UK Malaysia University Partnership Grants
The British Council Malaysia provides seed-funding to UK-MUC Members in the form of UK-Malaysia University Partnership Grants, with the aim of facilitating collaborations among UK and Malaysian institutions in key areas of priority.
Since 2021, 24 collaborative projects between UK and Malaysian universities have been awarded grants in key priority areas, including:
- graduate employability and future work skills
- innovative pedagogy
- entrepreneurship
- women leadership and empowerment
Round one of funding took place in 2021, with round two and three taking place in 2022 and 2023 respectively. The British Council Malaysia is now supporting the Second Phase of the UK-Malaysia University Consortium from 2024 to 2026. To kick off this phase, they have launched round four of funding: the 2024 UK-Malaysia University Consortium Grant for Innovative Partnerships.
This grant aims to support the UK-MUC by undertaking collaborative initiatives that fall within the following three strands:
- Enhancing student outcomes (for example outward mobility, entrepreneurship)
- Driving research excellence (for example developing capacity, co-creating centres of excellence)
- Developing sustainable models of collaborations (for example innovative TNE, multilateral partnerships)
The collaborative initiatives must demonstrate evidence of benefit to the wider members of the UK-Malaysia University Consortium, as well as the UK and Malaysia HE sectors. Initiatives should ideally include efforts to:
- promote high quality mobility and exchange
- develop capacity among students and academics
- share best practices and impactful stories within the sector
- explore innovative trilateral and multilateral collaborative opportunities
- enable sustainable funding
- prioritise gender equality and inclusion in higher education partnerships
The following projects have been awarded the UK-Malaysia University Consortium Grant for Innovative Partnerships 2024.
Innovative Partnerships: Bridging Classroom to Business and Society through Business Clinics and Final Year Project Experiences
UK Lead Institution: Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)
Malaysia Lead Institution and ASEAN HEI: YPC International College
Catalyst Grant Round Four
PIE for HEAL (Partnership In Equality for Health Education to combat soil trAnsmitted heLminth infections)
UK Lead Institution: Cardiff Metropolitan University (CMET)
Malaysia Lead Institution and ASEAN HEI: Universiti of Malaya (UM), Peking University (PU), Southeast University (SEU), Global Peace Foundation Malaysia (GPF)
Catalyst Grant Round Four
PIE Programme for WiSE (Women in Sustainable & safE AI)
UK Lead Institution: Cardiff Metropolitan University (CMET)
Malaysia Lead Institution and ASEAN HEI: University of Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA), University of Malaysia Kelantan (UMK), Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI)
Additional Partners: University of York, England, United Kingdom; Universiti of Indonesia (UI), Jakarta, Indonesia; BINUS University, Jakarta, Indonesia
Catalyst Grant Round Four
AI for Sustainable Futures
UK Lead Institution: Cardiff University
Malaysia Lead Institution and ASEAN HEI: Sunway University
Catalyst Grant Round Four
Developing a UK-Malaysia Community of Practice to Empower Women in Global HE Leadership
UK Lead Institution: University of Nottingham
Malaysia Lead Institution and ASEAN HEI: International Islamic University Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Additional Partners: University of Nottingham Malaysia
AI in allied health: a network of deep medicine experts for global health
UK Lead Institution: University of East Anglia
Malaysia Lead Institution and ASEAN HEI: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)/National University of Malaysia, Malaysian Association of Speech-Language & Hearing (MASH), Universiti Sains Malaysia (Health Campus)
Additional Partners: Colloquium of Speech Therapists (STs) Indonesia, Centro Nacional de Reabilitasaun East Timor
