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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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Contracts for Innovation: READ-OUT digital cognitive dementia assessments
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Organisations can apply for a single award of up to £600,000, inclusive of VAT. To implement and assess a dementia based digital cognitive assessment to be evaluated as part of the Real-world dementia outcomes (READ-OUT) study being managed by the University of Oxford. 2025-04-17
Critical mass programmes to drive a sustainable future (invitation only)
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Full stage proposals for critical-mass transdisciplinary research programs to drive the transition to sustainable technologies and operations, clean energy, circular materials or interseasonal energy storage, in the UK's mid-to-long term future. You must be invited to apply to this full stage. 2025-04-17
Experimental medicine stage one
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Apply for funding to investigate the causes, progression and treatment of human disease. Your application must include an intervention in humans. You must be a researcher based at a research organisation eligible to apply for MRC funding. Researchers transitioning to independence may be eligible to apply as a ‘new investigator’. 2025-04-17
Career development award
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You can apply for support to become an independent researcher, if your research focus is within Medical Research Council remit to improve human health. You must: have a PhD or equivalent show evidence of career progression show clear plans for establishing independence and developing as a leader in your area of research 2025-04-17
Developing semiconductor hardware for critical technologies
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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million. These feasibility studies will investigate ways to improve semiconductor design and manufacture within the UK to support critical technologies. 2025-04-15
Full ADOPT grant: round one
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Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £2 million. This funding supports on-farm trial and demonstration projects to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector. This is an Accelerating Development of Practices and Technologies (ADOPT) grant. 2025-04-15
UKRI policy fellowships 2025
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Spend 18 months as a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) core policy fellow, Natural Hazards and Resilience policy fellow or What Works Innovation fellow to inform policy to address pressing national and global challenges. You must: be based at a UK based organisation eligible for UKRI funding have a PhD or equivalent experience be a researcher in an eligible discipline in accordance with the specific position applied for 2025-04-14
Pre-announcement: Engineer next generation veterinary vaccine technology platforms
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Apply to engineer next generation ‘plug and play’ veterinary vaccine technology platforms, using novel transformative technologies underpinned by immunological understanding, focusing on unmet needs in veterinary research. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding. 2025-04-14
ADOPT facilitator support grant: round one
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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. 2025-04-14
Contracts for innovation: FOAK 2025, bridge strikes
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Organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.7 million inclusive of VAT, across four themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing and demonstrate their solution. Projects can last between three and seven months and must be completed by 31 March 2026. Funding is through DfT’s First of a Kind (FOAK) programme. 2025-04-14
Research Software Maintenance Fund round one: SSI
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Eligible applicants for round one of the Research Software Maintenance Fund will be asked to submit an expression of interest. If successful, you will then be invited to submit a full proposal by 12 September 2025. 2025-04-11
UK Japan Civil Nuclear Research Programme 2025
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This is a jointly funded opportunity between EPSRC and the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) aiming to support two projects focused on the decommissioning of Fukushima and Sellafield. 2025-04-11
Applied global health research: stage two
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Apply for funding to support applied research that will address global health challenges and inequities. You must be invited to apply for stage two of this funding opportunity. 2025-04-09
Contracts for innovation: FOAK 2025, personal safety
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Organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.7 million inclusive of VAT, across four themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing and demonstrate their solution. Projects can last between three and seven months and must be completed by 31 March 2026. 2025-04-08
Contracts for innovation: FOAK 2025, Platform Train Interface
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Organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.7 million inclusive of VAT, across four themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing and demonstrate their solution. Projects can last between three and seven months and must be completed by 31 March 2026. 2025-04-08
Contracts for innovation: FOAK 2025, AI for complex processes
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Organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.7 million inclusive of VAT, across four themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing and demonstrate their solution. Projects can last between three and seven months and must be completed by 31 March 2026. 2025-04-08
2025 to 2026 strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) grants: stage one
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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. 2025-04-08
Facility access funding for bioscience partnerships
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Apply for funding to support UK business and bioscience academic partnerships in accessing and benefitting from STFC skills, expertise, capabilities and world class facilities to find solutions to industrially relevant challenges. 2025-04-08
DCMS Create Growth Programme Competition 4: large projects
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UK registered micro, small and medium enterprises in the creative sector can apply for a share of up to £8 million for innovation projects to grow their business. This funding is from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). 2025-04-04
DARE UK next-generation trusted research environment capabilities
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Apply for funding to prototype the 'next generation' capabilities for federated trusted research environments (TREs). Applications from across all disciplines and research councils’ remits are welcomed. Your research organisation must be eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding. 2025-04-04
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