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Public engagement with STFC science, technology or facilities

Apply for funding to engage the public with STFC-supported science, technology or facilities.

This opportunity is open to a wide range of organisations.

You can apply if you’re a UK organisation with an annual financial report and accounts.

Your project must focus on an area within the remit of STFC.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£100,000
Maximum award:
£15,000
Publication date:
23 September 2021
Opening date:
8 September 2021 10:00 UK time
Closing date:

Advancing adolescent mental health and wellbeing research

Apply for funding to help improve research in the field of ‘adolescence, mental health and the developing mind’ through:

  • methodological innovation
  • capability building.

You can be researcher at any career stage who is:

  • within the remit of AHRC, ESRC or MRC
  • based in the UK
  • from a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.
Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£8,000,000
Award range:
£125,000 - £1,250,000
Publication date:
22 September 2021
Opening date:
22 September 2021
Closing date:

Improve the sustainability of urban systems and infrastructure

Apply for funding to develop research networks that will focus on improving the sustainability of urban systems and infrastructure.

You must be:

  • a UK resident
  • based at an eligible research organisation.

You can apply for one of three networks on:

  • green infrastructure development
  • low carbon connected digital infrastructure
  • sustainable urban systems.
Opportunity status:
Upcoming
Funders:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£3,000,000
Maximum award:
£1,000,000
Publication date:
21 September 2021
Opening date:
28 September 2021
Closing date:

Build a network to research sustainable agri-food for net zero

Apply for funding to develop a research network that will focus on improving the sustainability of the agri-food system.

You must be:

  • based at an eligible UK-based organisation
  • working in a science discipline.

Co-investigators can be from any discipline.

Your network is expected to:

  • focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions
  • build interdisciplinary partnerships
  • involve stakeholders
  • develop future research plans.
Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK Research and Innovation
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£4,375,000
Publication date:
21 September 2021
Opening date:
20 September 2021
Closing date:

Early technology development and equipment for STFC grant holders

Apply for funding for equipment to support the development of basic technologies in areas such as sensors, imaging and detectors.

You must currently hold an STFC core programme grant in one of these areas:

  • nuclear physics
  • particle physics and particle astrophysics
  • astronomy and space science
  • accelerators, and computing in support of these.
Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£1,000,000
Award range:
£20,000 - £205,000
Publication date:
20 September 2021
Opening date:
20 September 2021
Closing date:

Inform design of cross-council digital research environments

Apply for funding to inform the design of a digital research infrastructure to connect sensitive data from across the research councils.

Your proposal must be led by a UK-based research organisation.

Projects will run from January 2022 to August 2022.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
UK Research and Innovation
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£2,000,000
Maximum award:
£400,000
Publication date:
20 September 2021
Opening date:
14 September 2021 14:00 UK time
Closing date:

Expression of interest: Automotive Transformation Fund round 15

Registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 billion for capital centric investment projects that help industrialise the electrified automotive supply chain at scale in the UK.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
The Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF), an Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£1,000,000,000
Publication date:
20 September 2021
Opening date:
27 September 2021 09:30 UK time
Closing date:

Information management framework for environmental digital twins

Apply for funding to develop a roadmap for an information management framework (IMF) for environmental ‘digital twins’.

Digital twins are virtual representations of an object or system updated from real-time data. They use simulation, machine learning and reasoning to help decision-making.

You and your organisation must be eligible for NERC funding.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Co-funders:
Met Office
Funding type:
Grant
Maximum award:
£250,000
Publication date:
20 September 2021
Opening date:
20 September 2021 12:00 UK time
Closing date:

Digital security by design: software ecosystem development

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £8 million for projects to work on the development of the digital security by design (DSbD) software ecosystem.

Opportunity status:
Upcoming
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£8,000,000
Publication date:
15 September 2021
Opening date:
4 October 2021 09:30 UK time
Closing date:

Bioinformatics and biological resources: 2021

Apply for funding to establish, maintain and enhance bioinformatics and biological resources to support the UK bioscience research community.

You must hold a research staff appointment at lecturer level, or equivalent, at a research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£6,000,000
Maximum award:
£2,000,000
Publication date:
15 September 2021
Opening date:
15 September 2021
Closing date:

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