Glasgow Changing Futures

GCF Collaborative Seed Fund

The GCF Collaborative Seed Fund supports the formation of new teams at the University of Glasgow who combine diverse fields to co-design and co-produce solutions that take a systems, future-orientated perspective to local, national, and global challenges. 

The fund is intended to extend and strengthen internal connections, bring different forms of expertise together in new teams, often across Colleges, and support collaborative activity with clear potential for progression. The fund will primarily support research-focused activity, however, we will consider non-research proposals where there is a strong case for their impact on the University’s capability to address challenges. 

Seed funding is a focused and strategic approach to investing in collaboration, creating future opportunities and fostering change. It helps colleagues develop strong challenge-led ideas, build effective cross-University teams and generate the early evidence, partnerships and momentum needed to enable further development and impact. In this way, GCF seed funding supports immediate innovation while also strengthening the University’s longer-term capacity, impact and reputation.