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Latest #ISPF newsletter lists opportunities for collaboration between researchers & innovators in the UK and Japan, Southeast Asia, Brazil, South Africa and the US 👉 bit.ly/ISPF-Apr-news

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Severe acute malnutrition affects 17 million children each year, and malnutrition underlies almost half of all child deaths globally.

A recent trial is the first to identify a potential treatment for gut damage in #malnutrition 👇bit.ly/3UpZsGh

Interested in a quick & easy way to measure biodiversity impacts of farming? We have just published the methods behind the Cool Farm Alliance Biodiversity metric – a farm-scale assessment tool that scores how well farms support local biodiversity 🧵1 of 16 doi.org/10.1016/j.ecol…

Nice to present our findings from the Malaysian Flood Impacts Across Scales (FIAS) project work at the Roundtable for Effective Flood Management and Responses in Cities organised by UK in Malaysia🇬🇧

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Natural Environment Research Council UK Research and Innovation Newton Fund

Huge congratulations DARA Project and Jodrell Bank alumni Dr Ann Njeri Njeri. 2024 Fondation L'Oréal UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #ForWomenInScience award bit.ly/491xZhZ

This is a richly deserved award for all her amazing research and work founding ElimishaMsichana

📢NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES!

Lots of opportunities to collaborate on international R&I in the latest International Science Partnerships Fund #ISPF newsletter: bit.ly/ISPFnews 🌍👩‍🔬

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Universities UK International UKCDR

The applications for the ODA Challenge-Oriented Research Grants close on 10 April. The scheme supports ODA-eligible, collaborative and international research projects that provide policy-relevant solutions to various global challenges. Apply now: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/oda…

A new £42M Official Development Assistance (ODA) investment through Department for Science, Innovation and Technology's ISPF will enable international research partnerships across Africa, South-east Asia and the UK to address challenges incl:

🦠 Disease prevention
💧Sustainable aquaculture

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Yesterday, UK in South Africa🇬🇧🇿🇦 celebrated LIF’s 10 year anniversary.

Featuring a speech from Academy Fellow Dr Allyson Lawless and UK Deputy High Commissioner to South Africa Adam Bye, we also heard from our #InnovationLeaders who shared how LIF had shaped their growth.

Research Opportunities Alert 🇬🇧🇿🇦
1️⃣Non-communicable diseases ukri.org/opportunity/so…
2️⃣Multimorbidity of infectious diseases & NCDs ukri.org/opportunity/so…
3️⃣Climate & health, 1 health & zoonosis ukri.org/opportunity/so…

UK Research and Innovation Medical Research Council UniLeedsMed&Health 💙 UK in South Africa🇬🇧🇿🇦

Today was pitch day for our LIF Global awardees in India 🇮🇳.

Our #InnovationLeaders are putting everything they've learned over the last few days into practice. They presented their innovations and their proposed business models, prompting wider discussion and the formation of…

An historic achievement by Kushatha Ntwaetsile and we’re immensely proud that DARA Big Data could be part of her story ✨📡💻

You can read more about Kush’s research and her ambitions for the future here:

darabigdata.com/kushatha-ntwae…

Newton Fund Science and Technology Facilities Council SARAO - South African Radio Astronomy Observatory SKA Observatory BIUST Botswana

Continuing on with LIF in the Philippines 🇵🇭

Today, our 2024 LIF Global and Advance awardees completed their pitch session, putting everything they have learned over the past few days into practice. #InnovationLeaders

UKCDR partners with Global Development Network for new blog series. This collaborative project invites participants from all over the research ecosystem to share their views and experiences of research funding
globaldev.blog/can-current-re…

Is a large-scale die back of the Amazon #forest possible within the 21st century?

A new @nature paper supported by AmazonFACE & #WCSSP led by Bernardo M Flores & co-authored by Prof Richard Betts explores evidence for 5 potential critical thresholds in this iconic system 👇

Today, our LIF awardees are with the LLDA for our Filipino engineering challenge 🇵🇭

Our innovators are discussing ways to clean up pollution in the lake from humans, animals and industry - and create income in doing so. #InnovationLeaders

We are hosting a webinar on 21 February for potential applicants to the 'Japan-UK engineering biology for discovery research and cross-cutting technologies' funding opportunity.

Register here: ukri.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Excited to launch the UK Government’s flagship £337m International Science Partnerships Fund in #Thailand , which will enable UK and Thai researchers and innovators to collaborate to solve some of the pressing global challenges through science and technology. #ISPFund

We are proud to collaborate with UK in Thailand 🇬🇧 as a delivery partner for ISPF in Thailand. The programme will provide funding up to £100,000 to implement Thai - UK research collaborations.

Deadline for applications is 12 March 2024. bit.ly/4bHqlMb

#ISPF #HE

Leaders in #Engineering Fellowship Programme #LIF cohort 10 #ISPF , by the Royal Academy of Engineering commencing today supported by @MightMalaysia & #UKinMalaysia .

#Innovators are engaging in conversations about systemic challenges in driving #innovation and #brainstorming solutions.

#UKSINet