Overview

• The initiative pools more than £115m, highlighted by a £54m fund that fully finances relocation, research overheads and visa fees for incoming research teams.
• The newly formed Global Talent Taskforce, answerable to the Prime Minister and Chancellor, is deploying teams at UK diplomatic posts to recruit leaders across science, tech and the arts.
• Administered by UKRI, the fund will be dispersed over five years through select universities and research bodies to projects in clean energy, health innovations and AI.
• Supplementary investments include the Turing AI Global Fellowships and expanded Encode: AI for Science programme to anchor premier AI researchers in UK facilities.
• Eligible professionals can leverage the streamlined Global Talent Visa to enter without employer sponsorship or job offers, opening doors to top STEM candidates from India and beyond.