Every open and upcoming R&D funding competition from Innovate UK, the UKRI research councils and co-funding government departments such as Defra, DfT and DESNZ, in one place. Updated automatically from the UKRI Funding Finder. If a grant looks relevant, our R&D tax consultants can also advise on how grant funding interacts with your R&D tax relief claim.
Apply for funding for early-stage research into medical countermeasures, including vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics, for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats You must be employed at a…
Apply for funding for projects focused on speculative and high-risk fundamental research with the potential to deliver high reward and a step change in the explainability of future AI systems. You must be based at a UK…
Apply for funding to visit international partners, in order to initiate collaborations, prepare joint funding proposals, visit overseas facilities or attend European consortia-building events. Stays may be of up to one…
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million exclusive of VAT, for collaborative Discovery Phase Projects that meet the Innovation Challenges. This funding is from the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund.
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million exclusive of VAT, for collaborative discovery phase projects that meet the round five challenges. This funding is from the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund.
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million for Engineering Biology pilot scale and validation projects. This funding is part of UKRI’s Engineering Biology Programme and funded by BIST.
Apply for capital funding to renew, replace and enhance capabilities for environmental science. The funding opportunity is for existing facilities, laboratories and other national capabilities which are demonstrably…
Apply for proof-of-concept funding to develop and deploy innovative autonomous solutions for atmospheric science research or autonomous aerial systems for environmental science. You must be based at a UK research…
Apply for funding to improve our understanding of how ecosystem change affects resilience, security and prosperity as part of the NERC-Defra co-funded Resilient Economy and Security through Ecosystem Transitions…
Apply for funding to deliver entrepreneurship-focused doctoral training. Applications can be led by organisations with standard and non-standard eligibility. The non-standard eligibility process will need to be…
Apply for funding to develop and test dynamic tools and innovative approaches to measure public trust and confidence in policing by 2030. The tools and approaches developed will access the voices of underrepresented…
Apply for funding to provide high-performance compute resource for engineering and physical sciences communities. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.
Apply for funding to develop and test dynamic tools and innovative approaches to measure public trust and confidence in policing by 2030. The tools and approaches developed will access the voices of underrepresented…
Organisations can apply for a share of £900,000, inclusive of VAT, to demonstrate and test low-cost counter uncrewed aerial system (UAS) technologies that are able to detect and track drones within UK prison estates…
Organisations can apply for a share of £3 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop practical solutions that reignite the importance of play and increase access to high quality, real world play experiences, improving…
Innovate UK, on behalf of the OLS Cancer Healthcare Goals programme, will invest up to £25.4 million, to support the clinical validation and evaluation of early cancer diagnostic technologies and devices.
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £12 million for collaborative industrial research to speed the translation of advanced materials innovations in three prioritised high growth themes and one…
Join the CoSTAR Network and host national infrastructure for creative sector research and development. Reduce barriers to creative businesses’ technology adoption and support commercialisation, scale up and investment…
Join the CoSTAR Network and host national infrastructure for creative sector research and development. Reduce barriers to creative businesses’ technology adoption and support commercialisation, scale up and investment…
Apply for funding to collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding.
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £8.5 million to develop and scale Engineering Biology platforms, products and services. This funding is part of UKRI’s Engineering Biology Programme.
Apply for funding for a skills hub to deliver high quality, cohort based doctoral training, and design of high-quality postgraduate level taught programmes in fire engineering. You must be based at a UK research…
Apply for three years of NetworkPlus funding to build new capacity, strengthen community and enhance research to innovation capabilities focused on the circular economy in data and metrics, or textiles. You must be…
Apply for funding to deliver collaborative research projects to develop and test integration of quantum computing into high-performance computational workflows, enabling user access and widespread adoption. You must be…
Organisations can apply for a share of £2 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop industrial research solutions to strengthen supply chain resilience and onshore critical dual use capabilities.
