MRC: partnership grant: applicant-led

[{"label":"Field","value":"Details"},{"label":"Funding Range","value":"Typically £400,000 to £2 million (100% full economic cost)"},{"label":"Programme Objective","value":"To support applicant-led partnerships that establish novel collaborative activities or capabilities and add value to existing research or underpin future research funding."},{"label":"Research Focus","value":"Research partnerships aimed at improving understanding of human health and disease."},{"label":"Eligible Research Areas","value":"Infections and immunity, molecular and cellular medicine, neuroscience and mental health, population and systems medicine."},{"label":"Collaboration Model","value":"Multi-researcher partnerships encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration and team science."},{"label":"Activities Not Funded","value":"Projects primarily focused on research, networking without defined activities, inward-looking collaborations, PhD studentships, bridge funding between grants."},{"label":"Eligible Costs","value":"Salary contributions for leadership roles, technical staff, consumables, equipment, travel, dissemination costs, data management and sharing, estates and indirect costs."},{"label":"International Cost Limit","value":"Up to 30% of total costs for international applicants from high-income countries, India and China."},{"label":"Application Submission","value":"The lead research organisation submits the application through the UKRI Funding Service."},{"label":"Core Team Roles","value":"Project lead, project co-lead (UK), project co-lead (international), specialist, grant manager, professional enabling staff, researcher co-lead, visiting researcher."},{"label":"Key Application Sections","value":"Summary, vision, approach, applicant and team capability, data management plan, ethics and RRI, resources and cost justification, project partners, trusted research and innovation, international collaboration."},{"label":"Project Partners","value":"Partners may contribute cash or in-kind support such as facilities, data, equipment, or staff time."},{"label":"Industry Collaboration","value":"Must comply with the Industry Collaboration Framework (ICF) if industry partners are involved."},{"label":"Data Management Requirement","value":"Applicants must provide a detailed data management and sharing plan aligned with MRC policies."},{"label":"Ethical Compliance","value":"Applicants must address ethical considerations and responsible research and innovation implications."},{"label":"Additional Compliance","value":"Trusted Research and Innovation principles and export control considerations may apply."},{"label":"Application Limit","value":"Maximum of two applications as project lead across MRC applicant-led opportunities within a 12-month period."},{"label":"Resubmission Policy","value":"Unsuccessful applications cannot be resubmitted within 12 months unless explicitly permitted."},{"label":"Sustainability Expectation","value":"Applicants should outline how the partnership will continue beyond the grant period."}]