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Focal awards: multilingual futures for UK growth and connectivity

Apply for funding to recruit and train doctoral students through a doctoral focal award which seeks to unlock linguistic and cultural expertise. These awards will provide opportunities through partnership between higher education institutions (HEI) and non-HEI partners.

By invitation only.

Knowledge Transfer Partnership: 2026 to 2027 round 4

UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £12.5 million to fund innovation projects with businesses.

Healthy soils and water for a sustainable environment

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £28 million for soil, water and environmental management.

This funding is from Farming Futures Research and Development Fund.

Small molecule high throughput screen using AstraZeneca facilities

Apply for funding to run a high throughput screen (HTS) using AstraZeneca’s compound library and screening robots.

There are two funding opportunities per year that are open to all targets.

Arctic frontier: accelerating innovation in ocean autonomy

Apply for funding to develop technological solutions to address the challenges of operating marine autonomous vehicles in remote and exceptionally harsh environments.

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

MRC Centre of Research Excellence: round five: outline application

Apply for MRC Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) funding to tackle complex and interdisciplinary health challenges.

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

Collaboration for a Sustainable Future: pilots & UK seed funding

This funding opportunity is part of RE’s Collaboration for a Sustainable Future programme. Funding for higher education providers: to pilot new institutional collaborations (England-only) and to seed innovation partnerships (UK-wide). This is not a research grant opportunity. See eligibility criteria.

UK-Netherlands co-innovation for quantum technology 2026

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1.5 million for projects in quantum technology.

You must collaborate with at least one Netherlands based business applying under the equivalent Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) programme.

2026 to 2027 strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa): full stage

Apply for funding to undertake a large team-based curiosity-driven bioscience discovery research project.

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

Full stage submissions are invitation only following assessment of an sLoLa outline application.

Experimental medicine: invited stage two application

Apply for funding to investigate the causes, progression and treatment of human disease.

Your application must include an intervention in humans.

You must be based at a research organisation eligible for Medical Research Council (MRC) funding.

You must be invited to apply for stage two of this funding opportunity.

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