Nanyang Technological University and The University of Warwick Joint Seed Fund
The Joint Seed Fund Call is now closed to applicants.
Key information:
Key dates:
Applications open: 9 October 2025
Applications close: 3 November 2025
Awards begin: 5 January 2026
Warwick awards finish: 31 July 2026
Projects finish: 31 December 2026
Objectives:
The NTU-Warwick Seed Fund aims to facilitate mobility and encourage deeper collaboration/exchanges. Collaborative efforts will be evidenced by outputs during or immediately after the project ends. Researchers are encouraged to achieve at least one of the following outcomes by the end of the project period:
- jointly hold a physical/online workshop at either Institution; or
- jointly apply for national/international competitive grant or other sources of external funding; or
- submission of at least one joint co-authored publication in a national/internationally recognised journal (or equivalent output); or
- other outcomes of equal value.
Research Disciplines
Warwick Principal Investigators (PIs) can come from any department, school or centre. In addition to Warwick’s open approach, NTU has identified a select group of Schools and College whose PIs are eligible to participate.
List of NTU Participating Schools and College and Topics of Interest
- Business (NTU)
Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Finance, AI and business, Leadership, Accounting, Marketing and other Business-related topics - Social Sciences (NTU)
Economics, Econometrics, Psychology (all areas), Public Policy, Public Administration, Global Affairs, Political Science, Sociology, Computational Social Sciences.
- Science (NTU)
Natural, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Within these overarching fields, an interested researcher from one of the partners should connect with Principal Investigator(s) (PI(s)) at the other partner.
Funding:
Funding will be provided jointly by Warwick and NTU.
- Social Sciences fund: up to £9K (or SGD equivalent) from each partner per project (total number of projects to be funded: 2)
- Business fund: up to £9K (or SGD equivalent) from each partner per project (total number of projects to be funded: 2)
- Science fund: up to £14K (or SGD equivalent) from each partner per project (total number of projects to be funded: 1)
Funding Expenditure
Eligible expenses will typically include:
- Reasonable travel (including accommodation) and visa costs;
- Hosting of local symposiums and/or workshops;
- Small pilot studies;
- Research activities costs such as, data collection, software, database, publication, and consumables. In the case of consumables, this should not exceed 20% of the total budget;
- Conference fees for student researchers (Masters and PhD) and post docs engaged on the joint project.
The seed fund may NOT be used for: salaries, honorarium, equipment, scholarships, conference attendance fees for faculty members, and tuition fees.
Eligibility:
Principal Investigators (PIs) on each side must be tenure-track or tenured faculty member of NTU or permanent / fixed-term academic staff of Warwick. For fixed-term staff, the duration of their contract must extend beyond the end date of the funded project.
How to apply:
Each application must include the following information and supporting documents, where applicable
- NTU-Warwick Joint Seed Fund Application Form
- CVs of the two lead PIs and their selected publications
- Warwick Requirements Form (for Warwick PI only)
The application documents should be compiled into a single consolidated file and submitted to both International@ntu.edu.sg and isr@warwick.ac.uk with the subject title “NTU-Warwick proposal submission”.