The BBSRC Collaborative Scheme for Systematics Research (Co-Syst) is designed to provide short-term funding for new collaborative research in systematics. The initiative is intended to support preliminary collaborative research that will form the basis of novel responsive mode proposals to either BBSRC or NERC. Applicants should be eligible to hold a UK Research Council grant. Further details from http://www.systass.org/awards/cosyst.shtml <http://www.systass.org/awards/cosyst.shtml>