ISPF-034, UK-ASEAN Research Infrastructure Partnership 2023/2024 & 2024/2025
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Description
The initial cost of building and running large research facilities is often prohibitive to developing countries. This programme aims to build research capacity in ODA relevant research areas by allowing access to UK research infrastructures, specifically the ISIS Neutron & Muon Source, for Indonesian and Malaysian researchers. It will also develop a relationship with ASEAN funders to further spread the use of neutron and muon techniques.
Objectives
Research and innovation objectives Up to 64 experiments (c.216 days of beam time) will be funded over the 2.75 year period. This will allow for new collaborations with the partner countries and invaluable opportunities for early career researchers to gain access to a ones of the UK’s national laboratories and its wealth of expertise. Science focus areas will support sustainable development and the green and blue economies, i.e. clean energy, catalysis, net zero and health. Further objectives will focus on the release of publications resulting from research performed at ISIS, increasing domain knowledge within the neutron and muon community for global challenges, and dissemination of activities in-country by researchers utilising ISIS. Partnership objectives The short-term objective is to create new partnerships with in-country funders to develop the current programme sympathetically to their research aims and other priorities such early career researcher development access. The longer-term ambition is to continue the relationship development into a long-term collaboration. The primary output for these objectives will be to stimulate the in-country neutron user community and encourage the formation of dedicated user groups, whilst improving our relationship with the Indonesian and Malaysian funders to support the longer-term use of ISIS. Impact/benefit objectives for the UK and internationally The programme will demonstrate significant overseas engagement in ISIS, evidencing the international reputation of the facility (and of UK science infrastructure in general) and the world-class nature of its instrumentation and its scientists. The programme will foster relationships with in-country funders with the aim of ensuring a sustainable use of ISIS by Indonesian and Malaysian researchers beyond the end of the current programme. A further benefit for ISIS will be the international opportunities for its dedicated UK-based scientists to engage with, improving their expertise and therefore the scientific outputs, which could potentially lead to longer-term investment directly into the facility, thus promoting a lifecycle for the UK International Infrastructure.
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