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British Embassy Beijing is pleased to open a call for proposals for our Chevening China Financial Fellowship Programme running for three years from 2026-2029.

From:: British Embassy Beijing
Published: 1 September 2025
Last updated: 2510 ~~September~~October 2025 — See all updates

Deadline extended to 23:59 (GMT) on Friday 1031 October 2025.

The Chevening China Financial Fellowship Programme is a new initiative designed to engage mid-career and senior Chinese financial professionals. It aims to strengthen UK-China financial cooperation through structured academic and professional exchanges.

We welcome bids from eligible UK Universities and Institutions with academic and professional expertise in the following areas:

Financial Regulation
Financial Policymaking
Banking; Capital Markets; Investment Management
Sustainable Finance
Insurance; Risk Management

This bidding round will seek to identify a UK University or Institution to design, implement, and deliver a bespoke curriculum for between 9-12 research fellows, mid-career Chinese Professionals who are leaders within the financial sector over a three-year period.

Selection Criteria

Bids will be assessed against the following criteria:

Innovation and Design: An integrated and innovative training approach to encourage real engagement for Fellows in the UK.
Professional experience, delivery plans and monitoring: Previous experience of providing such programmes for mid-career highflyers with capacity to deliver the training and provide mechanisms for effective monitoring and evaluation.
Accommodation & training infrastructure: Convenient location and adequate accommodation for executive level course participants with good quality extra-curricular facilities.
Financial Aspects: Competitive fee rates in relation to the market, explaining methodology and benchmarking and demonstrating value for money.

We draw your attention to the below key points:

Proposals should be for the provision of a 3 month research fellowship for 3-4 fellows annually.
We anticipate that tuition/research fees for this programme would be in the region of £7,000-£12,000 per fellow pa.
All funding must be activity-based.

Process

Project proposals must be submitted by 23:59 (GMT) on Friday 1031 October 2025. Late proposals will not be considered.
Proposals must include an Activity Based Budget (template included), which must be completed in English.
Proposals must be submitted to: barry.bobin-martin@fcdo.gov.uk

Important Information to Note

Project payments will be paid in arrears in three instalments, on a annual basis. Implementers must have enough resourcing to fund one third of the project costs at a time.
Bidders should send the Activity based budget in GBP sterling.
If the project is approved, implementers will be expected to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the British Embassy Beijing.

China Financial Fellowships - Call for Proposals Document

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Activity Based Budget Template

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Published 1 September 2025

Last updated 2510 ~~September~~October 2025 + show all updates

10 October 2025
The deadline has been extended to the end of October.

25 September 2025
Deadline extended due to public holiday in China.
1 September 2025
First published.

Update history

2025-10-10 04:12
The deadline has been extended to the end of October.

2025-09-25 08:13
Deadline extended due to public holiday in China.

2025-09-01 10:40
First published.

Call for Proposals: Chevening Financial Fellowship Programme