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International Travel Award Scheme for the Biological Sciences (Grant)

Apply for funding to visit international partners, in order to initiate collaborations, prepare joint funding proposals, visit overseas facilities or attend European consortia-building events. Stays may be of up to one month in duration. You must be an existing BBSRC-supported researcher in order to apply for funding. There is no limit on the value of the grant, the value specified within the summary page is an example.

• Opening date : 1 October 2024, 9:00am
• Closing date : 30 September 2025, 4:00pm

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Apply for funding to visit international partners, to initiate collaborations, prepare joint funding proposals, visit overseas facilities or attend European consortia-building events.

You must be an existing Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)-supported researcher in order to apply for funding.

You can apply for support if you are:

a holder of a current BBSRC research grant

a BBSRC-supported researcher employed at BBSRC institutes

Funding of up to £3,000 (100% FEC) is available and limited to travel and subsistence costs. Stays may be of up to one month in duration and you must submit your application at least six weeks before you travel.

Before applying for funding, check the  Eligibility of your organisation .

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has introduced new role types for funding opportunities being run on the new UKRI Funding Service.

For full details, visit  Eligibility as an individual .

Who is eligible to apply

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

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.

Who is not eligible to apply

Students are not eligible to apply

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to achieving equality of opportunity for all funding applicants. We encourage applications from a diverse range of researchers.

We support people to work in a way that suits their personal circumstances. This includes:

career breaks

support for people with caring responsibilities

flexible working

alternative working patterns

Find out more about  equality, diversity and inclusion at UKRI .

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

Visits supported through international travel awards may take place for up to one month.

Funding available

The Full Economic Cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £3,000.

BBSRC will fund 100% of the FEC.

What we will fund

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

What we will not fund

Funding cannot be used for:

salary costs

consumables

research costs

Supporting skills and talent

We encourage you to follow the principles of the  Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers  and the  Technician Commitment .

Trusted Research and Innovation (TR&I)

UKRI is committed in ensuring that effective international collaboration in research and innovation takes place with integrity and within strong ethical frameworks. Trusted Research and Innovation (TR&I) is a UKRI work programme designed to help protect all those working in our thriving and collaborative international sector by enabling partnerships to be as open as possible, and as secure as necessary. Our  TR&I Principles  set out UKRI’s expectations of organisations funded by UKRI in relation to due diligence for international collaboration.

As such, applicants for UKRI funding may be asked to demonstrate how their proposed projects will comply with our approach and expectation towards TR&I, identifying potential risks and the relevant controls you will put in place to help proportionately reduce these risks.

See  further guidance and information about TR&I , including where applicants can find additional support.

Assessment process

We will assess your application using the following process.

Peer review

We will invite experts from within BBSRC to review your application independently, against the specified criteria for this funding opportunity.

You must apply at least six weeks before you travel.

Principles of assessment

We support the  San Francisco declaration on research assessment  and recognise the relationship between research assessment and research integrity.

Find out about the  UKRI principles of assessment and decision making .

Assessment areas

The assessment areas we will use are:

Your organisation’s support

Project Partners: Letters of Support

Find details of assessment questions and criteria under the ‘Application questions’ heading in the ‘How to apply’ section.

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Are you leading the project? - UKRI Funding Service

We are running this funding opportunity on the new UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Funding Service so please ensure that your organisation is registered. You cannot apply on the Joint Electronic Submissions (Je-S) system.

The project lead is responsible for completing the application process on the Funding Service, but we expect all team members to contribute to the application.

Only the lead research organisation can submit an application to UKRI.

Select ‘Start application’ near the beginning of this Funding finder page.

Confirm you are the project lead.

Sign in or create a Funding Service account. To create an account, select your organisation, verify your email address, and set a password. If your organisation is not listed, email  [email protected] Please allow at least 10 working days for your organisation to be added to the Funding Service. We strongly suggest that if you are asking UKRI to add your organisation to the Funding Service to enable you to apply to this funding opportunity, you also create an organisation Administration Account. This will be needed to allow the acceptance and management of any grant that might be offered to you.

Answer questions directly in the text boxes. You can save your answers and come back to complete them or work offline and return to copy and paste your answers. If we need you to upload a document, follow the upload instructions in the Funding Service. All questions and assessment criteria are listed in the How to apply section on this Funding finder page.

Allow enough time to check your application in ‘read-only’ view before sending to your research office.

Send the completed application to your research office for checking. They will return it to you if it needs editing.

Your research office will submit the completed and checked application to UKRI.

Where indicated, you can also demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant.

use images sparingly and only to convey important information that cannot easily be put into words

insert each new image onto a new line

provide a descriptive legend for each image immediately underneath it (this counts towards your word limit)

files must be smaller than 5MB and in JPEG, JPG, JPE, JFI, JIF, JFIF, PNG, GIF, BMP or WEBP format

Watch our  research office webinars about the new Funding Service .

