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MRC: new investigator research grant: applicant-led

Apply for funding to take the next step towards becoming an independent researcher.

Your research must be in the remit of the Medical Research Council.

You must have:

  • the skills and experience to ‘transition to independence’
  • the support of an eligible host research organisation
Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Publication date:
7 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:
Open - no closing date

Future offshore wind technologies: industrial research

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £10 million to support industrial research in offshore wind across the two strands of the competition.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£10,000,000
Publication date:
9 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Future offshore wind technologies: feasibility studies

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £10 million to support feasibility studies in offshore wind across the two strands of the competition.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£10,000,000
Publication date:
17 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Full ADOPT grant: round seven

Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £5 million for on-farm trial and demonstration projects, to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector.

This is an Accelerating Development of Practices and Technologies (ADOPT) grant.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£5,000,000
Publication date:
14 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Battery innovation concept development round 2

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million to support innovation in battery grade material technologies for electrification. This funding is from The Battery Innovation Programme.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£25,000,000
Publication date:
20 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Medicines manufacturing: labs of the future

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £7.5 million to support the development and use of digital, automated, and robotic technologies.

This aims to improve the speed and efficiency of pharmaceutical process development and manufacturing.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£7,500,000
Publication date:
26 March 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Frontier artificial intelligence discovery

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to develop feasibility studies for frontier artificial intelligence and foundation models.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£2,500,000
Publication date:
9 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Contracts for Innovation: enabling commercial quantum networking

Organisations can apply for a share of £20 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop a deployable prototype of an enabling component or sub-system for commercial quantum networking.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£20,000,000
Publication date:
16 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Doctoral focal award: environmental evidence synthesis

Apply for funding to deliver a doctoral focal award in environmental evidence synthesis.

Applications should be led by organisations eligible for UKRI funding.

A notification of intent must be completed by 27 May 2026 4:00pm UK time.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Co-funders:
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£8,144,000
Maximum award:
£4,072,000
Publication date:
14 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: round 8

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.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Funding type:
Grant
Award:
£2,500
Publication date:
23 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

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