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Engineering Biology Investor Partnerships round 1

UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £8 million to develop engineering biology products and services with selected investor partners.

Frontier AI: SME Champions, phase 1

UK registered SME’s can apply for a share of up to £3.1 million to deliver feasibility studies for frontier artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) technologies with a clear route to defensible scale-up.

CfI: counter UAS demonstrations in prison environments

Organisations can apply for a share of £900,000, inclusive of VAT, to demonstrate and test low-cost counter uncrewed aerial system (UAS) technologies that are able to detect and track drones within UK prison estates.

This is a Contracts for Innovation (CfI) competition.

Pre-announcement: Future Data Services: Joining up the data service workforce

Apply for Future Data Services funding to bring together communities of practitioners to exchange knowledge, improve working practices and deliver better data services for researchers.

Physical sciences NRF portfolio refresh (invite only)

This is an invite only funding opportunity to support national research facilities (NRFs) for research across EPSRC Physical Sciences within the scope of the funding opportunity. Facilities may be outside the UK for national use. Applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.

NERC-Innovate UK ICURe Discover programme

Apply for NERC’s ICURe Discover programme.

Participants will build market awareness, deepen understanding of potential applications of their research and learn how to gauge customer opinion on their product.

This programme is for participants looking to explore the potential of early-stage projects.

What Works Centre for a climate resilient UK

Apply for funding to establish and lead a What Works Centre for a climate resilient UK to transform how the UK adapts to climate change.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Economic and Social Research (ESRC) funding.

Collaboration for a Sustainable Future: coordinating groups

Research England (RE)’s Collaboration for a Sustainable Future funding for coordinating groups to convene communities to produce an output identifying barriers, challenges and potential solutions to institutional collaboration in England’s R&I system. This is not a research grant. See relevant eligibility criteria.

Collaboration for a Sustainable Future: pilots & UK seed funding

This funding opportunity is part of RE’s Collaboration for a Sustainable Future programme. Funding for higher education providers: to pilot new institutional collaborations (England-only) and to seed innovation partnerships (UK-wide). This is not a research grant opportunity. See eligibility criteria.

CfI: Innovation in play to improve child outcomes

Organisations can apply for a share of £3 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop practical solutions that reignite the importance of play and increase access to high quality, real world play experiences, improving outcomes for children and young people.

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