UKRI have announced themes for a suite of calls to be launched in 2019 under the UKRI GCRF Collective Programme.
The Programme will reach across the six strategic GCRF Challenge portfolios (global health, education, sustainable cities, food systems, conflict and displacement and resilience), and calls will be launched throughout 2019.
Calls will be led via specific Research Councils on behalf of UKRI as a whole, and steered by challenge leaders.
Themes for calls will be:
Cities and Sustainable Infrastructure
- GCRF (Re)thinking the off-grid city
- GCRF Sustainable energy and international development: beyond technology
Education
- GCRF Education as a driver of sustainable development Network Plus
- GCRF Education in conflict and crisis research
- GCRF Education Interventions for Early Childhood Development
Food Systems
- GCRF Cultures and histories of agriculture, food, and nutrition
- GCRF A combined Food Systems approach to developing interventions to address the Double Burden of Malnutrition
Global Health
- GCRF Health and Communities
Resilience to Environmental Shocks and Change
- GCRF Equitable Resilience: ensuring resilience enhances the Sustainable Development Goals
- GCRF Multiple and systemic Risks
Security Protracted Conflict, Refugee Crises and Forced Displacement
- GCRF Development-based approaches to Protracted Displacement
- GCRF Preventing Conflict, Building Sustainable and Inclusive Peace
- GCRF Protection in Contexts of Conflict and Displacement
Calls that cut across the portfolios
- GCRF Coherence Grants
- GCRF Gender and Intersectionality Network Plus
- GCRF Global Engagement Networks
Details have been launched regarding the Global Engagement Networks call (Deadline 14 February 2019), and we are expecting further announcements this week about other calls, so keep your eyes on the Blog.
(Ed – AHRC are already advertising their leadership of various calls, and an indication of the types of project that willl be supported – e.g. networks, partnership building and research programmes).
As ever, if you’re interested in calls, please contact your Research Development Manager or International Research Development Manager as early as possible for advice and support.