The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)

The Royal Society of Edinburgh has a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Science Council, Taiwan to facilitate, encourage and support research collaboration in all areas between research groups in Scotland and Taiwan. This scheme is additional to and complements existing schemes operated at UK level by the Royal Society and the British Academy in London.

The RSE exchange programme began in 2003 and grants are awarded through a competitive process to support study visits to and from Taiwan. Exchange Programme grants are for short-term visits of one to four weeks duration, the key objectives being to enhance the research capabilities of individual researchers, develop international collaborative links, and enable participation in international programmes. Both visitors and hosts abroad should have established contact before submitting an application, either by previous collaboration or by scientific correspondence.

Visits are funded by the terms of agreements with the National Science Council of Taiwan. The RSE will pay the cost of APEX or equivalent fares plus travel to and from the UK departure point. Local costs will be met by the National Science Council of Taiwan.

To encourate further collaboration between researchers in life sciences and micronanotechnology in Scotland and Tiwan, a HI-Tech Forum was held in Edinburgh on 10-12 October 2005. For further information please see the RSE International Events Section.

Eligibility (Additional criteria to those on Exchange Programmes front page)
Applications are considered in all areas of the natural sciences, social sciences, arts letters and humanities.

Applications will be particularly welcome in the following areas:

- Biotechnology & Life Sciences, especially Genome Project, Mitochondria Research, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Cancer Research, Bio-Chip, Bio-Ethics and Stem Cell Research.

- Oceanography especially Paleo-Oceanography and Marine Geochemistry.

- Engineering especially E-Science, Informatics, Nanotechnology System on a Chip and Photonics.

Closing Date
Please refer to the International Exchange Programme front page for current closing dates for each programme and remember to submit completed application forms and all supporting documentation by the closing date you wish to apply for.

Applications. Completed applications should be sent, by the appropriate closing date, to:

International Exchange Applications
Royal Society of Edinburgh
22-26 George Street
Edinburgh, EH2 2PQ
Tel: +44 (0)131 240 5018/5000
Fax: +44 (0)131 240 5024

Applicants from Taiwan wishing to travel to Scotland, should apply in country to:

Dr Kwang-Lung Lin, Director General,
Department of International Cooperation,
National Science Council,
21 F. 106 Ho-ping East Road, Sec. 2
Taipei, Taiwan.

Tel: +886-2-2737-7558; fax: +886-2-2737-7607

Last updated 12 December, 2008