British Council BIRAX Ageing Call for Travel Grants

BIRAX (Britain Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership), a multi-million initiative of the British Council and the British Embassy in Israel, invests in world-leading research jointly undertaken by scientists in Britain and Israel.

The Programme aims to strengthen academic collaboration between the UK and Israel in the priority sector of ageing, under the BIRAX Ageing programme. The scheme aims to support the travel of Israeli and British researchers, with preference to early career researchers, to collaborating labs in Britain/Israel.

Support can be given for researchers who wish to participate in a conference, a course, an exchange visit to a laboratory, or other visits where it can be shown to be of value for increasing the applicant’s involvement and knowledge/skills in the priority areas.

The research collaboration must be in one of these priority areas:

Ageing: research related to ageing, including: genetics, longevity, and age-related diseases, in line with the BIRAX Ageing CfP:

• Ageing and immunity
• Age-related multimorbidity
• Cardiovascular disease
• How the ageing process impacts on the progression of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes
• Ageing well with diabetes
• Neurodegenerative conditions
• Arthritis and other musculoskeletal disorders
• Age-related frailty and other geriatric syndromes.

Applicants must hold a PhD degree, be a Post-doctoral Research Fellow or Principal Investigator in the broad field of ageing research, as defined by the BIRAX Ageing CfP.

Applicants must have attended at least one full day of the BIRAX Ageing Conference on 3 and 4 November 2021.

For Israel-based applicants – participation in the conference must be in person. For UK-based applicants – participation may also be virtual.

This grant can fund up to six days of expenses as long as they are directly related to the academic or professional aspect of the trip. Any stay that exceeds the six day limit, or falls within the six days limit but is NOT related directly to the academic or professional part of the trip, must be funded from other sources.

Applicants will be able to claim up to £250 stipend per day for each day of their trip. In addition, applicants will be paid up to £500 for flight costs.

Eligible costs include the items below:

• Return air travel
• In-country local transport (bus, rail, taxi etc.)
• Accommodation costs
• Meals/subsistence costs
• Conference admission fees.

Submissions should be made using the online form by the deadline of 30 November 2021 (23:59 GMT) / 1 December (01:59 Israel Time).