2025 Going Global Partnerships Seed Fund for Student Mobility

British Council China is pleased to announce the 2025 Going Global Partnerships Seed Fund for Student Mobility.

This seed fund will enable existing UK-China HE partnerships to support Chinese higher education institutions to increase their capacity in internationalisation, increase UK university students’ understanding of China, share the UK’s experience and expertise in hosting international students, as well as foster innovation and create long-term sustainable partnerships that endure beyond the life of any single project.

Objectives:

• Support a durable and resilient eco-system for mobility and exchange in education between UK and Chinese institutions
• Support capacity building of both UK and Chinese institutions and secure the long-term sustainability of partnerships between the UK and China
• Boosting UK students’ inbound mobility to China through development of innovative and practical mobility programmes.
• Diversifying the range of UK students gaining international experience in China, including those from lower socio-economic households, first-generation, underrepresented ethnic groups etc.
• Prioritise gender equality and inclusion at every level of engagement.

This is an open call, to all UK universities with existing partnership(s) with Chinese universities. The partnership type includes but not limited to transnational education, articulation programme, short-term exchange programme, joint research, etc.

For each project, seed fund of up to GBP10,000 will be awarded to winning UK institution. 100% of the funding will be disbursed by March 2026. Projects in receipt of funding will be expected to start no later than Mar 2026 and can run for one year (until March 2027). The funding is for the duration of the project and not per annum.

There will be an online briefing session for the Seed Fund, at 9:00am UK time on 18 Dec, with recording available. If you would like to join the session or receive recording of the session, please help register through the following link at least 1 day ahead.

Register now.