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Early Life Cohort longitudinal study

Apply for funding to lead the Early Life Cohort (ELC) on behalf of the broader research community. The ELC offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to generate new research and policy insights on how the early and ongoing life experiences of children born in the 2020s and growing up in the UK shape their future outcomes.

This is an invite only funding opportunity, and the project lead must be the agreed person from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies to apply.

Centre-UB Early Career Researcher Fellowships 2025

The Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour (Centre-UB) are now inviting applications for a second cohort of fellows, expected to start in October 2025.

Contracts for Innovation: READ-OUT digital cognitive dementia assessments

Organisations can apply for a single award of up to £600,000, inclusive of VAT. To implement and assess a dementia based digital cognitive assessment to be evaluated as part of the Real-world dementia outcomes (READ-OUT) study being managed by the University of Oxford.

ATI Programme strategic batch: EoI, May 2025

The ATI Programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive.

Japan-UK joint call for collaborations in advancing human-centred AI

Apply for funding to form world-leading partnerships with collaborators in Japan for your research into artificial intelligence and data science.

UK applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.
Japanese applicants must be eligible for JST funding.

Access to high performance computing facilities: spring 2025

This opportunity provides an open and flexible route to computational support for high quality projects across the entire UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) remit.

This application process is purely for compute resource. No funding is available to successful applicants.

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

Contracts for innovation: FOAK 2025, AI for complex processes

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.7 million inclusive of VAT, across four themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing and demonstrate their solution. Projects can last between three and seven months and must be completed by 31 March 2026.

Contracts for innovation: FOAK 2025, personal safety

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.7 million inclusive of VAT, across four themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing and demonstrate their solution. Projects can last between three and seven months and must be completed by 31 March 2026.

Contracts for innovation: FOAK 2025, bridge strikes

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.7 million inclusive of VAT, across four themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing and demonstrate their solution.

Projects can last between three and seven months and must be completed by 31 March 2026.

Funding is through DfT’s First of a Kind (FOAK) programme.

Weight management pathway design accelerator

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £3 million in a design accelerator to support NHS organisations to speed up the development of novel community based patient access models that are safe, effective and resource efficient.

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