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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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Knowledge Transfer Partnership: 2025 to 2026 round five
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UK registered academic institutions, research and technology organisations or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £10 million to fund innovation projects with businesses.Innovate UK 2025-12-02
Women in Innovation Awards 2025 to 2026
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Women founders or co-founders with UK registered businesses at the late stage start-up phase can apply for a grant of up to £75,000 and bespoke business support, to further their ambitious growth plans.Innovate UK 2025-11-27
MRC: partnership grant: applicant-led
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Apply for funding to support partnerships to carry out novel collaborative activities between a team of researchers. You must be employed by an eligible research organisation.MRC 2025-11-27
MRC: research grant: applicant-led
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Apply for funding to support research within the remit of the Medical Research Council. You must be employed by an eligible research organisation. You can involve more than one research group or organisation in the project.MRC 2025-11-27
MRC: new investigator research grant: applicant-led
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Apply for funding to take the next step towards becoming an independent researcher. Your research must be in the remit of the Medical Research Council. You must have: the skills and experience to ‘transition to independence’ the support of an eligible host research organisation MRC 2025-11-27
Design Generators
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Apply for funding to combine design-led interventions with arts and humanities methodologies to make positive contributions to the green transition. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding.AHRC 2025-11-27
Developmental pathway funding scheme: invited stage two
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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 Medical Research Council (MRC) funding.MRC 2025-11-26
Metascience research grants round 2
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Apply for funding to undertake cutting-edge Metascience research into more effective ways of conducting and supporting research and development (R&D), including the impact of AI and the challenges of measuring research excellence. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.ESRC NERC BBSRC AHRC STFC EPSRC MRC 2025-11-25
BBSRC 2025 Transformative Research Technologies (25TRT)
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Apply for funding to pursue early-stage development of cutting-edge research technologies with transformative potential in the biosciences. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.BBSRC 2025-11-24
Focal awards: multilingual futures for UK growth and connectivity
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Submit an outline application 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 education institutions (HEI) and non-HEI partners.AHRC 2025-11-21
AIRR compute opportunity: AI for Science
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Apply for between 200,000 and 1,000,000 graphics processing unit hours on the Isambard-AI and Dawn supercomputers for artificial intelligence (AI) related research and development projects. You must be a UK researcher from academia, industry or other organisations.AHRC BBSRC ESRC EPSRC Innovate UK MRC NERC STFC 2025-11-21
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.MRC 2025-11-20
Sandpit: Reservoir Computing for national security and defence
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Apply to attend a four-day interactive interdisciplinary sandpit to develop projects on reservoir computing for national security and defence applications. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.EPSRC STFC 2025-11-18
Doctoral landscape awards in medical research
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Apply for funding to deliver doctoral training in areas within the Medical Research Council (MRC)’s core remit and priorities. This funding opportunity will support the development of a highly skilled workforce equipped to address medical research and innovation challenges across a range of careers.MRC 2025-11-17
ADR UK Research Fellowships 2025 (RF2025)
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Apply for Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK) research fellowship funding, to use ADR England flagship data for research. Fellowships can be up to 18 months in duration and cost a maximum of £200,000 (100% FEC). You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding.ESRC 2025-11-13
Gap Fund: single-step support for medical product development
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Apply to the MRC Gap Fund 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. Applicants must be based at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding.MRC 2025-11-13
Biomedical catalyst 2025: industry-led R&D small projects
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UK registered micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £25 million for the development of innovative solutions to health and healthcare challenges. This funding is from Innovate UK.Innovate UK 2025-11-12
DRIVE35 scale-up: feasibility studies two
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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million for feasibility studies into UK manufacturing of zero emission vehicle technologies.Innovate UK 2025-11-11
Pre-announcement: International Placement Scheme 2026
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Apply to undertake a funded placement at an international cultural institution. You must be either: a PhD student currently funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) or the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for specific opportunities an early career researcher based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding AHRC ESRC 2025-11-10
Turing AI Global Fellowships
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This fellowship funding opportunity is for exceptional Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers currently based outside of the UK. The fellowship offers funding to relocate to the UK and undertake transformational AI research that strengthens the UK’s position as a global leader in AI. Fellowships can last up to five years.EPSRC 2025-11-07
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