Events in Physics

This award is up to three years and offers an exciting opportunity to foster and promote international collaboration between outstanding research groups in the UK and overseas, with a view to supporting work on global challenges and problems facing developing countries.

The objectives of these challenge awards are to:

• Support the development of sustainable collaborative partnerships between outstanding researchers in the UK and the best research groups in developing countries to generate new approaches to the most significant and complex problems faced by developing countries
• Strengthen research capacity in developing countries through collaboration, sharing of knowledge and skills and exchange of staff between research groups in the UK and their partners in developing countries.
• Attract outstanding international scientists from developing countries and their teams to work with the UK’s best universities and research institutions.
• Support the research of the best UK scientists working in fields relevant to the Global Challenges to formulate new approaches to global development problems