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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 one
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UK registered academic institutions, research and technology organisations or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £9 million to fund innovation projects with businesses or not for profits. 2025-02-20
EPSRC Programme grant full proposal
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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 economic costs (FEC) of the project. 2025-02-20
AHRC Collaborative doctoral project nomination 2025 (invite only)
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Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) offered a studentship through the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) scheme round 4 are invited to nominate projects for studentships starting in October 2025. You must be invited by AHRC to apply for this opportunity. 2025-02-20
Early Life Cohort longitudinal study
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Apply for funding to lead the Early Life Cohort (ELC) on behalf of the broader research community. The ELC offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to generate new research and policy insights on how the early and ongoing life experiences of children born in the 2020s and growing up in the UK shape their future outcomes. This is an invite only funding opportunity, and the project lead must be the agreed person from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies to apply. 2025-02-18
Public Engagement Spark Awards 2025A
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Apply for funding to engage the public with Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) supported science, people, technology or facilities. Applicant organisations must: be UK based produce annual accounts certified by an accountant Proposals must include an appropriate subject matter expert. 2025-02-17
CHIST-ERA Science in your own language
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Apply for funding in automatic translation of scientific knowledge to overcome language and cultural barriers. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding. Project consortia must have at least three eligible partner countries. 2025-02-17
Mathematical sciences postdoctoral fellowship
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These are personal, career development focused awards for the mathematical sciences. You must have either: a PhD more than four years’ experience in a relevant field by the start of your fellowship Candidates with more research experience may prefer to apply for our open fellowship. 2025-02-14
Strategic infrastructure for engineering and physical sciences: Feb 2025
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Apply for funding to purchase strategic infrastructure that will improve UK scientific capability and enable cutting-edge research of high priority to EPSRC. This funding opportunity is for invited applicants only. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding. 2025-02-14
Japan-UK Joint call for Quantum Technologies for Innovation
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Apply for funding to form world-leading partnerships with collaborators in Japan for your research into Quantum Technologies. UK applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding. Japanese applicants must be eligible for JST funding. 2025-02-13
UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships
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The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape, including what epistemic, metascientific, ethical and socioeconomic questions this raises, and how governments, industry, and funding organisations should respond. 2025-02-13
ERA-NET NEURON interdisciplinary approaches to the neuroscience of pain
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Apply for funding as part of a transnational consortium of three to five partners to improve knowledge of the neuroscience of pain using interdisciplinary approaches. This is an ERA-NET NEURON Joint Transnational Call. The Medical Research Council (MRC) are one of 19 organisations offering funding through the initiative. 2025-02-06
Pre-announcement: 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 can only apply for this funding opportunity if we have invited you to do so following a successful Opening up the Environment 2025 application. 2025-02-06
Research to advance UK recycling capabilities
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Apply for funding for research to accelerate UK recycling capabilities. Projects will progress the development of more energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and economically viable recycling technologies and systems. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding. 2025-02-06
Small molecule high throughput screen using AstraZeneca facilities
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Apply for funding to run a high throughput screen (HTS) using AstraZeneca’s compound library and screening robots. Two funding opportunities per year with changing highlights. This funding opportunity will have a highlight on new targets related to pain or women’s health (including conditions related to metabolic disorders). 2025-02-05
2025 BBSRC Fellowships scheme
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Apply for funding to carry out independent research within a host laboratory and gain leadership skills. You are not eligible to apply if you hold or have held any post or position at lecturer level (or equivalent). You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding. 2025-02-04
UKRI Creating opportunities: rethinking economic (in)activity
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Apply for funding to identify ways of supporting economic activity in places experiencing high rates of ill-health, disability, and informal care in the UK. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding. 2025-02-03
Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund: round four, discovery cycle two
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Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million exclusive of VAT, for collaborative discovery phase projects that meet the round four challenges. This funding is from the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund. 2025-01-31
AHRC responsive mode: Curiosity Award
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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 research agendas. 2025-01-31
AHRC responsive mode: catalyst awards
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AHRC awards 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 convenor experience. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding. 2025-01-31
Pushing the frontiers of environmental research: July 2025
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Apply for funding to pursue an ambitious, high risk and high reward curiosity-driven project in environmental research. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding. 2025-01-31
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