Policy paper

Newton Fund: building science and innovation capacity in developing countries

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

Documents

Evaluations of the Newton Fund

Details

Information on the £735 million Newton Fund and the partner countries under the fund. It sets out 3 broad categories of activity under the fund.

Published 9 April 2014
Last updated 14 August 2019 + show all updates
  1. General update to Newton Fund details; link to evaluation of the Newton Fund added.

  2. Added link to Kenya: Newton-Utafiti Fund.

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

  4. We have updated the call times for NERC / ESRC

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

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

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

  9. 2 new calls added: PhD placements in Turkey - Newton-Katip Çelebi Fund Climate Science for Service Partnerships: research opportunities

  10. 3 new calls added under bidding for research funding.

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

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

  13. 2 new calls added for Advanced Fellowships and 1 for Mobility Grants added.

  14. List of open calls updated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  24. Call for Institutional Links South Africa added to section 4.

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

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

  29. Added delivery partners to the html attachment

  30. Researcher Links: Newton Fund Travel Grant added to table

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

  32. Added links to Newton Fund China research calls

  33. Added link to new Newton Fund India reasearch call.

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

  35. Added a set of documents providing background information about the Fund

  36. Added link to Newton Fund Chile research call

  37. First published.