The Saltire Emerging Researcher Scheme – part of a £6.75m Programme funded by the Scottish Government, will be delivered by a new partnership between SICSA and EIT Digital.

The scheme hopes to support international and EU activity and collaboration with Scotland, including boosting support for international research collaboration and talent attraction, increase scholarship offering to include EU students and support the effective use of alumni globally.

SICSA, in partnership with EIT Digital, has been awarded funding within the Saltire Scheme to reinforce and build new research partnerships while developing individual researchers’ networks with European partners across the Computer Science discipline.

The scheme will fully fund incoming and outgoing exchanges of up to six months to both enhance the training experience for PhD Students and support Early Career Researchers in developing their networks and collaborations across Scotland and Europe.

Morgan Gillis, EIT Digital’s UK director, commented that: “EIT Digital is very pleased with the take-up of its programs in Scotland and delighted to be deeply involved in the international development of Scotland’s digital economy across a range of sectors.

“We much appreciate our close collaboration with Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Funding Council as strategic partners in making this success possible.”

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The parnership hopes to leverage the reach of EIT Digital’s network across Europe in research intensive institutions and SICSA’s network of partnerships across Scottish Computing Science.

“Informatics and Computer Science researchers in SICSA have strong and vibrant links with researchers across Europe. However, Brexit has had a severe cooling effect on funding channels because of complex and protracted negotiations on funding,” said Professor Stuart Anderson, Director of SICSA.

He added: “The Saltire awards give our PhD students and Early Career Researchers an immediate boost in reinforcing existing and building new collaborations.  These will form the foundations of new long-term collaborative research across the EU.”

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