Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures

Date Released: Tue, 12 April 2011 16:42 +0200

The ESRC is inviting proposals for international collaborative research projects under the ‘Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures’ initiative as a major investment contributing to its three priorities, especially Economic Performance and Sustainable Growth; and Vibrant and Fair Society. This focuses on the implications of the Rising Powers for the rest of the world (paying attention to both developed and developing countries), and on how the rising powers’ interactions with each other and other countries are changing. Applications are expected to focus on one or more of the themes below from an interdisciplinary perspective and international comparative and/or collaborative work is welcome.

The three themes are:

• Causes, sustainability and competitiveness
• Global and regional governance and the balance of power
• Well-being and equity

This call has a budget of £3.3M available for Research Projects at 100 per cent fEC. The ESRC welcomes Research Grant Proposals with total costs of between £200k and £750k (at 100 per cent fEC). Consistent with the Research Councils' arrangements for fEC, the ESRC will contribute 80 per cent of this cost and the remaining balance must be guaranteed by the Research Organisation. Eligible institutions may include applications for attached project linked studentships within their proposal.

Deadline for applications: 16.00 on 8 September 2011.

Projects funded under this initiative would ideally commence on 1 May 2012.

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