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Funding to kick-start new and innovative education collaborations with the African Research Universities Alliance

Applications

Applications for the Imperial - ARUA Education Seed Fund are now closed. 

ARUA, which was inaugurated in 2015, is an alliance of 16 top research-intensive universities across Sub Saharan Africa. ARUA is intended to develop local research excellence through collaboration to find solutions to the development problems of Africa. 

The ARUA – Imperial Education Seed Fund promotes and supports early-stage collaboration among academics, researchers and students at Imperial. The fund encourages projects that combine expertise and efforts across Imperial and AIMS to jointly develop new teaching, learning and student experience opportunities. 

At Imperial, this fund has been made available as part of the President’s Excellence Fund for Learning and Teaching Innovation.

Guidance

Types of Projects

Projects are expected to benefit students and staff at both institutions. Applicants must clearly state the impact that the award will bring to both institutions in terms of student experience, and, where possible, involve staff-student partnerships in the design and delivery.  

Projects which support development in the following areas are encouraged:  

  • Research-led education: projects that are informed by the most recent research in the relevant topic. This could entail encouraging students to participate in research projects. 
  • New applications for digital technologies: Projects that pursue innovative, inclusive and impactful online experiential learning opportunities. 
  • Multidisciplinary, global challenge topics that may be linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 
  • Student entrepreneurship: Projects that provide students with the knowledge, skills, and resources to develop an entrepreneurial mindset through joint projects or creating experiential learning opportunities (e.g. joint hackathons). 
  • Flexible lifelong learning: Projects that meet the needs of learners at different stages of their lives and careers.
  • Learning analytics: projects that foster knowledge exchange on approaches to building learning analytics platforms, and structures, and designing metrics to support and enhance the student experience.
  • Exchange of academic and professional knowledge: Study visits or workshops to clearly and demonstrably aid the exchange of academic and professional knowledge, including sharing of good practice to underpin the preparation of a long-term collaborative partnership (e.g. preparation of a PhD summer school, joint module development etc.) 

All projects are encouraged to incorporate digital innovations appropriate to achieving their project goals in line with institutional education strategies. 

Projects can be either curriculum based or extracurricular.  Interdisciplinary projects are particularly encouraged.  

 

Contact Information

ARUA- Imperial Education Seed Fund

globalseedfunds@imperial.ac.uk

International Relations Office
Imperial College London
Faculty Building Level 2
South Kensington Campus
London
SW7 2AZ

Tel: +44(0)20 7594 2666