2025 Call for Letters of Intent (LOI)

Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Research Development Fund (RDF)

Mahidol University has joined the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), a leading global higher education network connecting 24 research-intensive universities in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.

WUN provides special programs for career development, including networking opportunities for researchers.

We invite Mahidol University’s researchers who are interested to submit the Letter of Intent (LOI) to apply for the WUN Research Development Fund (RDF) in the internal application process organized by the International Relations Division, Mahidol University.

Two successful applications will be announced to continue to apply in the WUN application process accordingly. For more information, please see below:

Project teams.
– Must involve at least 3 WUN member universities from at least 2 regions.
– May include non-WUN universities and external partners, but must have an active core of
WUN members.
– Projects led by Early Career Researchers (ECRs) are especially encouraged. (ECRs:
Researchers within 7 years of their first academic appointment. Defined by WUN)

Terms of award: An award of up to £10,000 will be offered by WUN to each selected project.

Assessment Criteria:

• • Academic quality

  • Relevance to call

  • WUN advantage

  • Research team

• Outcome and impact