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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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Addressing nuclear fission challenges for a prosperous future
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Apply for funding for academic research into addressing nuclear fission priorities and challenges within the UK. EPSRC would welcome large consortia to address fission priorities through a whole-systems approach. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding. 2025-09-02
Expression of interest: ATI Programme strategic batch
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The ATI Programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive. 2025-09-01
Africa-UK physics partnership collaborative projects 2025
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Apply for funding for collaborative physics projects addressing the challenges of climate change, energy, and capacity building across African economies. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for STFC funding and have a co-lead based at an eligible African research organisation. 2025-09-01
Unlocking the full potential of nature-based engineering
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Apply for funding to conduct novel research in nature-based engineering, which can be defined as designing and developing future systems and technologies using principles or processes inspired or supported by nature. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding. 2025-08-28
Analysis for innovators: National Physical Laboratory stage one
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UK registered businesses can apply for funding to resolve productivity and competitiveness issues, by working with National Physical Laboratory scientists. 2025-08-26
Opening up the Environment 2026
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Apply for funding to deliver purposeful activities to increase the diversity of the UK environmental science community. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding. 2025-08-26
Pre-announcement: Regional accounts for clinical researchers
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Multi-institutional partnerships in regions across the UK can apply for regional accounts for clinical researchers. These provide local and flexible funding to clinical researchers at key career pinch points for research on mechanistic understanding of biology and disease. 2025-08-26
UK international ocean drilling programme site survey
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Apply for funding for ship borne and virtual site survey investigations (SSI) to support the development of applications for a scientific ocean drilling expedition. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding. 2025-08-22
Host the Infrastructure Centre for digitised natural science collections
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Apply for funding to host and manage the Infrastructure Centre for Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) UK, for its ten-year duration. This is a closed funding opportunity, for application by invitation only. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding. 2025-08-21
Host the Central Programme Delivery for Digitised Natural Science Collections
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Apply for funding to host the central programme delivery hub for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) UK programme, for its ten-year duration. This is a closed funding opportunity, for application by invitation only. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding. 2025-08-21
Host the Catalysis Centre for Digitised Natural Science Collections
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Apply for funding to host the Catalysis Centre for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) UK programme, for its ten-year duration. This is a closed funding opportunity, for application by invitation only. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding. 2025-08-21
Advanced materials: highlight notice
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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 characterisation You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding. 2025-08-21
Full ADOPT grant: round three
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Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £3 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. 2025-08-21
Access to Isambard-AI and Dawn AIRR supercomputers: Gateway route
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Apply for 10,000 graphics processing unit hours on the Isambard-AI and Dawn supercomputers for artificial intelligence-related research and development projects. Open to UK researchers from academia, industry, or other organisations. 2025-08-18
Isambard-AI and Dawn AIRR supercomputers: Rapid Access route
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UK-registered micro, small and medium businesses can apply for 20,000 graphics processing unit hours on the Isambard-AI and Dawn AI Research Resource (AIRR) supercomputers for early-stage artificial intelligence product research and development. 2025-08-18
BBSRC Engineering Biology (EngBio) ICURe Discover
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Apply for funding to explore the potential market of your engineering biology-based idea, increase market awareness and gain deeper understanding of your technology’s potential applications. You must be a bioscience researcher or technician based at a UK university, BBSRC-funded institute or approved public sector research enterprise. 2025-08-15
UKRI Gambling Harms Research Coordination Centre (GHRCC)
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Apply for funding for UKRI’s Gambling Harms Research Coordination Centre (GHRCC). This investment will coordinate and facilitate UKRI’s Gambling Research Programme (RPG) and catalyse interest in gambling harms research. 2025-08-15
BBSRC-STFC Biotechnology Business Incubation Centre (Bio BIC) 2025
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Apply for funding to turn your innovative technology concepts into market reality. You must: be a UK-registered company under five years old that is majority-owned by founders and employees have received previous support from UKRI or a UKRI partner organisation 2025-08-08
Sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) series one
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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1.6 million for the development of Proof of Concept demonstrators of AI technologies with state of the art performance. This is to support the UK’s AI sovereignty objectives. 2025-08-07
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 MRC funding. You must be invited to apply for stage two of this funding opportunity. 2025-08-07
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