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Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025 (invite only)

Apply for funding to conduct research at participating cultural and heritage institutions. You must:

  • be an early career researcher
  • hold a doctorate in a relevant subject or have equivalent professional experience

Only applicants successful at the expression of interest stage may apply.

Zero Emission Flight Demonstrator round one

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of a minimum of £8 million for developing zero emission capable flight in the UK, subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received. This funding is from DfT.

Advancing innovation in drug and alcohol addiction healthcare

Organisations can apply for a share of £20 million across two competitions. Projects will advance development of pharmaceutical, digital and medtech tools to improve treatment recovery and prevention of harm and deaths from drug and alcohol addictions.

Contracts for Innovation in drug and alcohol addiction healthcare

Organisations can apply for a share of £20 million, inclusive of VAT.

Projects will advance development of pharmaceutical, digital and MedTech tools to improve treatment, recovery and prevention of harm and deaths for drug and alcohol addictions.

Semiconductors and components for smart electronic platforms

UK registered businesses can apply with collaborative research and development (R&D) or R&D projects for a share of up to £18.5 million.

You will mature and accelerate the availability of components that include semiconductors or novel technologies ready for integration into smart electronic platforms.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Project Nominations 2026 (invite only)

Higher education institutions (HEIs) offered a studentship through the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) scheme round 4 are invited to nominate projects for studentships starting in October 2026.

You must be invited by AHRC to apply for this funding opportunity.

2409 : Robotics Adoption Central Convening Body

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million for creating a central convening body to coordinate the robotics adoption hubs. Funding is from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).

Robotics adoption hubs

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £38 million for creating one-stop shops to help end-users adopt robotics and autonomous systems with expert guidance.

Early Independence: NERC Independent Research Fellowship 2026

Apply for a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Independent Research Fellowship (IRF) to further your career through an independent research project.

You must:

  • be an early career researcher
  • hold a PhD qualification (or equivalent experience)
  • be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding

ADOPT facilitator support grant: round 7

Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a grant of £2,500, to engage an external Project Facilitator to support the development of a Full ADOPT Grant application.

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