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Whether you're an academic, scientist, researcher, or entrepreneur - the UK has a vast funding ecosystem with a wide range of opportunities. Here are some examples of where you can find the right funding opportunity for you.

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BridgeAI innovation exchange: empowering AI innovation
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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £350,000 for five month projects. This funding is from Innovate UK’s BridgeAI programme. The BridgeAI programme is an initiative designed to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning across key sectors of the UK economy. 2025-03-27
Collaborative doctoral landscape award in the arts and humanities
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Apply for a collaborative doctoral landscape award in the arts and humanities. These awards enable UK non-higher education institutions (non-HEI), individual or consortia, to support high-quality doctoral training. 2025-03-26
Notification of intent: Transdisciplinary research to tackle antimicrobial resistance
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Apply for funding to undertake ambitious transdisciplinary research to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding. 2025-03-25
Access to high performance computing facilities: spring 2025
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This opportunity provides an open and flexible route to computational support for high quality projects across the entire UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) remit. This application process is purely for compute resource. No funding is available to successful applicants. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding. 2025-03-25
PATT travel grants for competitively awarded observation time 2025
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You can apply for travel and subsistence in support of competitively awarded science observation time at astronomy facilities available to the UK research community. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for STFC funding. 2025-03-20
Developmental pathway funding scheme: stage one
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Apply for funding to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other interventions. You must be employed at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding. 2025-03-20
Healthcare Technology Translation Partnership Scheme invite only
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Only applicants who were successful at the outline stage and have been invited to submit a full proposal application can apply. Apply for funding to accelerate progress of fundamental research towards application and impact in areas bringing significant health benefit through working in partnership. 2025-03-19
Pre-announcement: 2025 to 2026 strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) grants
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Apply for funding to undertake large team-based fundamental bioscience research projects which push the frontiers of human knowledge. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding. 2025-03-18
Interdisciplinary research to tackle epidemic threats
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Apply for funding to undertake ambitious interdisciplinary research to tackle epidemic diseases of animals, humans or plants for a duration of up to five years. Project leads must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding. 2025-03-18
Future Leaders Fellowships: round 10, business and non-academic
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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £110 million for ambitious research and innovation projects in any sector, and tailored support to develop careers for future leaders. 2025-03-17
Japan-UK joint call for collaborations in advancing human-centred AI
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Apply for funding to form world-leading partnerships with collaborators in Japan for your research into artificial intelligence and data science. UK applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding. Japanese applicants must be eligible for JST funding. 2025-03-14
Innovate UK innovation loans future economy: Round 20
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UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy. 2025-03-12
Proof of concept
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Apply for proof of concept funding to support the commercialisation of research and the development of new products, processes or services. Applications from across all disciplines and research councils’ remits are welcomed. 2025-03-12
Cyber Local 2025-2026
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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £1.8 million to target the growth of the cyber security sector and the development of cyber security skills. This funding is from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). 2025-03-11
Statements of Need in Research Infrastructure
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EPSRC wishes to understand the scale, nature, and scientific value of potential large-scale infrastructure investments to maintain the UK as a leading scientific nation. Representatives of relevant scientific communities are invited to submit statements of need according to the assessment criteria. 2025-03-06
Investor partnerships: health technologies, West Yorkshire, round two
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UK registered small and medium-sized enterprises can apply for grant funding for projects that grow their innovation activities in the health technology cluster in West Yorkshire, alongside private investment from selected investor partners. 2025-02-27
UKRI Data for Metascience
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Apply for funding to address multi-faceted metascience questions related to R&D funding and inform R&D policymaking using UKRI data. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding. You must be invited to apply for this funding opportunity. We expect to fund up to £1 million at 80% full economic cost. 2025-02-26
Centre-UB Early Career Researcher Fellowships 2025
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The Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour (Centre-UB) are now inviting applications for a second cohort of fellows, expected to start in October 2025. 2025-02-25
Expression of interest: Supporting researchers to involve public at pre-application stage
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Apply for funding for your own scheme to reimburse time and expenses for public partners to work with researchers to develop MRC research funding applications. You must be based at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding. 2025-02-25
Investor partnerships: digital technologies, North East round 2
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UK registered SMEs can apply for grant funding for projects that grow their innovation activities in the digital technologies cluster in North East England, alongside private investment from selected investor partners. 2025-02-25
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