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Opening up the Environment 2025

Apply for funding to:

  • explore the potential to increase the diversity of representation in NERC science
  • generate partnerships that identify, include and showcase a broader range of people in NERC science

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding.

Pre-announcement: Future Leaders Fellowships: round 10

Funding to support ambitious research and innovation across UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s remit. You must be an early career researcher or innovator who is either:

  • looking to establish or transition to independence
  • developing your own original and ambitious plans within a commercial setting

UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Renewal Meeting 11 (Invite only)

Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) grant holders have the opportunity to extend their four-year fellowship by up to a further three years. The renewal funding will continue to support the development of a fellow and further the fellow’s work to undertake adventurous, ambitious programmes that tackle difficult and novel challenges.

Data sandpit for metascience

Apply to attend a four-day interactive sandpit to develop novel projects that can address multi-faceted metascience questions related to research and development (R&D) funding and inform R&D policymaking.

The sandpit will take place in February 2025. Attendance for the full four days will be mandatory for selected participants.

Access to high performance computing facilities – autumn 2024

This opportunity provides an open and flexible route to computational support for high quality projects across the entire UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) remit.

This application process is purely for compute resource for up to 12 months. No funding is available to successful applicants.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.

UK future internet NetworkPlus: full application invite only

Apply for funding for a UK future internet NetworkPlus which brings together the research community and stakeholders.

This funding opportunity is part of the UKRI Creating Opportunities, Improving Outcomes strategic theme. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.

DARE UK Transformational Programme: core components

Apply for funding to transition minimum viable product capabilities to production-ready reference implementations, ready for testing and adoption in real-world research settings by Trusted Research Environments.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation funding.

Pushing the frontiers of environmental research: January 2025

Apply for funding to pursue an ambitious, high risk and high reward curiosity-driven project in environmental research.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funding.

NERC urgency funding 2024

Apply for funding to respond quickly to transient, unexpected environmental research opportunities created by sporadic natural occurrences such as earthquakes, droughts, floods, or ephemeral events in ecosystems.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding.

Sustainable Industrial Futures

Apply for funding to establish a virtual centre of excellence in sustainable industrial futures to advance the UK’s transition to net zero.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funding.

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