For more guidance on the Funding Service, see:

how applicants use the Funding Service

how research offices use the Funding Service

how reviewers use the Funding Service

Applications should be self-contained, and hyperlinks should only be used to provide links directly to reference information. To ensure the information’s integrity is maintained, where possible, persistent identifiers such as digital object identifiers should be used. Assessors are not required to access links to carry out assessment or recommend a funding decision. Applicants should use their discretion when including references and prioritise those most pertinent to the application.

References should be included in the appropriate question section of the application and be easily identifiable by the assessors for example (Smith, Research Paper, 2019).

You must not include links to web resources to extend your application.

You must submit your application at least six weeks before you intend to travel. All applications must be received by 30 September 2025 at 4:00pm UK time.

You will not be able to apply after this time.

Make sure you are aware of and follow any internal institutional deadlines.

Following the submission of your application to the funding opportunity, your application cannot be changed, and applications will not be returned for amendment. If your application does not follow the guidance, it may be rejected.

Personal data

Processing personal data.

BBSRC, as part of UKRI, will need to collect some personal information to manage your Funding Service account and the registration of your funding applications.

We will handle personal data in line with UK data protection legislation and manage it securely. For more information, including how to exercise your rights, read  our privacy notice .

Publication of outcomes

If your application is successful, we will publish some personal information on the  UKRI Gateway to Research .

Word limit: 550

In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application.

We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for example:

opinion-formers

policymakers

the wider research community

Guidance for writing a summary

Clearly describe your proposed work in terms of:

aims and objectives of the project

the benefits likely to be gained from the collaboration

how the collaboration will be taken forward after the funding has ended

List the key members of your team and assign them roles from the following:

project lead (PL)

project co-lead (UK) (PcL)

researcher co-lead (RcL)

Only list one individual as project lead.

The project lead should be the named individual on an existing BBSRC research grant. This individual does not need to be the one travelling.

Find out more about  UKRI’s core team roles in funding applications .

Application questions

Word limit: 2500

Why is the travel needed?

What the assessors are looking for in your response

Explain why the proposed travel is necessary, including reference to:

the value added to current or future UK bioscience by developing international contacts

why travel needs to happen at this time

why the place you are travelling to is the best place to go to, in terms of people, skills and resources

why you / a team member are the best person to carry out this visit

a plan for how the collaboration will be taken forward after the funding has ended

the strategic relevance and reach of the collaboration – to what extent will it benefit more than one group?

Resources and cost justification

Word limit: 500

What will you need to deliver your proposed work and how much will it cost?

Justify the application’s more costly resources, in particular:

travel costs

subsistence costs

contributions from the international partner in cash or kind

Please note, this award cannot be used to fund salary, consumables, equipment or other research costs.

Assessors are not looking for detailed costs or a line-by-line breakdown of all project resources. Overall, they want you to demonstrate how the resources you anticipate needing for your proposed work:

are comprehensive, appropriate, and justified

represent the optimal use of resources to achieve the intended outcomes

maximise potential outcomes and impacts

Ethics and responsible research and innovation (RRI)

What are the ethical or RRI implications and issues relating to the proposed work? If you do not think that the proposed work raises any ethical or RRI issues, explain why.

Demonstrate that you have identified and evaluated:

the relevant ethical or responsible research and innovation considerations

how you will manage these considerations

If you are collecting or using data you should identify:

any legal and ethical considerations of collecting, releasing or storing the data (including consent, confidentiality, anonymisation, security and other ethical considerations and, in particular, strategies to not preclude further re-use of data)

formal information standards that your proposed work will comply with

Additional sub-questions (to be answered only if appropriate) relating to research involving:

human participants

genetically modified organisms

Genetic and biological risk

Word limit: 700

Does your proposed research involve any genetic or biological risk?

In respect of animals, plants or microbes, are you proposing to:

use genetic modification as an experimental tool, like studying gene function in a genetically modified organism

release genetically modified organisms

ultimately develop commercial and industrial genetically modified outcomes

If yes, provide the name of any required approving body and state if approval is already in place. If it is not, provide an indicative timeframe for obtaining the required approval.

Identify the organism or organisms as a plant, animal or microbe and specify the species and which of the three categories the research relates to.

Identify the genetic and biological risks resulting from the proposed research, their implications, and any mitigation you plan on taking. Assessors will want to know you have considered the risks and their implications to justify that any identified risks do not outweigh any benefits of the proposed research.

If this does not apply to your proposed work, you will be able to indicate this in the Funding Service.

