WT Public Engagement Fund Call for proposals to engage the public with health research (deadline: 11th September 2018)
The Wellcome Trust (WT) is seeking applications for its Public Engagement Fund that enable individuals and organisations to use creative approaches in engaging the public with health research.
The Wellcome Trust (WT) are looking for creative approaches to engage the public. Your project needs to support the Trust's public engagement goals, so it should do at least one of the following:
empower people by helping them to access, use, respond to, and/or participate in health research and innovation
- improve health research by making it more people-centred, to better understand people’s experiences and draw on that knowledge
- help people to value and think critically about science, health research, innovation and the role these play in society.
If your project takes place in a low- or middle-income country, we particularly want to see how it will strengthen the public engagement skills of the people and organisations involved in developing the project in that country.
Eligibility
The Public Engagement Fund is open to individuals and organisations (commercial and not-for-profit). Your project must focus on health, although this doesn’t need to be your organisation’s main focus or core activity.
You can be working in the arts, culture, entertainment media, heritage, leisure, education, research, informal learning, social enterprise, non-profit and community sectors, or other fields.
Where your project will take place
UK, Republic of Ireland, Low- and middle-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and East Asia and Pacific
Level of funding
Grants from £25,000 to £250,000, duration up to 3 years
For further details on proposal scope and application guidelines please see the WT website.