Grants

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.
If selected, you will also take part in learning and development opportunities with AHRC around working with the media, engaging the public with research and how to work with policymakers.
You will be an up-and-coming early career researcher with a passion for sharing ideas with the largest possible audience.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for this opportunity.

EPSRC invite you to develop a NetworkPlus which builds new capacity, strengthens community and enhances research to innovation capabilities focused on the circular economy in built environment, textiles or data and metrics. You must imaginatively use the ‘Plus’ element to accelerate impact in your chosen area. You must be at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.
Teams must implement an inter or transdisciplinary approach, or both, including industrial partners. The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £5.41 million. EPSRC will fund 80% FEC for up to 36 months.

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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.
Eligibility summary
To lead a project your organisation must:
be a UK registered higher education or further education institution, RTO or Catapult collaborate with a UK registered business or charitable business with two or more full-time employees The business must contribute to the project’s costs.

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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.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to single applicants only.
To lead a project your business must:
be a UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) be growing your innovation activities in the life and health sciences cluster in Northern Ireland intend to exploit the project outcomes from the UK for domestic or global benefit

Apply for funding for large team-based fundamental bioscience research projects pushing the frontiers of human knowledge.
Your project should demonstrate:
potential for major breakthroughs in our fundamental understanding of living systems a fully integrated team science approach the need for this scale of funding enhancing the capability and capacity of UK biosciences The full economic cost must be over £2 million. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) will fund 80% of the full economic cost (FEC).
Projects can be up to five years.
Full stage submissions are invitation only following assessment of an sLoLa outline application.

Apply for funding to purchase mid-range equipment for research across Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (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.
You can only apply as project lead on one application.
This is an equipment only grant. The full economic cost (FEC) you request can be between £200,000 and £1.5 million. BBSRC will fund 100% of the FEC.
Awards last for 12 months and must start by 3 August 2026.

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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.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to single applicants from micro, small or medium sized enterprises registered in the UK.

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £15.5 million across the two strands, to develop industrial digital technologies.
This is to improve resource or energy efficiencies in SME manufacturers.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to single or collaborative application based in the UK only.
To lead a single or collaborative project, your organisation must be a UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME) operating as a technology developer.
Collaborations can include one or more of the following:
UK SMEs academic institutions research and technology organisations All work must be carried out in the UK.

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £15.5 million across the two strands of this competition, to develop industrial digital technologies.
This is to improve resource or energy efficiencies in SME manufacturers.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to collaborations based in the UK only.
To lead a collaborative project, your organisation must be a UK registered micro, small or medium sized (SME) operating as a technology developer.
Collaborations must include one or more of the following:
UK SMEs academic institutions research and technology organisations All work must be carried out in the UK.

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Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £3.5 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

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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.
This is an Accelerating Development of Practices and Technologies (ADOPT) grant.
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 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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UK registered organisations can apply for the Pioneers Prize to develop Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) solutions tackling sector challenges. Compete for a share of a £1 million prize pot and receive expert mentorship from the Catapult Network.
Eligibility summary
This expression of interest phase of the competition assesses eligibility for the Prize Fund.
UK registered businesses may apply individually or in teams of up to three eligible UK registered organisations.
All applicants must demonstrate in-house Agentic AI capability and expertise as applied to design or related fields.

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million for innovation in battery 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.
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 businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million for innovation in battery 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.

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £20 million for technology focused research and development projects for close to market Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) solutions.
This funding is from the UK government.
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 £15 million for projects to trial Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) services for future deployment at scale.
This funding is from the UK government.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to collaborations only.
To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be one of the following:
a UK registered business a local authority a transport authority For public road applications, the consortium must have nominated partners acting as Authorised Self Driving Entity and No-User-in-Charge Operator as per the definitions in BSI Flex 1890 v6.0 Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) Vocabulary.

Apply for funding to combine design-led interventions with arts and humanities methodologies to make positive contributions to the green transition.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding.
Design Generators connect directly with the wider Future Observatory: Design the Green Transition Programme.
The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £200,000. AHRC will fund 80% of the FEC.
These awards can be between 9 to 12 months in duration.
This is a pre-announcement and the information may change.
The funding opportunity will open on 3 November 2025. More information will be available on this page then.

Apply for funding to conduct arts and humanities research projects with German partners.
You must be:
proposing research within the remit of Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) based at a research organisation eligible to apply to AHRC working with a German team led by a researcher eligible to apply to DFG Projects must be composed of two highly integrated national teams based in the UK and Germany. All proposals must demonstrate the added value of international collaboration to research objectives.
The full economic cost of the UK-component of your project can be up to £420,000. Your project can last between 24 to 36 months.

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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.
Eligibility summary
To lead a collaborative project or work alone, your organisation must:
be a UK registered business to lead a research project be a UK registered business, an academic institution, research organisation or a research and technology organisation to lead a capital infrastructure project plan to carry out an aerospace research or technology development project in the UK address the requirements of the UK Aerospace Technology Strategy sign up to the Aerospace Technology Institute framework agreement (PDF, 615KB)

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £1.5 million for feasibility study projects producing business cases for commercial deployment of connected and automated mobility (CAM) services within the UK.
This funding is from UK government.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to single applicants and collaborations.
To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be one of the following:
a UK registered business a local authority a transport authority To work alone your organisation must be a UK registered business.

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UK organisations can apply for funding to collaborate on industrial research projects with partners in Eureka member countries and Japan.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to collaborations only.
To be eligible for grant funding from Innovate UK your collaboration:
must include at least one UK registered business must include at least one eligible small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) from Japan can include other UK registered organisations Find out about company sizes. This is a change from the EU SME definition unless you are applying under state aid.

A minimum of £30 million of funding is earmarked to 10 regions selected by the UK government through the Local Innovation Partnership Fund (LIPF) to unlock regional economic growth.
This invitation only funding opportunity invites applications from triple helix partnerships between civic leadership institutions, businesses and universities. Through co-creation with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), your partnership needs to identify and assemble a compelling portfolio of activities that draw upon local research and innovation strengths and support the high potential ‘innovation clusters’ within your region, empowering innovation leadership and delivering impact at scale.

Apply for funding through an invitation only funding opportunity to lead cohort coordination and development for AHRC’s early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions.
You must be based at a UK independent research organisation (IRO) eligible for Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding.
The coordination team will support fellows and IRO hosts through the full proposal stage and lead networking and career development activities for the fellows.
The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £312,500. AHRC will fund 80% of the FEC.
The award will start on 1 April 2026 and end 31 December 2028.

Apply for funding to support innovative, large-scale and complex projects that tackle big environmental science questions and have the potential to produce world-leading research.
We welcome multi and interdisciplinary research, as long as it is predominantly within the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)’s remit, delivered by collaborative teams.
Funding of between £1.12 million and £3.45 million (at 100% full economic cost) is available for projects lasting up to five years. We expect to fund up to eight projects.

Apply for MRC Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) funding to tackle complex and interdisciplinary health challenges.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Medical Research Council (MRC) funding.
MRC CoREs will be funded for up to 14 years. Your award will initially last for seven years, with a further seven years based on successful review.
The full economic cost (FEC) of your MRC CoRE can be up to £26.25 million for the first seven years. MRC will fund 80% of the FEC. The maximum MRC contribution will be £21 million.
This is an annual funding opportunity. We expect to fund one or two MRC CoREs every year.