Research involving the use of animals

Does your proposed research involve the use of vertebrate animals or other organisms covered by the Animals Scientific Procedures Act?

If you are proposing research that requires using animals, download and complete the  Animals Scientific Procedures Act template (DOCX, 74KB) , which contains all the questions relating to research using vertebrate animals or other Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 regulated organisms.

Save it as a PDF. The Funding Service will provide document upload details when you apply. If this does not apply to your proposed work, you will be able to indicate this in the Funding Service.

Conducting research with animals overseas

Will any of the proposed animal research be conducted overseas?

If you are proposing to conduct overseas research, it must be conducted in accordance with welfare standards consistent with those in the UK, as in  Responsibility in the use of animals in bioscience research, page 14 . Ensure all named applicants in the UK and overseas are aware of this requirement.

If your application proposes animal research to be conducted overseas, you must provide a statement in the text box. Depending on the species involved, you may also need to upload a completed template for each species listed.

Provide a statement to confirm that:

all named applicants are aware of the requirements and have agreed to abide by them

this overseas research will be conducted in accordance with welfare standards consistent with the principles of UK legislation

the expectation set out in Responsibility in the use of animals in bioscience research will be applied and maintained

appropriate national and institutional approvals are in place

Overseas studies proposing to use non-human primates, cats, dogs, equines or pigs will be assessed during  NC3Rs review  of research applications. Provide the required information by completing the template from the question ‘Research involving the use of animals’.

For studies involving other species, select, download, and complete the relevant Word checklist or checklists from this list:

Additional questions on the use of rodents overseas (DOCX, 49.1KB)

Additional questions on the use of rabbits overseas (DOCX, 49.2KB)

Additional questions on the use of sheep overseas (DOCX, 50.9KB)

Additional questions on the use of goats overseas (DOCX, 47.3KB)

Additional questions on the use of pigs overseas (DOCX, 51.4KB)

Additional questions on the use of cattle overseas (DOCX, 57.0KB)

Additional questions on the use of Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis overseas (DOCX, 57.3KB)

Save your completed template as a PDF and upload to the Funding Service. If you use more than one checklist template, save it as a single PDF.

The Funding Service will provide document upload details when you apply.

If conducting research with animals overseas does not apply to your proposed work, you will be able to indicate this in the Funding Service.

Provide details of support from your research organisation and how international travel will add value to an existing BBSRC research grant.

Provide a Statement of Support from your research organisation detailing why the proposed work is needed. This should include details of any matched funding that will be provided to support the activity and any additional support that might add value to the work.

The committee will be looking for a strong statement of commitment from your research organisation.

BBSRC recognises that in some instances, this information may be provided by the Research Office, the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) or equivalent, or a combination of both.

You must also include the following details:

a significant person’s name and their position, from the TTO or Research Office, or both

office address or web link

Upload details are provided within the Funding Service on the actual application.

Project partners

Add details about any project partners’ contributions. If there are no project partners, you can indicate this on the Funding Service.

A project partner is a collaborating organisation who will have an integral role in the proposed research. This may include direct (cash) or indirect (in-kind) contributions such as expertise, staff time or use of facilities.

Add the following project partner details:

the organisation name and address (searchable via a drop-down list or enter the organisation’s details manually, as applicable)

the project partner contact name and email address

the type of contribution (direct or in-direct) and its monetary value

If a detail is entered incorrectly and you have saved the entry, remove the specific project partner record and re-add it with the correct information.

Project partners: letters (or emails) of support

Upload a single PDF containing the letters or emails of support from each partner you named in the Project Partner section. These should be uploaded in English or Welsh only.

Enter the words ‘attachment supplied’ in the text box. Each letter or email you provide should:

confirm the partner’s commitment to the project

clearly explain the value, relevance, and possible benefits of the work to them

describe any additional value that they bring to the project

the page limit is one side of A4 per partner

The  Funding Service will provide document upload details when you apply.

Ensure you have prior agreement from project partners so that, if you are offered funding, they will support your project as indicated in the project partners’ section.

Word limit: 100

Does the proposed work involve international collaboration in a sensitive research or technology area?

Demonstrate how your proposed international collaboration relates to Trusted Research and Innovation, including:

list the countries your project partners, or other collaborators are based in

explain whether this project is relevant to one or more of the  17 areas  of the UK National Security and Investment (NSI) Act

if one or more of the  17 areas  of the UK National Security and Investment (NSI) Act are involved list the areas

We may ask you to provide additional information about how your proposed project will comply with our approach and expectation towards TR&I, identifying potential risks and the relevant controls you will put in place to help manage these risks.

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For questions related to this specific funding opportunity please contact Sania Afzal, Assistant Portfolio Manager – BBSRC International:  [email protected]  include ITAS in the subject header.

