UKRI: Collaborate with researchers in Luxembourg

23/03/2023

30/10/2023

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and FNR have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to welcome and support collaborative applications. The MoU provides for a lead agency agreement whereby UKRI will receive and assess joint applications from eligible UK and Luxembourg applicants on behalf of both organisations. UKRI and FNR will co-fund applications submitted to the UKRI council’s responsive mode funding opportunities, in some cases named standard research grant opportunities. General conditions will differ depending on the funding opportunity to which an application is being submitted.

Under the UKRI-FNR agreement, joint UK-Luxembourg applications can be submitted to the UKRI council’s responsive mode funding opportunities, in some cases named standard research grant opportunities. Collaborative research applications led by UK applicants, with Luxembourg researchers, may be submitted in any single or cross-disciplinary area which fits within the remit of the participating research councils. The following research councils participate: AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC and STFC.

The UK principal investigator must be employed by a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding and meet the participating research council’s eligibility criteria for the specific funding opportunity to which an application is being submitted. In order to benefit from FNR funding, Luxembourg applicants need to be from FNR eligible institutions, meaning public research centres, the University of Luxembourg and public bodies, departments and establishments in Luxembourg with an authorisation to undertake research in their areas of competence.