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Pre-announcement: Engineering Biology Programme: foundational technology hubs

Apply for funding to establish a flagship interdisciplinary engineering biology programme aimed at developing transformative foundational technologies and platforms that tackle design-build-test-learn bottlenecks and accelerate innovation.

You must be based at an organisation eligible for UKRI funding.

Advancing solutions for critical mineral production and recycling

Apply for funding for pump-priming research to explore, test and validate disruptive and transformative solutions for critical mineral extraction, processing, recovery, reprocessing, recycling or re-mining.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding.

MRC: partnership grant: applicant-led

Apply for funding to support exciting and ambitious partnerships within the remit of the Medical Research Council.

You must be employed by an eligible research organisation.

Partnerships are novel collaborative activities between researchers to transform our understanding of human health and disease.

Mid-range equipment for biosciences research: ALERT 2026

Apply for funding to purchase mid-range equipment for research across BBSRC’s scientific remit through ALERT 2026.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding. Research technical professionals are eligible as project leads or project co-leads for this funding opportunity.

Manufacturing Scale-up Research and Innovation: Automotive and Aerospace

Apply for funding to address manufacturing scale-up challenges for new technologies and processes, accelerating innovation and driving UK business growth in the automotive and aerospace sectors.

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

Manufacturing Scale-up Network Plus

Opportunity to build a Network Plus to accelerate the scale-up of manufacturing innovation, driving growth across aerospace, automotive and wider UK advanced manufacturing frontier industries.

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

Pre-announcement: Future Data Services: Joining up the data service workforce

Apply for Future Data Services funding to bring together communities of practitioners to exchange knowledge, improve working practices and deliver better data services for researchers.

Physical sciences NRF portfolio refresh (invite only)

This is an invite only funding opportunity to support national research facilities (NRFs) for research across EPSRC Physical Sciences within the scope of the funding opportunity. Facilities may be outside the UK for national use. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.

What Works Centre for a climate resilient UK

Apply for funding to establish and lead a What Works Centre for a climate resilient UK to transform how the UK adapts to climate change.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Economic and Social Research (ESRC) funding.

Collaboration for a Sustainable Future: coordinating groups

Research England’s Collaboration for a Sustainable Future funding for coordinating groups to convene communities to produce an output identifying barriers, challenges and potential solutions to institutional collaboration in England’s R&I system. This is not a research grant. See relevant eligibility criteria.

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