Participants will build market awareness, deepen understanding of potential applications of their research and learn how to gauge customer opinion on their product.
This programme is for participants looking to explore the potential of early-stage projects.
Apply for funding to respond quickly to transient, unexpected environmental research opportunities created by sporadic natural occurrences such as earthquakes, droughts, floods, or ephemeral events in ecosystems.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding.
Apply for funding to increase our understanding of novel ecosystems, their socio-ecological dynamics and consequences, and future pathways and trajectories of change.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for funding.
Apply for funding to increase our understanding, assessment, management, and governance of water across scales, from catchment to groundwater and from source to sea. Enable better decision-making for public authorities, water managers, and other stakeholders.
Apply for funding to develop and test dynamic tools and innovative approaches to measure public trust and confidence in policing by 2030.
The tools and approaches developed will access the voices of underrepresented communities, assess the impact of police activity, and identify what builds public trust and confidence.
Apply for funding to pursue truly novel curiosity-driven environmental research that is at an early stage of development and has the potential to be transformative.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Natural Environment Research funding.
Apply for capital funding to renew, replace and enhance capabilities for environmental science. The funding opportunity is for existing facilities, laboratories and other national capabilities which are demonstrably available for use by the wider environmental science community.
Apply for funding to improve our understanding of how ecosystem change affects resilience, security and prosperity as part of the NERC-Defra co-funded Resilient Economy and Security through Ecosystem Transitions programme.
You must be based at an eligible UK organisation to apply.
Apply for funding to deliver entrepreneurship-focused doctoral training.
Applications can be led by organisations with standard and non-standard eligibility. The non-standard eligibility process will need to be completed before an award is made.
An expression of interest is required by 21 September 2026 4:00pm UK time.