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million to create scale up manufacturing facilities for zero emission vehicle technologies. DRIVE35 (Driving Research and Investment in Vehicle…
This funding opportunity was previously titled ‘Developmental pathway funding scheme: stage one’. Apply for funding to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other interventions. You must…
This opportunity funds researcher-driven basic, applied, and strategic research from any disciplines and on any topics in ESRC’s remit, as long as the social sciences are more than 50% of the focus and effort. You can…
This opportunity funds new researchers at the start of their careers to support them to become independent researchers through gaining experience of managing and leading research projects and teams. You must be based at…
Individuals and research teams can apply for funding to support high-impact, policy- and practitioner-relevant research through deeper exploitation of existing data resources from any disciplines and on any topics in…
UK-registered businesses can apply for support worth up to £315,000 to develop a climate tech FOAK project. Companies successful at this expression of interest stage could be invited to apply for a larger grant through…
This funding opportunity is designed to support the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence’s (ESCoE) high-quality research to improve economic measurement, enhance the production of key statistics, and address…
Apply for funding to study why people respond differently to biomedical prevention interventions. Projects must generate mechanistic evidence in humans to provide insight into precision prevention through better…
Funding opportunity for mid-range capital equipment that will enable and enhance research across MRC’s scientific areas. You must be employed at a research organisation eligible to apply for MRC funding.
You can only apply for this funding opportunity if we have invited you to do so following a successful outline application. Apply for funding to support innovative, large-scale and complex projects that tackle big…
Apply for funding for projects focused on speculative and high-risk research with the potential to deliver a step change in the sustainability of future AI systems. You must be based at a UK research organisation…
Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a grant of £2,500, to engage an external Project Facilitator to support the development of a Full ADOPT Grant application.
UK registered SME’s can apply for a share of up to £3.1 million to deliver feasibility studies for frontier artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) technologies with a clear route to defensible scale-up.
Apply to the MRC Impact Acceleration Award to address a single, high-risk development step and generate key data to de-risk a new medicine, medical device, diagnostic or other medical product. You must be based at a…
Apply for funding to pursue truly novel curiosity-driven environmental research that is at an early stage of development and has the potential to be transformative. You must be based at a UK research organisation…
Apply for NERC’s ICURe Discover programme. Participants will build market awareness, deepen understanding of potential applications of their research and learn how to gauge customer opinion on their product. This…
Submit information about your longitudinal population study (LPS) to help Medical Research Council (MRC) plan for future investments in LPS infrastructure. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for…
UK registered eligible organisations can apply for a share of up to £4 million for a manufacturing digitalisation innovation (MDI) and scale-up hub to improve the targeting, quality and commercial impact of grant funded…
This funding opportunity was previously titled ‘Developmental pathway funding scheme: stage one’. Apply for funding to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other interventions. You must…
Apply for funding to implement, improve or consolidate bioinformatics or biological resources in support of UK bioscience, helping to drive forwards progress in bioscience research and innovation. You must be based at a…
Apply for funding to support research that can help develop new measurements of the return on investments in research and development (R&D). You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.
Apply for funding to establish a UK Obesity Research Institute, undertaking world-leading research into the mechanistic biomedical drivers of obesity and develop targeted interventions to prevent and treat obesity and…
Apply for funding to advance research supporting the UK National Quantum Strategy Mission 2, strengthening UK leadership in quantum networking and communications and the future quantum internet. You must be based at a…
Apply for funding to establish a national coordination network supporting the UK National Quantum Strategy Mission 2. The network will connect researchers, industry partners and network operators to advance quantum…
Apply for funding to strengthen conservation and heritage science infrastructure by building sustainable capability, improving access to nationally significant facilities and driving innovation with industry partners…
UK registered government research organisations can apply for grants from £50,000 up to £250,000 to move viable public sector knowledge assets towards commercial readiness. This funding is provided by the Government…
UK registered SME’s can apply for a share of up to £2.4 million for the purpose of developing innovative proposals with Germany. You must collaborate with at least one German SME applying under the equivalent German ZIM…
Apply for funding to research the long-term impact and legacy of major sporting and cultural events in the UK, focusing on running a live experimental evaluation of a major event that fills gaps in existing…
Apply for funding to research the development of novel data-intensive approaches for capturing engagement data from unticketed cultural, heritage, and sporting events, activities and locations, demonstrated through a…
Apply for funding for ambitious and exploratory projects bringing together AI and domain expertise. Projects will have the potential to unlock new opportunities for applying AI to research challenges in priority science…
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Department of Health and Social Care to invest up to £7 million to support the development and adoption of sustainable technologies for the…
Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £5 million for on-farm trial and demonstration projects, to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector…
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million to support innovation in battery grade material technologies for electrification. This funding is from the battery innovation programme.
