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Design foundations round two: responsive

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4 million for people-centred and system-aware design projects across a range of themes and innovation areas to influence their future research and development activity.

Enhancing well-being for the future

Apply for funding to do innovative social science research across Europe, on the topic of ‘enhancing wellbeing for the future’.

Project teams must be composed of at least four and maximum six, different European countries eligible to receive funding from the funding opportunity.

African agriculture knowledge transfer partnerships: 2023 to 2024, round three

UK registered higher or further education institutions, research and technology organisations or Catapults, can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million from the African agriculture knowledge transfer partnership.

You will work with a knowledge base and business partner registered in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya or South Africa.

International consortia for humanities-led research on crisis

Apply for funding to establish transnational research consortia to explore crises past and present from a humanities-led perspective.

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

SBRI: UKAEA fusion industry challenges prototype development

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £5.6 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop solutions for fuel cycle services which use lithium.

This is a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition.

Commercialising connected and automated mobility: mass transit two

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £900,000 for feasibility studies into the use of connected and automated mobility as a mass transit solution.

India-UK collaborative R&D for industrial sustainability

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £5 million to develop innovative proposals with India. This funding is from Innovate UK.

UKRI cross research council responsive mode pilot scheme: round 1

Apply for funding for breakthrough interdisciplinary ideas that transcend, combine or significantly span disciplines.

This pilot scheme will support ideas not routinely funded through existing UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) responsive mode schemes.

Principal investigators must be based at an organisation eligible for UKRI research council funding.

ESRC responsive mode: new investigator grants round one

This opportunity funds new researchers at the start of their careers to support them to become independent researchers through gaining experience of managing and leading research projects and teams.

ESRC responsive mode: research grants round one

This opportunity funds researcher-driven basic, applied, and strategic research from any disciplines and on any topics in ESRC’s remit, as long as the social sciences are more than 50% of the focus and effort.

You can be based at any eligible UK research organisation to apply for ESRC funding.

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