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Green ERA-Hub: biomass production and utilisation (pre-proposal)

This international multilateral opportunity will support research into sustainable production and utilisation of biomass.

Consortia must include at least three eligible partners from three different funding countries. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Co-funders:
Belgium’s Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS), Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of Republic of Srpska (MAFWMRS), Germany’s Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Regional Identity (BMELH), Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR), UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) and Agriculture and Food Development Authority (TEAGASC), Latvian Academy of Sciences (LAS), Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), Uruguay’s Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA-UY)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£2,000,000
Publication date:
29 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund: round five discovery competition four

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million exclusive of VAT, for collaborative discovery phase projects that meet the round five challenges.

This funding is from the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£30,000,000
Publication date:
26 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

BBSRC standard research grant: 2026 round one: applicant-led mode

Apply for funding for a research grant in any area within the remit of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

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

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Maximum award:
£2,000,000
Publication date:
25 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

BBSRC new investigator award: 2026 round one: applicant-led mode

Apply for funding for a research grant in any area within the remit of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

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

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Maximum award:
£2,000,000
Publication date:
25 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Resource efficiency for resilience and sustainability FS

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1.1 million for innovative feasibility studies (FS) in novel, sustainable, low carbon materials and manufacturing.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£1,100,000
Publication date:
23 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Contracts for Innovation: quantum technologies for transport, phase 1

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £1.5 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop use cases and business cases.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Funding type:
Other
Total fund:
£1,500,000
Publication date:
23 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) winter

UK registered government research organisations can apply for grants from £50,000 up to £250,000 to move viable public sector knowledge assets towards commercial readiness. This funding is provided by the Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT).

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£405,000
Publication date:
18 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

DRIVE35 Scale-up Fund

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million to create scale up manufacturing facilities for zero emission vehicle technologies.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Department for Business and Trade, Advanced Propulsion Centre UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£150,000,000
Publication date:
17 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:
Open - no closing date

BBSRC Pioneer Awards 2025 to 26: bioscience discovery research

Apply for funding to pursue early-stage bioscience discovery research.

Applications should open original and adventurous research avenues with the potential to transform our fundamental understanding of living systems.

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

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£5,000,000
Maximum award:
£350,000
Publication date:
17 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Novel technology for intervening in non-compressible haemorrhage

Apply for funding to design novel interventions, Technology Readiness Level two to four, for non-compressible haemorrhage for use prehospital in combat and civilian settings.

This Defence and Security Accelerator competition is run on behalf of the Defence Medical Services and UK Research and Innovation.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Innovate UK, Medical Research Council (MRC), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Co-funders:
Defence Medical Services (DMS)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£1,500,000
Publication date:
17 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

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