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million to support innovation in battery grade material technologies for electrification. This funding is from the battery innovation programme.
Apply for funding to establish a doctoral focal award in chip design. This supports interdisciplinary training in very large-scale integration design and systems-on-chip. You must be based at a UK research organisation…
Apply for funding that deepens understanding or supports solutions for the prevention and treatment of gambling-related harms. To lead an application, you must be based at a research organisation eligible for UKRI…
Apply for funding to address manufacturing scale-up challenges for new technologies and processes, accelerating innovation and driving UK business growth in the automotive and aerospace sectors. You must be based at a…
Opportunity to build a Network Plus to accelerate the scale-up of manufacturing innovation, driving growth across aerospace, automotive and wider UK advanced manufacturing frontier industries. You must be based at a UK…
Apply for funding to engage the public with Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) supported science. Applicant organisations must: be UK-based produce annual accounts certified by an accountant Proposals must…
Apply for funding to establish and lead a What Works Centre for a climate resilient UK to transform how the UK adapts to climate change. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Economic and Social…
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million for the purpose of developing innovative proposals with Singapore. You must collaborate with at least one Singapore business applying under the…
This is an invite only funding opportunity to support national research facilities (NRFs) for research across EPSRC Physical Sciences within the scope of the funding opportunity. Facilities may be outside the UK for…
Apply for funding for pump-priming research to explore, test and validate disruptive and transformative solutions for critical mineral extraction, processing, recovery, reprocessing, recycling or re-mining. You must be…
Research England’s Collaboration for a Sustainable Future funding for coordinating groups to convene communities to produce an output identifying barriers, challenges and potential solutions to institutional…
Apply for funding to establish a Centre of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI) to address strategic regulatory science priorities through sustained programmes of research. You must be based at a UK…
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of £2 million for collaborative industrial research and development (R&D) projects with partners from Japan and select Eureka countries.
Apply for funding to recruit and train doctoral students through a doctoral focal award which seeks to unlock linguistic and cultural expertise. These awards will provide opportunities through partnership between higher…
Apply for funding to run a high throughput screen (HTS) using AstraZeneca’s compound library and screening robots. There are two funding opportunities per year that are open to all targets.
Apply for MRC Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) funding to tackle complex and interdisciplinary health challenges. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding.
This funding opportunity is part of RE’s Collaboration for a Sustainable Future programme. Funding for higher education providers: to pilot new institutional collaborations (England-only) and to seed innovation…
Apply for funding to investigate the causes, progression and treatment of human disease. Your application must include an intervention in humans. You must be based at a research organisation eligible for Medical…
Apply for funding to increase our understanding, assessment, management, and governance of water across scales, from catchment to groundwater and from source to sea. Enable better decision-making for public authorities…
Apply for funding to investigate the causes, progression and treatment of human disease. Your application must include an intervention in humans. You must be based at a research organisation eligible for Medical…
Apply for funding for academically led experimental medicine studies in humans that deepen understanding of the causal biological and psychosocial mechanisms underlying the effects of gambling activities, products and…
Apply for funding to increase our understanding of novel ecosystems, their socio-ecological dynamics and consequences, and future pathways and trajectories of change. You must be based at a UK research organisation…
Apply for funding to develop a large or complex scientific project. You must have already discussed your ideas with one of our programme managers and have been invited to submit a full proposal. You must be based at a…
Apply for funding to enhance research culture at your BBSRC strategically funded institute. This is an invitation-only funding opportunity and one or more of our institutes must lead or co-lead the application, but…
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million, to create scale up manufacturing facilities for zero emission vehicle technologies.
Apply for access to Europe’s quantum computers through the EuroHPC quantum access pilot. Open to researchers exploring quantum computing and hybrid quantum and HPC work. UK applicants are eligible. No funding is…
Apply for supercomputer time to train and develop AI models through EuroHPC. Aimed at startups, small medium enterprises, industry and the public sector working on AI and data-intensive tasks. UK applicants are…
Apply for time on Europe’s supercomputers through EuroHPC. Access modes suit every stage, from testing code to large-scale research. UK researchers are eligible as EuroHPC members.
