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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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Innovate UK innovation loans future economy: Round 20
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UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy. 2025-03-12
Proof of concept
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Apply for proof of concept funding to support the commercialisation of research and the development of new products, processes or services. Applications from across all disciplines and research councils’ remits are welcomed. 2025-03-12
Cyber Local 2025-2026
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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £1.8 million to target the growth of the cyber security sector and the development of cyber security skills. This funding is from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). 2025-03-11
Contracts for innovation: local partnerships clean energy demonstrators
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Organisations can apply for a share of up to £5 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop innovative clean energy technologies through leveraging local partnerships in a specified official development assistance eligible country. 2025-03-10
Energy catalyst round 11: early stage
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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.5 million in total across the two stages of this competition to create new or improved clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia or the Indo-Pacific regions. 2025-03-06
Statements of Need in Research Infrastructure
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EPSRC wishes to understand the scale, nature, and scientific value of potential large-scale infrastructure investments to maintain the UK as a leading scientific nation. Representatives of relevant scientific communities are invited to submit statements of need according to the assessment criteria. 2025-03-06
Energy catalyst round 11: mid-stage
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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.5 million in total across the two stages of this competition to create new or improved clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia or the Indo-Pacific regions. 2025-03-04
Expression of interest: ATI programme strategic batch, Mar 2025
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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. 2025-03-04
Investor partnerships: health technologies, West Yorkshire, round two
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UK registered small and medium-sized enterprises can apply for grant funding for projects that grow their innovation activities in the health technology cluster in West Yorkshire, alongside private investment from selected investor partners. 2025-02-27
UKRI Data for Metascience
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Apply for funding to address multi-faceted metascience questions related to R&D funding and inform R&D policymaking using UKRI data. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding. You must be invited to apply for this funding opportunity. We expect to fund up to £1 million at 80% full economic cost. 2025-02-26
Centre-UB Early Career Researcher Fellowships 2025
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The Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour (Centre-UB) are now inviting applications for a second cohort of fellows, expected to start in October 2025. 2025-02-25
Expression of interest: Supporting researchers to involve public at pre-application stage
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Apply for funding for your own scheme to reimburse time and expenses for public partners to work with researchers to develop MRC research funding applications. You must be based at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding. 2025-02-25
Investor partnerships: digital technologies, North East round 2
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UK registered SMEs can apply for grant funding for projects that grow their innovation activities in the digital technologies cluster in North East England, alongside private investment from selected investor partners. 2025-02-25
Launchpad: net zero industry, Southwest Wales – round 2 CR&D
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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2.9 million for business led projects that grow their innovation activities in the net zero industrial cluster in Southwest Wales. This funding is from Innovate UK. 2025-02-24
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
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