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Accelerated Knowledge Transfer Partnerships 6 (AKT 6)

UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to fund innovation projects with businesses.

Accelerated Knowledge Transfer Partnerships 6 (AKT 6)

UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to fund innovation projects with businesses.

Creative Industries Clusters round 2 (invite only)

Apply for funding to deliver a Creative Industries Cluster to address a challenge for the creative industries in a specific geography, sub-sector or both. Clusters should focus on regional economic growth through applied Research & Development (R&D).

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

UKRI policy internships 2026

An opportunity for UKRI-funded doctoral students to undertake a three-month internship at one of a selected group of influential policy organisations, undertaken as part of the existing doctoral studentship.

AHRC large grants: outline stage

Apply for Large Grants funding to deliver novel, ambitious and transformative arts and humanities research projects at scale.

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

Early Independence: Ernest Rutherford Fellowships 2026

Apply for this Early Independence Fellowship to support you to establish your own research niche and independence. You must hold a doctorate or evidence equivalent research experience and be based at a UK research organisation eligible for STFC funding.

Public Engagement Spark Awards 2026A

Apply for funding to engage the public with Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) supported science.

Applicant organisations must:

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

Proposals must include an appropriate STFC subject-matter expert (SME).

AIRR compute opportunity: AI open access

Apply for between 50,000 and 1,400,000 graphics processing unit (GPU) hours on the Isambard-AI supercomputer for artificial intelligence (AI) related research and development projects.

Open to UK-based researchers and AI developers from academia, industry, public sector or other organisations.

Funding for STFC core summer schools for 2027

STFC invites applications for its 2027 core summer schools in:

  • Introduction to Astronomy
  • BUSSTEPP (British Universities Summer School in Theoretical Particle Physics)
  • Solar Physics, Nuclear Physics (every two years)
  • High Energy Physics (HEP)

Other events are not supported.

ACTASAP pilot phase 1

UK registered academic institutions can apply for a share of up to £800,000 to take part in the ACTASAP. This funding is from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and delivered by Innovate UK, part of UKRI.

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