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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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Quantum CR&D demonstrators for position, navigation and timing
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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £6 million for innovation projects demonstrating quantum technology solutions for determining position, navigation and time. This is the quantum collaborative research and development (CR&D) demonstrators for position, navigation and timing funding opportunity. This funding is from Innovate UK. 2024-09-06
World Values Survey 2025 to 2027
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This is a funding opportunity to run the World Values Survey in Great Britain for 2025 to 2027. 2024-09-06
Biomedical catalyst 2024 round one: industry-led R&D
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UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £15 million to develop innovative solutions to health, and healthcare, challenges. This funding is from Innovate UK. 2024-09-05
UKRI DRI: Championing knowledge exchange for UK computational science
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Apply for funding to lead and co-ordinate a Knowledge Exchange and Communications NetworkPlus for UK Large Scale Compute. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding. 2024-09-05
UKRI DRI: digital research infrastructure skills hubs for accelerated compute
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Apply for funding to develop a national hub for digital Research Technology Professionals for accelerated and large-scale compute technologies. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding. 2024-09-05
UK Multidisciplinary Centre for Neuromorphic Computing
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Apply for funding to establish a UK centre for neuromorphic computing. This will be a focal point to engage relevant disciplines, further research and demonstrate the potential of the technology to deliver NetZero solutions. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding. 2024-09-04
Innovate UK innovation loans future economy: round 17
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UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy. 2024-09-04
Gap Fund for early-stage development of new healthcare interventions
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Apply to the Developmental Pathway Gap Fund to generate critical preliminary data and de-risk your development strategy for a new medicine, medical device, diagnostic test, or other medical intervention. You must be based at a research organisation eligible for Medical Research Council (MRC) funding. 2024-09-03
Eureka Globalstars Japan round three
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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million to develop Innovative proposals in partnership with Japan and other participating Eureka countries. 2024-09-03
Driving Urban Transition (DUT) partnership 2024
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Apply for funding to address key urban challenges facing cities in the transition to a more sustainable economy. Projects must include an applicant based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding. 2024-09-02
UKRI cross research council responsive mode pilot scheme: round two outline stage
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Apply for funding for breakthrough or disruptive interdisciplinary ideas that transcend, combine or significantly span disciplines that are not routinely funded through existing UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) responsive mode schemes. Project leads must be based at an organisation eligible for UKRI research council funding. 2024-09-02
Collaborative Computational Communities: towards new CCPs
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Apply for funding and direct technical and operational support from the Computational Science Centre for Research Communities (CoSeC) to roadmap and scope new collaborative computational communities. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for STFC funding. 2024-09-02
International partnership: Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases
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Apply for research funding to understand ecological, evolutionary, and social drivers that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases of animals, humans and plants. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for funding from UKRI or Defra. 2024-08-30
Expression of interest: Prosperity partnerships: advanced therapies safety and toxicity
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Apply for funding to support research partnerships between businesses and academic partners. Research programmes should enhance knowledge of the mechanisms governing the safety and toxicity of advanced therapies and develop tools and resources for assessing and mitigating risks. The lead academic partner must be UK-based. 2024-08-30
Sustainable medicines manufacturing innovation: collaborative R&D
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Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with DHSC to invest up to £15 million to support the development and adoption of sustainable technologies for the manufacturing of medicines. 2024-08-23
2024 Transformative Research Technologies (24TRT)
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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 a researcher or research technical professional based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding. 2024-08-20
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. 2024-08-15
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. 2024-08-15
Sustainable medicines manufacturing: Expression of interest
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Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to invest up to £1 million in expression of interest (EoI) projects for Grand Challenges in sustainable medicines manufacturing. 2024-08-14
Network in terahertz systems
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Apply for funding to lead a collaborative network bringing together the UK and international community in terahertz systems. You can only apply to this opportunity if your application has been invited by EPSRC. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding. 2024-08-12
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