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Knowledge Transfer Partnership

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships help businesses to partner with an academic organisation, research organisation or a Catapult, to employ a graduate with the skills and knowledge that can help the business to innovate and grow.

Daphne Jackson fellowship

These fellowships are for those looking to return to a research career after a break. Fellowships combine a personalised retraining programme with a challenging research project. They are flexible, usually lasting two years at 0.5 full-time equivalent, although some UKRI funders may award longer.

Collaborate with researchers in Brazil

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and FAPESP’s lead agency agreement allows UKRI to assess joint applications from eligible UK and Brazil-based researchers from the state of São Paulo on behalf of both organisations.

UKRI and FAPESP will co-fund applications submitted to responsive mode funding opportunities via selected funding opportunities.

Work with Brazilian researchers: NERC FAPESP lead agency

This opportunity allows UK-based researchers and researchers in the State of São Paulo, Brazil to submit a collaborative application under existing NERC funding opportunities. This will go through a single review process.

Collaborate with researchers in Luxembourg

UKRI and FNR have signed a memorandum of understanding to enable and support applications between researchers in the UK and Luxembourg. UKRI will fund the UK component and FNR will fund the Luxembourg component of the application.

Conditions will differ depending on the funding opportunity.

Work with US-based researchers on environmental science: NERC-NSF lead agency

Apply for funding to work with US-based researchers on an environmental science application.

Collaborative work is governed by a lead agency agreement between NERC and NSF.

The UK-based applicant must be:

  • based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding
  • employed at lecturer (or equivalent) level or above

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.

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.

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.

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.

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