Grants

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.

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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

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £10 million to support industrial research in offshore wind across the two strands of the competition.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to collaborations only.
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 claiming grant funding on this application.

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million. The funding will be to develop, deploy and operate innovative clean maritime solutions for three years in a real world environment. This funding is from the Department for Transport.
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 collaborate with other UK registered organisations

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million to develop secure, sustainable or sovereign connectivity technologies that support the UK’s Advanced Connectivity Technologies programme. This funding is from DSIT.
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 SME claiming grant funding on this application.
To work alone your organisation must be a UK-registered SME.

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of £15 million, including VAT, to develop near term, testable solutions that advance the UK’s Secure and Resilient, and Sustainable Network Grand Challenges through deployable prototypes on UK testbeds.
Eligibility summary
To lead a project, you can:
be UK registered organisation work alone or with other organisations as subcontractors Subcontractors can be based in the UK or overseas, but their contribution must be necessary, justified, and meet procurement and security requirements.
Contracts will be awarded to a single legal entity only.

Apply for funding to receive support for particle physics experiment research. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for STFC funding and a member of the UK particle physics community.
This opportunity is an extension to the Particle Physics Experiment Consolidated Grants 2024 and will provide funding for 24 months.
The grant period will be 1 October 2027 to 30 September 2029.
STFC will fund 80% of the FEC.
This is a pre-announcement and the information may change. The funding opportunity will open on 27 April 2026. More information will be available on this page then.

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Organisations can apply for up to £14 million in phase one to develop, build and validate integrated quantum computing hardware and software to demonstrate commercial scale deployment and applications of your quantum computing solution.
Eligibility summary
To lead a project, you can:
be an organisation of any size, including those based in the EU, EEA or internationally work alone or with other organisations as subcontractors Contracts will be awarded to a single legal entity only.

Apply for funding to become an Academic Lead for Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK) core partners delivering better economic data.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funding.
Funding up to March 2031 is available for one academic team to work with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to support two new linked economics datasets, as well as related public engagement activities. The role is expected to begin in Autumn 2026.
The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £2,000,000,00. ESRC will fund 80% of the FEC.

Apply for funding to pursue an adventurous, ambitious, curiosity-driven project in environmental research.
You must be:
based at a UK research organisation eligible for Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funding in a role that meets the individual eligibility requirements We welcome:
multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research projects delivered in partnership with other research funders and users The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £950,000. We will fund 80% of the FEC.
There is no defined project duration, but awards are usually between three and four years.

Apply for funding to become an Academic Lead for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) Data First programme to facilitate and deliver new and innovative research across the justice system.
The successful applicant(s) will be an integral part of the team, ensuring that the programme meets academic user needs and maximises the impact of research for the public good.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funding.
The role is expected to begin in Autumn 2026. Funding is available up to March 2031.
The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £500,000. ESRC will fund 80% of the FEC.

Apply for funding to establish an optical wireless communications research and testing facility.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funding.
This facility will support communications architecture research and convergences among terrestrial networks, non-terrestrial networks, high altitude platform stations, inter-satellite links, free space optics, ground-to-ground networks etc.
The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £7,125,000. EPSRC will fund 100% of the FEC for facility and 100% of the FEC for resources.
This funding is subject to business case approval.
Funding can be requested for up to 2.5 years.

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million.
The funding will be to develop, deploy and operate innovative clean maritime solutions for three years in a real world environment.
This funding is from the Department for Transport.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to collaborations only.
To lead a collaborative project your organisation must:
be a UK registered business collaborate with other UK registered organisations

Apply for funding to enable the UK to be a world-leader in advanced connectivity technologies.
You must be an invited hub organisation to apply for this EPSRC funding.
The Future Connectivity Hubs collectively must address the three objectives and the eight big challenges identified in the scope.
For research grants, the full economic cost (FEC) can be up to £24,725,000 for JOINER, £22,088,000 for CHEDDAR, £22,088,000 for HASC, £22,088,000 for TITAN, £6,638,000 for FTH. EPSRC will fund 80% of the FEC. Funding can be requested for up to three and a half years. This funding is subject to business case approval.
Details of additional funding for doctoral training are stated within the ‘Funding available’ section.

Apply for follow on funding to support early to mid‑stage commercialisation of research in Advanced Connectivity Technologies. Projects must build on engineering and physical sciences outputs to deliver economic, societal, policy and environmental benefits for a more sustainable and resilient UK. Funded topics must align with Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s (DSIT) Sustainable Networks and Secure and Resilient Networks connectivity challenge themes.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.
The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £500,000. EPSRC will fund 80% of the FEC. Projects may be up to two years in duration. Funding is subject to business case approval.

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UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £2 million for pre-commercialisation projects. This funding is from Innovate UK.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to single applicants.
To work alone your organisation must be a UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME).

See the full opportunity details on the Innovation Funding Service.
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million. The funding will be to develop, deploy and operate innovative clean maritime solutions for three years in a real world environment. This funding is from the Department for Transport.
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 collaborate with other UK registered organisations

See the full opportunity details on the Innovation Funding Service.
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £7.5 million to support the development and use of digital, automated, and robotic technologies.
This aims to improve the speed and efficiency of pharmaceutical process development and manufacturing.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to single applicants and collaborations.
To lead a project your organisation must be a UK registered grant claiming micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME).
To work alone your organisation must be a UK registered SME.

Apply for funding to commercialise your technology or science, developed from the STFC particle physics, astronomy and nuclear (PPAN) and the solar and planetary science community. We welcome applications from the STFC quantum science and computing community that supports the PPAN community.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for STFC funding.
This funding opportunity was formerly known as the Late-stage Commercialisation Scheme and will only aim to fund projects which are currently on the technology readiness scale (TRL) 5 to 7.
The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £600,000. STFC will fund 80% of the FEC.
This is the intention to submit stage and the information may change prior to the full scheme submission stage. It is anticipated that the funding opportunity will open in June 2026.

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £8 million for projects to accelerate agri-tech manufacturing.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to collaborations only.
To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered business.

See the full opportunity details on the Innovation Funding Service.
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million for projects to close product technology gaps that are preventing movement towards commercial acceptance, scale up and manufacture.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to collaborations only.
To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered business.