Apply for funding to enable short-term exchange visits to or from the US, Canada and Switzerland. This funding opportunity includes the necessary funding for small-scale collaborative projects to explore the use of quantum technologies in fundamental physics and its translation into real-world applications.
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Search and filter this listApply for computing resources on the STFC DiRAC High Performance Computing facility.
DiRAC (Distributed Research Utilising Advanced Computing) supports STFC’s world class theory research programme including particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, astronomy, cosmology, solar system physics, and particle astrophysics.
Apply for funding for a PhD student at your organisation in collaboration with an industry-based project at a non-academic organisation.
The project must fall within the STFC core remits:
- astronomy
- solar and planetary science
- particle physics
- particle astrophysics and cosmology
- nuclear physics
- accelerator science.
Apply to attend a five-day interactive interdisciplinary sandpit to develop projects on novel sensing for UK defence and security applications.
Participants will attend all five days of the sandpit in-person plus a virtual pre-meeting the preceding week.
Provide an expression of interest for astronomy large award funding. Large awards support themed, programmatic large projects tackling big research questions or technology development with the potential to produce world-leading research. Your programme must fall within the STFC astronomy remit.
You must be:
- employed by an eligible UK research organisation
- eligible to apply as an applicant (project lead or co-lead)
Apply for funding to lead a transdisciplinary research hub towards realising the health co-benefits of the UK transition to net zero.
You must:
- be based at a research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation funding
- meet individual eligibility requirements
The total fund is up to £30 million across five years to fund challenge-led hubs.
Apply for funds to engage the public with STFC-supported science, technology or facilities.
We’d particularly like to fund projects that engage:
- eight to 14-year-olds, and their families, from socioeconomically deprived areas
groups considered to have low science capital. - The cost of your project can be up to £15,000
- projects can last up to 36 months
Apply for funding to engage the public with Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) supported science, technology or facilities.
You must work for an organisation that:
- is based in the UK
- has audited accounts
Proposals must include a subject matter expert in an STFC-funded area.
Apply for Legacy award funding to continue your programme to improve public engagement in science and technology.
You must have previously received funding through STFC public engagement awards which have finished within the past 36 months.
Your proposal must focus on an area from the STFC remit.
Apply for seed funding to build interdisciplinary teams and develop research ideas to tackle epidemic diseases of animals, humans and plants.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding.