Applications

Applications for the NTU - Imperial Education Seed Fund are open.

Deadline: Friday May 9th 2025

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The Imperial College London (Imperial) – Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Education Fund aims to support new collaborative education projects. The fund encourages projects which build on our institutions’ individual successes and combine expertise and efforts across Imperial and NTU to jointly develop new teaching, learning and student experience opportunities. The fund is designed to incentivise the set-up of new teaching and learning formats which offer sustainable long-term benefits 

There will be an online information session held on 20 February 9am UK/5pm Singapore. The link to register can be found in the guidance document.

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

Examples from previous education fund projects:

2023/34 Imperial -NTU Education Fund

Imperial Change Makers and NTU Interdisciplinary Collaborative Core: Health and Sustainability Education Project

Co-production of neuroscience of learning resources for asynchronous teaching

Establishment of the Imperial-NTU Food Student Research Network Partnership

2023/24 Imperial- AIMS Education Fund

North-South-AIMS-Imperial: research-led teaching and mentoring in modern statistics and global health

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 are 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/practitioner education: 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 delivery, future exchange agreement, 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

NTU - 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