Exploratory Grants are awarded in order to identify and build partnership oportunities.

INSPIRE recognises that many UK Higher Education institutions (HEIs) and Central & South Asian HEIs may have a limited awareness of their counterparts. An important part of our project is to help institutions gain knowledge and to provide active support in helping them to develop strategic relationships.

In order to assist institutions to develop new links we are offering a number of grants of up to £2,000 to support strategic partnership discussions between UK institutions and potential partner institution located in Bangladesh, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan  Visits from Afghanistan to the UK can apply for up to £3,000.

Exploratory Grants are currently available for visits between the UK and:

			Afghanistan
			Bangladesh
			Kazakhstan
			Pakistan (to be announced in August 2009)
			Uzbekistan

Apply

The application deadline is the 19 November  2009.

Before you apply please first read the exploratory grant guidelines.

Download the application guidelines here.

Download the application form here

Download the Exploratory Grants F.A.Q's here

Download the Report Template here