Oxford International Seed Fund

The purpose of the Oxford International Seed Fund is to support international activity that helps recipients make applications to external funders, that mitigates obstructions to international research, that supports joint activity with international partners lacking the resources to improve their teaching or carry out world-class research without Oxford’s assistance and that aligns with the University’s Strategic Plan.

Summary information on the fund is given below, but for full details please refer to the guidance notes:

In light of the disruption to travel caused by the Novel Coronavirus, the fund has relaxed the previous requirement for money to be spent before the end of the University’s financial year on 31 July. However, as the fund has been created with internal funding, recipients who need to carry over money post-31 July will need to make appropriate arrangements for this with their departmental finance administrators.

 

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Applications are accepted on a termly basis, with an additional ‘summer term’ to bridge the long vacation. Applicants should email their completed application forms to the International Engagement Office. Applicants are advised to apply in the round directly before the activities they intend to carry out.

 

 

The fund is not currently open to applications.

 

 

 

The Oxford International Seed Fund intends to disburse a total of £45,000 before July 2020, in grants of between £300 and £5,000.

In exceptional cases the Fund will consider applications for grants of more than £5,000. Applicants who wish to make an application for a grant larger than £5,000 must contact the International Strategy Office to discuss their application with the relevant officer for the region of the world the grant is intended to support activity with before submitting their application.

Typically, Seed Fund grants will cover one of the following:

  • the costs of international travel and accommodation for Oxford staff,
  • the costs of travel and accommodation for international academics visiting Oxford (the application should be made by the Oxford academic who intends to host the visitor),
  • the costs of travel and accommodation for international students completing internships or similar visits to Oxford,
  • symposia and similar academic events

Seed Fund grants will not cover any salary payments to either Oxford researchers or visiting academics. They will also not cover any bench fees or similar academic charges, or any costs related to departments’ replacement of the teaching of travelling academics.

 

 

Providing feedback on the activities carried out with Seed Fund grants is a non-negotiable requirement for successful Seed Fund applicants.

Further to this standard feedback requirement, the International Strategy Office may contact selected grant recipients at a later date to engage them in activities that support or promote international activity.

 

 

Ed Nash
Acting Director of International Strategy
ed.nash@admin.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1865 280489

 

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