Funding finder

Funding opportunity sorting options

148 opportunities found using the current filters, sorted by closing date

Funding opportunity list

Search and filter this list

Large Grant full applications: November 2026 (invite only)

You can only apply for this funding opportunity if we have invited you to do so following a successful outline application.

Apply for funding to support innovative, large-scale and complex projects that tackle big science questions and have the potential to produce world-leading research.

Purchase mid-range equipment for biomedical research: MRC Equip

Funding opportunity for mid-range capital equipment that will enable and enhance research across MRC’s scientific areas.

You must be employed at a research organisation eligible to apply for MRC funding.

Invite only: Precision prevention: biological mechanisms of response variation

Apply for funding to study why people respond differently to biomedical prevention interventions. Projects must generate mechanistic evidence in humans to provide insight into precision prevention through better targeting.

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

Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence 2027-2030 – invite only

This funding opportunity is designed to support the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence’s (ESCoE) high-quality research to improve economic measurement, enhance the production of key statistics, and address challenges related to economic measurement over a three-year period.

Transformative sustainable AI technologies

Apply for funding for projects focused on speculative and high-risk research with the potential to deliver a step change in the sustainability of future AI systems.

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

Frontier AI: SME Champions, phase 1

UK registered SME’s can apply for a share of up to £3.1 million to deliver feasibility studies for frontier artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) technologies with a clear route to defensible scale-up.

ADOPT Facilitator support grant: round 12

Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a grant of £2,500, to engage an external Project Facilitator to support the development of a Full ADOPT Grant application.

UKRI Translation: MRC Impact Acceleration Awards

Apply to the MRC Impact Acceleration Award to address a single, high-risk development step and generate key data to de-risk a new medicine, medical device, diagnostic or other medical product.

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

Exploring the frontiers of environmental research 2026

Apply for funding to pursue truly novel curiosity-driven environmental research that is at an early stage of development and has the potential to be transformative.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Natural Environment Research funding.

NERC-Innovate UK ICURe Discover programme

Apply for NERC’s ICURe Discover programme.

Participants will build market awareness, deepen understanding of potential applications of their research and learn how to gauge customer opinion on their product.

This programme is for participants looking to explore the potential of early-stage projects.

This is the website for UKRI: our seven research councils, Research England and Innovate UK. Let us know if you have feedback or would like to help improve our online products and services.