Royal Academy of Engineering  - Frontiers -International Science Partnerships Fund Frontiers connects and empowers enthusiastic researchers, innovators, and practitioners from the UK and around the world to collaboratively address complex global development challenges. By promoting collaboration and interdisciplinary thinking, Frontiers aims to foster creative solutions that deliver meaningful impact and cultivate a lasting global community geared towards achieving a sustainable and inclusive society. Each symposium's challenge focus is selected in collaboration with co-chairs from the UK and partner countries, ensuring relevance to local contexts. The resulting research projects are designed as equitable partnerships that specifically tackle local challenges. These thematic international and interdisciplinary symposia for early career researchers cover topics such as biodiversity and the circular economy, followed by reports that contribute to the evidence base and seed funding to pilot newly formed collaborations. 
This program aligns with ODA's primary objective of promoting the economic development and welfare of developing countries, addressing ISPF objectives such as increasing the impact of research excellence, strengthening research capacity in developing countries, and tackling global challenges through impactful research outputs. By framing symposia around the most pressing global challenges and building international communities of change-makers, the program enhances the impact of the UK's best early career researchers and strengthens the research and innovation capacity in partner countries and Least Developed Countries (LDCs), thereby fulfilling ODA eligibility and supporting global development. The Frontiers program aims to establish an interdisciplinary and international community of early- and mid-career researchers, innovators, and practitioners who are better equipped to collaboratively tackle global challenges and advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The objectives include enhancing cross-disciplinary and cross-sector approaches to global challenges by establishing high-quality collaborations with diverse perspectives; building the capacity of early-mid career researchers to undertake international development by providing necessary resources and support for career progress; growing a community of researchers, innovators, and practitioners focused on global challenges, thereby increasing the impact, understanding, and scaling of research; and embedding ethical values and diversity into research and innovation by promoting diverse perspectives, breaking down siloes, and improving learning and accessibility.The program aligns well with the International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) thematic priorities and global challenges, ensuring compliance with Official Development Assistance (ODA) requirements. The emphasis on equitable partnerships includes clear co-design between Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and UK partners, aiming to embed future collaborations. Diversity and Inclusion are critical, embedded throughout the program's steering groups and participants, with enhanced focus on monitoring, evaluation, and learning from 2023 onwards. The strong alignment with the ISPF framework and goals will be maintained, ensuring the program's contribution to sustainable development and global inclusivity.