Guidance

Newton Fund (closed): overview and resources

Information on the Newton Fund and the fund's partner countries.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 9 April 2014
• Last updated: 14 August 2019
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  1. 14 August 2019

     General update to Newton Fund details; link to evaluation of the Newton Fund added.

  2. 24 August 2016

     Added link to Kenya: Newton-Utafiti Fund.

  3. 12 May 2016

     Documents updated to reflect the extension of the fund by 2 years and changes to the amount of money awarded per year.

  4. 27 April 2015

     We have updated the call times for NERC / ESRC

  5. 27 March 2015

     Added a new call for TÜBİTAK/Newton grant fellowships for UK PhD and post-doctoral researchers

  6. 26 March 2015

     Added a new call 'ESRC-NSFC call for Collaborative Research Urban Transformations in China'.

  7. 23 March 2015

     Added 4 new calls: ESRC/NRF International Centre Partnerships, Grants for UK-Chile two-stage Applied Science and Technology Transfer projects, call for UK institutions to partner with Research Centres in Chile and South Africa Research Chairs Initiative.

  8. 16 March 2015

     We have added 'UK-Thailand - Joint Health Research Call' and 'Wellcome Trust-MRC Newton Fund Collaboration Call'.

  9. 5 March 2015

     2 new calls added: PhD placements in Turkey - Newton-Katip Çelebi Fund Climate Science for Service Partnerships: research opportunities

  10. 19 February 2015

      3 new calls added under bidding for research funding.

  11. 19 February 2015

      A new call has be added: 'UK-Vietnam Infectious Diseases Workshop: expressions of interest'

  12. 16 February 2015

      A new call has been added 'Atmospheric Pollution and Human Health in an Indian Megacity workshop'.

  13. 6 February 2015

      2 new calls added for Advanced Fellowships and 1 for Mobility Grants added.

  14. 28 January 2015

      List of open calls updated.

  15. 19 January 2015

      Call for 'Professional training and consultancy for innovation finance' added to section 4 of main (HTML) publication.

  16. 14 January 2015

      New call added: Capacity Building Programme for Colombian Start-ups, Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises and Accelerators

  17. 5 January 2015

      We have added a new call to the Newton Fund page. The call name is Atmospheric Pollution and Human Health in a Chinese Megacity Expressions of Interest.

  18. 24 December 2014

      We have added a new call to the Newton Fund page. The call name is BBSRC/EMBRAPA joint wheat call – pump-priming awards.

  19. 22 December 2014

      We have added a new call to the Newton Fund page. The call name is ESRC-AHRC-CASS International Centre Partnerships 2014.

  20. 19 December 2014

      New research funding call: Agri-Tech in China Newton Network+

  21. 28 November 2014

      Call for 'Newton-Bhabha PhD Placements Programme' added to section 4 of main (HTML) publication.

  22. 25 November 2014

      Call for 'Scoping the innovation training needs of policy-makers in the Pacific Alliance' added to section 4 of main (HTML) publication.

  23. 24 November 2014

      Call for 'India-UK Collaborative Industrial R and D Programme' added to section 4 of main (HTML) publication.

  24. 7 November 2014

      Call for Institutional Links South Africa added to section 4.

  25. 31 October 2014

      New call for : 'Global Research Partnership Aquaculture sandpit' added.

  26. 28 October 2014

      3 new call names have been added: Newton-Katip Celebi Fund Institutional Links; Newton-Picarte Fund Regional Institutional Links; UK-Chile FONDEF IDeA call.

  27. 13 October 2014

      We have added the following to the 'Bidding for research funding' table : (1) Newton Researcher Links Travel Grants (2) Newton Institutional Links (3) Newton Researcher Links Workshops.

  28. 11 September 2014

      Added links to Newton Fund: building science and innovation capacity in developing countries.

  29. 20 August 2014

      Added delivery partners to the html attachment

  30. 15 August 2014

      Researcher Links: Newton Fund Travel Grant added to table

  31. 12 August 2014

      Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) Climate Services: Research into Sector Based Climate Services WP5.2 closing date change

  32. 11 August 2014

      Added links to Newton Fund China research calls

  33. 8 August 2014

      Added link to new Newton Fund India reasearch call.

  34. 31 July 2014

      A list of all current research calls added to section 4. 'Bidding for research funding'.

  35. 16 June 2014

      Added a set of documents providing background information about the Fund

  36. 21 May 2014

      Added link to Newton Fund Chile research call

  37. 9 April 2014

      First published.

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Information on the Newton Fund which built research and innovation partnerships with countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to support economic development and social welfare, tackle global challenges and develop talent and careers. The International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) launched in 2022 as a new funding mechanism for ODA research and innovation. Visit the ISPF page for more information.