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Pre-announcement: EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships 2027

Apply for funding to support ambitious, collaborative research programmes.

Prosperity Partnerships projects must be business-led, co-created, and co-delivered by business and academic partners that share an existing working relationship.

Large grant outlines: February 2026

Apply for funding to support innovative, large-scale and complex projects that tackle big environmental science questions and have the potential to produce world-leading research.

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

Advanced materials: highlight notice

EPSRC is seeking to support applications through our standard research grant scheme in the following two areas:

  • advanced materials solutions for critical minerals
  • in-situ and in operando materials metrology and characterisation

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

Isambard-AI and Dawn AIRR supercomputers: Gateway route

Apply for 10,000 graphics processing unit hours on the Isambard-AI and Dawn supercomputers for artificial intelligence-related research and development projects.

Open to UK researchers from academia, industry, or other organisations.

Isambard-AI and Dawn AIRR supercomputers: Rapid Access route

UK-registered micro, small and medium businesses can apply for 20,000 graphics processing unit hours on the Isambard-AI and Dawn AI Research Resource (AIRR) supercomputers for early-stage artificial intelligence product research and development.

Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP) 2026

Apply for funding to develop a large or complex scientific project. You must have already discussed your ideas with one of our programme managers and have been invited to submit a full proposal.

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

BBSRC Brazil pump-priming award (FAPPA)

This award is for BBSRC-funded research groups to pump-prime interactions with FAPESP scientists in Brazil. Applications must be made by a project lead who is currently in receipt of BBSRC research funding.

Pre-announcement: Biological influence on ocean carbon: novel modelling approaches

Apply for funding for a project to improve representation of biological processes in carbon storage models. It must be led by a UK researcher and can have US team members that are NASA supported.

The project lead must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding.

Pre-announcement: multiple model assessment of biological influence on ocean carbon

Apply for funding for a project comparing and improving biological carbon storage in multiple global models. It must be led by a UK researcher and can have US team members that are NASA supported.

The project lead must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding.

Collaborate with researchers in Norway

UKRI and Research Council of Norway have signed a Money Follows Cooperation agreement to enable collaborative applications between researchers in the UK and Norway. UKRI funding will be provided for project co-leads based in Norway in successful applications. Applications must be submitted through existing council programmes.