EPSRC is seeking to support applications through our standard research grant scheme in the following two areas: advanced materials solutions for critical minerals in-situ and in operando materials metrology and…
Apply for funding to support researchers without prior experience of leading a significant research project to accelerate their trajectory as independent researchers, to unlock their potential and build leadership and…
Apply for funding to work with overseas researchers in Luxembourg. Submit a collaborative research grant application within the remit of AHRC and Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR). You must be based at a UK research…
Apply for funding for flexible awards to fund fundamental research that leads to new research agendas, networking activity and idea generation, which enables the development of further research opportunities and new…
Apply for AHRC standard research grant funding to support well-defined collaborative projects across the arts and humanities, in areas covered by our remit. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for…
Apply for funding to work with overseas researchers in the Unites States (US). Submit a collaborative research grant application within the remit of AHRC and NSF-SBE. You must be based at a UK research organisation…
Apply for funding to work with overseas researchers in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Submit a collaborative research grant application within the remit of Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and State of São…
This award is for BBSRC-funded research groups to pump-prime interactions with FAPESP scientists in Brazil. Applications must be made by a project lead who is currently in receipt of BBSRC research funding.
Apply for funding for a research grant in any area within the remit of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.
Apply for funding for a research grant in any area within the remit of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.
Under the UKRI-FAPESP lead agency agreement, participant UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) research councils receive and assess joint applications from eligible UK and Brazil-based researchers from the state of São…
UKRI and FNR have signed a memorandum of understanding to enable and support applications between researchers in the UK and Luxembourg. UKRI will fund the UK component and FNR will fund the Luxembourg component of the…
UKRI and Research Council of Norway have signed a Money Follows Cooperation agreement to enable collaborative applications between researchers in the UK and Norway. UKRI funding will be provided for project co-leads…
Apply to collaborate with the functional genomics screening laboratory on projects using complex human in vitro models for CRISPR screening to better understand model biology. You must be a researcher eligible for MRC…
This is an opportunity for information and communications technology (ICT) researchers to use their expertise in other disciplines, or for other researchers to apply their expertise to ICT. You must be based at an…
You can apply for a network grant in any area within the remit of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). We will support costs of building interdisciplinary research communities. You must be based…
Apply for funding to support your transition to research independence. This funding will enable you to develop your own research vision and lead a team. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC…
Programme grants provide flexible funding to world-leading research groups addressing significant major research challenges. This funding opportunity is only for invited applicants. We will award 80% of the full…
Programme grants provide flexible funding to world-leading UK research groups addressing significant research challenges. Please contact your relevant theme contact before applying. EPSRC will award 80% of the full…
You can apply for a research grant in any area within the remit of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). You must be based at an eligible UK research organisation.
Apply for funding to purchase strategic infrastructure that will improve UK scientific capability and enable cutting-edge research of high priority to EPSRC. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for…
This is an opportunity for you to work with researchers in Ireland, Luxembourg, Brazil, and the US through EPSRC’s lead agency agreements. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.
