Apply for funding to respond quickly to transient and unexpected scientific opportunities.
These may be events affecting the environment created by the occurrence of sporadic natural events such as:
- earthquakes
- droughts
- floods
- ephemeral events in ecosystems.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding.
- Open
- Grant
- £100,000
- 20 September 2020
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N/A
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Open - no closing date
You can apply for up to £3,000 to cover travel and subsistence when travelling outside the UK in support of your BBSRC-funded research.
- Open
- Grant
- £3,000
- 20 September 2020
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N/A
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Open - no closing date
You can apply for up to £35,000 over two years to pump-prime collaborations between scientists in the UK and São Paolo state in Brazil. The awards support the development of future applications within our remit under the UK Research and Innovation-São Paulo Research Foundation lead agency agreement.
- Open
- Grant
- £35,000
- 20 September 2020
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N/A
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Open - no closing date
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships help businesses to partner with an academic organisation, research organisation or a Catapult, to employ a graduate with the skills and knowledge that can help the business to innovate and grow.
- Open
- Government departments and devolved governments
- Grant
- 20 September 2020
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N/A
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Open - no closing date
You can apply for research grants at any time in any area within the remit of BBSRC. BBSRC funds research in plants, microbes, animals (including humans), and the tools and technology underpinning biological research from the level of molecules and cells, to tissues, whole organisms, populations and landscapes.
- Open
- Grant
- £2,000,000
- 20 September 2020
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N/A
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Open - no closing date
If you are a UK-based researcher you can apply for funding to work with overseas researchers in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Collaborative work on any area of the social sciences is governed by an agreement between UKRI and FAPESP.
- Open
- State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
- Grant
- £350,000 - £1,000,000
- 20 September 2020
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N/A
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Open - no closing date
You can apply for this bursary if you are a researcher looking to return to an academic research career after a break of two or more years.
You can get funding of up to £2,500 for no more than six months to support you in developing a proposal suitable for submission to the STFC fellowship scheme.
- Open
- Grant
- £2,500
- 20 September 2020
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N/A
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Open - no closing date
The UKRI-SBE lead agency opportunity allows UK and US-based researchers to submit a collaborative proposal that will go through a single review process. Grants are funded through existing funding programmes at the relevant lead agency.
- Open
- US National Science Foundation’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (NSF/SBE)
- Grant
- £1,000,000
- 20 September 2020
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N/A
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Open - no closing date
These fellowships are for those looking to return to a research career after a break. Fellowships combine a personalised retraining programme with a challenging research project. They are flexible, usually lasting two years at 0.5 full-time equivalent, although some UKRI funders may award longer.
- Open
- The Daphne Jackson Trust
- Fellowship
- 20 September 2020
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N/A
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Open - no closing date
Apply for funding to develop a large or complex scientific project.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.
Your project must be focused on one of the following:
- particle physics
- nuclear physics
- astronomy
- particle astrophysics
- accelerator physics
- computing for physics.
- Open
- Grant
- 20 September 2020
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N/A
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Open - no closing date