Institutional grants will be awarded to around 10 selected UK research organisations, enabling them to rapidly recruit and embed teams of international researchers by covering both relocation and research costs.
The Global Talent funding will be awarded as institutional grants to around 10 UK research organisations. Research organisations have been selected to receive this funding based on a bespoke formula, using criteria to determine organisational strength in:
- successfully receiving and using competitive international funding
- recruiting and retaining international researchers
- use of the Global Talent visa, which is the UK’s primary visa for researchers and specialists
All selected research organisations will be awarded an equal share of the available funding.
The selection of research organisations was guided by a requirement to be inclusive of all types of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) eligible research organisations, and to ensure a strong regional spread of research organisations across the UK.
Awarded organisations are encouraged to form partnerships with UK universities, public sector research organisations, other funders, and commercial organisations at their discretion.
Funding is used to support research within one or more of the eight industrial strategy priority areas:
- advanced manufacturing
- clean energy industries
- creative industries
- defence
- digital and technologies
- financial services
- life sciences
- professional and business services
It is at the discretion of research organisations whether one or multiple industrial strategy sectors are supported with this funding.
The ability of eligible research organisations to use this funding to conduct research and build capacity in industrial strategy priority areas will be determined by a UKRI validation panel. This stage will need to be passed for organisations to be awarded funding.
Research organisations are responsible for identifying and recruiting researchers.
This investment is part of a broader array of support across the UK research system to collaborate internationally and attract and retain international research talent. This support includes UKRI programmes, Horizon Europe association and National Academy fellowships