The UKRI-SBE lead agency funding opportunity allows UK and US-based researchers to submit a collaborative proposal that will go through a single review process. Grants are funded through existing funding programmes at…
If you are a UK-based researcher you can apply for funding to work with overseas researchers in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Submit collaborative research proposals in any area of the social sciences within the remit…
This opportunity funds collaborative work with researchers in Luxembourg, governed by an agreement between UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and FNR in Luxembourg. You may submit collaborative research proposals in any…
UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprises can submit an Expression of Interest for loans for close to market innovative projects with strong commercial potential. They must significantly improve the UK…
Apply for 10,000 graphics processing unit hours on the Isambard-AI and Zenith supercomputers for artificial intelligence-related research and development projects. Open to UK researchers from academia, industry, or…
UK-registered micro, small and medium businesses can apply for 20,000 graphics processing unit hours on the Isambard-AI and Zenith AI Research Resource (AIRR) supercomputers for early-stage artificial intelligence…
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships help businesses to partner with an academic organisation, research organisation or a Catapult, to employ a graduate with the skills and knowledge that can help the business to innovate…
Applications to the Mathematical Sciences Small Grants funding opportunity must focus on original research projects. This funding opportunity will follow a different assessment process to EPSRC’s responsive mode…
Apply for funding to take the next step towards becoming an independent researcher. Doing exciting and ambitious research within the remit of the Medical Research Council. You must have the: skills and experience to…
Apply for funding to support exciting and ambitious partnerships within the remit of the Medical Research Council. You must be employed by an eligible research organisation. Partnerships are novel collaborative…
Apply for funding to support exciting and ambitious research within the remit of the Medical Research Council, to transform our understanding of human health and disease You must be employed by an eligible research…
Apply for funding to respond quickly to transient, unexpected environmental research opportunities created by sporadic natural occurrences such as earthquakes, droughts, floods, or ephemeral events in ecosystems. You…
Research organisations can claim open access costs for longform publications in-scope of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s open access policy that have been approved at stage one. Applications must be completed by the…
Claim back travel and subsistence costs when visiting an astronomy telescope. The visit must be for competitively awarded science observation time. You must be a UK-based researcher at an eligible UK institution. You…
Apply for funding to pursue an adventurous, ambitious curiosity-driven project in environmental research. You must be: based at a UK research organisation eligible for Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funding…
You can apply for this bursary if you are a researcher looking to return to an academic research career after a break of two or more years. You can get funding of up to £2,500 for no more than six months to support you…
Apply for funding to undertake research associated with an IODP3 expedition or SPARC project. You can apply for funding if you are invited and are a member of science parties for IODP3 drilling expeditions and SPARC…
UKRI Translation: AHRC Proof of Concept supports arts and humanities activity that translate previously funded AHRC or UKRI projects into real world economic, societal, cultural or policy impact. This opportunity was…
The UKRI-SBE lead agency opportunity allows UK and US-based researchers to submit a collaborative proposal that will go through a single review process. Grants are funded through existing funding programmes at the…
This is a pilot scheme through which the Medical Research Council (MRC) will cover data access costs for eligible researchers who are currently supported by MRC. Data is accessed through Our Future Health and you must…
This opportunity allows UK-based researchers and researchers in the State of São Paulo, Brazil to submit a collaborative application under existing NERC funding opportunities. This will go through a single review…
Apply for funding to work with US-based researchers on an environmental science application. Collaborative work is governed by a lead agency agreement between NERC and NSF. The UK-based applicant must be: based at a UK…
UK registered businesses can apply to join a cohort of ambitious businesses. These businesses will develop solutions to decarbonise concrete and access funding and sector specific support, to develop and deliver…
UK registered small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) can apply for a share of up to £5 million to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning solutions that support consequential judgements…
UK registered small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) can apply for a share of up to £5 million to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning solutions that perform, control or coordinate operational…
UK registered small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) can apply for a share of up to £5 million to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning solutions that monitor, test, verify or evidence compliance…
Apply for funding to purchase mid-range equipment for research across BBSRC’s scientific remit through ALERT 2026. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding. Research technical…
Apply for funding to make a step-change in your career. Grow awards support individual researchers at key career points to develop capabilities or pivot direction, strengthening the UK’s social science research base…
Apply for funding to advance knowledge through ambitious, curiosity-driven social science. Explore awards support individuals or small teams to pursue bold, novel ideas within ESRC’s remit that advance knowledge. You…
Apply for Future Data Services funding to bring together communities of practitioners to exchange knowledge, improve working practices and deliver better data services for researchers.
Apply for Legacy award funding to continue your programme to improve public engagement in science and technology. You must have previously received funding through STFC public engagement awards. Your previous award…
Apply for funding to bring people, expertise and ideas together in ambitious, larger-scale programmes. Challenge awards tackle major research, economic and societal challenges, generating impactful knowledge and…
Apply to attend a three to five-day sandpit to develop high-impact projects that address the challenges and opportunities of integrating digital approaches to accelerate the translation of materials research. Attendance…
Apply for funding to support the development of an open-source hardware security research platform to strengthen the UK’s capability to design, test and assure secure hardware. You must be based at a UK research…
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