contacts with international partners to discuss or prepare proposals for international programmes
• up to one month visiting specific facilities not available in the UK, undertaking a piece of work, or gaining access to techniques or materials of benefit to your BBSRC research project or team
• attendance at European consortia-building events to discuss a future role in it.

Funding is limited to travel and subsistence costs of up to £3,000. It cannot be used to fund salary, consumables, equipment or other research costs.

You can apply for support if you are:

• a holder of a current BBSRC research grant
• a BBSRC-supported researcher employed at BBSRC institutes.

The application must be made by a principal investigator, but the principal investigator does not have to be the one travelling. Students are not eligible.

You can only apply after your BBSRC grant has started, and there must be at least six months remaining on your project from the start of the international travel award.