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Frontier AI Benchmarking Datasets

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.5 million. This programme focuses on the creation, curation, annotation and exploitation of FAIR-data and benchmarks which will fuel AI industry growth. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Full ADOPT grant: round seven

Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £5 million for on-farm trial and demonstration projects, to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector.

This is an Accelerating Development of Practices and Technologies (ADOPT) grant.

Doctoral focal award: environmental evidence synthesis

Apply for funding to deliver a doctoral focal award in environmental evidence synthesis.

Applications should be led by organisations eligible for UKRI funding.

A notification of intent must be completed by 27 May 2026 4:00pm UK time.

Frontier artificial intelligence discovery

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to develop feasibility studies for frontier artificial intelligence and foundation models.

Future offshore wind technologies: industrial research

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £10 million to support industrial research in offshore wind across the two strands of the competition.

Solution Development for Advanced Connectivity Technologies

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million to develop secure, sustainable or sovereign connectivity technologies that support the UK’s Advanced Connectivity Technologies programme. This funding is from DSIT.

Zero emission vessels and infrastructure two: alternative fuels

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million. The funding will be to develop, deploy and operate innovative clean maritime solutions for three years in a real world environment. This funding is from the Department for Transport.

CfI: Advanced Connectivity Technologies (ACT): Call 1

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of £15 million, including VAT, to develop near term, testable solutions that advance the UK’s Secure and Resilient, and Sustainable Network Grand Challenges through deployable prototypes on UK testbeds.

Pre-announcement: Particle Physics Experiment Consolidated Grants 2026

This grants round will consider grant requests to support particle physics experiment research. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) funding and a member of the UK particle physics community.

MRC: new investigator research grant: applicant-led

Apply for funding to take the next step towards becoming an independent researcher.

Your research must be in the remit of the Medical Research Council.

You must have:

  • the skills and experience to ‘transition to independence’
  • the support of an eligible host research organisation

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