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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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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
ATI programme strategic batch expression of interest November 2025
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The Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive.Innovate UK 2025-11-10
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
Isambard-AI and Dawn AIRR supercomputers: Innovator route
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Apply for up to 150,000 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 2025-11-06
Nuclear physics consolidated grants 2026
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Apply for funding to support nuclear physics research. You must be employed by a UK research organisation eligible for STFC funding and a member of the nuclear physics community. This grant round takes place every four years. The grant period is between 1 October 2027 and 30 September 2031.STFC 2025-11-06
UK-Canada Quantum Communications and Networking Demonstrator
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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £3.425 million for terrestrial demonstrations of quantum communications or networking, and to build preparedness for a demonstration with a satellite mission alongside Canadian counterparts.Innovate UK 2025-11-05
Biomedical Catalyst 2025: Industry led R&D large projects
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UK registered micro, small and medium sized enterprises 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 2025-11-05
Increasing EV charging capacity on the strategic road network
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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £10 million. The funding is for the development and demonstration of solutions to increase public electric vehicle (EV) charging provision for longer journeys on the strategic road network.Innovate UK 2025-11-04
National Materials Innovation Programme: feasibility studies
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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million for feasibility studies. These studies aim to speed the translation of advanced materials innovations in six key high growth themes and one strategic opportunity theme.Innovate UK 2025-11-04
Pre-announcement: EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships 2027
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Apply for funding to support ambitious, collaborative research programmes. Prosperity Partnerships projects must be business-led, co-created, and co-delivered by business and academic partners that share an existing working relationship.EPSRC 2025-11-04
AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2026
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This scheme offers five early career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers at BBC Radio 4. They will appear on a number of episodes and shadow the production process to understand how ideas get on air. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for this opportunity.AHRC 2025-11-03
Reimagining Circularity: outline stage
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Apply for three years of NetworkPlus funding to build new capacity, strengthen community and enhance research to innovation capabilities focused on the circular economy in built environment, textiles or data and metrics. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.EPSRC 2025-10-30
Knowledge Transfer Partnership: 2025 to 2026 round four
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UK registered academic institutions, research and technology organisations (RTO) or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £10 million to fund innovation projects with businesses or not for profits.Innovate UK 2025-10-29
Launchpad: life and health sciences, Northern Ireland, round three
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UK-registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1.2 million for projects that grow their innovation activities in the life and health sciences cluster in Northern Ireland. This funding is from Innovate UK.Innovate UK 2025-10-27
Mid-range equipment for biosciences research: ALERT 2025
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Apply for funding to purchase mid-range equipment for research across BBSRC’s scientific areas through ALERT 2025. You must be a researcher or a research technical professional from an eligible UK research organisation to apply for funding.BBSRC 2025-10-23
Innovate UK innovation loans round 24
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UK registered businesses can apply for loans for close to market innovative projects with strong commercial potential. They must significantly improve the UK economy and drive societal benefit.Innovate UK 2025-10-23
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