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Astronomy solar and planetary studies small awards 2025

Apply for funding to support theory, including modelling, simulation and related software development, observation, experiment and new technology research, relevant to all aspects of solar system science.

Public Engagement Legacy Awards: 2025A

Apply for Legacy award funding to continue your programme to improve public engagement in an area of science and technology within STFC’s remit.

You must have previously received funding through STFC public engagement Spark or Nucleus awards that have finished within the past 36 months.

Nucleus Public Engagement Awards 2025

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.

UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships

The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape, including what epistemic, metascientific, ethical and socioeconomic questions this raises, and how governments, industry, and funding organisations should respond.

Public Engagement Spark Awards 2025A

Apply for funding to engage the public with Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) supported science, people, technology or facilities.

Applicant organisations must:

  • be UK based
  • produce annual accounts certified by an accountant

Proposals must include an appropriate subject matter expert.

Access to high performance computing facilities: spring 2025

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. No funding is available to successful applicants.

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

Proof of concept

Apply for proof of concept funding to support the commercialisation of research and the development of new products, processes or services.

Applications from across all disciplines and research councils’ remits are welcomed.

DARE UK next-generation trusted research environment capabilities

Apply for funding to prototype the ‘next generation’ capabilities for federated trusted research environments (TREs). Applications from across all disciplines and research councils’ remits are welcomed.

Your research organisation must be eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding.

Future Leaders Fellowships: round 10

Apply for 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

Notification of intent: Transdisciplinary research to tackle antimicrobial resistance

Apply for funding to undertake ambitious transdisciplinary research to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

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

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