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See further information on  submitting an application .

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individual is unavailable until a certain date (for example due to parental leave)

declaration of interest

additional information about eligibility to apply that would not be appropriately shared in the ‘Applicant and team capability’ section

the application is an invited resubmission

For information about how UKRI handles personal data, read  UKRI’s privacy notice .

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Applications for travel in 2024 will open on 1 December 2023 and close on 8 March 2024. 

University travel awards are made annually from three funds: Mary Euphrasia Mosley Fund, Sir Bartle Frere's Memorial Fund and Worts Travelling Scholars Fund. Please read the conditions of each fund carefully to decide which one fits your application and travel plans the best. If you are eligible to apply to more than one fund, you will be placed at no disadvantage by applying to one fund rather than another. 

Please note that the University will only proceed with awards according to FCO and University travel advice in the Spring/Summer of 2024. For more information on the travel insurance the University provides please see here . 

Application information

Please note that only current registered students of the University are eligible to apply to these funds and you must be a registered student at the time of travel in order to be eligible. 

Ordinarily the Fund Managers expect all travel to be after June. However, in exceptional circumstances the Managers will consider applications from postgraduate students who have earlier travel plans. Please note that no retrospective applications can be considered (ie for travel that has already taken place at the time of the application). 

Students may only receive one grant in any given academic year. 

Postgraduate students in receipt of full funding should not normally expect to receive a grant. 

When more than one individual is involved in any project, a separate application must be submitted by each applicant. Applicants must state clearly which country or countries they intend to visit and who else in the project has applied for an award.

The following activities will not be supported:

• participation in study programmes or language courses
• volunteer work with established charities
• conferences (either to present a paper or to attend)
• placements and internships related to MPhil courses
• medical electives
• travel in the summer vacation between degrees

Please read the application guidance before submitting an application. 

Applications should lay out an applicant's proposed work and estimated costs in detail. Applicants are also required to provide the dates in which they plan to travel. In all cases, the fund Managers will judge applications on quality, originality and individuality of the proposal, and the applicant’s previous academic record.

If your application is successful, the amount you receive is dependent on the strength of your application including a detailed description of your trip activities. You may, therefore, receive a different amount to other students involved in the same project. 

Following the submission of an application, an email will be sent to the applicant's Academic Supervisor/Director of Studies requesting a supporting statement. It is the responsibility of applicants to ensure that such statements are submitted by the relevant deadline (see below).

​ ​When applying to the Fund, applicants are required to confirm that they have completed or will complete a Risk Assessment and Ethical Review before they travel. The Academic Supervisor/ Director of Studies' reference will reiterate this declaration and the Managers of the Funds will consider both declarations as confirmation that both documents have been completed and approved by the relevant department. ​ Travel awards will only be made if both declarations have been completed. Funds will only be released once the Student Funding and Fee Policy Team have received a copy of the approved risk assessment as well as confirmation of its approval.

Successful applicants are required to submit a financial report and a short written account of their travel to the Student Funding and Fee Policy Team by 1 December annually.

Please contact the Student Funding and Fee Policy Team at [email protected] if you have any queries about the application process. 

Sir Bartle Frere's Memorial Fund 

• Eligibility: Undergraduates and Postgraduates
• Maximum award: £1,000
• Applications close: 8 March 2024
• Deadline for Academic Supervisor/Director of Studies' reference: 15 March 2024
• Results announced: Easter term 2024

The Bartle Frere Exhibitions are awarded annually for study or research in any branch of knowledge relating to a Commonwealth country, not including the United Kingdom and countries of the Indian sub-continent. The Managers will give preference to undergraduates but postgraduate students will also be considered.

To apply: Bartle Frere Exhibitions

Mary Euphrasia Mosley Fund

The Mary Euphrasia Mosley Fund provides awards for the encouragement of travel to the countries of the Commonwealth and dependent territories, excluding the United Kingdom, for the promotion of study or research and for the maintenance of good relations between them.

Candidates must be members of the University who are not of standing to become Masters of Arts.

To apply: Mary Euphrasia Mosley Fund

Worts Travelling Scholars Fund

Grants from the Worts Travelling Scholars Fund are made annually for the promotion or encouragement of investigations in countries outside Great Britain respecting the religion, learning, law, politics, customs, manners, and rarities, natural or artificial, of those countries, or for purposes of geographical discovery or of antiquarian or scientific research in such countries, subject to any conditions as to publication of the results of investigations which may be laid down at the time of the making of the grant. The Managers will give preference to undergraduates but postgraduate students will also be considered. These grants are made to individuals or expeditions on the basis of recommendations and are therefore not transferable.

To apply: Worts Travelling Scholars Fund

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