[United Kingdom] OPEN CALL: TNE Exploratory Grant 2025

Greetings from British Council Indonesia!

TNE Exploratory Grants 2025, aim to support new and strengthen TNE partnerships between the UK and 14 other countries: Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, Georgia, Ghana, Indonesia, Nepal, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, and Viet Nam.

We are pleased to inform you that the TNE Exploratory Grants 2025 from Going Global Partnerships is now open for call.

 

Further information

 

ABOUT THE PROGRAM:

TNE Exploratory Grant will prioritise partnerships that focus on one or more of the priority themes from the Transnational Education Strategy:

• Action 2: Create an enabling environment for TNE in other countries and promote the quality of UK TNE internationally
• Action 3: Contribute to better understanding of the local context and facilitate a regulatory and operational environment to best support TNE partnerships
• Action 4: Support TNE to contribute to the transformation of local education systems and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Note: For this call, please be aware that the Indonesian government allows all forms of TNE except franchise.

 

ELIGIBILITY

• UK: Lead institutions must be a higher education institutions with degree awarding powers in their own right.
• Indonesia: Lead institutions must be a higher education institutions, including Indonesian campuses of UK universities (branch campuses of non-UK Higher Education Institutions are not eligible).

 

PROGRAM DETAILS

• Grant amount: up to £25,000
• Project length: 17 months, starting January 2026
• Total funding: grants are available for an expected total of 33 projects
• Countries: UK institutions partnering with Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, Georgia, Ghana, Indonesia, Nepal, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, and Viet Nam.

 

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

1. Apply directly to British Council Going Global Partnerships. (Queries related to the call must be submitted by 21 July 2025 to goingglobalpartnerships-TNE@britishcouncil.org)
2. The submission deadline is 08 September 2025, 23:59 BST.
3. The FINAL decision is from Britih Council Going Global Partnerships.

 

INFO SESSION

• Register HERE for the Info Session on UK-Indonesia partnerships, taking place on Thursday, 17 July 2025, at 10 AM UK time (16.00 WIB).

 

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

• If you are interested in applying for this call, it would be greatly appreciated if you could fill in this form: http://ugm.id/InterestFormTNE . Please kindly noted that this form only serves as an information to UGM and is not part of the application process.

 

CONSULTATION INFO

If you have any questions regarding this program, you can contact us in OIA’s office hour:

• WhatsApp: +62 812-1888-7818 (WA)
• Email: scholarship@ugm.ac.id

Virtual consultation: https://ugm.id/AppointmentOIAUGM