Grants

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Organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop innovative interventions, technologies, and frameworks that boost fathers’ engagement to improve children’s learning and development outcomes.
Eligibility summary
To lead a project, you can:
be an organisation of any size, including those based in the EU, EEA or internationall work alone or with other organisations as subcontractors Contracts will be awarded to a single legal entity only.

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £5 million to develop counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) dual use technologies that can be applied to both civil and military settings. This funding is from Innovate UK.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to collaborations only.
To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be either a UK registered business of any size or a UK public sector organisation. The consortium must contain at least one UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME) claiming grant funding on this application.

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UK registered organisations can apply for up to £3.7 million to establish or scale regional skills initiatives for battery manufacturing and its supply chain. This funding is provided through the Battery Innovation Programme.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to single applicants and collaborations.
To work alone or lead a collaborative project your organisation must be:
an academic institution a research or technology organisation a charity a not for profit a public sector organisation

Apply for funding to establish a UK centre for quantum commercialisation skills. The centre will provide opportunities for researchers to develop commercialisation skills, engage with industry, explore new career pathways and build the skills and connections to accelerate adoption.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funding.
As a non-FEC grant, EPSRC will fund 100% of eligible costs listed in the funding opportunity up to £11.3 million. Estates and indirect costs will not be funded.
We will fund one centre under this funding opportunity. The centre must be four years in duration.

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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 three prioritised high growth themes and one strategic opportunity theme.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to single applicants and collaborations.
To work alone or lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered business.

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £10 million for the development of aviation technologies and systems that support both civil and military use cases. This funding is from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to collaborations only.
To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be either a UK registered business or a UK public sector organisation. The consortium must contain at least one UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME) claiming grant funding on this application.

Apply for funding to support excellent investigator-led research across the breadth of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) scientific remit.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding. Standard research grants are available for researchers at eligible research organisations.
The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £2 million. Funding is available for up to five years. BBSRC will fund 80% of the FEC.

Apply for funding to support excellent new investigator-led research across the breadth of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) scientific remit.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.
This scheme is designed to assist newly employed university lecturers, researchers (at a level equivalent to lecturer) in research council institutes, and fellows (at a level equivalent to lecturer) to secure their first major element of research support funding.
The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £2 million. Funding is available for up to five years. BBSRC will fund 80% of the FEC.

Apply for funding to create new and sustainable global partnerships within NERC remit.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding and in a role that meets the individual eligibility requirements.
Applications must:
include at least one new international partner focus on activities that require international expertise show long-term potential The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £100,000. NERC will fund 80% of the FEC.
We will fund your project for up to two years.
Applications including partners in Brazil or Taiwan may be eligible for co-funding from FAPESP or NSTC, respectively.

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Organisations can apply for a share of up to £3.5 million inclusive of VAT, to develop, demonstrate and commercialise their cyber security solution in real end user environments within critical sector organisations.
Eligibility summary
To lead a project, you can:
be an organisation of any size work alone or with other organisations as subcontractors Contracts will be awarded to a single legal entity only.

Apply for funding to develop, validate, and critique novel scientometric indicators for use in research assessment and in metascience research.
You must be invited to apply for this funding opportunity.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding.
We expect to fund up to £3 million at 80% full economic cost (FEC).

Apply for funding to explore the relationship between gambling and video games and produce evidence-based insights to:
inform strategies and interventions to prevent, treat or reduce gambling-related harms shape policy, regulation and best practice promote safe and responsible video games This opportunity is part of the UKRI Research Programme on Gambling (RPG).
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding.
The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £1,000,000. UKRI will fund 80% of the FEC.
Projects can last up to 36 months.

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Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a grant of £2,500, to engage an external Project Facilitator to support the development of a Full ADOPT Grant application.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to single applicants only.
To lead a project your organisation must:
be an active farming, growing or forestry business of any size based in England be able to evidence that you are an established business, including sole traders and partnerships have a UK bank account

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Innovate UK is funding up to £150,000 for a pilot Innovate UK Venture Builder Programme to support new deep-tech spin-outs and to help them in raising their first significant investment. This is the Expression of Interest stage of the competition.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to single applicants only.
Your spin-out must be a UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME) created in the last 24 months. If you are not an SME you must be formally incorporated by 20 August 2026.

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £6.5 million for collaborative industrial research to make supply chains more productive, resource efficient and resilient.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to collaborations only.
To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size.

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million for innovation in battery technologies for electrification. This funding is from the battery innovation programme.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to collaborations.
To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered business.
The consortium must contain at least one UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME) claiming grant funding on this application.

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UK registered businesses can apply to join a cohort of ambitious businesses.
These businesses will develop solutions to decarbonise concrete and access funding and sector-specific support, to develop and deliver innovation and growth plans.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to single applicants only.
To work alone your organisation must be a UK registered business.

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million to support innovation in battery grade material technologies for electrification. This funding is from The Battery Innovation Programme.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to collaborations only.
To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size. The consortium must contain at least one UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise claiming grant funding on this application.

See the full opportunity details on the Innovation Funding Service.
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £10 million to support feasibility studies in offshore wind across the two strands of the competition.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to single applicants and collaborations.
To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered business. The consortium must contain at least one UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME) claiming grant funding on this application.
To work alone your organisation must be a UK registered SME.

Apply for funding to undertake large team-based curiosity-driven bioscience discovery research projects.
Your project should demonstrate:
the potential for major breakthroughs in our fundamental understanding of living systems a fully integrated team science approach the need for longer and larger scale funding enhancing the capability and capacity of UK biosciences The full economic cost of your project must be over £2 million. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) will fund 80% of the full economic cost.
Projects can be up to five years in duration.

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Organisations can apply for a share of £20 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop a deployable prototype of an enabling component or sub-system for commercial quantum networking.
Eligibility summary
To lead a project, you can:
be a UK organisation, including those based in the EU, European economic area or internationally work alone or with other organisations as subcontractors Contracts will be awarded to a single legal entity only.

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.5 million. This programme focuses on the creation, curation, annotation and exploitation of FAIR-data and benchmarks which will fuel AI industry growth. This funding is from Innovate UK.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to collaborations only.
To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size or RTO. The consortium must contain at least one UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME) claiming grant funding on this application.

See the full opportunity details on the Innovation Funding Service.
Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £5 million for 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.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to collaborations only.
To lead a project your organisation must:
be an active farming, growing or forestry business based in England be able to evidence that you are an established business, including sole traders and partnerships collaborate with at least one other farming business based in the UK

Apply for funding to deliver a doctoral focal award in environmental evidence synthesis.
Doctoral focal awards funded through this funding opportunity must equip the next generation of researchers with a robust foundation in advanced evidence synthesis methodologies, providing them with the skills to critically appraise, synthesise and communicate diverse sources of environmental information.
Funding is available to support up to two doctoral focal awards each in receipt of 30 notional studentships across three annual intakes.
A notification of intent must be completed by 27 May 2026 4:00pm UK time.

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to develop feasibility studies for frontier artificial intelligence and foundation models.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to single applicants only.
To work alone your organisation must be a UK:
business research organisation research and technology organisation charity not for profit public sector organisation non-governmental organisation